7 quick takes: what I learned today

Last updated on: November 18, 2015 at 12:02 am by Simcha Fisher

7 quick takes: what I learned today 2015-11-18T00:02:19-05:00 Simcha Fisher

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SEVEN GENUINELY QUICK TAKES!

1. If you were planning to spend the day with nine children at an art museum a few hours away, but decide, when the three-year-old throws up all over you TWICE before you’ve even had your coffee, that you’d be a fool to take her to the art museum, you’d be right.

But if you think that that would be the worst way you could spend your day, you’d be wrong. (See here.)

2. If you are going to keep all of your nails, screws, bottles of paint, billions of plastic beads, nuts, bolts, bottles of glue, grout sealant, screwdrivers, paintbrushes, pipe cleaners, bits of felt, googly eyes, sequins, wrenches, pencil sharpeners, bouncy balls, clothespins, curtain rods, broken picture frames, dried up Play Doh, broken tape measures, and flattened coffee filters that will probably be useful for something some day in two rickety cabinets stacked one on top of the other, it is probably best not — NOT, I repeat — to keep several gallons of loosely closed paint on top of those cabinets.

3. Or at least, holy crap, why would you keep it so close to the computer? (Yes, what I learned is “holy crap.”)

4. Sobbing.*

5. I always think my husband is going to yell at me and make me feel bad when I do something incredibly stupid, but I learned again today that he never does. Instead he reassured me that he knows I didn’t do it on purpose, and that he would find a way to retrieve all the photo files from the last seven years somehow, and that we didn’t really need electricity in that part of the house anyway (I actually just silently said that part to myself, and assumed that he would agree, but just thought it too obvious to mention).

7. A computer that will not turn on is not a computer that will never turn on! Sometimes it just needs to have each of its 427 individual bits cleaned out so there’s not so much paint on them anymore, and then your husband will devote a mere five hours of his only day off this week to setting up the wireless milgram remote connectivity port mesodrive modulator.

Happy Friday!

*This is not actually something new I learned today. I was just brushing up.

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