Today was a lot more fun than expected, and still productive 
Between doing some more cleaning in the office and getting rid of some boxes, playing DOTT on Wii , the water slide, finally REALLY retiring moonrover (it had become unstable), getting the living room clean…
It was a nice day
In the midst of the whirlwind that works is sometimes akin to, an interesting thought came up… How to set expectations for oneself of other people. As in my case what can I expect from *insert anyone*?
I don’t know yet… And what’s worse is even if I did I don’t know how to express it to them.
The challenge was always that if I expect someone else to do something that I could do, then I put myself at risk of being disappointed/held back by their lack of performance. So if I do it myself, then it wouldn’t be an issue… But it is true in the meantime if I always “pick up the slack”, then how do I help the people that I work shoulder-to-shoulder with to grow and to become their best self?
I’ll have to ponder that one a bit longer.
But in the meantime, it’s time to hit the road
Whoa, I guess I should known since it had been so long since I had been here (which is sad since this is mine an’ all), but I just removed A LOT of links from my meme’s page and the blogroll… most of the references… vanished… others hadn’t been updated in 3,4,5 years…
What an overwhelming feeling of uninspiredness. It is thoroughly depressing and definitely a sign that something is out of kilter. With me…
And it’s not like nothing got done. Far from that really. The last three days have made quite a busy weekend really. But I’m not sure how much it all moved me forward. Well, it did. I already know that much, I confess.
After all, I have a desk again Yes, it’s smaller, but it’s mine. I hadn’t had one for a week and I had gotten to miss having my corner. But there is still work to do; my “inboxes” are still sitting on my nightstand in their overflowing state and there are some cardboard and filing boxes scattered about the house that need new homes. But it is a lot better than it was. That’s for sure.
Oh, and we semi-officially retired athena and moonrover. Or should I say we played Dr. Frankenstein and took bits and pieces of both to give birth to cybertron as we merged router, firewall and file-server into one…
And then there was a birthday party up North. It was good. Surprisingly devoid of stress. I took A LOT of pictures. Maybe I’ll post some of them too… Especially since Roo hasn’t 
yet…
Speaking of stress, the one thing that I seem to be having quite a grasp on these days is that Steven Covey moment between stimulus and response… No, I’m not gloating, and no it’s nothing all that fabulous by most people’s standards, but it’s a vast improvement for me
Yet I am sitting here feeling uninspired. So many things I want to do… read, learn, grow, draw, play… But as so often in life I am at a loss and don’t know where to start or how to start. All I can do is hope that in time I will find a way…