At the DJ they make us change our login password about as
often as most people change their underwear (which, I will point out, is more
often for DJ-type people than debate-type people). So I changed my password a
couple of days ago, and it wouldn’t take because I had used that one before, so
I put in another one that I immediately forgot. The fallout from this has been
frightening. I’ve lost access to a bunch of things that seem to have no
recollection of me in any way, shape or form. Every email address yields
nothing. Every poke, every pull, every tug—again nothing. Very frustrating.
Also not terribly important—will the world end if I can’t look at Tumblr every
couple of days? Still, I hate when the computer pulls itself out from under
you. Next time I’ll write down my password, which is what I usually do, and put
it on my bulletin board. You want to log in as me? Be my guest. Because, the
thing is, so do I.
At Penn, Sans-Culottes managed to also pull my computer away
from me, slipping in a horrible screaming sound every time I accessed tabroom.
I’m not quite sure why, but it was quite amusing, and I used it whenever the
Paginator looked like he was going to fall asleep. Then again, the Paginator
had the magic spell available to make it go away, and didn’t tell me, so he
deserved what he got. Feh!
The thing about the Penn tabroom, as anyone who followed it
on Facebook can tell, is that we were right on top of each other for three
whole days. It was the smallest conference room ever, up in a garret somewhere,
stuffed to the gills with people of the tabulation persuasion. Speech,
congress, debate, after-dinner conversation (which is, yes, a real event,
although I think they officially call it something else), you name it. You
couldn’t swing the proverbial cat, but there we were. And it was a hell of a
lot of fun. I think the goal of any decent tab room ought to be to get Kaz to
either spit-take or curse, and I think this weekend we got both. The thing is,
any sentence taken out of context can be hilarious, if you know how to work it.
And this group can take sentences out of context like nobody’s business. You
think Kellyanne knows how to twist the language? She’d commit seppuku in five
minutes if she were forced to work with us. Then again, we might kill her
ourselves before the five minutes were up, all things considered, but we’re not
here to talk politics or make fun of Trump and the Trumpettes. They do that
perfectly well all by themselves. Come to think of it, the tab room never talks
much about politics, not because we don’t all agree, but because it’s just so
tiresome. Lately I’m limiting my politics to tweets only. Debate here, entertainment
on FB, and snarky politics on Twitter. The balance seems right.
Now I'm looking at not one but two weekends off. I’m still
rather zonked from three nonstop days of Penn, so a little sleep for a morning
or two will not be viewed askance. Maybe I’ll pull a Palmer and keep my pants
off. One never knows, does one?
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