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Hey. Whoa. Wee. I've created handy topic headings in this very structured, easy to follow JE. Enjoy and read with a glass of Diet cola in your hands. Yes, refreshing diet pepsi (or wild cherry for some women...) will always enhance your JE viewing. Buy some TODAY!

Poll -- you can avoid the rest if you wish ;)
WTF is it with phones? What is your position on the bastards?

coolguy) Never use the evil thing. Hate the phone. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! Email 4-ever!
lah-who-sa-her) You have to use the phone ya puss, it allows the human connection to remain somewhat intact and fosters mamby-pamby relationships blah blah
normal) Never thought about it. Phone's ok, email's ok. You're an antisocial geek.
inane) Tuesday is the best color of the ice cream!

Greetings and absurdities!
Hey everybody! What's going on besides Em possibly returning and the photo contest and the world spinning backwards thanks to that blasted Superman flying really quickly around the earth in the opposite direction?

Last school stuff from this recent quarter
I am so freaking delighted as punch and cake that I'm not in school. I'm doing what I want to do and it's tons of fun. It's nice to feel free again. :)

Oh, also, miraculously, I got 2 A's. My grades came in this morning. So, work pays 90% of the tab. Yay!

Gratitude and lovin'
Thanks for all of the discussion recently, whether it was religion or the whole Schiavo/Florida thing. I didn't really mean to upset anyone over it, but I did have some passionate feelings about it. I looked at it as an interesting discussion and I think I learned some good things. Lots of good people around here in my opinion.

Conclusion
Better get back to work. Catchya in FK's journal! :)

Postscripts to try to get some gratuitous laughter although not really funny.
P.S. If anyone uses the term: "irregardless" around this joint, MekkaB and I will fly to your vicinity and lay down the beatings.

P.P.S. FUCK. I have a voicemail. Why do people ever use the goddamn phone anymore???? Tell me this?

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  • Phone's okay. Calling people sucks. I hate it when it rings at work, but when you're too drunk to type, nothing beats slurring southern twang into the phone. Irregardless isn't a fucking word. Never has been, and, so help me deity, never will be.

    I have a twin in the photo contest. Scary part is it's a guy. He has my face! And I want it back!

    Grats and cookies on the A x2.
    • nothing beats slurring southern twang into the phone.
      Now stop picking on TL....

      Wait, I just had freaking deja vu. Why did I just have that? Is there a glitch in the matrix? Um. What is the deal with the southern twang in the phone except for the TL reference? um. I'm confused. Eerrrk. Fldfas.

      Grats and cookies on the A x2.
      Ooh!!! When they be comin? :)
  • I have a cell phone and I use the caller id with reckless abandon.

    I have a phoneline at the house (a prerequisite for having DSL since the cable company refuses to acknowledge my existence) but I've got a fax machine hooked up to it and the ringer turned off. And no long distance service. So I can call 1800 numbers if I want to and can hook up a monitored home alarm system; but I don't want you to call my home. ever.

    BTW: In a code inspection this morning we went off on the use of irregardless. You woul
    • i sat in a meeting last fall and in my notebook made hash marks for every utterance of the "word" "irregardless"

      would you like to know how many hash marks i left that meeting with?

      try 8.

      holy fuck!

      rob... what's your VM number? i need to leave you lots of messages about stupid shit like

      "hey rob, its blinder... i am just headed into work and i just wanted to let you know that i just passed a red ford focus and i think i need to leave you another voice mail in 20 minutes letting you know i got into work ok

      • I agree with Blinder -- this must be a call for more voice on your voicemail/answering machine. Why, I could call and leave random jokes and brain droppings. That's it, right? After we all helpfully leave enough messages, you'll understand and then you won't need any more messages?

      • You little scud sucker! You're turning into quite the smart-ass lately...but, you've always been a bit o' the smart ass ain'tcha?

        Watch it punk! That's all I gotta say. Watch it. You & TL've got it comin and you won't be happy Homestar Runner fans when I'm done with you!

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    by daniil ( 775990 ) *
    And here i thought it [xtshopping.net] was just a rather fancy and overpriced pocket watch.
  • ... and tell them that you accidently deleted their voice mail, but you have their number on the call display, and what did they want anyway?

    They'll get the idea after a couple of dozen times.

    Mind you, I like voice mail on my cell - means I don't HAVE to answer it while in the can, even though I do when it's one of my daughters calling.

    typical conversation:

    Her: Hi, what 'ya doing?
    Me: Not much, just sitting here reading a book.
    Her: Oh, okay. Hey' what's that echo? Are you in the bathroom or something.
    Me:

    • Oh man, that's funny. Totally sounds like my family!

      Why is it that the inane option above reads itself to me in the voice of little Ralphie Wiggums?

      Irregardless, a pretty big news day on the Dot, eh Rob? I thought Em was supposably gone forever. He's here presently, though, so that's what counts.

      Kissy kissy kissy. :-)

      ....Bethanie....
  • Nassssty, nasssssssty. We hates it forever!!!!

    Um, normal? Caller ID is a great invention. Screen those calls!
    • Yeah, I screen every call. By not answering them. Unless it's TL calling. And fdb. But that's about it.

      I'm trying not to ingest HFCS, so regular soda is out. I need to lose this gut once and for all. So, happily I sing,

      "Diet pepsi tastes regular.
      Oh yes it does!
      La de da.

      I'm not in denial.
      It really doesn't taste like chemicals.
      La de da."
      • I'm doing the same thing with regard to HFCS. So I drink water, iced tea, unsweetened coffee products, and pure fruit juices (it's surprising how many "juices" have HFCS added). I just can't stomach the diet sodas. It helps to get away from sweet-tasting things, too.
        • I gotta second that one. I've even transitioned to not putting sugar in my coffee. Yes, it sounds drastic. But it only took me about two months to wean myself down to zero lumps. It helps to drink good coffee. I've got five pounds of good Kona being hand delivered next Friday. The line forms to the left.

          Everything's relative. Since I ditched soda and other overly sweet stuff, even good, filtered water tastes sweeter. (Crappy tapwater still tastes like crap, though.) The only time I touch the stuff anymore
  • Phones suck. Phones royally suck. Among the reasons that phones suck:

    Poor async communication. Leave a message, have to listen through a bunch of messages and listen to the entirety of an unplanned message before determining importance.

    Poor away features. Stepping away from the phone for a couple minutes to use the restroom? Too bad nobody will know you'll be back in 5 mins. Changing the message is too much of a hassle.

    Poor multitasking. How many phone conversations can one carry on at once? One, unless eve

  • I'm technical support for software with a company that still believes in giving callers a person to talk to. That means people call in and reach a live receptionist who transfers them to me or my co-worker. Not bad actually, except for the guys who get chatty. I didn't need to know about that hernia surgery or your teenage son's adventures, thank you very much.
    • Ahhh, tell the assholes to stop calling and write an email or fill in the form on a web site. If they have no network access, tell them to grow some intelligence and figure the damn thing out for themselves.

      Yes, I should head up Customer Relations at my company. Heads would roll brutha. ;)

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