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Another update
Apr. 9th, 2004 08:02 amSo it's Friday, the Friday before Easter which means only about half of the office is here. Thus, I feel like I have (hopefully) the chance to give a proper update.
I'm definately finding contentment in my life. The apartment is alot more comfortable. I can deal with this.
The schedule seems to be: Wake Up, Shower, Dress, Eat in front of the TV (Watching the news) and Computer (checking email), Go to work, Work from 8 until whenever (usually 5 or 6, though this may change as I get heftier deadlines), do errands if necessary, go home, feed cattens, feed myself, spend the next hour or two in front of computer, TV or both, start making my phone calls (home and Kristen, if no one else), around 9:00. Go to sleep about 10:00.
Repeat.
I'm really looking forward to the weekend. Just a chance to sit back and relax and spend some non-rushed me time.
Will, no doubt, end up pulling out The Sims or SimCity or something and doing that and, as I've stated to a couple of you already I intend to see Hellboy tommorow night (if anyone from the DC area wants to tag along and also meet me, feel free to reply. If not.. I don't mind going alone. I just wanna see the movie. Heard good things about it :) )
And Sunday, besides R&R I will take the time to clean the apartment.. vacuum, scrub.. whatever I have to do to keep the apartment clean for another week.
What else has been going on?
Work has been, mostly, good. I say mostly because I have this one case (in front of me right now), that seems like a bad April Fools Day Joke - as far as I can tell, two trained monkeys filled out the forms for this CLOMR (This reminds me, I want to post about what I ACTUALLY do here. Perhaps tonight or tommorow.) after watching Jerry Springer for 25 hours straight and snorting up some really good crack.
Certainly not of the quality I've seen as so far - Perhaps, in reality, because it seems like whoever filled these forms out was NOT an engineer. (For Pete's Sake - They didn't even seem to know what map their creek on. You telling me that before you send these forms to the government (again, I'll explain my actual job soon), you wouldn't CHECK?
Otherwise, I like my job, I like the people who work here. They all seem to like me. It's all good. :)
On the other hand, talking about braindead butt monkeys - I'm still miffed at Verizon.
When I spoke to them three weeks ago I asked them if they had DSL in my area and they said yes, so I signed up with them because they were cheaper.
Three weeks later (one in which I should have HAD said DSL), I call them up yesterday and say "Look, I still don't have a DSL signal. What's going on? This should have been taken care of by now.". They guy checks the records and says... "Oh, they did a test in your area. Because your apartment is too far from the 'hub', we can't promise a signal." - Basically, they never bothered to test the line when I asked if they had DSL, just promised I could do it and now it turns out they have egg on their face.
And I'm sitting here thinking "You couldn't have bothered to call me and tell me this? You have both my home phone and my cell phone number."
So I did not yell at the poor guy, but I did tell him this was inexcusable. I wasn't mad at him personally, but his company screwed up bad. He agreed and sent me off at billing who were perfectly reasonable, cancelled my subscription without ever charging me anything from DSL and promised I'd be sent a label in the mail to put on the package I got for the DSL. I didn't have to spend any money to send the DSL modem back. Just drop it off at any post office with the label on it and it'd be taken care of. Perfectly reasonable and my thirst for blood is sated.
Well.. OK.. so I wasn't really thirty for blood. I just wanted high speed internet access and I'm mad at the company for A) Telling me they had DSL here without apparently bothering to check and B) then NOT calling me when they found out they were wrong.
So, I called Comcast and they're coming in tommorow morning to set me up with cable modem. I'll have to staple the cable to the wall over the doorway (since it's brand new carpet and I'm not allowed to destroy it and the only cable jack is in one corner of the living room, which is fine for putting the TV there, but not the TV AND Computer. It's not the end of the world, it'll just look bad.
It'll cost me more per month, but.. high speed internet access goooood :D
What else?
Washington Post called me yesterday. Right after I got off the phone with Comcast, in fact. They wanted me to sign up for weekly delivery, but to be honest I wasn't interested in weekly. I don't have time five days out of seven to read the paper, but I wouldn't mind the Sunday paper, so I'll get that delivered to the apartment for $1/week for the first ten weeks and then if I decide to keep it, $1.50/week after that.
I've gotten into a new online game suggested by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xiombarg: Kingdom of Loathing - It's a very amusing turn-based online game that both mocks games like Final Fantasy, but still conforms to the same type of gameplay. I suggest most of you from the ChaoticMUX crowd would enjoy such a game. If you get into it, my character name there is (surprise surprise) LITE.
