Tuesday, June 17

Post 1267, Day 168 of 2014
- 1,264 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I am caught up in some Kafka-esque bureaucracy at work. Crazy stuff. Insane processes. Lots of ass-covering.

Of course, it all started when I tried to access a rarely used account. Which, due to non-use, was deleted instead of deactivated, meaning I had to re-apply for its use, meaning there were no less than 5 levels of sign-offs required.

At every step of the way, someone (not me) dropped the ball. Today, the work ticket was marked resolved, without restoring my account. When I rejected the resolution, I was bombarded by emails justifying why my account was not restored, not a single one of which indicated any concern over the original problem, that my account had been deleted, not deactivated. All just saying that all the approvals had not been sent to the group that is charged with managing these accounts.

Seriously? I have a paper trail showing that the document has made it all the way up the management chain, that everybody has, in fact, approved it. And notes directing the group to restore my account.

But the processes in place require one more step - which nobody seems to be in a position to make.

Except, after a day in which about 100 emails went back and forth, somebody finally pulled the trigger and my account - right before I left for the day - was restored. I wish I could say I felt better.

Getting caught up in bureaucratic machinery feels really bad. 

Maybe I should rethink my retirement plan. I hate digital everything. Including, right now, the internet and all digital music reproduction. Maybe a back-to-the-land existence, where I move to the jungles of Belize and do subsistence farming in one of the off-the-grid communities there, until I die of some tropical disease (or some existing Northern disease waiting, patiently, for the final sign-off to kill me).

Beats this.

Unrelated: My 'job' as a bass player is to tie the rhythm to the melody. That means if you are playing or singing off-key, I anchor you with correct root notes to help you get back on pitch. I don't follow you off, especially if it is some microtonal, non-Western key. If you are out of rhythm, I will not let you pull me out of the groove. I might simplify, emphasize the downbeat, but you are going to have to listen, have to feel it, and come back to me. If you don't, and the music sounds like shit, I will just hope you get it together for the next song. 

This doesn't apply to working situations, where there is a rehearsed set list and if someone steps off, I will make every attempt to bring everybody into harmony and rhythm. I have spent a lot of time with people who can't play with other people lately (see yesterday's rant comment).

And, while I am feeling so pissy, even my cut-back time on Facebag keeps revealing the surprising number of friends and acquaintances I have who are, apparently, illiterate.

That is all.

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 Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         207.0 lbs

Previous Weight:        205.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 1.2 lbs

Diet Comment

Late eating, I think, is the reason I seem to have regained much of yesterday's weight loss.

Food Log 

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch

Chopped salad (roasted turkey breast, shaved parmesan, baby kale, baby spinach, chard and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner
Pepperoni and organic Emmentaler cheese with a couple of Quest bars.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 96+ oz.

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