'Lineage'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Other things I don't understand:
Why Lyle Lovett isn't more popular
Why I am getting asked "why was this done this way" questions about a part of the project I didn't work on, by the person who did work on it.
Why I have to spend the day in the office, when I should be outside, driving fast, with the top down.
Why I still have my headache, after 3 advil.
I don't get it professionally, but my mother-in-law invariably has to explain to me in great detail that she didn't expect to get to talk to me, that she was planning on leaving a message, but now that she gets to talk to me she is just so pleased! before she actually gets around to telling me what she was leaving a message about.
Are there commercially available products that do that ear irrigation thing, without, you know, having to talk to a human and go actually see a doctor? I seem to remember my mom doing it to me when I was a child, with the little blue ball squegee/syringe/squishy thing.
There's always the long, long silence, and the bewildered question about the voice mail, to which the increasingly weary answer is "I am the voice mail." You'd think that leaving a message with an actual human would be a novelty, but the caller is almost invariably bewildered and mournful at the prospect.
Here's the thing about that. If I'm leaving a message with a person, I just want to give them my name and number, not my whole life story. Voicemail will get the life story. Or at least, a detailed description of why I'm calling. So while it is nice to speak to a human, and I understand that people's reaction is annoying, I tend to give the person I'm calling more information via voicemail.
Things I don't understand:
I actually was typing it as one word "aboveground". Though I didn't in my post. Because I am a bonehead. (eta: Word doesn't like the hyphen. And congrats on making it to the next round, Dana! As well as sympathy on the taking forever part)
Well, Word is a poopyhead, because if you don't have a hyphen, the assumption is that "above" modifies "vault" and not "ground". Although I guess technically, "above" is an adverb, not an adjective...but it looks better.
Things I don't understand:
- Why the phone only rings as soon as I get online, making it appear that I am always online. Okay, maybe I am always online.
- What is wrong with my thrice damnable budget numbers that mean that sheet A does not match up with sheet B despite having been entered directly from the data in sheet B.
- Why you are getting snow and I am not.
Things I don't understand:
I don't understand why teleportation has not been invented yet.
So while it is nice to speak to a human, and I understand that people's reaction is annoying, I tend to give the person I'm calling more information via voicemail.
I totally agree. Perhaps it means I leave bad voicemails, but they are very different from any message that goes through a third party.
I don't understand why teleportation has not been invented yet.
I confess that I go into Dr. McCoy mode when that idea crosses my mind. If you disassemble me to the subatomic level, I'm dead.