[web-team] Helpfulness (was: modified/unlocked RCS files)

[Heather Stern]

> > Yeah, and she's a billion times easier to reach by phone, but some parties
> > don't talk to her much these days.
> 
> Heather, I didn't need to telephone you (or IRC-chat) in this instance,
> because cvs-watcher had already told me -- and told everyone else on
> web-team, over and over, what the problem was.  One of us basically just
> needed to fix the problem.  (You could have -- and I'm rather surprised
> you apparently didn't try.)

You don't get to choose what the rest of my days are shaped like, and
neither do I. I, however, do have to deal with my days as they hit me.
You folks are not the only ones who've seen me dash off in a hurry to deal
with things.   Many of those Things are none of the wide world's damn 
business.

I trusted you people to do the right things regarding this web;  some of
those things have been done, and some have not.  Was my trust in anyone
but myself worth anything here?   Only time will tell.  But I can tell you
this: turning every tiny volunteerish move around here into a hellwalk
of who's supposed to toe what line is precisely why I hide in the server
room with earplugs and tell email to stick it in a sack.

*I* have work to do, far too much of it considering everything in my life.
If it's your idea of a good time to give me shit about getting half a job
done, go ahead, but do not expect me to like you for it, nor enjoy the
whining afterwards about how hard it is to do the other half of a task du 
jour.  Do it or don't.  There is no try.  But there is "being trying".

I am going to do my *cheerful* best to do my best for SVLUG, regardless.
Doing anything less would be to let the demons of my life win, to become
something that is not myself.  If doing my cheerful best to *stay* my
cheerful best is good enough for you, great.  If nothing's ever good
enough for you, too bad - I do what I can.... for the hundred or so
people in chairs enjoying pizza and good talks, if nothing else.  For people
who've become and stay my good friends I will do a lot.

*Enjoying* is the keyword here, not work.  I come to SVLUG for friendships.
You guys decide if you're up for that - and put in your own good cheer.
That's what really makes things succeed - success is what we enjoy, not just
a job done to perfection like some precious tea ceremony*.  Ceremonies and
ritualistic sysadmin-fu aren't what matters.  People are.

Are we quite clear?

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* My apologies to anyone who feels I'm picking on their tea cermeony.  I
  like tea.  I like beauty.  Craftsmanship is ideal.  But this world is
  not...