mental gymnastics

I'm trying to write something like the Idiot's Guide to the Subcommittee of Professors, based on the questions I've been answering every month since other people took it over, and in preparation for answering everybody's questions all at once next week. It's interesting, because I've had to rethink the way I wanted to present the information. X has to happen, and the way I got X to happen was by doing Y, so I explained how to do Y. However, the people who do it now don't like doing Y, so they're working out how to get X to happen by doing Z. That means I can pretty much throw "here's how to do this" out the window, and start over based on "this is what you want to have happening at this point in the process". I hadn't really thought about it that way before.

Meanwhile, I'm on the OFA Paperless Meetings Committee, which is actually going places assuming we can get 20-odd computers to open the same document on the same wireless network at the same time. We couldn't do it yesterday, but we're hoping it's because the room we were trying the experiment in wasn't such a hot wifi hot spot. (We do have a plan B, but plan A was so nifty, it'll be a crying shame if we can't use it.)

Meanwhile, when I'm not at work, I'm trying to decide whether putting one foot in front of the other is sufficient, or whether I'm stuck in a rut. If I am, it's a fairly comfortable rut, but it probably isn't the best long-term place to be. I need to think about this sometime when I haven't got so many other things that want thinking about.