Phone call today from a company that's fast becoming my unfavorite of the month.

Initially a rep was coming to sell us something and was a bit too brash over his demands for coffee and a parking space for my liking. But not to worry.

Now I don't often arrange reps like this and have in the past assumed that only I and closely related colleagues would be interested. And completely failed to invite academics or marginally related library colleagues and such.

This time I pulled my finger out and invited the Technology Faculty, the Science Faculty, people from acquisitions, other library staff and so on to the meeting. Well, it's a lot of money and a product that would be widely useful.

So you can imagine how thrilled I was today to hear that they've had to postpone the meeting. Not only that but could *I* call back in the afternoon to rearrange a new time? (You'd have thought they'd be keen to call me). And not only that but when I did call back was brushed off when the rep was interrupted by something and could I give him half an hour?

Well frankly no. I won't be calling back. Life's too short. I'm not even sure I'll reschedule the meeting if they bother to call. I have way too many things on my desk at the moment and this isn't top of my priorities.

And remind me next time to go back to the easy option of not bothering to invite anyone else to the meeting.