It's off to another conference. This time it is the "regional" conference for our denomination. We do these every year, whereas the "general" conference meets only every three. My region consists of church leaders in our denom from Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana.I actually hadn't thought much about this year's conference until I grabbed a coffee cup this morning. It seems many of these type events give out free mugs. And I have one thing I'd like to say....... I really like getting coffee mugs - it's something I use - but I wish more people would just give out the regular sized ones. We have them in all shapes and sizes, and do you know how hard it is to stack all these different sized mugs in what little cupboard space we have? In fact, you can even save yourself the expense of fancy artwork too. It doesn't make my coffee taste any better. But.... I know, I know.... that's just me.
I did read a good post this morning on "Why Your Fancy Website Sucks." It's much the same principle. And that's perhaps one of my pet peeves - when people ruin my ability to comprehend or enjoy something because they think glitz and glitter will make it better. I dislike emails that come with a background; I can hardly read magazines and textbooks that have items separated all over the page in boxes. I suppose it's the same with powerpoint presentations and packaging and commercials. What is wrong with simple - black and white, say what you mean, mean what you say, and all that?
I could even go so far as to say the format for these conferences suffers in the same way. I really appreciate all the work people put into these things. I do. But I know the one I'm heading to this week is packed just FULL of stuff. A variety of speakers, entertainers, break-out sessions. And I am sure a lot of people will enjoy it. But as for me and my weary head... I almost feel overloaded before it's even started. I would prefer a single bullet to a shotgun blast. The more that's thrown at me, the likelier I am to duck and run. But... you know... that's just how I am.
I think life is complicated enough already. I wish someone would just pour me a cup of simplicity and let me sip at my own pace. But then I would probably find something to complain about that. Yep, not complicated; just difficult. Besides, I think I'm merely rambling to put off packing. So, never mind.
Now where did I leave my coffee cup......
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Yeah but did you SEE those girls last night?! rrrowr-rowr!
Okay, that said, I'm the same way. I'm very linear, like to deal with one thing at a time. Given the option, I don't even want to know what the next thing is on my plate before finishing the first one--generally because I'll attempt to start thinking about it before I get there, and trying to multitask my brain like that tends to just cloud things up. As for meetings, I hate any kind of meeting--but generally meetings make me think I'm working too hard. If someone out there has time to organize a meeting and isn't inundated for the next two months and think breaking to chat is absolutely INSANE given the amount of real work to be done, obviously his job is a lot easier than mine. And what I REALLY don't like is when a vendor wants to give a presentation on their product and even though they could show you the whole thing in about 5 minutes, they stretch it into a two hour meeting because they learned somewhere that if you don't detach the people from their daily life by taking a significant block of their time, they won't remember your product as well. So, it's a two hour meeting whether it's a blade server system with vmware OR a slinky.
"okay, you've seen in part one how it walks downstairs alone OR in pairs, but now part two covers its 'slinkety sound'..."
(( 2 grueling hours later ))
"...and in conclusion, it's fun for a girl and a boy."
haha! love the comment and so I'm glad so see that they're back...for a while there i was beginning to think we'd lost you MR.
all in all - i think the three of us should get together and rule the world...no glitz and glamor - just to-the-point, task oriented, and simple.
i don't know, maybe a world without glitter would be no good. i'd have to throw away half of my eye shadows and that just sounds frightening!
Yeah, jaded is my middle name.
...okay, it's YOUR middle name, but I'm still pretty good at it.
Now a slinky.... that woulda been a great gift!!
There were no coffee cups this year. We got a pouch to hang around our neck (with our name on it), an ink pen, a highlighter, and a box with toothpicks and mints. The pouch was dern heavy, but... coulda been worse.
Actually I got a coffee cup. It was smaller and clear glass. I didn't know it was for coffee until my wife poured me a cup in it. But I agree that they should standardize the size! It's like playing Jenga stacking our coffee cups!
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