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It's about time for those employed by the government to stop referring to children as ours. My children are not theirs. Other people's children are not mine. There's not a collective ownership of children. Technically there's not a shared guardianship of children either. Parents don't know what's best for their children said a band director I played with. I never saw that band director the same way again. I saw him as evil. A monster after that.

Went to DFW. Station manager is leaving. The place is huge. Five terminals with a sixth being built. The campus is overwhelming in size and people density. Airports are getting larger and more congested. It is controversial to ask as a member of the industry - how do so many people have somewhere to go that requires jet transportation? It is disappointing to me that air travel has been commoditized to the point it is affordable by majority of people in economically developed areas. As a matter of fact it's no longer for the privileged or the wealthy. It's practically a right. Basic human need? The airport is exhausting. The level of engagement and bandwidth is disproportionate to the flight count. Colleague departed for competitor. Pay increase of 45 thousand dollars. Pay increase is half of previous salary.

What's that herb or grass that is burned to cast out demons from physical space? I might need some.

What does he do besides run his mouth about culture and leadership? Has he ever been in the trenches of day in day out leadership or has he always been a 'thought leader?'

One characteristics inherited from Dad. Producing high quality work and letting the quality of work speak for itself without fanfare. People tell me we look alike. We also work alike. And I guess to a degree we don't like in other people what we don't like in ourselves. I've always been a leader that leads with the head and not the heart. Call me to man. Even grinch. We have the leadership connection meetings at work. My rep for the last 2 years is very unemotional and data driven. Not a fan. The way I counteract my leadership style is to hire people not like me that make my defective circle of competence more round. Hire for my own deficiencies while having an awareness to take a deep breath and respond instead of reacting. Bah.

Since Covid 'they' say people are more interested in travel and upscale experiences. People are no longer interested in accumulating of 'stuff.' I think it's more of a cyclical thing. People used to spend all their time at work. So they wanted their homes to be their fortress. Covid happened and people spent all their time at home. By government mandate. They got tired of being at home for work. Now people don't want to be at work or at home. So the want go somewhere. In other words Covid caused a shift in where people don't want f to be. The don't want to be at home or work. They now want to be somehwere else . So that is where disposable income spend has shifted.

 Am I the only one who literally laughs out loud while they read what’s written?  I should do a greatest hits collection with the occasional line or two that literally give me the giggles.  I may very well be my biggest fan. Good god - what’s wrong with me. I’m defective in some way. Or I’ve got an underdeveloped (or maybe overdeveloped) part of my brain. A character flaw? The greatest gift of life is being able to enjoy your own company.  James Taylor should write another song - I’ve got a friend in me. 

I was moving towards working with my parents financial advisor in setting up an IRA account. Everything was fine until I asked for the account numbers so I could make a large initial investment into the account and subsequent scheduled monthly deposits. She wouldn't give me the account number and wanted me to give them access to my other accounts so THEY could take money from my account and put it into IRA. Like WTF?!? Who controls this relationship? Me giving and you taking are not the same thing. My response? Ghosting. It's my money. It's not yours. I am happy to give you money. I am not okay with you taking money… semantics? Principle.

Here's how I see it. Either they end the war or we cut the aid. If that doesn't work, we can attack Ukraine along with Russia. Cause a complete realignment of the world order. Europe and nato has done nothing. This isn’t our problem. It’s theirs. All Zelensky wants is money and weapons - without offering or committing to in anything in return. The hell with him. Make a deal for the mineral rights and rare earth materials or we can facilitate your destruction by no longer providing you the weaponry or money you want. We're not your sugar daddy. If we are, we’re being raw dogged. Pay up or sleep in the bed you've made. Global panhandler. Freeloader. Grifter. Cheat. Liar. Scum.  Wheres the money?  Didja give it back to Joe?  

