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loaded_march) wrote2016-07-16 10:23 am
loaded_march) wrote2016-07-16 10:23 am
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50 shades of tabs (or: consequences of living with a writer)
The Spouse borrowed my phone the other day to look up something, and he boggled when he went to open a new tab and saw that I had 50 tabs open.
Spouse: You have 50 tabs open. Why do you have 50 tabs open?
Me, shrugging a shoulder: Research.
Spouse: Research for what?
Me: Um. Well, some of them are research for X book, some of them are for Y, a couple of them are recipes I want to try, but, yeah, mostly they're for the writing.
Spouse: Some of these are just google searches, why don't you close them?
Me: Because they're searches I haven't actually done yet, just reminders of topics I want to look up later.
The Spouse stared at me for a minute, then muttered: I didn't know your phone could still work with that many browser tabs open.
Me: Now maybe you'll understand when I complain that my laptop browser is slow.
The Spouse looked at me with narrowed eyes, and asked: Do I want to know how many tabs you have open on your laptop right now?
Me: No. No, you really, really don't.
(83, if you were wondering)
Spouse, after finding what he was looking for, said: I'm buying you a notebook so that you can write this shit down and close the tabs.
Me, after a long pause reflecting on all the notebooks I have everywhere in the house -- the very same ones he complains about but seems to have forgotten -- and seeing an opportunity: Can I have a new pen too?
(because there's never too many notebooks or pens)
Spouse: You have 50 tabs open. Why do you have 50 tabs open?
Me, shrugging a shoulder: Research.
Spouse: Research for what?
Me: Um. Well, some of them are research for X book, some of them are for Y, a couple of them are recipes I want to try, but, yeah, mostly they're for the writing.
Spouse: Some of these are just google searches, why don't you close them?
Me: Because they're searches I haven't actually done yet, just reminders of topics I want to look up later.
The Spouse stared at me for a minute, then muttered: I didn't know your phone could still work with that many browser tabs open.
Me: Now maybe you'll understand when I complain that my laptop browser is slow.
The Spouse looked at me with narrowed eyes, and asked: Do I want to know how many tabs you have open on your laptop right now?
Me: No. No, you really, really don't.
(83, if you were wondering)
Spouse, after finding what he was looking for, said: I'm buying you a notebook so that you can write this shit down and close the tabs.
Me, after a long pause reflecting on all the notebooks I have everywhere in the house -- the very same ones he complains about but seems to have forgotten -- and seeing an opportunity: Can I have a new pen too?
(because there's never too many notebooks or pens)
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