A couple weeks ago I along with 4 other coworkers from the production team had the privilege of attending a 3 day Flash ActionScript class taught by Sherri Morris. Without a ton of Flash knowledge to my credit this was certainly an opportunity to enhance and expand my understanding of Flash and its many capabilities. Our goal for those three days (about 24 hours total) was to successfully cover roughly 504 pages of tutorials and training materials… basically around 168 pages a day or 21 pages an hour. So, to say the least there was a lot to accomplish… and we did… for the most part. 

Things went pretty smooth but you always tend to have those unexpected obstacles thrown your way just to make things a little more difficult than they otherwise should be. For instance, there was the room temperature situation. I’m not sure who was in charge of this, but whoever it was needs to be relinquished of those duties. I think maybe they just showed up at work and threw a dart at a bunch of numbers and whatever number they hit was going to be the temperature for the day. I wasn’t sure if I needed to bring a sweater or a half t-shirt and some cutoff jeans. Have fun enjoying that visual image for the rest of the day. 

We also had to deal with the unexpected winter blast that brought up to a half inch of snow. Driving conditions were just a notch below excellent but around here people reacted as if the roads were replaced with ice skating rinks. A good indication of overreacting is if the roads have more salt on them than snow. I think maybe the car wash businesses pay these salt people to dump as much as they possibly can even when it’s not needed. Anyone try to get their car cleaned over the past few weeks? I tried it one day… it only cost me two hours and a near aneurysm. 

Anyway, we battled through and are now implementing some of the knowledge we gained during our 3 day cram fest, with I’m sure more opportunities to do so in the near future. The one thing we never did quite figure out though was, after the first day where the hell did David run off to during lunch? Hmmmmm.