It’s been a pretty busy week, which doesn’t leave
much time for blogging. I took a day of
vacation last week to accompany my girls on a tour of the University of
Louisville, among other things we did together in Louisville. As rising juniors, it’s time the girls start giving
serious consideration to which college they want to attend. Erin liked what she saw at U of L; it was her
idea to see it and she thinks she wants to go there. U of L is a little more than 3 hours from
home via Interstate, not bad but I don’t like the thought of those trips she
will make back and forth from home in all that traffic....of course, I’m
assuming she will want to come home from time to time. She might like it so much she never wants to come
home. I suppose that would be a
wonderful thing to happen, but it makes me a bit sad to think it. I want all my kids to be happy, and I will go
see them if I miss them before they come and see me.
Next up, University of Kentucky in Lexington. Emily wants to see it. We have driven through parts of the sprawling
campus many times together, but she wants to get a real tour like we got last
week at U of L. Fair enough. I’ll have to figure out a date that works and
call to schedule it.
Dang it! It’s
nearly Monday. I do hate Mondays and
tomorrow is extra bad – my boss is coming in.
I work in a remote office about 5 hours away from corporate
headquarters. I’m on a team that has
members in Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan.
Boss is taking us out to lunch with a peer manager and his Kentucky
members, and my boss’s boss who is also from headquarters. My boss’s boss; I don’t know him well but he
is definitely old-school. I hate lunch.
What’s worse, it’s mid-year review time. My boss is new; he’s worked pipeline and
terminals, but not refining until just last November. Anyway, he’s still operating from the upslope
of the learning curve. He hasn’t set
section mid-year goals so my annual goals are still floating free and whipping
around where-ever the wind carries them.
I kind of like that because it makes it easier to juggle priorities. It’ hard to take long term goals seriously
when environments are changing so quickly; proposals become obsolete before
they are approved. Working there is like
trying to run underwater.
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