Destressing
May. 30th, 2025 08:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertFor whatever reason the Ranch was causing me stress. Most of the cause was, I think, mine. But there are some elements there that constantly grate at me and ultimately I sent the email this morning saying I'm backing away. For personal reasons. The owner said thanks and prayers and such. So it is done.
I recently offered to assist in our community's tech support committee. They are an advisory group that is supposed to help make recommendations to the tech in the area. After a month they had one meeting. Two people of the five showed up. The guy that is on the board and who sent out invites to the committee membership asked if I'd be what turned out to be chair. He wisely didn't call it that but I agreed. And then I reached out to the paid facilities guy to connect with him. He said he was going camping and did not offer a different time, clearly just as happy to not have a volunteer in his face. So as 'chairman' I called a meeting. No one signed up but the one other guy that was at the first meeting.
The community needs to have a tech support company come in and run their tech but they don't know what they want, how deep they want the vendor to go, how much they want to pay them, what response times, nothing. They have not done any thinking about it at all.
So I just wrote the board member and said if no one else is going to join me I'm out. I'll see later today how that goes. I know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it. Stephen Stills recently was asked if he was going to retire. He said, hell no, retirement just means people want you to start doing things for free that you used to get paid to do.
Right on, Stephen.
Meahwhile I did apply to help with our local animal shelter. It is MUCH closer and even though it also has cats it is a nice, well run, place. So I might get involved with them but now will keep my finger ont he eject button.
I recently offered to assist in our community's tech support committee. They are an advisory group that is supposed to help make recommendations to the tech in the area. After a month they had one meeting. Two people of the five showed up. The guy that is on the board and who sent out invites to the committee membership asked if I'd be what turned out to be chair. He wisely didn't call it that but I agreed. And then I reached out to the paid facilities guy to connect with him. He said he was going camping and did not offer a different time, clearly just as happy to not have a volunteer in his face. So as 'chairman' I called a meeting. No one signed up but the one other guy that was at the first meeting.
The community needs to have a tech support company come in and run their tech but they don't know what they want, how deep they want the vendor to go, how much they want to pay them, what response times, nothing. They have not done any thinking about it at all.
So I just wrote the board member and said if no one else is going to join me I'm out. I'll see later today how that goes. I know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it. Stephen Stills recently was asked if he was going to retire. He said, hell no, retirement just means people want you to start doing things for free that you used to get paid to do.
Right on, Stephen.
Meahwhile I did apply to help with our local animal shelter. It is MUCH closer and even though it also has cats it is a nice, well run, place. So I might get involved with them but now will keep my finger ont he eject button.
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