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dolariAfter I wrote my one sentence in review of 2004, the year looked me square in the eye and said "Oh, yeah, I owe you some nastiness, don't I? And I've only got eight hours to do it!"
By now you've prolly read about everything being closed in the afternoon and that I went back to sleep. I woke up at 6:30, and suddenly remembered that I needed to make a copy of Dark Side of the Rainbow for a coworker. After some time, I found the DVD popped it into my burner and went to make a copy. While it copied I took a real quick shower to get ready for work.
Got out of the shower to see: "BURN FAILED, POWER CALIBRATION ERROR." Dammit! So I started another burn while I got dressed. It usually takes about 10 minutes to burn a whole DVD, but I noticed, 15 minutes later it was only 25%. So I said to myself "Fine, let it go, get dressed, and get ready for work, it'll be done when it's time to leave...
I began to pack up my work stuff in my purse, when suddenly the zipper came off it, spilling my makeup out. I packed everything back up (with a promise to BUY BUY BUY a new purse) put on my makeup and then had my bag fall out again, and spill liquid foundation into the sink. Wasn't much, but I cleaned it quick. Again, I packed everything up into my newly disable purce and came back to the DVD
Another 10 minutes had passed and it was now at 33% burned. ::grumble:: So I decide, can't stick around, need to go to work. (According to the error log this morning, it had a HUGE number of buffer underruns)
I burn rubber to work, only to have all my coworkers looking at me saying "THERE SHE IS!" Turns out there was a serious problem with a Pizza Hut call, and the managers had told everyone "Give the call to Jenn when she gets in, because she knows how to fix there problems." Um....my whole training lasted all of ten seconds and consisted of "Well, you put the part number they ask for here, and send it off to the parts department." I had literally walked into a hornet's nest on this where NO ONE knew what we needed to do, there was no documentation on what was needed to be done, and they pinned all there hopes on someone who'd been shown where to find parts lists. I didn't know ANYTHING about prociedures, ticketing, troubleshooting or ANYTHING.
It took some time, but everyone got cleared up what they needed to do and who they had to talk to and eventually we shuffled the ticket off to The Right Person. None of which were us.
Sitting down FINALLY the next terror came in, a call for ATM support, which is another thing I've had "Extensive" training on. I made the ticket up as we were told and sent it off to IBM for repair...suddenly, we get a call from Wells Fargo. IBM is saying they're not doing ATM repairs anymore. Huh wha?! So the next few hours was calling around trying to find out who did what and what did where and where everything went. It took some time, but one of the managers called in and told us that, yes, IBM wasn't doing ATMs anymore, give it to our second service provider.
Then the clock hit 12. And remarkably....everything ran smoothly the rest of the night, and I even got some possibly Good Financial News, too. :) So I'm guessing 2004 decided to wait until I did it's yearly review, then smack me upside the head with a trowel. Next year, I do it at 11:59. :)
Speaking of financial news...I've been really kinda upset lately at the price of my meds. I spend about $500 every month or so on medications and it seriously eats into my funds. A friend, however, gave me the web address to a place where she's getting her hormones from and, basically, it's an out of the country distributor selling drugs and non-FDA prices.
I'm a HUGE believer in that the drug companies in the US gouge their customers, and am seriosuly considering just buying from these guys (http://www.inhousedrugstore.com) I wouldn't be getting estrogen from them, but their prices for everything else are EXTREMELY low and they're not knock offs or off-brand drugs, but the exact bottles and boxes I get from my pharmacist.
My only fear is that they don't take prescriptions, and I know prescriptions are "cancelled" as they're used. Does that get reported back to my doctor? I'd hate for my doctor to suddenly see that my prescriptions aren't being "used" (I mena, I'd use his prescriptions as a base for what to buy) but of course if he DOESN'T know when his own prescriptions are used up...well...no problem there, is there? :) What do you, the viewer at home, think? I'd love to save more money...every bit helps.....
