Bits and Pieces
Dec. 4th, 2003 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisWaiting for another RFP. The salesrep/author is an offensive idiot. If he calls me honey one more time, he's going to be able to put his nuts into a bowl and cover them with the stuff.
He told me yesterday that his ill-written 57 page tome would be ready for formatting just after lunch. I'm guessing he's pretty darned hungry since it's now just before 9 a.m. and I haven't seen squat. He just 'honey'd' me to give me the good news that his deadline of today has been extended a day. Yes, I'm thrilled to be torturned yet an additional day. More more more. Please.
My favorite yarn vendor has free shipping again. I placed my order this past weekend. It occurred to me this morning that I don't remember seeing the cheerful 'thank you for your order' note. hmmmm Checked the website for order tracking and my order isn't there. hmmmm Their website ate an order once before. I'm thinking the bugger might have been hungry again. I'm going to go check my cache at home and see if I can find the evidence and exactly what I ordered before I call.
On a continuation of my book project, I'm now going through all the authors that I have read in the past 10 years and making sure they have not published anything I don't know about. I'm culling out a list of 'authors to check' and from here on out will just make that a database field. I'm also discovering that Amazon is getting some pretty attractive used book prices. Their shipping/handling charges are more than Half but in a lot of cases their prices are a good bit lower.
Honey just sent me the document from hell. Call me Frieda the Formatter...
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Date: 2003-12-04 09:21 am (UTC)I thought that said YAM vendor. I wondered how many yams you needed, and what you needed them for, to have to have a special vendor for them.
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Date: 2003-12-04 09:25 am (UTC)The CEO of High Integrity Systems (A UK military software specialist) was a woman, she was first to arrive at a meeting at their head office and was pouring herself some coffee when the visiting sales guys turned up. So she poured them coffee too, so they assumed she was the secretary and treated her accordingly. When the rest of the people had turned up, and nobody said anything to give the game away, she sat down at the head of the table. Visiting sales guy said “won’t the boss be angry when he turns up?”, she replied “I am the boss.” Unconcerned he answered “Oh, it must make a change from washing dishes and cleaning the house.” I wonder if he ever worked out what he did wrong.
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Date: 2003-12-04 10:17 am (UTC)And I've never heard the term Geordie as reference to northeast England. Cool. I do remember having some friends visiting from near there several years ago. She was a native of the area and I could not understand much of what she said. Her husband was originally from south of London - he had to translate for me.
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Date: 2003-12-04 10:23 am (UTC)Hmm, I thought calling women "honey" was a condescending southern thing over here. Excessively familiar.
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Date: 2003-12-04 11:52 am (UTC)FYI abebooks.com is another kind of BookFinder search. It has more of the junk stuff I read... For instance, I'm looking for a cheap copy of a novel called The Yeare's Midnight... BookFinder couldn't find any. abebooks found a bunch (but none at a really good price - so it's on my 'check later' list).
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Date: 2003-12-04 07:07 pm (UTC)I keep reminding myself that it's better than being viewed as ancient, but come on.