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Jul. 18th, 2008
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Jul. 18th, 2008 04:03 pmToday has been INSANE -- nobody's been at their desk all day and I had this field trip this morning with BossBoss. We didn't get to eat turkey sandwiches as gods this time, but I got to hang out with the admins at the other company and that was pretty neat. It's like a secret club, and you can only get into it if you can type 100 words per minute and have lied about your employer's whereabouts to nosy sales reps.
Still, it was nuts, and yet totally worth it for the junk mail I got today.
Normally we get a few letters that don't belong to us; usually they're for the people who last used this office, or people who've moved on. By now I've grown to recognise most of the names, but I couldn't quite place this one.
"Hey," I said to Coworker J, who was checking his email while I sorted. "This one's addressed to Ralph Kramden. Isn't...isn't he a character on The Honeymooners?"
Coworker J burst out laughing. "You got mail for Jackie Gleason!"
So, we opened it, and it turned out that the junk mail was a fake check (one of those "get the cash you need now!" ads) labeled in giant letters THIS IS NOT A REAL CHECK.
"Just as well," I said, "since it's made out to someone who's not a real person..."
Coworker J wants to hang it on his wall.
Still, it was nuts, and yet totally worth it for the junk mail I got today.
Normally we get a few letters that don't belong to us; usually they're for the people who last used this office, or people who've moved on. By now I've grown to recognise most of the names, but I couldn't quite place this one.
"Hey," I said to Coworker J, who was checking his email while I sorted. "This one's addressed to Ralph Kramden. Isn't...isn't he a character on The Honeymooners?"
Coworker J burst out laughing. "You got mail for Jackie Gleason!"
So, we opened it, and it turned out that the junk mail was a fake check (one of those "get the cash you need now!" ads) labeled in giant letters THIS IS NOT A REAL CHECK.
"Just as well," I said, "since it's made out to someone who's not a real person..."
Coworker J wants to hang it on his wall.
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Jul. 18th, 2008 09:31 pmHOORAY INTERNETS.
We have declared me magic for fixing them. I'm not sure what I did, but apparently chanting while holding an ethernet cable totally works. Or something.
So, we were without internet and neither of us had anything to do. We dealt with it the way we always deal with malfunctions in everyday household objects. WE DRANK.
And then, and this is not as ordinary, we watched The Importance Of Being Ernest. I've seen it before many times, but R hadn't, and he was enthralled. He now likes to quote the movie, but he never quite gets it right, and he ended up informing the Ratpacker that "Every woman becomes like her husband, and that is her tragedy. Every man is his mother, and that's his."
For reference, the proper quote is "Every woman becomes like her mother, that is her tragedy. No man does, and that's his."
He also says, as a small-town boy living in Chicago, that the quote about amusing oneself in town and amusing other people in the country is DEATHLY true.
I had to inform him that The Picture of Dorian Gray is a book. On the other hand he knew that it was a painting, which I didn't, so I feel we've bridged a cultural gap.
We have declared me magic for fixing them. I'm not sure what I did, but apparently chanting while holding an ethernet cable totally works. Or something.
So, we were without internet and neither of us had anything to do. We dealt with it the way we always deal with malfunctions in everyday household objects. WE DRANK.
And then, and this is not as ordinary, we watched The Importance Of Being Ernest. I've seen it before many times, but R hadn't, and he was enthralled. He now likes to quote the movie, but he never quite gets it right, and he ended up informing the Ratpacker that "Every woman becomes like her husband, and that is her tragedy. Every man is his mother, and that's his."
For reference, the proper quote is "Every woman becomes like her mother, that is her tragedy. No man does, and that's his."
He also says, as a small-town boy living in Chicago, that the quote about amusing oneself in town and amusing other people in the country is DEATHLY true.
I had to inform him that The Picture of Dorian Gray is a book. On the other hand he knew that it was a painting, which I didn't, so I feel we've bridged a cultural gap.