October 2, 2008

There's a little thing I do when writing on my computer here at the television station.
Actually, I had never even noticed it until somebody stuck his head in my office and pointed it out to me.

Whenever I get to the very bottom of a page of script, I always hit the little arrow that scrolls the page down.
It's hard to explain, but if there's nothing else on the page, a little bell rings.
It rings, I suppose, to let me know that very fact.... that there's nothing else written on that particular page.

Well, it turns out, I always hit the little arrow three times, so that the bell rings three times...
Not two times.... not four times.... but always three times.
It also turns out -- since I keep the volume on my computer turned up fairly high -- people outside my office can hear the bell.

After the person so abruptly pointed out to me that I had this little "typing quirk"... I actually tried to adjust.
I'm a fairly fast typist, but trying to avoid hitting that little arrow at the bottom of each page slowed me down....
It made me feel clumsy....
I found I desperately needed to hit that key three times....
I needed to hear that little bell....
And I needed it to be at full volume.

I might seem odd to you.... but at least I don't separate my M&Ms into color categories....
And I don't worry about stepping on cracks in the sidewalk....
And black cats don't concern me.

OK, that's all for now.
Ding, Ding, Ding.

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