"I wonder where all the hunters are today." It's a great quote from a Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon. Daffy is the stand in for Bugs and just as Daffy states this line, the camera zooms back and three to four dozen hunters pop up and open fire on him. I relate the quote to the question that some people seem wont to ask: "What else can go wrong?" Mind you (Universe), that is just a quote. I am NOT really asking!!! It's a question to which I don't want to know the answer. I know what else can go wrong. I don't need to have it demonstrated.

So where is this leading? Good question. I think it's leading to a certain way of thinking which I am truly trying to embrace. Instead of waiting to see what happens next (which I did for quite some time, most of my life, really), envision what you would like to happen next. I'm not saying you'll get it every time. Heck, I'm not saying you'll ever get it, but the envisioning may be more important than one might think. I envisioned something a number of months ago now and BAMB!, my life has changed. Is this good? Is this bad? I guess that depends on your point of view and even then, I can't answer that question. Rather, I will say that it is and that I hope to learn from the change all that I can.

A word of caution about envisioning. Try to avoid envisioning specific other people, especially in a negative sense (i.e. I envision my hypothetical enemy being decapitated in a freak smelting accident and his private bits shoved down the stump.) Generally speaking, you are more likely to hurt yourself than your enemy and if you do managed to transmit negative energy to said individual, you are very likely to get said energy right back, probably in triplicate. Okay, enough of that.

In sports today, the battle of the tape servers and the workstations raged for a number of hours. In the end, Tape drive "1" with a possibly defective slot, workstation "0" with no complete backup. In personnel, the local supervisor continues his push for deadlines, time lines and listed accomplishments while the actual workers are torn between attempting to make said deadlines and taking their evaporating vacation. Who can tell where this will end? Taking a page from what I blathered on about earlier, hopefully it will end with the necessities being accomplished and the vacation being taken and enjoyed. Of course, even if it doesn't turn out that way, a perspective adjustment will help with the angst. (I'm going to hate myself in the morning for writing that one. :-) )