Friday the 13th of 2006 was in my mind gonna be the lamest day ever due to the fact that it was the Gleaner Online’s Away Day (a day where you work away from the office) the location this year was the Jamaica Pegasus. I got there about 8 found the suite we got for the day, quie a few people had already arrived they where kinda in the middle of breakfast which was happening during the department meeting (which we didn’t have last tuesday due to the plan to have it at the pegasus on friday).. The meeting was okay, lots of laughs lots of productive discussions and so on..

Immediately after we had a 15 minute break before the guest speaker for the day arrived (Ms/Mrs JAJA). She was to deliver a message on time management, a workshop of some sort really. During my break Rochelle and I kinda wondered off found some artwork downstairs which cost like a shit load of money 250,000(usd) for something that i could probably do.. so i’m thinking of changing my profession from web applicationss programmer to an…. ARTIST!!!. anyway the break was kinda short so we headed back and there was the speaker as we expected just walkin into the room.. woman had a really cool laptop though.. a Dell inspirion (big up) 700M it was soo tiny what i like to call a road warrior, really built for travelling.

The event got underway wit us doing an activity / test. got a paper with 18 questions and a paragraph giving info needed for the questions to be answered, the aim of the test was to test our reasoning.. i failed in my eye i got 11 out of 18, my supervisor got 17 out of 18 and it shows why he’s my supervisor.. the other managers got like 11 and 13 as well.. kinda shocking.. where’s your reasoning power for those important decisions… hmmmm…. ne way moving on smartly before they read this and fire me.. we then did the same test in a group which basically showed that in groups decissions are generally better formed because everybody’s score went up.. except for my supervisor’s group they got 16 where as he had a 17 originally however his other groupmember’s score increased significantly moving from lets say an average of 8 to 16(the groups score).. my group also got a 16 which was an improvement.. bottom line however is that i realized that my reasoning is flawed so i need to work on that and the key attribute that leads to my flawed reasoning is assumption.. i read the paragraph twice and went through the answers first mentally then circled them after re reading the questions. so i definatly do have something to work on..

The away day concluded at approximately 5pm, Rocelle kinda organized a little asylum flex and monique opted to go so the 3 of us made our way over there entered and kinda made the bar our lil paring endz… The big dancer among us made no delay in pwning the dance floor i kinda just kicked back at the bar and downed smirnoff ice’s like they were water till a little hazy feeling took effect for me to star doing a little thing on the dancefloor. It was fun overall though.. Dont think i’ld go out of my way to go again but it was an okay expxerience cause it was my first time at the asylum night club we got there about 6 and left at 8 becuase the music and competition had really ended and there were gonna be some new artist performance which i really didn’t care to see. after exiting i’ld say within 30 minutes everybody was on their way home.. on my way home i was thinking some dirty thoughts about a particular girl that was there but i had to just keep em to my self for particular reasons..

the friday however i’ld give it a 7 out of 10 in the fun factor department.