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Say cheese.
2 I didn't really know the A's had won that game until yesterday afternoon when I finally got the Merc News from the driveway. Can you spell "nerd alert?"
3 I spent much of Monday night partially conked out. I felt like Tyson clubbed me for messing with his tiger. After shaking that one off, I next tried to figure out how to make life easier for my lower-achieving students. Noble cause.
4 I was pretty focused. I took this on for Mom, apple pie, and Velveeta. It turned into what theatre people call a stumble through. Got stuff done, but barely, despite spending ungodly amounts of time on it.
5 Yesterday I got home earlier than usual but HAD to take my laptop in for repair. I KNEW the A's were playing. The Geek Squad guy took a long time trying to figure things out, kept me there, and wound up keeping my computer "for a couple days."
6
8 My fault A's fans.
9 That gives you some idea of how behind I had been since having no computer access on Sunday.
10 You can't fall behind in this business.
11 I swear.
12 A lot more stuff happened yesterday.
13 I won't bother anyone with it. Lotta shop talk. Nobody cares. I sailed through some rough waters and emerged unscathed.
14 Bottom line. I sailed a good ship through a storm.
15 And blah blah blah.
16 Ever wonder why we do it?
17 I remember this past Christmas driving home from Dad's house. Christmas is always real to me. It is so about family and kids and old people.
18 And wrapping paper.
19 After Christmas at Dad's, I again found myself flying up 101. At one point I looked over at some buildings. I was somewhere near Redwood City when I noticed lights on in office buildings. Most light in most buildings were out, but a few dedicated workers were still on the job.
20 I wanted to roll down the window and shout into the cold night, "Nobody KNOWS that you are working late on Christmas. Nobody even CARES that you are working late on Christmas!"
21 When I sit in my living room ripping through school business, I sometimes stop and say that stuff to myself.
22 "Dude! Nobody KNOWS you are working late on a Tuesday night. Nobody CARES that you are working late on a Tuesday night!
23 Amen I say to you.
24 What do we do to ourselves on a daily basis?
25 The worst part is that some jackass will walk into your office, or your work space, and let you know that what you're doing is wrong, or that it isn't enough.
26 Some people can take that sort of abuse and bullying.
27 Others can't. They let it eat them up. They become the workaholics glowing in those Christmas windows.
28 And NOBODY cares.
29 Allow this Old Brown Shoe to let you in on a little secret: most people are all about themselves. Sometimes you need to make a meek adjustment and let those miscreants fly into a garbage can lid. They see everything from their own perspectives and have no idea that they are bringing massive stress to you. They aren't bad, just clueless. What to do, what to do. Do this Chaplinesque move:
30 Make a meek adjustment. Sidestep it all with the pirouette of a pliant cane, wiggle your mustache, shrug your shoulders, and move down the street.
31 There are people who love you.
32 Thanks to Hart Crane for the poetic colour of item 30.
33 Like that? "Colour."
34 I adore pretentiousness.
35 It's so scrumptiously shallow.
36 And it is SO me.
37 Anybody lookin'?
38 Moving on, Part One: The feds shut down the Cliff House yesterday. That just came over the teevee.
39 When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
---Henny Youngman
40 Remember that one?
41 I can't stand it.
---Charlie Brown
42 Does that have anything to do with the shutting down of the Cliff House?
43 It came over the teevee.
44 When I heard it, I thought to myself, "I may give up watching."
45 Not funny unless you are watching the news. It comes at us so fast that I can't keep up with anything except the sound bites.
46 The one that got me to stop watching:
Your tax dollars wasted on a dummy.
47 Click.
48 I feared they were doing a story on me.
49 Put down the keyboard.
50 Move away from the laptop.
51 One more step and the emails get it.
52 Turn out the light.
53 It's a Tuesday.
54 The people who care have been asleep for an hour.
55 Moving on, Part Two: Guy's right.
56 It is now the morning after the night before, a Shelly Bermanism, if anybody on the planet has the slightest clue.
57 I refuse to explain.
58 I have important things to do today.
59 Have a GREAT day.
60 See you soon.
61 Peace.
~H~
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