Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for January 27, 2025

Dry Humor

I’m working the checkout, and two women are talking as they buy their separate groceries. I scan a bottle of wine.

Customer #1: “I thought you were doing dry January?”

Customer #2: “I didn’t drink as much as usual in December, so these are like my rollover minutes.”

Welcome to my life.

You just jinxed it.

“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.” (Man proposes. God disposes.)

I once worked for a boss who had the mentality of a construction supervisor. He could not do any work without a blueprint and expected everything to follow the schedule. This is a good mentality to have for a well-defined project where the steps have been tested on numerous similar projects before.

It’s not so good for things like software development where it is known how things SHOULD go but there are a lot of unknowns.

The best you can do is have an initial plan. However, very often the step you can take next depends on the results of the step you just took. This involves a process I call a meta-plan:a plan for revising the plan.

My boss wanted me to foresee every possible contingency and plan for each of them. This is doable for the first couple of steps where the branches are still relatively few. But ten steps down the road, the possibilities are literally in the thousands.

It’s nice to have some sort of a plan, but eventually you have to take action. All plan and no action is analysis paralysis.

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton.

lol love it!

..one thing a week, that’s all I can handle..

Yep, professional alcoholics need no plans to drink, drink, drink. They just do it.

Don’t plan on it

plan? plan? we don’t need no stinkin’ plans!

Sounds like a plan.

“If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail” – Benjamin Franklin.

I plan on working this week, not that I want to

Is she growing an oak tree in the house?