Don't expect to reach me or get more out of me than distracted monosyllables for a while. Lord of the Rings Online has opened, and I've been sucked in.

Every day, every single day, I deal with people whom I think are being deliberately, willfully stupid. It's not that they can't think. It's that they choose not to think. Or act. I ask them to do some simple troubleshooting step and they say, "Can't you just reset it from there?" I have to walk them through difficult instructions such as "click ( Read more... )

We've finished stripping the wallpaper from the guestroom, and are debating over paint chips. That wasn't bad at all. A spray bottle with a 5:1 dilution of white vinegar dissolved the glue easily, and the paper just scraped off. I am jonesing to keep going and get rid of the horrible green wallpaper in the hallways. We will see how dire spackling ( Read more... )

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1. I've been sick for most of a week. I've been out of work all week. I'm low on sick time, so I'm going to be taking a hit for this in the next paycheck ( Read more... )

I have been collecting peripheral parts for a new computer for a little while, including a deeply exciting red case, and a couple weeks ago I took the plunge and bought the remaining pieces. I've got a shiny yellow motherboard, 2 gigs shiny red ram, a shiny blue video card, the fastest processor I could afford, and a cooling unit that looks like ( Read more... )

What a fascinating life I lead . . . I'm currently sucked into a game that involves breeding fish. I basically shove the fish together, they make little kissing sounds, and twenty minutes later little fishies mysteriously appear. Two hours later the fishies are grown up, and I can see what species they are. It's a high-octane rocket-propelled ( Read more... )

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I can't believe I haven't typed this up yet, but apparently not. To my surprise, not only have I not told this story here yet, but I have been keeping this journal for over a year now. Of course most of the entries are all about "well, customers are really peculiar sometimes, aren't they?" This is something that happened several years before I ( Read more... )

People are just completely insane when their phones don't work. I'll give this lady some slack in that she'd had service with us for only a couple months and we'd already been out there for a trouble call a couple of times. I'll give her slack because she apparently just had a death in the family. But she was just raving frothing looney tunes today ( Read more... )