3144icq w/ skye

Apr. 21, 2005
evile: phone duty. buh. The good news is I get to leave at 3:30
SkyeDS: :-/

evile: how's everything with you?
SkyeDS: it goes
evile: *nod*
evile: I had one guy that called several times, spanish speaker, I
kept telling hi m to call back at 12:30 and he kept acting like he
understood,and hten he'd call 2 minutes later "espeaka spanish?"
evile: and then my final caller was a guy who didn't like my answer
so he escalated it to a speak to the supervisor, and then he hung up
on her when she didn't give him any better answer than mine had been.
SkyeDS: serves him right
evile: *shrug* Some people just think if they ask the same question
enough times, or talk to the right person, the rules will magically
change just for them.
evile: I love google....I went looking for info on how to make a hair
fall, and found another awesome tribal bellydance site.
here's one of the pictures.
http://www.thegoddessgarden.net/images/bt_klee8.jpg
SkyeDS: <bookmarks for later reference
evile: she's pretty too:
http://www.thegoddessgarden.net/images/bt_shallon2.jpg
evile: Poly dinner last night was nice; a smaller crowd so we all got
to visit.
evile: the only bad thing was WEdnesday is open mic night at
Alligator Grill so the music was occasionally unpleasant.
evile: Onyxlynxx got the waitstaff to partially close off the area we
were in, so it wouldn't be so loud.
evile: and I read on their billboard that Chadd Thomas is playing on
Friday, and I like them. (rockabilly, old style rock & roll, good
stuff.)
SkyeDS: :)
SkyeDS: brb puter problems
evile: ok
evile: yee...I think I'm about to get my ass barbequed. Oh well, had
to be done.
SkyeDS: happy belated birthday, by the by
evile: what??
SkyeDS: I was tardy in saying happy birthday
SkyeDS: fighting with the damn puters
evile: um...no.
evile: wrong person.
SkyeDS: dammit, too many windows
SkyeDS: excuse me, I'm jsut going to go bang my head against a brick
wall
evile: *lol* at least you weren't saying something ugly about me :P
SkyeDS: that was intended for one of my spades partners
evile: *nod* figured.
SkyeDS: he had installed the printer in german when I got here this
morning
evile: ooh, fun!
SkyeDS: I just had to reinstall it for about the dozenth time with
additional drivers because it doesn't like my 98 machine now that
it's attached to an xp machine
SkyeDS: it was just fine with it before, but no.
evile: oh dear.
SkyeDS: 98 machine networked to xp machine bad, and I need to get
mine up and running anyway
SkyeDS: but I'll wait till he leaves at 5, that gives me two hours
SkyeDS: from 5 - 7 to fuck with it
evile: what fun!
SkyeDS: <whimpers> I doan know nuthin bout networkin Miz Scahlett
evile: Oh well, what do they say? AFOG.
SkyeDS: Sineater keeps telling me I can do it, without any help, then
gives me directions that go completely contrary to MS directions, and
I have been able to solve everything so far, by the skin of my teeth
and seat of my britches
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: but I feel like a balky mule being dragged against my will
every step of the way
evile: It's frustrating to be in over your head, when you're very
competent in your own areas of knowledge and used to succeeding
quickly and easily
SkyeDS: I think I'm lazy about the quick and easy part
evile: me too. I was 'too smart for my own good' and therefore never
really learned to deal well with failure.
SkyeDS: I haven't failed yet
SkyeDS: but I don't like not immediately knowing the answers
evile: failure, to me, is anything that is not immediate success.
Which means I fail a lot.
evile: for example, if I'd been divorced, I would have considered
that a failure. Whereas you seem to have a more healthy outlook on
that.
SkyeDS: lol it was a failure
SkyeDS: I never should have done what I did with whom I did at the
age I did anyway
evile: well, OK, I would have considered *myself* to have failed,
rather than the marriage, or the person I chose, or whatever.
SkyeDS: I didn't fail, I did something stupid that had no chance of
succeeding from the get go
evile: see, much healthier attitude.
SkyeDS: not that I'm happy about doing stupid shit either, you know
how I feel about that
evile: in my mind, there's no difference between making a mistake,
doing something stupid, being misinformed and acting based on that
information...it's all failure
evile: intellectually I know better, but emotionally I just tend to
avoid any situation that has the slightest chance of coming out badly
evile: If the printer didn't work the first time I plugged it in, I'd
consider myself to have failed and spend too much time and energy
fussing at myself and not enough problem-solving.
SkyeDS: the puter turned on and connected to the internet when I told
it to the first time, I figured that to be ahead of the curve
SkyeDS: I was already counting on having to research everything and
redo it a billion times
evile: *nod*
evile: well, I get to leave early since I had phone duty.
evile: *hugs* have a good evening :)
SkyeDS: wind to your wings :)