| Pete Dashwood 2007-03-20, 7:55 am |
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<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:etm2qp$nrc$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In article <567bknF26rfrkU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> Haw haw... done fooled another'n!
>
>
> Mr Dashwood, as the Italians used to say, 'Mit Geld und guten Woerte tut
> Mann alles'. Even though an overseas assignment would be a bit
> heart-wrenching it could still be managed; any client sufficiently
> familiar with such things could see how it would be done:
>
> 1) I get paid a Decent Hourly Rate.
> 2) All expenses associated with living are expensed to the client.
> 3) Terms of contract include a round-trip business-class flight to (point)
> every (n) w s for (y) ws of unpaid 'refreshing time'.
>
> With such terms in place things would be surprisingly simple.
>
>
> Mr Dashwood, you keep calling my Remembrances of Experiences Past
> 'negativity'... to say 'It is my experience that the sun rises at about
> (time) in this area at this part of the year' is no more 'positive' than
> to say the same thing (with different (time)) for sunsets is 'negative';
> to expect one without the other - sunrises without sunsets - is to be
> guaranteed disappointment.
>
>
> What might be seen as 'constructive', Mr Dashwood, could be a result of
> the skills and experiences of the craftsman doing the job. Using the
> above example of sunrises and sunsets:
>
> 'We've got to get (complex job) accomplished during today's daylight
> hours!'
>
> 'All right... it is now (time1); around these parts and at this time of
> year the sun usually sets at (time2), that gives us...
>
> 'Why are you talking about sunset? Stop being so negative, put your back
> into it and do the job!'
>
> 'Ummmmmm... isn't knowing how much time we have kind of important to the
> method that we use to break the task into subtasks and dependencies?'
>
> 'No, what is important is having a good attitude and doing the job; start
> doing the job and stop being negative!'
>
> [snip]
>
>
> Easier and easier... NZ and Europe have (as pointed out in a different
> thread recently) loosened the... leash they have on canine importing; as
> long as proof of Killer's vaccinated status can be produced - and I just
> happen to have it in a nearby desk drawer - then, as Britvolk say, 'Robert
> is your mother's brother'.
>
> DD
>
Now all we need is a project where they still use mainframe COBOL :-)
(sorry, that was negative...)
Pete.
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