morning is the long way home

meloncholia is all i have to report

Songs of the Day (break): Song No. 6, Ane Brun

Once I Loved, Astrud Gilberto

... and the above (Leo Kottke)

I am Green Lantern!

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Hot headed? HOT HEADED? I am not hot headed. A little excitable sometimes but not hot headed.

Current Fads
Listening. One Guitar, No Vocals, Leo Kottke; very loud power tools trimming hedges
Watching. Stick It (2007)
Activity. preparing for guests; maintaining sanity
Gadget. Palm Zire 31
News Source. the news feeds in Safari
Reading. too lazy to look - I've cut back a lot in my reading though, well except for yesterday when I finished Garden Magic and then started on, oh, I can't think of the title right now ...

midsummer

Light candles. Blow them out in reverse. Pluck up tiny weeds. Remove the dried dead fronds of blooms returned to earth. Pace the garden. Note the flavor of the wind. Contemplate holly leaves dreaming of winter. Select a mimosa bloom for pressing. Hear subtle music.

Happy Solstice!

Songs of the Day: One Guitar, No Vocals – Leo Kottke

Chuck E. Cheese in League with Al Qaeda

Thank you, John, for heroically pursuing this quest for truth.

Mergering at the high end

Not that I'm at the extreme high end. I am close, working as I do in the Communications Department of HRH. Yesterday my analogy was an ant hive disturbed by a stick. Little ants scurrying around – some aimlessly, some with purpose. Lots of scurrying. Particularly since this little deal was kept dark and happened quickly. By late afternoon everything had settled down because a) they remembered they had jobs to do, and b) Joe from Willis was going to talk to them. I was not at that meeting. The hive was a tomb. I don't know what Joe told them but whatever it was I'm sure it made them very happy.

With a bit of sadness, I noted those who were left out and those who were shoved aside so that others could stand close to the new queen. I also noted how every merger is about somebody at the top getting a raise. Or a really fine parachute with a golden handshake. While the rest of us workers go on doing our duty to keep the hive thriving.

In between all the activity I gave crash courses on mergering for workers. Having survived the SunTrust RIF and other reorganizations, I felt I had some comfort and sanity to offer. Yep. That's me. The Florence Nightingale of corporate triage. For the moment.

Well, it's back into the hive. What will I see today?

By the way, if you go to Willis take a PC. They do not support Intel-based late model iMacs with Flash 9 (even though that exceeds their published minimum requirements – it's what I've come to expect from lazy PC guys ... "oh, we won't bother with really making the site compatible, we'll post this technical message instead, who the heck is on a Mac anyway? Well, except for that one guy in Cupertino.").

not fair dirtied pool

why when a word has just a thread of warmth in it
why when coincidentally we share the same space
why when there is nothing
do they see so much in the noise?

Nothing but Men

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The democratic primary has polarized the vote between men and women. Perhaps it just made obvious what's been happening all along. Like, I haven't come a long way and I'm not a baby.

Look at any photo of board members of a major corporation and you'll see lots of men surrounding maybe one woman. On the board will be Caucasian, Asian, Black, and Hispanic men with one lone woman blonde woman. It must happen in the men's room. Or on the golf course. It sure ain't happenin' at work or in politics. If Hill were a man Obama wouldn't have a chance. And, NO, it's NOT a black thing.