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On Friday night, I found myself in my back yard, tackling the monster that my lawn had become.  Of course I had left my headphones at theAXIOM, so there ended up being a lot of thinking while I was out there.  It had been a couple of months since I last mowed it,and the grass was at least four feet tall.  I thought a lot about how I hate to mow my lawn.  I don’t like yard work at all.  I’d rather be inside with the AC and a computer.  That’s when I made this connection.

Some people have beautiful yards.  I don’t.  It doesn’t bother me that it’s not manicured.  It bugs other people.  There are people that can’t think about anything else when they know that they need to get to something in their yard.  It even bugs these people that my yard is in such disarray.  Again, it doesn’t really get to me.  However, I am the same way, but with different things.  The thing that bugs me the most is the way people treat their computers.  They invest a chunk of change in a computer, and they never attempt to learn about the OS they are using or how they should keep it tidy.  There is nothing more obnoxious then when I sit down at someone else’s computer and there are at least 20 icons on the desktop for things they will never click on, there are 4 search bars in the IE6 that they are using, and their dock or their start menu is the size of a county library.  I feel like I need to teach them, help them, and redeem them from the doom they have allowed themselves to encounter.

I wonder why we’re wired to be a little bit obsessive.  And in that, help point other people to what we are obsessing over.  Maybe sometimes the obsession is a little misdirected.  It usually is.