This week I played the wrong lottery game. Instead of Powerball, I did Megaball. It totally messed up the “scientific” method thing that I have pretended I have going. The rules are same game using the same numbers, ticket bought at the same Personal Lottery Central on the same day of the week.
Playing the wrong game blows the whole thing up. Added to the wrong game, for the second time, my PLC was closed last Saturday. I had to hunt up another place to lose my three dollars. And I must admit more than once I have been out of town on Saturday and had to buy the ticket earlier in the week.
So the “control subject” thing had gone the way of the dodo bird along time ago.
But this lotterying is still fun. This week the clerk was training yet another new clerk. That place is always training new clerks. If I ever want another job, I bet I can get one quick as can be at my PLC. If I did get a job there I would have to learn quicker than quicker how to show up every day for work.
Except for a very short stint a very long time ago, I have not had an 8-hour-a-day job. I admire those people who each day, every day, show up and put in 8 or 10 hours doing a job they may or may not like. I admire the constancy of their efforts.
It is obvious, because this blog is so un-constant, that constancy is not one of my strong suits. But I really, really admire constancy. Constancy is what gets things done. Constancy is being 99there when needed. If the whole work force was as un-constant as I am, this country would be in a bigger mess than any of us can imagine.
There would be no food grown and harvested. There would be no light in the night. There would be no cooling in the heat or warmth in the cold. There would be no help for the sick. There would be nothing.
I don’t pretend I am sharing some great secret. Pick up any self-help book and consistency is addressed by some name or the other. So 99what it has been said before, it is true for all that: constancy keeps everything going. Constant people make it happen.
Constant people are my heroes.