Frustration

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
-- E.M. Cioran

Tuesday, February 23, 1999
One year ago: Not Reading

Rats! I miscommunicated with a group that is creating some stuff for the website I'm working on now (at work). They put effort into this material, which has the unfortunate result of making it not what we want! But our users will want to see this material right away, not in the long time-frame that will be needed to rearrange the stuff. So I'll have to post what they gave me anyway, though it doesn't fit well with the general framework of the site. Email me and I'll tell you where to look for the results of this, a few weeks from now. Probably no one else will notice this. But it still irritates me and guilt-trips me. I should have followed up better! I should have made sure they were doing the right thing, not the wrong thing. So now I'm bummed.

The rest of the day went fine. The current leader of this project will be moving to do something else after we ship, so he's stepping back and another program manager on the team is doing what he did. I asked the new guy (well, he joined us last fall, so not so new) to help me sort things out with these external content providers, and he did. (That's what managers are for, to take heat!) I got a fair amount of other stuff done, which gave me a pleasant sensation of accomplishment.

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"It's not the things we don't know that get us into trouble; it's the things we do know that ain't so," said Will Rogers. Andrew was talking about that coffee-spilling incident at McDonalds. Do you know the facts in that case? It's commonly discussed as though it were an example of the worst abuse of the legal system. I don't agree.

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Although I've been a member of the Savoy Swing club for almost a year, I haven't taken dance class there. Tonight was the first night of a new series. I think it would have been possible for me to be judged worthy to go right to an intermediate level class, but I decided it was wiser (and fit better in my schedule) to sign up for one of the classes that come between beginning and intermediate, in their system.

So I'm taking Essentials: Classics. I probably know these steps already (I knew all the steps we were taught tonight), but it's good to get a solid foundation. Stephanie and Winfield are the teachers; both are very good dancers.

After class, I went down to the Washington Dance Club for more dancing. My friend Mike had promised to bring a CD-ROM with all the pictures from Swing Out Northwest for me, but he forgot! So he re-promised to bring a copy tomorrow.