Why is it that people are always surprised when it rains on Labour Day? While it hasn't started to rain yet there are large black clouds in the sky and the forecast for tomorrow indicates it will in fact rain. Again I ask, why are people surprised? I've always figured that it's God's way of showing his displeasure over organized labour (I'm joking... honest...)!

Anyway today was a fairly interesting day. This morning when we came in we found an e-mail from our Business Manager stating that we (the Business group) were to have lunch with the Vice-President of the company! Now if you don't know what company I work for that probably doesn't sound like a big deal but this was. In the entire company which has 27 or so districts and spans North America there are only two people above this Vice-President. So the fact that we got to have pizza with him in the board room and talk for almost 3 and a half hours was pretty cool. He's often on our site so it was nice to actually have got to know him a little bit. Learning a little bit more about the job we're on, the next ones coming and the future of the company, as well as our place in it, was fairly impressive.

After our meeting I had a quick sit-down with my Manager and discussed the possibility of moving one of my girls on to something else. She's far to intelligent for the job I have her doing and her interest level has dropped significantly. It's become a problem to the point that she's getting sloppy. Manager is going to talk to her on Tuesday about permanently moving to another department and then we'll hire someone new for me. I hope everything works out as intended.

I'm getting ready to head home Tuesday night. As usual I'm not really looking forward to going home all that much and this time even that much less as I've scheduled having my wisdom teeth pulled on Wednesday morning. Then because I figured I won't be doing anything while home this time I've decided to come back up here 3 days early to cover a vacation one of my girls wanted to take. That way I keep telling myself I'll take some extra days in October.

I bought my tickets to wine festival the other night so that is something to look forward to in October. My friend M and I are planning a vacation in November to someplace warm. I'm looking forward to that a lot as I've never been any place tropical. Now we've just got to figure out where we're going. :)