15 January
Where is my box of meat? I want my box of meat! Mom sent me a box of meat ten days ago, and yet there is no box of meat. I am very sad!
You see, when I left LA I forgot to pack the sausages from Omaha Steaks, not to mention the fruitcake and my two Buffy tapes, so Mom put them all in a box and sent them to me. The sausages are Polish, and thus are already cooked, and are completely sealed in plastic, so even though they wouldn't stay frozen, we thought that it would be safe.
The package arrived on Wednesday, I knew this because of the buff slip that was left (no longer pink, now it is buff. Has it been working out?), that I signed and taped to the door. The next day, it was still there, so I taped it to the mailbox. The next day it was gone, but there was no box of meat! Nor did it arrive Saturday! Nor yesterday! Where is my box of meeeeaaaaat?!
I should probably start calling it my box of rotting meat.
So the day I left LA I got a call from Mom, saying that Gateway had called for me to pick up my computer. Ther was nothing wrong with it, they said! But it wouldn't turn on, I said. Nope, they insisted that it was right as rain and all was well in the land of my laptop.
I told Mom to go pick it up, but to goddamn test it, both plugged in and battery only, and she did. They turned it on with just the battery and it booted up fine, then they plugged it in and it immediately shut off, so they kept it.
Last week I told her to call them and see what was up with my laptop, and they said that it was fine, nothing was wrong with it, and she could come pick it up! "But what about the fact that it turned off when we tested it in your shop?" "Maybe there is something wrong with the outlet!" Sigh.
So I called yesterday and talked to the guy, David. David is the only guy that my Mom had talked to, but when I called before I accidentally talked to a different David--apparently there are several Davids at that Gateway. But this time I got the right one and explained the whole thing. He said he'd test it and call me back
Half and hour later he hadn't called me back, so I called him.
"I have your computer right here, and it boots up fine!"
"Look, I know that most of the people that you talk to are computer idiots, and if you were talking to my mother you would be correct, but I really do know what I am talking about, and when I say that it wouldn't turn on, it wouldn't turn on. Plugged in or not, for about two weeks before I gave it to you guys, I could get no response from it, pushing the power button was as useful as waving my hands around in the air!"
"Okay, I'll keep trying to replicate your results."
Ten minutes later he called back.
"Angela? No, Kimberly?"
"Yes, Kimberly, that's me."
"Sorry, I have too many clients."
"As opposed to me, who only has to ask for David, as everyone over there has the same name!"
"Your persistence paid off! After about fifteen tries, it finally wouldn't turn on!"
"Hooray! Hooray! My computer doesn't work!!!"
"I'm going to try to reinstall your software."
"Go with your bad self."
I have rarely been so pleased at the broken state of my computer, but I knew that there was a problem with it, and I certainly didn't want to get it back and have to take it to Paramus and not have it for even longer.
No laptop, no box of rotting meat. Sigh. I am bereft.
Today's
horoscope:
Today you are balancing stability and change on the job. Vary your routines a bit, but take care of essential duties.
One year ago today:
Perhaps when she turns six there won't be any! Then again, perhaps not.
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