Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:24 pm
UhaulCambo wrote:What's his name?lorin wrote:every..................muscle............hurts.................
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:23 am
Sorry about your crappy day DW. I had a few crappy moments. The worst one was when Cathe (pronounced Cathy) came to pick up some stuff. Cathe is the store manager of 16th and Potrero in SF. She and I get along great and so I was helping her find the stuff and we get to talking about how there's a lot of changes coming. Cathe is taking a job with the business service division so she won't be a store manager but still working for us anyway. Ashlee's husband who was a district manager with us, left us a few weeks ago to take a job as district manager for PetCo in Sacramento. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that that means Ashlee is moving too. So anyway, in the conversation I said to Cathe, I have been looking for another job and even thinking about moving to Portland Oregon. She asked me why. I said the commute is killing me and I'm getting less and less willing to do it as the days go by. She was like, "Wait, WHAT???" and I looked at her funny and she said, "You are STILL commuting? Manny told me you moved to Berkeley." And I was like, "WHAT?? WHY would he think THAT???" and she said, "I just filled an assistant position last month and I asked about you and that's what Manny told me so I took on Saul from 898 instead, AND I just filled a department manager spot from outside last week. I would have loved to have you." I said, "I think I might cry right now." She was pissed too. I told her that since she would still be working in the SF region with multiple stores that she needs to call ME if she hears of an opening so that I can call Manny and that when I see Manny next he's getting an earful. Then we continued our conversation and it occurred to Cathe that he probably wanted to keep me in Berkeley because of Ashlee leaving sometime in the next few months and keeping me there means better transitional stability on top of which she thinks he really wanted Saul in 946 for training purposes. I guess that makes sense but it sucks ass. I could have walked to work, 10 blocks. I could have walked across the street and had lunches with Igor. Frack I'm frustrated. I could have had a promotion. AND saved $60 bucks a week and 15 hours of my personal time a week back on top of the promotion. GAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
On other notes, talked to my Mom on the phone the other night and brought up the Portland thing and she thinks it's a bad idea. I told her that there are way more automotive jobs and that even jobs in retail management are paying close to what I make here and so forth but she thinks I would be unhappy even if it was only for a year or two max. I dunno, she may have a point but then again you make your own happiness so that would be up to me to take care of. Of course I would miss Julie and Terry but I hardly see them anyway anymore and it's not like they don't travel to Oregon every year because they both do, having family there and all. She was talking about unemployment rates and so forth and economy issues and I was like, well Cali is worse and the Oregon stats are skewed by all the smaller towns but Portland isn't nearly as bad. I need more cowbell, I mean research...
The final annoying thing of the day, Edward comes up to me and says, "Why would you make up that stuff about Vivian being mad on Saturday?" I said, "What are you talking about, she was mad." He says, "I asked her and she said it wasn't true." I looked at him and said, "I got back from lunch and she was very upset. No matter what she told you when you confronted her, the story I got when coming back from lunch was just like i told it." He said, "Well that's not what she told me." I was about to ask him how I could have known so many details about what happened when I wasn't even there if I hadn't been told about it but we got interrupted by Ashlee. So Edward spent the rest of his shift not speaking to me because in his mind I made shit up to get him in trouble, shit that he KNOWS he did but now he can pretend he didn't. I hate being in grade school.
On other notes, talked to my Mom on the phone the other night and brought up the Portland thing and she thinks it's a bad idea. I told her that there are way more automotive jobs and that even jobs in retail management are paying close to what I make here and so forth but she thinks I would be unhappy even if it was only for a year or two max. I dunno, she may have a point but then again you make your own happiness so that would be up to me to take care of. Of course I would miss Julie and Terry but I hardly see them anyway anymore and it's not like they don't travel to Oregon every year because they both do, having family there and all. She was talking about unemployment rates and so forth and economy issues and I was like, well Cali is worse and the Oregon stats are skewed by all the smaller towns but Portland isn't nearly as bad. I need more cowbell, I mean research...
The final annoying thing of the day, Edward comes up to me and says, "Why would you make up that stuff about Vivian being mad on Saturday?" I said, "What are you talking about, she was mad." He says, "I asked her and she said it wasn't true." I looked at him and said, "I got back from lunch and she was very upset. No matter what she told you when you confronted her, the story I got when coming back from lunch was just like i told it." He said, "Well that's not what she told me." I was about to ask him how I could have known so many details about what happened when I wasn't even there if I hadn't been told about it but we got interrupted by Ashlee. So Edward spent the rest of his shift not speaking to me because in his mind I made shit up to get him in trouble, shit that he KNOWS he did but now he can pretend he didn't. I hate being in grade school.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:55 am
Exotic name. Eastern European?lorin wrote:UhaulCambo wrote:What's his name?lorin wrote:every..................muscle............hurts.................
