Yesterday Joy was trying to make a number of phone calls to the state of Florida. I am not really sure about the details of why she was calling other than that she needed to set them straight about something. What I do know is that she was trying to get through for over an hour and kept on going through this cycle of pressing 1 if ____ pressing 3 if ______, y’know how that goes.
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I went paintballing about a month ago. A friend from UPS invited me to go with him one weekend early in October. I couldn’t go, but I told him that I was interested and that I’d definately go with him at some point within the month. It ended up being November so I decided to go the first weekend of the month.
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In the first hours after Hurricane Katrina I wasn’t paying much attention. I knew that the hurricane was big. I heard that it caused great damage, but I thought that it would be a hurricane like the three that came through Florida just last year or any other that I have experienced from living in Florida for the past 23 years. I did think that Katrina would be worse due to unpreparedness. I did presume that the flooding would be worse since New Orleans is mostly below sea level. I didn’t think the damage would be this bad. I didn’t think that this many people would be unable to evacuate or simply choose not to evacuate.
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Urgency is good and patience is good,
but both can be misused and lead to destruction.
This is the truth of many things.
There is a time to be patient and a time to be urgent
With wisdom and practice one knows the difference
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When I was at UPS tonight I was thinking about how responsibility works. One thing that I’ve (re)learned about responsibility recently is that the person responsible for one thing may not be solely or entirely at fault for the thing in question. Furthermore, the person responsible may or may not bear any consequences for the responsibility.
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