( 3:51 PM )
Email
Actual conversation that took place in my office today:
Me: I think there may be a problem with the email server.
Him: (curtly) I know! I just sent out an email about the problem. The server is down.
Me: Oh…okay.
Him: Didn’t you get it?
Me: Get what?
Him: My email?
Me: Well….no. I haven’t gotten any emails. That’s why I think the server is down.
Him: I know the server is down! That’s why I sent out the email. I don’t need everybody calling me to tell me it’s down.
Me: Okay. Sorry to bother you.
( 9:31 AM )
Blogging and the Grammys
I realized I haven’t blogged in a while and thought maybe I should do so. But then I realized that the reason I haven’t blogged in a while was because nothing has happened. Oh, I know that there is plenty of things “happening” in the world nowadays, but I usually like to write about the silly, insignificant, unimportant things that happen to me, or around me. I like to leave all of the serious, important blogging to other guys on this site like Webb and Matt.
Blogging has become a bit of a therapy for me. It has allowed me to put down in words some of the interesting and/or humorous observations I come upon as I stumble through life. (Well, they are interesting and/or humorous to me.) Things that I would normally forget by the time I had the chance to share them personally with a friend or someone who I know would appreciate them.
Originally, prior to the Blog Jam, I’ve tried verbally sharing some of my daily or weekly observations with people in my office, but I usually just got that sympathetic stare or pity chuckle that comes from people who just don’t “get it”, or do “get it” but don’t see the humor or interest in it.
It really has become quite uncomfortably obvious that I don’t have much in common with these people. Take the Grammys for instance. The day after, everyone is chatting about it, but I (for reasons that should be obvious to loyal readers of this site) remained silent. Until someone asked me directly, “So, Michael, did you catch the Grammys last night?” My first instinct was to be vague by saying “no”, but I knew that would just cause someone to recap it for me. My next instinct was to be vague by saying “yes”, but that would most likely induce a follow-up question related to what I thought. So I decided to go with, “Yeah, but only to see the Joe Strummer tribute.”
This, as usual, caused the 3 or 4 people around my desk to offer the sympathetic, if not downright bewildered, stare. I tried to quickly fix the communication problem by offering, “…and to see Coldplay.”
Still no response, until a few seconds ticked by and someone in the back said, “yeah…who were those guys?”
Thankfully, my phone rang and I excused myself to answer it, while the crowd went back to discussing how they needed to buy Norah Jones’ CD, and how they never really heard of John Mayer, but should probably get his CD, and how Bruce should have won more awards, and how good Gwen Stefani looked, and…
( 1:03 PM )
Vitamin C
I was doing pretty well through the early part of January. I had successfully avoided all of the illnesses plaguing my family and various friends and associates. I attributed it to the fact that I'm a big believer in the preventative and healing powers of vitamin C. I've been religiously taking vitamin C pills since the start of the cold and flu season, and up until two weeks ago, I had managed to ward off the evil spirits of cold and cough.
But, they found me. And they won't let go. I've been sick now for over two weeks. Various sicknesses, such as head congestion, the sniffles, hacking cough, even a stomach virus paid a visit and left me and my bowels in disarray for a few days.
I was still taking vitamin C pills, hoping the little buggers would fight the foreign invaders in my body. Maybe they were. I don’t know what kind of condition I would be in, if I didn’t take them.
Last night, I decided to double up. Give those last lingering parasites in my intestines a good vitamin C-U-later, kick-in-the-ass. I threw a couple of 1000 milligram tablets into my mouth and reached for a glass of water. But I got distracted, as my kids started beating on each other, and had to pull WWF referee duty and break it up.
When I finally had things under control, I realized I had a couple of fizzing tablets sitting on my tongue. Now, these aren’t you’re typical, chewable, flintstones vitamins. These are GNC, high-potency vitamins, that are to be taken with a full glass of water. It was a very strong citrus taste, that wasn’t all that bad. Strong, but not like sucking on a Bayer aspirin. So, I decided to let it continue to dissolve. Maybe I’d sterilize the entrance into my body for any future bugs looking to visit.
This morning, my tongue feels like it got caught in a blender. It’s very red and feels a bit swollen. Apparently, there’s a reason you’re suppose to swallow them, rather then suck on them.
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