Omar Thomas is a pompous, arrogant jackass. Having heard an interview with him, I don't want to hear another composition of his music ever again. I'd rather not attend a concert than hear his work. What an ass. Diane Donovan of KMFA was - like a middle school girl fawning over her high school crush. An absolutely terrible hour of music and discussion. While his musical textures are interesting, he is a contrived intellectual talking about his time in the Ivy League schools and how special Boston is due to the number and quality of higher education institutions. There's something special in the air when all the eggheads are out walking around as the weather changes eating ice cream at the start of the fall semester. Shut the fuck up.  Omar Thomas has been told he’s exceptional and that he’s brilliant and talented probably his entire life. And he’s internalized that script and believes he’s special.  He has no humility. He’s a DEI poster child.    Then he talks...

I've never seen someone more desperate to be famous and relevant to culture than Meghan markle. She married a prince. Then stirred up a bunch of drama in his family. Prince removed from family. They move To California and claim they want privacy while doing a special tv program with Oprah Winfrey. Does a pod cast. It flops. Now she's trying to develop a lifestyle brand with a companion tv show or something. It's gonna flop too. Here's the deal. No one cares about Meghan and her goof of a husband. Both are irrelevant, disingenuous grifters. The public doesn't care about them. Yet she keeps trying to weasel her way into the public consciousness. She's ordinary. Boring. Irrelevant. Nothing she can do can fix that. She's blown it. She's done irreparable damage to her brand. To spare's brand too. She's desperate. Collectively everyone is done with her. Damaged goods. Everything she touches is tarnished and dented. Goodbye.

It is said that a bad accident or safety incident is cause by multiple breakdowns in procedures not being followed. As if every safety procedure is a control against something bad happening. Think of it them as the cheese between the holes in Swiss cheese. Think of an accident as a rod being able to go through a hole in a block of cheese with any cheese obstructing its passage. Maybe promotions are the same. No obstructions to get through the block of cheese. And on some levels a promotion. Is the same as an accident.

Why is 'Europe' upset about the US, Russia and Ukraine having peace talks? The Europeans could have initiated this a long time ago…. Instead they've let this stupid war drag on for years without doing anything about it besides working through nato to supply arms to Ukraine to fight. Whiny Europeans have been part of the problem. Now they think they are worthy of being part the solutions? Step aside. Biden was ineffective. NATO is just as bad. We got rid of one. Let's get rid of the other. They're all a bunch of fat cat losers.

 The first time you do anything the first time is scary.  It can also be an adrenaline rush.  Regret.  Excitement.  Worked up about nothing.  Memorable.  Embarrassing. Disappointing.  Gross.   The first time I wore a MAGA hat, I didn't know what to expect.  I didn't know if someone punch me, yell vulgarities at me, engage in confrontation...  It was kinda scary.  I figured I would try it out at the local barbecue restaurant.  How could you go wrong being conservative where men and women are eating beef, wearing boots and cowboy hats.  It was the safest space possible to venture our with a controversial  head piece.  Safe space.  What you are?  A snow flake?  At any rate - it's either an incredibly stupid decision to wear a MAGA hat or a move of strength. It's an interesting experience because people either look at you or ignore you.  And it's weird because it can be intimidating, if not a...

I do not want my obituary to say 30 year airline employee. At this rate that is what it will say. What I wish it would say is "he knows stuff and fixes things." Changing that trajectory is scary. Not recreating one's self - but how long will it take.

I used to have this theory that everyone should have the best in class of something. Or the upper echelon of something. To experience the finest of something. Something that you enjoy. Something that delights. Elevates. Provides a heightened level of enjoyment or satisfaction. Exceptional. I don't know if I feel that way anymore. I don't have the means to accomplish that anymore. I don't know if I care anymore. Maybe good is enough. Good enough. Not great. Not exceptional. Ordinary. Boring. Does the job. Marginal. Utilitarian. No more being a Jones. No more keeping up with the Jones's. Ordinary. Boring. Average. Inflation does that. Undesired recalibration of expectation resulting in the lowering of standards.

