Work (conference), fencing and F1
Dec. 12th, 2021 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99To do list for this weekend
1 - attend virtual conference running on Georgia (US) time zone
2 - attend fencing competition, that I could only attend because physical attendance at (1) was cancelled
3 - watch the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
3/3 achieved but only due to whichever demon looks after the clumsy and foolish.
1 - the chaos started on Friday. Conference attendance no longer happening so I got switched to virtual attendance. Not a problem.
Conference website crashes when I try to log on, but I finally get in half an hour late.
I'd blocked the afternoon out at work, but everyone decided that "[real name redacted] is in a meeting" on Teams means I am available to be called. Normally, I'd just type them a message going "in a meeting, will call when available". Unfortunately, because of the way Teams is set up, it shuts off the talk I am in. This happens, I get rid of the people who decided a phone call was needed for something that could have been an email. Return to conference just in time to hear "[something out company does] is useless in situation", without any of the context. Cue panic.
Thankfully, talk was recorded and have been able to listen today.
The other talk I missed for similarly reasons is also up on the website so I will survive.
2 - the fencing competition is an odd set up, teams of 1 epeeist, 1 foilist and 1 sabreur and at least 1 of the 3 has to be female. (As you can imagine, that means most teams only have 1 woman because fencing needs more women.)
I was going to be in the US so didn't have a team. Tell the organiser that I will be available, there's already one team who needs a female foilist (their foilist was poached to go ref in France) so I am loaned out to them.
Different team need a female epeeist and ask 3 days later. It is explained to them that I am already on a team. There is sulking.
Competition rolls round - ack 1 of my teammates is 18. I am now old enough to be my teammates mother.
It goes well, we win a silver (after a stewards's enquiry about the indicators [goal difference but for hits scored Vs hits received]).
It goes badly; teammate dislocated his thumb, I make two opponents cry and slash another one across the wrist.
I also miss one of the talks at (1) that I have to hear but see previous re fools and clumsy people, and it's been recorded.
3 - so I can see a different set of talks at conference (1) I had to listen to the Grand Prix on the radio. BBC app started late so I was 10 minutes behind. I think the main problem is that the stewards made the wrong decision first and then had to fix it.
1 - attend virtual conference running on Georgia (US) time zone
2 - attend fencing competition, that I could only attend because physical attendance at (1) was cancelled
3 - watch the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
3/3 achieved but only due to whichever demon looks after the clumsy and foolish.
1 - the chaos started on Friday. Conference attendance no longer happening so I got switched to virtual attendance. Not a problem.
Conference website crashes when I try to log on, but I finally get in half an hour late.
I'd blocked the afternoon out at work, but everyone decided that "[real name redacted] is in a meeting" on Teams means I am available to be called. Normally, I'd just type them a message going "in a meeting, will call when available". Unfortunately, because of the way Teams is set up, it shuts off the talk I am in. This happens, I get rid of the people who decided a phone call was needed for something that could have been an email. Return to conference just in time to hear "[something out company does] is useless in situation", without any of the context. Cue panic.
Thankfully, talk was recorded and have been able to listen today.
The other talk I missed for similarly reasons is also up on the website so I will survive.
2 - the fencing competition is an odd set up, teams of 1 epeeist, 1 foilist and 1 sabreur and at least 1 of the 3 has to be female. (As you can imagine, that means most teams only have 1 woman because fencing needs more women.)
I was going to be in the US so didn't have a team. Tell the organiser that I will be available, there's already one team who needs a female foilist (their foilist was poached to go ref in France) so I am loaned out to them.
Different team need a female epeeist and ask 3 days later. It is explained to them that I am already on a team. There is sulking.
Competition rolls round - ack 1 of my teammates is 18. I am now old enough to be my teammates mother.
It goes well, we win a silver (after a stewards's enquiry about the indicators [goal difference but for hits scored Vs hits received]).
It goes badly; teammate dislocated his thumb, I make two opponents cry and slash another one across the wrist.
I also miss one of the talks at (1) that I have to hear but see previous re fools and clumsy people, and it's been recorded.
3 - so I can see a different set of talks at conference (1) I had to listen to the Grand Prix on the radio. BBC app started late so I was 10 minutes behind. I think the main problem is that the stewards made the wrong decision first and then had to fix it.
