I’ve started back to work after a week long break. I finished a long term project on the 7^th and dropped back into the office to tie up some loose ends last Monday. I then took a week off for a little R&R.

Yesterday was my first day back and I had practically nothing to do. The next project I’m slated to start has not had a purchase order issued to us to start the work yet and it may be a week or so before that happens. This morning I was suppose to meet with a co-worker at 9:00 to talk about some work I could be doing in the meanwhile.

For about three months now I’ve been trying to find an opportunity to get with my Church’s secretary to explain how she needs to move files onto the Church webserver. I’ve shown her once but she forgot. I’ve found that to be a fairly common occurance among people who only care about specific jobs their computer can do for them and this isn’t really one of those specific jobs in their own mind.

I figured I could show her one more time and she would understand. I dropped in Monday and discovered she was out. Yesterday she would be in staff meetings all morning so that was out. I thought, “Cool, as long as there is a lull at work I can drop in on Wednesday morning.”

Yesterday afternoon I had a meeting with my boss and a co-worker that I’ve been working with on a couple of projects. We were discussing a problem on a job that he took over from me when I got bogged down on another project. After that discussion was over I began asking my boss what work he had for me to do right now. My co-worker said there was some stuff that I could help him finish up on from the project I had just gotten off of that would give me a day or so of work to do and we should meet in the morning at 9:00 to discuss it.

Okay, now I have two things to do this morning at the same time. That’s okay, I can push the meeting with my Church’s secretary off for another day. Paying work generally takes the priority.

This morning at 8:45 my co-worker called in to tell me he wouldn’t be here until around 10:30. He had some errands to run.

Now, I’m sort of obsessive with keeping appointments. I don’t want people waiting on me and I don’t want to inconvenience other people by not being there when I’m suppose to be. I like to give as much notice as I can when I see that I have a conflict so people can have time to rearrange their schedule. Because I have lost the time that I could have been showing my Church’s secretary something I’ve been trying to get to to show her for three months I’m just a little perturbed right now.