{"id":3383,"date":"2014-12-27T21:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2014-12-27T21:42:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:42:46","slug":"lost-and-found-staedtler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2014\/12\/27\/lost-and-found-staedtler\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found Staedtler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday morning. The office was empty and dark. Most everybody was gone for the holidays.<\/p>\n

I walked into the conference room. Time for the end-of-sprint demo. Lou was there. Nobody else, although several dialed in on the phone as did the guys in Chennai.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, I walked around the back of the room, over to where Lou had been running the meeting. And as I walked around the table, there on the windowsill to my left was something small, white and blue. A Staedtler eraser.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was my Staedler eraser. The one I had misplaced the week before. The one I had searched for in vain. And in its absence, I was out of sorts. After all, what good is a 0.5mm Pentel pencil with 2B leads when you don\u2019t have a Staedtler eraser to clean up stray marks, mistakes and miscalculations?<\/p>\n

Now, holding it in my hand, I felt normal again.<\/p>\n

Maybe Lou could share this moment, I thought. We\u2019re roughly the same age. Maybe he would understand about paper and pencils and erasers and their connection to your brain thru fingers, wrist and arm. So I explained it to him. About my pencils. About my lost and found eraser. About my joy at the reunion.<\/p>\n

But I was wrong. Lou looked up briefly but then returned to his laptop. It\u2019s true that he and I are roughly the same age, but no, he did not understand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2026 and so I thought I would share with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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