Now, that Ruthi’s DoD contract has come to an end, she can focus her efforts on MAI business: updating the web site, marketing PM classes, making contacts at local PMI chapters, etc. etc. etc. But she wants to remember that she is semi-retired and there’s no need to go overboard. Having moved from a “Type A” personality to an idle-lay-about “Type B”, there is little chance of over-working. But Ruthi needs to work out a plan of attack or nothing ever gets done.
We have been reading a series of books that started with the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. These books have been turned into a TV series on HBO. They are fun and informative about Botswana - the country/culture. Ruthi has decided on going back to work on Tuesdays that we are not traveling because . . .
“A Tuesday morning, thought Mma Ramotswe, is a good day on which to start work on a case. This is largely because of the positioning of Tuesday. Monday was a difficult day for no other reason than that it was Monday, the start of another week, with the prospect of another weekend as distant as it ever could be. Wednesday was half way through the week, and a day on which, for some reason, there always seemed to be rather too much to do. By Thursday one was getting tired, and then on Friday, with the end in sight, one was in no mood to begin anything. That left Tuesday, which it now was . . .” from Alexander McCall Smith’s Tea Time for The Traditionally Built.
This is exactly how Ruthi feels about doing any work for MAI, tasks around the RIG or moving to a new camp ground OR for that matter anything in retirement – Tuesday is a good day!!
