I'm baaaaaack!!!!!!!!

Hot Chick has been handling all of this with a Zen-like calm worthy of a Shaolin high priest.

I'm getting breakdown pay again, plus hotel, for two nights.

Better hotel this time.

 

It takes 47 minutes to stuff a rat down a bath drain with a clothes hanger. Probably less if he doesn't object.

 

You got problems, I got problems, they got problems...all God's chilluns got problems.

This little chillun ain't lookin' to anybody here to solve my problems--I'm just reporting it all, good, bad, and indifferent.

I report, you decide. That's why I don't spend time on the "Whine about the bad old company" portion of this forum. Too much bashing.

 

Tearing down is easy. Anyone can do it. All you gotta do is shut off the thinking and do what comes naturally. Tearing down is a primal reflex. If you don't believe me, just look at any mob, anywhere. Usually the same result, whether it's a classic pitchforks and torches witch hunt type or a protest gone out of control or the words of a clique of teenage girls psychologically ravaging an outsider or half a dozen super truckers gathered around the breakfast bar talking about rookies and companies, the natural bent is mindless destruction. And the individual goes along and finds approval and acceptance

Hate has a fashionable cut.

I cannot wear it.

Tearing down is easy. Building up is hard. It requires a decision. It involves a risk of disapproval. It means, more often than not, going against the flow of the mob. It means thinking your way through the mob mentality to the truth of the matter, and speaking the truth even if it is unpopular.

Let the madding crowd have their destructive words. I will choose to speak the truth.

The truth has no respect for your feelings or mine; it simply is. My discomfort or frustration carry no weight. A real man (or woman) can make the decision to see past emotions and speak what is, regardless of what anybody else thinks of it.

I choose to be a man and use the power of my words to build.

Who will join me?

 

Many thanks sir.

I most certainly do get overwhelmed though....