The Van Buren Gang

Life is too short for a long story.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Thursday, June 26, 1997

I watched Seinfeld tonight, an episode that I hadn't seen before, although I had gotten the gist of it from alt.tv.seinfeld. It had Kramer selling his anecdotes to Peterman, to be used in a ghost-written autobiography. It made me think that I'd like some snappy stories to tell here!

Some incidents I can't tell because I am working on an unreleased product, and you all aren't under a non-disclosure agreement. Others are just my gripes about co-workers, and if I worked in a normal office I might go ahead and complain about people who gripe me. But what are the people I work with doing all day? Surfing the net! So that increases the odds that the very person who plucks my nerves (all unintentionaly, I'm sure) would see my biting satire of him.

I've been watching Seinfeld since it first started and it's always been one of my favorites. When I worked at a legal publishing firm, we always discussed it in depth the day after it was on. We had different usual topics for every day of the week, such as "What did you do on the weekend?" for Monday, Food for Tuesday, and so on. We needed to chat, because the work we were doing was mind-numbing.

At home I have been fighting my computer. For some reason the graphics tablet I use decided to stop working. Rats! Before, the mouse pointer wouldn't move on bootup about one time in six. The workaround was just to reboot, and usually the next boot would be fine. That hasn't worked for about a week, so I am working keyboard only. Luckily IE is just fine for that.

Next week I'll be travelling to Delaware, along with my sister M---- and her two sons, to see my other sister B--- and her two sons. It'l be a fun family week! Last year B---'s family came to Seattle and we had "Camp Madrona," named after the neighborhood my sister lives in.

Tomorrow is Vanguard lunch at work. We normally meet the first Friday, before the first Saturday party which is Vanguard, but this time next Friday is July 4 and we won't be at work. Will Jon Singer have some new ceramic creation to show us?

The radio is playing a show called "the Sound of Writing". When they annouced the title, my thought was, "The sound of writing is a pen scratching across the paper!" But instead they have short stories read aloud. Reading aloud is about the only way I can concentrate on poetry, and even then I need the written text in front of me too. If I only have the text, I get bored, and if I only have the sound, I get distracted. But with both of them there, I can keep my attention on the poem.

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