Without ever realizing it, it's very easy to work yourself into an auto-pilot sort of groove. Your body knows how to do the tasks that you do over and over again without any real instruction from you. In fact, my brain is so very happy to turn the thinking over to my hands, I often can't explain how to do something in Excel if my hands aren't on the keyboard doing it. I'm that automated.

Which is why I really want to strangle both Google and Wikipedia right now. They've each recently done some revamping -- "To make your user experience BETTER!", no doubt. And I am going nuts. When I do a google search, my finger starts sliding the mouse toward the first link without my brain getting involed -- but now it's all moved just a bit to the right. And I keep missing.

Wikipedia is much worse. Much! The moved the stupid search box all the way to the right side of the screen! My hand doesn't want to move the mouse there; it cramps up! And how are they improving anything? How can they possible justify such a completely random move? If they really wanted to improve it, they should have made it so you could move it to anywhere on the screen and fix it to that position for future searches.

I may just be the fussiest human alive.

Don't Be Haters, yo

I can't figure out if this is just a Chicago thing, or if it's just my family that's insane, but when I tell people here that I like green olives on my pizza, they look at me with the same revulsion as if I had confessed to a fondness for diced baby hands as a topping. Green olives are delicious! Black olives are okay, but pretty dull. The green ones have a little punch, a little je ne sais quoi that sets then apart.

Don't be hatin' on me.