Oh Lord, talk about a hot one today, it's one of those days you're thankful for air conditioned cars and offices, and ones where you're smart enough to not gloat about it, especially if your spouse worked in a warehouse w/o a/c for a couple of hours, I've only been married a little over 2 years and even I'm smart enough to know that.
I had a great day off yesterday, we went to Joggins, NS where they have some of the world's oldest fossils, and was even a spot where Charles Darwin got inspiration for his Origin of Species manifesto, so it was cool as literally 15,000,000 years of history took place in that location.
I couldn't believe the fog off the water, it was only 18 degrees vs. the 30 degrees it was in Moncton, oh well...
It was nice, not too far up the road, well about 45min. in Sackville is a family restaurant that is one of our favorite places to eat, we ate there when we 1st started dating, on our way back from our honeymoon, and then again last night. It's nothing fancy, just good home cooked food.
I was noticing as Kari was writing some notes as was I that there was this gentleman making the most unholy sounds, snorts, burps, and several loud BLEAH'S and I'm thinking Dear God man, have you no manners at all and every time I looked over, he looked like a 5 year old would, just enjoying the meal and it was only till he started talking to the table beside him did you realize that he was probably slightly not as developed shall we say, so you know I felt like a right proper pain in the arse!
In my defense, I had absolutely no sweet clue so it's not like it was deliberate...
Thinking about that today got me thinking about other misconceptions, I'll admit, there are people at my job that I deal w/ on a day to day basis that just plain piss me off, it's human nature, especially when your organization has a couple 1000 employees.
Anywys, there are a couple who I talked to who couldn't have been more pleasant and helpful if they tried and I gotta admit, I couldn't have been more surprised...
This ties into 2 lessons that I learned this year, just b/c someone criticizes your work doesn't mean they're right and that you have to listen to it... And, while you yourself might not like an idea at the start, often the best writing for me comes from when I literally let my pen flow and I don't censor myself.
I wonder how many ideas got lost b/c of a bad initial reaction or criticism?
3/3, I'm going for broke, here's hoping the odds continue.
Todays pic is the Valley Of Death in Gettysburg, PA, 1 of the sites of 1 of the bloodiest battles in the civil war, today, absolutely gorgeous scenery as far as the eye can see.
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