28 August 2001
Last year: It's almost a shame I don't have a long trip planned this week...
Karen's tricky. Ya gotta watch her every second.
Sunday evening, I mentioned that yesterday was the Feast of Liz, and she soundly berated her computer for forgetting to remind her. After some grumbling, she realized that she'd set the reminder only for the previous year.
I reassured her that I wasn't expecting anything, but that if she wanted, she could send me e-cards.
I knew that this was like opening the door on a veritable flood of e-cards, and I was right. By far and away, this was my favorite. - the picture made me laugh out loud. (The link will only be good for a couple of weeks, I'm afraid, so go look!)
But the surprise came a little after lunch, when I was called to collect a delivery from the front of the office. Now, that morning I had called Apple's tech support to arrange for a replacement for my DVD-ROM drive that has been slowly deteriorating, and the technician had assured me that they were very fast.
But I didn't think they were that fast. No, the delivery that awaited me was a small basket of flowers and an enormous bunch of balloons.
What a nice surprise! Now, whether Karen had it planned all along and had only pretended to forget; or whether she really had forgotten but been very fast in locating a florist, I don't know. In any case, it was fun and sweet. Even if I did feel a little sheepish about explaining to assorted people in the office that no, it wasn't my birthday...
Why yes, there are two bunches of flowers in that picture. Matt came home with a bunch of flowers for me as well. Ain't he just the swellest guy?
The gods and I had words last night.
"Wake Up!"
"Um... I wasn't asleep."
"We Shall Have Words With Thee!"
"What are you angry about? I'm up!"
"And Wert Thou Up Last Night When The Clock Did Strike This Hour?"
"Um... None of our clocks strike. Or even chime, really. And I've never heard of a clock that struck 12:10, anyway."
"ENOUGH! You Dissemble Yet Again!"
"Well, if you're going to get all upset like that... I think I went to bed around eleven last night."
"ELEVEN??? You Defy Us??!?"
"No! I was just- I mean, I was tired!"
"We Warned You - If Thou Ignorest Us Further, Thou Wouldst Be Punished." (A loud clap of thunder)
"Punished? What do you- Oh, great, the power's flickering. Now I'll have to reset the modem... Hey! Hey, bring the lights back! The modem plugs into the wall!"
(silence)
"How does this help? If you leave the power off, I'll just have to go to bed early again!"
"We Warned You. See That You Give Us Our Proper Due In The Future."
"All right, all right, I'm sorry, I've been chastised... Turn the lights back on now, okay? ...Hello? ...Hello? Come back! Come back and turn the lights on!!! I said I was sorry!"
To no avail. The power was off and the gods were grumbling amongst themselves as they stomped back home. I reluctantly shut down and went to bed. It came back on around three in the morning. But I've learned my lesson: No more sleep for me, nosirree!
Word of the Day:
devolve - to pass (as rights or responsibility) by transmission or succession; to come by or as if by flowing down; to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution
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