Women do this on purpose?

[puppetmaker]

Yesterday towards the latter half of the day the swelling started to get worse. Which I knew it was going to because that is what happens when you traumatize your upper lip. This morning I awoke to those pouty lips that women have created by having fat pumped into their lips. I know that in a day or so it will return to normal. I can say that it is better than last time because I don't feel like my upper lip is being pulled away from my teeth.

I think firing Willie was going to happen. I think how the Mets did it was rather on the tacky side. Willie knew something was up when he could no longer order room service to his room without paying for at 1 AM in the morning. You could have waited for the Mets to come home before letting him go. There were only two games in California which also would have given the current manager a chance to take a day and look at the situation before having to jump in and managing it. Instead they "let him go" while he was across country away from his family and friends outside the Mets organization.

I know I am doing a puppetry panel at DragonCon for the art show. This year I am going to show the nuts and bolts of building puppets. I'll probably have some patterns for people as well for the cloth puppets. I have some ideas on what I am going to talk about and this one will be very much show and tell with some hands on.

As to the rest of the con, I don't know yet. I guess I should get in touch with my usual contacts and see.

Shout out to Keith, since I am thinking about it, are we going to do a Quality of Leadership panel at D'Con for the Brit track? Are we doing one at Shoreleave?

Today I am going to continue to rest and recuperate. After I get done with my coffee, I am going to do another salt water wash of the mouth.

I am grateful for lovely days that bring fresh breezes through the house.

Comments

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

I hope the swelling goes down soon!

I'm not a sports fan so I really don't know the whole story but I thought that how the Mets did what they did was messed up.

Have a relaxing breeze-filled day! :D

[kradical.livejournal.com]

We'll definitely be doing a QoL panel at Shore Leave, and I'd like to do one at D*C as well, yeah.

[deltagrl.livejournal.com]

Enjoy the botox-free lips, but feel better! :)

[prairie-dweller.livejournal.com]

I agree that the GM for the Mets should develop some people skills. What he did was open himself up to all the craziness of call-in sports shows.

However, I wish ESPN and their ilk would just let this go. Do they feel they are helping Willie in some way by constantly dragging this issue into the air? Do they believe they are helping baseball? Or the Mets? Let's face it: they are being tabloid news outlets.

Willie was fired for two key reasons: #1- his team fell apart last year, #2 - what should be one of the strongest teams in the NL this year is underperforming. In the modern MLB world those two things can't continue very long without a shakeup. Sadly for managers, it is easier to replace one manager than fire an entire team of multi-million dollars non-performers.

Willie will only be out of work as long as he wishes. Plenty of teams have a place where Willie can be back into coaching soon.