Second Zooborns. Much adorableness there. 
Land line phone died yesterday. Pick it up and there’s massive static so that you can’t hear the dial tone or the other person on the line.
Called the phone company to report and set up a service call.
About two hours after the call to the phone company the land line rings with an 800 number on the caller ID. I ignore (I never pick up 800 type numbers and, besides, the phone’s not usable) It goes to message which I try to listen to. Static, static, something Bell garble something 'confirm your garble for service, static, garble, call this number, garble static, and so forth.
Brilliant.
Makes me really confident that the service guy will show up today (appointment between 8 and 5 :rolleyes: Really? That’s an ‘appointment’?)
Yes, I called them back via my cell (the number of which I did give to the first call centre drone) to confirm the ‘appointment’.
I am truly baffled why the land line phone company would call the land line to confirm an appointment to fix a phone that’s been reported as not working.
Boss: I told you to do this. Why aren’t you doing it?
Me: I am doing it
Boss: It’s not showing up on the report
Me: Did you select that particular field to be included in the report?
Boss: Oh, maybe I didn’t…
No apology, of course. :smack:
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That’s impressively fast service. I’m in the old SW Bell territory, and when I notice my landline isn’t working (which takes the rare case of actually using it), it tends to be 2-4 days before they come out. Since the problem has never been in my house, it makes me wonder how many people in my area still have a landline as their main phone.
Yeah, can’t complain about the speed of the service. Guy was here before noon. But he too called the land line to tell me he was on his way :rolleyes:
Turns out the problem was in the road cable and that he struggled to find a functioning line to switch us to.
We live in the boonies so I suspect upgrading (or even maintaining) the infrastructure is not high on the list of priorities. Sadly, the cell service is also low on the list, lots of dead places, and don’t even get me started on the our internet. Suffice it to say that when we moved here 6 years ago dial-up was our only option. We’re now screaming along with LTE at some pathetic 15mbps download, upload is a fabulous 1. 
Explore.org has some cute crittercams too.
15 down? 1 up? I’m jealous. We get about 2/3 that, on good days, except for the 2 or so hours every damned day that the service is out altogether. I hate Frontier Communications. They make me long for Comcast, or the local “nobody” cable company, or the little telephone co-op that services the rest of the unincorporated county… except for our little 1.5 mile, 6 family road.
I survived Grandmother’s funeral. Woulda been kind of nice to have met the woman who was being eulogized at the service - she sounded pretty interesting and kind of nice, unlike the woman who raised my mother and her sisters. (I also learned that, even in our mid-forties, my cousin and I still shouldn’t sit next to one another in church or during any other semi-serious occasion*. Our sixth-grade teacher was also at the service, and I think I’m rather charmed that Ms. F remembered that we couldn’t be seated together when we were 11, either.)
*This wouldn’t have been quite so bad, except that my cousin’s husband - the retired legislator and current college professor and minister - was giving the eulogy. :o
What is Panera’s obsession with rye bread? Its bad enough they put no dressings on any of the sandwiches.
I swear every time I order a catering tray (Panera as recommended by the people Im buying it for), every single fucking sandwich is on rye bread.
Yeah yeah I get it I should specifically request white bread and mayo and mustard on the side for some of the sandwiches, but do that many people like rye bread that its Panera’s go to choice? It tastes like Tab everytime I chew into it, distracts from the flavor of whatever else is in the sandwich, and ruins the entire sandwich. And do that many people like dry, medicine like sandwiches for lunch?
Im going to say what needs to be said: rye bread fucking SUCKS. I’ve always hated it, but Panera now makes me realize how much Ive hated it my entire life. When I am king of there world, remind me to ban rye bread.
And maybe Panera, while I am at it.
I agree, rye bread can go.
Weirdly, though, I like pumpernickel, which is apparently just rye bread carried to the extreme. 
(raises hand at funeral)
“Um, excuse me, am I at the wrong funeral? Is this for (name)?”
“Yes, it is”
“Oh, ok. I wasn’t sure. I didn’t recognize the person you were eulogizing. Didn’t sound like her at all.”
Nope, I love rye bread and ask for it specifically. And if it’s the dark seeded kind, so much the better. White bread is boring.
