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Hello World,
Made it to 12/1 which means my Medicare kicks in. After a lifetime of paying into injury and illness insurance and hardly using it I had to self-cover for 2 months because temporary insurance in my state is too damn high. Just like the govt/insurer complex to get it all wrong but just a tad, but wrong nonetheless.
A project I'm working on has stalled. I'd withdrawn a bit because my hours were nearing the cap and the lead in several ways signaled he didn't appreciate my efforts as highly as I did. Now, no surprise, he and his assistant had 6 weeks to bring forward the work and they arrived at our conf. call last week with nothing but a revised timeline.
We spoke before the conf. call and he said I should get more involved again. I then proposed that before I do something I send it by him with an estimate of my time to do it. From the very start I alerted him that writing takes a lot of time—there's drafting, wrangling with other team members, rewrites, editing, polishing, and proofing. Time, time, time, time, time.
Related to Cassander/Cassandra roles, this time I find that by relaxing, witnessing, and patiently allowing time to flow, the other person reversed themselves a bit and came back to me with a renewed awareness of the value I add.
Meanwhile, my life didn't stand still. I have WON a huge contract possibly for three years. Once that gets in gear I will be 100% devoted to it during the start-up phase. This will be about 5 or 6 months.
Interesting? Yes.
R.
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