"Catching Up" is this of value

Catching Up...

Today was scheduled for a short meeting with a former co-worker, a peer, someone perhaps better suited for the corporate world.  My strengths included knowing the nooks, crannies and peculiarities of a complex organization and jamming technology into the appropriate crevices.  Japan has mass transit workers who push people into overcrowded 'no more room' trains.  Often that image came to mind as I listened to excuses.

Working together was a good time.  We enjoyed each others strengths.  We both appreciated a good laugh.  We each appreciated a good taco.  The first day he appeared in 2001 I thought that working together would be a good thing.  It was.  We parted ways seven or eight years later.  "Catching up" was to be the topic.  This afternoon we had to re-schedule.  During our conversation I mentioned a single comment about our working time together.  Catching up seems to feel like looking back.  That's something I don't care to do.

The old adage is that those unfamiliar with their history (or the history of anything) run the risk and have the tendency to repeat it.  Most assuredly I am not going to re-live my past.  A re-scheduled time was set.  My closing comment was that our meeting would included only discussion of each of our lives and careers moving ahead.  In corporate "favorite word-speak" that resonated.''

Catching up is probably a bad thing.

Remodling...

The second remodeling project is one of a few things that precluded commentary.  The past week I've been making room to work.  There's not much left in the condo and the strategic decision has been made to recycle the extra twenty large boxes instead of moving them from place to place as reconstruction begins.  Good boxes were such a rarity in the far past that I still want to pile them up, dig out my Boy Scout knife (with spoon and fork) and build a fort, a pre-puberty man cave.

This is a pretty simple project.  Six rooms and enough space to keep four empty at any give time.  First things first so I'm going after the kitchen.  (In the technology world I've always wanted more 'clipboard' functionality, more spaces to put things, sometime permanently,  opportunity to save and reference clipboard history.  For the most part I use my Chromebook, web applications like Google apps.  There are security issues with web pages and clipboards).  Of course four are not empty right now...but two will be tomorrow.  Onward.

Small Business...
The small business is very busy.  Our customer base continues to grow.  It's a lot of work.  During my corporate tenure there were many rules and guidelines.  There are three of us.  Most of the time we get along and get the job done.  Everything we do is unwritten.  We don't want more than one location and we probably don't want any employees.  Those would require rules and guidelines.  Policies destroy innovaiton.

Optimism...

You find yourself at times where you don't want to be.  The location, the surroundings don't predict good outcomes.  You have to work with it.  "Why do you think you have a sinus infection?"  "I don't think I do.  I said I did so I could get an appointment" (for the other thing).  It worked out.  You just have to plug away.