Hola - Been a little while.
My first meeting as president of the condo board went alright. Mostly because I kept us on task. I can tell I'm going to have to be patient with an owner or two who will "sing the song of their people" over and over. Same tune too. The other big task is getting used to my gmail account and the condo board's gmail account.
Tomorrow is the Seahawk parade and even in this, the HR department is torquing me off with a unique ability of taking something simple and heartfelt and stomping the spontaniety out of it. Our HR will let us go but strongly "encourage" us (encourage with an underline in the email) to wear our t-shirts with our logos. Wrong on so many levels:
1.) This is a Seahawk thing, not an us thing (you might remember that I work for an non-profit with a Way at the end.) celebrating the Seahawks.
2.) Its lunch hour. Are you going to tell us when to eat also?
2.) its going to be 20F. Even me from Wisconsin, ain't no way I'm going to standing out there with just a t-shirt. Not with our health insurance. I'm layering and wearing a coat and that coat will be closed.
catching up
February 5th, 2014 at 05:15 am
February 5th, 2014 at 05:08 pm 1391620129
Terrific to be able to stay on task as Condo President, look forward to learning about your experiences.
February 5th, 2014 at 07:13 pm 1391627604
February 5th, 2014 at 10:17 pm 1391638652
Surely 700,000 people crowded over a few city blocks would raise the temperature some.
February 6th, 2014 at 12:43 am 1391647398
February 6th, 2014 at 04:25 am 1391660716
I did check out the parade, bundling up completely and snickered a little. A lot of people had bare heads, bare hands, etc. Looks like the very last big line next week is going to be at the cold and flu aisle at Bartells.
FYI - chatted tonight with one of the other owners who happens to work for the City of Seattle. It turns out that the attendance numbers given to the press are always an under-estimate. The internal estimates top 1M.