This was the thought du jour in today's Social Studies (Globe and Mail).

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

- George Bernard Shaw

I can't decide whether this is deep or really not. What I mean is, I think this sounds deeper on first contact than it really is. It's really just saying that concrete, material things are zero-sum and non-material things are non-material. Wow. Matter has stable mass. Wow.

This brings to mind a game my wondercousin Ian thought up that no one would play with him but me. The game is called "guess what I'm thinking of" and You play by one person thinking about a thing and the other asking "is it ....?" until it's right. We've only ever begun a game once, about a year and a half ago. I think about that once in a while.

It's that ideal time of year when water bottles can be driven around town and remain in the car overnight without detriment to the water within.

One of my secretaries has this uncanny ability to respond to my questions in a way that necessitates a follow-up question from me. Like, I'll ask a question (X or Y?) indicating the consequences of each answer, and she will answer the question but not indicate in any way her intention to implement the follow-through. Which means that I have to write to her again, saying "OK, so X, now will You do Z, as I suggested would be necessary if X?" It's unbelievably frustrating, as a communication tic, over a longer period of time.

In my fervor of cleaning this week I think I chucked some foodwares that had an expiration date of late April, because I thought we were in early May.

There are a couple of problems with me actually creating a 500-word entry here today.

1. I don't think I have word-count function.
2. It's 1:36am and I sort of want to go to sleep. I still have to make my bed, yo, I did laundry today.
3. It has been difficult for me to think of a topic upon which I could elaborate for 500 words without actually, You know, going public with my thoughts. This blogging thing is all well and good while I can keep it cryptic, abstract, and essentially uninterpretable by strangers/acquaintances, but expressing a real, coherent, considered thesis to anyone skulking about is probably not something I want to be a part of. Again, many people want to be the American Idol, I want anything but. I can create little exercises for myself to self-express to larger communities, but they are exercises and only demonstrate that I *can* do it when I force myself, not that it suddenly becomes natural/desirable.

Anyway, the only topic I could think of that I would be willing to go on and on about is how much I hate using PCs compared to my Macintosh. I know no one calls them Macintoshes anymore. It's strange.

So, here's the beginning of a list, and I'll probably add to it over the coming days. Who knows, I might even get to 500 words.

- the applications I am currently using sometimes show up in the bottom toolbar or whatever You PC users call it (I would like to call it a "dock") and sometimes they don't. They just aren't there even though an application is open. Especially (not always!!) when the window is open but hidden somewhere behind other windows on the desktop, i.e. when that would most come in handy. WTF?
- firefox is unbelievably slow
- I keep getting these messages popping up about how my computer might not be secure. Or that my some virus thing or other is/isn't active. Jeeeeezus. Who wants to have to deal with that shit all day?
- I hate having to use control as my function key because control is my function key FOR OTHER THINGS
- I hate that I got used to using control and now I'm dysfunctional on Mac keyboards!! aaahhh!!
- I hate the stupid trackpad responding to my fingers lingering over it and taking me unexpected and unintended places.
- I hate the inbuilt photo-organizing software being such utter fantastical crap.
- the fact that I have to go through a process of clicking and waiting and waiting and waiting to put this computer to sleep, rather than just closing it.. of course, that is somewhat better than the narcolepsy suffered by the PC in my office. THAT can get REALLY irritating.

Anyway, while I go to sleep/think more about these things, I recommend to You fmylife.com, a website that will either make You feel better or not.

Ph made a resolution to write 500 words a day in his blog. I can't imagine writing 500 words in my blog even once. Maybe that'll be a good goal for this weekend, along with calculating my taxes. Swell times all around.