Day 9 in NoJoMo 2013

It's early on a Saturday morning. I woke up somewhat unexpectedly, hit the head, took my morning cocktail of pills, then tried to fall back asleep. Fail.

The cool weather makes me sleep more soundly. When I do wake up, however, I'm awake.

I suppose that's okay, because there's some things I want to do online today.

There's also some folks I'd like to get in touch with; I hope to do that over the next couple of weeks in my rapidly-dwindling spare time.

Do I absolutely need to talk to these folks? No. Do I just want to catch up, see what's happening? Yes.

It's incredible how much things can change in a year's time. And, as I've said many times, just doing the same broken things faster doesn't make them any better. Professionally, I'm seeing a lot of biggerfasterhardermore. What I'd like to see is smallersimpleeffectivedifferent.

Bigger and harder yield better gross profits. If, and only if, the market is static or growing. In my field, it's actually getting smaller.

So doing it faster will mean it's better, right? No, not necessarily.

(Aside: I really have gotten fed up lately with the sales gerbil language. Adding, "right?" to the end of a questionable statement doesn't make it any less questionable.)

So, the prompt...

What was the most creative excuse you’ve come up with to get out of a date, an appointment, or doing a task?

I've been thinking about this for awhile now, and don't really have a good answer. I try not to make commitments I know I'll have trouble keeping. My mother has myriad stories of what I'd do as a little kid.

I'm not that little kid, anymore.