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The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
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Posted on 04/06/2004 6:53:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

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To: Wneighbor
I'm bailing out...

Nite nite...
381 posted on 04/07/2004 9:27:33 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Fedora; All
Time for South Park....

And I need to pay some attention to my honey!
382 posted on 04/07/2004 9:28:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Free pints in the Hobbit Hole for all monthly donors during the 'thon!)
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To: HairOfTheDog; Ramius; Wneighbor; All
Have a good night!
383 posted on 04/07/2004 9:29:59 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Ramius
Well goodnight sweetheart!

Thanks for massaging my granny ego. It's kinda fun having little people who think you're the best thing since chocolate pie! :-)

Dream good dreams. :-)
384 posted on 04/07/2004 9:30:37 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Goodnight!

Enjoy South Park a little extra for me!
385 posted on 04/07/2004 9:31:20 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Wneighbor
I didn't say that you had anything bad to say about what I had to say about what you had to say about what I had to say.

Dell support is among the best on the planet. Dell parts, on the other hand, all seem to be stocked on another planet, like Mars. Shipping, then, is a really big problem, since there is no Fedex office on Mars. Yet.
386 posted on 04/07/2004 9:31:32 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Wneighbor
Nite nite...

But all my dreams of late involve upgrades on a per-seat license... and it's really starting to tick me off.

:-) Nite nite.
387 posted on 04/07/2004 9:34:04 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Ramius
I didn't say that you had anything bad to say about what I had to say about what you had to say about what I had to say.

Oh dear. Gender communications problem! That don't make no sense to this elf-woman. LOL

Night night honey. (((Ramius)))

388 posted on 04/07/2004 9:34:32 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Wneighbor
<laughing> Don't get me started on what I should be telling Dell customers!

Had an idiot today ... he buys four computers, all at once. They arrive, all at once. Without opening the boxes, he sends one computer --- what he assumes is one computer --- off to Ditty-Wha-Ditty, where it sits. The idiot then hires some genius at $135 an hour to put the other three computers together at his location.

Genius puts two of the systems together just fine, and "installs" the pre-installed software. Genius gets to the third system, and realizes he only has two copies of Office 2003. So idiot calls me.

I tell him to look through all the boxes. "But one box is in Ditty-Wha-Ditty!"

"Is there someone in Ditty-Wha-Ditty who can look through the box and see if there's an Office CD in it?" Until then, I did not realize that rooting through a box required qualifications. "I'll wait," I add encouragingly.

Long pause until he comes back to the phone. "The only person in Ditty-Wha-Ditty who can look is at lunch."

OoooooKAY! "Well," I sigh, "after you look through all the packaging, if you don't find the CD, call us back and we'll send you one."

"What about this machine?"

"Excuse me?"

"What is the Lazy E going to do to compensate me! Because of YOUR mistake, I've got my $135-an-hour tech standing here twiddling his thumbs!"

Some days, I don't like my customers much ...

389 posted on 04/07/2004 9:35:10 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... when is YOUR carelessness MY fault? ...])
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To: Ramius
But all my dreams of late involve upgrades on a per-seat license... and it's really starting to tick me off.

Sheesh! and i was thinkin' maybe occasionally you dreamed of elf wimmin! *shaking head*

390 posted on 04/07/2004 9:35:54 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Rose in RoseBear
BWAAHAHAHAHA!!! And everyone I've ever talked to with Dell is so nice! I hate it that people behave that way to nice people! Need to be slapped! :-)

When doofus calls you back, tell him that Ramius said all his computer problems would be solved if he would put a badger or wolverine in each case! That oughtta be a good payback for him being nasty to you! :-)

Or, call me, I'll go give him what-for on your behalf - unbeknownst to Dell! hehehe
391 posted on 04/07/2004 9:40:04 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Wneighbor; All
Morning! Hope all is well with you and yours. I remain completely overwhelmed at work. No time for freeping or being mildly sociable. *alas*
392 posted on 04/08/2004 4:25:00 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (By all that we hold dear on this good Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!)
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To: JenB
May is a good month to be born. In fact I made my mother wait a week so that I could be born in May...

Margaret made Mom wait almost TWO weeks...I think her original due date was April 22nd or 24th...and she was born May 5th.

Is yours the first? I knew the answer to this once upon a time...

393 posted on 04/08/2004 5:05:04 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Wneighbor
Cute pic, sis! Look like happy children!

Nice new hole!
394 posted on 04/08/2004 5:12:32 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Rose in RoseBear
What kinda genius needs an expensive outside tech to plug in a computer? Hm...especially since they come pre-loaded.

That's just a mind-boggling story. Wow.
395 posted on 04/08/2004 5:15:23 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Lil'freeper; 2Jedismom; JenB
Good morning! Another gorgeous day out there, though still not very warm. Supposed to get up to around fifty today, but in any case the sun is out and there's very little snow again! Even a few spots of green here and there...as I said before, I think we must have different varieties of grass up this way, because it starts growing before the snow is even gone...or at least peeps out, even if there isn't much of it.
396 posted on 04/08/2004 5:19:32 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton
Yeah, my birthday's the first. I'm looking forward to finally being out of limbo and officially recognized as an adult by everyone.

Raining here. My little car went to the shop. Now I just sit here until time to go home. We have an evening service tonight and the choir's going to sing.
397 posted on 04/08/2004 5:34:39 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
We have the Holy Thursday Mass tonight. I love that liturgy.
398 posted on 04/08/2004 5:40:23 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton
Our service should be good. I have a nice dark outfit on, so I shouldn't have to wear a dress. We're singing "Oh Sacred Head Now Wounded" in the choir. It sounds really good.
399 posted on 04/08/2004 5:42:19 AM PDT by JenB
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hmm
400 posted on 04/08/2004 5:43:55 AM PDT by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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