We expect too much from everywhere and everybody.

I have a few more, OK a lot more, limitations than many folks and I was talking yesterday about "Acceptance" of the fact that you and no one else is 100% all the time. That is a pretty simple concept for us and those we deal closely with. We know there are days we simply drag through and don't get everything we had planned, done. We worry about whether we need more or different vitamins and we are generally very critical of ourselves.We are usually a little less harsh with our friends, but often not by much.

Now, if I go and purchase a new laptop and it doesn't work properly, I don't want to sue the manufacturer. I want them to make getting me a new, properly working laptop as simple as it could possibly be without me going to any trouble. I realize they will not make 100% of their laptops properly all the time. This is true of everything we buy and every service we have performed; perfection is not a goal typically achieved in any walk of life although it is a worthy goal.

I can think of one coach whose football team won 10 games last year and were over 50% in wins this year and was fired. Another won 2/3's of his games, was named coach of the year in his conference and was fired. School wasn't selling enough luxury boxes because they weren't approaching perfection consistently enough, I guess. I am an avowed and degreed Clemson supporter and we fired a guy in 1993 who had a 9-3 record. His career at Clemson had his teams claim a 70+% winning record. I started to say I couldn't understand these type of reactions, but I actually understand them very well. If your schools athletic department is watching revenue decline, then whether you like the coach and his record, or not, he is on the way out. Our Institutes of "higher learning" have abandoned that for institutions of higher revenues so they can add better and more impressive facilities to attract a few football and basketball divas who are all of 17 years old. The inmates are now running the asylum and we live and die by the results; what would our forefathers and those aliens from another planet think?grumpygarystuckathome.com