The last throes of unpacking.
Aug. 23rd, 2009 10:13 pmI can't find a stapler. Anywhere. I have staples, and I have two staple removers. But no stapler.
I can't find my nail clippers.
However, I did find, mixed among my office supplies:
1. A rainbow slinky.
2. A Hanuman lunchbox.
3. Twokitchen debate timers.
4. A box of scented markers that are still scented despite three years in storage.
5. A lightsaber spoon. The handle lights up. It still works. The battery is still good.
I'm pretty sure that last one was actually a cereal prize.
Alas! The lightsaber spoon does nothing for my hangnail. I suppose I'll just have to suffer in silence until tomorrow.
Oh, and a zip disk! I found two zip disks in my last box. I have no idea what's even on them. Or if I'll ever be able to find an actual working zip drive in order to, you know, check and see. Hey, does anyone still remember zip drives? I recall that they were actually cutting edge technology back when I was in high school. This was of course before the invention of USB flash drives. Hell, that was even back from before CD-writers were common. No wait, that's not quite true. I remember that when I was a sophomore in high school, external CD-writers went on sale at Best Buy for the first time, and this was like a Huge Freaking Deal. And yet, by the time I graduated high school I think that pretty much all computers on the market came with built-in CD drives. That's only a difference of two years, but two years is like *forever* in technology terms.
Random: The last time that I had dinner with my mom, she waxed poetic about electric typewriters. For like, fifteen minutes. Someday I will be old and drunk on Argentinian Malbec and waxing poetic about the joys of my first external CD-drive, too.
I can't find my nail clippers.
However, I did find, mixed among my office supplies:
1. A rainbow slinky.
2. A Hanuman lunchbox.
3. Two
4. A box of scented markers that are still scented despite three years in storage.
5. A lightsaber spoon. The handle lights up. It still works. The battery is still good.
I'm pretty sure that last one was actually a cereal prize.
Alas! The lightsaber spoon does nothing for my hangnail. I suppose I'll just have to suffer in silence until tomorrow.
Oh, and a zip disk! I found two zip disks in my last box. I have no idea what's even on them. Or if I'll ever be able to find an actual working zip drive in order to, you know, check and see. Hey, does anyone still remember zip drives? I recall that they were actually cutting edge technology back when I was in high school. This was of course before the invention of USB flash drives. Hell, that was even back from before CD-writers were common. No wait, that's not quite true. I remember that when I was a sophomore in high school, external CD-writers went on sale at Best Buy for the first time, and this was like a Huge Freaking Deal. And yet, by the time I graduated high school I think that pretty much all computers on the market came with built-in CD drives. That's only a difference of two years, but two years is like *forever* in technology terms.
Random: The last time that I had dinner with my mom, she waxed poetic about electric typewriters. For like, fifteen minutes. Someday I will be old and drunk on Argentinian Malbec and waxing poetic about the joys of my first external CD-drive, too.
