I Need a Bigger Desk

I am sitting here this morning trying to find someplace to set my coffee cup that is somewhat level. I think I need a bigger desk! The one I have has a surface area of about three feet by two feet. It's not a bad size, in a perfect world, considering everything I do on this desk is done on a computer. I don't have to have space to write on paper or anything like that. When I have something that can't be done on the computer I move over to the table that sits behind me. However, this isn't a perfect world, it is my world and now I have to hunt for a place to set my coffee.

Watches and Laptops

I do the vast majority of my posting here working on a laptop. Until I started typing on this thing all the time I never realized just how inconvenient wearing a watch can be. We can put a man on the moon (if you happen to believe it happened on a soundstage in Hollywood, you at least have to admit that it took some damn good technology to pull off the hoax), we can make a car get 50 miles to the gallon, we can even develop weapons capable of killing the entire human race, but somehow we can't seem to make a laptop computer that is comfortable to type on if you have a watch. Incredible!

Why Men Hate Instruction Manuals!

Ever wonder the reasoning behind men NOT using an instruction manual to put something together? I don't mean something as simple as a bicycle that most of us have been putting together and taking apart since early teens, but complex things that come in enough boxes to fill the garage. Well, I'll tell you...

The instructions LIE!!!

Somewhere in there the manufacturer has probably been nice enough to put in an "estimated time to complete" or some other similar bullshit. It's a LIE! It's a marketing ploy to make it seem simple, that anyone can do it, therefore you as the customer is not daunted by it as much.

Case in point, Rion states that it should take approximately four hours to put together their Prestige model greenhouse. No big deal! Two able bodied men can knock that puppy out in an afternoon and still have time to shower before going out to dinner with the family, right? Fuck no! Granted, if there had been eight guys here, a couple cases of beer, and the ONLY thing we had to do was put the greenhouse together (not build and level the foundation, check the packing lists, or any of that other "extra" shit they never mention), we could have had a greenhouse done in four hours. Not going to get into whether or not all the pieces are where they should be, or the box or two of "extra parts" or if the damn thing is square...

But, even with all that there is a better reason most men hate instruction manuals...

Somewhere in the house, in the air conditioning, there's a woman that knows just enough of how that fucking greenhouse is supposed to go together to know it should take about four hours. And when they start bitching that their worthless, good for nothing, guys are just "slackin off and milkin the job," THAT'S when guys start hating the damn instruction manual!