LM1208 It All Started with a Big Bang

LM1208 It All Started with a Big Bang

LM, Episode 1208, 4/10/23 (Remaster #157, 4/20/20), Management Monday, It All Started with a Big Bang

Twyla and I watch only two things on television.  We watch the KC Royals during the baseball season and reruns of whatever show we chose for that off season.  One off season we watched House, another we watched Elementary.  We spent one Christmas break laying in bed like John and Yoko bing watching WKRP.  This off season we watched the Canadian show Murdoch Mysteries.  When covid delayed the baseball season, we returned to watching The Big Bang Theory and it has nothing to do with Sheldon’s difficulty hugging others or the compulsive way he knocks. 

Somehow, when we originally watched it a few years ago, we developed the habit of listening to the theme song until I jump in singing the line, “We built a wall,” Twyla follows with, “We built the pyramids.”  Even if she is in another room, if she hears me say, “We built a wall,” she’ll jump in with, “We built the pyramids.” In unison we finish singing, “Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery, it all started with a big bang,” and we yell, “Bang,” which scares our normally docile cat, Little One and she runs out of the room.  We aren’t being mean, it’s the only exercise she gets.

During the latest binge of The Big Bang Theory, I started reading the vanity cards Chuck Lorre posted at the end.  I have really enjoyed them because they are funny and sometimes address the difficulty he has writing one a week, which comforts me with the difficulty I sometimes have writing these daily.

Number 532 he talked about a magical spell that changed his life and was simply the three words, “I don’t know.” He believed this lack of knowing creates a vacuum and nature hates a vacuum, so she, eventually, fills it. I think it is great advice for anyone in management.

If we have learned one thing during the past three years it is we are not able to predict the future. Who would have thought we’d live through a worldwide pandemic, certainly not me?  I feel like I have started three or four times to get my business back to normal, but have been derailed by something new on the horizon.  I have changed in the fact that I continue to make plans as I did before the pandemic, yet I am open to new opportunities as they arise in our post-pandemic world. 

By the way, our son-in-law,Justin, worked with Jim Parsons in the movie about Ted Bundy titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile which you may see on NetFlex.  Justin is the defense attorney in the Colorado trail and has one of the best lines in the movie.  After Ted Bundy escapes, the judge asks, “Where’s your client,” Justin responds, “I have no idea, your Honor.  They don’t teach you this in law school.”  

Have a great week and always remember laughter matters.