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:40 pm
Jenn, I bet that Manny just misunderstood. He probably heard you talking about how your commute sucked and that you were moving, and assumed you were moving closer to your current store.
Did I mention that one of my colleagues at work expressed an interest in learning to knit? Actually, she already knows, but she doesn't know how to read a printed pattern and she makes her stitches too tight. Anyway, we got together in the cafeteria Friday, and one of my usual lunch group folks sat with us and expressed an interest in learning too. Monday, we sat again in the cafeteria, and worked on casting on (getting the first row of stitches on the needle). A couple of other folks from my usual lunch group joined in and it was actually fun.
We were supposed to get together again yesterday, but the woman I started with had to work through lunch -- so, another boring day. 
Ah well. We did have an interesting conversation about how ready each of us is to retire....
Did I mention that one of my colleagues at work expressed an interest in learning to knit? Actually, she already knows, but she doesn't know how to read a printed pattern and she makes her stitches too tight. Anyway, we got together in the cafeteria Friday, and one of my usual lunch group folks sat with us and expressed an interest in learning too. Monday, we sat again in the cafeteria, and worked on casting on (getting the first row of stitches on the needle). A couple of other folks from my usual lunch group joined in and it was actually fun.
We were supposed to get together again yesterday, but the woman I started with had to work through lunch -- so, another boring day. Ah well. We did have an interesting conversation about how ready each of us is to retire....Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:54 pm
I would like to know how to do REAL knitting, but when I saw what you do I felt like it was scaling the Himalayas (left handed) so I am just going to wait for you to knit it for me.......much easier than learning.aliantha wrote: Did I mention that one of my colleagues at work expressed an interest in learning to knit? Actually, she already knows, but she doesn't know how to read a printed pattern and she makes her stitches too tight. Anyway, we got together in the cafeteria Friday, and one of my usual lunch group folks sat with us and expressed an interest in learning too. Monday, we sat again in the cafeteria, and worked on casting on (getting the first row of stitches on the needle). A couple of other folks from my usual lunch group joined in and it was actually fun.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:22 pm
That's enough to make anyone want to cry or scream.... ARRRGH!Cameraman Jenn wrote:and she said, "I just filled an assistant position last month and I asked about you and that's what Manny told me so I took on Saul from 898 instead, AND I just filled a department manager spot from outside last week. I would have loved to have you."
sighh
ali- sounds neat with the knitting! much less-boring / more fun lunchtime.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:28 pm
Very funny. Happy to teach you, too, y'know -- you'll need a hobby to keep you busy in retirement.lorin wrote:I would like to know how to do REAL knitting, but when I saw what you do I felt like it was scaling the Himalayas (left handed) so I am just going to wait for you to knit it for me.......much easier than learning.aliantha wrote: Did I mention that one of my colleagues at work expressed an interest in learning to knit? Actually, she already knows, but she doesn't know how to read a printed pattern and she makes her stitches too tight. Anyway, we got together in the cafeteria Friday, and one of my usual lunch group folks sat with us and expressed an interest in learning too. Monday, we sat again in the cafeteria, and worked on casting on (getting the first row of stitches on the needle). A couple of other folks from my usual lunch group joined in and it was actually fun.
Start with a scarf. That's what I did. And I've only been at it for five or six years.Linna:
We'll see whether they're willing to pick this up again, tho.Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:32 pm
Knitting is easy! I taught myself. There are a ton of youtube videos on how to knit; for free! It's just practice, practice, practice. And if you can learn the knit stitch and the purl stitch, you can do anything.lorin wrote:I would like to know how to do REAL knitting, but when I saw what you do I felt like it was scaling the Himalayas (left handed) so I am just going to wait for you to knit it for me.......much easier than learning.aliantha wrote: Did I mention that one of my colleagues at work expressed an interest in learning to knit? Actually, she already knows, but she doesn't know how to read a printed pattern and she makes her stitches too tight. Anyway, we got together in the cafeteria Friday, and one of my usual lunch group folks sat with us and expressed an interest in learning too. Monday, we sat again in the cafeteria, and worked on casting on (getting the first row of stitches on the needle). A couple of other folks from my usual lunch group joined in and it was actually fun.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:49 pm
Ali,
Placing my order now for Christmas.
