I WISH I'D THOUGHT OF THAT SOONER

     Isn't it frustrating, when you don't think of what you should have said, or done, until years later?

    About four years ago I was surprised to get a graduation notice from a shirttail relative I had never spoken to. Nonetheless, I got a graduation congratulations card and mailed off a hefty check. Expected to receive a thank-you. Expected in vain.

    The check cleared my bank account.

    I wish now, belatedly, that I had added a note to the congratulations specifically asking what the graduate intended to do, what kind of career was envisioned, what were the future plans. I should have been quite precise, asked the graduate to WRITE ME A NOTE, giving me answers to my questions.

    I wish I'd thought of that sooner.

    

WHOSE INEFFICIENCY?

     There will never be enough algorithms to encompass all of human behavior.

    My doctor, my PA, wants to see me again six months after my latest lab report. She is carefully monitoring the level of prescription for one of my maladies. Her comment was, "We have gone from too much to not enough".

    So, I made the appointment for six months later.

    Constantly, I now receive an email, sent to multiple recipients, saying that a cancellation makes an earlier appointment available, if I act fast. I don't WANT an earlier appointment. Nonetheless, some algorithm keeps sending out these emails automatically.

    I guess there is no need to measure an algorithm's inefficiency, but it certainly increases mine. I assume there might be a way, if I took the time, to figure out how to cease this flow of emails, at a definite increase of MY inefficiency. I keep deleting these emails, but apparently the algorithm isn't smart enough to figure out there must be a reason I keep declining these offers.