All Hail The Victory!!

angelamermaid has saved the day!!! In her comment to my Mom's latest technical glitz yesterday she said

"Sounds like she's been playing with the closed captioning, that can leave a black box on the screen. (My years helping old people out with their satellite TV pay off!)"

So last night, in desperation, I sent her a note "My friend who works with TV users says maybe you might have turned on the closed captioning thing. Maybe, in the book, there's a thing about turning it off and on? Just a thought" (She had already said she was not going to ever touch it except to throw it out the window.)

This morning I wake up to find this email (complete with caps and graphic):

GET UP GET UP GET UP. The new TV is fixed thanks to your friend.

All Hail The Victory!!

angelamermaid has saved the day!!! In her comment to my Mom's latest technical glitz yesterday she said

"Sounds like she's been playing with the closed captioning, that can leave a black box on the screen. (My years helping old people out with their satellite TV pay off!)"

So last night, in desperation, I sent her a note "My friend who works with TV users says maybe you might have turned on the closed captioning thing. Maybe, in the book, there's a thing about turning it off and on? Just a thought" (She had already said she was not going to ever touch it except to throw it out the window.)

This morning I wake up to find this email (complete with caps and graphic):

GET UP GET UP GET UP. The new TV is fixed thanks to your friend.

Coincidence, Karma or ESP?????

This morning I was going through my small but important (to me) business card collection at work and making sure I had the emails and phone numbers in my Treo. I got to Aaron's and thought 'geesh, I should let him know I'm leaving and see what he's up to these days...'

About two hours later I went to take some papers upstairs and when I got back, my voice mail light was on. It was a voice mail from Aaron. Freaked me out. His message said 'Yo, what's up? I haven't talked to you in more than a year and I think it's time to do lunch. Call me.'

Aaron was a contractor on my team when I worked at Microsoft. He's one of the nicest looking human beings I have ever seen. I mean ever. And very very smart. But, he's also very fun and very cool and a good friend. He was always on the lookout for a good business opportunity. I was always trying to sell him on the idea of personal action figures...

I mean really... who wouldn't want a Susan Dennis Action Figure??!!!!! (The hilarious thing here is that at one point, he actually did do some research on it and got nums and everything. I was more than a little impressed.)

Anyway, he left Microsoft about the time I did and started his own business mainly vending out contractors to Microsoft. Over the years he took on a focus of document management. About a year and a half ago we got him to come in here and help us figure out a document management scheme. We all decided that we weren't ready yet. But he did a great job of organizing us and never saw a dime for his efforts.

Cut to today. I call him and tell him I'm jobless and starving and lunch sounds excellent. And he starts asking me what I'm looking to do and starts really poking and finally says that he has a couple of things he needs done and a contract at Microsoft that he needs help with and lets really do lunch. Monday. Noon. His office.

Wild.

Coincidence, Karma or ESP?????

This morning I was going through my small but important (to me) business card collection at work and making sure I had the emails and phone numbers in my Treo. I got to Aaron's and thought 'geesh, I should let him know I'm leaving and see what he's up to these days...'

About two hours later I went to take some papers upstairs and when I got back, my voice mail light was on. It was a voice mail from Aaron. Freaked me out. His message said 'Yo, what's up? I haven't talked to you in more than a year and I think it's time to do lunch. Call me.'

Aaron was a contractor on my team when I worked at Microsoft. He's one of the nicest looking human beings I have ever seen. I mean ever. And very very smart. But, he's also very fun and very cool and a good friend. He was always on the lookout for a good business opportunity. I was always trying to sell him on the idea of personal action figures...

I mean really... who wouldn't want a Susan Dennis Action Figure??!!!!! (The hilarious thing here is that at one point, he actually did do some research on it and got nums and everything. I was more than a little impressed.)

Anyway, he left Microsoft about the time I did and started his own business mainly vending out contractors to Microsoft. Over the years he took on a focus of document management. About a year and a half ago we got him to come in here and help us figure out a document management scheme. We all decided that we weren't ready yet. But he did a great job of organizing us and never saw a dime for his efforts.

Cut to today. I call him and tell him I'm jobless and starving and lunch sounds excellent. And he starts asking me what I'm looking to do and starts really poking and finally says that he has a couple of things he needs done and a contract at Microsoft that he needs help with and lets really do lunch. Monday. Noon. His office.

Wild.

The Last Lunch Gravy Train

I'm so slow to figure out a good scam... I should have been wandering around the company all last week about 11:30 each day idly talking about how hungry I am...

Today, I mentioned out loud that I was thinking about lunch and I started a scuffle over who could take me out to lunch when! A bit of proper planning could have really prevented this and netted me a lot of free lunches. Matt won today. Kenny and Kevin have in for tomorrow. Thursday is my manager... Friday I'm out of here. Maybe I should start signing people up for next week????

The Last Lunch Gravy Train

I'm so slow to figure out a good scam... I should have been wandering around the company all last week about 11:30 each day idly talking about how hungry I am...

Today, I mentioned out loud that I was thinking about lunch and I started a scuffle over who could take me out to lunch when! A bit of proper planning could have really prevented this and netted me a lot of free lunches. Matt won today. Kenny and Kevin have in for tomorrow. Thursday is my manager... Friday I'm out of here. Maybe I should start signing people up for next week????

The LJ entry that keeps on giving and giving

About a year ago, I posted an entry about the origin of the word festuche. Last night I got another comment to that entry - this one from a librarian in Massachuetts. I just googled festuche and, sure enough, out of six hits, four are mine from LJ. I suppose you could spell it a number of different ways and get different results but, I'm happy with the results of my version. And I love being a library resource - I feel like I'm giving back.

The LJ entry that keeps on giving and giving

About a year ago, I posted an entry about the origin of the word festuche. Last night I got another comment to that entry - this one from a librarian in Massachuetts. I just googled festuche and, sure enough, out of six hits, four are mine from LJ. I suppose you could spell it a number of different ways and get different results but, I'm happy with the results of my version. And I love being a library resource - I feel like I'm giving back.