I have no explanation for this and maybe there isn’t any.

Today I started applying for outside sales positions via email. I contacted a placement agency and the lady wrote back to, among other things, ask me to send my resumé to her in Microsoft .doc format — not Adobe .pdf and plain webpage (HTML) as I conveniently have it on my site.

Now, yes, .pdf is the business document sharing standard because anyone can download the free Adobe Reader and Microsoft .doc isn’t because it requires software worth hundreds of dollars per machine.

And that’s assuming everyone loves Microsoft, which (scandalously) they don’t.

Anyway, I’ve got to meet the needs of my client so I helpfully use my free, beloved, and awesome OpenOffice.org software (did I mention it’s FREE?!) to create a copy in Microsoft .doc. Yet I know from experience it won’t necessarily format perfectly on her machine so I attach a .pdf explaining this one will print correctly.

So then I go for a walk. A longish walk by Beacon Hill Park along the ocean on the rocks and it’s a beautiful day. I head away from the ocean into the forest.

I decide to follow some of the paths because there’s no way I can get lost.

Yet I did.

Going back and forth along little paths that seem to lead nowhere I can’t find my way out. At first, it’s fun and no big deal, my main concern being mosquitoes. Then it’s surprising I can’t find my way out, then a bit more… and there it is.
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