Kleenex: Mana from Heaven

I store Kleenex in my pockets like a squirrel hoarding nuts for winter. It is uncommon to see me without a puffed out pocket, because if I am caught without a Kleenex, the results are never pretty. This time of year is always bad, because the seasons are changing. Spring and fall are my worst times of years, allergy-wise. And on rainy days, I am miserable. I joke that people should buy stock in Kleenex, given how much of it I go through. There's a box in my nightstand, a box on the end table by my recliner and a box by my computer. At work, I store a box in my desk drawer (because the office-purchased tissues are the cheap generic kind that leave your hands covered in nose slime). When it comes to facial tissue, I've found that Kleenex are the best for me. Puffs leave lint/lotion in my nose which makes the congestion worse. I blow right through the cheap generic kind, which defeats the purpose of using a tissue. I would have to carry a bag full of handkerchiefs if I was going to go the "environmentally friendly" route, and I'd use a ton of water washing them.

Matt and I started playing Minecraft in cooperative mode on Sunday night. We've got a good system going. He goes off in his silly-looking iron armor and mines underground, while I cut down trees to make sure our supply of wood is sufficient, and then plant saplings so we have a basically neverending supply of wood. I also harvest and replant the wheat we are growing. Wheat is good because it can be used to make bread or cake or cookies, and you can use it to lure various critters (pigs, chickens, cows, sheep) into a pen for easy farming of meat and/or wool (sheeps don't drop meat, just wool). Once you have them penned, you can breed two animals by feeding them wheat. I started us with two pigs. Our current pig count is 5 or 6 (a couple got killed for meat). Then I got us a chicken by throwing eggs at the ground. Still trying to get chicken number two. Last night, I managed to wrangle us two cows. Cows are probably the best animal resource in the game. You get steaks, milk, and leather from them, all of which are high-value resources. I had a wolf that I tamed, but last night he got lost somehow, so I have to try and tame another because I want to go exploring and having a wolf for protection would be useful if I get stuck outside at night. We didn't get as much time to play last night as we would have liked because we got home late, and when we got home I had something that had to be done immediately (if I had known how late we were going to get home, I might have done it before leaving the office, but... whatever).

I just did the experience survey for Red Robin. Their boxes for open-ended responses did not have a very large character limit. What would I do if I was REALLY pissed off? Probably call them and bitch them out. I wasn't completely pissed off, just slightly annoyed that when it came time to leave, our waitress was nowhere to be found, and she walked past our table a couple times without stopping to see how we were, even when I had my wallet out and was fiddling with my credit card.

Did a whole bunch of work this morning only to have someone spaz out that the total number of completes was not right because she missed deleting a respondent she wanted to get rid of. It wouldn't be so bad, but this was the second time I had run this set of tables. We're just going to leave that respondent in the data set.

Calling back people who call you but don't leave a message is a waste of your time. I understand that you're screening your calls so the bill collectors can't find you, but I'm pretty sure they'll leave you a message. No message, no reason to call back. That's how I roll, makes my life so much easier.

I have never worked at a McDonald's, nor do I ever plan to.