Placing my order now for Christmas.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:33 pm
Intriguing....
The ex's ex (the one after me, not the one before me) crocheted some "willie warmers" as gag gifts one Christmas, and sent them around to the relatives. The ex's sister and brother-in-law were not amused.
The ex's ex (the one after me, not the one before me) crocheted some "willie warmers" as gag gifts one Christmas, and sent them around to the relatives. The ex's sister and brother-in-law were not amused.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:28 pm
!!!lorin wrote:Ali,
Placing my order now for Christmas.
GUESS WHAT I'M CROCHETING NEXT
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:29 pm
Did they mistake them for pot handle holders?aliantha wrote:Intriguing....
The ex's ex (the one after me, not the one before me) crocheted some "willie warmers" as gag gifts one Christmas, and sent them around to the relatives. The ex's sister and brother-in-law were not amused.
/oooooooh
/burn
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:20 am
Feeling very proud of Beorn tonight as we received his final University of Cambridge (England) Advanced International Certificate of Education examinations results. After four years of hard work, he has been awarded the Cambridge Diploma with Distinction, the highest honor the program bestows.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:53 am
Oh dear lord, I'm so embarrassed. I didn't even realize what that hat was supposed to be until it was called a willie warmer. I was just like, jeez, that's the ugliest hat I've ever seen... is that supposed to be the talking bird crown on the head of the "king" in the maze character from Labyrinth? And you would think after all the drama involving Daniela and her sex life that I would have recognized it sooner.
Yes, drama llama ding dong. Daniela is 24, she has a six year old daughter and a three year old son with different baby daddies. She was married to the son's father for two years and split up from him when I started there. She was quick to tell me about all the guys she was meeting on match.com and constantly texting and giggling so that I had to talk to her several times about it and even threatened to take the phone away so she just started trying to hide it. At one point she actually showed me the pictures of penises that these guys were texting her. I thought she was going to show me pictures of their FACES. Anyway, she gets around... a lot and brags about her sexploits.... a lot. I've been known to make jokes about flavor of the week and needing scorecards to keep track. So about two weeks ago she was hot in heat talking to this army guy in the furniture department for well over forty minutes. I was starting to wonder if it was going to end with me having to pry her off his crotch with a crowbar. It was kinda disgusting and everyone in the store was giving her a ration of crap about it. She got pissed off. Two days later I walk up behind her when she's supposed to be greeting customers and directing them to the merchandise they want and she's giggling and texting the army guy. Alex is nearby and hears her telling me it's the army guy and starts giving her crap about it and she starts getting all defensive and claiming it wasn't like that and they were just going to be friends. I told her to stop lying, we aren't stupid and we all know different. She was pissed at me too but hey, you can't spent over forty minutes giggling, thrusting your breasts at a guy and screaming with body language that you want to jump him, IN FRONT OF YOUR CO-WORKERS and then try to deny it. I called her out on it. Anyway, it probably wasn't very nice of me but I don't really like her for other reasons and I get pissed that she is supposed to be management training and all she does is try to hide and text and takes long breaks, treats the other associates with serious superior than thou attitude, takes attitudes with everyone including me for no reason, just because she's cranky and has been repeatedly told to stop all of these behaviors and doesn't but I digress. Ok, so back to the story, I get in to work and she has a great big hickey on her neck and is all giggling about having slept with the army guy, bursting at the seams to tell everyone and then Alex and Nate start giving her shit and she gets all pissed off. In the meantime, unbenownst to me, Edward and Seth are already planning to take her aside and talk to her about the texting, hiding and extended breaks and attitude. So, the three of them go in the office for a discussion and Adriana fills me in on how Daniela has been proudly displaying the hickey all morning and whispering about the sex she had with the army guy and it turns out he's married. I just shook my head. I've been at this store since what, March or April? She's been with 11 different guys that I can name and exchanged naked pics with at least six others that I know of... anyway, I walk onto the floor to see what's going on with Nate and Alex and they are making fun of her in not so nice ways and I'm just like, seriously, she is something else. So after about 30 minutes in the office, Edward comes out and comes over to me and beckons Nate and Alex over and says he needs to talk to us about something. He's kind of uncomfortable but then says that in his conversation with Daniela she had brought up that people had been judging her and making comments about her personal life that she didn't like, things that upset her and of the people there, Nate, Alex and I were particularly mentioned. Edward explained that she wanted us to stop making fun of her. He also explained that he explained to her that maybe she shouldn't be so blatant about her personal life if she didn't want it discussed. I was looking at Edward with a look of what was probably incredulity. So I asked him, "I just want to clarify, does this mean that she's going to stop shoving her sexcapade stories down our throats, stop showing me pictures of the penises she's been bouncing on and bragging/giggling about her exploits with the married army guy last night and we pretend she's no longer incredibly loose?" The look on Ed's face was priceless. Nate chimes in with, "She tells us even if we tell her we don't want to hear it so how's that supposed to work?" Edward admitted that he wasn't quite sure and was laughing a bit uncomfortably. I just said I would try to ignore it and shook my head and walked away. I went and tracked down Seth to get his take on it and it was clear that it was probably one of the most uncomfortable conversations he had to sit in on in a long long time. Poor guy. I can't even imagine how he must have been cringing and wishing he was anywhere but in that office.
