Yeah, It's Been Almost Another Week.

This is my second week of the new job, and I'm starting to get a feel for things, just a little. Week One was total madness with a big project on deadline.  This week was a bit more "normal," and if ever a word deserved to be in quotes....

Love the Boss. He's a guy I can deal with.  I think we had a breakthrough late this afternoon, on only Week Two of working together (and Week One was derailed into working with other people on that big project).  He'd asked me to research something, and I'd found a really interesting link with tons of information, so I forwarded it to him. At 5, when I was trying to ooze out the door on Friday, I stuck my head in and told him I was leaving. He asked me about what I'd found (trust me, this was all way more in depth than I can share here) and I said I'd sent him a link. 

He grilled me further - was there a phone number I could call for more information?  I gaped at him.

"You didn't even LOOK at the link I sent you, did you?"  No, he hadn't.

"Okay, sit down, click here, look."  He clicked, he looked, he put his chin in his hand, he was absorbed.

He'll review all of that shit I found over the weekend.   I waved bye-bye and left.  He ain't paying me enough to review it all on the weekend; for that we'd have to re-negotiate the job description. And he's a good guy and knows this. And I had a breakthrough about how his "Just scream at me to shut up!" thing isn't just a thing, he's for real.  I've worked with him two weeks and the first week didn't really count, and he's the president of the company and waaay connected. Wow. I'm starting to think this might be a good long term gig.

I may also be weaning him from his illegible paper calendar.  He's an Apple person and so am I, so it took 3 minutes to find a nice Google calendar app for the iPad he already was carrying.  I now have a blank check to go to the Apple store and book time at the Genius Bar, and figure out how we can do this better.  He just needed somebody who was just techy enough to bridge the gaps, and development enough to understand the business, and I am both. I am just barely techy enough to know what's possible with our iPads, though not able to do it without hand-holding by somebody younger than my kids.

It's fun. It's disorganized, crazy, interesting fun.