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Wake-up Calls
Jun. 10th, 2015 09:58 amWake-up Call #1
So, last night I was dreaming that I was going sky-diving with the Pope, as one does in dreams. It was my second jump (in the dream - in reality I'm highly allergic to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and have never sky-dived) and had pulled my ripcord when the phone rang. It was 4:50 in the AM and our managed network provider had detected a problem, which fortunately wasn't as big a problem as they thought.
Wake-up Call #2
The police officer I spoke of yesterday got a wake-up call; he resigned the force. I don't know the man's history prior to this event, so I can't comment if resignation is sufficient*, but apparently the officer is at least getting a clue.
Wake-up Call #3
The inimitable Eric Flint has a long and on-point response to Brad Torgersen It's well worth a read. A phrase of Eric's I shallsteal shamelessly borrow is: [in reference to the deathless prose of Mr. John C. Wright] This is an example of what I think of as the Saudi School of Prose. No noun may go out in public unless she is veiled by grandiloquence and accompanied by an adjective.
* Nor do I know if there were other mitigating circumstances at play. For all I know the man's dog died or he had other personal problems that he shouldn't, but did, bring to work.
So, last night I was dreaming that I was going sky-diving with the Pope, as one does in dreams. It was my second jump (in the dream - in reality I'm highly allergic to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and have never sky-dived) and had pulled my ripcord when the phone rang. It was 4:50 in the AM and our managed network provider had detected a problem, which fortunately wasn't as big a problem as they thought.
Wake-up Call #2
The police officer I spoke of yesterday got a wake-up call; he resigned the force. I don't know the man's history prior to this event, so I can't comment if resignation is sufficient*, but apparently the officer is at least getting a clue.
Wake-up Call #3
The inimitable Eric Flint has a long and on-point response to Brad Torgersen It's well worth a read. A phrase of Eric's I shall
* Nor do I know if there were other mitigating circumstances at play. For all I know the man's dog died or he had other personal problems that he shouldn't, but did, bring to work.
