This week I've gotten to watch things go a-cropper, as at least one person has said, "But I don't understand what happened!"

What happened was the envelope was addressed to me at the sender's address, not mine. He figured that out today.

So the process began again this morning. I suggested Express Mail.

"Why didn't you bring that up before?!?"

"I did. You told me don't worry, everything would be just fine in a couple of days."

"Oh..."

Then there's this publisher who now owes me in excess of $1,000. I try to bring it up in a polite, though insistent fashion. I was told that payment was taken care last week, too. You couldn't prove it by me.

The frustrating thing about all this is that I've been holding up my end, as usual. I've been patient and professional. Meanwhile, at every turn I'm faced with actual hardship and un-fun telephone calls because people who owe me are slightly less capable of making the right moves. So it's tough working my way through this first of my weekend Glass Houses. I'm a bit upset....

I'm a creative guy. I still had this Bean Cuisine 13-Bean Bouillabaisee bag of beans and spices I was saving until I could get the other needed ingredients, I had this thin spaghetti sauce left over from earlier in the week when I made the last of the spaghetti, thinking "Tomorrow, everything will be okay." I figured it was time these last two of my cupboard items become engaged. We're consummating the marriage even as I type this...

But "The Show must go!" Let me entertain you.

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The House of Pain

But it just ain't in me. If anything, tonight I am questioning my own diligence. What's the point? It doesn't seem to matter if I work hard, keep my nose clean and continue to be dependable or choose just to let things ride: the result is unaffected. I even feel that way about this endeavor sometimes. I do it because I have to, very obviously, but I've never been able to say that the rewards are commensurate with the effort and attention invested.

So it may well be best to say nothing, for now... To let the articles roll by and play themselves out. To avoid deciding on anything.

GO PLAY!

THINGS I HATE THIS WEEK

Rod was a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he wrote over two hundred articles on web design and development issues. He was also principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviewed technology issues weekly, producing 383 editorials. He became the Managing Editor for Electronic Mail/Newsletter Publications at Andover.net at the end of February, 2000, and left in September of the same year. He is now a contributing writer for ACCESS magazine, which appears both on- and offline for 10 million readers in 100 newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Boston Herald, Austin American-Statesman, Denver Post and Orlando Sentinel, among others. In January, 2001, Rod became the US reporter for Silicon.com, a division of Network Multimedia Television in London, UK, reaching 3.5 million European readers.

Rod lives in dreams and visions, edits the writing of people from six continents for The World's Magazine, and wonders if New Orleans is actually the next stop on the hejira.

He continues to be committed to integrity, chastity and a dose of humility.

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