I attended the first Fireworks class, which was taught by “Ray,” a very handsome, light-skinned black guy. At one point, I wanted to kiss him, because as it turned out, 6 people had signed up for the class, but I was the only one who showed up, so rather than standing in front of the class teaching, he sat at the computer beside me and taught me everything at that proximity.
The class was scheduled from 9-11:30, and with just me, we finished at 10:10. I was happy to have the found time, as I wanted to finish reviewing those QP metrics for Paul this morning before the 1:00 ISO education session.
I got that done, had lunch and then started connecting to the 1:00 call. Loretta was teaching it from San Jose, 95% of the participants were in Irvine, CA, one or two connected from Austin, and one or two here in RTP. Well, from the start, it was a mess, which is not good for the morale of this team, as they are already resistant to this ISO stuff, being a small company having recently been acquired by IBM.
First of all, at about 10 minutes before starting, Loretta tells me she no longer has access to the team room, which we were going to use to show examples during the session. I tried it, and I, too, had lost access. I pinged Linda, and she said, “Oh yeah, I had to change the access list to a “group” yesterday, and it has messed up the access.” Great.
Next the teleconference wasn’t starting. We were all listening to music. Loretta Sametimed me and said, “Who’s going to activate the call?” I thought she was. She thought I was. I hung up and dialed in with the leader code, and about 12 lines connected in.
So, we finally got started about 10 minutes late. Loretta spoke, I ran the e-Meeting from my computer, while the others all watched remotely. That went pretty smoothly.
I ended up not connecting to the 21 CFR 11 meeting, as it was almost done by the time we finished the ISO session. Thank goodness Cassandra handled that one from Austin, and did a great job.
I left for class at 3:30. Dr. Brad started off the class with an update on Jennifer, which didn’t sound at all good. About 60% of the people that have had the kind of stroke she had die within these first two weeks. She’s still in a coma, and they are just waiting.
We did have a lively class, and the three hours just flew by as usual. I didn’t have my workout clothes with me, so couldn’t join Steven at the gym as planned. Bummer. I really wanted to work out today, as I’ve had an atrocious eating day today. But I’m not going to beat myself up over it. Back on track tomorrow.