{"id":206,"date":"2006-01-18T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/under-the-weather-and-a-small-chunk-of-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2006-01-18T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T13:47:00","slug":"under-the-weather-and-a-small-chunk-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/under-the-weather-and-a-small-chunk-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"under the weather, and a small chunk of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I almost called in sick today. Last night I has stomach cramps and a fairly intensive time in the bathroom. And no, I wasn’t cleaning. Not sure if it was something I ate or just the latest in my winter long battle with a cold. The cold keeps coming up with new symptoms and I keep enduring them. It seems to have allied with my headaches – and last night was a tag team rumble. <\/p>\n

But, I’m marginally better today and I’ve got a meeting – so, I braved the cold and snow to come to work. Can’t really say I’m happy to be here, but I’m getting stuff done. Answered some emails – tracked down a problem with one of the systems. And when I say “tracked down” – I mean that I wandered around looking for the best candidate to fix it. The only person I could find was, ironically, the very person who could make repairs. And when I say repairs, I mean they could reboot the machine. So, problem solved.<\/p>\n

I went to the student union yesterday for lunch on the first day of classes for the semester. Normally, something to avoid – but I went for a late lunch and the crowds weren’t bad. There were a lot of people there and most seemed to be wandering around. Some of that is “new students” – a group that is, collectively, always slightly lost. And it’s to be expected – they’re new.<\/p>\n

But there was also a group that – in some difficult to define way – was moving randomly, but with purpose. It was like they knew where they were going, but they didn’t actually care about arriving there. There was also a large contingent of people standing just inside the main doors – talking on their cell phones. It was raining, so I’m guessing they were trying to arrange a ride. But, there were so many of them that they were actually blocking the doors so that the damp people – me included – had difficulty getting in the building.<\/p>\n

Which gets me to my point – if I can actully focus long enough to come up with one. <\/p>\n

Several years ago, there was a version of the Transformers on tv called Beast Machines. For those readers that live under a rock – Transformers are robots\/toys that change into cars or planes or something. In this case, the something was animals – except for some reason they had trouble turning back into robots. So, the leader of the group with a name so ridulous that I’m not going to mention it – trains the transformers with him to, well, transform, again.<\/p>\n

The series stuck in my head due to one line the leader said,<\/p>\n

“Focus on the transformation at hand”<\/p>\n

Now, clearly this is a play on the phrase “Focus on the task at hand”. By saying transformation – the focus is not on the present, but on the transition from present to future. The “process” of change becomes the important part. <\/p>\n

Now how does this apply to me being annoyed? Some of the people I encounted were focused only on their own small slice of the present. They weren’t seeing the rest of their enviroment – or the consequences of their actions. Instead of moving through a sea of people, adjusting to their ebbs and flows – I had to plow through a log-jam. <\/p>\n

And it made me cranky.<\/p>\n

So, that’s it for now… back to work<\/p>\n

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