[humanmarkup-comment] Good Stress, Bad Stress and Deadlines

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

Like a lot of people I ran smack into post traumatic stress syndrome 
yesterday and last night. While not as bad as the families and 
friends of the victims of last year's attack, it was layered on top 
of several other kinds of stress, some good and some bad. It resulted 
in a very disorienting asthma attack last night. Fortunately, it was 
not serious enough to require a visit to the local ER, and for that I 
am grateful, but it is a signal of sorts that I think it best to pay 
attention to. This was the first clearly stress-related asthma attack 
I've ever had since I developed this baffling malady only a few years 
ago.

The reason I am writing this is because I now doubt that I will be 
able to push the work of finishing our first draft of the Primary 
Base Schema by the end of this month. That doesn't mean I won't try. 
I just won't drive myself the way I usually do. So I am going to 
attempt to diffuse the bad kind of self-imposed stress by not keeping 
an artificial stressor in place. And to do that I am actually going 
to take today off, sort of. This is not comforting, since it means 
that I will wait until tomorrow to introduce another element for 
discussion. We now stand at having discussed to a greater or lesser 
degree 13 of the 21 elements in the straw man schema. That's more 
than half, though only one more than half when we add the four new 
elements and only half if we add the one new global attribute group 
element. I would still hope to hear from Len on the discussions we 
had over last weekend on intent/intention and humlCommIdentifierAtts.

I thought I would post this assessment of our progress to let you 
make your own assessments. I will put the issue of when we want to 
wrap this effort on the agenda for next Wednesday's monthly TC 
meeting.

Ciao,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
Starbourne Communications Design
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