Falling up
I woke up a little earlier than I did the day before, didn't get gas, and didn't have to prepare lunch, left the house two minutes earlier than yesterday and still wound up on the later train. Chicago traffic is so unpredictable but in the same token, I'm glad I was able to make a train and it was on time versus it being late or me being late to work.
Today felt like one of those 'falling up' sort of days where there's some sort of event that's equivalent to falling down but you are now in a position/place higher than you were before falling. We had various meetings where the subject matter was questionable at best but the resolutions and measures we seemed to agree upon made it less of an issue and overall made me happy and content with the day.
Sadly, at some point during the day, I got distracted by lingscars.com which is a website in a league of its own. Just look at the source code for the main page. It's as if you took every Geocities/Tripod/Lycos/Homestead website and placed them in a blender. It seems to be an effective marketing strategy and as long as it is working, than my opinion nor anyone else's matter, but the most interesting thing is how much further into the website you can go.
Anyways, despite that diversion throughout the day, I felt somewhat accomplished and generally good about the day.
I headed home to getting something in the mail I've been waiting for all week and having multiple productive discussions with the SharkBuddy team and with Josh. We had dinner while watching some TV and talking and we got some stuff done around the house.
I spoke with Josh about falling up briefly. Mainly because I feel like there are multiple times where this has happened to me. I consider it luck to some degree, but I do feel like there's a fair amount of effort that results in falling up. That is, there's a certain attitude, mentality, effort, and demeanor involved in it and that the rarer moments are controlled by luck. I think if you put in the effort and have the right mindset, it can happen more easily and it just takes a paradigm shift in how you work and think.
"How's life in the fucking fast lane?" ~ Kaoru N.
On the way to the train station, on the ramp to I-355 N from I-55 N, this guy would not merge, he rode on the shoulder 90% of the way till he decided to cut off three cars in front of the person he was sharing the lane with.
Today felt like one of those 'falling up' sort of days where there's some sort of event that's equivalent to falling down but you are now in a position/place higher than you were before falling. We had various meetings where the subject matter was questionable at best but the resolutions and measures we seemed to agree upon made it less of an issue and overall made me happy and content with the day.
Sadly, at some point during the day, I got distracted by lingscars.com which is a website in a league of its own. Just look at the source code for the main page. It's as if you took every Geocities/Tripod/Lycos/Homestead website and placed them in a blender. It seems to be an effective marketing strategy and as long as it is working, than my opinion nor anyone else's matter, but the most interesting thing is how much further into the website you can go.
Anyways, despite that diversion throughout the day, I felt somewhat accomplished and generally good about the day.
I headed home to getting something in the mail I've been waiting for all week and having multiple productive discussions with the SharkBuddy team and with Josh. We had dinner while watching some TV and talking and we got some stuff done around the house.
I spoke with Josh about falling up briefly. Mainly because I feel like there are multiple times where this has happened to me. I consider it luck to some degree, but I do feel like there's a fair amount of effort that results in falling up. That is, there's a certain attitude, mentality, effort, and demeanor involved in it and that the rarer moments are controlled by luck. I think if you put in the effort and have the right mindset, it can happen more easily and it just takes a paradigm shift in how you work and think.
"How's life in the fucking fast lane?" ~ Kaoru N.
On the way to the train station, on the ramp to I-355 N from I-55 N, this guy would not merge, he rode on the shoulder 90% of the way till he decided to cut off three cars in front of the person he was sharing the lane with.