Happy New year, everybody!
Today is 1.1.1.-1. That means it is the first day of the first week of the first month of the last year before the fall. And by “before the fall” I mean “before year Zero”. I certainly don’t want to imply some global catastrophe to occur on the day I have been counting down to for over a third of this life; that may cause panic.
Like me not posting may cause panic, I suppose.
Look, people. I don’t have internet access at home. Heck, I don’t have cable TV at home right now. I have a few boxes left to unpack and a washer and dryer to figure out how to get moved, but after that, I’m all settled into my new place. Without internet access. So, no posts from home. Basically until next month, no posts from home. But, I’m getting a lot of other things done, like sitting aroud eating too much and watching fuzzy episodes of 3rd Rock From the Sun. Hooray!
Oh, and there has been much upheaval at work lately, the brunt of which is many, many more calls for me to take. July is the month that everyone decided to take vacations in. Also, week before last on Tuesday (the day of my last post, you may note) one of the technicians here quit. He just got up and walked out int he middle of the day. Now, normally we only have four technicians to do the work of six or eight. That week, our 2nd lvl tech was in Vegas, so we were down to two for the remainder of the week. So, no time for writing. Only time for taking calls. Last week wasn’t too bad, considering. The guy we hired to replace the missing technician has done tech support here before, so he only took about a day to get him on he phones. So, with a different tech out last thursday and friday (for a 5 day holiday weekend), we were staffed with about two and a half technicians. Now, on a normal week I will take 20%-35% more calls than the average of the other three tech on staff. The last two weeks I have been taking quite a bit more than that. I’ve been interrupted four or five times already with calls while trying to write this. I do not expect that to let up for at least a few more days, as the “new” tech gets back up to speed.
So if I have been lacking in posts of late, it is for these reasons. It is not that I do not have anything to say, I just have not had the opportunity to say them. (This is not entirely true. I have some text files on my laptop at home that, in a month when I can connect it to the internet, will appear in one form or another online. Probably in my Ramblings section on Modern Evil.) Please try to remain calm and understanding. A month is not a very long period of time, and when I can get a chance here at work, I will take it. I know you’re all just dying to find out about … whatever it is I’ve been doing lately.
hey babe, you know, i never really thought about how much i enjoy reading your thoughts until i’ve had to go without them. i know that a month isn’t a long time, however, it is a while. i can’t wait to have the new posts to feast on 🙂 mom had a good time at dinner (as well as i), just thought you should know.
you know, you are such a joy. i really think that you need to know that. you mean an awful lot to me and i’m truely grateful for your spontaneous trip to rocky a while back that reunited us. anywho, enough of the girly/gushy stuff, i’ll talk to you later
hey babe, you know, i never really thought about how much i enjoy reading your thoughts until i’ve had to go without them. i know that a month isn’t a long time, however, it is a while. i can’t wait to have the new posts to feast on 🙂 mom had a good time at dinner (as well as i), just thought you should know.
you know, you are such a joy. i really think that you need to know that. you mean an awful lot to me and i’m truely grateful for your spontaneous trip to rocky a while back that reunited us. anywho, enough of the girly/gushy stuff, i’ll talk to you later
Good to hear from you Teel. I too have been really missing your posts and checking daily in hopes that you would say something. It’s a relief to hear that it was just life getting in the way, and not the depression you have been dealing with lately. Love you…
Good to hear from you Teel. I too have been really missing your posts and checking daily in hopes that you would say something. It’s a relief to hear that it was just life getting in the way, and not the depression you have been dealing with lately. Love you…
Then I called in sick yesterday, and slept half they day and laid around the other half.
Yes, Jen, it is swollen Tonsils/sore throat. No, I don’t want you to feel like we shouldn’t have gotten together Sunday night. I already had a slight sore throat at that time, so I must have caught it before that. Don’t worry about it.
