Things that make you ask why

I've thought of re-orienting my blog today. The thing that makes me unique is partially my ability to watch the world around me from a sometimes juvenile and hopefully humorous perspective. When I speak to people, I hope to make them laugh a little and that their day is a little better from the encounter. With that in mind, I ask some questions today about "why" things are the way they are.

1. Why is it disconcerting (even at an advanced age) to be drinking out of a drinking fountain and have someone flush the toilet on the other side of the wall and have the water pressure change dramatically. I don't really believe what I told my little sister as a kid about the bad stuff coming through the drinking fountain, do I?



2. Why does it take so long to get a banking account? I signed up for new business account a few weeks ago at Washington Mutual. It took at least an hour. Granted, they might have some issues merging with the Chase systems, but what is up with taking over an hour? As I watched the bank employee click on her computer for over an hour, I couldn't help but think that some decent technology people could turn this from a one hour problem to a 5 minute problem. It could be simple: go stand at that kiosk, enter in your address and other info, and when you are done click submit and I'll click one or two buttons on my side and we'll be done. As it was, my kids trashed bank. 2-year olds flipping over water cups, spinning office chairs, climbing on book shelves....

3. I just walked over to the kitchen where I saw an Indian dude microwaving hot chocolate in a styrofoam cup. Well, at least he wasn't smoking a cigarette.









4. ASU is nearly six months behind on most of my payroll. They partially blame this on their computer systems. Dude, someone, somewhere needs to have their head roll over this one. I have at least 5 emails exchanged each week about this. It's always "the check's in the mail." Right.

5. My computer just crashed spontaneously. When I restarted, a new version of Firefox and Java were installed/about to be installed. Co-incidence? Not. I actually love both of those technologies, but they shouldn't go messing with my work-er-I mean blogging.