So I received one of those "page a day" calendars for Christmas this year. You know the type - you rip off the page to reveal the day's quote, sudoku puzzle, funny cat picture or dilbert cartoon strip. Then you're left wondering what to do with the page you just tore off. I feel guilty just throwing it away, cause isn't that wasting paper? I mean, there's a whole blank page on the back that could be used for something. So then you start growing a "scrap paper" pile on your desk, you know, for notes and stuff. But wait, I also have a post-it pad on my desk. So now in an effort to justify its existence on my desk, I think I'll just reserve the post-it notes for "important" scribbling cause you know, that sticky strip on the back gives them a higher rank in the paper world than a pile of torn-off page-a-day pages. And now my desk is feng shui happy.
But lately my guilty, don't-waste-paper conscience has amassed quite the collection of old page-a-day pages and I fear I might have to get rid of some of them cause there's just no way I'm going to go through that much paper in a year's time. But I love these little calendars and I don't think I could go a year without one. It's the one form of entertainment I have while I sip on some tea and wait for my PC to boot up in the morning. Plus, I have been getting one of these calendars pretty much every year since I started working in an environment that included a desk to put it on. Holy crap - I just realized I've been working in IT for 10 years now! How the hell did that happen??? Sorry - minor digression...
Anyway, this post really does have a point (after spending 2 whole paragraphs rambling about what to do with useless pieces of paper...) My current calendar is "365 true facts you never knew and probably never needed to know" or something to that extent. Yesterday's fact was rather interesting - "The Hoover Dam was built to last 2000 years. The concrete in it will not be fully cured for another 500 years." Wow - never knew that! But you mean to tell me that after 70+ years, the walls of that dam still aren't dry?? Guess that was before the advent of Quikrete fast-setting concrete products. Anyhoo, today's fact is even more interesting - "Statistically, the safest age of life is 10 years old." Now I'm left wondering exactly what kind of statistics they used to come up with that fact. I think they need to rename that calendar to "365 facts that will leave you asking more questions than we can answer."
Thursday, January 08, 2009
I'm not a packrat, but I play one on TV
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Those ARE both interesting-- and stupefying-- facts. I mean, what makes 10 the safest age to be? I'm assuming they did some sort of assessment of the ages people died at and found the least number of them to be 10 at the time. But it's not like you get a year of living dangerously at 10 because you're suddenly impenetrable, right?
Ok, now YOUR calendar has sent ME way off track!
And my only idea for the pages is to use them to put notes in B or J's lunch. Then you have a daily use for the daily paper you're collecting.
The back wall of the Hoover Dam will always be wet! :-)
And I'm working on my Honest Scrap award. Just swinging by to get the rules and links. It's looking like Tuesday, unless Gov Blago does something stupid. And what are the odds of that?
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