Doug, Doug, Gray Doug
I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their “fortunes” are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find pseudo-Confucian wisdom printed on our paper tape. However, this shift has yielded some great results, …
Blogging has (obviously) been light today, as I had three meetings today. That, combined with it being a Chinese Tuesday meant that I actually sat in front of my computer for what seemed like a grand total of 35-45 minutes, during which time I, you know, had to do real work. Apologies. I assure you …
I’ve been increasingly disappointed in the “fortunes” that have been appearing in my fortune cookies at my weekly “Chinese Tuesday” outtings. For instance, today’s read: The will of the people is the best law. That’s not a fortune, that’s bloody philosophy! If I wanted “Philosophy cookies”, I’d ask for them.
This week, in a blatant violation of all prior precedent, my crew at work was forced to change our Chinese Lunch Tuesday into the highly suspect Chinese Lunch Friday. I suppose there was a decent enough reason, what with the dog n’ pony show that went on this week (and the unwelcome restroom changes that …