Foolery from Jeanne: Life’s Too Short to Play by ALL the Rules
At the bottom of our About Us page, you’ll notice I put out a call for your Foolish stories. Jeanne of the lost garden of senua blog has taken me up on the offer:
My favorite foolery is a small toy my boyfriend bought for me. It turns off TVs at a distance within 5-52 seconds. The toy absolutely ROCKS. When i go in for chemo (I have inoperable colon cancer), i turn off the TVs in the adjoining rooms. And i routinely turn the TV off while my children are watching a movie. Because i haven’t told them about the toy; they think there’s something very wrong with the TV.
I’ve got one of those devices as well. MUCH fun and highly useful in noisy restaurants that insist on playing a dozen TVs on every channel.
My second favorite tomfoolery is our bell. You know, the type that you ding to get the attention of the desk clerk who is paying no attention to you while talking to a friend on her cell while you wait patiently to check into a hotel. We take one with us everywhere we go. That way we have one when there isn’t one. Clerks and people behind counters everywhere are baffled by the bell. They didn’t put it there; it wasn’t there when they waited on the LAST person. Periodically we leave the bell if we think it is needed and buy a new one.
Let’s all start carrying a bell around. My favorite line, though, is in her sign-off:
We do other things too because life is too short to play by ALL the rules.
I think we just found our next T-shirt slogan. Thanks for sharing, Jeanne! Keep it Foolish.
When the Power Goes Out…
Yesterday at 2:15PM the BookFool.com lost its electricity due to a heavy storm. So, what does a group of BookFools do when the lights go out and the tornado sirens are singing?
- Watch the storm.
- Keep working (yes, there was one of us doing this and it wasn’t me or Lou).
- Sit atop a large rack of books and relax.
- Tell ghost stories.
- Look for flashlights.
- Lament.
- Train your eyes to see in dim light.
- Look for leaks in the warehouse roof.
- Use your cellular wireless to check The Tennessean and NewsChannel5.com for up-to-the-minute weather news and check on the power outage in Nashville at http://www.nespower.com/OutageMap. As of 10:30PM last night, our area was still in red b/c there are more than 100 customers without power.
- Lou constructed a nifty Boomerang type throwing device out of two sticks. It didn’t return to you, but we wanted more of a frisbee anyhow. Here’s a a How To of the basic design Lou made.
- Throw awesome boomerang into the weeds behind Clifford where it could not be retrieved (you know who you are).
- At 3PM, after the electricity does not return, leave for the Red Door Saloon with the BookFool.com crew and/or to Ugly Mugs with your preacher. I did both.
What did you do the last time the power went out?
You make it look easy
Some people make it look easy. Some programmers can execute code that just plain works. Some accountants can make the numbers dance and the spreadsheets sing. They amaze you with their effortless success.
And some bike tricksters, well… [video link]
At BookFool.com, we have a certain affinity for bicycles. Our first website promotion was on the back of a bicycle at Ole Miss, and about 25% of our current full-time staff ride their bicycles to work.
Thanks to Danny and Inspired Bicycles for inspiring us with their mastery!
