…if you’re a duck! It’s been raining since Thursday morning, and it might snow before the sun comes up. Could I have more spring, please? The cold and rainy weather around here the past couple days has made me a bit more cranky than usual. Or perhaps just returned me to the usual level of crankiness. At this point, I can’t say for sure.
Normally, I expect spring weather in Minnesota to be a mite “changeable.” Except that Monday begins the Saints pre-season, and the game-time forecast at this point is for a high in the 40s. Fahrenheit. This is not baseball weather!
The other cranky-inducing thing this week was an “all-hands” meeting at work. The VP of Human Resources (I am not a resource, I am a man!), got up on the video-conferencing stage, and said, after explaining our new and simpler corporate values (there used to be ten, now there are four), said with a straight face: Our ask of you is that you role-model these values to your coemployees.
I nearly fell out of my chair at that.
Now maybe it’s just the beer talking (it often is), but when I heard that, my first reaction was deep embarassment for the company I work for. This is the head of the HR department talking, and while I seldom have much respect for HR, she’s got the ability to set corporate policy and consign me to some serious heck. And I pray to Bog that she doesn’t say this sort of thing in front of any investors, because they’re going to be convinced that the company I work for is run by people who’ve been smoking too many crystals and our stock price will plummet.
I don’t want that.
I could go on, but Oh My Christ! what else is there to say that wouldn’t be hyperbolic?
- One of the things that’s bugged me about the past week or two has been an overabundance of gumption traps. Maybe some of them have been self-inflicted, but there have been a lot of things out of my control that have been getting in my way, and it’s been hard to keep a positive attitude. But the Saints start their pre-season on Monday, so it really feels like spring now, even if there’s snow due by morning.
- Ctein has a thoughtful essay on Rangefinder Follies and focusing which I liked. It also helps explain why I’ve been happier focusing with my waist-level finder on my 645 than with the eye-level. It lets me position the finder at a distance that works, and by having the camera down low it also encourages me to look through the right part of my progressive bifocals. [top]