Judicious

Artists / Necmeddin Okyay/ Floral Ebru

Getting back to the norm of my life.  If such a thing can be said to be done.  This phase of my life is pretty short term.  Forty-one days total.  Twelve weekends to be subtracted make for twenty-nine days on the hill.  Three federal holidays gives me twenty six.  I have five days of annual leave that brings me down to twenty-one days on the hill.  I also have ten sick days.  These are problematic as the fuckhead “managers” have decided that spite and vindictiveness are their long suits so these will need to be used strategically and judiciously.  I am thinking that I will try to use these up but shouldn’t get too married to the theoretical eleven days that these represent.

But rest assured that I will make every effort to minimize my days on the hill.

Michael and I have been speaking of the concept of “self-evident”.  He has stated that he follows the precepts of A.N. Whitehead as he has and use the definition promulgated by this august philosopher.  This threw me for a loop as I have never read the chap.  So yesterday I made my last book purchase from Amazon (more to follow on that later) and as a lark I purchased a “word book” which provides me definitions of technical terms.

So, In my soon-to-be expansive free time, I will take as my first dragon to be slain is my view of “self-evident”.  Currently, this view is quite bilious as it seems to your humble correspondent that “self-evident” is usually presaged by hand-waving and an allusion to the person using the phrase being oh-so-much smarter/observant than I.

But, as I respect Michael's opinions on most issue, it isn’t across the board.  The fact that he uses the phrase tips me off to the fact that there may be things I haven’t considered and definitions that limit my perception and allow me to think about the concept.