Also, I’ve historically not ever taken Sick days, because even when I’m sick I don’t seem to get too sick to work (I think it has something to do with dedication and responsibility more than a superior immune system). Realink, the company I work for now, does not allow sick days to carry over from one calendar year to the next, and does not pay you their value if you don’t take them. In fact, the value of sick days is lost entirely if you never use them. So, knowing that I would not be able to take today off (my preferred day, since the cable guy is coming out between one and five today (Marie is being a good friend and hanging out at my place to let them in and be sure it works), and a movie I want to see opens today) because in just a couple of minutes two technicians will be leaving here to go to their dentists, and I will be here with only the “new” tech to take all the calls for the rest of the day, I decided, when I woke up late and feeling bad, to take advantage of an otherwise lost resource.
What’s the point in working yourself too hard at the expense of your health, if the job does not even directly address something of interest to you? I can understand an artist working long into the night to create a masterpiece or a programmer working 100+hr weeks to get the original Macintosh out the door, or even a politician’s crazy campaign trail as reasonable, because they are working beyond normal limits to achieve something they believe in and care about. I, on the other hand, value my job only for its ability to pay my bills, not exist outside of these walls, and to allow me to live my own life and do what I like the other 128hrs. So I don’t feel like working so much/hard it endangers my health at this job. Go figure.
Then I called in sick yesterday, and slept half they day and laid around the other half.
Yes, Jen, it is swollen Tonsils/sore throat. No, I don’t want you to feel like we shouldn’t have gotten together Sunday night. I already had a slight sore throat at that time, so I must have caught it before that. Don’t worry about it.
Also, I’ve historically not ever taken Sick days, because even when I’m sick I don’t seem to get too sick to work (I think it has something to do with dedication and responsibility more than a superior immune system). Realink, the company I work for now, does not allow sick days to carry over from one calendar year to the next, and does not pay you their value if you don’t take them. In fact, the value of sick days is lost entirely if you never use them. So, knowing that I would not be able to take today off (my preferred day, since the cable guy is coming out between one and five today (Marie is being a good friend and hanging out at my place to let them in and be sure it works), and a movie I want to see opens today) because in just a couple of minutes two technicians will be leaving here to go to their dentists, and I will be here with only the “new” tech to take all the calls for the rest of the day, I decided, when I woke up late and feeling bad, to take advantage of an otherwise lost resource.
What’s the point in working yourself too hard at the expense of your health, if the job does not even directly address something of interest to you? I can understand an artist working long into the night to create a masterpiece or a programmer working 100+hr weeks to get the original Macintosh out the door, or even a politician’s crazy campaign trail as reasonable, because they are working beyond normal limits to achieve something they believe in and care about. I, on the other hand, value my job only for its ability to pay my bills, not exist outside of these walls, and to allow me to live my own life and do what I like the other 128hrs. So I don’t feel like working so much/hard it endangers my health at this job. Go figure.
You aren’t daftly passionate about your technical support job? Weirdo.
Also, Teel drank so much orange juice yesterday that he is roughly the color of this forum. In bad lighting he could pass for Ernie from Sesame Street. No foolin!
– Iain
You aren’t daftly passionate about your technical support job? Weirdo.
Also, Teel drank so much orange juice yesterday that he is roughly the color of this forum. In bad lighting he could pass for Ernie from Sesame Street. No foolin!
– Iain
Key word in first sentence: “daftly”
Also, I think you’re thinking of the color of my clothes. My skins are their normal, jandiced, yellow/grey. Also, my skull is shaped more like Bert’s than Ernie’s (although my personality is shaped more like Ernie’s than Bert’s), on account of my success with dieting.
Key word in first sentence: “daftly”
Also, I think you’re thinking of the color of my clothes. My skins are their normal, jandiced, yellow/grey. Also, my skull is shaped more like Bert’s than Ernie’s (although my personality is shaped more like Ernie’s than Bert’s), on account of my success with dieting.
You… shaped your skull through dieting? What are you eating, battery acid?
My skull, for those of you who don’t know, is shaped like a cappucino maker.
– Iain
You… shaped your skull through dieting? What are you eating, battery acid?
