Help me, I’m buried in email
Lorena
Oh, Gmail. You might have thought it was helpful to start dividing into five tabbed categories, but really, that just gives me five times as many lost things that I…
Rants
Ruminations on Self-Employment: Staying Upbeat… or, not.
One of my old Regional Managers, back when I worked at a Big Box Bookstore, used to say that “energy comes from the top.” Meaning, the cashiers aren’t going to…
I’m still around
If I ever have time to blog regularly again it’ll be a Christmas fucking miracle. We used to have a saying at the Enginerding company – “when everything is important,…
Questionable
Another thing that’s on my mind right now is the amount of time I spend online answering questions (and this is NOT to make anyone who has asked me a…
Catching up, again
There have not been enough hours in the days this week. A lot of that, though, is because I’m not trying to push myself to do ALL THE THINGS. So…
I give up
Who’s got two thumbs and got hot water all over her because her dye bar still wasn’t fixed yesterday, only she didn’t know it until three hours into the dyeing…
What this knitter needs is a beer
I know I say this all the time, so you’re probably surprised that I’m surprised this still happens, but why do strangers want to give you business advice? Especially when…
An open letter to my Dentist
Dear office; when I started coming to you in about 1993 or so, you were fabulous. Now you suck. Blow me. No, no, no – let me start that again.…
Well, other than *that*, Mrs. Lincoln…..
Last week sucked like a big sucking thing that sucked a lot. The high points were dinner with Tim and Jenn on Tuesday night, watching zombie belly dancing; lunch with…
I should start teaching Customer Service classes
Two things are really getting my panties in a bunch right now. Both of them are how I’m being treated by companies, and I think it boils down to my…
Technology: making our lives easier one gray hair at a time.
Here are yesterdays Twitter and Facebook posts, explained. This all started because… well, a month or two ago I won an eBay bid on a mold for a mug with…