Meetings

Meetings are usually stupid.  They are a reason for people to get together and not do anything together rather than not doing anything individually.  I wish there were a way for meetings to ONLY be held to make decisions and not discuss what decisions need to be made.  Here's an idea...  come to meetings with what you want to do and let everyone know what that is, discuss a plan of action, and get it done.  Not that hard, folks.

Gotta Start Somewhere

So I'm sitting here in my office, spending yet another day in Saint Paul wishing I was back in my "real" office in New York where all the action is.  It's quiet here, gives me a chance to think a little more than I can in the hustle and bustle of the big city.  That can be good.  It can also be very bad.

What makes people get out of bed and say, "I think I'm going to be an asshole today."  It's just amazing to me as I drive wherever I need to drive first thing in the morning how many people must get out of bed with that mantra.  No turn signals, cutting other drivers off, excessive speeding, I just don't get it.  Then these same people, who have clearly decided that they would be assholes today, walk through life as if they are just pissed at just about everything.  No simple "Good Morning" or even a "Hi".  Assholes, all of them.  I just don't get it.  When I'm in New York, you expect people to be assholes.  In New York, people are EXPECTED to be assholes.  But in Saint Paul?  Not so much.

Schultzie, welcome to assholeville.  More later...