Rodent Regatta

I had drafted a fitting poor-poor-pitiful-me post for this morning. I deleted it. Clearly, this is not how I wanted the new year to begin. Yet, there’s no value in doing anything other than trying to forge ahead.

So, forge we will. I have at least two more all-nighters followed by a couple of weeks of baby-sitting and hand-holding as users of new versions of software question every color change, icon shape and screen layout that they see in a new version. These questions will be periodically interrupted by real problems associated with a new version of software which somehow, magically loses previous choices, defaults and options for its operating configuration.

>From there…well, something different has got to arise! I think I want to sell used airplanes.

No…a fireman….no…a movie star…no…a civil servant…no…I’ve got it! In the immortal words of Archie Bunker…”I want to be an entremanure!”

Here’s the way my Saturday has gone, and many of my days in December were just as frustrating. While dealing with computers, operating systems and software has taken my career to a new low, it gave me time to read Kim’s article today.

Then, this evening, while continuing to wait on a silly computer to copy files, I remembered Curt Rosengren’s weblog. Wouldn’t you know it; he’s got several questions that might offer steps toward solutions to my dilemma.

Here’s a reminder for all who think about goals and resolutions. Dan Miller suggests that they be done by the fifteenth of November every year. Mine seldom are.

More importantly, some of you will benefit from having Dan’s weekly email on your regular reading list. It’s free. You won’t get spammed by subscribing to it.

I get nothing for saying this, other than some satisfaction in knowing that someone who reads this, subscribes and follows Dan’s guidance will benefit greatly!

If you need some help with the introspection it takes to set goals for a new year, take a look at an entry posted on this day last year. Follow the links and you’ll discover how some other people have gone about the process of seeking out their passions.

There are hundreds of rumors and lots of speculation swirling around the notion that this guy will be the next football coach at Mississippi State University.

Rumors are rumors. However, if I were sitting in the current coach’s chair and was asked, ”who should we look at?” here’s one thing I would point to:

• 2000: LSU 45 Mississippi State 38 (OT)
• 2001: LSU 42 Mississippi State 0
• 2002: LSU 31 Mississippi State 13
• 2003: LSU 41 Mississippi State 6

The guy knows how to get an offensive game plan together!