PrtSc

I am casting about searching for new ways of describing my inner world due to the inadequacy of language to convey how dramatic work is today. To back-up, I am a consumption-based music fan. That is to say, I buy new music, listen to it for two weeks incessantly, and then forget I even own it. However, when I can't find anything good to buy, I delve back into my collection and find something new.

This morning I rediscovered Hans. No not the college friend. Not the SNL skit. Not my boss. Hans Zimmer--composer of hyper-dramatic movie scores.

The point this morning where I was wishing for my internal PrtSc (Print Screen, a key on your keyboard that captures whatever is on the screen as a picture) came as a score from Gladiator came on. I found myself listening to the main battle score while editing an Excel model. Auditing formulas to crashing cymbals, changing font colors to a chorusing brass section, calculating NPV to deep resounding bass all building to fantastic crescendo of sending off the model against a background of charging rhythms and invigorating military sounds.

For a moment I slipped into the trope. I am a warrior, a computer warrior, a consulting Centurion in the modern Praetorian Guard. Rome dominated the known world through military might, America dominates by economic hegemony. Like Maximus, I fight the barbarian tribes (of cost overruns and organization inefficiency). Like I said, it has been a very dramatic morning….