When it came time to make the choice,
practicality won out over wishful thinking.
Darn.
As you know, Loraine and I are still
holding on to our pipe dream of going to France in just over a month.
We're pretty sure it's not gonna happen, but it's not totally,
officially cancelled yet, so we both still have to proceed as if
we're going. For me, that means working ahead, including making sure
the station has music scheduled for while I'm “gone”. Well,
yesterday I got to the log of music that would air the day we leave.
Normally, I have special parts of it to reflect the fact that I'm not
here; that way, I don't have to do a bunch of extra work changing the
“usual” clocks to the “vacation” clocks. But when I was
about to do the log I realized I had to make a choice—keep the
“usual” version, or use the “vacation” version.
I chose the former. I really didn't
want to, but I did.
My logic was this—if I used the
“vacation” version and we ended up not going, I would then have
to do a whole bunch of extra work to switch things back to the
“usual” version. By using the “usual” version, and assuming
we're not going anywhere, I don't have to change a thing. They're
all ready to go.
Like I said, it's practical and it'll
save me time. It just sucked having to make that decision.
Now, by making the decision, I have
screwed myself over if we actually end up going to France. If that
miracle DOES occur, I will now have to do a lot of extra work to
change the “usual” logs to the “vacation” logs. However, the
odds of that actually happening are, well, just as good as the odds
of 2020 turning out to be a safe and healthy year for everyone on the
planet.
But if that were to occur, I would
happily do all the extra work. I wouldn't even complain about it.
You just know, and I just know, that that ain't gonna happen.
Oh well...
8-(
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