Did you get that memo about the TPS reports?

Dom: Hello, Peter. What's happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports.
Peter: Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it.
Dom: Yeah. Uh, did you get that memo?
Peter: Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. The problem is, I just forgot this one time. And I've already taken care of it so it's not even a problem anymore.
Dom: Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So if you could just remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!

This quote, coming from the1999 classic pop. cult. movie Office Space, seems to really emphasize what some of my days are like. You know the kind. When you go to work and somebody says so and so is looking for you and it's usually somebody above you. Then you talk to your boss and they point out something you did wrong and how to remedy it but of course you already know what to do but you say "yes sir" or "right away sir". As you walk away to get to work someone else above you pulls you aside and repeats everything your boss just told you. Then co-workers start hearing the buzz and they ask you about it and by this time all you want to do is pull the words out of the dictionary and never hear them again. This happened to me today which isn't all together surprising because we know that people love to talk about other people and their business. Anyone who has seen the above movie knows completely what I am getting at. If you haven't seen the movie, where have you been?

Let's see what else? My blog has seen over 6,000 visits since I started writing last September. Blogging is of course a journal for me, It's like leaving your diary on a bus stop for any stranger passing by to read. My original intention was to make this a virtual bulletin board so that people at home could know that I am still alive and well. Now I find that I am writing this for myself and I look forward to the next time I can put up a post. Anyways, I really appreciate all the comments that I have been recieving because it makes writing so much better when you know that people are still there to read what you put up.

Ahhhhh......funny. Anyone who has been in the military knows about the concept about the Armed Forces Network right? They have a few channels on the television at the chow hall or the internet cafe here that show things like sports, movies, and news. The real joy of watching comes when they take out all the commercials and put in their own messages i.e. , safety messages, recruting messages, and altogther comical skits. The other day however, I actually saw a real advertisement that they missed and it was just one of those things that makes you rememeber what life is really like. It would be much the equivalent if I were to walk outside and find a patch of grass outside the door of my living container here in the desert. (I am laughing out loud right now and people always look at me funny but I don't care). I also just realized that it was like being an Orwellian novel where the people don't know the truth about the "real world" or something.

Working on those coversheets,
Nick

Food for thought: Are you one of those people who reread your writings and check grammar and spelling even on something as informal as this? I guess I am, but I always miss something.