2013: a calculated
performance
It’s nice to think you’re wonderful, but can
you prove it? Dreamers soar like gas balloons on their good feelings, but I, as
the Mercenary Pen, prefer more pedestrian, “can I pick it up with tweezers”
measures of my performance.
I track several variables that tell me how I
am doing from day to day, year to year. I began tracking my hours in May 2005,
and can report to within five minutes a year how little, er, much, I’ve worked ever
since. I also track my annual income (a tax requirement
anyway) and the number of articles for which I’ve collected my beans each year
(as opposed to the number worked on, as there are always projects and payments
that straddle the Dec/Jan dateline).
