Just call me Igor

I had this for about a week and a half a week prior but it had cleared up until last night.

I went grocery shopping last night for the few necessities we needed like milk, tea, etc. at Wal-heck. I was there forever for just about 12 items. The lines were, of course, 5 people deep, and I picked the slow lane. *D'oh!*

When I get to the register, the lady proceeds to double bag all my cold items. I live 6 blocks from the store, so I asked her nicely not to double-bag them, which she did. But I still have to complain because she double-bagged oddly. Ok, when I was a cashier at Walheck, you would sack and then put that sack inside another sack after you had filled it. It was much quicker. But no, this lady put the bag inside the other bag which required both of her hands to put items in the sack. So she was totally doing the one hand thing. You know, scan it...put it in the bag...scan another item...put it in the bag. Back in my day, and it's not that long ago...maybe 9 years ago, I would have been reprimanded and eventually let go for that. You had to be able to multitask. You scanned with your right hand and bagged with your left.

So, by the time I got done shopping, standing in line, checking out, walking to the car, loading the groceries in the trunk, and returning the cart to the cart corral, I am Igor again. I have this pinching in my hip where my leg meets my hip. By the time I got home and unloaded groceries with B's help and fixed my dinner plate (B cooks on most nights--what a sweetie!), I was in so much pain. I really wanted to cry. I had to ask him to bring me back some more rice because just the thought of hobbling to the kitchen hurt. I'm feeling better today after working on it with the massager and using Blue Emu (this stuff is awesome by the way because you can wear it anytime, anywhere, and it doesn't smell). However, I think I'm probably going to go ahead and talk to the OB about massage therapy.

Igor out!

And you call yourselves a help desk!

Working individuals of the world unite! It's the evil help desk that is the topic of today's discussion.

Last week, I came into work on Monday to find that I could not access anything that required an ethernet connection. I couldn't get on the intranet, access servers, etc. Begrundingly, I called the help desk. My case was turned in to desktop support with a high priority. I sat around and twiddled my thumbs all day and then called the help desk again just as I was leaving and told them I absolutely had to be up and running by Wednesday.

Tuesday morning, I come in and I can't even boot up. There was a corrupted file. I called the help desk again. About 2 hours later, IT guy comes up and works on my computer. It appears that part of the problem was a token ring (aren't these things extinct) that was stuck in a loop that was causing part of the problem. We did a cleanup on the computer, eliminated some spyware, and did a backup just in case they had redo my hard drive. The computer is working for what I need it for that day.

Then, I have to go out and approve a wire. There are these blasted smartcard readers here whre you have to insert your card, select your certificate authority, and input your pin to approve wire transfers. Well the blasted card reader doesn't work. I call the guy back again and he gets it working. It works for a few days.

Well, the darn thing is down again! You would think that since I work for a computer company (not mentioned...we'll just call it Big Blue for now), that I could get hardware that would work CONSISTENTLY. So today, I called the guy back again, and yet again, I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting on IT guy to come get it working again (and to show me how to fix it myself next time so I'm not waiting for an elusive IT guy). I have a wire to approve that has to go out today.

I want to be elusive. How come the accountants can't be elusive? Blasted!

UPDATE:

Well, I got out of my process automation meeting this afternoon, and low and behold, IT guy #2 is here to fix a printer for a co-worker. This is the guy that got the darn card reader up and running in the first place. A fiddle here and there and it is working. IT guy #1 has yet to call. Figures, huh?

Rollin'

M at the Kiddie Park

He's the blonde headed kid in the front of the last truck (green).

At the car wash...Yeah!

There is a new carwash at the gas station down the street. It's actually a pretty cool car wash. The unit passes over the car and does all the washing, clear coat, etc and it also dries your car that way. It's brushless except for the brushes that clean your wheels.

M LOVES this car wash. This morning I needed to fill up and we went there so he could go through the car wash with me. Well the clear coat/wax stuff sprays out in this color combination of blue, yellow, and pink foam. It reminds me of cotton candy. M calls it gum. LOL!

So I got gum on my car today. Not more than 10 minutes later, I was heading down the highway to town and SPLAT! Bird poo on my car! Of course, it won't rain until this weekend now that the bird has pooed on the car.

Daddy's hands

B's great grandma passed away early Friday morning. So, Sunday evening, B set out with Meme (his mom) and Papa (his stepdad) for big 'ol Lubbock, TX. B has been away from home before for an extended period of time (CLEET, training, etc.). M usually takes it in stride, but this time, he really missed his daddy. He kept asking when he was going to be home; he even waited up until 11:30 PM last night for him (tired mommy here). It was so cute this morning. When I woke M up B brought him into bed with him and they snuggled together. It was a picture to make anyone's heart melt.