robio said:

aspro said:

Thanks Sup. I loked up Eisenhower Matrix, that's how I maneg things now, but I have to delegate more.

I'm the director of my company's marketing department, and it took me 4 years before I really learned how to delegate. Maybe learned isn't the right word. It took 4 years before I was comfortable with delegating tasks. That can be hard, especially when you suspect some of your co-workers or underlings or whatever you want to call them, have repeatedly shown themselves to be ass clowns.

I've got a few I can trust to do the job 80% as well as I would do if I had done it myself, and I was good at delegating to them and then just tidying up their work, but I keep falling into the trap of "just do it myself it will be faster" or closer to the truth doing it because it is more enagaging than whatever I don;t want to do.

Luigi's Mansion was just released and I couldn't be happier. I've been waiting for this release.

     Story time. In 2001 I just started my teaching career and moved two and a half hours away from home. I was lonely in my little duplex and really missed home. I would drive home every Friday and return on Sunday night just to be with my gf and family.

   I knew I was getting a GameCube that November on release day. Everyone else was excited for Rogue Squadron. Not me, it was Luigi’s Mansion all the way.

  During this time period, South Carolina had blue laws in effect on Sundays. You could buy groceries but no other items until 1:30pm that day. Of course the GameCube was released on a Sunday, so I couldn’t even get it at a midnight release.

  So I made it to Walmart that Sunday at 1pm. The grocery side was open but the had a rope blocking the other section.  All I could do was stand around and wait. Only I was too excited for the new console release and couldn’t stand it any more.

    At about 1:15 I ducked under the rope and a woman noticed. She yelled out at me “Hey! Hey you! Where you going? Come back!” I scurried off as fast as I could, like a man who stole a marble rye from an elderly lady. I ducked and weaved through women’s apparel, determined to lose anyone tailing me.

     When I made it to electronics, there was already an older man, maybe mid forties there as well. At 1:30, he got a black GameCube with Rogue Squadron. I got my purple GameCube with Luigi’s Mansion.

    I was in heaven. That little machine and game saved me. Even though it was a short game, it provided many hours of fun. I got home from work and for the first time, didn’t mind living by myself.

I looked up the Sunday Blue laws for Colorado. We did have that here for a while, but it was only restricted alcohol and car dealership sales.