“Blurf”. That was the text message I sent to Kabluey when I was on my way to pick her up after work. It was supposed to say “close”, as in short-hand for “I am close to your office”. But for various reasons, including traffic laws and chronic fatigue, my communication was reduced to “blurf”.

I know that texting while driving is a dangerous and stupid thing to do. I whole-heartedly agree with the new law that went into effect on January 1 that prohibits this behavior. I agree with it, but I don’t always follow it. Now when I have a need to send a text message while in my car, I implement a few new techniques and precautionary measures:

1. Look for cops
2. Hold the phone down near my knees in case there is a nearby cop that I somehow didn’t notice
3. Type super fast and don’t bother re-reading before hitting the send button

Add to the above circumstances a case of extreme exhaustion caused almost entirely by a need to put in ridiculously long hours at work in order to give the consumer world one more way to buy glucosamine supplements online, and you end up with nonsense text messages that say “blurf” and a Kabluey who will never let you live it down.

Of general interest (or not): spell check indicated that the word “glucosamine” in the above paragraph was misspelled. When I clicked on it to see what my options were, one of the words spell check offered as a suggestion was “Gewurztraminer”. Admittedly I had no idea what that word meant, so I looked it up. Turns out, it is an aromatic wine grape. If I was tasked with selling these delightful grapes online, I would surely have a much greater sense of job satisfaction. If you are interested, you can learn more about Gewurztraminer here.