I am on a 7-Hour conference call today. It's really a seven hour meeting somewhere else, but there is a conference bridge for remote people to listen in.
The really sad thing is that this isn't even the longest one I've ever been on, I was on a 12 hour call one time. It started at 8 AM and goes till 3. I'm really hoping it will be over earlier, but it doesn't sound like it. The people in the actual meeting are haivng lunch catered in. I guess I'll just have to mute my phone and eat lunch or something. Maybe I'll entertain myself by doing blog updates throughout the day.
So far they have discussed the "win" strategy and when to announce the alliance team partners. woo
Update
The Bridge went down for an hour so i got a breif respite. They got it back up though so now I'm listening again. I can't really hear anything though. At least I'm taking it from home. I did the dishes and now I'm eating some leftover pizza.
I spend most conference calls on "mute".
Conference calls are useless and of de debil.
i'm logging a minimum of 3 hours of conf. calls a week. 1 hour of which, my sole role is note taker. and only one in which I provide any input on a regular basis.
yes, i know, the URL thing needs work, but I just got the damn blog site up and everyone needs to go visit and make comments and shit. THEN I'll fix the URL crap when I get home and can use cute-ftp, onaccounta I'm never using host-dime's cpanel file-managment tool ever again.
Anyway, sorry about your 7 or so hours of hell. Feel lucky though - I recently had to suffer a 17 hour drive back from paradise into this god-awful heatwave.
FWIW, driving a dually pickup pulling a 37' horse trailer for one hour is the equivalent of driving a 1972 oldsmobile delta 88 with a shaky front end for like, 7 hours.
Sorta like the dog-years of driving.
So in practical terms, I did half of 119 hours of driving [Tierra drove the other half] in a little more than half a day. Without chemicals. [not sure if that's bragging or not - obviously context sensitive]
-knats