Areas of Unrest

QOTD: "This man must be very ignorant, for he answers every question he is asked." - Voltaire

Reading: Mary Morris (editor), Maiden Voyages

Listening to: Steve Goodman, City of New Orleans

Decluttering accomplishments: handled a lot of papers that were on the living room floor, packaged various things to send to various people tomorrow

7May2002 - Living in Dilbertville

There are days when my sole accomplishment is not having committed homicide. I was actually having a fairly good day at work until we got summoned for a "five minute" meeting in the middle of the afternoon. (I put the time in quotes because I knew full well that it was going to be twenty minutes minimum.) I don't want to go into the exact details of what pissed me off, but the essence is that the person who called the meeting thinks that we can magically change the contractor's culture. When I said, "you know, you can't change a culture by fiat," he exploded. What I was thinking (and was smart enough not to say) was, "if we could change people by decree, then I'd decree that you're something other than a complete moron."

Between that and having to reboot my computer at work 19 times before I could get the network connections not to keep hanging (thank you Bill Gates), I was thoroughly frustrated by the time I came home. I threw myself into a flurry of housework to distract myself, which helped some, but I'm still in a rotten mood.

I'm sorry but I just don't feel like writing right now. I'll try to be more interesting tomorrow.