Now for the topper, Vivian comes in to work, takes one look at Daniela and says loudly, "Nice hickey, which guy gave you that?" and starts laughing. Daniela turned all red and giggled that it was the army guy and not a hickey but a bite mark but then must have realized that she was bragging again so decided to get pissed off at Viv and said something along the lines of Viv being mean for pointing it out because Viv was not exactly pure. Viv made some comment about how Daniela shouldn't get so butt hurt about it. Daniela promptly stomped off and put a band aid over it. Thing is, it was just to the right of the central dip in her collarbone so if she just buttoned her shirt one button it would have been covered. Instead she got a band aid and left her too tight shirt unbuttoned so she could still show her cleavage. To finish up, I had to talk to Viv because she was another one mentioned for being mean. Honestly, I was laughing when I talked to Viv. I know. I am judging Daniela and I am being mean and I am far from pure but seriously? She comes in to work and giggles and brags about the guy she banged last night and then wonders why they don't call her again. Then a week later she's giggling again cuz she's found a new one to bone and then the cycle repeats itself. The longest stretch of her banging a new guy that I know of was two weeks since I met her. There were a few weeks that she wasn't speaking to me since I reprimanded her for various stuff so there may have been more but I don't know. Anyway. Like I said, drama llama ding dong, I work in a place full of high school mentality. I wanna go back to an auto shop so bad it hurts.
Yes, drama llama ding dong. Daniela is 24, she has a six year old daughter and a three year old son with different baby daddies. She was married to the son's father for two years and split up from him when I started there. She was quick to tell me about all the guys she was meeting on match.com and constantly texting and giggling so that I had to talk to her several times about it and even threatened to take the phone away so she just started trying to hide it. At one point she actually showed me the pictures of penises that these guys were texting her. I thought she was going to show me pictures of their FACES. Anyway, she gets around... a lot and brags about her sexploits.... a lot. I've been known to make jokes about flavor of the week and needing scorecards to keep track. So about two weeks ago she was hot in heat talking to this army guy in the furniture department for well over forty minutes. I was starting to wonder if it was going to end with me having to pry her off his crotch with a crowbar. It was kinda disgusting and everyone in the store was giving her a ration of crap about it. She got pissed off. Two days later I walk up behind her when she's supposed to be greeting customers and directing them to the merchandise they want and she's giggling and texting the army guy. Alex is nearby and hears her telling me it's the army guy and starts giving her crap about it and she starts getting all defensive and claiming it wasn't like that and they were just going to be friends. I told her to stop lying, we aren't stupid and we all know different. She was pissed at me too but hey, you can't spent over forty minutes giggling, thrusting your breasts at a guy and screaming with body language that you want to jump him, IN FRONT OF YOUR CO-WORKERS and then try to deny it. I called her out on it. Anyway, it probably wasn't very nice of me but I don't really like her for other reasons and I get pissed that she is supposed to be management training and all she does is try to hide and text and takes long breaks, treats the other associates with serious superior than thou attitude, takes attitudes with everyone including me for no reason, just because she's cranky and has been repeatedly told to stop all of these behaviors and doesn't but I digress. Ok, so back to the story, I get in to work and she has a great big hickey on her neck and is all giggling about having slept with the army guy, bursting at the seams to tell everyone and then Alex and Nate start giving her shit and she gets all pissed off. In the meantime, unbenownst to me, Edward and Seth are already planning to take her aside and talk to her about the texting, hiding and extended breaks and attitude. So, the three of them go in the office for a discussion and Adriana fills me in on how Daniela has been proudly displaying the hickey all morning and whispering about the sex she had with the army guy and it turns out he's married. I just shook my head. I've been at this store since what, March or April? She's been with 11 different guys that I can name and exchanged naked pics with at least six others that I know of... anyway, I walk onto the floor to see what's going on with Nate and Alex and they are making fun of her in not so nice ways and I'm just like, seriously, she is something else. So after about 30 minutes in the office, Edward comes out and comes over to me and beckons Nate and Alex over and says he needs to talk to us about something. He's kind of uncomfortable but then says