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Showing posts with label 20 of 365. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Please Pass The Geritol!!

A half day in the life of Janie...


4:45 a.m. - wake up, hop in shower

5:45 a.m. - leave house to go pick up El Patron at hotel

5:55 a.m. - decide I’m a wee bit early, run to post office and pick up mail

6:03 a.m. - pick up El Patron at hotel

6:10 a.m. - walk into Main Street Cafe where we meet customers for breakfast

7:00 a.m. - leave cafe, run into another customer, make introductions and visit for a bit

7:10 a.m. - run to Starbucks, El Patron in tow, for drinks

7:20 a.m. - call another customer to see if we can come up to his office early; he says yes, so we...

7:23 a.m. - go pick up breakfast sandwiches at Tony’s bakery and head to customer’s office

7:30 a.m. - visit with said customer, make introductions, and take an order

8:00 a.m. - leave customer, call another customer to see if we can come to his office. He doesn’t answer, so we leave a message.

8:10 a.m. - call another customer to confirm they are in the office - they are, so we...

8:12 a.m. - go back to Tony’s Bakery and pick up more breakfast sandwiches and head out towards the airport, where their offices are located.

8:22 a.m. - walk into customers office, introduce El Patron to everyone (7 different engineers!), and watch him reconnect with one of the engineers with whom he attended Marietta College; visit with the bosses

9:45 a.m. - leave customers office and go to one of our directional drilling yards, where I am introduced to other employees.

10:30 a.m. - leave office, heading back towards Midland to take El Patron to his hotel and go to one of my association meetings,

11:00 a.m. - walk into my association meeting

1:10 p.m. - leave association meeting


Okay, I’m worn out... I’m just showing you lunch and before! It’s 10:15 p.m. and we just got home after going straight from the office to a customer’s birthday party. Tomorrow, I get a break...after a 7:30 breakfast meeting, I’ll go into Jury Duty. Yeehah!


Please, honey ---pass the Geritol.