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With the exception of rental DVDs [[I prefer NetFlix), I could have written that post word for word. I purchased a Roku and it gives me a lot of free product that is otherwise only available on cable television. I'm glad to avoid having to bust my budget in order to have options.
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I love having the options - but the choice takes up time!
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And I can get nothing done because I try to do everything. At a time when I have tons of things to do that interest me, it's always what I'm not doing that draws my attention...
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I can keep focused and single-minded, but only for relatively short periods. A notebook and pen are never far from me at those times, should something else start to cross my mind...
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Lucky you... I'll start working on something musical when the yearning to draw comes on me, so my musical endeavor winds up half-hearted. I'll start drawing and I begin to think about things that I'd like to write, so after a short while, I'm unhappy with the act of drawing [[which I actually love to do) because I'm not writing. I'll start writing and suddenly the idea for a cool lyric will come into my head, so there went the Great American Novel... I'd much rather have one interest than many.
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I know. If only your butterfly mind would just let you......:)
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I've recently discovered "The Good Wife" [[which is into Series 5) and "Castle" [[Series 6), so catching up on earlier series is taking up a lot of my spare time.
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It's always very interesting first to discover something, and then to learn that there is far more of it available to enjoy.
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On the other hand, I've been watching "Supernatural" and "Once Upon A Time", but the current series being shown in the USA aren't going to be shown in the UK. That's more annoying than if they'd been cancelled.
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The only show that I find interesting right now is "The Mentalist". However, it airs so late that it's hard for me to watch most weeks. The last show that I made a point to either watch or record was"Lost". I also find Hong Kong films to be much more interesting than most Hollywood blockbusters.
I suppose I'm quite boring art the waste cooler.
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I'm not very knowledgeable on these things, but is it now not possible to watch [[perhaps online) previously shown US episodes, whether as a viewer based in US, or in UK?
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Yes. A lot of old series can be seen via iTunes, Netflix or Amazon Prime.
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Perhaps you will be able to catch up that way.
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When you're on SDF, are you listening to music at the same time, and, if so, do you appreciate it as much as if you were giving it your full attention?
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When not at work, there is usually a TV on nearby, [[at home, I'm using the computer in the hall, or on the laptop in the sitting room) but it's unusual for me to have music playing when I'm on computer.
I find I can't concentrate on listening to lyrics if I'm also concentrating on using the keyboard. In that respect, they become a distraction.
I'm usually signed into SDF at home and also at work, so have to get up and do other things, then back to keyboard, and so on...
I often play CDs in the car, usually if I'm doing a fair distance, say 30 mins or more, without a break.
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It's just that I turned the TV off a couple of hours ago, and I suddenly thought instead of writing about music, I could be listening to it.
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It's a bit like sitting in a room for quite a while before realising it is cold.
it takes a while to notice the silence. Once noticed, I do something about it, and fill the void.
It's the same when one is in solitude. Once one starts to notice the quiet too much, there's a tendency for a feeling of loneliness to set in.
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[[This dialogue has been temporarily interrupted to permit me to explain: When using a mobile device, autofill sucks horribly. To that end, please be aware that we do not have a "waste cooler" where I work, but we do have a water cooler. I'm afraid that post #2730 may have given you the wrong idea about how I spend my breaks while on the job. Thank you, and your regularly scheduled thread will be picked up in progress...)
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No problem Jerry.
I just used my imagination - as I do for much of the time I'm around here....:)
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"Waste cooler"? SMH. Sounds like the portion of the morgue where they place people who died from drinking too much hooch or overexposure to network television...
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Presumably those are the bodies of which parts are used for medical research?
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Or at least the parts of the cadavers that are not needed...
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Once the breath and the "eek!" are no longer there, I suppose something could be made of each part of us.....
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There's not much more to us than there is to the street pizza stretched for 15 meters along a country road.
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And most of that is water. Some, of course, might say otherwise.....
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Yep. We're in balance with the elements. Although some of us are out of proportion with too much hot air.
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They're the type to explode shortly after they die, if left without proper attention.
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From my experience, they explode a lot in life if they don't get the attention that they want. The typical result is to ruin mine.
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Only if you let them, Jerry...only if you let them...:)
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See, now you did it too..! My wife does it all the time when she says that I'm too sensitive... The world is a cold, mean place. :[[
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If you know what makes people tick, you'll then feel in good company whenever you are in agreement with them.
Whenever you don't agree with them, at least you'll recognise where they are going, and what may be their plan. That way, they can't surprise you.
And if they can't surprise you, they won't be able to disappoint you......
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One of the first lessons of management that I learned was not in any text book or class. It follows: Lower your expectations of everyone, even the best workers and [[normally) easiest personalities so that you expect them to let you down. It could be a personal attack or suddenly deciding that they aren't going to do their best work that day. It could be snickering and gossip that brings the workgroup to a stop. It can be anything that would make you ask yourself "what just happened?" and "who did it?" When you realize that we all are motivated by our own agendas [[which probably are not shared or easily understood), then you can have it out with that person and resolve the issue without taking it personally. Even if you get loud or have to reassess your view of the individual, you can still come back the next day, look him/her in the eye, learn from the previous day, and move on.
And that is the key to handling disappointment.
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Hmmm. Not so sure about that. It sounds like a contradiction :confused:
How can an emotion as strong as disappointment come into the equation, if expectations of everyone have been lowered from the start - ?
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My disappointment came from the fact that management let me down more often than my staff did.
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I work for myself, and am continually disappointed with the performance of colleagues and management :[[
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I also hated how small things like whether a window should be open or closed can escalate into major disruptions because staff members would act like children.
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That's because they think like children....and they want the money, but would really rather be anywhere else but there....:[[
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Well, I didn't exactly go to work for the love of it...
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It's all amazing. Tell your hourly employees that we have an abundance of work and we'll need to work overtime to do all of it and the response is they spend an hour each huddled in some far corner of the building complaining about it. The end result is several more days of overtime based on the fact that we didn't do as much on the ten hour day as we would have done on an eight hour day. It's all management's fault because they didn't plan better.
They're partially right except for the "all" part of the statement. Of course, good management means that overtime is the first indicator that they are doing a poor job of managing. If only those lazy employees knew when to kick it into high gear, we wouldn't have to work them like the Hebrew children in Egypt. Right? :[[
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Your way of thinking is that of a self-motivated person. With that comes stress, but the buck starts and stops with you, for good as well as bad.
Their way of thinking is just filling in time until the end of the shift. They will fill in their whole working life from holiday to holiday, until retirement. As a result of their mind set, the health of many will have declined in their working life [[due to the contents of their food trolley, as viewed in any mid or lower level supermarket, any day of the week) - and, within a year or two of official retirement, many will die.