So it goes
I turned down a possible panel invite to a conference I really want to go to, because of short notice and my current unbelievable busyness. So it goes.
I know how to use iMovie to get video off a miniDV tape now. The learning process involved an entire wasted hour, as I didn’t know the signs that iMovie was actually picking up data, so didn’t realize that they were absent. Irony in action, yes? So it goes.
I’ve got another talk invitation in the batting cage. I’m guessing I won’t land it, because they’ll want happytalk and I was bluntly honest with them about not having any to offer. That’s okay, though; they’ll find somebody to give the troops a pep talk, the troops will go home happy, the conference will achieve its stated aims, I get out of having to cope with air travel, everybody’s cool. So it goes.
On the rare occasions I start something in the blogosphere, the ensuing discussion is invariably better than my original post. (The power of many in action.) So it’s been with “training-wheels culture.” I particularly recommend Laura B. Cohen’s careful unpicking of the matter. I could, if I chose, try to point out where both my statements and my record (which I think speaks pretty powerfully about my commitment to helping librarians with technology) have been distorted past reason… but you know what? Not worth the added stress. People are thinking seriously about an issue I raised. That’s good, even when I get savaged in the process, and my whinging about ill-treatment will only distract from the serious thinking and the problem-solving anyway. So it goes.
I’m still way too busy, very stressed, and not good company. Will try to keep that off the ether. So it goes.