- Why is there such douchery in the world (and especially here in Los Angeles)?  I was at the mall food court for lunch with some co-workers yesterday when a guy got up from a big table and walked away, so I walked over and put my tray down so we could take the table — the guy came back and said it was his table, and I asked him if it would be possible for him to take one of the many open square tables a couple of feet away.  He asked why I couldn’t take it, and I replied there were three of us and one of him, and the big table was built for five but the small ones were built for two, so we’d have a little room for our trays on the big table but none on the small ones.  He then had the audacity to tell me that I didn’t ask him nicely enough so I could take the smaller table, and after I left, he then proceeded to walk away from the table again and spend the next five minutes wandering around the area on his cell phone.  WTF?  Though I guess the bigger question is… why am I still thinking about this?
- Why do the “weight control” packets of Quaker oatmeal have more calories than the regular ones?
- Why is eHarmony giving me all these out-of-area matches?  I told the system that I wanted to date someone within 30 miles.  Last time I checked, Fresno and Arizona are not within 30 miles of Los Angeles.  So much for their “careful 29-step matching process.”
- Why is my beautiful new Airport Extreme base station not working?  I just got the thing yesterday, and it was working when I went to sleep last night.  Now I can’t get it to connect to the fabulous Webbernets.
- Why do I seem less affected this year than in other years by the fact that I don’t have a Valentine?  And honestly, why am I concerned about that?  I should probably just be thankful that it feels like just another day instead of a Hallmark-invented holiday designed to poke me in the duodenum repeatedly and remind me that I’m single.