There are two kinds of Bessts about today: one big, one little.

The Big Besst is that I am fortunate enough to have a job that I really enjoy doing. I travel a bit, I build databases, I analyze, I teach…all things I love to do, and I’m fortunate enough to be able to take care of my family with what I earn. And when I need to work at home to take care of business, I just can.

I never, ever, ever want to lose sight of that.

The Little Besst is that I heard from a reader today with a nice note about the column that ran yesterday in the Ahwatukee Foothills News. That happens just enough that I don’t get sad about never getting feedback, and just rarely enough that it’s always a great thing.

Oh, and there was a Worsst about today: The How I Met Your Mother finale. WHAT THE HELL? And it was planned to be that way? I watch one, count ’em, ONE TV show (well, two, actually, if you count Big Bang Theory and how can you not?) and THIS is what they give me as the big ending of all this viewing investment on my part?

SPOILER ALERT

The worst part about their vision of how everyone would end up was not that Robin and Barney got divorced. Ya gotta figure the odds there were poor to start with, but it still made me sad. No, the absolutely unrealistic bit was that Ted didn’t marry The Mother right away. That was all he wanted out of life, to be married. There’s no way he would have let SEVEN FREAKING YEARS go by before he married her, especially when she wanted to get married, too.

My theory is that the shows creators wanted us all pissed off after the last show so we wouldn’t be sad.

Well, Challenge Accepted, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Challenge Accepted.

What is the Besst project? 

And why is it called Besst?

© E. Stocking Evans 2014