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Feb. 22nd, 2010 02:30 pmThis morning, a cashier at the drugstore tried to sell me three different things from her register display before I had to say, very clearly, "I am buying everything I want." (Razors, cough lozenges, Snickers bar.)
Seriously, does this work? I suppose it must, but usually they give up after you say no once. I do not need M&Ms, hand sanitizer, or ballpoint pens. And I hate to be rude because I'm sure it's a horrible job, being a cashier for a downtown Chicago drugstore, but I had to stop her from trying to sell me anything else so that I could actually pay for what I wanted to buy.
I am busy-busy today, getting ready to take off tomorrow evening, trying to make sure I have everything, and prepping the Big Book Of Awesome for print. I'm having to fiddle with the missing bits a little, but I don't think anyone will look at the 100 pages of content and go "So where do you list how to add network printers?" and anyway adding network printers is IT's job, not ours.
And if they do ask that, I have a large book handy with which I can beat them.
As regards the laptop, it is under warranty and will need to be shipped to the repair depot, which won't happen until I return from the retreat. Fortunately for me, most of the stuff I'm actively working on, writingwise, is either in GoogleDocs or on my Precious Precious Thumbdrive, though given the screen size of the Netbook it's dubious that I'll be working on Charitable Getting much. Which is just as well, since that gives me time (hopefully) to bust a move on some fanfic. The Cyberman fanfic is going nowhere fast, but the Space Opera Proper is blazing along.
Lo Boeshane, why are you so awesome? BECAUSE YOU'RE WEE JACK HARKNESS, THAT'S WHY.
Seriously, does this work? I suppose it must, but usually they give up after you say no once. I do not need M&Ms, hand sanitizer, or ballpoint pens. And I hate to be rude because I'm sure it's a horrible job, being a cashier for a downtown Chicago drugstore, but I had to stop her from trying to sell me anything else so that I could actually pay for what I wanted to buy.
I am busy-busy today, getting ready to take off tomorrow evening, trying to make sure I have everything, and prepping the Big Book Of Awesome for print. I'm having to fiddle with the missing bits a little, but I don't think anyone will look at the 100 pages of content and go "So where do you list how to add network printers?" and anyway adding network printers is IT's job, not ours.
And if they do ask that, I have a large book handy with which I can beat them.
As regards the laptop, it is under warranty and will need to be shipped to the repair depot, which won't happen until I return from the retreat. Fortunately for me, most of the stuff I'm actively working on, writingwise, is either in GoogleDocs or on my Precious Precious Thumbdrive, though given the screen size of the Netbook it's dubious that I'll be working on Charitable Getting much. Which is just as well, since that gives me time (hopefully) to bust a move on some fanfic. The Cyberman fanfic is going nowhere fast, but the Space Opera Proper is blazing along.
Lo Boeshane, why are you so awesome? BECAUSE YOU'RE WEE JACK HARKNESS, THAT'S WHY.
