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Don't Think Twice

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
~Bob Dylan

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

The Bathroom

I woke up early this morning. Before the kids woke up. Before the sun rose. Although I was still half asleep, I was suprisingly graceful. It was almost as if I was floating through a dream.

The house was quite small, with two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a small bathroom with a stand up shower. The one thing I miss about my old apartment is being able to relax in a warm bath. I would come home after classes and just soak in lavendar scented bubbles. Sometimes I would read a book in the bath tub or even fall asleep.

To my surprise, I found a door that I had never seen before. It was open, and inside was a washing machine, a sink, a toilet and a full size bath tub. It was a second bathroom! This did not seem terribly odd. In fact I was delighted.

What was strange was that the washing machine was still going. It was full of soapy water and wet clothes. The machine was in wash cycle. I supposed that the woman who lived here before me left it on before she "left."

I looked all around the bathroom. It wasn't particularly clean. The toilet needed a good scrubbing, but that was not unusual since the water had been sitting there for some time. I was alreadly making plans to slip into a bubble bath when I took a second look at the bath tub. This time, the walls were covered in blood stains.

I have got to stop dreaming about this woman.

Stain

When I woke up, I instinctively walked into the kitchen. I noticed something that I hadn't seen before: a stain on the wall. I didn't think it was unusual, but I pondered the possible cause of such a stain. Perhaps a boiling pot of tomato sauce had spattered there.

I stood there, staring at the wall. As I examined the stain, I realized it was much larger than I had originally thought. It didn't look like tomato sauce anymore, either. I began to think it looked like a bloodstain. I followed it with my eyes until I saw a body print, like someone had leaned against the wall, covered in blood.

Below me I noticed a trail of blood on the floor. It led into the living room. I continued toward it until I found the source, the woman. She wasn't an actual woman, but more like a vision. She was only there in the abstract.

When I woke up, I realized I've got to stop dreaming about this woman. She lived here before me. She died here.

Murphy's Technology Laws

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Elsie

Murphy's Technology Laws

Murphy's Technology Law #1 -- You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

Murphy's Technology Law #2 -- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Murphy's Technology Law #3 -- Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

Murphy's Technology Law #4 -- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Murphy's Technology Law #5 -- All great discoveries are made by mistake.

Murphy's Technology Law #6 -- Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Murphy's Technology Law #7 -- All's well that ends... period.

Murphy's Technology Law #8 -- A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.

Murphy's Technology Law #9 -- The first myth of management is that it exists.

Murphy's Technology Law #10 -- A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Murphy's Technology Law #11 -- New systems generate new problems.

Murphy's Technology Law #12 -- Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Murphy's Technology Law #13 -- A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.