Sometimes it just turns out that way...
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims - Sep 24, 2007 8:35:35 am PDT #6748 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
meara - Sep 24, 2007 8:38:15 am PDT #6749 of 10001
Can I mention how much I hate the automated voices on customer service lines, that try to figure out what you want? HATE HATE HATE.
Especially when I answer the questions, it seems to understand that I want to cancel my service/because I"m moving/to Washington State (three separate answers)...so it then transfers me to a real person who...handles installation in California?? WTF?
beth b - Sep 24, 2007 8:40:06 am PDT #6750 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes You can find me cryin' all of the time
Jessica - Sep 24, 2007 8:40:30 am PDT #6751 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Can I mention how much I hate the automated voices on customer service lines, that try to figure out what you want?
Those drive me crazy. Worst are the ones that try to sound like "normal" human speech. Dude, I know you're a recording. Adding "Okay" to the beginning of every sentence? Not fooling anyone!
Dana - Sep 24, 2007 8:40:55 am PDT #6752 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
freaky faux-human robot voices. Ugh.
Vortex - Sep 24, 2007 8:45:00 am PDT #6753 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I just keep pressing "0" until I talk to a person. I refuse to interact with them at all.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 24, 2007 8:45:06 am PDT #6754 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Adding "Okay" to the beginning of every sentence? Not fooling anyone!
The Okay drives me batshit! "Okay, so you want to travel eastbound!"
hippocampus - Sep 24, 2007 8:45:46 am PDT #6755 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Also, is today a particularly Mondayish Monday for anyone else?
oh lord yes.
I just sent an email asking the woman who works with me to not leave me at the end of a long whisper-down-the-lane session trying to cobble together a plan for what's needed. She hasn't been there long enough to know when to get me on the phone, when to set up a meeting, or whatever, and she is just trying to take things in hand and ends up promising Stuff to People that I then feel like I need to do, even if it's not logical. It doesn't help that I'm now in a different city, of course.
My fault - I'm not there (I've been working offsite for a all 8 years I've worked fulltime here); and one of my bosses, who in most cases I adore, is an out of site out of mind person, when she's under stress. Plus, she makes suggestions for development that are - in her mind - most expedient, but may be either most difficult or completely in opposition to the architecture.
This in addition to the awful-software from earlier. Headdesk. headdesk. headdesk. I'm chewing Tums. I hope I don't kill the thread.
meara - Sep 24, 2007 8:53:24 am PDT #6756 of 10001
Gah, finally got through with Verizon. Now to do it again with Pepco. Gawd. No, if I am cancelling electric service on October 1st, I can't arrange a meter reading on October 12th! Gah. And I live in an apartment building. I have no earthly idea where the meters are. And I can't go read them myself. And I SO dont' trust you to just "guess" what the meter reading is, and charge me that way. BOO.
Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2007 9:06:24 am PDT #6757 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Trudy, how's your mom doing? And how are you?
Thanks for asking.
Mom is still in the hospital being a medical mystery. To treat the blood sugar madness they want to take her off the steroids which presumably caused it. To treat the asthma and pneumonia, however, they need to keep her on them. It's a fun little balancing act. Yesterday her sugar got as low as 265 (which is 200 pts below its max) so that is encouraging.
I am just tired. My cohorts on the show I'm teching are being remarkably kind about my spacyness.