The dogs have banished me to the basement to write.
It was something necessary.
It has been another week and they knew it.
One dog was on the couch. The other dog was in the easy chair.
They know I write what I like when I like to.
The other dog really turned a difficult and challenging chair into an easy chair.
I typed that because I wanted to see what would become of the use of ‘easy chair’ in a sentence. It ended up being about as exciting as a sucked lemon–which is not very exciting.
I threw that in there for what it was worth; it wasn’t worth much.
I remember when people used to get ghosted only at Halloween.
Now if you’re dealing with certain recruiters and depending on whether you’re a serious candidate or not, ghosting is a year-round phenomenon. Ghosting is the 21st-century version of blowing something off.
Blow it off, Bob.
Just ghost it, Bob.
Keep it simple, stupid. KISS. Not the ‘Iiii want to rock ‘n’ roll all night and party every day KISS,’ either.
Ghosting is an excuse for not having enough time to do the right thing–whether it’s being the candidate who lets the recruiter know they are not taking the position or if it’s the recruiter letting the candidate know the company is going in a different direction.
What’s so hard about that?
Remember the saying computers will make our lives easier?
I do.
The only problem is computers didn’t make our lives easier to the point where we have more leisure time to do what we want to or should do.
Computers ended up making our lives so busy by allowing us to read and compose 100+ emails a day that in the process they denied us the common decency, if not time, to communicate with people who deserve our communication.
Computers and social media have been responsible for an epidemic of people lacking in social graces. This is an irony not lost upon me.
This is me throwing shade at computers and social media. It is not the first time I have done so. But it is the first time I’ve used ‘throwing shade’ in any of my pieces.
I once considered being a shade tree mechanic which is an entirely different beast altogether (relative to shade).
Shade in its modern-day meaning combined with tree mechanic would mean to talk trash about a tree mechanic. This makes no sense at all and is a direct result of popular culture giving new life to words used with different meanings previously.
Another reason it makes no sense to shade tree mechanics is that I don’t know if there are any tree mechanics in existence. To further complicate things there actually are Shadetree mechanics, which again, is a completely different thing.
Is that really a completely different thing? Yes, it’s a thing, and it’s also a completely different thing.
When the dogs banish me to the basement I often wonder if they regret it. Not because they have the solitude of Wheel of Fortune and each other without me, but because they realize I will end up writing something unlike anything else you will read today, tomorrow or next week.
Throw me some shade if you disagree. The dogs, mind you, could care less.