I got myself into a whole lot of budgeting at work. It’s literally been years now since I was flipping through spreadsheet after spreadsheet trying to get some shit to balance and make some sense.

What was I thinking when I mentioned a certain familiarity to the toil a while back?

The plus side is working on spreadsheets really feeds into my OCD tendencies. Columns, rows, highlighting, cutting pasting over and over and over and over again. Then checking all the formulas, going back through the detail, double-checking the formulas, reformatting. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.

It’s cathartic in a weird, repetitive, raking leaves into piles kind of way. If only I could convince people not to talk with me. At all. Ever. As I rake and rearrange the piles.

As I started writing this little bit of lazy prose, I had nothing of any kind of interest. But, for a few nights now, there’s a commercial running during “The Daily Show” —
“Colbert Report” block on Comedy Central. It’s a marketing campaign for the local Unitarians. Whatever, don’t care to mock the quasi-religious.

What I don’t get about the commercials is that they are animated. But, like shitty Photoshop, create a cartoon from a photograph kind of animation. So, the people talking look a bit like a courtroom sketch or some other kind of not quite revealing their identity kind of picture.

I don’t get it. Are they hiding?