Counterbalance

It's all about equilibrium this week.

To celebrate our anniversary Allison and I went to see Dave Matthews over the weekend. The show, while great — it's Dave — was slightly disappointing. Understandably, they're touring to promote The GrooGrux King, but they didn't play much else. Seriously, I think they played every single song off the new album. But no Ants Marching. No Stay (Wasting Time). I think they only played Crush to avoid an outright mutiny.

The overall sound of DMB is changing. I'm also not sure how I feel about the new sax player. The new guy's got skills (Allison wasn't aware it was possible to play two woodwinds simultaneously), but I miss LeRoi. Something was just different, the vibe of the whole evening. We got our money's worth and both enjoyed ourselves, but without a doubt the last show was a much better time.

You take the good and the bad together.

Bad: The upcoming weekend is going to be full of suck. My wisdom teeth are coming out on Saturday. Not looking forward to that one little bit, no sir. Cross off the whole weekend plus Monday. Welcome to Vicodinland, population me.

Bad: Work is also getting scary again. We had yet another round of "workforce reductions." While it was only around eight people, several of them were close friends, and all of them seemed immune going in. Hell, nobody expected this, not a month after the last cut. I can't help but wonder if they were the lucky ones — they got severance. What happens if the doors close?

It all started Monday, when the owner of the company fired the Chief Operating Officer. It's sounding like they had a fundamental disagreement about the gameplan, and the boss decided that the COO was holding us back as a company. Who knows? But the timing is curious: not three days later and there are boxes in the hallways.

Tomorrow is our quarterly communication meeting. Unlike the previous ones this is a mandatory thing, and they're apparently locking the front doors and turning off the phones so everybody's around.

Good: I got some great news last week, unrelated to the office chaos. I don't want to jinx anything, so that's all I'm going to say on the matter for now.

A lot of highs and lows lately, as my world tries to stabilize itself. Dear World: knock it off already.