Violins and Starships

Here For Now

September 28th, 2010

I’m almost afraid to start this. My Internet connection has been down all day. It has come back several times but only for a minute or three and then it went down again as soon as I tried to do anything.

I don’t have anything fascinating to say anyway. There are some guys here trimming trees for the power company. They’ve been here for a couple of hours. We have a lot of trees. They have to ask permission to trim trees which is why we still have tree related power outages every winter even though they do trim trees. Come on people! I love trees but I’m also quite fond of electricity.

The weather has been much cooler for the past two days. We turned the air conditioner off and opened the windows. I love open window weather. It’s back up to nearly 80 degrees this afternoon though so I reluctantly turned the a/c back on a little while ago.

Here’s a laugh for the day. I found that a week or two ago and just haven’t gotten around to mentioning it. That’s very realistic if the guy sitting at the computer is the boss. I’ve never seen anyone (who knows computers) who can just stand and watch someone at a computer and not tell them what to do unless that person is someone they dare not appear smarter than.

2 Responses to “Here For Now”

  1. hippie

    Hahaha, love the cartoon. I know that feeling all too well.

  2. fillyjonk

    I know a guy who works on computers, he says that all computer dudes have to suppress the “MOVE!” urge – where they want to push the person trying to do something out of the way, saying “MOVE!” loudly.

    He did note that some of his techs who were farther from “neurotypical” didn’t always successfully suppress the “MOVE!” urge.

    (And I will admit, when helping someone less ept than I am at computers, I will say, “May I sit at the keyboard and show you?”)

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