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« November 2008 | Main | January 2009 » December 29, 2008Internets? I'd Just Settle for ONEYeah so... once again our DSL has been down the whole weekend. That's TWO weekends in a row... starting on Friday. But this time there was a twist. After the usual tier one support that we've all come to know and loathe I decided to call back the next day for an update. The next guy, from Canada this time, starts asking me questions and I start describing the whole situation. When I get to the part where the modem keeps resetting he says to stop. Then he asks if I told the person this yesterday. After I said yes he gave a long sigh. It's not the connection, it's the modem. *grumbles* I was so outdone. We only got the modem two years ago so it's under warranty. That's the good part. We STILL have to wait for them to ship us out a new one. That won't be before Tuesday. The guy tried to make me feel better about the whole 'it's only two years old' bit by telling me how he had one customer go through SIX before getting one that worked. That did the exact opposite of 'feel better'. Jake and I spent the better part of the weekend driving each other nuts. We walked a lot, which was good. We also watched hours of Family Guy. Talk about mind numbing. Most people don't realize how connected they are through the internet until it goes down. Not us... we know EXACTLY how connected we are and go absolutely apeship when we don't have it. We're perfect for each other!
[keywords: Internet weekend Verizon dsl tier one support] December 22, 2008It's a Tree, Charlie Brown!Saturday I woke up and stumbled into the den. Jake walked in the front door with an arm full of groceries. I started my coffee and Jake asked me to look outside. He said it looked darker, as if something was blocking the window. I peeked through the blinds and saw a big ole Christmas tree. After hopping around like a kid who just got a pony we decided to wait on bringing it in. The two cats were already way too inquisitive and we didn't have a spot ready to place it. Now I'm just waiting for Jake to say the word so we can decorate that sucker and pray the balls don't go flying within minutes of finishing the job. While visions of cat puke dance through my head it's still not enough to make me not want that tree all pretty and lit in our apartment. Bah Humbug indeed. This is going to be fun!
[keywords: holidays tree] December 18, 2008Welcome to Hell WeekOtherwise known as PMS. That's right... it's time for my head to skin and green pea soup to spew everywhere. My emotional meter is on EMO and I am about two clicks from tears. Why can't guys go through this shit? I paid for a site design I couldn't afford so people could tell me 'it's too dark'. I decided to hold off on my hair to buy the OTHER design only to hear it's 'too bright'. What is this... the three fucking bears?
[keywords: nct pms design] December 17, 2008Could You make it ANY Harder?So I caved and bought the lighter color scheme for :nct:. Yeah, I know... as if I can afford it. The good part is that it comes with a variation of themes. Five for one, so to speak. The bad part is that vBulletin wont let me save a new template for all the themes. That means all the extra pages I have need to be created for each theme. We're talking over twenty pages to be duplicated. That's BEFORE I have to go into the thirty templates and update them for all the hacks. Yeah... so it's not going to be nice and shiny for a while.
[keywords: website nct themes] December 15, 2008MORE DSL WoesSo this weekend our DSL went out. After the initial freaking out I started the usual unplug/reboot/blah blah blah tier one tech support bullshit. Nothing helped. The internet light was off and didn't want to come back on. I took a deep breath, counted to twenty then called tech support. Ten minutes later I got some chick who called herself Mary with a thick Indian accent. I bit my tongue and explained everything I did... step by step. Sure enough it was a waste of time. She made me redo each step, asking if I've done this (even though I already said I did) and continued on with her script. Tier one tech support sucks balls. After making some strange statement about the modem possibly not working because of my computer I called bullshit. She got pissy and I called her on THAT too. Then she asked if I had a router. I said yes, but that the modem was connected directly to my computer. She kept insisting that I tell her what router it was, even though I wasn't using it. After telling her so we could move past it she announces there's an issue (no shit) and more tests need to be done. If the internet doesn't come on by Monday it will be escalated and a tech support person would call me. Oh joy. Oh rapture. Monday comes and I decide to call them from work. That's right, work. Fuck their 'you must be in front of your computer' bullshit. I call and some guy says all is well. There was something changed on their end that needed to be updated. Could they *be* any vaguer? Meanwhile Jake gets to go home early (bastard) and there's no internet. ARGH! We tag team call Verizon and I get someone first. The guy gets tired of me asking Jake questions via text messages and calls him directly. Internet back up in less than five minutes. Yes! Now comes the fun part... hooking up the router and seeing if it works. *sigh*
[keywords: Life Internet Verizon dsl] December 12, 2008Enjoying The SceneryLast night I was busy writing up my admissions and deep in thought when the phone rang. My boss, who was on her way to my side of the town, was on the line. "Hey, stop what you're doing and open up the blinds. There's a gorgeous sunset. You shouldn't miss it." I peeked out and sure enough there was a fantastic sunset before me. I grabbed my cellphone to take a picture, but the picture just doesn't do it justice. It's amazing how we let moments like these pass by as if they are nothing. I remember the movie Running Scared. Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal play Chicago detectives who are forced to take a vacation in Key West. One scene they come up to a group of people standing at the edge of the dock, watching a sunset. This confuses them to no end and they ask several people if there was a crime or an accident or SOMETHING to make them watch. It's how I felt last night. I was so busy at work that a simple sunset was just something that happens every night and not noteworthy. Last night I stopped to appreciate something so beautiful and yet so simple. We should all learn to appreciate the little things around us. Bonus: My boss is awesome for suggesting I stop working to enjoy it. I love my job.
