And now I feel really old

At any given moment, my company is populated by a number of interns from the nearby university. Usually, they just kind of blend in with our temporary employees. Then, a day like today comes along and we are reminded just how young they really are.

I was talking to the sweet young engineering student who has been with us since last spring. He's a geek like me, so we have a lot to talk about. I don't even recall what we were discussing when I said to him, "Goonies never say 'die'!" 

"What?"

"Don't tell me you don't know Goonies." 

"I just didn't hear you, what was that?"

"Goonie's never say 'die'!"

"What's that?"

"You really don't know Goonies?"

"What's a goony?"

"Damn, you're young."

I actually had to go across the hall and find one of my contemporaries to make myself feel better.

Nice try...

A guy I did improv with in college is now the warm-up guy for a popular talk show host. He's living this fabulous life out in California, and every so often I get these mass emails with fabulous tales of life in the land of TV. His most recent one involved some pretty impressive one-on-one time with the aforementioned talk show host.

I replied to his email with some comments about how exciting his life is, especially in comparison to the land of the consumer-products company microbiologist. His answer was sweet. He tried to claim that he finds what I do equally fascinating and exciting.

Yeah. Nice effort. Miley Cyrus and Jessica Simpson never turn up where I work.

I'm a geek about everything

Apparently, my special brand of geek is a sort of well-rounded, broad-range geek.

Tuesday night, while my boy sat beside me watching Indiana Jones, I had my laptop open with not one, not two, but three news sites running. I reloaded each about every three minutes.

I wanted to see every return as it rolled in.

I wanted to rejoice or despair in everyone.

I even looked at the county by county breakdowns.

I figure, if you're this much of a geek, the only thing to do is embrace it.