Wrist Rest Under the Keyboard – Thoughts from December 11 to 19, 2022

December 11, 2022

I started writing a skit in my head as I was waking up the other day. The basic premise of it was a guy brought a kid to Bring Your Child to Work Day and his coworker questions whether it is his child. As the dialogue continued in my head, it got more and more absurd. It only has three characters in it and the kid never speaks. I could animate it relatively easily. There was also a paper I was going over that I originally wrote in high school called Ears. I was going over the words in my head and thinking of visuals to go with it. I still remember it because I made an audio recording of it years ago. The audio plays in the many times I have played my “stuff” in the car. It was originally on a cassette tape with other songs of mine. I refer to the listener of the tape. I’ll probably need to record the audio over and add sound effects to it. All of this is to say that I’ll probably finish none of these ideas because time is something I don’t have.

The most I can do these days is what I’m doing right now. I have down time at work for writing my thoughts, but finding more time than that is scarce. I’m only up to the year 1999 in scheduling my past Thoughts papers. When I get to this year in the future, I’ll have plenty of thoughts to schedule. I have many creative ideas I’ve started, but only a few I’ve actually finished. I’m going to see if I can’t start working on the Bring a Child to Work idea right now. Part of the idea is the difference between “Bring Your Child” and “Bring a Child.” It’s the fun of confusion.

December 18, 2022

Young people crack me up. They do stupid things because they see other people doing stupid things. When I was young, I saw other people doing stupid things and avoided doing those things. In our office at work, we have three computers anyone can use. Each of the keyboards has a wrist rest. If you are a young person reading this, a wrist rest goes in front of the keyboard so your wrists don’t get tired. At my work, they put the wrist rest under the keyboard so it’s higher in the back. They say it’s because the tabs on the back of the keyboard don’t work. The real reason they do it is because they need to see the letters to type. They can type super fast with their thumbs on their phones, but this physical object in front of them is slowing them down. Right now, I’m using a swipe keyboard on my phone and I can type pretty fast on it. I’m sure this is only easier for people who can touch type on a keyboard. It’s as if I had a logic chip implanted in my head that they stopped manufacturing years ago.

I watch movies all the time. Patti hardly ever watched movies. In modern times, I watch more movies than her because I’m willing to watch movies in sections. She wants to watch a movie in one sitting. It’s the same thing with TV shows. If it has been a while since I watched a previous episode, I usually remember what was happening in the show. Patti needs the “previously on” to remind her what was happening. Admittedly, I rarely do other things while I’m watching TV. Patti plays games, looks at her emails, and looks at Facebook. Sometimes she sees videos on Facebook, which is an extra amount of distraction. I’m sure Patti thinks of it as multitasking, but it winds up detracting her completely from the show she is supposedly watching.

December 19, 2022

Patti is coming with me to work tomorrow. She’s meeting her sister, nieces, and nephews in the park. The last time she came here with me, the “incident” happened. That happened on December 3^rd if you want to look back at that Thoughts paper. It shouldn’t ruin her time completely, but I know it will be on her mind. It will be much better this time because she will be with other people. I’m sure all will have good times. She will have mostly fun people around her.

I met another new person today at work and I did my usual “hello new person” routine. The other day, I met another new person as she was being shown around. I present myself as a goofball right away so that I don’t surprise them later when they catch me on a particularly goofy day. My goofiness is how I attempt to prevent them from getting angry at me when I’m too honest with them in the future. I don’t want anyone to take me too seriously. Serious people are miserable people. I’m a happy goofball most of the time because I’m making up for being miserable much of my life. I collect people in my life so I won’t be as lonely as I used to be. Most of the single people I know are miserable. Relationships are the key to living a happy life.