Shedding Season!

(Phone rings.)

“Yeeeeess?”

“Heeeey. Can you order me a little can of, like, WD-40?”

“Uh. WD…”

“My chair is squeaking.”

(Demonstrative squeaking through the phone.)

“See? It squeaks.”

“Um. I’ll see what I can do. I might have some stuff at home, if you –”

“No, no.” Laughs. “I’m totally just kidding. I just thought you looked pretty stressed out today, so I would call you to tell you my chair is squeaking. Thought it would be funny, and cheer you up.”

“Hehe. Okay then.”

“I’m a dork. I guess it didn’t work.”

“No, I’m grinning.” (I was grinning.)

“Okay. Just calling to bug you. I know you’re busy and everything though.”

“Yeah, damnit, I’m working. Fifty bucks!”

And he emailed this:

I thought it was cute. ;) In a non-girly way. Just nice.

So, we got a box of Jelly Bellies sent from one of our merchant companies as a holiday howdy – and it’s amazing the reaction in the office. I’d say 95% of the office stopped by and exclaimed, “Oh my GOD, these are my favorite!” and then proceeded to do a taste test. I have always wondered what it is like to be the person whose job it is to create the tastes for the jelly beans. It’s uncanny. The popcorn ones – TASTE LIKE POPCORN. (“The snozberries taste like snozberries!”) But I agreed with one of my co-workers that buying a bucket of popcorn-flavored Jelly Bellies would not quite give the same feeling that buying a bucket of real popcorn does. So it always is. We insist on the real thing. It’s an odd world.

So, one of my jackanape brothers mentioned casually to me that the new layout of my site does not work on Firefox. I am caring about this. I knew I would. HE knew I would (hence, jackanape). I don’t use Firefox, and therefore it’s like saying some gypsy somewhere can’t access my website through the power of tambourine and hip-undulating, but still – there it is. Why must Internet Explorer lie and tell me things are working, when they don’t? I love Internet Explorer. I’m faithful to Internet Explorer. And yet, it lies to me. * sob * If I went back to coding my own pages, things would be simpler. In fact, I should just start writing entries in pencil and scanning them; I bet the gypsies could see them then.

I fell asleep reading Blood Meridian, and was woken up by my cellphone ringing, and now I can’t sleep because I napped too late in the day. But I will make an effort. The design of this page will change in the next day or so. I can’t take it. Damn Firefox. Such a cute little logo, but so treacherous.

I love you all, turmoiled little monkeys. ;)