Friday

It's Friday and it also happens to be May 4th. Any idea what that means?


Happy Star Wars Day! 




In all honesty it's not something I hugely celebrate but I think it's kinda fun to have a day dedicated to my geek-dom.

In other news, I have made plans for a coffee date tomorrow at 7 and then after that I am being whisked away to Trenton for an evening of fun and laughter with my dearest Barb. It'll be nice to get out of the apartment for a little while this weekend and just focus on having a good time with a good friend.

There was supposed to be a guy coming to my house this evening however it appears that we may not get that opportunity. As unfortunate as that is, he is probably coming to visit next weekend too and I'll get to see him then. I have noticed this mysterious figure becoming more pervasive in my updates and thoughts. I'm just waiting for family to ask me who he is.

In other news, my big bike ride is coming up very soon and I'm happy to report I've got almost $100 in donations so far. I am not the best fundraiser, but it has certainly been kind fun. Now I just have to get my roomie and her boyfriend to contribute to the cause and everything will be great.

I also had a mild attack of panic last night when my phone stopped working. It froze and after I remove and reseated the battery it refused to load at all. I became tangibly aware of the fact that without my BlackBerry I am completely cut off from the rest of the world. Thankfully it randomly started working again this morning and I haven't had a single problem since then. (Whew!) I am thinking I will have to purchase a crappy back up phone sometime just to have on hand should anything terrible happen to mine. Then I can just switch my SIM card and be right back up and running.

In honor of Star Wars Day, enjoy some funny star wars de-motivational pictures ;)

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Blogging Ridiculously

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What do I want?

I know what everyone else wants, I can tell you what all of my friends and family want. I can tell you what goals they have, what hopes they have. I can tell you their fantasies contain in most cases...

What I cannot tell you is what I want, at least not off the top of my head. I think I spend so much time trying to make everyone else's dream come true, I forget to think about my own. I didn't know what my own goals were.

So, I fixed it. I wrote my goals down and put them on the fridge. They are on the fridge so I see them every day. On that damn fridge they will stay.

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Daily weirdo.

Today work went by quite quickly and as close to normal as you would expect. Then most of the way through my shift I received a call from one of the legendary weirdo's that always seem to find me.

That call started out with my normal call opening which was answered not with a standard greeting from the customer but with "DO YOU BELIEVE IN JEEZUS?!" being screamed in my ear. All I could do is respond with "Sure, but I don't think that has much to do with printers."

After getting his information and getting his printer confirmed, he then told me he was glad that I wasn't one of those N#&&@rs from Hispania(?), I calmly explained that I would prefer he stop referring to people of middle eastern descent in India with that word. He then started asking me what my heritage was and where my family came from, and all I could do was try to steer him back to his printer issue.

When we finally got to the issue, it turned out he was printing on paper that had 2 illustrations on 8.5 x 11 paper... like a story book. Problem was, the illustrations were pre-printed the wrong way for the printer so the text was coming upside down. If you turned the page around it printed the right way up but on the wrong picture. He then wanted to know if he could take out his printhead from his printer and turn it around. I advised him that a) laserjet printers do not have printheads and b) you can't just turn printheads around and make it print backwards. He responded with "Well I did it with my officejet." and I asked him what happened to the officejet, and he retorted with "Well after I put them in backwards the printheads blew up and it stopped working."

Unfortunately the settings in the program he was using were overriding even the most basic ones for the printer. Being tech support I am trained to fix the printers settings and obviously prove functionality. However that is not on every obscure software system on the planet. When I explained this was not our issue and that he would have to call his software provider, he kinda, sorta, lost his shit.

He started screaming that it was our fault and that we were just lying to him to make him look stupid. At this point I was growing increasingly amused with his rantings but little did I know the best was yet you come.

Everything when completely silent for a moment and then he yelled "I will destory you with an apocalyptic hellfire from Jesus!" I nearly died laughing my face off. The poor people around me looked confused but I literally couldn't stop laughing my ass off.

To top it off, the thick hilly billy twang added the most ridiculously over the top effect to the whole call that made my day that much better.

Thank you ridiculous hilly billy Jesus freak. <3

Book of Random Pt 4