Another of my just-sneaking-in-under-the-wire moments for the group project. You never would have known this whole thing was my idea 
So what do I have to say for myself? Voila!
I suppose I have no one to blame but myself. It is clearly not an image that required any “think outside the box”. I freely concede that. No point in trying to do otherwise. If I had been a far more clever lad I would have jumped right in, feet first, with my original idea, which was a photograph of the mess of cables and wires pouring out behind the computer cabinet in the basement.
However, not being a particularly clever lad I missed that window of opportunity and conceded it to that rascal Mike. And mine would have had far more cable and even bigger tangles!
Humph.
Then came the thought of borrowing myself as a model and doing something whereby I might muster a perplexed expression while fiddling with some thing…an owner’s manual, a new electronic toy, etc. Alas this opportunity also went begging.
Are you beginning to see a pattern? If not, let me give you a hand: I suck.
Licking my wounds, I put the whole matter out of my head and hoped for divine inspiration. Another wrong move considering my atheistic activities. “So now what?” I mused while dragging out my IBM Selectric III typewriter as I had some typing I wanted to do.
“Hum…” I muttered to myself. “What is this preoccupation with a typewriter when I have perfectly fine word processing opportunities scattered about the house? Three computers. Three printers. What gives?” And it was at this moment I realized I was perplexed.
About myself.
(big surprise, right?)
And this particular oddity is not completely alone in the dichotomy that makes up the Forkboy world. Oh no. There is also my preoccupation with mechanical timepieces (both clocks and watches). And with mechanical weather measuring instruments.
It is perplexing, and I think you may agree, that a guy who so completely and utterly embraces our modern consumer electronic world would also keep one foot squarely rooted in the past in certain areas. And as well as I believe I know and understand myself I cannot, for the life of me, offer a reason for these diametrically opposed positions.
Why would I want to type, when I can speedily and readily utilize a word processing application? Why would I better appreciate a watch that must be wound and loses/gains seconds every day over a modern LCD that not only tells time, but can act as an alarm, stop-watch and timer? And what is up with the desire for a thermometer, barometer and hydrometer when one can purchase a sleek, modern and sophisticated weather station that will output to your computer and give you hour-by-hour information over time?
It doesn’t make sense! It’s weird! It’s nonsensical! It’s perplexing!!
But it’s me.
