View From the Bushes

On the balance, I like my 9-5 job. It's reasonably low stress with a pretty good salary and the people (with a few exceptions) are cool. However, once a quarter (more often this last year), I have this huge deadline which turns my otherwise inoffensive job into a merry-go-round of stress, overtime and pain. Once a year, for reasons too convoluted and arcane to get into (essentially it's a book, once a year it's published and quarterly it's updated) this deadline is even worse than usual. Monday is that deadline. I'm reminded of the words of Dogbert:

Try not to think of yourself as an organic pain collector hurtling towards oblivion

Sometimes it's hard not to.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross