Ouch - it's buggin the CRAP outta me right now. It's like a rock in my shoe, that I can't get out.
Here's a note for you: Just because you have a bluetooth set on your cell phone, and just because you use that as your main business phone line, it doesn't mean you should WANDER AROUND THE OFFICE TALKING LOUDLY IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY ELSE'S DESK. Then there's the guy who is apparently somewhat hard of hearing who insists on listening to neo-con right-wing conservative talk radio so we all can hear it.
Also buggin the crap outta me right now. Go back to your hole, man.
I'm about done for the day, and it isn't even noon yet.
I had the lovely occasion to begin wrapping presents the other day. I hate wrapping presents, badly. I mean I hate wrapping them, and I hate wrapping them badly.
It seems that no matter how big or small, I use about 3 square yards of paper. It sucks.
This morning in my email I had a note from a friend who sent along some tips for wrapping, by Dave Barry:
This is the time of year when we think back to the very first Christmas, when the Three Wise Men; Gaspar, Balthazar and Herb, went to see the BabyJesus and, according to the Book of Matthew, "presented unto Him gifts;gold, frankincense, and myrrh."
These are simple words, but if we analyze them carefully, we discover an important, yet often overlooked, theological fact: There is no mention of wrapping paper.
If there had been wrapping paper, Matthew would have said so: "And lo, the gifts were inside 600 square cubits of paper. And the paper was festooned with pictures of Frosty the Snowman. And Joseph was going to throweth it away, but Mary saideth unto him, she saideth, 'Holdeth it!
That is nice paper! Saveth it for next year!' And Joseph did rolleth his eyeballs. And the baby Jesus was more interested in the paper than the Frankincense."
But these words do not appear in the Bible, which means that the very First Christmas gifts were NOT wrapped. This is because the people giving those gifts had two important characteristics:
1. They were wise.
2. They were men.
Pretty much says it all.
Several of the blogs I subscribe to take this time of year to post some sort of sappy Christmas wish or prayer or whatever, wishing everyone a Happy Holiday season. I've thought about this, but I don't really want to post something like that... although I try to be a good person, and I try to do kind things for people all the time, not just at this time of year, so a post like that right now seems disingenuous. However, I've had a quote stuck on the wall beside my desk for some time now, and I really like it. Here it is:
"To know that one life has breathed easier because I have lived, this is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pretty much sums up how we should be treating each other at all times of the year.
There's more to post here, but I have to go dig my brains out of my head with a spoon. And take care of that thing in my eye.
Back soon.
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We have begun working on our global citizenry projects at school. I gave them each a cartoon and asked them to write their thoughts about it. I'll be damned if I can find an online version of it and I am far too stupid to understand scanning so here it goes....
There's a husband and a wife walking along the avenue with their fists full of bags, passing an obviously homeless man. The rich man has a speech bubble over his head that reads "there is nothing more noble than giving to the needy". The caption over the homeless man's head reads, "what about the other 364 days of the year?"
The responses are wonderful from the kids. I will eventually write about it, but for now, let me just say, I am humbled to be in their shadow. The are keeping me honest and full of the charity I am trying to inspire in them. 365 days a year....
Merry Christmas...
...and Lush Rimbaugh at least goes off the air at 1 pm.
Hope you had a very Merry Christmas.
HA HA HA HA HA!
Sorry, but I got this whole image of you using yards of paper to wrap a CD and it just went from there.
P.S.
The Dave Barry thing? Slayed me.
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