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As I was reading back through these long ago posts, I noticed that I seemed to be complaining a lot about my job.  But in a cruel twist of fate, I’m might be loosing that job.  About a week ago now, the CIO called us all together for a mandatory in-person meeting to break the news to us.  We are going to be out-sourced for the good of the company.  We are to write up RFPs about our jobs and see what we are worth on the open market.  If we don’t cost too much more that the going market value, we get to keep our jobs.  But the kicker is that no matter what they find out, we are going to be completely reorganized and people will loose their jobs.  Another kicker is that we were just given awards for world class service…  Go figure.  The bottom-line always rule in today’s world.  People are commodities to be bought and sold.  Sigh.

Just had to wonder at the funk I get into every year around my birthday. Then about a week later, the clouds part and sun shines once again. Is it that I am getting older or that I never get a surprise birthday party or that the gifts my SO comes up with are crap? Who knows.. Happy Birthday me. Ick

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Yesterday was a good day. Picked up art work.  It’s always cool how framing a poster makes it looks so wonderful.  Then off to a pinball party.  Crazy people.  Wonderful hostess and home.  Strange conversations.  Things lost in the trees.  Boy do I wish I had a camera for that one.  Penn State fans.  Weird food from all the cities mentioned in the game “Road Show”.  Board games.  Pinball machines.  Anger.  Yelling.  Swearing.  Door slamming.  Then back to partying.  Poker playing.  Took a nap while they played…  Drove home.  Too many deer.  Too many critters…  All safe back home.

But now, it’s the Sunday Blues.   Gota’ go back to work.  Hate my job.  Anxious of being shown up or passed by or just seen as old and inflexible.   Sigh…

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A good friend at work said “We have forgotten how to be children.”

Being a kid as an adult, well that’s a strange thought.  But the more I got to thinking about it, the more it rang true.  I realized that the only things that occupy my time are the job and the house.  Working too many hours and keeping house.  Somewhere in here, I got the idea that if I work hard enough, I will deserve what I have.  (Thank you guilt inducing parents).

So maybe I need to find out what it is to be a kid again.   To do something that doesn’t have to be perfect or a worthwhile result.  To do something, just to do it cause it’s fun or because I want to.

This will take some thought or maybe it just shouldn’t?

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I was in a elevator and this and overheard this conversation:

Guy 1:  “We should change that.”
Guy2:  “That would actually mean that she was able to change.”
Guy1:  “Well there is that.  But she does a good job and I don’t want to mess with that.”
Guy2:  “Well she just had major demolition done on her house.”
Guy1:  “Oh..”

So does this mean that that she cant change or that by blowing up her house she can change.  Or does this mean that because she refuses to change his way, that he sees it as an inability to change.

I pretty much get that change is only good to the person requesting the change.  Cause it means that they get to stay the same and get points for the changee not changing..

Enough..

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