another damn life

2010 March

indignant

There is a row of mailboxes affixed to the side of our house. Somebody, I don't know who, takes his1 weekly ad circulars out of his respective mailbox every Tuesday and leaves them atop a ledge on our (inoperable) chimney.2 Then it gets windy, and they blow around the yard, and I go out and pick them up. Rinse, repeat.

I am on the brink of taping up a note. I am contemplating just how passive-aggressive I should be. Something like...

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Tags: Category: nonsense

probably an omen

True story. This morning, at work, I decided my desk could use some reorganization. I picked up a stack of papers from one side of the cubicle and set them on the other side, then decided I didn't want them there after all — and for one terrifying fraction of a second, I didn't know what to do. My first instinct was to key CTRL+Z.1 I actually had to think about how to move the papers manually. How tremendously sad is that?

Too much computerz.

 

1 Or for you fellow Mac peeps, CMD+Z.

Tags: Category: true story