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| Here's a short clip of Muttley's laugh for those of you who don't remember or know who he is. Ahhhh 1970's Saturday morning cartoons ...
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|  | You scored as Skater. Your A Skater!
Skater | | 55% | Rocker, Mosher | | 45% | Prepy | | 35% | Goth | | 35% | Trendy | | 35% | Emo | | 30% | Chav, Townie, Rude Boy, Ned, Kev | | 20% |
What Group Are You? Chav, Rocker, Skater, Emo, Goth, Trendy, Prepy Ect
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Pain is nature's way of saying that something needs to change.
Each relationship teaches us what we needed to know from that relationship. That makes us ready for the next lesson and relationship.
For example, you meet someone who gives you great love and is sexy but isn't beautiful.. You learn that you like the great love and want beauty.
Then you meet someone beautiful and sexy. They fill you up with that but everyone wants them and she is drawn away.
Then you meet someone who is beautiful and sexy and gives you great love and is sensitive and intelligent but you find out that you always want someone else.
So then you suffer greatly for a long while and learn that you have to be willing to accept someone into your heart and accept them as they are before they can really give you the love that you need.
The pain provides the motivation to learn, which sets up the next opportunity.
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My lovely niece, Elise, and I enjoyed an afternoon together today. We went to the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas to have lunch and look at rectangles of different colors. Then we went to a park and took some pictures. I have always adored her.
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| Work
About work, I told three people with access to our division leader that I was totally frustrated with my manager and was looking for another job.
Then the leader presented our division with a new organization chart. It showed a manager reporting directly to him who would both be our engagement manager with a major client and start a new Project Management Office. I knew that he couldn't do that and didn't know how to start a PMO, so I suggested that he could use me to research starting a PMO, make recommendations to him, and then do the work.
Two days later, the division leader asked to talk with me. He said he heard that I was unhappy and wanted to hear about it. I told him everything I felt and thought about my manger. I told him that he didn't know how to manage a project, created documents with unacceptable, said that it didn't matter because it would never be perfect and no one would look that closely, and seemed to having a varying interest in truth.
The leader asked me if I'd like to work with the new PMO and estimate the size of all our projects, determine our rate of software production and defects, and help define policies and procedures for the PMO.
I said yes. I told him that I wanted to remain involved in the Software Engineering Process Group reviewing their work and attending all meetings. So that's what I'm doing. His last words were, "I pray that you will stay with the company."
Now we've had an additional organizational shift. My old manager is now head of the Quality Assurance group and the SEPG. But he now reports to a division manager, rather than to the division leader, which means he will be reporting to a very aggressive Israeli who has been very critical of how he managed the SEPG.
The other guy in the SEPG weighs about 350 lbs., I'd guess. His right foot points 90 degrees to the right, due to a surgical error. He is a supremely lethargic producer who now believes that he is in control of the SEPG.
So things at work continue to be interesting.
Caddo Lake
Dora and I went to Caddo Lake in East Texas on Sunday and returned Wednesday. We stayed in an old, refurbished cabin that had three bedrooms, a large living room open to the kitchen, and a screened-in porch that faces the lake. It is decorated with appropriate furniture and many adorable knick-knacks The lake border is filled with 80-foot cypress trees. It is really a 28-mile set of channels with spatterdock lillies and cypress trees all around. The place we stayed is named Spatterdock.
Caddo Lake was created by a 20-mile log jam that allowed the town of Jefferson to become a port. The native American legend is that the log jam was created by an earthquake. The Corps of Engineers decided a while back that they should unjam it, which deported Jefferson. They then decided to build another dam, so the lake is still there. It is the only naturally-formed lake in Texas.
We had a wonderful time canoeing and floating in the lake. It has a gentle current that let us glide around to change the scenery. We saw a beaver and watched a couple of white herons each day. We took over 100 photos.
There seemed to be a daily migration of turtles crossing the road and hurrumphing down to the lake.
Gambling
Yesterday we drove to WinStar Casino just over the border in Oklahoma. We played for about five hours. For the last three hours we played on the same machines. We got up to about $100 dolllars a couple of times. Dora ended that way when I went broke. It was an amazing run. | | |
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