I forget which..
It's almost February. I guess you didn't need to come here to hear that. It's self-evident. Actually, it's not self-evident. But it's fairly well known.
Just trying to think of stuffs that I have been up to so far in the new year. Here's a little listy:
- North Kent Bands Vs South Kent Bands foop-ball - lost
- Staff foop-ball - lost
- Open Mic with the most hokey set up to date. We're talking serious last minute bodging here. We managed to stop short of actually butchering cables to make it work.
- Covers gigs woohoo (although I already mentioned those)
- Shaunfest (with Shaunfest II - The Legacy of the Perfect Balance pencilled in for tomorrow)
- GOD OF WAR
- Organising our calendars oh my
Then this weekend it is the turn of the Boy to have his birthday shennanigans. Good skills.
I should think that's your lot.
Time to go.
It's the taste
So to speak..
I had a Peter Gabriel day. Musically speaking. It was damn good.
I forget why I'm here. Perhaps I left my keys somewhere?
I stared off in the distance for a while and then I realised that I have to put on some pasta.
Still.
I think this is still probably one of my better posts.
overandout..
A productive day
Once again, all in a day's work
With a dark sense of foreboding..
Hello campers. Hope you're having a good Monday. I'm chipper.
Oh yes.
That is a big off snowman. He is called Horace. And he was built by Team Respect Courage. Dares Wins!
Gatekeeper..
Anyone seen the keymaster?
toujours les mêmes
Well we're here at the kitchen table again. Nipper is doodling again. So I thought it opportune to make a doodle of some words in a box on the internet again.
For your general consumption and entertainment. Or otherwise.
This is another wholly unformed thought, but over this week it keeps occurring to me that all too many people mistake change for progress. And then they take it one step further and assume that instant change is the best indicator of progress.
I was reading a Malcolm Gladwell article the other day and it talked about a profiling test with a question about what you'd do if you'd just taken over a department that was performing mediocrely. There were several responses, one of the best being: help all the members of the department to feel completely responsible for their work". And he said that the one that all bad managers chose was "completely shake up the department, getting rid of all the 'dead wood'".
Sound familiar?
The argument I can hear in the back of my head is that the problem is "the public" expecting things to change immediately. But I wonder how much it's "the public" and how much it is the manager's perception of what the public thinks.
Either way, any change or progress that's worth having is going to take effort, but also time. And it's likely that any short-term gain will be deceptive and elusive.
Blah blah. However, progress should also react to the latest information. There's no point sticking dogmatically to a plan for 20 years that got outdated 2 years in.
Also, I don't really get on with any kind of profiling test.
Full circle I think. I'll post a pretty picture later to take your minds off of it.
The Saffa is getting marrid today. And we played a sweet sweet covers set at a 60th birthday yesterday. Absolutely the funnest of times were had.
I gotta buzz.
overandout.
Warning sign
Morning sigh. Holy cow. Happy new year by the way. O-o
