A Conundrum...320 or 684?

03/26/2009

The numbers above are of great importance to me.  Both represent important milestones in my life.  I think about both almost every day, sometimes even more often.  These numbers are of a huge importance to me because they both change on a daily basis, so important that I keep a counter for each on my desk top.  Fortunately, both get smaller every day, and that makes me smile.

What are they you ask?  The lower number is the number of days to my 66th birthday, the day I reach the age I can draw full Social Security.  The higher number is the number of days to my 67th birthday, and I have told at least a thousand people I hope to work until I reach my 67th.  Well, even though I know a number of my co-workers read this, a few more days like yesterday and this one, and I may not make it another thirty. 

I don’t know what it is these days but a lot of what comes my way seems to be nothing more than bullshit and crap, and I don’t like it.  I grow more tired of the whining, the accusations, the pettiness, the inconsistencies, the conniving, the circumventing, the self-centeredness, and all the other shit that people come up with.  Why can’t people just do what is right?  You know, work hard, take responsibility for your actions and don’t do anything your grandmother wouldn’t approve of.

I am tiring of being pulled in fifty different directions (which I have no doubt I have caused and take full responsibility for) and not being able to go tell everyone to fuck off.  Now you must realize by being the consummate professional that I am, I wouldn’t do that, but don’t push me, and if you do, I may just give you that look that will let you know exactly what I am thinking.

Gee, I feel better now.  All that ranting and raving has relieved my stress.  If all goes well I will work for another 684 days, but there is a chance (Boss, if you read this know it is just be a joke, maybe) I will say at the end of a mere 320 days on February 9, 2010, “Adios!” and ride off into the winter sunset.  I don’t know what this will depend on, but I think it will have to do with what kind of day February 9th will be.

And that is all I have to say about that…