Wednesday was the last day of the month. We help out a coworker who often complains, especially on the last day of the month. Not sure if she puts off work until the deadline. She often comes to me for help on things that aren’t my job. She still complains. Most of the higher ups know she cries wolf. Yesterday when she complained three of had negative responses. We talked bad about her. My boss expected me to solve her problems. I had a bad attitude. I went to talk to another boss who was copied on the email, office manage Steve. Steve is a great hard worker, one of the best employees we have. He doesn’t like slackers. Steve is not a Christian, but he had the most Christlike response to the lady complaining. Instead of badmouthing her, he expressed sympathy, saying he wished he could help. Really really made me think about my behavior.
This is the third straight example of Christ like behavior I’ve seen recently. Perhaps God is trying to teach me something. You think?
Angie has been watching Seinfeld. I told her about the last episode, where Jerry Elaine George and Kramer are jailed for failing to help someone in need. Then all the other characters from throughout the show’s run come back and testify about the quartet’s selfish behavior over the years. That’s me and Angie (compared to Rachel and Steve).
Work can be challenging. The three bosses above me (and several others like Steve) are good examples of hardworking employees. But even though my coworkers aren’t really my friends, they can be fun to be around. Rachel and Angie keep me young. The banter in sales is fun to listen to. Sometimes I join in, though my office is a bit removed from where they are. The work keeps my mind solving problems. I kinda want to experience the challenge of learning the new computer system.
I am making a point of golfing one weekday morning each week, arriving at the office 30 minutes late. I tell Angie I’ve been to see my psychiatrist. Wednesday was a tough day at work, so all the more reason to golf Thursday morning. Plus two team members would be working from home on Friday, leaving me alone with the boss. Ceil’s not ready for me to retire. I really don’t mind working right now.
This week I did do something I don’t think anyone ever did before, at least at my company (hopefully no one noticed). From time to time we have orders bill out at 100% profit – zero cost. Hopefully there are reasons for this and not a mistake. But I did something incorrectly, so to fix it I billed an order with a $10 price, but a negative $10 cost. That made for 200% profit! To the tune of $60,000.00. Had to be a record.
A recent JFBC sermon was “Do Hard Things”. So many kids today in the USA are coddled and do so few challenging things. Not just kids but teens and college kids and 20-somethings.
Thursday AM golf. Teed off at 6:20. Beautiful sunrise. Played well. Hit two balls on most shots.
1. First drive okay but left, second a bomb down the middle. Good distance for me. Approach into trap. Chipped onto green. Two putt “bogey”.
2. Hit a good hybrid off tee. Didn’t find it, but found another ball. Good chip. Two putt “bogey”.
3. Sliced a 7 iron left, then my second shot was great – a foot from hitting the pin. Two putt par.
4. Hit two good 7 irons, both past the temporary green. I’m trying to swing nice and easy and smooth. Making good contact, and the ball is traveling further. Two good chips. Two putt for “bogey”.
5. Hit a worm burner, then made good contact on my mulligan. I just didn’t know where the mulligan went. Chipped my first ball right of the green. Two good chips. Two putt for a “double”.
6. Ok tee shot stayed right, into the high rough where I couldn’t find it (lost my mulligan as well). Hit two poor 5 irons, then a 7 iron far left. With sprinklers dousing the green, I moved on the the next hole.
7. Two decent drives. Both faded right but made it most of the way up the hill. Two 5 irons didn’t travel as far as I’d liked. Hit two approach shots – both bounced left off the green into the woods. As I walked toward the green I looked up to my right, but no one was on the first tee or at the clubhouse. Two nice chips onto the green. Then I sank a nice long putt through the morning dew – a putt with over 2 feet of break. Shot of the day. As I was picking up the ball from the hole I heard Mike the course marshal call from the clubhouse porch: “Nice putt David!” He had come out at just the right moment.
8. Bombed my drive. Hard to find the ball because I wasn’t looking far enough down the fairway. Longest drive I’d had on this hole by 10-20 yards. Only needed to chip to the green – both chips to the fringe. Two putt for “Par”.
9. Hit two good 3 woods off the tee. First got an okay roll. Seconds drew slightly further. My best tee shot ever on this hole. Sprinklers were on this green as well, but I made two not so great chips, then two putted. “Bogey”. Finished at 7:32 am.
Got my wool AllBirds sneakers from the trunk and placed them on top of the car while I put my bag In the car. Pulled off my soggy shoes and socks. Took Ponce to 285 to 85 to Jimmy Carter to Buford Highway to South Berkeley to PIB. Saw the Amtrack train – nine cars including locomotives. Looked around for my shoes and realized I hadn’t gotten them off the top of the car. Bummer. Good thing I had EIGHT other pairs of shoes in that car.
DENISON: counter opposition to biblical truth by proclaiming biblical truth as lovingly, graciously, and attractively as possible. Paul set the standard: “Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved” (1 Corinthians 10:32–33).
Used to be my favorite cereal. Had a really cool jingle, to the tune of the Pink Panther theme.
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