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I'm trying hard to stay on-task today. If I keep allowing the processing of this collection drag on the way I have been, it will never be done and when my funding runs out I'll be found on the top of a range of shelves in the fourth floor vault, making gauntlets out of rusty paper clips and cackling "have only today received your favor of the 13th ultimo! I remain, my very dear sir, your ob't sv't! Thomas Snigglebotham in acct w/ Dr. W.A. Smithers!"
However, these business papers are very, very boring, and even though I'm getting eyestrain from the way my computer is backed up against a bright window, I keep wandering online every time I add a bit of information to my inventory document.
The "international" edition of the CNN home page has more non-crap news than the U.S. edition, but only slightly. How the death of a 22-lb lobster is an international top story I cannot fathom. I did get asked about O.J. Simpson when I went to Scandinavia in 1995, so I guess there is international interest in media circuses like the Michael Jackson trial.
Amusing note about Norway and O.J. Simpson: at dinner in Oslo, when my host asked about the trial, I mentioned in passing that we made a lot of jokes about him at breakfast time because we'll say "O.J." for orange juice. He was very amused by this, and explained that in Norway, there is a brand of orange juice called... wait for it... Simpson's.
Right. Back to the papers. "Dear Sir, in accordance with your letter of the 15th inst. I have purchased 5 barrells Oats, 25 lbs Sugar, and two Young Pigs, which I send by Mr. Huffsnort, a most trustworthy gentleman resident in this place..."
However, these business papers are very, very boring, and even though I'm getting eyestrain from the way my computer is backed up against a bright window, I keep wandering online every time I add a bit of information to my inventory document.
The "international" edition of the CNN home page has more non-crap news than the U.S. edition, but only slightly. How the death of a 22-lb lobster is an international top story I cannot fathom. I did get asked about O.J. Simpson when I went to Scandinavia in 1995, so I guess there is international interest in media circuses like the Michael Jackson trial.
Amusing note about Norway and O.J. Simpson: at dinner in Oslo, when my host asked about the trial, I mentioned in passing that we made a lot of jokes about him at breakfast time because we'll say "O.J." for orange juice. He was very amused by this, and explained that in Norway, there is a brand of orange juice called... wait for it... Simpson's.
Right. Back to the papers. "Dear Sir, in accordance with your letter of the 15th inst. I have purchased 5 barrells Oats, 25 lbs Sugar, and two Young Pigs, which I send by Mr. Huffsnort, a most trustworthy gentleman resident in this place..."
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