About a boy

Wow. That was some last post pal!

The mini potted history of Bagwell you posted indeed gives me some insight into your good self - what made you post it? I am glad that you did. There are a couple of things that I would like to delve into more deeply (here is my couch, sit down, relax, you are feeling sleeeppppyyyy ....) - because they have clearly been instrumental in making you who you are today.

And I have a selfish reason, I want to best know how to assist my daughter through the next 6 or so years, she is living with someone, her mother, who has quite a few "mental issues" and I want her to come out of it as unscathed as is possible. From what you say about being physically 18 but emotionally 14, I have to ask "where was your father?"

Clearly though, you and I have not managed to avoid life, which is messy. The mathematician in me does not like messy.

Ok this is personal stuff - let's move on!

My course was ok, but I did feel that I needed about 2% of my mental capacity to follow along. One exercise was quite interesting as they showed us clips of the Ron Howard Apollo 13 movie and asked us to comment on the "core competencies" being displayed by the characters. It was my job to watch out for "strategic risk taking". It couldn't have been better for me as I am a massive US space program fan, so my feedback was a little more detailed than it could have been :-) I don't care if I am a geek.

There were at least two Christians on the class as they introduced themselves as such during the intro sessions. One of them is involved in helping Christians overseas. Neither of them viewed what I would call the worshipping of false idols (business, computers, the over head projector) as a problem. "If you are blessed to be good in business then so be it - use your blessings".

This kind of struck me as missing the point. Oh well.

It seems that I don't have a good self image. I would rate myself low on competencies and everyone else rate me high. This is good information for me, the instructors told me.

I'll be 42 this year, I'm happy with who I am, it took me a long time to get this way you know !

People don't seem to like globalization either. To me it seem inevitable. Let's embrace it.

The other thing I learned is that the number 1 appears very often in our everyday base 10 arithmetic. In fact, actuaries use the lack of frequency of number 1's on people's expense claims to indicate falsehood. Wow. Maybe God is a mathematician?

I had my wallet purloined today in the changing rooms of the local swimming pool, I made the mistake of leaving my pants (uk = trousers) unattended around a corner less than 1 meter away from me. Whilst I was washing the swimming pool out of my daughters hair in the showers the thieves struck.

They (two young boys I found out later from the receptionist) had handed the wallet into reception after taking the cash out. I didn't lose much, about $30 USD and thankfully none of my credit cards.

I can't imagine that ill gotten gains will do these kids any good. I didn't call the police, although maybe I should have done, if they had been apprehended a short sharp shock may have saved them from a life of crime?

My daughter enjoyed the whole scene and hopefully learned what to do when you get your wallet or purse stolen. ie. curse about the state of the world today :-)