It’s my last week working in Denver on the SAP implementation project for the oil and gas company here. The project only goes live at the end of the year, but I cannot stay. I will start working soon on a different project, at a gas and electric utility company in California.
So this last week or so I have been handing over my responsibilities to consulting colleagues from a company called Nimbl. Be nimble! is their tag line (naturally). I would say ‘nimble’ is a word that is not used in everyday language. And it reminds me of a guy called Jack*.
*From the nursery rhyme –
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
the candlestick.
[From Wikipedia] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport. Good luck was said to be signaled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame. A variation of this rhyme is featured in the classic song, ‘American Pie (1971)’, sung by Don McLean. It goes as follows:
Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
‘Cause fire is the devil’s only friend.