Most all hangover remedies tried, fireworks popped and kisses kissed the New Year celebration is over and its back to the grind of making it work.  Like most, I survived as you can tell and have returned to write another item for the Paper and in one piece, yes all my fingers and toes still intact.

Where do we go from here, for me its back to work and a bottle of correction fluid for at least the next six weeks as I miss write the year (2008 in lieu of 2009) when completing my paper work.  Not all my work is done on a computer that can be fixed with a couple of stokes of key but handwritten.  I know its kind of cave Manish to still have written paper work but my job is one of those and some of the work requires that no correction be made to the document. 

Speaking of the caveman, what did they do while composing a wall painting or carving and made a mistake?  If it was a painting I'm sure it was not that big of a deal, since their paints were crude in composition berries and such, guess they could just as they say eat their words.  Maybe that's where the idea for dips came from who knows?

The real problem was for the fellow who decided he would not work with paints but carve his drawings into the walls of the cave itself.  I'm sure wall space was at a premium in these caves and shame on the fellow who would miss carve an event on one of these walls.

Here you are carving along on an important event, thinking of the cute cave babe down the way or the cave wife and cave kids, then it happens you carve a saber toothed tiger instead of a gazelle messing the whole thing up.  What to do?  The cave babe is going to laugh at you and the cave wife is going to make you sleep on the couch rock in the living cave because you have brought shame to the cave family.

Wonder if they had concocted some type of correction fluid or did they just live with their mistakes working around them till the carving made sense.  How many cave carving have been discovered and interpreted by scientists which could be chalk full of mistakes?  We may never know or really even care other than they were man's first writings whether they are wrong or right.

Well we have evolved and we do care about mistakes and what the cute babe in the next cubical thinks.  We had a savior in 1951 who invented the first version of correction fluid and her name is Bettie Graham.  Thanks to Mrs. Graham, the cubical babe will not laugh at us and we will not have to sleep on the couch, well not for a written mistake just for checking out the cubical babe.    

Well good luck to you in 2009, I'll be here every step of the way white out in hand and unlike some blondes I know, you will not find it on my computer screen.  Guess I'm going to try a caveman trick by scraping some of my words from the walls of the recycle bin, break out some chips and have a snack.