Fun at Save The World Inc.

Colleague: "This floppy drive isn't working."

Me: "My floppy's got a USB connection; maybe it'll work."

Colleague: *fiddle fiddle* "Your drive's not accepting the disk either."

Me: "You've got the floppy label on the wrong side. It's covering the spindle."

Colleague: "Oops." *fiddle fiddle* "Let's try that again."

Drive: *sits there*

Colleague: "Disk's still not going in the drive."

Me: "You sure you're putting it in the right way up? That drive's not quite intuitive in that regard."

Colleague: "Oops." *flip* "Yeah, that's got it."

Oh yeah. The world's in beauty hands here.

Anyone have any patience they can spare?

I somehow inherited the title of Office Tech Maven, and am being asked for help with e-mailing things through a mail system I know nothing about.

In trying to decipher, and being asked for answers I don't have, and stumbling through to find answers of some sort ... I'm starting to find myself stammering like my father does when he's totally losing his cool, and getting what feels like a tension headache right at the corners of my eyebrows.

And no, it's not the caffeine, I don't think. I got a twenty-ounce bottle of Coke and I haven't even cracked it open yet.

I haven't been working in months. Why the frell am I burning out like this?

How to tell if a baseball player is new to the big leagues

If a player's picture on the Major League Baseball web site looks like someone took his driver's license photo and Photoshopped a baseball cap over it ...

... that guy just might be new to the big leagues.