victory at the communal endeavour (now we are going to have to see how we will make it work)

in a few minutes horsemouth goes back to the dentist (he'll blog some more when he gets back). 

last night a victory at the communal endeavour. horsemouth went for a pint or two to celebrate. (now we are going to have to see how we will make it work)

horsemouth listened to a podcast on management consultants;  

'our job really was to act as a kind of an alibi for businesses re-organising in such a way that they  let people go, to extract as much as they could out of their workers... subtracting the human out of the business processes because humans are messy, intransigent and troublesome.'

the point was raised that people didn't really understand the communal endeavour as a business and couldn't we get some financial advice (or hire some management consultants). once upon a time the endeavour did do this and a hired gun presented an investment appraisal based on the net present value method (horsemouth would paraphrase this as if I had the money in my hands now how much would it be worth to me to do this project. at the end of his presentation various members of the management committee and the membership claimed not to have understood a word, but on the whole the members were pleased to listen to it and the voted for the measure.

so it must have had some effect. 

the only way forward is to raise our own skill level.  

horsemouth is delighted with his dentistry. for lagniappe they have cleaned his filthiest tooth at the front of his mouth thus improving his smile (and also they replaced the bit of filling that fell out over the weekend). horsemouth's teeth feel great and really clean (they may still look like shit because he didn't go for a polish). the big ticket event is still the tooth that probably needs extracting but horsemouth's mouth seems to have calmed down. once again (in another field) horsemouth faces decisions.