cranky me…

It's just one of those days... various shit piling up at work that just makes me wish I had called in sick... dealing with multiple vendor tickets, on top of a telco whose ticket system is such a P.o.S. that the person answering the phone cannot update the ticket or escalate if the ticket is already open on someone else's workstation? How utterly stupid.

Coupled with there being a few tickets that the day people are working on that are some of the absolute worst ones to have to deal with, that our shift will inevitably get when the day people leave... One is a South American circuit, another is a circuit in California whose customer is just as dumb as a stump.

I think I feel a fever and a cough coming on.

*cough* *cough*

F U Dubya

This is what I have to say to GWBush:

Oh for crying out loud…

This summer's "gas shortage" has caused people around here to be too fucking jumpy and skittish.

There is a "RUMOUR" going around at the moment, that the gas pipeline from Tucson to Phoenix broke again.

I'm wagering that it's simply a matter of people being ignorant and stupid (baa-aahhh), and overreacting to a news brief that I found on azcentral.com about a very small leak that was found on Friday, and was subsequently repaired in less than two hours.

Did anyone notice it then? Or even two or three days later? Nnoooo... I'm also willing to wager that this rumour was spawned by news media trying to sensationalize any piece of information they can get on the problems with the pipeline (well, it is a piece of crap, after all). You know how they work, "Is the pipeline in more trouble than we realize? Find out at 10pm", and it just turns out to be a minor blurb about a tiny leak found and fixed in a matter of hours.

There have been co-workers calling in and telling us that some gas stations are already out of gas. Others saying that the lines are starting to form again, a la Summer of '03. Supposedly there is supposed to be some announcement at 10PM about what is going on.

I will laugh my ass off if it turns out to be about the leak on Friday.

But, the damage is already done. Lines are forming, some gas stations are already running out of gas (for the time being).

Fucking idiots.

And the saga continues…

Q: How long does it take USPS to deliver a package?
A: As long as they deem necessary.

The Xbox I shipped still is not there yet!! Really, is it so much to ask for something to be delivered in an even remotely decent amount of time? Hmm? I know they were busy for the holidays and all, but this is starting to get a little stupid.

11 days and counting... (from Dec 19, and yes, I'm including Sundays, because the post office doesn't stop working on Sunday) for a Priority Mail package that should have been there in three to four days from the ship date.

I don't think they lost the package, considering the thing weighs a good fifteen pounds and is 20" long & wide and 10" high. It's a large box, kind of hard to misplace, you know?

It better show up soon. >:-[

Crappity crap!

Stupid post office.
Now some kid in New York won't be getting his Xbox for Christmas because they couldn't deliver it in less than SIX friggin days... via Priority Mail, no less.

Was trying to keep shipping cheap for this lady, and figured priority mail would get it there by the 24th. I should have known. Grrr.

Lesson learned... Use expensive shipping that guarantees a delivery date if you want something before Christmas if you ship it with less than 7 days before that holiday. Oye.

farking banks..

Does anyone reading this get bills from Capital One? What do their envelopes look like? Do they look very similar to their credit card solicitation envelopes?

I ask because supposedly Capital One had already mailed out my bill for the loan I got to do my lasik surgery, but I don't recall seeing it. We get assloads of credit card solicitations, so I probably presumed it was just another one of those. Fortunately I keep those things for a couple of months before tossing them out, so all I have to do is go through the stacks when I get home and see if I can locate it...

It's late already (was due Nov 6) but the guy I talked to on the phone waived the late fee due to the circumstances. If I find them (there will be one for the Nov 6 pmt and one for the upcoming Dec 6 due date) and find that they look nearly identical to Capital One's solicitation envelopes, I'm gonna be quite pissed.

What really sucks is that they don't have online access for making payments on this type of loan. What the hell is up with that? I can apply on line but I can't pay online? That doesn't exactly seem fair. Feh. Stupid banks.

Is there a banshee in the building?

Somewhere else I stopped at yesterday while I was out and about was Fry's Electronics, to pick up some nifty CD/DVD jewel cases.

It was after I had dinner with Josh at Chipotle. Mmmmmmm... Chipotle....

Anyway, I was also looking for a fuse for my a/c car adapter for my CD player, thinking it was broken ('cause I plug it into the lighter port and no juice gets to the CD player).. While I was perusing the fuse isle, I heard, from halfway across the store, this kid just SCREAMING at the top of its lungs. Incessantly. (I say "its lungs" because I don't know if it was a girl or a boy)

I kept muttering under my breath that if that fucking parent didn't get that child out of the freaking building I was going to hunt the thing down and strangle it. They were at the registers, as that was where the banshee-screams were emanting from. I can only imagine what the people in direct ear-shot of those blood curdling screams were thinking.

Probably the same thing as me. Get that thing out of this store before I wrap my purse strap around its neck and shut it the fuck up FOR you...

Man.... when I have kids, if it starts screeching like that in a store, I'll peel my socks off my feet and stuff it in their mouths and haul them out of the store, the second they don't shut up the first time they're told to do so.

I don't understand parents who just stand there and let their child continue annoying the hell out of everyone within hearing range.

Oh, and by the way.. there is also a new entry in "SuperSecret".

pajamas.. not just for sleeping in anymore

I've noticed something that I find rather.... disturbing... recently, while out and about doing various errands that take me past high schools.

And it makes me very glad I don't have any teenage children right now....

yuck.

I didn't feel like going to the store to buy a broom, so I power-sprayed the dried hamburger off the walls with the water hose.

And, so that it wouldn't stink up our yard as it dried up again, I picked up each piece and threw it in the garbage.

I feel dirty. Must go wash hands for the fifth time. blech.

WTF, Yo?!?

That stands for, WHAT THE FUCK, YO?!?!

Yo as in Y-O. No mispelling there.

Some immature mother-fucker decided it would be cute to throw raw hamburger at our house sometime between the time Josh got home last night (around midnight) and this morning (abt 7:15am) when he left for work (early day today for training).

I say again, what the fuck, yo?!

He called shortly after he pulled out of the driveway to ask what had exploded over our garage on the walls of the house. While on the phone I went outside to take a look (he was already gone). I looked closely. Hmm. Long, brown, stringy stuff. Looks like a combination of bird shit and worms. But bird shit isn't that consistent of a color, and they aren't shriveled enough to be worms.

I look on the ground, and find a piece of parchment paper, the kind you'd find separating pre-shaped hamburger patties. Only this stuff didn't come from pre-shaped hamburger patties, but is the stringy shape of freshly ground beef.

What the fuck. Hamburger?!

Great. Our neighborhood is relatively quiet, nothing bad or strange happens around here. The neighbors sometimes complain to us about the weeds that pop up in our front yard and that we take what seems like forever to get rid of, but otherwise, it's rather peaceful around here.

Until now.

About half the neigbhors have kids, so this could've been done by any one of them. For the height of where this vandalism landed, I'd have to guess it was probably a pre-teen to teenage loser who thought he was being cool or funny.

This is akin to having one's house egged. I'm either going to have to go buy a broom to clean this up (ours is broken, so for sweep jobs I either use the vacuum or use the end of the broom and bend over to sweep stuff up), or use our water hose to force-spray this shit off the walls.

Yes, I took pictures.

And if it happens again, I'm definitely calling the cops to file a complaint. It's unfortunate we don't know which spawn-of-satan in our neighborhood did this.

What.the.fuck.

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