Everyone wants to paint the big picture

But nobody wants to have anything to do with the detail.

Maybe an overstatement, but a lot of the people around me seem to want to be seen as the ones who have the Big Strategic Thought and steer the Ship of Enterprise Software towards the horizon of double digit growth and glory.

Nothing wrong with having big thoughts. But if everyone on the boat wants to set a course for a slightly different dot on the horizon, and no one wants to do all the other things like feed the crew, stoke the boilers or pump out the bilges, where will we end up?

Answers in a floating bottle, please.

Is it regret that makes you choke up from time to time?

As I'm getting older, I find that I tend towards the odd tear; the occasional (or sometime more frequent) tendency to choke up for familiar but not entirely understood reasons.

So, listening to Neil Young singing 'Copperline' on Jools' music program this evening, I felt a twinge of that emotional stuff; starting just below my throat and working its way to try and squeeze a little something from my tear ducts.

Why? Not clear why. Possible reasons might be a sense of loss, regret or nostalgia? A stress related thing? Old age turning me a bit foolish? half a bottle of wine and a large scotch? Some underlying realisation that I'm spinning my wheels?

Who can say. Nice song, though.