I mostly went to the computer store to purchase an ethernet cable for the laptop. Well, I actually went to get two of them, but when I got there I only remembered needing one, but you get the idea. While I was there, though, I saw a mousepad for sale on the wall. I thought about getting one for my coworker because she just moved desks and needed a mousepad, but I figured that she would probably get one for herself over the weekend. Then I realized that I actually need another mousepad. In case you're wondering, this paragraph could easily have been one sentence long, but I wanted to give you a bit of insight into how much of an uphill challenge it is to get my mind to work clearly and concisely. Of course, you read the blog, so you know that.

Anyway, so I buy a black standard mousepad. Not cool leather like my other one, but it'll do. Nice. Black. Utilitarian. Really weird wrapper.

Along the top it says:

Brighten Your Desktop with World's   most Beautiful Picture

Forgetting for a moment the fact that "most" isn't capitalized and the extra space between "World's" and "most"...

Brighten? It's black.

Beautiful? It's plain black.

Was this thing packaged by Taiwannese goths or something? At the very least, the Taiwan company that made it didn't bother to run a spellcheck (It says that the mousepad "Maxmizes" performance), much less have an English proofreader.

I guess those are the corners they had to cut to make a $3 mousepad.