The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Good night! Hope the storms are done for the night....

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

The ones we have come up the drains, or through the air conditioning vent. We get one or two a month in the summer, usually.

Hundreds daily.

I would have gone mad... mad... mad!!!

Really, I would have.

[Wneighbor]

Heh... I moved.

I started out mad.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Well, we all have our coping mechanisms...

[Fedora]

I would have gone mad... mad... mad!!!

And then you'd be doomed--doomed! :)

[Ramius]

Nuthin a gallon of gasoline and a match wouldn't fix... :-)

'Course... some re-plumbing might be required afterward.

[Wneighbor]

That was at one of those low points in my life. Raising a toddler, going to school, trying to pay bills. Sometimes just had to put up with revolting crap.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Doomed!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

You're tougher than I am... I don't know that I could have done it.

[Ramius]

Revolting crap? You mean there are *other* kinds? :-)

[Ramius]

Bailing out here shortly...

[Wneighbor]

Sometimes it's surprising the things you find out you can deal with trying to raise a kid. Lots of things in my life I never thought I coulda done - that I did - but still wish I hadn't had to.

[Rose in RoseBear]

The cockroach is just the capper to a hideous day.

I had the most amazing array of calls today ... I'm still gobsmacked! Pardon me whilst I vent ---

• One customer spelled the "f" bomb to me (I told him not to do that, as it was both offensive and it took too much brain power to cope with);
• After I asked a customer his name, he whispered to someone in the room, "I got a dumba** on the phone." That call kinda went downhill after that ...
• A customer with an <honored competition> brand MP3 player called the Lazy E for support after <honored competition> told him the device was not under warranty. I told him we didn't cover this device; it didn't have our name on it. He went ballistic, yelling how crappy the Lazy E was for not supporting what they sell. I suggested that if <honored competition> couldn't stand behind a device that <honored competition> put their name on, there wasn't a lot the Lazy E could do. He demanded information on his warranty: I told him that both the Lazy E and <honored competition> had told him all about the warranty, and asked him if he wanted to wait even longer for someone else to tell him the same thing a third time; or if he wanted me to transfer him to the Not-Lazy E-Stuff-Support line where, for a fee, someone might be able to get the MP3 player to work. Customer bawled, "I want someone to talk to me! Transfer me, girl, transfer me!" To which I responded, "Okay, boy, where do you want to go?"
  I got up and took a break after that one.
• I had a car dealer call me after buying a barcode scanner from <third party vendor>. He called the Lazy E to find out the format (symbology) that car makers use for the VIN bar codes ... 'cause, you know, we Lazy E folk have a special "in" with the car makers that car dealers don't ...
• I had a woman call me complaining because the Optical Character Recognition program that she used to use on her old (Windows 98) computer isn't as good as the OCR that was bundled in with her Lazy E all-in-one. Of course, she paid maybe $200 for her old software, likely more than the new all-in-one cost ... but all she could do was snivel and cry as I told her, essentially, that you get what you pay for. That took an hour.
• And then, to cap off the day, my mush-brained cube neighbor, who's 23 and already has a General Discharge from the Navy (he wouldn't take the anthrax vaccinations), and who thinks the sun rises and sets on Michael Moore and his ilk, and who thinks I don't fully understand what it is to be black, started ranting about the level of my voice!

  Where is my medication?

[Wneighbor]

Revolting crap? You mean there are *other* kinds? :-)

Well, no. But sometimes there are degrees of revolting. Living in that place was of a worse degree than a lot of crap.

[Wneighbor]

Bailing out here shortly...

Need a goodnight hug? :-)

[Ramius]

[sigh] Rose... you are so worthy of your name.

I would have sent the electro-amperage shock to his/her keyboard way before you would have.

[ZOT] "There, hope you feel better now."

[Wneighbor]

Uh... Ramius will be here with your Turkey in just a sec.

RAMIUS!!!! COME HERE!!!!

Hi Rose. I'm glad Bear took care of that cockroach.

[Wneighbor]

She needs a drink man! Give the lady a drink!

[Ramius]

Okey dokey.

[[[WN]]]] :-)

Taking off now... :-)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I'm glad Bear took care of that cockroach.

I had to... it was my foot that it dared to run across, after all. It became a matter of honor...