Details, details

I'm playing LJ Catch Up this morning and there's a tiny spider, smaller than my thumbnail if I count legs and all, wandering all over my computer monitor. She's clearly lost. In over an hour she has not found a way to walk OFF the monitor, nor has she set up housekeeping anywhere. Every so often she goes across the screen, over something I'm reading.

If I were wearing anything I'd just put her out. Aw heck, my back door is isolated, I'll put her out anyway. I've just been too lazy to get up and do it; that's the bottom line.

Life is full of opportunities to chuckle.

The aforementioned spider was escorted outside on an empty peanuts wrapper from Southwest Airlines. This particular wrapper says, on the opposite side from the large "DRY ROASTED PEANUTS" label, that the ingredients are in fact peanuts; in case anyone might miss the point, it goes on to warn the potentially-unwary consumer that these particular peanuts were "Produced in a facility that processes peanuts". I bet the spider thinks humans are mind-bogglingly stupid. There are days I would agree with her.

Speaking of stupid, a couple days ago the place I used to work activated their card-sensor system for entering and exiting the parking garage. Why they choose to require proper ID for exiting the parking garage is beyond me, but they have so chosen. Okay. Well... apparently this particular system is difficult to fathom. There are TWO boxes at driver-window height near the exit gate; one is for people with proper ID, and the other is for exit-tokens handed out at the desk. (The tokens must be for people who somehow managed to defeat the entry system and then, er, forgot how to do it, so they cannot defeat the exit system, yet who don't want to wait to sober up before reclaiming their cars.) I was amused and saddened to note that the majority of the people I saw had trouble exiting this garage. Perhaps some people didn't have their card-keys entered in the system yet; I'll pretend for now that it was easy to get the car IN without same. But most of the drivers, well, they didn't know where to wave the card, didn't park within reach, kept attempting to interact with the wrong piece of equipment... I helped four of them get out, Monday night, simply because I was behind them in line and I wanted to go somewhere. These, I couldn't help but notice, were the engineers our company was keeping.

Other than these musings, I am having a fine day. I have agreed to go running tomorrow morning, Deity help me. That's my exercise contribution for today: agree to run tomorrow. I am also the proud owner of three flimsy new undergarments (can't make them sturdy or the customer won't need to come back for more so soon) and a sizable box of Godiva chocolate. I do not, however, own photo albums for the new photos yet. I made the mistake of finding exactly the album I wanted, last of its kind on the shelf, in a hideous color combination of pink and orange. Now I will not rest until I find this very album in a color that does not induce retinal hemorrhage. I've only been to four stores. Fortunately I have lots more free time.

Mmm, dinner soon. :-)