Thursday, June 08, 2006
Hooked on Craigslist.com. There just isn't a better medium to hook up buyers to sellers who live in the same area i.e. my portable A/C listed Friday evening and twenty minutes later a guy from Wintrhop emailing interest to buy it. It is also how we found the young lady from Siberia who is now the official webmaster for the Representative's website. It will hopefully be a promising site for the son to find a job in D.C. (he can't play the wingman game all of the time after all).
Cell Phones and Google Maps. Perhaps no better way to help a wayward commuting daughter find her way home again in the lashing rain. Especially that borderline hysteria and incomprehensible sobbing are not conducive to asking strangers for directions.
A Whole Lot of Quality B.S. When the head of the business office marched upstairs to have someone in our office explain why it was we needed an extra computer, it was admitedly sheer luck that the Queen of B.S., Anna Bloviations, was on hand to confront the tough cookie from Dorchester. Her piercing blue eyes never wavered from my face -- clearly she was looking for tell-tale facial features that would indicate a yarn. You couldn't hear a pin drop in that office as I stared right back into don't-mess-with-me lady's face and used words like 'the inconvenience of toggling between applications' and 'a designated computer used solely for tracking legislation and budget items' etc. She asked all of the good hard questions like 'why can't you just minimize the applications you aren't working on' and I shot back things like 'the fragility of Excel, memory issues, crashing, etc. 'OK I'll tell them exactly what you said' she Dorchestered. We don't know who 'them' is but if there suddenly appears a new computer we'll know who won that one I guess.
Cell Phones and Google Maps. Perhaps no better way to help a wayward commuting daughter find her way home again in the lashing rain. Especially that borderline hysteria and incomprehensible sobbing are not conducive to asking strangers for directions.
A Whole Lot of Quality B.S. When the head of the business office marched upstairs to have someone in our office explain why it was we needed an extra computer, it was admitedly sheer luck that the Queen of B.S., Anna Bloviations, was on hand to confront the tough cookie from Dorchester. Her piercing blue eyes never wavered from my face -- clearly she was looking for tell-tale facial features that would indicate a yarn. You couldn't hear a pin drop in that office as I stared right back into don't-mess-with-me lady's face and used words like 'the inconvenience of toggling between applications' and 'a designated computer used solely for tracking legislation and budget items' etc. She asked all of the good hard questions like 'why can't you just minimize the applications you aren't working on' and I shot back things like 'the fragility of Excel, memory issues, crashing, etc. 'OK I'll tell them exactly what you said' she Dorchestered. We don't know who 'them' is but if there suddenly appears a new computer we'll know who won that one I guess.
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