Tag: work

Have you got what it takes?

I just had coffee with Georgie M, at least that’s what I call him. You probably know him as George Macdonald. He’s a really great guy. Anyway, I was telling Georgie about how helpful his advice was the other day.

You see I was having difficulty getting one of my clients to gain some balance in his life. The guy has the nasty habit of working to exhaustion on anti-virus definitions. But he’s so tired, he keeps making mistakes and not catching them. Of course, then I have to do all the clean up. Continue reading “Have you got what it takes?”

The Spirituality of Work

Things have been particularly hectic lately, what with the extra shifts required of us to support the New Orleans Saints in their Super Bowl victory. Sistertech just received the proofs of her magnum opus, The Book of Uncommon Prayer. She’s found more than a few typos, mostly hers, in which she erroneously refers to the book as The Uncommon Book of Prayer. Liz snickered, “Can’t you even remember the title of your own book?” When she saw that she’d hurt my feelings she said, “Now, Sistertech! I bet you’re going to tell me that the book is indeed uncommon, were you not? No wonder you’ve flip flopped on the title!”

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