Speaking of technology letting me down
What is with the iTunes music store? They only have three versions of Nick Gilder's classic 1978 hit "Hot Child in the City" – a muzak-like karaoke version, a lame remake by some band I've never heard of, and a droopy, boring re-recording by Nick himself that makes me feel like I just drank a quart of half & half. Where's the original? I want the original!
Luckily they have a whole slew of Peaches & Herb, in which I am drowning my sorrows. Shake your groove thang!
P.S. As long as I'm kvetching I might as well mention that I have a new obsession to keep me busy at my office: figuring out who is making a mess of our new break room. Example: The other day six people from my department had a takeout feast/fiesta from our local cheap Chinese buffet, after which I wiped down the table cloth, wiped and labelled all the containers and arranged them on the table with neat piles of plates, chopsticks, napkins and forks. I saw a few people go in there over the next hour or so (the door is right next to my desk), and the next time I looked in, it was like a hurricane had blown through! Oyster sauce flung far and wide. Dirty fork on the floor. Empty containers lying sideways, dripping garlic-smelling ooze onto the table. Two soy sauce packets ripped open and left to bleed their contents into the stack of napkins. A greasy fragment of green onion on the cover of the new InStyle magazine.
I guess it doesn't really matter who did it. I'm not the break room monitor! But I am curious to know who owns a set of such atrocious manners. If nothing else, at least throw out the empty containers! The garbage can is literally two feet away.
Luckily they have a whole slew of Peaches & Herb, in which I am drowning my sorrows. Shake your groove thang!
P.S. As long as I'm kvetching I might as well mention that I have a new obsession to keep me busy at my office: figuring out who is making a mess of our new break room. Example: The other day six people from my department had a takeout feast/fiesta from our local cheap Chinese buffet, after which I wiped down the table cloth, wiped and labelled all the containers and arranged them on the table with neat piles of plates, chopsticks, napkins and forks. I saw a few people go in there over the next hour or so (the door is right next to my desk), and the next time I looked in, it was like a hurricane had blown through! Oyster sauce flung far and wide. Dirty fork on the floor. Empty containers lying sideways, dripping garlic-smelling ooze onto the table. Two soy sauce packets ripped open and left to bleed their contents into the stack of napkins. A greasy fragment of green onion on the cover of the new InStyle magazine.
I guess it doesn't really matter who did it. I'm not the break room monitor! But I am curious to know who owns a set of such atrocious manners. If nothing else, at least throw out the empty containers! The garbage can is literally two feet away.
1 Comments:
First of all--WHAT!! No "Hot CHild in the City" in its original glory on Itunes? Did you know that is my fantasy karaoke song? (Do you think a karaoke machine will have it??)
Secondly . . . I'm so upset about the song that I can't even chime in on the break room pigs! (I love real farmyard swine, by the way, and have a feeling they're cleaner.)
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