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TGIF! Man this has been a long week. All three of us were sick over the weekend. Molly had it the worst. She had a stomach ache that has made her tired, whiny and irritable. Patricia had to stay home for three days to watch her.

This is my first time really being around kid sickness. Dealing with a sick kid is hard. All of the not listening to you because they don’t feel well, the moaning and weird sounds… It’s enough to drive a inexperienced guy crazy. Add in some relationship drama, and overly busy work days and you have a good recipe for going cuckoo.

Recently we’ve been getting a lot of projects at work that require a quick turnaround. Projects that have nothing to do with training (I work in the training department), and all to do with PowerPoint. Projects that people said they just needed  “a little help to polish things up”, but meant to say “I have some text, but you build everything else.”

On Monday we found out about our most recent request. They said they would have the text for each slide 100% worked out by end of day Tuesday, and they needed in by mid afternoon on Thursday to send it to the printers for the presentation on Monday. A day and a half to work on it? REALLY?!  Tuesday we sent them four mock ups to look at and pick from. Wednesday they picked a style they liked, and I started building it using the temporary text for the slides that still hadn’t been solidified.  Thursday at 10am I get the finial text, tighten things up and sent them a copy. By 3pm I received a list of edits, and 45 minutes later it was in the can and done.

I love my job, and doing the multimedia stuff is way fun, but I don’t like building PowerPoints, or extremely tight deadlines. This weekend  is a weekend well earned. I can’t wait for a burger from Stanich’s!