Randomnocity

I just checked a work email from earlier today. Below is the email. Verbatim. Instead of take my frustration out on this woman via email, I think it would be safer to vent to a social network I hardly use and expect nobody to actually read in its entirety, if at all. Anyway, here is the email:

Mike:

You want my advice? Ok, sure.

Part 1: WHY THE HELL ARE YOU TRAINING THE USERS?!?!

(Time for some back story: With great difficulty, we managed to get the new software provider to send a trainer to our facility who has real industry experience—not just some trainer who knows the system really well. This is somebody worth listening to, who can relate to and understand our users. Somebody who can really help us out during this week of training. Instead of coming to training, this lady decides to stay at her facility and keep all of her staff from attending.)

Part 2: You want some laptops? Too freaking bad! All of our laptops are in use… at the facility where the OFFICIAL training is… where every other facility is right now… where your facility should be… and where you are not! I’m not giving you anything. The computers you do have are as slow as simmering beans? That’s hilarious. Guess how many idiots tell me their computers are slow. One more as of this moment. Don’t bother me now, I’m busy taking care of the users who actually give a damn about learning this new software and aren’t stupid enough to think they can teach it to their entire staff after TWO HOURS of training with it themselves. You want my advice on what you can do? How about you on second thought this is getting too heated for a public forum… I’ll take the rest out on a bottle of bourbon tomorrow night.

I just wanted to share a link and the link itself was more than 140 characters lol.

Anyway since I can explain now, the link is for a photo caption contest I’d like to win… So if you have access to Facebook help me out. Click the link and find my comment and “like” it haha. I guess u should ideally legitimately like my comment so this doesn’t feel too unethical. Or not whatever.

Ps, Sticky Rice in Richmond VA is my cousins restaurant. If you have a chance to stop in the food is fantastic.

Thanks guys.

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This is going to be a pretty anticlimactic post. Although now that it’s a Tumblr post I can give an intro and take my time to get to my initial thought. I guess I could even talk about other things besides my initial “too long or twitter non-tweet.” I could say that I am typing all this on my iPhone in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot on my lunch break! You wouldn’t have known that if I posted on twitter! Jesus, why don’t I post on Tumblr more often?!?!

Anyway here is the anticlimactic random thought:

I found out Verizon is probly going to adopt data plans similar to AT&T soon. Not a big deal. I pay $30 a month for unlimited and the new plans will be $15 for 200MB or $25 for 2GB (that’s based on AT&T prices, not confirmed by Verizon). If you go over your limit they just charge u again for your monthly cycle. I’m sitting at 190 MB with 4 days to go in my data cycle so I’m thinking just get the 200MB plan and if I go over it’s not like I’m paying anymore than I am now. Or is it just worth it to play it safe and get the 2GB…. If I had the room in a tweet I might even pose that as a question to @jcarlo or @jesseoco to see what plan they use…

Anyway this was kinda fun to actually expand a tweet into a full thought. Probably won’t do it again for another few months haha. Ok time to actually go into Dunkin Donuts and head back to work. TGIF!

So yesterday Nicky and I invented a game. We call it The Gentleman’s Game* of Portalball— “Portalball” for short. The name is derived from Racquetball and from the video game Portal—due to the constant perspective shifts. We preface that it is a Gentleman’s game only because it is easy to lose track of game play and it is up to the players to honestly call their own penalties. 

The rules were set forth by Nicky and myself and may be changed at any time as the game develops. We have yet to play an entire match as we were starving last night. Unfortunately, I can’t copy the Word Document to tumblr. They aren’t compatible and it looks really weird—probably because of all the formatting in the document.

However, if this is enough to tempt you, just say the word and I’ll email you a copy of the official rules.

PS, I’m really bummed I couldn’t post them here :(

* Disclaimer: although we call it a “gentleman’s game” we do not mean to say that only men can play this game. Woman may of course possess the characteristics of a “gentleman,” including but not limited to being honest, considerate, courteous, good-looking, having an appreciation for fine scotch and cigars, owning a monocle, British accent, etc).

I swear, I’ve been hearing the most annoying sounds the past few days. Here they are:

1. Airplanes. I live by an airport, so I should be used to them? but why is it whenever I’m watching a movie and the best part is about to happen, a plane or even a helicopter circle my house??

2. Ginger. My dog. She licks her legs. FOR WAYYY TOO LONG! I’ll be trying to sleep and I hear slurp slurp slurp and it lasts for like 15 minutes! She’s deaf so I can’t yell from my bed to make her stop. I have to get up and tap her, or close my door. Both of which wakes me up.

3. Toddlers. On the train. Seriously, control your children! If there are signs saying no stereos or loud music on the train, what makes you think your loud child is better? I’d prefer listening to blasting country music than listening to crying, laughing, screaming children.

4. Country music. That last one just made me remember country music sucks too.