Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Holy crap... is it Friday yet??

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Holy crap... is it Friday yet??

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It ought to be Friday. I earned it to be Friday. Really....

Today:

Had a van catch fire in the shop while a broken stud was being torched off. At the exact same moment as.......
A student got his hand captured between a leaf spring and a vehicle structure.... hard. As in... "You ain't getting that hand back Sparky!"

We got Sparky free without damage, got the vehicle fire down without even popping an extinguisher, and had a WONDERFUL teaching moment towards keeping ones head during an emergency situation. The students did okay.

Just to top off the day, I got a Linkedin invitation from my Brother. Let me put this into perspective, my friends. The last I heard from elder brother was a call from his bankruptcy attorney letting me know I wouldn't be seeing the money back that I'd lent him. I'm talking 'Buy a new car' type money. This was at least ten years ago. He lives on the left coast, that being the only place he can get a job with his degree in 'Leisure studies' from Penn State.

Now he wants to be Linkedin buddies? Shit, he is still a squirrel.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"