... and it’s a wrap!

The three days of training are over* and the course went mostly well minus a few minor difficulties:

‘No. NO! Pick that icon. Yes the green one. No! Not the red one!! That is not the green icon. Look it is directly to the right of you at the top of the screen. No not left, right! … What are you doing? You should never design a part like that. What are you thinking?!? Don’t you know that the software isn’t stable enough to handle those computations? You’re damn lucky that the whole thing didn’t…’ [popping sound as the computer exits the program in one fatal sweep taking all the pertinent information with it] ‘ Please, please tell me that you saved your work! What? What you mean you weren’t saving on a regular basis?!? You know that this software doesn’t save automatically! Dunkauf! [Sp?] Repeat after me: ‘Save often.’ Good! Now the next time this happens, I promise I’ll tattoo that phrase on your forehead. ‘

In all seriousness, it was wonderful to be interacting with people again, helping them with their technical difficulties and guiding then in the right direction. I am hoping to be able to give training again soon. I hadn’t realized how much I missed it, yes even with the amount of stress and nervousness that I experience before each course, until it ended. It felt good to be doing something that didn’t involve staring at a screen for hours on end while trying to make sense of words and sentences, strewn haphazardly across a page, attempting to form them into coherent thoughts.

Well it’s time to be catching up on all our wonderful reads… see y’all soon!

*Three days of constantly being ‘on’, waking up early, going to bed late and subsiding mainly on copious amounts of caffeine. Which strangely enough have left me feeling energized and alert, even though I abhor waking up at the crack of dawn.