I realize I've been droning on and on a bit about solving problems rather than the problems themselves. You don't know how unbelievable it is for me to talk about The Solution so I'm really making sure that I run with this riff. It's almost unprecedented for me to think past the problem. Most unnatural.
I return to my stint in Chicago where the meetings were all based on a Step. A service position such as chairperson lasted for 12 weeks - you were expected to start at Step 1 and move through to Step 12, including all of the Steps in between and doing them in order. You were not permitted to skip any Steps or take them out whenever you felt like it. It's important to do them as suggested.
It reminds me of a Monty Python bit based on proper use of the Holy Hand Grenade, which is tossed on a count of 3 after the Holy Pin is pulled.
"First, shall thou count to the number 3
4 shall thou not count to,
Nor shall thou count to the number 2, unless thou then proceedeth to the number 3.
5 is right out!
Once the number 3, being the third number has been reached . . ."
Anyway, I need that kind of instruction when it comes to something as easy as starting at Step 1 and moving through the Steps one by one until I get to Step 12. You'd think that wouldn't be so but there it is.
The point is that I had to take whatever one of my legion of problems that was currently eating my lunch and figure out where in the week's Step that the solution was.
It's dark and wet here in The New City this winter. A few people have recommended Full Spectrum Lighting which is supposed to help with the mood swings that some of us (me being the only one I'm interested in) suffer during the winter. So I shell out $50 and plug in this light. They all have names like "Happy Light" and "So You're Fucking Depressed Because It's Winter? Light." It appears to be a hugely overpriced, ordinary lamp. It appears to be worth about $7. There were a lot of $7 lights there with names like "Desk Lamp" that looked to be able to do roughly the same thing.
Really? This is the answer?
I'm using it. What do I know anyway?
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