learningcurve

So I missed out on what must surely be the singular visual delights of pudding wrestling in Atlanta this evening in the company of college friends, this peculiar but intriguing bit of fun popping up on the radar entirely too late for a course correction to send me flying east instead of north on the day before Thanksgiving.

Still, after a day spent rattling off...
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Chris Matthews from CNBC's Hardball, talking about Middle Eastern terrorism . . .

"If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective."

Um, no. My friend Jon who thinks professional wrestling is fun and entertaining television has a different prespective. That has not prompted me...
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Lovely, cold rain today. Very nice change of pace. Makes one want to go out and go wandering, but luckily I do think I will be working outside today unless my coworker backs out on the whole plan due to the rain.

That said, thank god for goretex.

Yesterday I set out to obtain a membership at Gold's Gym locally, committed to not spending an arm and a leg, likewise committed to getting access superior to the free crap gym where I live that comes complete with the gym Nazi who considers any music channel on the televisions to be some insidious and evil influence that has no place anywhere near where people...
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Slow, slow, slow. Work goes from zero to sixty abruptly, and stays there for weeks, but it also goes from sixty to zero so fast you can bust your teeth on the steering wheel if you're not ready for it.

All our temporary instructors and support are gone, making the building seem half empty.

I have nothing to do except surf, surf, surf and recover...
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And soooooooooo there I was, all ready to be off work this weekend, ready to take a run at living the free life of those who, well, get 48 or so hours off from work, but, lo, what training event through yonder window breaks? 'Tis some random unit in need of education and I am modestly deemed essential for such an endeavor.

For those who...
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The lovely delights of another weekend without a break, definitely working Saturday and Sunday. Probably not a full 8 (9, 10, 11, 12 . . . ) hour day either day, but I'll still have to be there, still have to be awake and on scene by 8 AM tomorrow morning . . .

Not fun at all. But the Modelo Especial tastes pretty good...
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My place is placeless, my trace is traceless . . .

-- Jalal al-Din Rumi

Fall in the South is a terribly brief and fragile thing, but lovely when it works like it is supposed to . . . like it is today. Cold enough this morning to call for a jacket, now warm enough for a t-shirt, crisp cool air fading into a hint of languid heat (which, I do hope) we are mostly done with . . ....
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Lanya's set . . . just absolutely wonderful. Such beautiful eyes. Certainly takes the edge off of being back at work, for the seventh day in a row.

Long. Annoying. Fucking. Day.

Lovely. There is nothing at all like being frustrated, annoyed as shit, and absolutely indispensable to the collective effort. Six and a half day a week work weeks just suck.