Is it really important to check one's gig line daily, as I have been doing now since 1964?
Something I read in Idea Selling is all too pertinent to me.
You seldom listen to me,
and when you do you don't hear,
and when you do hear you hear wrong,
and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.
Marjorie Kellogg, author and screenwriter
I need to change.There's a joke from WWII
If you have unknown troops in front of you and you want to find out who they are, fire a few rounds in their direction.
If you are met with precision machine gun fire, they're German.
If you are met by a volley of precision rifle fire, they are British.
If there is a mass wave of infantry and tanks, they're Russian.
If there is a bayonet and sword charge, they're Japanese.
If everything is quiet for a minute or two, and suddenly you are in the middle of a massive artillery barrage and air strikes, they are American.