[keywords: Work California boss Flickr] December 11, 2008Rolling Rolling RollingRolling right along into the holiday spirit. Bah humbug and all that rot. This year I plan on enjoying myself. I don't have the stress of moderating websites besides my own and one other. No more drama filled chats that make my eyes bleed. My friends are still my friends and the ones that aren't... yeah, it happens. I'm not going to push myself to be the bigger person. I'm not going to stress over things that have happened. I am moving forward and keeping a positive outlook. Those that pulled me behind stay behind. I have Jake by my side and am looking forward to ringing in the New Year with someone who loves me and likes me for who I am. I think this past year has been a true test of my strength as a person. I failed some but ultimately came out on top. I can address the fears at a later date. I'm good with that. Push it back until it needs to be dealt with. No eating away. No more waking up clenching my fists. My job has gone through some ups and downs... but is currently working on a nice smooth track. Mr. Dickface is the only glitch and honestly he's not much of one. I have the support of my boss and my coworkers. My job itself rocks and at the end of the day I go home feeling as if I did a good job. I look forward to next year and all that it brings.
[keywords: Life Work Friends boyfriend jake love] December 10, 2008I Know You Are But What Am IThis shit is so childish it's disgusting. I'm too lazy to look back so this may be a recap. About a month ago I had a doctor (we'll call him Dr. Dickface) come in asking about the new admitting process. I explained to him that an admission form should be filled out and sent to me. I would then give it to the correct people and follow up with the admission. This seemed to make him explode. He wanted to give me a sticky note with a patient's last name and ID number. No diagnosis. No treatment plan. No bed assignment (floor/monitored/ICU) and expect me to just guess as to why the patient is being admitted. When I attempted to ask him questions he stormed out saying he'd do it himself. Fine. Whatever. Later on I spoke with the senior doctor(we'll call him Dr. Cool) and explained the situation. We talked about it some more and it was agreed that as long as he verbally gave me the info I would write it down. Dr. Dickface has yet to say a word to me, even if we are standing next to each other. Last night I wished him a good night and he didn't say shit back. I shook my head and kept walking. Today I get a call from a doctor about a patient he is admitting through Dr. Dickface who is not thrilled that I don't have any info on him. Then I get a call from admissions about the patient. Apparently Dr. Dickface called them directly and when he was told to go through me he pitched a fit and said he didn't have time. They took the info and then forwarded it to me. From there I had to resubmit it. After doing double work that wasted time I paged Dr. Cool and bitched about Dr. Dickface. I asked if I should discuss this with him or one of the BBs. He said he would take care of it, but I am hesitant to think he will. I also told Dr. Cool that if this were third grade this shit would have been over with in two weeks. At this point I may just go to one of the BBs. Especially since he is hampering the relationship I am trying to create with the different areas. All that education... and not one ounce of maturity to show for it.
[keywords: Work coworkers dr_cool dr_dickface] December 09, 2008Pure ClassI have Ritz crackers and Cheese Wiz. At work. It's like a cocktail party but without the cocktails or mini hot dogs rolled into buns. I feel like talking in a snobbish uppity accent and responding with 'let me just say' a lot while flipping my hair and then trying to pull the Cheese Wiz out of it. Maybe if I do it enough someone will walk by and realize I really need to be home (or put away) and guide me out of the office. Of course I'll run back in just long enough to grab my purse and the Cheese Wiz. It may not be classy but it is pure awesome.
[keywords: randomness] December 08, 2008*Barfs*I swear to G-d, I am so close to hurling right now it's not even funny. I went to the Oral Surgeon this morning and he said the abscess has gotten worse. Lovely. I mentioned how he said that I would see a slight bump afterwords and he said he meant from his work and not the abscess. Duh... Since the other alternatives to getting rid of the damn thing are surgery or removal of the tooth (as if... that's all I'm saying) we are working on it aggressively. First he stuck a fine needle into my gum and aspirated it. Apparently a decent amount of puss came out (as if there's anything decent about puss). Then he said he hopes that the new round of antibiotics he gives me coupled with the blood mixing in with the abscess will do it's job. When I say 'new' antibiotics I am not talking about the latest and greatest thing either. Because of my MRSA we're resorting to taking the old fashioned kind. You know... the kind that makes you sick to your stomach. I got the pills around 10:30am so I figured I'd tighten up on the time I took them. You know, every three hours instead of four. Enter misery. I was trying everything under the sun to not puke all over my desk, including the 'don't puke' chant. After saying it about twenty times in a row I started walking around and trying to think of anything but the nausea. Finally the nausea subsided enough to answer the phone. Now I'm going to try and figure out how to live through the next eight days without humiliating myself at work. All I can say is this had better fucking work...
