this week flew by

without realising it, this week has literally flown by, and all of a sudden comes july.

a fairly hectic week, with lots of things happening, both in and outside of camp.

Tuesday was the so long and thanks for all the fish dinner for the 4 regulars who have/are/will be leaving us for (allegedly) greener pastures (read: ORD) or back to the mothership (read: Mowbray). The event went rather well, i thought, mostly picking up after i had finished my emcee duty. There was freeflow of beer (1 keg) and wine (3 bottles) and most people left before the event really started to get into swing. ah well. less man more share i say.

Wednesday was a PSC MAP/AS brief. It's kinda like the standard "how would you like to become a perm sec/minister?" talk, with a little side track into "why topping out at director isn't all that great" thrown in for effect.

Thursday saw two events - firstly, a PSC Psychological interview (to check if yours truly is Psycho(tic) enough to join the aforementioned MAP/AS). a brief summary of the results:

a) PSC thinks i'm smart.
b) My priorities in life are 1: Religion 2: Pursuit of Knowledge ..... last: pursuit of political power. hmm.
c) i'm very direct.
d) my leadership styles are 1: Authoritarian 2: Persuasion ..... last: democratic
e) i like jello

wait. the last one was just to throw you off. Maybe my take-away was slightly different than two of my friends, who got (in their own words):

Friend A: You're an arrogant b**tard
Friend B: You have no morals.

As a wit in camp would put it - friends A and B are ideally suited for the MAP/AS, whilst i have to do a little losing of morals to get in.... stay tuned for that....

The second thing that happened on Thursday was the SPUG launch of the Palm LifeDrive at the unbelievably low price of $765 (hint hint: irony in effect). From a RRP of $868, no less. Most previous SPUG launches came associated with a 15-20% discount, so the 12% or so discount they offered was not very well received. They also offered the T|E2 at $375, down from a RRP of $418. That 10% discount didn't sell too well either.

Plus the fact that the demonstration was more of a "Palm Lifedrive 101" than an attempt to allay the attendees concerns about various aspects of the LD. They spent an hour or so saying "The LD can do this" and "The LD can do that", and not much actually explaining the technical details. You would expect that your audience are interested in the device, and would have done their homework reading about the specifications and capabilities of the device. But no, it became a "Palm LD for dummies" session. Bah. Neither the friend i went with nor i bought one. Not that i was looking for one in the first place...

Then, today, Friday, is the last day of the week! TGIF!!!!!!