I hate shredders

Hey all:

Been organizing my office, which means a lot of shredding, which means a lot of shredder jamming. We have two shredders in the house, one tiny 3 paper one and one that holds 6 sheets. I've learned these numbers are no arbitrary. I've learned the hard way, by jamming each one of them on numerous occasions when I tried to hopefully "squeeze just one more page into this batch of shredding..."

It's not that I can't count to 3 or 6 it's just after shredding over and over again your brain (well at least my brain) starts to think, "you know John if I could just squeeze in an extra page or two here and there I could cut down on my shredding time and do something more fun, for example actually write something..." So I inevitably try to cram a few extra pages in, figuring, "this time I will get it."

Ever once in a while it does work. There are times though, most times actually when I end up jamming the shredder. I need to use the reverse button, tooth picks, ice picks, scissors or whatever to unjam it.

This begs the questions: why I do repeat the behavior when I know what is going to happen and why don't I just rip the damn things by hand?

My answer (albeit not a good one) is: I somehow think "current John" is smart than "past John", past John is the guy who tried to cram 8 sheets into the 6 sheeter but did it wrong. Current John learned from his mistakes and will now cram those 8 sheets in better. Even if this current John fails, he will learn from the experience and make future John brighter.

That is my answer, which I like better than just admitting I'm lazy and not all that bright.

This will certainly show up in working daze.

Do you want to be in comics?

Hi:

Ever want to be a comic strip character? Well now is your chance as we are having the sort of annual, "you can be in working daze" contest. Just email me at johnzakour@yahoo.com and tell me why you deserve to be in Working Daze.

Scott and I will pick one or two or maybe even three lucky winners.

Updates and Stuff

Hey all:

There is a new page now up of the Zach comic. I hope you find it a fun read and tell your friends.

Also for something a bit different my good friend, world class hypnotist Elena Beloff recently visited me and first interviewed me about the writing process then she hypnotized me into thinking i was Zach from my books (and more.)

It was pretty cool.

Oh next week Rita tries to come up with a "catch phrase".

Roy and Reading

Okay, who else feels like Roy when it comes to reading Manuals? I have to admit I am. I really read them as a very very last resort.

Oh there's a new page of the zach online graphic novel.

BTW, in the coming weeks Rita will be trying to develop a new "catch phrase."

New Zach comic

Hi all:

There is a new Zachary Nixon Johnson comic available for free at http://www.zach.pinkraygun.com/ The comic will update on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Tell your friends.

Feedback welcome!

Sapphire Sirens cover on Amazon

Hi all:

The cover of my new novel: The Sapphire Sirens is now on amazon. I think it is a cool cover.

Working Daze rule number 1

Hi all:

One that that is fairly constant in the working daze world is that Dana will win 99% of the time. The funny thing is though despite her power and control over the office she is still probably the lowest paid member of the team. I do think that does seem to be the case a lot of times in many organizations where it appears that pay is inversely proportional to the amount of the work a person does. Your thoughts?

One other note about this toon, somebody mentioned that Dana should be smiling in her close up. After all she is showing what great power she has, maybe an entire office swoon with the snap of her fingers. This is true, but Dana is disappointed that none of these people will be doing any work for at least the new few hours.

:)