8/23

What I think is rude is people who say, "Oh, make this! Do us a favor! Make this for us! Cook us this!" And you do and it takes two hours and that's fine because you like to do a favor for people but then you bring it in for them and they don't eat it.

Admittedly, it's not my best effort ever, but common courtesy would suggest that the person who came to me personally and asked for it would have at least tasted it, don't you think?

I wasted two solid hours of my Sunday evening yesterday, making stupid peach cobbler for these people and not one of them has so much as tasted it. Can't be because everyone is one a diet because someone brought in brownies to celebrate Tyro's birthday and everyone glommed onto those.

I'm going to take the pan home tonight and dump it in the disposal.

What's also obnoxious is when you have the cable people out twice in a week and your $100+ a month television service is still wonky. I called them again today and they'll be out tomorrow.

We've actually been trying to get this fixed for months. That part is my fault. I kept forgetting to call them back after they came out and didn't fix it. I should also have been demanding that they put a new cable on (which is what one of their phone support people said we needed) this last couple of times. This time, I'm not even going to let the guy in the front door if he's not carrying a piece of cable.

I'd like to post this short but whiny blog entry, but our internet is down. That, too, is irritating.

8/27

The cable guy came, worked, and went.* The channel I remembered there were problems on is, if I'm not mistaken, fixed. Apparently there was another channel that the R.C. likes that was also picture-wonky. I did not know/remember, I did not have the cable guy check it when it was out, and it is not fixed. Now I have to call them back out.

I meant to call them yesterday but got distracted by, you know, work.* *

Picking a day will be tricky. I have plans for tomorrow morning and so does the R.C.* * * We have very busy weekends planned, so if they offer us one of their Saturday morning visits, that's out.

I'm having my hair done Monday afternoon, so already enough time out of the office that day.

I also have to schedule it around the routine/expected follow-up visit from the bug man. He is coming on Wednesday. (Apparently the Issue we had in June is one that requires a series of follow-up misting, sprays, and general poisonous deluges or the hideous little monsters could make a reappearance.)

I sent the R.C. an email yesterday. If One More Thing happens, we are moving to somewhere that is not broken.

This afternoon they are turning everyone loose half an hour early to attend the annual (semi-annual?) (they did it once before, anyhow) company picnic. Since it's not yet noon and the temperature outside is already over 90, I'm thinking that I'm going to take the option for this optional event and not go.

I would go ahead and post this now--it's certainly long enough, what with all the topics I had to whine about, but our internet is out.

Later - we have access!

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* Did he appear with cable in hand, I hear you asking? He did! When I opened the door, he was standing there with twelve feet of cable!

** Of both the office and freelance variety. In spite of my firm vow to take on no more freelance clients, I heard myself weakly agreeing to take on creating and managing a campaign for CEO Jason's new spousal unit. (FWIW, I stopped to figure out the other day that is all the accounts I freelance for paid me as much as Bernie pays? I'd be almost ready to quit having a full-time job right now.) (Not that I would. Quit, I mean. Not right now, while the temperature is topping 90 every day and the office has central air while my apartment does not.)

(Also? CEO Jason came back to my desk later and lectured me because I don't charge enough for my freelance work. Sheesh. I know that, okay?)

*** The R.C. is buying a pair of pants and having her hair done. I am working on a big chunk o'the Boxes To Buckets project that urgently needs to be done this weekend, for various reasons that don't need going into at this juncture.