Yikes,Its Later then I Think

Yikes! I just realized my afternoon is filled with meeting and I am not going to have anything to post if I do not get my butt in gear and write. I was hoping I would have this afternoon but my boss poked her head into my office just before she left for the aiport for her long Portland weekend to ask if I would attend her 2:00 meeting over at the office of Inhuman Services. No problem, but attendance at this meeting seriously cuts into my afternoon.

The meeting is at 2:00 and since I am in my van today I will need to leave at 1:30 to be sure I am at the meeting in time to set up—you know have a great seat yet still have easy egress should I need it. One of my biggest beefs with public meetings is that people just jam in to these meeting room a and if you use any form of assistive technology for mobility your are effectively trapped. If you gotta take a leak, you have to do the “ Moses and the Red Sea” trick never mind if you have to testify or even see what is going on if people are standing in the room.

The office of Inhuman Services is housed in a building which has one of the worst feelings of any public building I have ever been in. I used to have to visit this building s lot when I worked for Independent Living: hearings, advisory boards and other committee meetings. I personally feel so many things have been perpetrated against people who are low-income or people with disabilities that the very karma of the building has been fouled. I have even considered doing some research on the site where the building is constructed to see if there was anything evil which happened on this ground or maybe a grave yard or something because something is definitely bad there. The folks who work there must know this because they pay to have an armed guard sit out by the front desk—granted the guard is usually ancient and if the need arose whether he would be ble to pull the trigger on his Glock would be in serious question. The place is completely locked down, surveillance equipment is everywhere and one cannot get to the bathrooms unless he is passed through Security first.

I do not anticipate any issues and I just plan to be a ‘fly on the wall” for my boss, take notes and maybe a few images and report back on Monday. The guy who is running the meeting is a jerk and tried to do an ‘end run’ with this meeting, hardly any lead time of notification and did not even publish the meeting time on this morning’s E-mail—took my boss off guard. They’re just slimes but what else is new.

The other meeting I am going to at 4:30 I found is a just a hearing and they’re even serving food kinda cheese and crackers; it’s better then nothing. I thought it was another meeting but no, just public hearing on their 5 year plan. I do not even have to testify.Sweet!