Don’t you hate it when you face-plant into one of those days where though you are pursuing what you are pursuing all day long but it ends up meaning nothing? …You work on something all day but that all day of work produced no results.
 
I was telling a friend of mine about my day, mentioning this viewpoint, and he said, “That sounds like my entire life.” How can you respond to that? All you can do is reaffirm to them that it is not true. But, if that is how they feel, that is how they feel. Then what?
 
I had one of those today. Trying to get the audio just right with this new amp I had picked up. But, plug it and set it over and over again over again and nada. Look on the internet for suggestions but, as is generally the case, just a bunch of nonsense from people who don’t really understand what they are talking about.
 
I guess that’s the thing about audio and technology and all of that kind of stuff… It’s all so subjective.
 
Once upon a time, all you had to do was plug your turntable into your receiver, connect a couple of speakers, put on a record, and the music flowed. Plug a cord into your guitar and then into your amp, flip it on, and you could rock. Now… Forget about it… It takes a lot of time and sometimes all it does, like it did to me today, is to just kill a day with no real results. So me, I just move the new amp out and the old amp back in.
 
What do times like this equal? I mean, what do you do when you encounter situations like this? I know we all have them every now and then.
 
I guess we, (you and I), can get all philosophic about it. Pretend that it all means something. “It was a learning experience.” “It made me realize new things about the mechanics of life.” But, that’s kind of all a lot of BS don’t you think? Really, all you can feel, (all I can feel), is frustration, as I really hate to waste time. As time is so short.
 
It's kind of like what’s going on with my lady in her nine-to-five. There was a major cyber-attack where they shut down the entire system, demanding millions to turn it back on. But, the powers that be said, “No.” So, she goes in each day, sits in her office, doing the better part of nothing, waiting for her IT department to somehow redirect the servers and get the system back up online. Her entire crew does the same. This, while they have meetings upon meetings, talking about nothing. When there is nothing you can do, there is nothing you can do. I guess that’s why people talk so much.
 
I question why does she even go in. She explains that it is important that she is there, in case there is a change. At least she is getting paid for it.
 
So, here we sit in this life. We do what we do to the best of our ability. We do it as best as we can. When we see an opportunity to make things better, we go after it. But, what happens when that, “After it,” all it equals is a day full of nothing? Then what? How can we replace that time lost? Where can I get my refund on time?