so I'm back from Portland and playing catch up again this week
the project went good, made good contacts, great references, probably future work in other areas of my company with the same company
and met a guy, i wasn't actually awake enough to realize that he was that interested but now that we been talking on IM for the last few days, he's adorable. And nothing in my consulting agreement says I won't date the employees *grin*, steal the employees yes, date no
I worked about 65 hours while I was there and I was getting sick ...lets rewind here..back to the beginning.....I got soaked in Oakland from my car to the terminal. My mom told me an umbrella would have help but really people, when the rain is slamming into the back of my legs, I don't think an umbrella would you have helped and my head didn't get wet. So there I was soaking wet on the plane and when I got to Portland its raining too, i don't think I got warm til I got to the hotel
Although I did rent a really cool Mustang - got a deal on a convertible because it was raining, would I buy a mustang in the future, probably not, gas mileage sucks and it the seatbelt thingy kept hitting my hip weird, i think its made for skinny people and I felt like I was really tiny, its got a big interior feel, but I digress back to the Portland.
Tigger cleanups are a bitch - I never ever seem to estimate correctly on how long it will take to clean up a database that's been in use for a few years and like i said before I wasn't completely prepared - usually I do the base work remotely before getting on site - the base configuration for accounting and this particular client wanted everything done onsite or at least initially. And then there was the sales person question - how to import into Act from Tigger - I honestly have no idea, I don't neccessarily support Act anymore, I stopped doing that a long time ago, so when I got home I downloaded a trial version - so now I need to write a report for her - upload it to their tigger database and figure out to export out and import into ACT and send instructions - which I included in the project price.
I have to say I'm an idiot - I was so tired while I was there, not used to getting up at 5am to go to work for anyone and when I talked to "the guy" on the phone Monday night trying to troubleshoot the VPN login and tigger at their office, he wanted to meet me back at the office to work - we would have been all alone, although I guess he could have come over to the hotel but I had no clue.
I really had no clue that he was interested until about Thursday and it completely dawned on me Friday, the day, I was leaving. I really need someone to hit me over the head sometimes and tell me a guy is interested. I was exhausted by Friday, I didn't get any sleep on Wed or Thurs since I was up working on their database structure - two companies databases for the price of one makes for a very long week.
I finally met Chris - now I have a voice to go with the IM conversations, I kept telling him I would seduce him when we met and you know when the time came - I didn't do a damn thing :( I was so tired and he's really hot and that voice, yum.
I got to see James and Susan - two old friends that I haven't seen in about 5 years, they have kids now, really cute adorable little girls. James is still the same and omg, I remember why we broke up in the first place, he's annoying - I know he's excited that he finally is doing something with his engineering degree and that he's working at intel doing chipset and cad tools database things but they way he told me about it - i couldn't decide if he was just telling me about it or telling me about it like I had no clue about what he talking about. I remember he used to get so mad at me when I helped him with his calculus homework because I always got the answers right, I just couldn't tell you how I can to that conclusion or I'd argue about infinite numbers with him
fast forward a week..talking to "the guy" for a few days online via webcam and the phone, I had no idea that everytime I left his cube, the guys were giving him shit, telling him to go for it or that he was nervous when ever we were around each other. I want to go see him and he's ask me to come back to Portland but my schedule is as usual hectic and I'm going to Phoenix in two weeks, eye surgery again in 3 weeks and meetings after that, hopefully soon I can get a chance to go back there to see him - although he could always come here too. I do have this utter desire to walk into the office and kiss him :)
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