The Linear Canvas

Just when you think you have gotton to the point when you don’t think that you’re going to write 2002 anymore, all of a sudden it’s 2004. At least for the first month I will write the date on everything important as 2003 or 03. Especially checks. There are times during the year when I actually have a lapse and write 1987 or something.

All of the holidays are over. People no longer have an excuse to be nice to one another and especially mean to sales clerks. It is a little depressing to think about this happening once a year every year. It is more of what ticks the time away than your birthday. My Birthday was day before yesterday. Maybe that’s why it seems that way.

The coming year has many more questions than answers. I continue to be in the same limbo that I have been in for two and a half years in my job. I laid off all the people who worked for me and most of the people that I worked with are gone as well. I try to keep as positive of an outlook on life as I can, but the voice of motivational speaker Ed Foreman that has helped me through the last year and a half, doesn’t seem as effective.

The positive spin is that I am better than my job. If I were laid me off tomorrow, I would be more valuable immediately. The kind of skills I have and the common sense that goes with it, are always needed. I have thought of many little enterprises that I would be good at. I think the one I want to stay away from is repairing computers. I love that so much that I would ruin it for myself. Besides, I think that selling and repairing computers is the least use of my skills. Everyone thinks that they are good at computers and everyone sells them. There certainly is no money in that. Although I could do it better than most.

I am just going to wait and see what happens. I can always find something to succeed at. It’s just a matter of not letting them forget who I am and where I’m at.