Good lord -- my minion has been making long distance calls from her work phone, when we have to put in code that leads back to me. I'm not that excited about her making personal calls anyway (but of course, the only difference between that and me right now is that I sound like I'm typing and she sounds like she's chatting), but long distance? I told her that her friend can call her, or she can use her cell phone, but seriously.

Kids these days.

ouch. although, I make ld calls, but we don't type in codes.

ION - someone at work in my dept, that I have to work with on solving a problem, is being more of a hinderance than a help. Keeps bringing up unrelated stuff, hashing old grievances. I do not care, just find me the answers to my issues!

About 12 years ago, the department I was an admin to had a young lawyer with a brand-new JD who was supposed to be writing up laws and regs, but instead, she was on the phone at least 7 hours out of 8. Every single time I'd pass her cubicle, she was chatting away. It took them nearly 18 months before they finally canned her for excessive phone use, including long-distance calls.

although, I make ld calls, but we don't type in codes.

One of my favorite things about working at the law firm I worked at a hundred years ago was that I could make personal ld calls (within reason, naturally), use postage, Fed Ex, copying, etc. for personal stuff because we had our own codes, and then we just paid the firm back once a month. So convenient!

What do they do on Wheel of Fortune now?? Buying all the crap was the fun part.

they get the cash. better for the contestants, but less fun. I really wish the show Debt would come back on.

How to create and attach a DTV converter box to your aluminum foil helmet

Don't get caught unprotected June 12, when digital television receivers will begin picking up brainwaves with higher-frequency energy blasts.

While an aluminum foil helmet was sufficient protection during the age of analog broadcasts, new digital transmission is much more powerful, rendering regular 1-ply helmets USELESS.

Foil hat and helmet wearers need to affix a converter box directly to the exterior.

The best choice for this application is the paper/plastic/foil laminate Tetrapak used for hospital juiceboxes.

ok, not Debt, I was thinking of It's Your Chance of a Lifetime. By answering the first question correctly, the show covered up to $10K in credit card debt.

So I'm on hold with some travel agency, and the hold music is Enigma's "The Return to Innocence". Not a Muzakified version, either -- the whole Gregorian chants, dance beat, whispered "Sade, dis-moi" deal. This is... bizarre. I think we used this in a dance concert when I was in college.

Aren't those the lyrics to "Sadeness"?

Bizarre as hold music either way.

ouch. although, I make ld calls, but we don't type in codes.

I feel like, making the calls is just getting over, and whatever, we don't pay her enough. Putting in the code, for all she knows, our boss gets an itemized list of names and numbers (she doesn't, but still). First job, first job.