Time passes. In fact, five days have passed since my last post. And, as usually happens when time passes, things change. Since there's been a significant change in my #2 issue of five days ago, I feel it's incumbent upon me to note the new numbers as of this morning.
By today's count, I have found an addition three (3) Verizon telephone books on my doorstep, making an in-house total of nine (9) telephone books, or 1.5 telephone books delivered to me per month. The previously mentioned page count is therefore increased by approximately 3,000, for a total of over 13,000 pages of telephone numbers.
The nine, standing up against a wall in keeping with today's theme, measure 16" high. About 5.5" of the 13,000 pages, or 34.375%, are white. That would be 4,468.75 pages.
In general, these white pages have four columns. Each column hosts about 75 telephone numbers, resulting in an approximate count of 300 telephone numbers per page, and thus a grand total of about 1,340,625 telephone numbers in my personal collection of white pages.
Let me know if you need me to look someone up.
6 comments:
Jess?
Think there's something about the time of year...or the phase of something...and I'm not even looking at what "something"...but I feel like I'm sort of in the same place.
Bummer, LJ. Would ya feel better if I sent ya a telephone book?
Maybe. I could count the number of times the letter "e" appears. Which would make me feel useful.
Oh, my. I can't really interrupt my busy TV-watching schedule for "maybe." It's very important that I give a sense of purpose to the broadcasters of lame movies, especially when they have to rerun the same ones over and over. I'm sure they would be disheartened if they thought no one was watching. If you can't commit to the "e" project, you're welcome to join the "TV" project...
Thank you, Jesse. Maybe I'll try harder to commit to these things in the future. I'll have to think about it. :)
Again with the "maybe"--but I see you've added some serious power words to the dialogue: "try," "harder," and "think." Therefore I wonder: in my TV-watching zeal, have I inadvertently crossed the line? It was I, after all, who brought "commit" into the mix. Here at Wrist World, home of the Hundred Year Calendar, the amazing Wonder Bucket and the Porcupine Scarifier, it is our policy not to waste "pressure" on anything but sewer cleaning. So I hereby remove the concept of "commit" from the table, and urge you to remove the "try" and "think" concepts and replace them with "loll" and "sleep on it." Well, no, I don't mean "urge"--I mean "suggest" or maybe just "mention in casual, low-pressure passing..."
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