04/03/2000
Purple

Funny, yet copyright-infringing, cartoon.Yes, yes, I know I haven't written since last Tuesday. No doubt if this were a job I would have been fired long ago. Thankfully, though, I'm a volunteer. You can't fire me! You need me!

Which reminds me of my friend Angie. Angie has always been big on volunteering - at the zoo, for the deaf people and (most notably) for Danny Thomas' funeral. She'd always be leaving a party or dinner or a pot-smoking session or something like that to go volunteer.

"Blow it off!" I'd shout, "what are they going to do - fire you?"




So I had a big weekend and I actually do have a lot to write about, but it's almost 11:30 p.m. and I'm just about ready to go to bed. Therefore, I'm going to tell you one quick story and I'll recount the weekend tomorrow. I promise. And I'd never lie to you.

The night before we went to England I colored my hair, both to cover the wild and scraggly gray hairs and to hopefully obscure the growing patches of skin visible on my scalp. For the record, this goin' bald thing is not as easy to deal with as I imagined.

Anyway, I enjoyed having black hair back in the day so I get some Feria called Ruby Black. I'm thinkin' black with red highlights, right? Wrong! When I got on the plane the next day I had a vibrant, purple-maroonish head of hair. It faded quite a bit while we were gone, though, and now you really have to look to see that it's an odd color.

Anyway, Friday around lunchtime my boss comes into my office. I'm about to go to lunch, and we're chatting.

He stops talking for a minute and looks at my head.

"Is there some purple up there?" he asks.

I sheepishly nod and tell him yeah, there's some purple up there.

He shakes his head and grins.

"You web guys," and then he walked off.





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