Good day, bad day
Yesterday at work I had a pretty good day. I made some good progress, found some stuff out, and stayed on task and got stuff done.
Today was a little different. Most of the afternoon I wanted to hit something, anything. I guess I was focusing on the frustrations, and the "why can’t I just…." and getting annoyed that things wouldn’t work, when it was obvious (now) how to make things so they would. Just the little things, like spending a couple minutes and dozens of clicks transferring an address from Outlook to Messenger, so I can tell when a guy I need to get up with is in. I figured that they would work together pretty well, but noooo! they carefully use different levels of abstraction and inaccessibility on the addresses.
I think my problem is that I am looking at problems and inconsistencies, not as challenges to be overcome, but as frustrations and attacks on my understanding of reality. I have been writing down problems I see and sometimes solutions to them, and so now I have some little note cards on my desk that don’t do anything to actually make things work more smoothly, but they do help me remember what should be fixed, should I get the chance. Because I know best. Yeah, right. Most of my solutions include some form of "shoot this donkey and get another different donkey".
January 25th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
perhaps you should shoot the donkey and get a horse
January 26th, 2006 at 6:13 am
donkeys are bad
January 28th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
perhaps you should shoot the donkey and the horse and move to Columbus.
We also think you should patent your art work.
January 28th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Probably best would be to file a patent covering “Shaping, arranging and/or fastening wood, metal, glass, plastic and/or other materials in funtional and/or aesthetically pleasing forms, or the adjusting and rearranging of existing items into other forms.”
That way, I would basicly own everyone’s stuff–sure they could “have” it, but my patent would limit what they could do with it. Makes sense that me thinking of a way to do something with my stuff reduces everyone’s property rights a little.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
You should definitely go for that patent, Abu. The whole world would have to pay you tribute!