WannaBeGythaOgg

A good day

I was incredibly productive at work today. I managed to quickly code a rather elegant (if I do say so myself) solution to a system issue we had. It wasn't a true BUG, mind you, more of a design error - but it's fixed now.

Sometimes I'm really afraid I'm not that bright. I have a lot of what my brother-in-law refers to as "dah-da-dah moments", and what my husband, in his usual non-PC way, calls "blonde moments". Either way, I do seem to miss a lot of key details that would otherwise prevent me from looking like an idiot. But then there's the other times...when I have a flash of relative brilliance (I mean, Stephen Hawking, I'm not), and can spend the rest of the day happily admiring myself.

Of course, I had another "dah-da-dah" with my daughter, where I was just not paying attention. We were standing in line at Subway, waiting to order, and had this conversation:

Catherine: "Can we go horse-back riding?"
Me: "Someday."
Catherine: "When? And you don't even know how."
Me: "Yes I do! I used to ride horses for years when I was younger."
Catherine: "How many?"
Me: "One at a time. That's all anybody ever rides."
Catherine (with exaggerated patience): "How many years?"

Oh well, at least I was smart when it counted.

posted by PratchettFan @ 6:05 PM