A Pilgrim’s Digression

I just spilled a cup of water into my trackball. I think it might be defunct, now. Lucky I have my original black Dell mouse in a drawer. Who would think that not even a quarter cup of water could do so much damage to technology? I turned the trackball upside down, and a stream of water poured out of it. So anyway, I’ve got that all cleaned up, and my trackball is lying on the bookshelf beside me, drying out. I’ll plug it in again tomorrow, after it has had time to recover, and if it still doesn’t work I’ll report it to our tech people as “mysteriously” not working anymore.

I am ashamed. I feel like I just stole office supplies. This on a day when I am writing up a report on my activities this past year prefatory to my annual performance review. I think I’ll be leaving that out of my report.

There’s a song in one of my son’s Thomas the Tank Engine videos:

Accidents happen now and again

Just when you least expect,

Just when you think you

Know what you’re doing…

I am on lunch now, and I am trying to think of something more interesting than spilled water to write about. At the moment, this is the best I can do on a Monday.