Now, some stuff annoys me. I'm annoyable. Maybe easily so. Ask anyone. But there's a scale. For example, getting a bowie knife thrown at me, Alanis Morissette singing about ironic incidents that are about as ironic as a plucked nosehair, or getting pooped on by a bird as I was leaving to photograph a wedding - these are annoying. Teeth grindable. Kitten throwable, perhaps. But the picture below, however, represents an annoyance so epically annoying that I personally called Condoleezza Rice and asked her to have an f-15 fire a sidewinder into a Smucker's grape jam factory storage vat's ass. Boom! Splat! (Martha, ya'll git me a spoon!)

This annoyance comes from the Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh My Day application. It's part of Entourage, an application close to my heart, since I worked on it for so long entire species of insects evolved into sentience and then killed themselves with Carbon Dioxide emissions and political correctness pamphlets. Now, you may be asking. Um, why is that annoying, you grumpy nut-job? I mean, besides the Barney inspired, nauseous inducing color scheme? (Hello! The grape cool-aid called. She wants her color back! (Yes, the cool-aid is a she. Move on.))

Ok, here's a clue. I didn't run My Day. Ever. Never wanted it. (Ok, maybe I opened it once, screamed, ran out side and blew up my neighborhood's power transformer with Coke and Pop-Rocks to cut power to my computer). But today I simply installed a update from Apple on my Mac Pro that required a restart. This annoyance foists itself on me every time I restart. Yes. Foists. Look it up, you curmudgeon. The picture was captured from my desktop about twenty seconds after the restart. The first thing I did was open the preferences.

Get it yet?

My fix for this? Compress the MyDay.app in the Microsoft Office 2008 folder with ZIP. Delete original. Go to my happy place. Breath, Mike breath.

One last thing. My happy place does not have purple anything. Even the lollipops, jawbreakers, and bubblegum are confused by the word purple there. Because they've never heard the word before. Purple! Huh! Whu? What is the word you are speaking sir, is it Mikelish? (My happy place, my language). Clearly, they don't have to run Entourage. Which I do. Entourage, Damn your purple Barney hide!