Peter F Currantag:psifoo.com,2008-10-27:/blog/pfc/22009-04-22T16:07:27ZPersonal Blog of Peter F. CurranMovable Type 4.21-enJust stopping By....tag:psifoo.com,2009:/blog/pfc//2.92009-04-22T16:06:01Z2009-04-22T16:07:27ZPeter F Curranhttp://psifoo.com ]]>
Shall I continue?tag:psifoo.com,2009:/blog/pfc//2.82009-02-24T20:57:55Z2009-02-24T21:25:40ZPeter F Curranhttp://psifoo.com This car has a license plate that says "BOOK1E", and the frame around it says, "Guaranteed 25 to 1"! How can someone be so blatant and cocky? I would assume that this would be probable cause to pull the guy over regularly and search him for documentation of the "bookings" as well as large sums of cash! Yes, this "Sighting" is not that interesting, but I wanted to try out an unimportant picture in my first image-containing blog-post. Future ones will be more amusing, I swear.
In other blog-related news, I think this would be a good place to put things like book and movie reviews. One of my resolutions for this year is to read more. Cheryl and I are members of a book club, but that only entails reading a book every two months. The next book is called, "The Time Traveler's Wife." I'm looking forward to it. The last book, which I will review later, was called "Beautiful Lies", and it was not a favorite.
Big things are happening in my life right now. Cheryl and I will be having a baby in less than a month. We have chosen to be old-fashioned and not find out the babies' gender beforehand. There is still so much preparatory work to do! I hope she does not deliver earlier than scheduled, even though she would likely welcome it.
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Happy Halloween!tag:psifoo.com,2008:/blog/pfc//2.72008-10-31T19:58:55Z2008-10-31T20:09:34ZPeter F Curranhttp://psifoo.com
ONE fun thing with Cheryl, like go to a party or carve pumpkins or something. Apart from that I will be stuck at work. If I have free time, the first thing I will be doing is hanging curtains. I still have lots to do on my own personal at-home-projects. Things go so slowly.
I'm not sure of the purpose of these blog things... If I use mine as a diary, I can't leave it accessible to the general public. Even if the people in my life were cool about my saying things that might embarrass them, I would be embarrassed to have my personal feelings out there for all to read. Publishing personal information can come back to haunt you some day. Suppose some future employer finds my blog contents in an archive? It follows that the only things I can put here are things which are relatively unimportant. Controversial stuff would have to remain private. I could let Cheryl read it, but nobody else, unless I posted things under a pseudonym. Hmmmm.... I might create a new blog to do that. ]]>
Should this be about complaining?tag:psifoo.com,2008:/blog/pfc//2.62008-10-28T02:09:27Z2008-10-28T02:39:16ZPeter F Curranhttp://psifoo.com That being said, I want to say that I absolutely hate dealing with overly complicated things like medical insurance. The rules about whom you can and cannot see, and when you can change your policy seem to be in place solely to confuse people. Most people who are part of that system are victims too. Listening to their soulless voices droning about co-payments and coverage limits elicits nearly equal amounts of revulsion and compassion from me. I only hope they can leave their work behind them at the end of the day, otherwise they would probably appear to be night-time shambling wrecks stumbling from place to place, not unlike zombies or some homeless people.
The former paragraph described something that really is somewhat out of my control. I can't be a responsible husband and father without taking care of such things. As an example of something I do have influence over, there is a certain co-worker, let us call him "Eric", who seems hell-bent on destroying my sanity. Ask him to summarize how his work is going and he will give you some information about his progress. The problem is that he leaves so much necessary information out of his reports that you cannot really use any of the information he has provided. He has not isolated the cause of a problem or at least not reported enough information to convince you that he has. When you ask him to clarify anything, one of two things happen. The new information directly conflicts with the original information, or the new information is inherently self-contradictory. His deductive processes are erratic and not well thought out. If I had to give a real world analogy, I'd say he is like someone whom upon finding their car won't start, tries pumping up the tires. After that fails to fix the problem, he calls you, the tire supplier, and complains about the defective tires you gave him. Agggh.
I've tried my best to patiently explain my thought processes to him... How you need to reduce the number of variables to pinpoint which one is causative. I tell him which experiments I would perform. It does not seem to help. Perhaps he is attempting to avoid work by seeming incompetent, hoping others will do his work for him? A very dangerous tactic in today's economy... My best and perhaps only recourse is to just report that what he has for me isn't suitable, and let his direct boss deal with him. I'll set criteria and if they haven't been satisfied, I shouldn't even talk to the guy. There! I feel better! ]]>
Second Post...tag:psifoo.com,2008:/blog/pfc//2.42008-10-27T02:46:38Z2008-10-27T02:48:23ZPeter F Curranhttp://psifoo.comFirst Post!tag:psifoo.com,2008:/blog/pfc//2.32008-10-27T02:33:33Z2008-10-27T02:37:35ZPeter F Curranhttp://psifoo.com
This car has a license plate that says "BOOK1E", and the frame around it says, "Guaranteed 25 to 1"! How can someone be so blatant and cocky? I would assume that this would be probable cause to pull the guy over regularly and search him for documentation of the "bookings" as well as large sums of cash! Yes, this "Sighting" is not that interesting, but I wanted to try out an unimportant picture in my first image-containing blog-post. Future ones will be more amusing, I swear.