“it’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine…..”

Well.. the apocolypse has come and gone and we’re still hanging out..   and having quite a nice day, besides..      I guess today isn’t the day predicted in Revelations..

Speaking of Revalations, I had one today.. it’s about help… asking for help actually.. Like many folks I sometimes look at asking for help as a sign of weakness .. On the other hand, folks ask me for help all the time.. and I generally say yes without thinking… or at least without thinking enough.. that’s what always gets me in such binds with time.. Not only hat , i love helping people.. in fact.. it’s one of the things I enjoy doing most.. so why the asymmetry.. if I like helping.. why not ask for help more often.. THis whole train of thought came into my head today because  I realized that over the past 2 weeks I’ve asked folks to help me out on a number of projects.. some I didn’t have time for.. some I didn’t know how to do..   Jerome’s helping me on my Echo project, Seth on an art electronics project, Tom filled in for me on a talk I didn’t think I could handle. Mike and Jim are helping me immensely at work. these days and today Scott offered to help me debug my wounded tesla coil ..

I was thinking about all of htese. and kinda beating myself up for being such  poor time manager.. and getting so far over myh head that I needed to ask folks to bail m out… but then…

I as reviewing a talk I’m about to give.. it’s one of my standard ones.. called ‘ Lessons from the Colony’.. ita about the TV show adventure and the 10 lessons I really took away from that expereinse.. Lesson number 1 was ‘ask for help’

If it’s good advise to give.. I guess it’s good advise to take..

night all, night sam

-me