I eat at Panera all the time (at least once every week) and have never had a sandwich on rye bread. I’ve had a wide variety of their offerings and have never even seen one offered on rye. I personally love rye bread, especially toasted with cream cheese and salami, or if it’s breakfast, cream cheese and cherry preserves. Mmm. Time for lunch!
Gov. Dayton (D) appoints a very qualified gay woman to the MN Supreme Court.
The bigots and hate mongers immediately flood the MN StarTribune comments. :smack:
I flagged (as offensive) the one where the guy complains about appointing minorities when this is “still a majority white country”. What a fucking retard. If I knew that person I’d gladly punch him in the mouth and deal with the criminal charges. (And I’ve thrown all of 2 punches in my 35 years of adult life, both in self defense)
You know, posting that you just got back from the movie and you’re so angry and demand to know how “that muslim is still in office!” makes me wonder if you’re a 100% disabled vet (who can miraculously play in volleyball tournaments) because you got hit by an IED and it scrambled your brain.
It was bad enough when you kept claiming he was going to force us all to become Muslims and enforce Sharia Law. I mean, that’s patently absurd on the face of it. What was he going to do, get on national TV and announce that the USA is now an Islamic Republic with Sharia Law, we were all required to convert to Islam and… We’d all just shrug our shoulders, go “well, ok” and it’d happen?
But to keep pushing this and demanding that he be tried for treason and all that? That’s like, 85 IQ logic. And I just don’t want your irrational hate and anger any more.
Unfriended.
Stupid snowy roads. Smacked the rear of my lovely truck into a tree. Arrgh.
This guy was sitting right behind me in a really important exam in college. Every ten seconds, just like clockwork, he let out a huge rich juicy drippy full-bodied sniff:
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And I would have exactly enough time to switch off my inner EWWWW and properly get my concentration back before it had been ten seconds and
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This huge exam hall, utterly silent except for this guy working his snot. Every ten seconds without fail. For three hours.
If I had had a tissue I would have turned around and stuck it on his desk, and not even cared if the invigilators thought we were cheating, but I didn’t.
OMG I wouldn’t even - ah! - no way. I have a bit of an issue with misophonia, and I would have been seeing red and possibly gone temporarily insane. I would NOT be able to keep my mouth shut about it at the very least. If I were the test administrator I would have had to send him out to clear his nose even if it wasn’t allowed. I’d come up with some kind of emergency excuse. Just. No.
It took a large amount of restraint tonight in line at Target, not to shove the guy behind me, who insisted on standing right behind me instead of with his cart between us, and then proceed to open a big bag of peanut m&m’s and dump them into his giant pie hole, making grunting and crunching sounds 19 inches from me. If I hadn’t been at the register and distracting myself with getting the hell checked out, if I was further back and knew I had to wait a bit, I would have either changed lines or been really rude.
In other news, I found the one Ulta store for miles (of only 7 in the state), that carries a really new U.K. makeup line that can’t be had without ordering internationally otherwise, and the palettes I bought were 25% off. I was riding that high while at Target, so was a little calmer and happier than I might have been otherwise.
It’s far easier to put on dressing than to take it off. On a human-interactive menu it is not too bad once you learn that even if the menu does not designate an unwanted sauce you should still ask about it in case there is horrid mustard or mayo on it, but still, any sauces should be clearly marked on the menu or put on the side.
However, it is not so easy with prepacked shit. More than half of prepackaged sandwiches come with crappy sauce on it. It would cost like 5 cents and take every one else like 5 seconds to simply have the packet of sauce on the side instead of on the sandwich like you psychically know what everyone else likes to eat, then I would be willing to spend $3 for the sandwich. Even when I do want sauce on a sandwich, which is only ketchup and only very rarely, I like to decide how much I put on it.
Can those of us who sniffle every half an hour and are trying to get a new alergologist appointment just go get a minor 3rd-degree burn?
Opened an “incident” with my Stupid Bank back in December 17. They finally decided to call me about it this week. One of the reasons I call them Stupid Bank is that they ignore the field “preferred mode of contact” in their own databases. Another, that the morons have called me 3 times in 24h to give me the same information.