Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Hump Day Almost Over
@HOME. Justin and I just got home from dinner. He decided to leave the truck lights on after he got to work this morning so when we went to lunch the battery was totally dead. Needless to say I had to leave work a little early to drop Mark off, pick up the jumper cables and go meet him at his office to jump the car. We decided to just stop and have dinner at Streets of New York restaurant on the way home. Justin will be moving down to work at my campus here in a few weeks. I'm really interested to see how things work out with us both being on the same campus. I'm sure it will be a nice change for a while. We'll probably get sick of seeing each other all the time very quickly.
Today was a really good day for me at work. I was busy most of the day but I've been in a good mood all day. I had a meeting with one of the Executive VP's today and he said something to the effect of " ... as managers we learn that we can't control everything, so rather then worry about the things we can't control, we need to worry about the things we can control and everything will fall into place ..." It's funny because I've been thinking along these lines for the past few weeks. I got so stressed out over work at the beginning of this month I realized that it did no good. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just going to do my job to the best of my ability and that's all I can do. If I have work to do at the end of the day, well it will be there the next day. No need to sweat the small details. Anyway the new attitude seems to be working out fabulously for me so far. I'm far less stressed out and in a pretty good mood most of the time. Man this really is the secret to happiness.
Speaking of happiness, I have to finish the book I'm reading. I'm probably about 1/2 way through, but I haven't had too much time lately, or at least taken any time lately to read. I'll probably sit for a little while before bed tonight and catch up. I have another book on the Matrix and Philosophy. It looked interesting so I picked it up. That will be next on my list. I want to also finish reading the rest of Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, but I had to put that one aside for a little while. I have to be in a particular mood for the suspense stuff.
Anyway I'm going to go and relax a bit before bed. Cheers.
