Temp job...

So I'm in the Dean's Office at Vet Med. I already have a picture of Buster up in my cubical area. It's a great place to work. Jeans on Fri, and a boss that knows how to teach you things without making you feel like a moron for not knowing it in the first place...

Buster has been a bit hyperactive this week. I've got a full time gig now, so he's not used to having so much time on his hands... err, paws. I sense the dog park in our future.

Studio 60....

Yeah, I have been watching intently. It's like the old days of West Wing. The "walk and talk" is there, the camera shots, the great dialog. Timothy Busfield, Bradley Whitford...

The main actors are playing characters very different that what we're used to seeing. But I don't have a discongruent feeling. Can you really see Kelsy Grammer as anything other than Fraiser, or a voice on the Simpsons?

I don't think it will inspire me to move to Hollywood, but it's great TV.

Retro Technology

So I used a typewriter at work on Friday, pretty much for the first time. My parents had one, but I don't recall using for anything of consequence. Even my typing class was on a computer.

It took some adjusting. I was filling out a form, and it was tricky to get the spacing just right. There was no blinking vertical line indicating where the letter would appear on the page. There was a "paper up" and a "paper down" button. The "paper up" works exactly like the "page down" key on a computer.

I had quite the sense of accomplishment when I was finished.