Monday...

[susandennis]

I have no meetings today. Whew. I have three tomorrow so I need to conserve my energy and store up what teensy bit of patience with other people that I actually do have.
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I'd like to introduce a new foil in my work life. She's not an airhead like the Twinkies were or a blatant idiot like The Challenging Client was. This is a different breed - a true Technical Prissy. She is about my age. A writer. And very loud and proud about her technical incompetence. She searches high and low for every chance to proclaim that she knows nothing about anything digital or even remotely non-analog. She's one of a couple of writers on this giant multi-month project I'm managing. I have worked with her before so I'm on to her tricks. But, I know that Miss Priss will be the new thorn in my side....
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This morning's paper had a bit about a 5 piece sculpture that was installed in a park a few blocks from here. The sculpture is made of salt! It's eroding as I type and a good rain will eliminate it. We might have rain on Wednesday. I think I'll pop over today at lunch to see it before it goes.
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Ken Jennings new book comes out tomorrow and he's on the book publicity tour. I'm enjoying following along. His blog is full of trivia stuff that really does not interest me that much but his general cleverness and wry outlook on everything keeps me coming back.

As an interesting side note, my co-worker, Tyler, is a Morman like Ken Jennings. I have some deep seeded prejudices against the Church of the Ladder Day Saints. Most of my anti-LDS sentiments come out of my feminist beliefs. Both Tyler and Ken force me have to continually remind myself that the root of what they believe gives me points off for not having a penis. Neither of them make that easy.
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I called the online drug place this morning. It seems that they are able to price their stuff so competitively because they are not wasting money on highly skilled customer representatives. Probably a good plan. I'm sure glad I started with freakin' toothpaste instead of some drug that I actually really need. Getting started ain't easy. I'm sure once it's all set up it will be fine. But geesh.
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My friend, jimcarson wrote about his beginning adventures in knitting on jimcarson.com and drew way more comments than he usually gets from his bike adventures or even his recipes. Back in the olden days before pedophiles became media darlings, my single men friends used to borrow kids for showcasing in grocery stores and on playgrounds in the hopes of picking up chicks. (This was generally after the walking the dog method had failed.) These days, the way to chicks unlimited is clear... learn to knit. Or at least give it a go and publicly.
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Ok, enough rambling. I need to take the garbage down to the dumpster and drop off the latest teddy bears at my neighbors and by then, I'll have some work work waiting for me plus, probably, two stupid emails from Miss Priss. (And yes, the irony of her decrying things digital via email is not lost on me - on her, apparently, but not on me.)