If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. - - Thomas Watson (IBM president from 1914 - 1956)

so thankfully retired- but I could relate to this too well when I was working.

Sometimes giving a project some extra thought - helps get the work done more efficiently. ole (thoughtful - sometimes, and) joyfuelled (sometimes)

Dog-gone good story! After getting off bus in nearby village, was hitchhiking home, lady concerned, called cops, the one replying said she said she'd offered to drive me, I said if I'd heard it, I'd have replied, "Thank you, ma'am- that's very kind of you". He, a city cop, asked permission to leave the city to drive me home, and did. Standard time isn't friendly to hitchhikers: two weeks and a bit ago it got dark at 6; now it gets dark at 5. ole joyful (forgot to hit "space" - again! So - had to come back). o j