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I suppose I should post in my journal once in a while, but what can I tell you? I lead a pathetically boring life.
Sunday I played Neverwinter Nights. All day. All night. I spend unbelievable amounts of time building modules, which satisfies the creative urge in me, but I don't know enough to do everything I want to do... or I'm limited by the toolset... or (as happened once) my module becomes corrupted so all of my work is lost.
I've taken to saving under two different names to avoid that problem. ^_^
I found out that I could build custom armor for my character, and use it in the single player game. That was fun -- I was tired of my rogue running around in bright red armor, that was sooooo not fashionable for a sneaky thief type.
I've read some more of my manga, picked up in the last week. Mars 2 -- still a very cool story. Chobits 2 -- like that one a lot too. Paradise Kiss -- much fun. Adam Warren's Dirty Pair -- Run From The Future: a real blast.
Nothing much exciting at work. We had a large shipment of pies go undelivered about 2 weeks ago... it's a Saturday delivery and the new dispatcher forgot to arrange for someone to come in and deliver it, since we're not open Saturday... so that was $3,000.00 worth of pies that we had to eat, both figuratively and literally. They gave them away, on the Monday where I was still in Longview, and I guess a lot of the drivers (many of whom are fat and greedy and inconsiderate) took home giant stacks of pies, 10 or 12 per person... so they disappeared fast.
Devon said, "You'd think they'd be a little considerate."
I said, "These are drivers you're talking about."
Devon said, "You've got a point there."
Devon said, "But who can eat ten pies?"
I said, "These are drivers you're talking about."
Devon said, "You've got a point there."
When I say these guys are fat... I'm thinking of a few of them in particular, who are like minor giants or something. Some of these guys are probably over six foot five and weigh well over three hundred pounds. They're just massive, NFL Football-sized people... unlike Anne, the person they hand their paperwork to all day, who I'm pretty sure is not even five feet tall and quite thin. I have no doubt some of our drivers could polish off a few pies easily... and they probably have sons and relatives who, I'd hazard to guess, are also not Anne-sized.
So they had a couple of pies out for us to eat when I went to work on Tuesday. Our owner was in for a few minutes (he normally works at the "GO" ie the General Office a mile away). Laura (who can be pretty mischevious) said, "Oh, Stan, there's some pie over here if you want some." And he replied that he'd probably choke on it. Our company isn't doing especially well the last year or two, to the point that the owner is foregoing his own salary completely this year... so a $3,000 hit isn't fun.
So one of our VPs sent out one of those e-mail messages that VPs like to send out, full of positive thoughts and pithy phrases designed to teach you how to be happy and productive or whatever... I always preferred the Despair.com posters and such myself... anyway part of his e-mail was the phrase "Volume is vanity, profit is sanity" which he thought was a really cool transportation phrase... and it makes sense, it reminds me of when WOSCA used to handle the Nordstroms account largely for prestige rather than because it made us any money... but I thought it could relate to our business even more directly, so I changed it to:
Volume is Vanity
Profit is Sanity
Undelivered Pie is Calamity
Oh the Humanity!
It's stupid little stuff like this that somehow convinces the people I work with that I'm some kind of creative genius... go figure. ^_^
BTW, I've been saving an e-mail from Anne for a while because I thought it was funny... Anne has a thick (and often comical) accent. So one day she sent us this e-mail, which I found almost totally incomprehensible, so it made me laugh.
(names have been changed to protect the innocent -- well our customer anyway)
Just FYI, (Bob) @ <(Bob's Company) call that there bill to: plan number are changing very often, so we can't default bill to no long. We should pay attention to hand written bill to: according to difference plan number. It's seem to default on plan 417. He said that's happen often got bill to: plan "417" even they had hand written to specific plan#. I have alert Jean too.
Now if that makes sense to you... keep in mind that Anne takes calls from our customers all day. ^_^ But actually she's very cool to work with and fairly comprehensible... I get calls from some of our customers where the people sound like they've been speaking English for about three weeks.
