I just won at a very twisted version of cableprovider-bingo. I don't have P-C luck, so I got the phone bank person who needed quota hits on triple play and when I asked if there were any options (Verizon for the same services is 1/2 what I'm paying. CRAZY), she said no and sat there quietly until i said "well, okay then!" and hung up. I filled out a web form. no answer. I chatted with a bot. Nada. I tweeted. Bing. 5 hours later, new price.

Seriously, if you're a company providing phone, internet, email, etc. and no one can reach a helpful person using your phone, internet, or email systems? UR doin' it wrong.

I'm glad that I didn't try to go to the gym today. I was feeling marginally better, but my right contact lens was acting up. After going out into the cold, I'm once again a sneezy, phlegmy, coughing mess. I don't know what I was thinking, considering that I coughed so much last night that I couldn't hold down dinner.

I don't know what I was thinking, considering that I coughed so much last night that I couldn't hold down dinner.

Shrift, that sounds alarmingly like what Aims had. And she ended up with a concrete dx for something yucky iirc. Take care of yourself!

But he did tell me to stop testing and go have a "stiff drink". So, I shall.

YAY. I am about ready to give up, seeing as how it's 8:15 on the east coast (where the people making the crack-addled decisions are based), and 7:15 Central (where my bosses, who were unaware of some of the crack-addledness are). Sigh.

I also, for some reason, just felt the need to eat like, everything in the entire house. I knew I wasn't hungry, yet I was stuffing stale marshmallows in my face til I felt sick. WTF, self? Well, diet starts tomorrow.

It turns out that the 272 pages of script testing I'm doing? They were developed for the non-hosted solution. We are among the first clients who are using the hosted solution. And nearly every sequence is wrong for hosted; they're missing key steps. And we ALSO just found out that local admins won't have the ability to unlock a user's account who accidentally locks themselves out (by trying wrong log-in 3x) - we have to wait for the vendor to do so! And vendor's system admins are in Cork, Ireland. Oh that is SO not going to fly.

Haaaa, this sounds similar to our experience with our vendor, who's based in India.

Okay, I have been extraordinarily dumb. I called complaining to my local power provider about a rebate on my new energy efficient fridge that I hadn't received. (There was one from the local power provider and one from Sears.) Except that I apparently did receive the one from the power provider. In November. And completely forgot about it. Thank god I was nice and polite to people. Now I just have to worry about my brain malfunctioning.

Shrift, that sounds alarmingly like what Aims had.

Ah, crap. I remember something about whooping cough? Was that it, or was it something else?

I had a cupcake today. But I've been eating all sorts of vegetables and whole grains and fruit, otherwise. I think tonight it'll be panko-crusted tilapia and wilted spinach.

Woot!

Review is over. It went well. It looks like my boss may have finally convinced the powers that be (her words!) to promote me. More importantly, my final assessment grade means I get 150% of my bonus, which at least partially makes up for the fact that our group hasn't been bonused at all since I started almost 4 years ago.

Mostly, I've had such a crappy few weeks waiting for various results and such that I'm just so relieved it's over.

I remember something about whooping cough?

Okay, I didn't read that you coughed so hard you threw up, right? I didn't read that? It didn't happen? Any bruising on your face? Kinda hard to actually breathe with all of the coughing?

Because you, shrift, are going to the doctor. Please.