Informatica or Bust...
This past week was hell. I sat through 4 days of training in Informatica. If you don't know what that is, then be happy, because your life can easily be complete and fulfilled without ever having to know it exists, but if you do know what it is, then you'll understand my disdain for it. Although the training was well presented, there's no way to get around the fact that the material is really quite dry and there's really no way to make ETL processess very interesting.
On Friday night, Mellissa and I headed out to the pottery studio and experienced the first annual chili cook off. There were a whopping three contestants, but it was still a good time. Other than that, our weekend was pretty relaxing. Hung out, watched some movies, started to watch the Showtime series Dexter, etc. Just your lazy weekend. The weather in Atlanta has been particularly miserable for the past week or so, and it's not looking like it's going to let up any time this week. It's possible that tomorrow is going to be nicer than it's been, but then there are cloudy skies predicted for the remainder of the week. Blek!
Last Tuesday, I posted my Bimmer on Craiglist, Autotrader and the Bimmerforums.com to give it a shot and try to sell off the beast. As of this morning, which marks a week of it being posted online, I've gotten exactly zero calls. Apparently, with gas prices approaching $4 a gallon, the desire to own an 8 cyl. automobile has wanned considerably. We'll see how it goes. I may end up just having to keep it and deal with it's quirky little issues, but that's really not something that I want to do. I purchased the most expensive plan with Autotrader, so a least I can run it until it sells for as long as I need to. I'm not all that worried, as I posted the car for $1000 below KBB value...so SOMEONE should think it's a good deal, becaue frankly, it is.
This week, I am working to finish up my presentation for the Lunch and Learn that I'm presenting on BI. It's going well, and I should have a fairly viable presentation in a day or so. I'm looking forward to hosting and presenting the lunch and learn, as it'll be a good time to practice my public speaking, as I've not done a whole lot of it in the past.
Anyway, speaking of which, I should get working on that.