filling out your scorecards

By popular demand, a quick catchup on local issues:

Jasmine seems to have played the pocket veto. Such is life. I hope that whatever she wants in this life, she gets. There are billions of people in this world, if I was angry or hateful over any of them not wanting me to be a key factor in their lives, I'd be wasting an awful lot of emotional energy on being stupid. I'd still recue her cat from a tree at 3 in the morning if she asked for help.

E.J. let me know that, owing to some technical issues today, he won't be posting on Amomancer blog this morning. I'll actually miss that, I usually read it, as I sometimes forget many of the pieces I've written.

Not a big fan of people who have an issue with you, and rather than address it to you, take it down another path. I consider that cowardice, and gossip, two things I don't really respect. Moral superiority is not found in whispering campaigns, but in forthrightness and earnest debate.

An observation derived from a few decades of success as a corporate stormtrooper: If your target is process rather than results, you are addicted to stagnation and mediocrity. Inputs, external factors and targets change faster than bureaucracy. Ingrained ignorance and habituation is stronger than knowledge.