Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Finding Things

It takes half of a Dairy Milk Cadbury bar and half of a Caramello Cadbury bar to become proficient in Excel - just in case anyone needed to know! I spent a few hours at it - 3 total, but at least half of that time was spent toggled over to AOL to do email and read news. Or weather. Or anything, that wasn't Excel.

My problem is that I have been taught Excel, but don't use it. It's hard to remember the bells and whistles that way. I was originally a math major in college, so statistics and such are not a big deal to me. Remembering where to find some of the more arcane features of a program are more of a deal for me - they did not exist when I was learning more advanced math classes. I didn't even have a calculator when I did statistics. Imagine that!

The missing tape dispenser. Well, that is no longer missing. The night I wrote here mentioning that it was missing, I had a dream. I dreamed something vague about something being lost and being exactly where it was expected to me. I woke up crabby and confused. I knew where it had been, but had no idea where I had moved it. Hm, I did move it, right?

Then the light bulb went on. I went to where I had last seen it - which was on the stereo stand where I set it down while installing the programmable thermostat. Sure enough, it was there. It's brown, the stand is brown - somehow I walked past it a million times and didn't see it. My subconscious saw it on the middle shelf, I guess, and tossed it into my dream. Why couldn't it just yell at me? "Hey, stupid, you just walked past it for the hundredth time tonight! I can see it, why can't you?"

Brains are funny things, aren't they?

 

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds as if you have a pretty good one. Brain that is. I won't even mention how bad I am in math. Hope I find my little denium cell phone holder. I know I put it somewhere. Paula

Anonymous said...

so glad you found your tape dispenser:) now where are my mouse and cat ears and tails? LOL have a good evening hugs to the girls

Deb

Anonymous said...

LOL!  How funny it was still there...I am pretty sure it would take much more chocolate that that for me.  I don't think I even learned how to e-mail in three hours!  Jae

Anonymous said...

Brains are funny things, aren't they?  That depends on who brain it is! LOL  I'm glad you found the tape.  I have a few missing rolls that no one seems to know anything about.  Have a good night.
Missie
http://journals.aol.com/chat2missie/MissiesUpsideDownWorld/

Anonymous said...

I'd have to say my brain is pretty goofy and it doesn't do math ... at all. Maybe with a calculator, even with that it protests.  As for the chocolate,  you got off easy, I think I would've needed a whole lot more!

Monica

Anonymous said...

It probably tried to tell you and you probably told it to shut up - I'm guessin' :-)

Anonymous said...

very interesting our brains...but I just have to remember to use mine for good instead of evil!  yum!  I love Caramello bars!  rose~

Anonymous said...

Let me know when you dream about my cell phone. I think my contract is about up.