Why computer literacy is important.

This is from a work-related mailing list. Ironically, in a discussion about ideal mailing-list software, someone neglected to create a rule in their email software specifying that you do not need to send your out-of-office autoreply to a mailing list, and definitely don't need to send it to the same person twice. As a result, her email software is now stuck in a loop, where it sent the autoreply to the list, which automatically sent a copy of it back to her own inbox, which in turn responded with the autoreply. Repeat ad infinitum.

(I am now receiving her autoreply roughly every two minutes). 

People, *please* stop being morons.

(It now takes up the entire view of that folder of my inbox.)

NaNoWriMo

Dear Big Emotional Scene In My NaNoWriMo novel:

Just write your own damn self already, stupid scene that's not even supposed to be here in the first place and I don't even want you here.

Solve one problem, cause another.

Problem: A friend still has a large baking dish of mine.

Solution: Friend brings baking dish to a NaNoWriMo write-in this afternoon, where we will both be.

Problem: I rode my bicycle there, and baking dish will not fit into my backpack along with my laptop,.

Solution: Pop the front wheel off my bike, stuff it in friend's large car, get ride home.

Problem: It's going to be really damn hard to ride to work tomorrow morning, since the quick-release mechanism that holds the front wheel of my bicycle to the rest of it is still in the back of my friend's car.

Solution: admit to friend that I'm a muppet; then pretend I'm a spy and we are in fact arranging some sort of clandestine exchange of state secrets, rather than her returning a six-inch steel rod, without which I cannot get to work.