This is probably silly, but when I'm in the airport, I buy a bottle of water with the card I'm going to be using on the trip. That way the company can see where I went.

I am so not off the grid.

Japan knocked out Denmark.

DH got a call about one of his credit cards last year. They were worried because it had been used to buy stuff in Ireland. Where they were ringing him. Where he'd lived and been using the card for 2 years.

Okay. I've got shit to do, and if I don't get off my lazy butt and do it, I'll be up all night. Here I go.

The funny thing was that she was so excited about having done it-- I mentioned to her that if she had track changes on and deleted the item, it would appear in blue or red or whatever, with the strikethough, and then I could accept or delete the change. Then I demonstrated.

Then she happily said- "No, I went up to format and kit strikethrought!" I wanted you to be able to see them!"

And then I said "Nevermind"

And she explained her method to me again, and I just said "OK, that's helpful! Thank you!"

This is one of my favorite car designs ever: [link]

It's a 1938 Phantom Corsair - I think there was only one made. (Don't remember if it was a custom car or a prototype that never made it into production - I think the latter.)

Aside from the art-deco-ish bumper, there's almost nothing to the design that makes it look "old".

Bank of America cut off my account and called me urgently last Spring because I'd spent so much money at the BevMo 5-cent sale.

Um.

ry explaining that about HTML 12 years ago

Years ago I once sat in an HTNL class and listened as a woman talked about how she was going to set up a website for her daughter's jewelry business and use fancy fonts and have everything appearing JUST SO. I didn't have the heart to say anything, but the instructor tried ... and tried.

The example in the article Tom linked to seemed to know. I'm not sure if the company has more information than they put on your statement.

Oh, I see that now. I missed that part before, thanks.

You guys know my pain, then.

On Tuesday, I had to give a presentation to our senior management (had already given 2.5 hours one to CFO and CEO) about the EDMS project I am spearheading. The board already approved the budget, but I still need the PO signed. And this was a project that had already flailed for almost 3 years, and lots of money was completely wasted on "consultants" who didn't know a UR doc from their arses. Anyway, two different people (SVP and a Director) in QA had tried and not succeeded in convincing anyone that an EDMS was needed. This was the fault of that (now departed) SVP and then the charisma-less QA director; everytime they were asked why we needed to spend hundreds of thousands on an EDMS, they'd respond with "we need it to be compliant."

Anyway, being dir. of reg ops, I was tied to the flailing project because QA and RA were sharing the budget for it. And I LOATHE being tied to flailing projects. Finally this year, in Feb, I told my boss that I either wanted to take it over completely OR be cut off of the project entirely.

So, I took it over, built a project team, evaluated vendors, whittled it down to one, got the SLA and SOW ironed out, gave the presentation to my skeptical CFO and turned him into a believer, and then gave the entire presentation again to senior management. It's been a LOT of work, with no glory.

So, you can all sympathize when I tell you that my presentation to senior management about the company-wide benefits of an EDMS was nearly completely derailed when the VP of non-clinical spoke at length about his hatred and distrust of...the latest MS Word product.