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Friday, January 6, 2006

If the Boss has no clue how disorganized I really am, it’s only through dumb luck. So far, whenever he’s called and asked for something, I’ve been able to find it in short order. That isn’t because of my filing system, which is haphazard, or my memory, which is getting Swiss cheesy. It’s sheer luck, plus my talent for putting him off the scent. I mean, sometimes when there’s a little problem I can’t solve, it’s best to point out a bigger problem (especially if it’s one that he can solve; he loves that).

Anyway, the Boss wasn’t involved in today’s crisis. It was all of my own making, and it had elements of both the haphazard filing and the cheesy memory. In getting ready for the year-end forms I have to do this month, I needed last year’s 1099s and W-2s for The Kennel. For the construction company, I’ve been doing it for nearly twenty years, so I have a sort of a system (however haphazard and cheesy it might be). But last year was the first for The Kennel, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what I did with my copies of those forms.

I looked. And looked and looked, using up all of the last half of the afternoon. I went through every pile of loose papers in my house, and that accounts for a lot of papers. I started with the place where I thought I’d left the forms, and then moved on to where I should have put them, and by the end of the ordeal I was looking in places where they couldn’t possibly be, not in a million years. And then I looked in all those places again.

When I found them (and I knew I would, because where could they go?), they were in fact in one of the file boxes I’d already looked through at least twice. They were in a manila folder that wasn’t labeled, but at least they weren’t up in the loft in the stacks of credit card receipts from 1997, or in my bedroom under the pile of vintage magazines that I never got around to reading and never will.




31 December 2005

Marching clouds.



By the end of this nightmare, I once again felt as if I’d spent the day digging ditches. And even after I found what I was looking for, I kept thinking of other places to look for it. I collapsed into the recliner, but every so often I’d bolt upright and start moving toward some new phantom location — to look for something I’d already found. It’s probably a good thing the weekend is here.




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The Red Sox have improved themselves more than they probably even realize by signing J.T. Snow as their part-time first baseman (and I wouldn’t be surprised if he won the job full time). After nine seasons, the Giants suddenly decided he was expendable, even though they don’t have anyone better at that position. He will win more games with his glove than most players do with their bats. He’s a Bay Area favorite and we’ll miss him here, but he’ll have a bigger spotlight on him playing in Boston, so more of the country will get to know him.

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One year ago: Going
"I’m almost convinced that I can do it. If. If what? That’s where I’m a little fuzzy."

Two years ago: Orderly
"I'd blame the governor, but I keep forgetting who that is. In California, it's usually a bad actor, and we have too many of those to pin it down from one week to the next."

Three years ago: Against the Wind
"I impertinently and imprudently failed to make any resolutions for the new year, and I'm now paying the price."

Four years ago: Punished
"I thought it might be fun because it's based on stories by Turgenev and Chekhov, and you know those crazy Russian romantics."

Five years ago: Maybe the Last Time, I Don't Know
"I should never agree to anything over the phone."

Six years ago: Groundhog Day
"Whatever happened to Baby Jane? Where have all the flowers gone? Why do fools fall in love?"


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