Category: musings
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You’ve received a postcard from a family member!
I got this in my email now at least… um… I’m gonna say, uh… twice. But I don’t have any family members who’d send me postcards–particularly not from Hong Kong. If the email says whatever.hk, it’s not any family of mine. On the bright side, I know how people are … Read the rest
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Now that’s a distraction.
So I’m waiting for the local bus that gets me from my transfer point to the office, and this rather nice young lady who just so happens to be taking the same bus pulls up a seat about… oh 5 feet away from me and starts playing a guitar. At … Read the rest
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The things you learn when you don’t feel like sleeping.
Things like… 5:00 in the morning is the perfect time if you plan to take a walk in Ottawa. The only thing I could hear this morning besides the sound of my own breathing and the birds was… well… more birds. And the occasional car. But nothing like what it’ll … Read the rest
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Bet what you do when you’re sick isn’t as odd as me.
Typical sickly behaviour for most people probably consists of popping a pill or two… or three if you’re some people I know, finding a place to flake out/fall over, and not moving until doing so doesn’t provoke pain of the head or other such body parts. Which… would make sense. … Read the rest
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Happy June! ‘N such.
This is what happens when I can’t come up with a more creative title. But… who’s counting? Ordinarily I’d be up to my eyeballs in calls… but… thank the gods for system outages, now it’s “we’re updating, call back tomorrow”. And I get paid to just sit here and be … Read the rest
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… I could never do that.
A 59-year-old blind pilot manages to fly half way around the world in nearly 2 months? Um… yeah. Suddenly, me doing tech support at Dell doesn’t seem quite so exceptional. Not that I thought of it as such, but hey, someone out there did. And now, they have this headline … Read the rest
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Road trippin!
As some of you know, and most of you don’t particularly care, my brother joined the military a few months back. And, as I said then and continue to say now, lord have mercy on this and every other country–they let that man control things that go boom. Okay, requisit … Read the rest
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Just how awesome is my boss?
I’ve been off the phone for the last like… 5-10 minutes, conveniently 20 minutes before my shift ends, to update my timecard for lack of a better thing to call it. I’ve no intention of going back on the phone, and even if I did… I leave in 5 minutes. … Read the rest
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Hey look, an update!
There’s a whole hell of a lot to update yall on, and I have no idea when my next call’s coming in, so let’s see how much I can cram into a small piece of downtime. ***************** I never noticed teenagers were quite that whiny when I was one. And, … Read the rest
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I definitely should have done this ages ago.
I always thought the walk from my place to work and back was actually kinda nice. Even when it was upwards of -25 degrees and I’d spend 15 minutes after getting here bitching to no end about the cold. But it actually *is* rather enjoyable, in spite of that. Perhaps … Read the rest