I was doing a little reading this morning and came across this. It reminded me of a conversation we had a while back.
At certain moments, always unforeseen, I become happy.....I look at the strangers near as if I had known them all my life...everything fills me with affection.....It may be an hour before the mood passes, but latterly I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate. W.B. Yeates
OK, I wasn't originally going to post this little incidental but I thought it curious, so I figured what the hey in light of what happened today:
W mailed me her W-2s so that I could file our taxes jointly. When I received the envelope this past Thursday and opened it, it had her w-2s in it, along with a sticky note that said...
[Jimbo],
Here are my tax forms.
[wife]
...and I thought to myself that it was pretty self-evident as to what the contents were. Why the note? And then I put myself in her shoes and wondered what sort of meta-message it would communicate to me had she not included the note. Considering the last phone conversation we had together, it would have probably come off as being cold. So can I infer that she is trying to "not be cold" by including a note? What does this say about her attitudes toward me? I take it as continuing validation that she doesn't hate my guts!
So, anyway, about today: I got an email from W this morning. It was a forwarded message from the property manager for the building where my W works. The subject line read "FW: Explosion Simulation on Wednesday near Key Bridge - PLEASE POST OR DISTRIBUTE". When you open it, it had a short note reiterating that it was only a simulation, followed by the details.
But the most notable part of the email was the very first line, which read "By the way, have you sent the taxes to the accountant?" The whole email was sent with high importance.
I just had to laugh out loud.
Perhaps the best part of all of this is that she got an automated email response back telling her that I am out of the office until next Wednesday!
Just curious to take a poll- she knows I check my blackberry. Should I let her hang until next Wednesday, or email her back tomorrow? Or Thursday? Or Friday? Or...........
PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE CONQUER ALL THINGS. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
DBing and MLC take their toll....Please provide exact CHANGE. -Jimbo
Perhaps the best part of all of this is that she got an automated email response back telling her that I am out of the office until next Wednesday!
LMAO!!! Classic!!! The universe if you will. How the hell are ya Jimbo. I'd ring ya, but some dummy hasn't got off his butt to ship you the wireless thingamajig. It's on it's way tomorrow my man.
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Just curious to take a poll- she knows I check my blackberry. Should I let her hang until next Wednesday, or email her back tomorrow? Or Thursday? Or Friday? Or...........
Let it ride for a few, Wednseday sounds a bit long but a maybe a day or two. Why not.
