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Because she poured some US-made beer down the drain the previous day! 
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MehGerbil wrote: I'd handle that for you but I'm doing some required reading that is due on Monday
The old I have an assignment due excuse. I like it. 
I may just enroll in an adult education class. Do they offer wine tasting? 
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Last week I was an inconsiderate a**hole and spilled cola into my boss's mini desk fan (it was off thankfully). We dried it out, and now, this week, he showed me it was broken. I already ordered a new one to be delivered to him here, and feel bad about it because I have a desk fan that I've had for about 5 years. I love the thing and let it run every day just for the sound.
Does anyone else have something on their desk that would drive them mad if they had to go without for days (not counting computer peripherals/IO)?
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Going along with my previous music thread, occasionally I forget unintentionally leave my headphones at home (I take them home over the weekends.) Those days are always terrible. They seem to drag on forever. Other than that though, my desk is pretty bare and there's not really anything of importance on it.
Edited for ChrisElston's health.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
modified 19-Nov-12 14:48pm.
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You pretty much posted my exact situation so...this. (Including my desk being pretty bare.)
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Your use of the word forget hurts me.
Sometimes English gets used in way that seems not quite right, but that seems so, so wrong.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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How about now?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Much better, thanks
There are some words people in the UK use that have the same effect, where I live lots of people pronounce baby as babby. It's like nails down a blackboard to me.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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I know the feeling. I have a friend that constantly uses various "big words" incorrectly. Most of the time he does it when he thinks he is saying something witty, and most of them probably would be witty if the word made any sense... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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That is one of my comedic goto's. Yes, goto's are bad in coding and comedy, but sometimes I can't help it. With a straight face, if you try to use a big word and blunder it, but own it like you meant it, people will laugh. i.e.
"But doctors have to treat you, they took the Hippopotamus Oath."
It's kind of like Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell when they straight act playing an idiot, or it can be interpreted as aphasia.
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wizardzz wrote: Does anyone else have something on their desk that would drive them mad if they had to go without for days (not counting computer peripherals/IO)?
Beer?
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My coffee mug, those paper cups just don't cut it.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I have managed to destroy a work keyboard when I spilled something on it. Took a little while to get a replacement. Have spilled many time on papers on my desk, which can be a bit of a pain. I keep way too many papers on my desk. The worst spill is when i did it to my laptop. Which I have unfortunately done a couple of times. Fortunately dried out the first time, but it took a long while. On my current laptop managed to spill oil on it, and I can still see the effects of the oil on the display, but at least it works.
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I spilled a Smirnoff Spin on my one laptop and that was it. 
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My ex-girlfriend would have called that alcohol abuse. Never waste it.
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I was having a physical scrap with my housemate. I really couldn't help it.
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Must have been your girlfriend. They can get really testy, and take it out in bad ways.
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wizardzz wrote: I love the thing and let it run every day just for the sound.
I do the same thing at night, I've become so used to using a fan to cool my room during the summer that I have to run a fan when I go to bed or I can't fall asleep. I might go temporarily crazy if that happened to my bedroom fan...
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Agreed. I'm the same way. When we moved into our place, my woman made the landlord install a bedroom fan, it was the one demand we had. I think it has spilled over into needing the fan work though.
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wizardzz wrote: Does anyone else have something on their desk that would drive them mad if they had to go without for days (not counting computer peripherals/IO)?
You mean besides the secretary?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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A red stapler? On top of the TPS reports.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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You will usually find a can of green Monster energy drink on my desk  . On a related note, I once spilled half a can of green Monster stuff onto my Enermax Caesar keyboard[^]. I took it apart and did my very best to clean it, but it never really recovered  .
Soren Madsen
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I use exactly one pen each year. It just happened that I ran out of ink exactly one year after working at my company, so I decided to make my own little traition. At the end of the year I retire the pen and hang it on my bulletin board where it sits next to all the previous years pens. Sort of like a tick mark counting off how many years I've worked here. Anyway...if I can't find my pen, I go a little nuts....now I feel like I've shared too much...
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