You Know?

I'm in training this week, you know? You know, training like this, you know, requires some form of, you know, presentations. Not everyone is practiced at presenting, I understand, you know. There are some things that, you know, people should control during presentations.

I, um, realize that, um, President Obama isn't so, um, smooth without TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States), but, um, er, at least he can, um, turn on the silver tongue, you know?

I shouldn't be so hard on people, but when it becomes distracting, I'm easily distracted. Especially when it comes to something like this that I don't want to pay attention to anyway.

I have the same feeling about written documents. For our review that just occurred, I read a ton of documents. Most were pretty well written. One in particular was terrible. I think I had over 500 comments, mostly relating to grammar. I'm a grammar snob (and even more so for an engineer), but these were things I couldn't let go. One of the other reviewers made the comment that he wasn't a grammar teacher, but he felt like one reading these documents. This was from a front-line defense contractor. The quality control on the documentation was not where it needed to be. These errors don't need to show up in documents for government review.

Back to my training, I'd like to say things about all the stupid stuff the government is doing, but the big thing now in these classes is "non-attribution," meaning "what's said here, stays here." Hear, hear! Also, I don't really pay attention.

I wonder if they'd take off points if I took a pillow tomorrow? More tomorrow.