The weekend is here and I couldn't be more happy, because this week sure has had it's ups and downs!
On Monday night I finished watching The Rundown, which I had started briefly late Saturday night. I thought it was a pretty neat movie, with a few funny parts but otherwise nothing too special about it, although the fight scenes were some of the coolest I've seen this side of The Transporter. Arnold's cameo neatly sums it up - the torch has been passed to The Rock!
The CIPS seminar on home automation was great. The food wasn't good but the subject material was definitely interesting. This dude has his entire house completely wired for all sorts of things. You can even check out a live demo for yourself! Wow!
Wednesday was not a good day. I spent the bulk of my time during the day chairing the Carillon AGM and it was a gong show. There was a hundred people crammed into the Carillon offices which made it unbearably hot and the lack of space meant that I had to conduct the entire meeting standing on a couch. On top of that, because they failed to file the right paperwork a few years ago, the whole process turned into more of a glorified staff meeting than an AGM, much to the disappointment of the tons of people who came there to vote and couldn't. The good news is that it's going to be a small effort to get their house in order for the future, and I'm sure hoping they get on that right away. There has been and there is going to be a lot of flack over this, but I hope the message gets out that it can be fixed and life can move on. It did scare me how some people can have literally invested nothing into something and expect the world from it, and I meet too many people who mistake "good intentions" for "good actions", let me tell you! What I find amusing is the people who the most upset about what has been "happening" at the Carillon are the people that will either do the least about it or have the least amount of knowledge on how to fix the situation. The elections afterwards went pretty smoothly, and it looks like they've got a good crew coming in for the upcoming year, so we'll see how it goes.
The terrible week continued as I have spent pretty much all of my waking hours working and it's been a frustrating experience. I didn't get to go to the French group on Wednesday thanks to that. I am probably going to work a ton this weekend, too. The good news is that the current workload is (hopefully) going to drop as the project I am working on now is set to be finished next Thursday. That very night I'm headed to the cabin to relax!