Natural relief

Ordinarily I'd have written something about today's anniversary, but yesterday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at work, in which one of my colleagues—who is very defensive about this program being her program—described me to someone in marketing as “[Bas Bleu] is helping us with [program] business planning and some marketing.”

No, honey, I am not helping you with this and that, like a sales clerk at Macy’s; I am putting together a business strategy, which includes marketing, but also things like operational timelines, with all of which you seem utterly unacquainted. I’m contributing expertise in two completely different arenas (product management and marketing), for which the company would have to hire two people were I to walk out the door. (I am not receiving the combined salaries they’d have to pay, BTW.)

At any rate, as I wait for the world and his wife to add their inputs to what should have been a reasonably simple info piece, but which has now become an endless daisy chain, I shall contemplate Nature.

Because I need something that’s not a complete cluster.