I’ve logged in and took out of drafted and posted all my life caching items, I’m startingto go throguh my other drafts and just feeling a little bit overwhelmed.   I have things in all sorts of different stages of draft form.  An article about my paternal grandfather is about 30% done.   A draft on my first day of work with symantec is about 10%.    I have a varied things to finish via life notes.   I have pictures I still need to scan from photo albums.

Arrrrggggg.

Then you have all the things outside of the blog and this writing that causes hassles.  I have house issues I need to worry about, pet issues, relationships issues, my laptop was crashed thanks to an automatic Hardy Heron update (fixed after 3 days of figuring it out myself thank you), community band, Gnome Conduit documentation I need to finish, and work related projects.   We’ll say that’s just a start – but geeze my life seems to be a whirlwind sometimes that doesn’t stop.

And then we’re back to the blog.   I’m actually bad.  I need to look and write on the blog more often.  It relaxes me.  It actually completesme in a Jerry Macguiresque way.  Getting more seriouswriting on my blog gives me the true fulfillment in my life that only two other things give me currently.   My wife, she is my stability, my rock, the one that inspires to be better then I am.  She has a higher view point of me then I do myself.   Even though I think she is wrong, I know her beliefs in my skills is not false from her point of view, just false from my belief in reality.   I love her deeply and compeltely.   The last thing that finishes off my triage of life and completes me is playing music in the two community bands I am a member of.

These are the three things that I attempt to focus on – to get out of draft – because it calms and centers me.  I hope the three of them are never finished.

All in all I believe this a good first step in encouraging some basic changes that need to be done across the federal level. Treating the government as a private industry would do wonders to improve it’s image, security, and income. We can go into the debate on why or why not treating the government as a business is a good thing, but I would prefer not to at this time.

Currently however most of the changes being swept in via the FDCC are already implemented in most private business arenas. Bring the culture of modern policies and enforcing them instead of waivering every exception will raise the security level of hte federal government across the board.

When most people read the changes though they flip out. They assume that they couldn’t possibly operate under those conditions. Things they have been able to (wrongly) do all these years is going away. They also may *gasp* have to learn new methods for doing things that has changed for the first time in 20 years.

If people would just sit down and read, analyze, and test the changes instead of knee jerking at them this would go alot smoother. Everyone immediately assumes “my stuff will break with this” they haven’t tested it. They don’t fully understand the setting. They assume they should be special. People need to realize that they don’t own their work computers if they work for someone else. The computers belong to the company or government that hired you. They make the mandates on you and you truly are not special.

This leads into the cry wolf scenario where “Bob” says this will completely break everything he does. “Linda” hears “Bob” and thinks of herself equal to or more important task wise then what “Bob” is, so she starts screaming. “Fred” hears “Linda” and the same thing happens, etc. etc. etc.

People – to your place of employment you are just a tool. You essentially are no better then a computer. Effectively to your place of business a lot of time you are worth less then a computer since your role would be easier to replace then the computers. Remember you are no better then “Bob”, “Linda”, or “Fred”. Change is coming to all of them and that is a good thing.