Nothing left to hide

Today I had a presentation for a project I’ve been working on for about 3 weeks where I an another guy are analyzing the cost/benefit of implementing two Monitors for everyone at the help desk.  I was working the Cost side and he was working the Benefit side and so far I find that I end up taking everything he does and completely re-wording and altering it to find into a way that our Manager will actually find professional and respectable.  We had our 3rd meeting about it today and mostly just read the proposal I put together and had two minor comments and said we’d hear about starting a test pilot.  This is fine in itself I suppose, not getting laugh at for what we presented but the other half, the benefit half was really weak compared to what I put together.  Now granted… his stuff has no real numbers, which is why we are having the pilot but you can still write it out so it doesn’t look so bad.  Anyway, I don’t care really if the project dies or not, I’m just hoping it shows my qualifications to do something else, and if it does work I can throw it on my resume somehow for saving the company X amount of dollars by implementing a new way of working… new being a very relative term.

Over the last weekend Jen went Bridesmaid dress shopping with Kristin and is still trying to find the right one.  I played ample amounts of WoW and ate the delicious food that Jen prepared, a lovely tequila marinated beef.  I picked up a high end Tequila (Patrone) and it made all the difference.  Sunday evening we went out to celebrate Father’s Day with Jen’s grandparents at the Peking Chinese Restaurants a few blocks North of here.  The cuisine is of a much higher caliber than the typical Seattle Chinese food scene which is always good, but spending time with her grandparents is really nice since they are so easily pleased that the simple act of us all meeting up is, dare I say, elation to them.  I just like the fact that it’s quick, simple, no fuss get togethers where we eat and enjoy one another’s company, and for some reason I don’t see this in my own family and I’m not sure why.

This Sunday is my Birthday, not that I’ve thought about it much but I suppose I should begin arranging something to do unlike the usual… nothing.  I take it back, Jen always does something really nice for me, but not like most people who probably go all out and have big parties.