I don’t know if my last post made clear enough how funny and weird my mom can be. So I dug this up from the Dee Files for your enjoyment.

Dee often sends me choice articles from Chicago newspapers in boxes, usually with cookies and anywhere from twenty to forty dollars. I enjoy these boxes. The article shown above didn’t seem that out of place - I assumed she was just concerned about the Boston College community and/or wanted me to know she still remembers the web address of The Heights. Okay.

But then I take a closer look. It turns out the reason Dee sent me this page was simply to show the discoloration produced by their printer. “Officemax.com toner,” she had written. What exactly did she hope to accomplish by sending this to me in New York? Was I to discern exactly what the problem was for that model of printer based on the precise level of purplish hue? Was this a friendly warning for me not to buy toner from Officemax.com in my own printing endeavors? No. I truly believe my mom just wanted me to see firsthand what was currently going on with my parents’ printer, and felt she should correctly cite the possible culprit.

Maybe this could turn into a regular Dee Series, new each week. I certainly could scrounge up enough material. I’ll keep you posted. (Get it? Get it?)