which wasn’t what I intended to call this post – I’m not sure if the expression watching paint dry translates to other countries.

An explanation in case it does not.

Comparing a task to watching paint dry is a way of getting over how tedious or boring it is.

So, you guessed it. I’m waiting to play taxis fur Die Tochter again…

If I had a £ for every minute I’ve spent waiting I’d be very rich indeed (although I may wish to change to Euros if Sterling continues to plummet like recently).

So

what was I going to write about?

I remember! Bank holiday weekends and the interaction with a four day week.

I don’t know about you but Bank Holidays confuse the week afterwards for me.

Starting with a Tuesday that has all the hallmarks of a Monday and it’s basically all downhill from there…

Well, if you don’t do Fridays as well (annoyingly smug grin):

• it makes for a very short week, but
• you find you haven’t a clue what day you’re going though.

Just like lots of the retired persons you know.

Yesterday was the case in point – it was actually Wednesday but felt so much like Tuesday and Thursday it made my head hurt.

Not helped by a real back/neck/head ache because of leaving the window open because it was so warm at bed time and the weather going downhill through the night.

Stifling to raining in the blink of an eye.

S’life.

Made the mistake earlier of telling her I was “ready when she is”.

I know. It’s my own fault.

I’ve just gone to remind her that I’m ready when you are is NOT a reason for doing burger all.

Her coffee is still hot I understand.

And there’s me thinking her father doing something money earning might just get a look in.

Dunno about my head hurting yesterday…

Okay, daughter dropped off at railway station – check.

Remembered to Bluetooth new phone and car – check.

Attempt to stop self from yawning? Okay, we’ll stick with stuff I can do.

Sit and stare at computer screen wondering what I was writing about next. Ditto.

Oh yes, a bit of philosophical stuff that came out of a chat at networking earlier in the week.

It’s going to annoy me that I didn’t write it down at the time because it HAS to go into the coaching book.

All about the cost of things you do for free

It was one of those light bulb blindingly obvious in retrospect moments.

I was talking to Andy about the video he’s producing for the website.

That arose out of a freebie session he’d done for me as a taster.

Much like I normally give the first session free.

And it crossed my mind that those free sessions are not free – they create an obligation and those obligations come with consequences.

If he does a “free” session for someone, it doesn’t matter if he’s all of a sudden overwhelmed by paying work.

He still has to produce – and to the best of his ability – the taster video and he’s got to do it within a reasonable timescale.

Ditto me, ditto you.

If you purport to do something for free and then don’t deliver your reputation is toast.

This even (especially?) applies to pro bono work.

Just because you do it for free doesn’t mean you get the get out of jail card if you’re crap at it (technical term there).

I’m not for one moment saying don’t volunteer/discount your first assignment/etc., I’m just saying make sure you go into it with your eyes open.

Or it could come back and bite.

Well that’s unusual for this blog. A serious (and hopefully useful) insight.

Don’t worry. I’ll try not to let it happen again. Grinning face emoji.

Paint before you watch it dry fietzfotos / Pixabay