Who put the Ledge in Ledger

Okay… I just accidentally deleted my almost completed post for today in trying to fact check the last bit. Maybe this is a sign I’m writing too much. I’m deliriously tired from the foster dog.

One friend asked today if I would like to hear a talk with her this weekend, and, even though it sounded fun and amazing, I replied, “No, it’s on the '‘one too many” side of the ledger.” Eureka! I heard Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five rapping The Message: “Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge. I’m trying not to lose my head” and in my two-day-old exhaustion from the foster dog’s spectacular Sunday night output, I saw the LEDGE in the ledger. I saw the edge of the ledge in the word and concept of ‘ledger’. I suddenly understood the accounting ledger as marking what’s possible on one side, and on the other side, the chasm from which one may or may not return. The accountant is in (sitting in a Lucy Van Pelt’s Psychiatrist’s Booth and charging a nickel).

As mentioned, I’ve watched a lot of cartoons, so I know that falling off a ledge doesn’t mean anything until one realizes it, and even then, it is not commonly fatal. Here’s to the slings and anvils of outrageous fortune, Wile E. Coyote style.

By the way, the etymology of ledger has nothing to do with a ledge. It has to do with something, like a big book, that lays in one place. It has nothing to with geology…just a book laying around— staying open and staying present. (I couldn’t resist making the double entendre in my sleep deprived state).

Contemplation of Ledges and Gravity. Free Inking exercise

Sketch to find a pun…too tired.

In the end, I feel like this is the closest I can get to funny today!

Edgy Ledgers on the Ledge or Ledgy Ledgers on the Edge?