Awww...(and a rant)

I came in yesterday morning and found two Lego game sets and a couple of small Dragonball Z posters on my desk chair. Apparently, DP's son is totally over DBZ; he was cleaning his room and DP came in and found the posters in the trash. She told me she kind of got verklempt -"You're throwing those away? *sniff sniff*" - since that was something she and her son used to enjoy together. And indeed that was one of the first things I found we had in common when I was training her to do docks - "What, another adult who's actually heard of it?!"

One of the posters is a Where's Waldo-style collage of probably all the characters (and quite a few at different points in their lives) who appear in both series (DB and DBZ), and she confided she was hoping I'd put it up in my office so she could still see it. I stuck it up in one of my only bare spaces left, behind my computer monitor and next to a California Seafood Index poster about the same size, where it won't be really obvious. The only thing about it is Vejita should be more prominent - it's definitely Goku centric.

I'll probably put the other poster up in the kid's room at home, and save the games until the holidays.

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In other rants, there is a sign in breakroom to the effect of "if you take the last of the coffee, please make another pot. Use 3 rounded scoops." Well, the scoops disappeared from the coffee container and was replaced with a plastic teaspoon. Now, people, I know most of you like your coffee somewhat less strong than I do, but 3 teaspoons does not 3 scoops make!!! A scoop equals 2 tablespoons! If you look at the directions, it's supposed to be a tablespoon per serving, so even the original instructions made for weak coffee. Three teaspoons in a 10 cup pot, to quote Jasmine in Baghdad Cafe, "is not coffee, is nasty brown water!"

Blecch!

Awww...(and a rant)

I came in yesterday morning and found two Lego game sets and a couple of small Dragonball Z posters on my desk chair. Apparently, DP's son is totally over DBZ; he was cleaning his room and DP came in and found the posters in the trash. She told me she kind of got verklempt -"You're throwing those away? *sniff sniff*" - since that was something she and her son used to enjoy together. And indeed that was one of the first things I found we had in common when I was training her to do docks - "What, another adult who's actually heard of it?!"

One of the posters is a Where's Waldo-style collage of probably all the characters (and quite a few at different points in their lives) who appear in both series (DB and DBZ), and she confided she was hoping I'd put it up in my office so she could still see it. I stuck it up in one of my only bare spaces left, behind my computer monitor and next to a California Seafood Index poster about the same size, where it won't be really obvious. The only thing about it is Vejita should be more prominent - it's definitely Goku centric.

I'll probably put the other poster up in the kid's room at home, and save the games until the holidays.

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In other rants, there is a sign in breakroom to the effect of "if you take the last of the coffee, please make another pot. Use 3 rounded scoops." Well, the scoops disappeared from the coffee container and was replaced with a plastic teaspoon. Now, people, I know most of you like your coffee somewhat less strong than I do, but 3 teaspoons does not 3 scoops make!!! A scoop equals 2 tablespoons! If you look at the directions, it's supposed to be a tablespoon per serving, so even the original instructions made for weak coffee. Three teaspoons in a 10 cup pot, to quote Jasmine in Baghdad Cafe, "is not coffee, is nasty brown water!"

Blecch!