Archive for July, 2002

I decided to do the personality test that just_margie had up on her site. It’s me in a lot of ways. I’m an analyzer in everything. It’s how I live. I think I’m more sensitive to other people than this portrays, though.

General Description
As an Analyzer, you tend to seek perfect outcomes in all of your plans and projects. In many situations, you “take things apart” in your mind and think about ways to do them better. You excel at this kind of mental examination, but you may tend to see family and friends as “projects,” rather than as people.

Typical Areas of Strength
Analyzers, like you, tend to be analytical, logical, direct, confident, and they like new challenges. They excel at seeing the larger vision, creating efficient methods and procedures, and listening carefully for the facts.

Typical Areas of Struggle
Due to your tendency to focus on tasks, you sometimes show a lack of sensitivity to the feelings of family members and friends. When you are sharply focused on a task, you may come across as being overly critical, judgmental, blunt, or impatient with others.

Your Preferred Activities
To maximize your talents, you look for situations in which you can offer logical solutions to complex challenges, and you evaluate and make the necessary changes to assure the desired outcome.

Your Communication Style
You tend to provide insights and direction by teaching, managing, clarifying, and advising.

It rained here yesterday. A short 5 minute rain that pounded itself into the earth as if the skies knew how much we, and the earth, needed it. Today, the thunder is clapping loudly and the scent of rain is in the air. If you can imagine this (and it’s true), people are walking around, noses up in the air, sniffing. We are rejuvenated by the scent. It means that relief to this dryness is finally coming.

Last night I couldn’t sleep. At 20% humidity, it felt muggy. I know…you’re laughing, aren’t you? *smile* But 20% is about 15% higher than our highest humidity in 4 months.

The fires to the southeast of us continue to burn but are at 75% containment. Now, if we can avoid the dry lightening storms and move right into monsoons, we may be saved.

Funny how the earth can save us. It does, though. And it’s the sweetest thing.

So, I’ve decided not to write too much today because I’ve got too much to do here at work. I’m at work at 6 a.m. and by the time I get home, it is well after 7 p.m. I’m too exhausted to write then.

So, today I’m zooming around the sites and saying hi to y’all and hoping you are having a great week.

One more day and I get a 5 day weekend…(although, I’m working the horseraces to earn some extra money for 4 of those days. :-) I am a timer for the races).