Danged optimists

[regolith]

Fellow just came to the door selling stuff.
"So are you having a good year!" he says brightly *after* I've already told him I'm milking 50 cows less than I brought to this farm.

I know the answer he wants to hear but I'm a realist and I can't lie :cboy:

The most glaring example of this was the 2008 drought I was with some women who were talking about how awful it was and farmers had it so hard, then they turned to me and said, "But you've got plenty of feed, haven't you? Your cows are okay."
"No." My farm was no different to any-one else's, brown short grass and nearly no hay. Day to day deciding how many cows you can afford to feed and then your friends expect you to reassure them that everything's great.

People call me an optimist. But the real optimists are those guys with their heads buried in the sand pretending the bad stuff never happens.

Now here's bad. Dairy inspection tomorrow, so I need to get the animal health records out of notebooks and scraps of paper and in the proper place... entered them all into the database, connected to the internet, hit 'synchronise records' and the programme's frozen.
Which means I need to either get on the phone to the call centre and find out why it's frozen, or write it all out by hand. Why didn't I do this last week, not the day before inspection??

 

[kenny thomas]

I would have to make the call first and hand write it at the last minute.

 

[regolith]

you're right, but I'm going to bury my head in the sand, go out and do some farm work and try again later and hope the call centre is still open when it fails again.

 

[hillsdown]

That is called procrastination Rego, and sadly it seems to run rampant around here as well. Good luck and hopefully you get everything straightened out in time for inspection. :tiphat:

 

[stocky]

Regolith,
Hope everything starting working well so you could get ready for the inspection. Also hope that goes well.
Regolith was real helpful in giving me information on where to go and what to see when I was in New Zealand a couple of weeks ago. Incredibly beautiful country. I did not travel to her area in my limited amount of time, so I did not get to meet her in person, but she gave me alot of good info and I just wanted to thank her for all her help.
Thank you, Regolith, and good luck with all you do.

 

[Ouachita]

Rego,
I like your analogy of optimism vs. realizism. Lots of my close folks think I'm an optimist. Those others that don't know me so well, think I'm a pessimist. I'm a realist. Just have to be honest with myself. Only other option involves fairytales or prozac

 

[regolith]

I worked with a real optimist some years ago and it really opened my eye to the potential pitfalls of not seeing and assessing the negatives. He did well in life, don't get me wrong, just would take risks like putting the calves on a bare paddock with conserved feed because we were short of grass, and not see that they were growing backwards because their stomachs couldn't handle the diet change.
My style of realism can 'throw' people because it looks like negativity when it's really part of the process of working through what the risks are and how to deal with them. So I'll say "but you can't do that because..." but tomorrow I've come up with a solution.

 

[Ouachita]

Like little Johnny said to the teacher.... "I like the way ya think" Go Rego!!!!

 

[TexasBred]

I worked with a real optimist some years ago and it really opened my eye to the potential pitfalls of not seeing and assessing the negatives. He did well in life, don't get me wrong, just would take risks like putting the calves on a bare paddock with conserved feed because we were short of grass, and not see that they were growing backwards because their stomachs couldn't handle the diet change.
My style of realism can 'throw' people because it looks like negativity when it's really part of the process of working through what the risks are and how to deal with them. So I'll say "but you can't do that because..." but tomorrow I've come up with a solution.

He's not an optimist. He's an idiot and a close minded gambler. An optimist looks at potential negative situations and tries to find solutions to turn it into a positive experience.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Never been one of those glass is half full, alway's figured it was bone dry.

"If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop."

 

[GMN]

Fellow just came to the door selling stuff.
"So are you having a good year!" he says brightly *after* I've already told him I'm milking 50 cows less than I brought to this farm.

I know the answer he wants to hear but I'm a realist and I can't lie :cboy:

The most glaring example of this was the 2008 drought I was with some women who were talking about how awful it was and farmers had it so hard, then they turned to me and said, "But you've got plenty of feed, haven't you? Your cows are okay."
"No." My farm was no different to any-one else's, brown short grass and nearly no hay. Day to day deciding how many cows you can afford to feed and then your friends expect you to reassure them that everything's great.

I think thats called being a procrastinator- ;-) seriously I have been waiting fro my inspector for a month now, she is overdue, and it sucks keeping everthing spotless that long-its a barn ya know, its not meant to be too clean for very long :bang:

People call me an optimist. But the real optimists are those guys with their heads buried in the sand pretending the bad stuff never happens.

Now here's bad. Dairy inspection tomorrow, so I need to get the animal health records out of notebooks and scraps of paper and in the proper place... entered them all into the database, connected to the internet, hit 'synchronise records' and the programme's frozen.
Which means I need to either get on the phone to the call centre and find out why it's frozen, or write it all out by hand. Why didn't I do this last week, not the day before inspection??

 

[GMN]

oops that didn't work right, try this-
I think thats called being a procrastinator- seriously I have been waiting fro my inspector for a month now, she is overdue, and it sucks keeping everthing spotless that long-its a barn ya know, its not meant to be too clean for very long