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Someone called to book me for a birthday party.
That was good!
Unfortunately, I already had a previous commitment.
That was bad!
But then, the program coordinator for the Seattle Children's Museum contacted me to lead an Arts in the Afternoon program on July 3rd at 1 pm.
That was good!
Then... well, it's all good. The point is that when I tell one of many variations on the "That Was Good/
by Britta Techentrup
Boxer Books UK / Sterling US 2007
Mole asks his papa "How big is the world?"
Papa replies "Why don't you go see?"
And out into the world little Mole goes. Mole asks all the creatures he encounters and they, in turn, answer according to their experience. Spider says the world extends to the end of his web, Mouse says it's to the end of his field, House says to the edge of
Well, there is the Apple Computers rating scale, which consists of only Good, Better, Best. This is unrelated to the now-deprecated trio of "Mac faces", those being Happy, Sad and Dead.
Whereas the LaTeX formatting suite has a scale of Badness that ranges from 0 to 10k, but AFAIK makes no acknowledgment of Goodness.
El Jope: I'm glad at least that there are choices. It's so maddening to get a message along the lines of "This operation is not going to work and is now going to shut down, losing everything you worked on, mwa ha ha" and the only choice one has is to click on the "Okay" button. It's not okay.
What a cute story!
Do you remember that book Fortunately by Remy Charlip? It's that same back and forth with bad and good, but more surreal. That books was stuck in the back of my brain for years until I stumbled across it again in the library. It was like finding an old friend. An old weird friend.
I do remember Fortunately. I need to find it again. Thanks for the reminder!
My son told a "that was good/that was bad" story just yesterday, and I thought of you the whole time! :)