The morning after Catastrophe client meeting I was transported to a world of wonder. This happened via email, and I nearly cried. Benjiguy (who is used to emails annoying me) had to listen to my excited rambling. This email was from the new guy in charge of this client. It was all spelled correctly, and the grammar was good. It involved clear and thoughtful use of latin - not a standard phrase, either. Most astonishingly it was an accurate summary of the meeting, demonstrating good understanding of the broad concepts. It was well though out and logical. It broke my brain.

Then I decided that things were going to get better. And I emailed the requested correction to any off facts. My brain was already broken, but if it wasn't, it then would have been. The guy came over to our building and asked sensible questions in an attempt to understand correctly.

This guy will never go near the unicorn, he's very good.

Today I had coffee with the chick from that Team, and it went very well. We've both been putting it off, and this week I just booked an hour. Funnily, shortly before we went I was on the phone with Good Guy (needs a name), and let him know that shortly I'd just be leaving the building for coffee with his staff - so he needed to not have any questions for an hour. He seems to either have a sense of humour which I like, or awesome people skills. Or both.

I should have had this coffee ages back. In a very discrete and cautious way we've worked out that Former Manager inspired us with the same thoughts. Our guesses about the other one's experiences have been confirmed. We have exchanged some work because we agreed that the current distribution is stupid. This chick is possibly more excited by the staff change than I am.

Right now I am trying to fix the trauma of astonishing catastrophe. It involves me TYPING INVOICES. A process I had down to 5 seconds plus half a day of problem fixing... I'm not even thinking of normal problems. It's taken 2 days with no lunch. Plus I've just 'stolen' Benjiguy. Gave him a crash course and after 2 training versions I said 'Now do that 95 times'.

Today I left a little early. I just announced that I was going home, and left.