What’s New in Your Neck of the Woods?
Not much here, so you can keep moving if you want.
I’ve been trying to learn how to read my web site logs and error messages, because, apparently, they tell me something that I could use to fix problems.
I’ve been trimming bushes and bagging the debris. In San Antonio, we pile it by the alley in three foot lengths, and they pick it up. Here in Central Texas, it has to be bagged or they won’t take it. We’re trying to get out to the ranch to clear dead trees from the road and bring back our chipper/shredder, which will help that process. Maybe tomorrow.
On the writing front, I’ve just about decided Scene 6 can be deleted. I have to re-read, but I don’t think there’s anything that isn’t revealed in another way later. People don’t like staff meetings in real life. Why on earth would they want to read one? Fiction, to a certain point, is supposed to provide relief from real life, not immerse you in it more.
Hershey got out for his walk today. He’s happy about that.
One of the reasons I agreed to be vice chief of staff & chief of staff back at our old hospital was “material.” I soon learned that those staff meetings are deadly dull and that I wasn’t picking up anything whatsoever I could use in a story. Not even a “knowledge base.” Not even “background.” I think I squeezed two or three good blog posts out of it, and that was that.
Only been a couple of stafff meetings in my life, but they were unpleasant ones where our boss explained how inadequate we really were and have gave unrealistic goals. I will say this about them: they were dramatic, but not fun.
Ah. Too often in government service, these time sinks are a weekly occurrence, and, depending upon your role in the organization, you may wind up attending two or three different ones per week. Sometimes, there is valuable information disseminated, but, mostly, it keeps the boss informed on what is going on in his organization.