I got two VIP tickets to go see Ellen Degeneres when my mom is in town at the end of April.
(Okay, maybe that's not happy for YOU, but my mom is stoked)
Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Scrappy - Mar 23, 2006 12:42:47 pm PST #5866 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
msbelle - Mar 23, 2006 12:43:41 pm PST #5867 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
That is very fun.
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2006 12:43:57 pm PST #5868 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
tell me something nice or happy. please.
Leif calls my Dad "Poppy". He wrote a letter (Little dude is three and he can write, scary) that was supposed to say "Poppy Leif I Love You" (his grammer still needs work) but he misspelled "Poppy" and it ended up "Poopy Leif I Love You"
Kalshane - Mar 23, 2006 12:45:11 pm PST #5869 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Sometimes you just want to get off the phone and get to the automated system, or grab one of the techs as they walk past (I sit a couple cubes from their door, and I make a point of being friendly with them. Not people on whose bad side you want to be).
We're trying to break people of that habit. The problem with people stopping us in the halls is things like that tend not to get logged and there's currently a disagreement between IT and administration over how much work we actually do. Plus it delays our response to people who do follow procedure and log a ticket, because we're generally on the way to help someone when we get grabbed.
Well, used to, in my case, anyway. t bitter tag not likely to close anytime soon
Kalshane--did you find people who put in dud calls (like the nurses) were blasé, defensive, or apologetic?
Defends on the person. The nurses were apologetic, and most people when I've actually "fixed" their problem F2F have been apologetic. Over the phone, however, I've noticed people are more likely to be defensive or blasé.
That sounds like a complete and utter mess, Gud. ETA: The tech support thing, I mean. Though I suppose a poopy Lief would also be messy, love not withstanding.
Allyson - Mar 23, 2006 12:45:52 pm PST #5870 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My nephew loves the books I sent for his birthday, especially Knufflebunny. When i was talking to my SIL a minute ago, I heard him in the background yelling, "mummy! read. book."
That was pretty damn happy.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 12:47:00 pm PST #5871 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tell me something nice or happy. please.
I saw ex-coworker at lunch and he had a succesful hearing about the status of the two boys he mentors/Big Brothers. He was assigned a legal status as their educational advocate, and he's getting them re-assigned from their neglectful, inadequate foster home.
Lee - Mar 23, 2006 12:47:09 pm PST #5872 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
tell me something nice or happy. please.
It's not raining here.
We had Indian food at lunch.
I have a pony and a mini robot on my computer monitor.
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2006 12:48:54 pm PST #5873 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
That sounds like a complete and utter mess, Gud.
I didn't even tell you about the backup system. Taking a portable tape drive to each PC. I remember having to write up the backup program for the disaster recovery plan while thinking it was amazingly stupid.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2006 12:49:03 pm PST #5874 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We're trying to break people of that habit
Thankfully they're not even slightly trying now. The help desk itself routes tickets to random places--I have to check to see if the people I know will do the work (and call other departments as required) have received the ticket, and if it made any sense when they got it.
JZ - Mar 23, 2006 12:56:33 pm PST #5875 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
tell me something nice or happy. please.
I'm wearing fluffy crinolines at work, AIFG.