A special thank you to a San Antonio reader who gave me the gift of 3 "Applesauce with Raspberry Puree" MRE components for Christmas. They're my favorite MRE side dishes. :D
By now you've prolly read about everything being closed in the afternoon and that I went back to sleep. I woke up at 6:30, and suddenly remembered that I needed to make a copy of Dark Side of the Rainbow for a coworker. After some time, I found the DVD popped it into my burner and went to make a copy. While it copied I took a real quick shower to get ready for work.
Got out of the shower to see: "BURN FAILED, POWER CALIBRATION ERROR." Dammit! So I started another burn while I got dressed. It usually takes about 10 minutes to burn a whole DVD, but I noticed, 15 minutes later it was only 25%. So I said to myself "Fine, let it go, get dressed, and get ready for work, it'll be done when it's time to leave...
I began to pack up my work stuff in my purse, when suddenly the zipper came off it, spilling my makeup out. I packed everything back up (with a promise to BUY BUY BUY a new purse) put on my makeup and then had my bag fall out again, and spill liquid foundation into the sink. Wasn't much, but I cleaned it quick. Again, I packed everything up into my newly disable purce and came back to the DVD
Another 10 minutes had passed and it was now at 33% burned. ::grumble:: So I decide, can't stick around, need to go to work. (According to the error log this morning, it had a HUGE number of buffer underruns)
I burn rubber to work, only to have all my coworkers looking at me saying "THERE SHE IS!" Turns out there was a serious problem with a Pizza Hut call, and the managers had told everyone "Give the call to Jenn when she gets in, because she knows how to fix there problems." Um....my whole training lasted all of ten seconds and consisted of "Well, you put the part number they ask for here, and send it off to the parts department." I had literally walked into a hornet's nest on this where NO ONE knew what we needed to do, there was no documentation on what was needed to be done, and they pinned all there hopes on someone who'd been shown where to find parts lists. I didn't know ANYTHING about prociedures, ticketing, troubleshooting or ANYTHING.
It took some time, but everyone got cleared up what they needed to do and who they had to talk to and eventually we shuffled the ticket off to The Right Person. None of which were us.
Sitting down FINALLY the next terror came in, a call for ATM support, which is another thing I've had "Extensive" training on. I made the ticket up as we were told and sent it off to IBM for repair...suddenly, we get a call from Wells Fargo. IBM is saying they're not doing ATM repairs anymore. Huh wha?! So the next few hours was calling around trying to find out who did what and what did where and where everything went. It took some time, but one of the managers called in and told us that, yes, IBM wasn't doing ATMs anymore, give it to our second service provider.
Then the clock hit 12. And remarkably....everything ran smoothly the rest of the night, and I even got some possibly Good Financial News, too. :) So I'm guessing 2004 decided to wait until I did it's yearly review, then smack me upside the head with a trowel. Next year, I do it at 11:59. :)
Speaking of financial news...I've been really kinda upset lately at the price of my meds. I spend about $500 every month or so on medications and it seriously eats into my funds. A friend, however, gave me the web address to a place where she's getting her hormones from and, basically, it's an out of the country distributor selling drugs and non-FDA prices.
I'm a HUGE believer in that the drug companies in the US gouge their customers, and am seriosuly considering just buying from these guys (http://www.inhousedrugstore.com) I wouldn't be getting estrogen from them, but their prices for everything else are EXTREMELY low and they're not knock offs or off-brand drugs, but the exact bottles and boxes I get from my pharmacist.
My only fear is that they don't take prescriptions, and I know prescriptions are "cancelled" as they're used. Does that get reported back to my doctor? I'd hate for my doctor to suddenly see that my prescriptions aren't being "used" (I mena, I'd use his prescriptions as a base for what to buy) but of course if he DOESN'T know when his own prescriptions are used up...well...no problem there, is there? :) What do you, the viewer at home, think? I'd love to save more money...every bit helps.....
A special thank you to a San Antonio reader who gave me the gift of 3 "Applesauce with Raspberry Puree" MRE components for Christmas. They're my favorite MRE side dishes. :D
