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A Green Goodbye
12/06/2012 09:00 pmThe Izzie has been a busy serpent. The big event aside from the wonderful graveyard tour two weeks ago was the last minute attempt to gate crash a certain sold out political event
In the bad old days before the green lightses used to think “There’s no point in asking because the answer will be no” And it turned out to be true more often than not. Without even realizing, the expectation of rejection emits an irresistible aura that invites the very thing it seeks to avoid. Restating this belief to see the silver lining of the expected cloud was not simply a matter of spin but something else. The new position became “There’s no harm in asking because even if the answer is no we are no worse off than before."
By the time the serpent found out from a flyer about the Bob Browne farewell tour and visited the booking site it was already sold out. There was a possibility of tickets - double bookings and such if ringing on Tuesday. But first seen that particular email at 8pm and had no money on the mobile anyway. Would just have to take a chance and drop into the Greens HQ after work on Wednesday. Still no luck.
The event was scheduled from 6pm Friday evening for nibblies and drinks and His Bobness would take the stage around 7pm
Decided to drop by and take a chance anyway since the bus to the Lair goes right past the venue. And it was rainy stormy weather so it was quite likely some folks got stuck in traffic jams
So slinked into the city for the afternoon doing the usual coffee crawls and such. Around 5pm found a most interesting little cafe attached to a rather arty book shop. While not having loos, they did have the newspapers and proper dine in coffees for $3 which is unheard of these days. But best of all was the cozy book shop feel and the fact it is quite near to the bus station.
No point in wasting such a cute and cozy place on reading newspapers. It was time to shuffle the decks and got on with preparing the ingredients for August’s alphabet soup.
It was getting very tempting to lurk a long long time. But got to thinking that this cafe would be still here next week and the Bob Browne evening would not. But going to BB did have one major drawback. Assuming there was some spots left, it would cost a princely 35 silver sickles leaving Izzie with 30 to last till Wednesday afternoon as the goblins are so kindly using the Monday public holiday over east as an excuse to pay us a day late
But in the end solved the dilemma with some sage advice from an old friend. When you cannot choose between two or more options think about how you will feel about your decision a week from now, a month from now, a year from now and ten years from now. For most things this does not matter but on the rare occasion when it does, this has proved to be a most potent and reliable test. (It is amazing what stupid and risky things people will do to save five minutes which will be long forgotten if anything goes wrong - ie the minute you save may be your last)
So would resist the temptation to linger in the cafe or return to the lair for an early evening snooze and would at least make an attempt to go to the event instead of spending the next few weeks wondering what wonderful evening the Izzie missed.
( Green and Browne )
In the bad old days before the green lightses used to think “There’s no point in asking because the answer will be no” And it turned out to be true more often than not. Without even realizing, the expectation of rejection emits an irresistible aura that invites the very thing it seeks to avoid. Restating this belief to see the silver lining of the expected cloud was not simply a matter of spin but something else. The new position became “There’s no harm in asking because even if the answer is no we are no worse off than before."
By the time the serpent found out from a flyer about the Bob Browne farewell tour and visited the booking site it was already sold out. There was a possibility of tickets - double bookings and such if ringing on Tuesday. But first seen that particular email at 8pm and had no money on the mobile anyway. Would just have to take a chance and drop into the Greens HQ after work on Wednesday. Still no luck.
The event was scheduled from 6pm Friday evening for nibblies and drinks and His Bobness would take the stage around 7pm
Decided to drop by and take a chance anyway since the bus to the Lair goes right past the venue. And it was rainy stormy weather so it was quite likely some folks got stuck in traffic jams
So slinked into the city for the afternoon doing the usual coffee crawls and such. Around 5pm found a most interesting little cafe attached to a rather arty book shop. While not having loos, they did have the newspapers and proper dine in coffees for $3 which is unheard of these days. But best of all was the cozy book shop feel and the fact it is quite near to the bus station.
No point in wasting such a cute and cozy place on reading newspapers. It was time to shuffle the decks and got on with preparing the ingredients for August’s alphabet soup.
It was getting very tempting to lurk a long long time. But got to thinking that this cafe would be still here next week and the Bob Browne evening would not. But going to BB did have one major drawback. Assuming there was some spots left, it would cost a princely 35 silver sickles leaving Izzie with 30 to last till Wednesday afternoon as the goblins are so kindly using the Monday public holiday over east as an excuse to pay us a day late
But in the end solved the dilemma with some sage advice from an old friend. When you cannot choose between two or more options think about how you will feel about your decision a week from now, a month from now, a year from now and ten years from now. For most things this does not matter but on the rare occasion when it does, this has proved to be a most potent and reliable test. (It is amazing what stupid and risky things people will do to save five minutes which will be long forgotten if anything goes wrong - ie the minute you save may be your last)
So would resist the temptation to linger in the cafe or return to the lair for an early evening snooze and would at least make an attempt to go to the event instead of spending the next few weeks wondering what wonderful evening the Izzie missed.
( Green and Browne )
