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Archive for August 30th, 2007

All day long, it’s felt like a storm was moving in. HOORAY! But I think the storm must’ve hit the commuter traffic on the freeway because its nowhere near my home now. I enjoy the monsoon season, and I love the dramatic thunder and lightning shows too. I just wish there was more rain and less wind.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow night.

No, I’m not talking about meeting together in order to start an office uprising, I’m talking about cleaning up the mess on your desk. Let me guess, you’ve got tons of paper, work reports and even some old periodicals you’ve been meaning to read. You’ve got one little clean rectangle of personal work space that’s the size of a file card. Everything’s stacked so high that your co-workers can’t tell whether or not you went to lunch. Your boss has noticed that his request for the latest report has turned into your own personal game of hide and seek. Everyone’s complaining, and tired of the way your work is impacted by the condition of your desk. Maybe a little poem will inspire you to do something about it:

If you don’t want to hear any flak,
On your desk keep a magazine rack
If you get lots of mail,
You’ll need one without fail.
And I know that you won’t take it back.

I’m burning the late night oil, working on my e-commerce stuff. I decided to take a break from that for a few minutes and go blog hopping. You see, there’s an event coming up on Friday, the details of which presently escape me, but basically everyone picks out five bloggers and their blogs and writes about them. The bloggers are supposed to be out of your normal circle of activity.

So I went looking a bit and found nothing I’d care to see again. Maybe I’m being too picky, but then again, I’m using some pretty good blogs to set my standards. Blogs like Dodgeblogium, that’s written in an engaging style that keeps me informed and helps me to see what’s happening in the world. Or Owen and his wife Camille. She writes great stuff, whether she’s talking about their adorable son, Arthur (who has his very own blog), or posting a hilarious limerick about her brother. Owen has several blogs, each one unique, interesting to read and informative .

There are other great blogs I visit regularly, and I hope I don’t hurt anyone’s feelings by not mentioning them here. Don’t worry, I plan on mentioning every great blog I like, at one point or another. But the point I’m trying to make right now is that I feel like a modern Diogenes, trying to find a decent, honest blog or two. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think my blog is back up to where it should be, so maybe I’m just bumping into other bloggers that are going through life issues like I am.

Oh well, if it looking at other bloggers gets to be too much, I can always go watch clips from WKRP on YouTube.