Blog Number 227

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well I have a few minutes here while my computer is installing some software that has made all other software programs come to a grinding halt.  Even my browser is sluggish (but not so sluggish that I cannot write this blog entry).

Once again, it is Jean Week here at my employer.  As you might recall from previous blog entries, this is the week where you can pay a certain amount of money and then wear jeans every day of the week.  I have previously mentioned that in order to raise even more money, my company could have a fund raiser where folks like myself could donate money and disallow certain people from wearing jeans.  I don't think I will offend too many people when I say that there are certain people in our society that should not be allowed to wear certain articles of clothing (jeans being one of them).  Anyway, the whole fund raiser concept has got me thinking.

My cubicle is located near 2 large network printers that are used by almost everyone in my area.  That is to say, almost everyone except me.  I have been pretty much paperless for the last 5+ years and have been preaching to all those that would hear of the merits of the avoidance of killing trees in order to have a paper copy of a document.  Few have listened but I have a few converts and I think slow and steady will win the race and I am just ahead of my time in this matter.  Anyway, the printers that are near me seldom work correctly for any length of time.  There are various techniques to "fixing" these printers but the majority of the solutions involve brute force.  The brute force type solutions also (evidently) require some sort of profanity to have the desired effect.  Now, since I spent a lot of my life in a bowling alley, I will tell you that I am not learning any new words or phrases per se, however I am learning new uses for the same old words.  At any rate, I think that if we installed a "swear jar" near the printers in my area (and probably all over my company) then we could raise an amount that would far exceed the Jean Week total.  We could have a posted list (printed out of course to emphasize the irony) of words and the cost for their use.  Other suggestions I have would include a quantity discount for those who wish to say many words all in the same printing session.  Perhaps we could pre-pay for words and use then as needed.  The possibilities are quite endless.

Anyway, there is my thought.  Like others I have had, it will not be utilized.  Such is life.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon