A couple complaints:
- Got this funny ache just below my spinal column, ie my butt hurts, just like somebody kicked my ass! Yet I've had no trauma to that area recently. <1>
- My office-mate is getting on my nerves - he's making more noises and rhetorical comments while working. This was okay in our old space, where we had over twenty feet between us, but now that this distance has been reduced to six feet, I can hear him. And I'd rather not. Also he's having troubles with his live-in girlfriend, highlights of which he's compelled to share each morning - I'd rather not hear those, either.
Had a dream involving a very specific object - a fat rubber band from
Peets. By fat I mean
extra wide, like over an inch (in its dormant state) and inked onto it is
"Peets" and some of their trademark primitive imagery, like they print on
their paper coffee cups. Once they had a bowl of these rubber bands on the
counter and I took one and it's been floating around my space being useful
ever since. (Its days are numbered, however - examining it just now I notice
a small, longitudinal slit - eventually the cut will grow.) Anyway,
in my dream I remember handing this jumbo rubber band to somebody. That
is all.
Y2K Spotlight
Joel Achebbach, Washington Post columnist and author of
Why Things Are, holds forth about Y2K in a front-page
article
in that paper. He repeats this factoid, a bit of
reassuring happy news I've heard before which
doesn't quite makes sense to me:
"The Federal Reserve has already taken steps to put an extra $50 billion into the banking system in anticipation of people withdrawing cash from their accounts."Remember George Bailey explaining why he can't refund everybody's money in "It's A Wonderful Life"? When your bank pays out what cash they have on hand, what isn't invested elsewhere; and their store of cash is then exhausted, so what if the Treasury is printing extra money? <2> Unless this "putting into" of $50 billion is going to be gifts to the banks. (Hah!) When I consider any post-whatever scenario that's major disruption, I hear O's petulant exclamation of "It doesn't sound like fun!" (He said this as I extrapolated the details of a possibly bleak future once.) Personally I'm overwhelmed and in denial - an assessment/reaction of Y2K prep I read somewhere was something to the effect of "if you didn't start preparing for this thing during the Reagan administration then you're already screwed."