Train train traaaain
Amtrak comin’ through on our way back from dinner at Dexter’s Pub. After this encounter, someone realized he was missing his *flask*. My question was why did you take a flask to a restaurant? It was in his sweatshirt pocket and it must’ve fallen out when he was removing dropped menus and various debris from the floor under our table. Um, I know you like to help other people but you don’t get paid to clean the restaurant and it wasn’t icky dirt, just paper crapola. We returned to the restaurant and they did indeed have the flask and all is well.
I am not a big fan of excessive ceremony and I don’t really like toasting to things, at least not 20 times a night. I cringe when I am at weddings and people keep clinking their glasses or whatever to make the newlyweds kiss over and over and over again. But TONIGHT! I was the first to raise a glass.
Who/What did I toast? My new colleague. It’s early in the game but I think this person will be wonderful and that we’ll get along well. My new colleague is quick, smart, and proactive about learning the ropes. There is a LOT to learn but I think they will do well and I find myself “leaning in” to my potential role in helping them learn our product. Talking today, there were a few times I felt like we were on the verge of finishing each other’s sentences. For a couple unblahggable reasons, it’s been a couple years since I’ve had a work person I could, I dunno, talk to. I mean with a meeting of the minds. I love the dev guys but they are, well, developers, not unlike engineers. I am not a developer (or an engineer). Our minds do often meet but it can be difficult to find the right words to get us to that meeting point.
Now I’ve got my new-old boss back and a new colleague. Although I have had the means to quit working for many years and am past retirement age, this new combo might allow me to formulate a graceful exit strategy. Not quite ready yet. And as always, they could lay me off without warning at any moment…
But for the moment: clink clink clink cheers.
March 21st, 2025 at 9:50 pm
That’s great news! It is difficult to bond with work colleagues because we all have different styles and thought processes. I was very fortunate to work in a fabulous World Language Department and we’ve remained friends for decades.
March 22nd, 2025 at 8:13 am
That is good news. Work mates can be the best friends we ever make. I have life-long friendships from my working days. And an exit strategy from work is always good. (Especially when/if you have to cross the border into Canada to escape this place. Sorry, I was just reading the news and I’m literally shaking a bit from what I heard. Nothing exactly new; just some academics and analysts predicting what’s going to happen to our future.)