that in his conversation with Daniela she had brought up that people had been judging her and making comments about her personal life that she didn't like, things that upset her and of the people there, Nate, Alex and I were particularly mentioned. Edward explained that she wanted us to stop making fun of her. He also explained that he explained to her that maybe she shouldn't be so blatant about her personal life if she didn't want it discussed. I was looking at Edward with a look of what was probably incredulity. So I asked him, "I just want to clarify, does this mean that she's going to stop shoving her sexcapade stories down our throats, stop showing me pictures of the penises she's been bouncing on and bragging/giggling about her exploits with the married army guy last night and we pretend she's no longer incredibly loose?" The look on Ed's face was priceless. Nate chimes in with, "She tells us even if we tell her we don't want to hear it so how's that supposed to work?" Edward admitted that he wasn't quite sure and was laughing a bit uncomfortably. I just said I would try to ignore it and shook my head and walked away. I went and tracked down Seth to get his take on it and it was clear that it was probably one of the most uncomfortable conversations he had to sit in on in a long long time. Poor guy. I can't even imagine how he must have been cringing and wishing he was anywhere but in that office.
Now for the topper, Vivian comes in to work, takes one look at Daniela and says loudly, "Nice hickey, which guy gave you that?" and starts laughing. Daniela turned all red and giggled that it was the army guy and not a hickey but a bite mark but then must have realized that she was bragging again so decided to get pissed off at Viv and said something along the lines of Viv being mean for pointing it out because Viv was not exactly pure. Viv made some comment about how Daniela shouldn't get so butt hurt about it. Daniela promptly stomped off and put a band aid over it. Thing is, it was just to the right of the central dip in her collarbone so if she just buttoned her shirt one button it would have been covered. Instead she got a band aid and left her too tight shirt unbuttoned so she could still show her cleavage. To finish up, I had to talk to Viv because she was another one mentioned for being mean. Honestly, I was laughing when I talked to Viv. I know. I am judging Daniela and I am being mean and I am far from pure but seriously? She comes in to work and giggles and brags about the guy she banged last night and then wonders why they don't call her again. Then a week later she's giggling again cuz she's found a new one to bone and then the cycle repeats itself. The longest stretch of her banging a new guy that I know of was two weeks since I met her. There were a few weeks that she wasn't speaking to me since I reprimanded her for various stuff so there may have been more but I don't know. Anyway. Like I said, drama llama ding dong, I work in a place full of high school mentality. I wanna go back to an auto shop so bad it hurts.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:51 am
wow - and you gusy are to blame for her being an idiot? please take the girl to teh clinic and get her sterilized.
julie is asleep, sonny is alseep under my desk - he really likes it there. i just fed him some of his doggie cookies. he really loves those.
julie is doing great on the diet. staying on course. we just ordered enough of the diet food for the two of us. so she will be able to have chocolate and try out some products she hasn't before. i tried to get a wide variety so she won't get bored with it. we agreed to use the bars once a day as a treat. (i would order nothing but the peanut butter bars if left in charge.)
went to Hastings in hopes of getting the New Avengers annual kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21342 but they did not have it. i need a nearby comic book store. i may end up buying a bunch of Marvel's Shadowland from them when i get my allowance.
julie is asleep, sonny is alseep under my desk - he really likes it there. i just fed him some of his doggie cookies. he really loves those.
julie is doing great on the diet. staying on course. we just ordered enough of the diet food for the two of us. so she will be able to have chocolate and try out some products she hasn't before. i tried to get a wide variety so she won't get bored with it. we agreed to use the bars once a day as a treat. (i would order nothing but the peanut butter bars if left in charge.
)went to Hastings in hopes of getting the New Avengers annual kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21342 but they did not have it. i need a nearby comic book store. i may end up buying a bunch of Marvel's Shadowland from them when i get my allowance.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:28 pm
Wow, Jenn, talk about a case of arrested development. 
The crocheted willie warmers, as I understand it, were just tubes. That hat wouldn't be a willie warmer. That hat would be... I dunno *what* that would be, to be honest. Altho I would be willing to pay lorin to wear it to work.
