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[Overtaxed]

Get a job!

Woo Hoo!

[JenB]

All right!

Tech support, mmm? You may need series stress relief...

[ecurbh]

Yeah, its a helpdesk... answering phone and email, writing knowledge base articles, etc. Basically just what I did a few years ago.

Its about a thirty-minute commute, which isn't bad... plus its not towards the city, but out in the country. Hair and I drove through the area a few months ago, and its a pretty drive through woods and fields.

[ecurbh]

Yes, tech support can be stressful (boy, the stories I could tell you), but I seriesly need the paycheck!

[RosieCotton]

Luckily there are other techs here that can sympathise (and empathise) when you have a bad day or a particularly rough time with a user. ;-)

[JenB]

Sounds like it shouldn't be too bad!

So you're gonna stop livin' off a woman and start paying your own way? ;-p

[HairOfTheDog]

... plus its not towards the city, but out in the country.

Prolly doin' tech support for the Amish.... ;~D

[ecurbh]

"So tell me, Mr. Jebediah, what problem are you having with your Super Butter Churn 4000?"

[JenB]

I thought all them Amish lived out here in PA. You have them in WA?

[ecurbh]

Well, now that you put it that way, I am tempted to go in a blow the interview.

[JenB]

Gigolo!

[HairOfTheDog]

"Go to the back of the cow and find the "reset" button"

[ecurbh]

Hmmm... can you Ctrl-Alt-Del a cow?

[HairOfTheDog]

I think you can with them newfangled Holstiens.

[Fedora]

We have Amish in Wisconsin, too--think they came with the German immigrants.

[JenB]

Probably so. The Amish are also referred to as the "Pennsylvania Dutch" - only it's really 'Deutsch', of course.

[2Jedismom]

We have Amish here in OK too...they have a settlement about 45 minutes away from here. I used to go there when I was expecting Joshua and buy their bakery items. I consumed an entire dish of cinnamon rolls on the way home once.

I gained 40lbs.

[ExGeeEye]

Yes, it would be rough, but if I get the invite I'll have to do a Peter and just keep my eyes off the lake.

Thing of it is, I may shine intellectually on the phone, and get down there to the physical and have a whole other story. I haven't had a physical since leaving the Army in 1999 and haven't done anything since but eat Bachelor Chow and sit on my fourth point of contact. I don't think there's anything wrong, but two of the thinks they talk about as disqualifiers-- high bp and cholesterol-- don't really have ill effects until they have really ill effects. So that's an item of concern to me.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Good heavens, but you know, when I do start dating, it'll probably be someone even geekier than I am... he'll probably think hanging out in the graphic novels section of the bookstore is really romantic.

<startled>

Such men exist.

I found one.

He is my walking, talking reference for comic books of the Seventies through Nineties. Among other vital functions.

[Wneighbor]

Yee haaaaw!!!

Congratulations on the interview ecurbh! I know that is really good news and a relief for you! :-)