What's in a name?

As I write this, I am eating the Wal-Mart version of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Sweet Pea doesn't like it because it tastes "different."

Today was not an exciting day in my triangle. I had very little to do and work is quite boring when you aren't doing anything. I am claiming a victory over the comb binding machine. I put together my first fiduciary review booklets for Mr. X. (Let me take a moment to say that these booklets are beautiful. I thought that The Man and I had good materials at The Place With Three Letters, but I was sooooooooooooooooooooooo wrong. This booklet is so much better that I can't even quantify it. This also shows why The Place With Three Letters was laying off people and The Big Cheese Financial Group was hiring.) Anyway, after putting the booklets together this morning I had almost nothing to do. Tomorrow should be better, as I'll have all the follow up from Mr. X's meeting to organize.

As a side note, I just spilled Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk all down the front of me, while drinking it out of the bowl, and had to change all of my clothes. Good stuff.

Since I didn't have much to do today, I had lots of time to think about the two people in the office that I haven't named yet--one of the partners and the Chairman of the Board. I don't have a lot of interaction with them, which is why they haven't shown up sooner. The Chairman of the Board will now be called Al Gore, because he invented the Internet. (I think our Chairman had a bigger hand in it than the real Al Gore.) Al Gore is there for our Monday Morning Meetings and he's really into marketing. Right now his big idea is to have The Big Cheese start eating lunch every day at the super-posh, old money, country club. That way The Big Cheese will mix with the "right" people. The other partner in the office will be known as Will, as in William Shakespeare. That name would make lots of sense if you knew his actual name--you're just going to have to trust me on that. Will is very nice, but he is opposed to Al Gore's lunch marketing plans. He thinks that The Big Cheese should be having dinners with clients where the clients invite several of their business friends. And yes folks*, the merits of both of these ideas were debated for about 45 minutes at the last Monday Morning Meeting.

*The word "folks" still makes me laugh from my job at The Big P. At one point during that job my Senior Manager visited our office and accompanied me on a client visit to evaluate my performance. During this meeting I said "you guys." In the car after the meeting I was reprimanded and told to use the world "folks" because "guys" is too informal and also because there were women present. Ever since that time, "folks" has made me laugh.