29 July
So yesterday I was in the other building when I saw two movers.
My ears pricked up like a pointer's, and I started galloping around, trying to figure out who to ask if they could move our printer (I had already gone back and forth twice and it was barely past the morning). Turns out it was Donna.
"Please, Donna, can the movers move our printer?"
"Is it unplugged?"
"No," (scamper scamper scamper) "Ron, I know that you're head of the department, but this is our one chance to get our printer before next week and everyone else is trying to fix Impulse!"
So he unhooked it and we waited and waited and waited.
750 hours later, Ron re-hooked it up, because clearly the movers weren't taking it anywhere, I went over to cut a check five seconds later, and found it unplugged! So the movers really were planning on moving it, but when they were good and ready!
Anyway, we finally got it around 5p or so, and it's right next to my cube and it's such a treat to print things and be able to get them right away that I may never stop!
One funny thing, you remember how there is a hole in the wall between the two buildings, but you're not supposed to go that way unless you are Systems, instead you're supposed to go down to the fifth floor, walk all the way across, then go back up?
Well yesterday I was able to go across the naughty way several times, but since you need someone to let you into the server room to go back again, I had to keep going via 5.
On about the fifth trip, I saw a big sign taped to the door on the fifth floor:
"Company That Must Not Be Named Staff--Do not use this floor to gain access to 6, go via the street instead."
So someone expects us to, every time we have to do anything in the other building to go all the way down to the ground, walk up the street, then go all the way up again? Are they insane?
Those of us who have to go across 500 times a day say to that sign: Bullshit.
I am really struck by these collect call commercials.
They keep emphasizing that if you really love someone, you will use their service to call collect rather than dialing "0".
"My girlfriend broke up with me!"
"Were you dialing 1-800-COLLECT rather than "0" when you would call her collect?"
Or:
"It's Mom's birthday today, but I forgot to get her a present!"
"Why not call her collect using 1-800-CALL-ATT instead of "0"!"
Nobody mentions the fact that maybe having a boyfriend who calls you collect even once (unless he was just robbed) is a giant loser who should be dumped as soon as possible, and that any mother who would consider a collect call a decent birthday present (unless she thought that her child was dead) is ready for the old folks home, being too senile to be capable of living unsupervised for even a moment longer.
A commercial targeting idiots and cheap bastards, they are probably making a mint!
So, Beth's back, Deb's back, Phoenix has risen from the ashes (o, I slay me!) and Jackie has returned from Parts Unknown.
All I need is Kim and Meghan to be completely happy!
Today's horoscope:
Be wary of wanting more than is possible, but keep your sights aimed ever upward. Visualization precedes material achievements.
One year ago today:
"Perhaps he can make himself useful in the kitchen!"
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