Tyro is the only 'receptionist' here at the moment, so when she needed to take a fifteen minute meeting a little while ago, she asked me to cover phones. I said yes, of course. I used to do it all the time, after all.

What I didn't remember is that I used to do it from the console. I've never used the portable handset. I think I hung up on four people, at least two of whom were trying to get in touch with CEOJason. I put one woman into interminable hold limbo two times.

So embarrassing.

First, I despise the professionally incompetent. That is, the people who brag about how they don't know how to fill the paper tray in the printer or sign for deliveries or work a postage machine. It doesn't make them seem high-level and important, okay? I know they think it does, but it doesn't. It makes them seem lame.

Second, it's a telephone. How sad is it that someone handed me a telephone and I wasn't able to work it?

It helps a little that two of the functions I was looking for--ones I used frequently on the console--turn out not to be available on the handset.

I did march up and make Tyro show me how to use it, though. Next time, I won't be so lame. (I am not a professional incompetent.)

It's supposed to snow tomorrow night. Up to a foot or two in the foothills and south of town, which means anything from a dusting of white to ten inches in Denver. It's May. It's the middle of May. What's up with that?

As Mondays go, this one is a bit rocky.

I was supposed to load a new campaign for Gidget yesterday afternoon. I just remembered it, so clearly it didn't get done.

I meant to do it but a blocked kitchen sink--a reasonably minor problem that wound up taking from 12:15 until 7:15 pm to get fixed, distracted me. (I called maintenance, it took them two hours to call back, by which time the sink had drained, albeit very slowly, so I told them it could wait until today and then two hours later, even though I hadn't run any water into the sink, the sink was 2/3 full again, so I had to call maintenance back and wait another two hours for a response, after which it took nearly an hour for the guy to actually show up and fix it.)

Anyhow. I have to stop on the way home and see if that power cord on the laptop is covered under the warranty or if they can sell me a new one if it isn't. Then, when I get home, I'll do that campaign.

Actually, as weeks go, this one is starting out a bit rocky.