Could not pass this up

After the seriousness of my last several blogs, I could not resist passing on this from my good buddy IJ. As I live in a cube farm, compared to his life on a real farm, I know first hand most of the below. Just didn't have a good handle for them. Thanks, IJ.

These are words you might not find on your "Word of the Day" calendar or webpage:
NEW WORDS FOR 2006 -- Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. (I've actually attending meetings exactly for this purpose.)

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. (Bush is a long-term Seagull Manager.)

ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than by working hard. (I suck at this, hence my up and down career.)

SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. (This used to be every day. Now I have a cool job; it only happens about once a week.)

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. (My life for the past 25 years. Happiness is a cool looking cube.)

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (For you few who are not in cube farms, this is one of the highlights of the day.)

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. (Does 12-16 hours a day count?)

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. (Currently, I'm suffering from lack of crisis anxiety.)

IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nicole show or the Bachelor are prime examples. (For me, it's Survivor and American Idol. I can't imagine anyone desperate enough to watch Anna Nicole do anything, including Anna Nicole. Of Course, some people can't imagine anyone desperate enough to watch Survivor and American Idol.)

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. (Sometimes this actually works. I just got my speaker to work by slapping it upside the head.)

ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. (Herein lies the heart of a good bureaucracy, wherest I lie, or am. I think I lie there, too, especially when putting together a budget.)

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message"404 Not Found" (meaning that the requested document, like the person's brain, could not be located.) (Finally, a definition of me.)

GENERICA: Features of the North American landscapes that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. (This is where I go for lunch.)

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (I've had a lot of these. Probably should have another one the second I post this blog.)

WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks. (My parents happily woofed along for many years.)

CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING). (I almost deleted this. Fortunately, no one where I work reads my blogs. No one else does either.)

I'm adding one:
EMPTY PARKING LOT: What I view stepping out of my building at 5:00:01 on Friday.