Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 19

Today | Me

[sweetliberty]

"Some people sit on those giant balls at work..."

Oh yeah, that'll work. NOT! You wouldn't believe how cramped our office space is now. I was really looking forward to having my own office after the caseworker I shared an office with transferred out. I knew it wouldn't last, but I thought maybe I'd get at least a few weeks to myself. No such luck. They finally hired a new county supervisor (everybody in the office has had different supervisors since I've been there). The old supervisor, the one who hired me, in fact, transfered to CACD, but was still in her old office. Well, since we are getting a new supervisor, she had to vacate the office, and she moved in with me. Fortunately, we both spend a lot of time out of the office, but we can barely both type at the same time when we're both in there, let alone consult with clients or manage phone calls, since we both are on the phone a lot, and there is only one phone line in the office. We're working on getting a second one, but the state moves slowly! Supposedly we started trying to get a new building quite some time ago and it isn't happening in the near future.

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[Borax Queen]

I might have missed part of your conversation, but do you know about the Do Not Call registry? I don't have the number handy but could find it. It has been miraculous for us. The phone stays silent 99% of the time now unless it is a friend or family member. We occasionally get a local survey person calling but that's about it. Viva Bush and company for getting that through.

[sweetliberty]

LOL! Go for it, Mo, and let us know the reaction.

[Borax Queen]

Oh, cool! I tried HSN once for some "clean up your closet" hangers. The hangers were great but the customer service people terrible. I've never had a bad experience with QVC and their quality is fantastic - as you probably know. And it's so easy to order online (no, I do not work for them :) I LOVE not having to go to stores for certain things. And their hostesses are classy unlike some of the other channels. One of these days, I need to go tour their factory back East.

[sweetliberty]

Oh, I registered for the do not call thingy. Like I said, it worked pretty well for the last location, but here, everything is a recorded message and apparently they haven't gotten the memo, or if they have, they're ignoring it.

[prairiebreeze]

Hi BQ. I much prefer to do internet shopping too. But hubby needs a new power tie (as he calls it) and I have to look for something to wear to the FReeper Inaugural Ball. So hopefully one trip will do, otherwise I'm ordering off the internet for the majority of it.

Mo1, that books looks great. It might actually provide some factual information too, but the lib might not believe it, heh.

I have to get moving in one direction or another this morning either shopping or vacuuming. And I have to go get some extra postage at the post office today too. Yeesh, it's raining heavier now which means Sam the hound dog will have to be escorted outside to do chores as he doesn't like rain. Snow is no problem but when it rains he'll just sit on the step and whine to get back in. Sheesh.

[Borax Queen]

Oh, no, that's a shame!

[Borax Queen]

Good luck - talk to you later.

[lodwick]

Tom Landry used to say that when a rookie walked in and called him "sir", he was offense. If he spit tobacco on the floor, he was defense.

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Good stuff - I'd not heard that one.

Why don't you ask him what's his favorite number, or player?

[.38sw]

MC is unbelievable. I left the thread, won't be back, it was pretty pointless to argue with him. His posts were dripping with hostility. You can't have a rational discussion with a hostile person.

My mother, who is in her 70's, has actually been taken to a private room and disrobed. My mother - blue eyes, salt and pepper hair, not very big, elderly. Yeah, some threat. I doubt that she set off any metal detectors - I can't imagine why she was singled out for a strip search.

Last spring, I saw a woman who appeared to be in her 90's made to get out of her wheelchair and toddle through the metal detector. While that was happening, there was a middle-aged woman in a wheel chair who was apparently paraplegic and couldnt be forced to walk through the metal detector. There was a TSA agent lifting up her arms and legs and wanding her, and calling for more help. The agent was actually manhandling her. It is really disgraceful. And no, it doesn't make me "feel" safer. We need profiling. As I understand it, Israel's El Al airlines questions everyone, and profiles based on behavior.

MC called you ignorant, eh? I've come to hate to fly, and I don't want to be groped. So I'll avoid it when I can.

[lodwick]

That's why I went back to a stand-alone answering machine with a skip button (and a good ComSwitch to direct all the various signals over the phone line).

[Conservababe]

Because he is only two years old and doesn't know his numbers yet. LOL

[lodwick]

Good grief. Use 1 , otherwise, nothing else will show.

[null and void]

Man, we just got hit with a sudden surge of really nasty weather! It is pouring rain and the wind sounds horrible!

Here too last night. Windy enough to wake me...

[lodwick]

Chops to break the fast?

[null and void]

Which brings me to my question...what number should I use?

77. It's like 69, but you get 8 more...

[Servant of the 9]

Some people sit on those giant balls at work...

Mine aren't 'giant' but when I sit on them, I can't walk right for 2 days.

So9

[Borax Queen]

LOL! I thought I'd give you some joke material :) Thank you for the ping to desert geology the other day - much appreciated.

[Borax Queen]

Ohmygosh - that is tiny! That stinks. That is about the size of our private offices. My home office is much bigger. Even when we had to share, we had slightly larger offices than your current one.

[Borax Queen]

Oh no - I am so sorry about your mother. I think there is nothing in the world that makes me more upset than hearing those stories. It was bad enough to have to undergo the secondary search when I was returning from the funeral. I was so emotionally fragile, and then to stand there in the SFO Airport and have to peel back my Levi waistband in public, and be wanded like some criminal... I broke down afterwards.

It drives me through the roof to hear about our parents or grandparents or anyone their age having to undergo this. I almost cried when I was in SLC and saw a couple in their 90s being forced to take their shoes off.

It's so reactive too - I mean, just 'cuz some loser hid a bomb in his shoes, or those nutjobs in their underwear, now all law-abiding citizens must be subjected? What is next????

The TSA claims it has only received 245 complaints (out of millions of women "groped"/patted/whatever) in the last several months. They say that is a drop in the bucket. To me, that is a serious number - and that is only the ones coming forward.

Something is wrong with MC. It looks like he has had the time to put down every poster. Ooops - and there are others - like "Capt. Justice" posted to himself about me: If you think being searched at an airport after 9/11 is humiliating, you are emotionally unstable. It's part of life.