We got thundersnow today. It was awesome.
I've got crampy fingers from signing off 150 pages of documentation this morning. Every time I see a forensic show where they're analyzing somebody's handwriting for forgery or to ID somebody, I always wonder what the investigator would do if he had to deal with my handwriting. Would he pack his bags, grab his pipe and walk out the door like the dog did in those Looney Tunes cartoons? There is one consistent thing when it comes to my handwriting, and that is inconsistency. I was thumbing through all my signatures and thinking, man it looks like 20 different people signed off on this thing. If I'm signing one sheet of paper, or a check or something, I can get into template mode and crank out something that looks a lot like the line on the back of my debit card. But if I've got to sign more than like 5 items, or write a note that's more than a sentence long, it's a crapshoot buddy. I could see the forensic guy checking it out "well, as you can see here, the crossbar on the 't' slants upward which indicates optimism and a desire to move forward, but hmmm, over here, the crossbar misses the 't' entirely and goes through the 'o' instead, making it look like a programmer's zero...which could indicate a subconscious need to be self defeating, but uhhh...over here the 't' is shaped more like a 'w' which means uhhh...are we sure this was written by an adult? or even the same person? waaaaaiiit, this is a joke right? Okay Bob fess up! I stayed late for this?..."
I've been secretly wishing for thumbprint sign-off.
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