“Curmudge, did you forget that May 23 will be the fourth birthday of the Kaizen Curmudgeon blog? Here, blow out the candles that I put on this cupcake.”
“Pooof…”
“Hey, you missed one.”
“At my age, three out of four isn’t bad. So by way of celebration, let’s reflect a bit on what we have done and what we are doing. Four years ago you, Jaded Julie, were just a straight man for Curmudgeon.”
“Straight person, Old Guy. A little political correctness, please.”
“Now you are a valued colleague with a growing vocabulary and a tolerance for an occasional profundity in a foreign tongue. You even read the same books that I do, and you waken me when I fall asleep in mid-sentence.”
“I must admit that we occasionally stray from our original subject, Lean in health care. At least we adhere to our plan of sharing the essential lessons of books and papers that our readers are unlikely to have time to read.”
“And sometimes we discuss things we have experienced that just cry out to be shared.”
“You are of course referring to universal concerns like the end-of-life issues in our postings on Way to go! and The Old Men’s Table. It would be unfair to our readers to depict life as always a rose garden. They need to understand that we at Affinity are thinking about serious things.”
“Speaking of serious things, Julie, do you realize that our birthday has popped up right in the middle of our series on the future of health care, which we have termed The Crystal Ball? Let’s cut out of this birthday frivolity and get back to work on health care’s future.”
“I’m right with you, Curmudge.”
Affinity’s Kaizen Curmudgeon
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