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Seems to be a recurring theme. Maybe I ought to make it a category.

Ashlan started new work today, seemed to go OK, although I did not get home until after 9 PM and so didn’t have a lot of time to catch up.

9 PM was due to a last minute (from my perspective) redirect on how a project should go forth. This is of course after having met with multiple outside people, individually explaining how the project would go forth, based on prior policies. So now, all must be able to get a letter that describes, without confusing – the new and better course, which many of them will be please with – if they actually pay attention. Any have it done by Thursday. And this is not really MY project, but it is certainly within my purview, and so MY project languishes, still, again. So we do it – because we always do it – which is why we are asked to do it.

Now the change in policy is not a bad one, and it is not a change in policy, it is just trying to make this project (a good one) go. But I started the morning in a less than favorable mood when my purview’s meeting was blown off by others that feel their work is more important, usually (seems like always). I don’t know the particulars, maybe it was, but if feels like a pattern. For those that work, and do what they can to make their workplace a better place to work by participating outside of their immediate arena – Thank You. You are what make places tick like well maintained machinery.

Off to said work. Maybe I’ll get to talk to family tonight. And what they hear won’t be complaining.

UPDATE So – while I was powering down last night, Carl did share with me the meaning of the many Lego folks on the card table. Angela (4) had taken many of the Lego women, put hair on all of them, put them walking together and called them the Black Penguins. They are walking for Breast Cancer. Carl talks with the kids about what we do, and I guess they are listening. So – if I walk again, perhaps I won’t be the Raindrops, Pink Flamingos, Flaming Pink Crew or Kindred Spirit – I’ll be a Black Penguin. Pooh- what team are you?

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