I hate PowerPoint. To me, it is one of the most obvious signs of the existence of Satan in the universe, along with Yanni, the words “edited for television,” and the inexplicable stardom of Nicolas Cage (seriously, why has no one noticed that the man is dog-ugly and couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag?).

I am still prepping the presentation I wasn’t supposed to give on Wednesday. All of my other, more qualified nominees weren’t available and at some point last week it reached the point where I was going to have to call in more favors than it was worth to get someone else up at the lectern, so it’s gonna be me. Now my folks are planning to show up, which ironically is far less of stress factor than the part where it’s Sunday afternoon and I haven’t started looking at interesting film clips to show nor have I even come close to completing the outline for my talk (I’d be more worried if I didn’t have a habit of going completely off-notes when I talk anyway).

You’ll notice that I’ve chosen to make a blog entry instead of working on the PowerPoint. That’s about the speed and motivation level I’m feeling right now. I’m also contemplating making myself a drink and I think there are some cookies left in the kitchen and … you see how it goes?

At any rate. I will be a good Super Trooper and put this down and start drag-and-dropping photos into PowerPoint and come up with pithy captions for each of them.

I’ll be largely absent from the Net this week as I’ll be away from my desk during the day and recovering from being away from my desk at night. The worst part of this was trying to explain to SHE that this means that she won’t be able to run into my office five million times daily to ask what size envelopes I think that Professor X wants his correspondence sent in (God help me, I really wish I were joking).

Of course, if anything very amusing happens, you know I’ll be right here to pay it forward …

Have a good week!

Tags: computers, microsoft, powerpoint, SHE, software