Whimsical Friday

It was a tense day at Spacely Sprockets on Friday. I won’t go into details (and I wasn’t involved) but there were a LOT of p*ssed off people at work.

Sidebar: Did you ever notice that I cannot write out “pissed off” but have no problem writing the word “crap?” Where, exactly, does the Captain draw the line? WTF? I dunno...

Anyway, thankfully, so far it didn’t affect me. It’s been years since I handled departmental turmoil well. I’m to damn old for that shit.

Sidebar Two: You will notice I wrote “shit.” I decided if you are old enough to want to read this, you know the words…

At lunch, I stopped by Home Depot and got what I thought I needed to fix my toilet. On the way home, I gave into a whim and stopped at the Burger King (across from Building 50) and ordered a Whopper with cheese meal, substituting the fries with onion rings. It cost me almost $7.00!

I could have gone next door (literally) and had a complete Chinese dinner at Chins for that!

Sidebar Three: Regarding whims. At my age, I think that if you have a whim, you should go for it. It might result in, say, a motorcycle in your garage just gathering dust, but at least you tried.

Back at home at lunch, I managed to choke down half of the Whopper and 3/4 of the onion rings before I felt sick. I threw the rest away and went back to work. So much for whims…

Back home after work, I fixed the toilet. Fortunately, I didn’t have to replace the ring that the flapper goes on (I don’t know what you call it, but let’s call it the collar). But the replacement flapper snapped into the existing collar. I measured the chain and cut off the excess with my wire nippers. And my toilet is back in service!

I didn’t take anything out for dinner, so I thought I’d go to my emergency rations: A Diajorno (sp) pizza. I was just about to stick it in the oven when I saw the rest of that tomato I’ve been turning into sandwiches. Not sure why I did it, but I cut off two thin slices, cut those into quarters and put them on top of the pizza. It really gave a fresh, light taste to it.

I watched a little TV, but went to bed early.