Well, joy. You know those "local real estate investor" scam texts people have been getting lately? I just got a live human phone call one.

"Sure, but I'd need over market value."

"Well, we don't make offers over the phone, do you have a number you're looking for?"

"Yeah. A million."

"Uh. ... Do you have another property you'd be interested in selling?"

"Sure. 750."

*CLICK*

(No, my property is not worth that.)

Wow. Saw our CEO posted a job ad for a Senior Product Manager. Thought to myself "didn't we *JUST* hire someone for that like a month or two ago?!

We hired a Senior *DIRECTOR* of Product Management, who is now hiring a PM.

*Whew*. Was afraid we already scared him off!

*sigh*

"preparation meeting for the pre-meeting-meeting" set up by the sales guy, and he mentions the need to cut out some non-essential meetings coming up because his schedule is getting full.

Maybe don't schedule 45 minutes of my time for nonessential 2nd-order-prep meetings?

12 hours until I go watch live soccer again for the first time in over a year! WOOO! #BAONPDX

Freakin' teenagers...

Caught with pot.

"I need marijuana to help deal with my depression."

"I'm depressed because you took away my marijuana."

That's.... No. Circular logic won't magically get you out of this.

Hrm... About to start a PoC with "large social media company x" - I hope they don't search for me on their platform first...

My only public posts are "Leaving <platform> because it's evil. Catch me over on CoSo."

"Congrats! You've been nominated!....

...to receive a newsletter."

Really? That's your marketing strategy?

#FauciOuchie number two acquired! I'll let you know in two weeks if my 5G reception improves.

I don't know why my spouse has such a hard time with a certain password. She goes to log in to one online thing, and she always gets "incorrect username or password" - I type exactly what she has written down, and it works fine for me.

Hrm… I can no longer make my posts public.

Hey, this song by local band "PDX Broadsides" is relevant again! #CoSoMusic

https://thepdxbroadsides.bandcamp.com/album/please-dont-be-our-mayor-ep

*sigh*

Six hours of "prepration" meetings this week to kick off a proof of concept with a potential client...

That the presales team completely neglected to make clear what our product is. This client isn't looking for what we do AT ALL.

Not-my-industry comparison: "We're looking for something to wash our car with."

Me: "Uh... we make vacuum motors."

My pre-sales guy: "Yeah, we make cleaning things, they're looking for cleaning things!"

Dude, validate the lead before wasting my time!

This was a rare event.

It should be a rare event.

Not because police shouldn't be held accountable - but because police shouldn't be murdering people.

Hit the break-even point! (Have generated more solar power than my house has used today.)

Why yes, I did purchase new music that came on both cassette and floppy disk, why do you ask?

Thought of a great analogy for the "I meant to taser" argument - officers drill regularly on weapon usage. Taser is worn on "non-dominant" side, gun on dominant side. You drill. You train. You make it second nature to reach with the proper hand.

Imagine you *always* put your phone in your right pocket, and your keys in your left.

It's late at night, someone's following you. You approach your car. Do you reach for your phone when you mean to get your keys to open your car door?

No.

Yes, this client would be a good "feather in the cap" for our customer list. But if they won't get any useful benefit from us, they'll be more annoyed at us than happy, and won't make a good reference, even if we give the product to them for free.

It's as if we're a company that makes hardware to help a client rebuild semi truck engines. It's very specific to semi truck engines. With some tweaking, maybe a heavy duty pickup or a dump truck engine.

This client only wants to rebuild locomotive engines and motorcycle engines.

*sigh* - Four hours today spent on researching something. Two-hour call going on now with C-level and multiple VPs...

Only to have the C-level agree with what I emailed first thing this AM "This sales prospect isn't looking for what our software does. This is not a good sales lead."