Lasagne

Today Jonny had lasagne for lunch. It was purchased by Angelina for about $5 at Hiller's and only contains egg plant, no meat. At about 3/4 of a pound it was a good lunch. Today's plans got all messed up. Leann Hunley, emailed and canceled the meeting. There was to be a VASE UAT MTG to kick it off. Beware of all projects that begin with a kick off meeting. Especially those where UAT stands for User Acceptance Testing. Version 8 of VASE is getting deployed. Jonny was supposed to go to Death Valley this afternoon for the meeting. He was planning to leave around 11 or so. Then the meeting was at 2PM. So he could, nap, eat, smooze with the other programmers in VASE whatever. He has been working on Penny's monthly enrollment adhoc query issue all day. He was on the phone with her and then got the email canceling the meeting. So he went to his car and took a nap. Then he worked and worked. Just now Penny and Jonny have been exchanging emails. Finally she decided Jonny was getting cranky. Tomorrow when he is in Hotel California they will revisit the issue. Jonny was of course admittedly getting testy. Why? Because he was right of course. There are so many intricacies of administering the VASE product. And Penny is all things not computer related.

Right now Jonny is on page 207 of Union Prayer book. He is on tape 3 of Someday the Rabbi will leave. There is now a dead body in the story. The point of the books is not the mystery it is the Jewish religion. Jonny has been working hard all day, except for ten minutes to blog and an hour to sleep and about 10 minutes to heat up his food. He even ate while working. Why is he so diligent? Is it because he turned off his cell phone and won't answer the phone? Oh no how will Angelina call him? She has left one message of which Jonny promptly deleted it without even listening to it. Jonny is momentarily scared. Richard's situation is what has prompted this seemingly uncharacteristic dedication to work. Richard was fired for performance. This guy Jonny's brother, the work at home salesman in San Diego apparently wasn't selling enough stuff. Richard Ziman declares he was laid off. Pursuing deeper it was something else. The VP of sales is new and want his own people. Jonny's brother was looking already. But now he has to really look. His original stated reason was they were cutting his salary. Richard claimed it was a commission restructuring resulting in a dramatic pay cut. He could always sell the BMW.