Running streak: my boss

Friday, March 23, 2012

iPod enhanced, otherwise nothing noteworthy -- boss does now have a prepaid cell phone though so my secretary duties resume in full, but the bright side is that I can at least call him back now so I didn't need to do this run accompanied by my phone.

My high maintenance boss is in Hong Kong and the SIM card in his cell phone went bad, which should mean that I get a break for a day or so since it would prevent him from being able to call me at all hours of my night etc. -- well, he decided, as he always does, to drag me into his misery, so I spent most of the evening explaining to him how cell service works and what his options were. This resulted in me carrying my cell phone while running as I knew he would be calling, again. I decided running just wasn't very relaxing as a result, so I cut the run short as he called at 1.7 miles and I was basically going right by our house at the time -- I guess I should be thankful that he's more of a yammering fool than I am when it comes to diarrhea of the mouth, so I was able to just listen to him while catching my breath before reexplaining to him that purchasing a prepaid phone was his best option to eliminate his inability to make/receive calls and separately how to view his emails over the internet. Wow, this was a whiny post huh? I actually don't mind him nor his need for assistance as I regularly obtain more information regarding our business through these exchanges than I normally would, but the running with phone in pocket just wasn't ideal, so perhaps I'll hope the situation calls for just less than that next time.