Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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".
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".
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perhaps you should shoot the donkey and the horse and move to Columbus.
We also think you should patent your art work.
We also think you should patent your art work.
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.
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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.
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