All today I’m working together and for a company running a real big application move from remote. When ask about in front they said that they will do all the planning their selves. Great I thought, but stayed dumb not going the risk making them grumpy.

At the end I really got some planning two days ago and after a few iteration of asking and answering even I thought we could work with it.

Today now work started rough as for a few preconditions weren’t ready and done, but after half an hour we were back in plan and everything looked fine. Just "looking" and "being" are two different things ….

The few minor hurdles came up for sure during the morning, but this is normal and nothing to mind and worry about in such a project. Even with the best planning in advance you can’t think about all and it depends on the coordinator and/or players to cruise and steer around.

But finally the best of all happend around lunchtime. Right around noon we had planned to stop some application and export/re-import a real big database. So I dialed in into a phone conference as scheduled and found myself alone there.

Right 15 minutes later the accountant of the customer dialed in and asked " What are we doing right now?" and I answered "Waiting?!" Perplexed He asked why and I said "Personally I guess your guys are at lunch … hopefully food is good there …."

Then there was silence!!        roflmao

Yesterday when I was started work, I directly had to deal a few issues which I tried to solve and finish quickly as for I was scheduled to participate on a phone conference already 30 minutes later ….

As ususal I got out of this phone conference with a few more tasks to do! So sitting back at work and going on with all was a need. Very focused on all I was happy seeing my reminder about a “working” lunch appointment with Rainer again in time. Directly headed out and catching up with him still in time, I even could blame him for being late 2 minutes!!

Following the ususal nature of such “lunchbreaks” I returned back later as expected and there still were a few things open to do and on top I even found a message on my screen coming from Jill (my Jillaroo friend living on a cattle station in NSW) indication me that we had missed each other for minutes….. How sad, especially as for she had wrote that she will be away now for a few weeks.

Working through all, the next and primary problem was about another appointment I had later on catching up with a lady, I will do a presentation with at a conference later this year.

I hadn’t met her in person so far and even I had already build up a personal imagination during our earlier phone calls we had, I was very impressed now sitting together with a very congenially and easy going person. By guessing that I will not see her more often than once or twice again until that conference, I think it was very important to find someone easy to work with person and I’m now really looking forward to this event.

So leaving her again was done with the sureness that this topic was now settled well and ….. about remembering the need to take a quick d-tour visiting my Suzuki dealer for picking up some spare part I had ordered for my Suzi the other day….. yeah …. sniffle….. my Suzi had a problem!

Rushing all day long as I did, finally coming home was some relieve! And as last, I headed for my tools sitting next to Suzi replacing her broken part ….

Later looking at my dirty hand was done with some smile, as for it gave me the feeling that I had archived to spend at least a few minutes now just for myself - as the end of an overall hectically day at all.