Boredom Buster

…it’s tax season and our business is slow…hecka slow…and so i’m so hecka bored!

...when someone like me finally crosses that thin line to boredom, that means it’s totally freaking boring!!! 2 minutes more and i’ll have my coffee break (how ironic since i gave up caffeine, yes, that includes tea and chocolate products for what seems like 20 million years ago)…so i just started writing this. writing gets me into a time warp of sorts. hopefully in the next jiffy, i’ll be strutting down the aisles of Safeway picking out stuff to cook for the whole week…oh yeah, i’m making mini baked crabmeat frittata sometime this week for brunching, snacking and boredom (duh!) purposes. hubby’s so excited because he likes to throw it on top of his rice, laced with Mexican Cholula hot sauce –  fusion cuisine, babie!

…i just made a geeky discovery while i’m on this boredom thingy.  i was flipping and twirling my pen between my index and middle finger, baton-style and noticed that the pen looks animated (like you see a bunch of pen images at every angle of the flip similar to several cartoon frames that didn’t transition smoothly —like it was doing a fast statue dance---what you look like under a flickering white strobe light in a club) when you twirl it in front of a computer monitor. and i noticed that it doesn’t do that when you twirl it against the fluorescent desk light…or the view of the ceiling or my co-worker's face. i tried it halfway in front and halfway off and i see the big difference. i noticed that anything you move across the computer monitor produces the same image behavior, like when you wag your hand repeatedly in front of it for instance. are you trying it right now?

…my co-worker just caught me doing it while trying a couple more disturbing stunts. i won’t be surprised if within the next few hours, dark-suited men wearing sunglasses will come marching through the glass doors of my workplace (no, wait, that’s a different movie); dragging me away to an asylum where they house people who develop startling behavioral deviations during their coffee, uh uhrm, non-coffee breaks.