The tongue is faster than the brain

In the morning mocking of my boss, I told him that he had such alacritous and conscientious employees--we both had our purchase card paperwork done before 8:30 AM on the first day of the four-day window. Then I had to stop and think if alacritious was a word, or if I had just made it up out of the appropriate roots and particles to mean "the quality of behaving with alacrity."

And, as I wondered to Brent (our network administrator, with whom I share an office): "And if it isn't a word, does that make us 'alacritous intolerant'?" (Say it out loud, it's funny faster).

We also learned, after I was reaching for "insolvable" and somehow came up with "insoluble" the other day, that I am obviously not part of the solution--I am part of the precipitate.

In other news, I don't understand people who don't read signage. There is a perfectly good sign at the left-hand turning bay for our office complex reading, "Left turn arrow begins with green light." This is important information in Tucson, where we have a lagging left unless it's posted (lagging left has statistically fewer traffic accidents than leading left). This sign does not read "Left on green arrow only," and yet people will sit at this light with no one oncoming until those of us stuck behind them begin honking, because they haven't really read the sign. And people who fail to read the sign entirely will run the red light making their left turn, because they expect that green arrow to be there and aren't used to really waiting to be sure it is before they drive.

My office will probably be moving in three or four months. Given the odds of traffic stupidity around here, this may contribute to my longevity and the health of my car.