Uninspired

The Slow Leadership article, The Freedom to Choose . . . and the Time to do it, written on Sept. 22 by Carmine Coyote states: Along with the technological ability to supervise people more closely than ever before, executives seem to have lost the willingness to grant people true authority to do their jobs.

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Dad got me interested in wine, many years ago by introducing me to V. Sattui’s Gamay Rouge. This wine is ruby colored, fruity, and something about it makes it seem ever-so-slightly carbonated to me (even though it is not). I had never cared for white wines (I’d only had Chardonnay) or red-wines (I’d only had Burgandy or Cabernet), but Gamay Rouge was something I could get behind.

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Despite my grumpy start to the uninspired family vacation, I had a nice time at Wallowa Lake. We awoke to a dusting of snow one morning and enjoyed the wood fireplace in Pine Cone in the evenings. When it was time to head to the valley, I felt sad. However, the promise of wine lay ahead. That made leaving the mountains more palatable. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Give me wine to wash me clean from the weather-stains of care.”

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My favorite thing about Wallowa Lake is the not-so-wild-life.
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One of the posts in the Past Favorites list on the Creating Passionate Users blog is Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain. I keep coming back to this article. In fact, I read it almost every week.

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I did a crazy thing. I suggested a vacation with my father, my brother, and my in-laws! It sounded like a good idea at first, then I recalled my last combined family vacation. It involved Mom and the in-laws, fireworks, and a few angry neighbors. Let’s just say it didn’t exactly go well.
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I really like Kathy Sierra’s post, “Success” should not mean “Management,” in the Creating Passionate Users blog. It is about how career success is measured and rewarded in companies, especially tech companies. For the most part, there is pretty much one track for advancement, and that is the management track. She draws our attention to this and proposes that companies develop alternate tracks for advancement that reward people who rock at their jobs, and encourage them to continue to rock at what they love to do.

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Today the final straw was added to the one ton weight of hay piled on my dromedarian back. I’m flat on the ground, dilapidated, and I refuse to go one step further as the smelly, flea-bitten work-camel that I am.

Let me explain:

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