{"id":84,"date":"2010-11-19T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-11-19T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T06:37:00","slug":"today-i-rant-for-tomorrow-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Today I Rant For Tomorrow I …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I wasted yet another two hours of my life sitting through a meeting of a committee I got volunteered to serve on. It seems that in spite of having a paid facilitator, we run in circles week after week. Mostly because there are too many players with personal skin in the game, all trying to act like they don’t. I just wish that we could somehow force everyone to stand up and declare their real interests so we could move on to solving the problem at hand without all the posturing and protectionism and hidden pushing and shoving. Oh well, probably much too sane and logical to have happen in a room full of pols and idiots<\/s>\u00c2\u00a0…<\/p>\n

Then to make matters worse, the weekly meetings have been moved to a room in a historically restored court house.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0The meeting room has 18 foot high tin plate ceilings,<\/p>\n

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hardwood floors,<\/p>\n

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and absolutely no sound\u00c2\u00a0absorption. So the meeting is like sitting in a echo chamber with a jet revving for take off at one end. No one can hear anyone else and that includes the recording system for making the official notes. And so it goes …<\/p>\n

At least there was a football game on the TV when I finally got home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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