Aug. 22nd, 2003

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The past couple of days have been more upbeat... I felt down after receiving something-chastising from a friend, and a note about another friend's change in plans, but those both lifted in a few hours. And I had mostly misread the former, anyway. I need be less obsessive over possible future implications or between-line-reading, and just relax.

Work-wise, I went out Wednesday and bought $2500 of computing and communications gear to ship to Spain, and spent that night configuring it in my bedroom before [personal profile] hopeforyou came by and picked it up yesterday. Only two of the US-permitted 11 802.11b channels are legal in Spain. And I got a gold star from Carol! (grin) And my travel next week was approved without hassle, and my orders to Spain outbound likewise. All good.

I miss not being at alt.polycon in Toronto... but I haven't posted there in 6 months, and lurk infrequently. Some of the session topics look attractive, and I'm slightly social-interaction-hungry at the moment (haven't been around adults in three weeks, other than [profile] patgreene and work). But I would have had a problem attending apc10 anyway, given the prominent role(s) of certain other individuals. Disengagement extends from online interaction to realspace.

Socially, I need to note for myself (not seeking responses) that I caught myself Wednesday unconsciously trying to *not* be responsible for my actions... as I said above, I was feeling a bit people-deprived. There was a local event that evening of which I'd been made aware. My reaction, late that afternoon, was (typical) "no sense in going there, they wouldn't want me around anyway. " (don't react to this, please wait ;) Then caught myself for some reason. What was *really* going on? I was foisting off on others the responsibility for my non-appearance -- and assigning them motives and reactions. No wonder some people wince at this, when I'm heard saying something similar. I knew that there would be at least some friends at that gathering, and they would have (in reality) probably been happy to see me. The *real* reasons for not appearing? I leave work too late (7pm, and this was most of an hour away), I needed to assemble and test the newly-purchased computer gear at home, and the host had seemed vaguely pissed at me in an online interaction that afternoon. But these were *my* reasons, I owned them, and any resentment that I couldn't go out and play had to be pointed back at my own decisions, not some amorphous unaware group. Being responsible. I will need to try to intercept this group-finger-pointing reflex in the future, it's a bad habit. Even if no one else knows, regarding some event or opportunity.

Now on to work, and lunch later ;-).
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I was just congratulated by my boss in the parking lot -- he was on the Mars Instrument Development Program (MIDP) review panel last week. He was recused from evaluating or commenting on my proposal, but heard informally that it was the highest-ranked robotics proposal. Someone else labeled it "poorly written, but highly-ranked." Better than the converse, certainly! So I have an excellent chance of winning...
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Happy smile. Flutter. Maybe I'm an idiot, but right now I'm a happy idiot ;^).

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Aug. 22nd, 2003 08:15 pm
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And I believe I just un-screwed-up our drilling schedule in Spain with a timely suggestion to Carol (go deep, first). Go me... on a roll today. Time to head home from the office.

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