My skull, for those of you who don’t know, is shaped like a cappucino maker.
– Iain
“The suggested retail price of these products are $99.95, which is worth every penny, but with this special Internet offer, you can get a king size, DOUBLE STRENGTH bottle of [name removed]
“The suggested retail price of these products are $99.95, which is worth every penny, but with this special Internet offer, you can get a king size, DOUBLE STRENGTH bottle of [name removed]
We should just chat here and post your FYTH comments in MSN/IM.
Whaddaya think.
– Iain
We should just chat here and post your FYTH comments in MSN/IM.
Whaddaya think.
– Iain
Stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it!
Stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it!
So I still have this clock thing in my van, its name is melvin. It wants to go home,
on a side note,
Does anyone know who I gave my monkey, Ezikial to? I know I gave him to someone to remember me, but I dont remember whom I loaned Ezikial to.. I dont wish him back, I just want to know where he is to put my mind at rest so I can vist everynow and then.
MONKIES!
So I still have this clock thing in my van, its name is melvin. It wants to go home,
on a side note,
Does anyone know who I gave my monkey, Ezikial to? I know I gave him to someone to remember me, but I dont remember whom I loaned Ezikial to.. I dont wish him back, I just want to know where he is to put my mind at rest so I can vist everynow and then.
MONKIES!
So, this morning when I woke up in your apartment and was sick, I thought to myself, this is weird, I don’t get sick. And when later in the day I could hardly speak and had to blow my noise (which in the history of my life I have had to blow my nose approx. 3 times, all when I was sick) I went to my mothers and had soup.
I thought to myself, maybe I should call Teel and have him disinfect his couch or something. What’s even neater is that I only develop sicknesses that keep me from the jobs I currently have to do. Like a sore throat in a telemarketing job. Neat.
So, this morning when I woke up in your apartment and was sick, I thought to myself, this is weird, I don’t get sick. And when later in the day I could hardly speak and had to blow my noise (which in the history of my life I have had to blow my nose approx. 3 times, all when I was sick) I went to my mothers and had soup.
I thought to myself, maybe I should call Teel and have him disinfect his couch or something. What’s even neater is that I only develop sicknesses that keep me from the jobs I currently have to do. Like a sore throat in a telemarketing job. Neat.
Disinfect my couch? And risk killing the couch? Never! I’d sooner fire my Zeus cannon into the heart of Gaia. Those couches were expensive!
Fine. I’ll buy some Lysol. I needed to buy some new vitamins and some more bread, anyway. It seems silly to disinfect before I’m done getting better, though. My one swollen tonsil is still pretty big, though I can now swallow with relative ease.
Also, no idea where your monkey is. Maybe you should ask Melvin. I’ve woken up late the last three days in a row; maybe missing an alarm clock has something to do with that. We should look into getting that back to me. Perhaps this time you should drop it by BEFORE getting drunk?
Oh, and I thought I’d mention that sicknesses the like of what you have have an incubation period of a little over two days for most people. So, if you woke up sick on Wednesday, I probably infected you on Monday. With any luck, everyone at the castle will be sick for the party Sunday.
Disinfect my couch? And risk killing the couch? Never! I’d sooner fire my Zeus cannon into the heart of Gaia. Those couches were expensive!
Fine. I’ll buy some Lysol. I needed to buy some new vitamins and some more bread, anyway. It seems silly to disinfect before I’m done getting better, though. My one swollen tonsil is still pretty big, though I can now swallow with relative ease.
Also, no idea where your monkey is. Maybe you should ask Melvin. I’ve woken up late the last three days in a row; maybe missing an alarm clock has something to do with that. We should look into getting that back to me. Perhaps this time you should drop it by BEFORE getting drunk?
Oh, and I thought I’d mention that sicknesses the like of what you have have an incubation period of a little over two days for most people. So, if you woke up sick on Wednesday, I probably infected you on Monday. With any luck, everyone at the castle will be sick for the party Sunday.