Richard BF

Mental note to self, stop being so anxious about things.

I tend to live my life at one of either ends of an emotional balance beam which has anxious and frustrated at one end, and jocular and flippant at the other.

This morning I decided to get an early start, as I’ll be interstate later in the week. So I got up earlier than usual, only to find an urgent email I needed to reply to. Then I found that the cat had left a present in the lounge room, which needed to be cleaned up. Once actually out of the house, driving to work, there was road work at one of the big intersections really close to work, and they were only letting every third set of green lights go through. By the time I got through, I didn’t have enough petrol to guarantee getting to work, so I had to stop for fuel, the only servo on the way of course being a long detour. Then when I got to the street where I work, I just happenned to get stuck behind the slowest Mini Cooper driver in all of Sydney.

Subsequently, I was actually later than usual to work.

So instead of being anxious, I’m sitting down, taking my medication (a mug of Coke), trying to make my environment as conducive to productivity as possible, and am continuing my design for a system for the dynamic construction of Microsoft WordProcessingML documents from our enterprise CMS, Sytadel.

You can never guarantee the perfect day, so quit worrying about it.