[keywords: Health teeth nausea] December 05, 2008New Start? RiiiiiiightThe forums that I moderate on exploded into a fiery ball of drama. When the flames were put out we had all left the site and the database followed behind. Soon a new forum was put up and we were to iron out the kinks and get it going 'in the spirit of the old forum'. Yeah... so that didn't happen. So far there have been bitch fests, mutinies and general discord. I'm not saying the old forum didn't have it's share of drama... but this is just ridiculous. I've been readying my resignation ever since we moved and am slowly thinking it's really a good idea. The new direction isn't a great one and the bottom line is that it will be a forum that runs on donations. JUST like the old forum. The difference? We have to figure out how to get the money. Oh sure, like I'm going to stick my neck out and be responsible for a forum that isn't what it used to be that's running in a direction I don't want it to go. The worst part is that I can't even be involved in the decision making because I'm at work when they do it. Right now they're having a pow wow and all I can do is ask someone for the logs and hope they get it. I have enough responsibility between Jake and my own site that I really don't need this stress. Three words: Fuck this shit.
[keywords: sims] December 04, 2008*Flexes... MOAR*I'm so happy I could just pee. *pees* Actually I have to but that's besides the point. My boss came by and we chatted about the job. After a few minutes I casually mentioned that my graph I sent out must not have been something they wanted. I did it on a whim to see if they might want to see how we were doing. Plus... I need all the brownie points I can get. Hey... I have no shame. My boss practically yells, "Are you kidding? "BB2" used it in the meeting last night!" I almost fell out of my chair. I was so damn happy. She thought he would have said something. I offered to do the same with insurance and she asked me to send that to him too, saying he might use them in the big meeting tomorrow. I updated my graphs and sent them on their merry way. Hopefully I'll get some feedback on them. I'd even settle for a cookie. :D I called my Oral Surgeon today over my teeth. I haven't heard back yet so I don't know what the decision is. Aparently the six months he was counting was after the September appointment. That means I have to deal with this abcess until March to see if it goes away. Boo! I really need to watch my mouth at work. AND my sense of humor. One of the doctors I work for asked earlier if I had called a patient to remind them to come in. I looked at him mortified and yelled, "FUCK!" he laughed and I made the call. He came by later on and teasingly said, "The patient isn't here. You dropped the ball." I shot back, "I don't have any balls." He turned so bright red I needed sunblock. Oy...
[keywords: Work boss] December 02, 2008The Mouth That Whined....The abscess isn't going away. In fact it seems to be getting worse. I am trying to hold out until January before going back, but I don't know if I can. Part of the reason for waiting is insurance. Delta insurance is always so mysterious. You don't get a card and there's no number to call. It's just something that magically pays for your teeth cleaning twice a year. Anything over that gets wonky. I've been asked to pay a portion and be reimbursed. That portion might be a lot of money if it is surgical. Then there's the limit. They pay up to a certain amount... but no papers are given as to what that amount is. You just hope whatever you are having done doesn't go over and wish for the best. The other reason for waiting is getting my assistant in place. Once she starts we can teach her the ropes so I can take off. At this rate I think I'm going to nix the initial training and have Mr. Nosy do my job. I'm scared that if I fall or get hit in the face and this thing pops I'm going to be going through what my friend did... and surgery, graphs and being in a coma is not what I want. Considering I have Community MRSA, having an infection raging through my body won't be good either. You might as well put a gun to my head and randomly pull the trigger. Being broke sucks donkey balls...
[keywords: Health teeth delta] December 01, 2008All That WorkI feel like I wasted four days. FOUR fucking days. Four days I could have been spending with Jake, driving him up the wall. Instead I drove myself up the wall. From the time I woke up til it was time to go to be I worked on that forum. I had to find all the updated hacks or something that replaced out dated ones. Then there was the testing. I had to upgrade a forum and see if it would work. Finally I had to buy and wait for the skin. I spent one day waiting for everyone's feedback, and then another just to get the damn thing and instructions on how to place it. Now that it's in and my holiday is over the place is a ghost town. I got comments that it was 'too dark' from people that voted they wanted it. Now I want to scream. I spent $100 to kill the board. $60 on the skin and $30 to get into the Members area to download the latest vB update. That's money I don't have. We're so tight moneywise it's sick. *sigh* This holiday coming up I am going to tell everyone to kiss my ass and spend it with Jake. The forum can crash and burn for all I care. That's how frustrated I am right now.
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