3 August 2017

Having picked up the new pink cat bowl at the bottom of the stairs twice already, I moved it further up, inside the gate – right outside my front door. Around ten last night I heard some nibbling happening and carefully opened the front door to look ... and what do I see? The neighbour’s cat! This worried me a bit, since he usually sleeps with her – and he’s run away once already. I messaged my neighbour asking if she’s ok (she’s been ordered bed rest) ... I message, because if she’s asleep that shouldn’t wake her. Phone-calls after nine are bad manners (wish certain people would read this and take note!). She messaged me back that she’s ok – her cat was with her just a few minutes ago ... greedy little imp! So, in future, I better keep the bowl empty until I see a stray in need of food. I was surprised, however, that her cat wandered all the way up to my front door! That’s new.

This new task is extremely interesting! It’s taking me another level deeper into the technical aspect of the project, as I now need to understand exactly what happens at each of the stations along the various production lines we are building. The last new task, which got me involved with the technical drawings, is turning out to be a kind of foundation helping me grasp this new task.

That also means, this blog will in future be shorter, since I’ve been writing a lot of it during the afternoon lull’s. I’ll have to make do with what time I find during lunch-time – and then in the evenings.

My game-plan is coming along nicely – though I seem to have made the odd miscalculation. That happens when I deviate from the plan to fill a gap. But I’m now Number One in our fellowship! There is a limit to the number of people per fellowship – we’ve had just one gap, and I’m keeping one gap open. Someone applied yesterday, I let them in and kicked one of the non-active’s out.

At work I have a bit of a difficult situation. Two of the people I deal with are egocentric bullies – and I’m not really equipped to deal with that. At the same time I’m also getting tired of being steamrolled and manipulated. Communication is nearly impossible, since such people are just not open to the possibility that the world isn’t exactly as they judge it to be. I’ve tried. Attempts are met with either derision or aggression. Standard, automatic reaction. There is no thought involved – and without thought, there can’t be any communication. I really don’t know how to handle that.