Well, I was putting my employment in peril all last week by concentrating on entertaining you, the Steelbuddha reader. But no comments? Poop. I’m going to work if that’s how you’re all gonna be. That, and I sort of want to stay employed. And I do mean sort of.<\/i><\/p>\n
I’m going to take a brief relief from blogging. I should be back in August sometime. Meanwhile, a short poem left in Post-Its on my computer by a co-worker. Each line break is a new Post-It.<\/p>\n
So while I was on the
\ninterstate
\nI thought to myself
\nIt’s a nice day, I think I’ll
\nroll down the windows and
\nopen the sunroof
\nwhen all of a sudden
\na mysterious white paper
\nflew out the window
\nand I sit here hoping
\nit wasn’t too important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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