Not a whole lot else to say and I should get to work.
Love to my dork and hugs to everyone else
I'm definately finding contentment in my life. The apartment is alot more comfortable. I can deal with this.
The schedule seems to be: Wake Up, Shower, Dress, Eat in front of the TV (Watching the news) and Computer (checking email), Go to work, Work from 8 until whenever (usually 5 or 6, though this may change as I get heftier deadlines), do errands if necessary, go home, feed cattens, feed myself, spend the next hour or two in front of computer, TV or both, start making my phone calls (home and Kristen, if no one else), around 9:00. Go to sleep about 10:00.
Repeat.
I'm really looking forward to the weekend. Just a chance to sit back and relax and spend some non-rushed me time.
Will, no doubt, end up pulling out The Sims or SimCity or something and doing that and, as I've stated to a couple of you already I intend to see Hellboy tommorow night (if anyone from the DC area wants to tag along and also meet me, feel free to reply. If not.. I don't mind going alone. I just wanna see the movie. Heard good things about it :) )
And Sunday, besides R&R I will take the time to clean the apartment.. vacuum, scrub.. whatever I have to do to keep the apartment clean for another week.
What else has been going on?
Work has been, mostly, good. I say mostly because I have this one case (in front of me right now), that seems like a bad April Fools Day Joke - as far as I can tell, two trained monkeys filled out the forms for this CLOMR (This reminds me, I want to post about what I ACTUALLY do here. Perhaps tonight or tommorow.) after watching Jerry Springer for 25 hours straight and snorting up some really good crack.
Certainly not of the quality I've seen as so far - Perhaps, in reality, because it seems like whoever filled these forms out was NOT an engineer. (For Pete's Sake - They didn't even seem to know what map their creek on. You telling me that before you send these forms to the government (again, I'll explain my actual job soon), you wouldn't CHECK?
Otherwise, I like my job, I like the people who work here. They all seem to like me. It's all good. :)
On the other hand, talking about braindead butt monkeys - I'm still miffed at Verizon.
When I spoke to them three weeks ago I asked them if they had DSL in my area and they said yes, so I signed up with them because they were cheaper.
Three weeks later (one in which I should have HAD said DSL), I call them up yesterday and say "Look, I still don't have a DSL signal. What's going on? This should have been taken care of by now.". They guy checks the records and says... "Oh, they did a test in your area. Because your apartment is too far from the 'hub', we can't promise a signal." - Basically, they never bothered to test the line when I asked if they had DSL, just promised I could do it and now it turns out they have egg on their face.
And I'm sitting here thinking "You couldn't have bothered to call me and tell me this? You have both my home phone and my cell phone number."
So I did not yell at the poor guy, but I did tell him this was inexcusable. I wasn't mad at him personally, but his company screwed up bad. He agreed and sent me off at billing who were perfectly reasonable, cancelled my subscription without ever charging me anything from DSL and promised I'd be sent a label in the mail to put on the package I got for the DSL. I didn't have to spend any money to send the DSL modem back. Just drop it off at any post office with the label on it and it'd be taken care of. Perfectly reasonable and my thirst for blood is sated.
Well.. OK.. so I wasn't really thirty for blood. I just wanted high speed internet access and I'm mad at the company for A) Telling me they had DSL here without apparently bothering to check and B) then NOT calling me when they found out they were wrong.
So, I called Comcast and they're coming in tommorow morning to set me up with cable modem. I'll have to staple the cable to the wall over the doorway (since it's brand new carpet and I'm not allowed to destroy it and the only cable jack is in one corner of the living room, which is fine for putting the TV there, but not the TV AND Computer. It's not the end of the world, it'll just look bad.
It'll cost me more per month, but.. high speed internet access goooood :D
What else?
Washington Post called me yesterday. Right after I got off the phone with Comcast, in fact. They wanted me to sign up for weekly delivery, but to be honest I wasn't interested in weekly. I don't have time five days out of seven to read the paper, but I wouldn't mind the Sunday paper, so I'll get that delivered to the apartment for $1/week for the first ten weeks and then if I decide to keep it, $1.50/week after that.
I've gotten into a new online game suggested by
xiombarg: Kingdom of Loathing - It's a very amusing turn-based online game that both mocks games like Final Fantasy, but still conforms to the same type of gameplay. I suggest most of you from the ChaoticMUX crowd would enjoy such a game. If you get into it, my character name there is (surprise surprise) LITE.Not a whole lot else to say and I should get to work.
Love to my dork and hugs to everyone else
