Magic desk

I have been trying (periodically) for several months (a couple of years?) to clean off my desk in work. As a precursor to cleaning my office. I actually made some progress this week. For about an hour. And then somehow my desk filled up again. It's a magic desk but not the kind of magic I need. 

And, offices get messy, I get it--well, not my boss's. His is incredibly tidy, which is attainable if you spend most of your days in meetings, so there's that. But in my first 6 years I had 7 office spaces, so it was always a goal to be able to move my office in an hour. And I definitely can't do that now. So I hope I don't need to any time soon, because I have inherited a bunch of boxes and collections and this is what happens when you get into management but not high enough in management that you never get to do any of the work. 

That being said, if messy office means I still get to do the fun work, I will take it.

Error

The other day when I was getting my laptop up and running at work, I got an error message that said, "System error: Invalid argument."

Now, I know I'm definitely not the first one to see this error, and also definitely not the first one to think that maybe we could use that warning in our day-to-day interactions. No lie, I am definitely considering putting it on a t-shirt. Especially in our current state of, well, civil insanity. 

And I'm not saying I'm exempt. As I have mentioned before, my motto should be, "Talk less, smile more." I have invalid arguments all the time. And, sometimes it would just be nice to have something pop up in the moment telling me, "Hey. Maybe take 5 and get your head together?" 

But I think that might require me to wear some kind of VR or AR headset, and I'm just not into that, so I guess I'll do what our ancestors have done for millions of years and just keep trying to be a better person without any computer assistance. 

Shorthanded

I have long fingers. Two of my co-workers are about 6 feet tall guys, and my hands are about the size of theirs. 

Over Christmas, it came up in conversation, and in comparing hand sizes, my brother-in-law noticed that my pinky fingers are short. Which I had never noticed before because honestly, think about it. How much time do you actually spend looking at other people's hands? I suspect not much, except maybe for a special someone or babies. 

Anyway, I fell and hurt my wrist, as previously mentioned, and got an x-ray. And when I looked at the results, it did say that my 5th metacarpal was severely short and the 4th metacarpal mildly so. Which, not expecting that in my x-ray report, but it was kind of fun timing. 

Also, it dashes all hopes about long fingers benefitting me while playing the piano, haha.