The crocheted willie warmers, as I understand it, were just tubes. That hat wouldn't be a willie warmer. That hat would be... I dunno *what* that would be, to be honest. Altho I would be willing to pay lorin to wear it to work.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:11 pm
Oh gods, Jenn. Sounds like the evil twin of a co-worker I had waaay back when I first started working in retail. We've got our share of drama too, though it's mostly the night crew so I miss most of it.
Competence is in short supply. When I moved last month and got all my stuff with AT&T sorted out (or so I thought), I was put on a different internet plan that cost about half what my old one did. Pretty awesome, right? Until I got the bill, which was for nearly double my old plan. So I called them up, and got told 'oops, that was for new subscriptions only' - but they were able to verify that I had in fact been quoted the lower amount, and they said they'd honor it. Pretty awesome, right? Apparently they fixed it by canceling my service and re-entering me as a new customer. Which led to a bill for $400 of random stuff (such as a new modem, which I did not need or receive) - which led to me spending over an hour yesterday arguing with them until I got far enough up the ladder that I found someone who finally figured out what had happened. And then got told that since it had already been billed they couldn't do anything about it, so I should just pay the bill and they'd have to fix it retroactively - meaning I won't get charged for internet service for the next 2-3 years. Which is fine except I don't HAVE an extra $400. So now I get to spend another hour arguing with them, because I don't buy that there is no way for them to fix it. Hell, I'll cancel my service and go to Comcast or something. Why does everything have to be an ordeal?
Competence is in short supply. When I moved last month and got all my stuff with AT&T sorted out (or so I thought), I was put on a different internet plan that cost about half what my old one did. Pretty awesome, right? Until I got the bill, which was for nearly double my old plan. So I called them up, and got told 'oops, that was for new subscriptions only' - but they were able to verify that I had in fact been quoted the lower amount, and they said they'd honor it. Pretty awesome, right? Apparently they fixed it by canceling my service and re-entering me as a new customer. Which led to a bill for $400 of random stuff (such as a new modem, which I did not need or receive) - which led to me spending over an hour yesterday arguing with them until I got far enough up the ladder that I found someone who finally figured out what had happened. And then got told that since it had already been billed they couldn't do anything about it, so I should just pay the bill and they'd have to fix it retroactively - meaning I won't get charged for internet service for the next 2-3 years. Which is fine except I don't HAVE an extra $400. So now I get to spend another hour arguing with them, because I don't buy that there is no way for them to fix it. Hell, I'll cancel my service and go to Comcast or something. Why does everything have to be an ordeal?
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:17 pm
You make it and I will wear it.......and take pics to prove it.aliantha wrote: The crocheted willie warmers, as I understand it, were just tubes. That hat wouldn't be a willie warmer. That hat would be... I dunno *what* that would be, to be honest. Altho I would be willing to pay lorin to wear it to work.
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:05 am
Talked to Manny today. Refreshed his mind that I need to be transferred back into SF ASAP. He felt like a boob for not having already done it so I took pity on him since he has a ton of stuff going on right now and neglected to mention that Cathe said he said I moved to Berkeley. I'm thinking he might have said that meaning he just recently moved me to the Berkeley store rather than I moved my residence. Anyhow, Manny said there might be a spot opening very soon so that's good for me. It would be nice if it opened up in the store with Sorus although that store is not the closest. It's ten blocks to the 16th st store so that would be ideal but I would like to work with Sorus again and I like the challenges that store faces. That store is a direct shot from out the apartment on one bus and a two block walk from the bus to the store. I would be happy with that.
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:31 pm
Was in Newcaslte again today. I take a little amusement listening to the street preachers that tend to be standing talking on loudspeakers in Monument Square. Today was a particularly good one: A young man, fairly average type with a Newcastle accent, shouting loudly about all the usual stuff about Jesus, but by the third time I passed the monument, I heard "People don't realise just how painful crucifiction was," followed by graphic descriptions of the violent deaths of people who were crucified (non-specific, third-hand, and exaggerated for effect)...
The second pass he'd been talking about how he got angry with his brother just yesterday for leaving clothes on the floor, and led into something about Jesus saying anger leads to murder. The crucifiction bit was quite a contrast after the innocuousness of that example.
(I wonder if I'm the first person to say "innocuousness" on the Watch.)
The second pass he'd been talking about how he got angry with his brother just yesterday for leaving clothes on the floor, and led into something about Jesus saying anger leads to murder. The crucifiction bit was quite a contrast after the innocuousness of that example.
(I wonder if I'm the first person to say "innocuousness" on the Watch.
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