Bill Roper's Journal

Day one of my two days of Loop meetings is over and I am fabulously tired. This is because I not only had to get up annoyingly early to catch a train, but I slept badly for a variety of reasons.

But the meetings went well, so that makes it worthwhile.

I will keep telling myself that when I have to get up early again tomorrow.

Thursday, I am going to sleep.

And then Friday I am going to get up early so we can get to OVFF on time.

Whee!

Time zones are hard.

I deal with them a lot at work, because the majority of the people that I need to work with are in the Pacific Time Zone, two hours earlier than we are here in Chicago. As a result, I usually do not get out of work until between 6 and 7 PM Chicago time and I tend to start later as well.

When someone on our India team sends out a meeting notice at 2:35 AM Chicago time and expects me to be there at 8 AM, the chances of this actually happening are vanishingly small. Unfortunately, I checked my email when I woke up to hit the bathroom and found the meeting notice, so I ended up getting up early.

And then we didn't have the meeting, because the fellow in India had farbled the time zone settings and had scheduled the 8 AM meeting for 8 PM.

We let him know that none of us would be showing up at 8 PM.

I really need more sleep.

So does Gretchen, but for different, school-related reasons. :)

I'm home from Dorsai Thing and really, really tired. But the conversation and singing were good. I even got to play a bit of the shard game in Ingress.

And we watched Moana tonight, which is an excellent film and seems to me like it should be on Hugo short lists.

Bed, though. Bed is acutely needed.