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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I take great pride in my work. The results are appreciated by the whole company. I’m lucky that now I’m on a small team of good people, but that isn’t always the case.

    I tend to ignore the dead weight when it’s there, because I know I’ll get my part done, and if I have to work extra to pick up the slack, I’m not shy to draw attention to it.

    My whole chain of command knows what I do, and not being in management, dealing with lazy ineffective people isn’t my problem.

    Focus on you, talk to management about the issues you face, but don’t point out others failures, just let it be implied.






  • I love my work, and at times I work long hours, nights, weekends, to meet specific goals or when there is an emeegency.

    That is however the exception, not the rule.

    I need my day to day to be smooth, I need my blend of work from home, so that when the high energy bursts do happen, I can handle it.

    The idea of working at crisis levels all the time as standard is just insane to me, and suggests bad time management and expecations.







  • Once took a trip to Alaska to visit a friend. He was so excited to show me real mountain snowboarding, and boy did he have a surprise for me.

    One night had a real good dump of snow, and he took me off trail. We’d been keeping it pretty mellow, with me being the more experienced rider, though only had done the midwest.

    We rode into this mellow canyon, must have been a river bed or something, like a natural half pipe. Just got into a rhythm carving back and forth, following him, pushing higher and higher slashes on the walls.

    Then, on one frontside wall, maybe 20 foot high, I look over my shoulder, and the world fell away. The whole thing dropped down into a steep wall that had to be 100 foot high. Powder up to my waist, almost in free fall, we ran down like bats out of hell.

    When we hit the bottom I flopped down, completely covered in snow, and couldn’t stop laughing and grinning for a good 5 minutes.