Have ruined this country. And it takes men like Donald Trump and Elon musk to peel back the curtain to show the rest of us the corruption that runs rampant in our government. Trump calls them swamp creatures. I call them sewer rats.    DEI has shown me meritocracy does not matter. DEI has shown me that the more brown people employed by an organization, the better. And also the white people still have the empower but they try to make it look like they don't. But they do…. Because they're the cream poured over the top of the coffee. It's either the stage in life I'm living or the company I work …. The company is run by kids. All these educated kids with these grand ideas that are inexperienced, that won't work and are not based on reality. It all the front line workers that figure out how to make their idea somewhat work while they complain about it not working. If you know so much get your ass out of your corporate office and show us how. They used to be c...

At my level and above at the workplace there are a lot of narcissistic qualities in the peer group. One member of peer group refuses to open her own car door if a man is sharing the ride. She will literally stand there like a fool until someone opens the car door for her. That's not chivalry. That's not team work. That's demanded slavery.

Here's a thought - technology isn't being implemented in the work force to make people's jobs easier. It's implemented to eliminate or reduce the number of people on payroll required to do jobs.

What the heck is it with people that defend the big boss when they're being unreasonable? Like are you on our team or their team? Ass kisser. And then you prove your marginal understanding of our metrics by rationalizing a metric that YOU are calculating wrong when the right information is at fingertips. FAFO.

A moment to recognize John Williams turning 93 years old today. That's the same as high octane gas. There are people in the fandom expecting John to do another score and get back onto the concert scene. John Williams cancelled all concerts in 2024. He is scheduled be a guest at a concert in Miami towards the end of February. The notes made no mention of him conducting; merely a guest. Read into what you will. I'm thankful for all the music John has given the world. At this point expecting more is selfish considering the man has given so much of himself to the world.

Biden sure played his hand poorly.

Kanye west is telling the world he has autism. For some reason this is the most hilarious thing I've heard this week. 🤣 🤣 🤣 What's next? He's trans?!? At least he's not like will smith's kid wearing a styrofoam block on his head looking like a Minecraft house.

A friend of mine says work is a four letter word.  I guess it doesn't matter what you do.  Working sucks.  By all accounts today was to be a celebration.  We have a little monthly contest at work.  After a year, my team came in first place on two critical metrics.  First was mishandled bags with a ZERO mishandled bag ratio.  It doesn't get any better than that.  Second, the team won the turn tracker contest measuring various milestones within a turn.  The thought is if you meet all these benchmarks within a turn, the chances of getting the flight out on time increase exponentially.  My team was been steadily climbing since last May when the contest was launched.  I've rallied my team, held them accountable, put pressure on my supervisors and set expectations for nearly flawless performance on every turn.  While my team is far from flawless, we are performing better than the other teams in the region.  Another par of the eq...

I feel like democrats believe government is the solution and republicans feel like government is the problem.

 You know what?  Celebrities are ordinary but they refuse to accept that.  They get paid huge sums of money to play make believe while those absorbed with contemporary culture shell out their money to be entertained by them.  They are delusional and pathological liars.  As a society we indulge them and their illness to the point they are placed on culturally pillars.  They think they're special.  They think they matter.  They think the rest of us should fall in line behind them.  Many do.  I refuse. It's when people like TOm Hanks start running their mouths about politics and they have a HUGE audience because of the work they've done.  STFU Tom - for every fan that agrees with you there is another one who is the polar opposite and how hates you. My team was watching Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in it.  He does a fine job in the moving pretending to be captain Phillips while the ship is being attacked by pirates from a third ...

Anticipatory grieving is the natural reaction to the possibility of an impending loss, such as the death of a loved one.  This phenomenon occurs before the actual loss of life. Back in 2021 I moved my parents out of their house and into assisted living.  Upon arrival to assisted living, my dad (living with Parkinson's) was having a hard time.  I think the move was hard on both of them, but for different reasons.   My Dad's brain completely short circuited.  He always kept his medications in a little plastic box and they were all mixed up.  He would self medicate and take whatever he thought he needed when he wasn't feeling right or Parkinson's was acting up.  When he moved into the ALF (assisted living facility) they started giving him his medications as the prescriptions were written.  I think it temporarily fried his brain and compounded the issue by being dehydrated with a UTI (urinary tract infection).  He probably weighed 100 lbs and was...

Anything true that those in power don't want you to know. Or anything absurd that can't possibly be true. Which is it?