So I'm working from home today, which means I'm sitting in my friends' apartment, who were kind enough to let me house-sit while they went trekking in Nepal and Tibet. The thing is, I get distracted by stupid things while I'm proofreading some dry reports for work. Exhibit A: the round-about outside the apartment.
Even for a lifelong connoisseur of ways to zone oneself out, this thing is RIVETING. It's like staring into a fire. You just look out, see the cars going around, the people that occasionally wander out in the way, and BAM you're totally zoned out. It's the worst during the morning rush hour, but it goes on all day.
Next is the window cleaners who came by and cleaned the 30th floor windows, also providing a convenient distraction from my job, as well as making me suddenly grateful that I was doing such dry work. I think this is going to be the first part of an ongoing series called "Jobs I'm Glad I Don't Do."
Jobs I'm Glad I Don't Do, Part I: Window Washing on 30+ Story Buildings
Please note the cable in the background which looks like it's not quite taut. That's cuz it wasn't quite taut. For some reason the cord had gotten tangled, so when the man in the picture finished fixing whatever was going on (about 5 seconds after taking this picture) the entire side of the applepicking/windowwashing machine just dropped like six inches before the cord caught. I felt my own heart leap into my throat, and also nearly browned my shorts, and I wasn't even in the thing. I can't imagine how the man in blue and his unpictured companion must have felt. All I can say is "THIS guy is glad he's not THAT guy."
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