Look, Ma, no...

[jay]

On the way to National Airport this morning, I was (typically) running a half-hour late. Then became mired in slow-moving traffic on I-66E. My weekly vehicle health management telecon with a large aerospace company was rapidly approaching, so I found myself booting my Mac G4 laptop, unzipping a file, and reading the contact number and password out -- all while still driving. =:-}

Then I joined the conference call via cellphone, while still driving. Sigh.

Otherwise, I had a lovely afternoon with Nancy in Minneapolis, picking up Land's End items in their outlet store for $6-8 each. patgreene is getting a new top and pants for $12 that lists in their catalog for $116.

After a bit of cuddling, we went to dinner and to Augsburg College -- Nancy belongs to an ice-dance club that meets there every Thursday. It's a graceful-but-strenuous sport... and males are much in demand as the female skaters outnumber them 2x-3x (contemplative look)...

I'm back home now.

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Teleconing while driving - that's really not a good idea. In the UK, at least, it would be illegal, and its definitely dangerous to you and the drivers and pedestrians around you. Which would be worse for the project - a missed or delayed telecon, or your permanant or long term loss?

People get delayed and miss meetings - its a fact of life. They should not be required to risk their lives, and those of people around them, just to sign the attendance register. You run a hectic schedule already so you need to be more careful.

Slow down before something happens to make you slow down.

A concerned Great Old One...

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It was my meeting, so I felt obliged to make a reasonable effort to participate... not simply to register, but to decide a few things. I had missed the previous meeting, also.

Traffic was stop-and-go,relatively slow-moving (15-30 mph)so it wasn't as much of a risk as it might seem...

[trinker.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my parents got rammed hard enough at an offramp in stop and go traffic heading to LAX that I couldn't turn my neck for a week.