Sunday I played Neverwinter Nights. All day. All night. I spend unbelievable amounts of time building modules, which satisfies the creative urge in me, but I don't know enough to do everything I want to do... or I'm limited by the toolset... or (as happened once) my module becomes corrupted so all of my work is lost.
I've taken to saving under two different names to avoid that problem. ^_^
I found out that I could build custom armor for my character, and use it in the single player game. That was fun -- I was tired of my rogue running around in bright red armor, that was sooooo not fashionable for a sneaky thief type.
I've read some more of my manga, picked up in the last week. Mars 2 -- still a very cool story. Chobits 2 -- like that one a lot too. Paradise Kiss -- much fun. Adam Warren's Dirty Pair -- Run From The Future: a real blast.
Nothing much exciting at work. We had a large shipment of pies go undelivered about 2 weeks ago... it's a Saturday delivery and the new dispatcher forgot to arrange for someone to come in and deliver it, since we're not open Saturday... so that was $3,000.00 worth of pies that we had to eat, both figuratively and literally. They gave them away, on the Monday where I was still in Longview, and I guess a lot of the drivers (many of whom are fat and greedy and inconsiderate) took home giant stacks of pies, 10 or 12 per person... so they disappeared fast.
Devon said, "You'd think they'd be a little considerate."
I said, "These are drivers you're talking about."
Devon said, "You've got a point there."
Devon said, "But who can eat ten pies?"
I said, "These are drivers you're talking about."
Devon said, "You've got a point there."
When I say these guys are fat... I'm thinking of a few of them in particular, who are like minor giants or something. Some of these guys are probably over six foot five and weigh well over three hundred pounds. They're just massive, NFL Football-sized people... unlike Anne, the person they hand their paperwork to all day, who I'm pretty sure is not even five feet tall and quite thin. I have no doubt some of our drivers could polish off a few pies easily... and they probably have sons and relatives who, I'd hazard to guess, are also not Anne-sized.
So they had a couple of pies out for us to eat when I went to work on Tuesday. Our owner was in for a few minutes (he normally works at the "GO" ie the General Office a mile away). Laura (who can be pretty mischevious) said, "Oh, Stan, there's some pie over here if you want some." And he replied that he'd probably choke on it. Our company isn't doing especially well the last year or two, to the point that the owner is foregoing his own salary completely this year... so a $3,000 hit isn't fun.
So one of our VPs sent out one of those e-mail messages that VPs like to send out, full of positive thoughts and pithy phrases designed to teach you how to be happy and productive or whatever... I always preferred the Despair.com posters and such myself... anyway part of his e-mail was the phrase "Volume is vanity, profit is sanity" which he thought was a really cool transportation phrase... and it makes sense, it reminds me of when WOSCA used to handle the Nordstroms account largely for prestige rather than because it made us any money... but I thought it could relate to our business even more directly, so I changed it to:
Volume is Vanity
Profit is Sanity
Undelivered Pie is Calamity
Oh the Humanity!
It's stupid little stuff like this that somehow convinces the people I work with that I'm some kind of creative genius... go figure. ^_^
BTW, I've been saving an e-mail from Anne for a while because I thought it was funny... Anne has a thick (and often comical) accent. So one day she sent us this e-mail, which I found almost totally incomprehensible, so it made me laugh.
(names have been changed to protect the innocent -- well our customer anyway)
Just FYI, (Bob) @ <(Bob's Company) call that there bill to: plan number are changing very often, so we can't default bill to no long. We should pay attention to hand written bill to: according to difference plan number. It's seem to default on plan 417. He said that's happen often got bill to: plan "417" even they had hand written to specific plan#. I have alert Jean too.
Now if that makes sense to you... keep in mind that Anne takes calls from our customers all day. ^_^ But actually she's very cool to work with and fairly comprehensible... I get calls from some of our customers where the people sound like they've been speaking English for about three weeks.
