Lessons acknowledged, if not quite learned

[joshwriting]

1) Putting the powercord into the laptop helps if and only if said cord and adapter are also plugged into an outlet.

2) Expecting others to be more reliable than oneself is foolhardy. It may happen. With some people, it mostly happens. But it is not a sufficiently true thing that one should bet on it. (I know a bunch who are and have been and on whom I lean, but increasingly I know it is a rarity.)

3) One person's source of enjoyment is another person's source of time wastage.

4) One person's preference for effective communication is another person's preference to avoid at almost all costs.

5) If you are looking for negativity in what somebody has said, you will find it, whether or not the other person has any such feelings or thoughts.

6) Planning is a pain. Short range or long.

Comments

[eveninghawk.livejournal.com]

hrmm... none of those sound like fun. *hugs*

planning

[(Anonymous)]

I actually enjoy planning things when I have time enough to do it without feeling like there are several other things that I should be doing instead.

/J

What joshwriting would do

[questingbeast49.livejournal.com]

Probably get his hands on the entire article to read once he saw this quote:

"One of the benefits of being a messy person is that your life, in a condition of irretrievable disorder, is full of surprises."

Bill Buford, "Notes of a Gastronome: On the Bay: Building a Better Oyster," in The New Yorker, April 10, 2006.