Sometimes people are glad you're a Luddite. Today Bert has needed to find an error in some kind of worksheet--but it was an error that showed up only when the document was viewed in 2003. I'm the last hold-out in the office. (The downside? I was kicked off my computer for fifteen minutes.)

Starting tomorrow, the temperatures are supposed to hit the mid-70s. I suspect the remaining three-foot drifts of snow won't last long. That's a pity. I am oddly and endlessly amused by watching the miniature streams and rivers created by the runoff.

I'm being all healthy and stuff these days (I've put on five pounds since I started working here), so I bring a little container of peaches to work with me, to have for "dessert" after my chicken-rice casserole and that's all fine until I go to open the hermetically sealed package and I wind up having to pull so hard on the little tab* that I splash peach juice all over myself and, granted you can't really see it because I'm wearing black but I smell funny.

Actually, I think the peach juice was mostly water, but I suspect I might smell funny.

Two more of the 'Nuts in the process of divorcing their shared marketing campaign partners have announced that they're gonna do it themselves. I've stopped warning of disaster or complaining at all. Ever since Webstrainer rolled out the new, somewhat more complicated UI last week, I've been snickering sneakily.

I keep wondering why they keep employing me, after they've already told me they can live without me gracing their lives. My latest theory is two-fold:

1) It's time for the April 'NutNews issue and they realized none of the remaining staff know how to put the newsletter together;

And!

2) The annual Gathering O'Nuts is coming up in two weeks and they realize that, face-to-face, they can't avoid discussing online marketing with all 40 or 50 'Nuts, but none of them have more than the vaguest possible idea of how it all works.

I'm at peace with it all. Another paycheck! A roof over my head all the way to the end of May!

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* No wonder they were on sale. Childproof!