Category Archives: The World at Large

Overheard at OfficeMax

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I was in OfficeMax today and I was standing next to a lady in the organizer aisle. All of a sudden, a young guy stops and talks to her:

Young Man: Excuse me, but I see you in here all the time and you always look so good. Always so professional, I just wanted to tell you that.

Woman: (unnerved) Uh… well, thank you. I… I buy my office supplies here, that’s why I come.

YM: Well, you look fabulous. What line of work are you in?

Woman: I’m a realtor, I just needed to pick up an organizer–

YM: A realtor, how great! Where do you work generally?

W: Well, I used to be in Florida, but now I work north Atlanta bec–

YM: I’m from Florida! What part?!

W: Uh, Tampa.

YM: Me, too! Listen, I just have to give you my card. If you’re ever thinking of changing careers, I could use someone like you. A lot of people who work with us used to be in real estate. I work for Mary Kay…

W: Oh, I don’t–

YM: Don’t worry I don’t sell anything. I’ve got more important things to do than hawk lipstick. I’m in the seminar-giving part, we teach people about leadership. You’d be great. Do you have a card with you?

W: Well, yes, somewhere (shuffles in purse)

YM: Here’s mine. I just think you’d be fabulous at our seminars.

W: I should have a card more ready, I suppose, as a realtor, but–

YM: I know what you mean. They’re hard to keep up with, those things.

W: Here.

YM: Great! I’m definitely going to give you a call. You’d be great. It was great meeting you! I’ve got to go get MY office supplies! (walks away)

(beat)

W: (turning to me) That was the oddest thing that’s happened to me in a long time.

Me: I’m so excited I could be here for it.

W: (laughs, and walks away shaking her head)

Electric Line Internet

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I just read in a Wall Street Journal in our breakroom that Cinergy, Cincinnati’s power utility, is going to start offering internet access comparable or better than cable/DSL to folks in Cincinnati.

This is fantastic.

I don’t want cable, so getting a cable modem doesn’t make sense. I don’t need a telephone land line, since Stacey and I have cellphones. But I have to have one to get internet access in our home. But if it were available through the electrical outlet… that’d be sweet. Ditch the landline totally.

Unfortunately, it may be a fair amount of time away. They’ll be targeting rural areas that don’t have cable/DSL options first, before moving into the big cities.

I’ll just bide my time.

Conference calls

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I work in a cubicle.

Which means that out of politeness to my coworkers, I don’t use the speakerphone.

However, I routinely have conference calls that last an hour or two hours, sometimes 3. These conference calls are usually with people who have offices and speakerphones, so it doesn’t matter how long they talk, they’re necks stay uncricked.

I’ve put in for a headset, but I’m too lowly for such a thing.

*sigh*

From the AJC

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Georgia Power officials reported about 60,000 customers lost power overnight, but those outages were mainly caused not by the snowfall, but by high winds. About 20,000 of the utility’s customers were still without power at 7:30 a.m.

It’s nice to know there are 19,999 other people whose milk is going bad. It’s not some Karmic backlash against us or anything.

A Vote Against

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As much as I hate to be reduced to voting against someone instead of voting my ideals, I’ll be voting against Georgie this year.

Ordinarily, I would vote Libertarian. But I guess I’m voting for Democratic-nominee-TBD. It’s sort of “lesser of two evils”, but since Georgie is Evil with a capital E, he pulls the scale so far out of whack it almost makes anyone else slide into the “good” catagory.

*sigh*. I wonder if we could get Jimmy Carter to run again.