Possumblog

It's still 80 frappin' degrees in here, the IT jerks won't allow me to deliver video to remote users of our intranet, and I'm not getting paid half a million bucks.

Anotherwords, status quo ante.

Hey, you know, you're RIGHT! I'm not getting that kind of loot, either--that makes me ANGRY!

Let's see - the computer geeks were in late Friday afternoon to fix some apps. I told them I was off on Monday, and if they couldn't finish Friday, they could go at it then as well.

Late Monday I checked e-mail from home, to find out they had NOT come in on Monday, but would be disturbing me on Tuesday (no specific time listed, of course).

Tuesday morning - my personal folders list (with five years' worth of saved e-mails) is nowhere to be found (once I located the outlook icon, that is), my contacts list in outlook is gone, the printer default on my machine has been changed to some goofy on-line thing they were using, and I've had to change it back (once I figured out what had happened), excel worksheets are showing up again with the extra toolbar I don't want (do know how to change that)...in short, everything is messed up.

I have a can't-miss meeting from 11:30 to 1:30 today. What do you want to BET they will show up then?

@#$#$%$%^^*&@!!

Diane, I think it's time to get yourself a 2x4 and start administering a little rough justice.

I'm not particularly ticked, but we had Lyman's parents over for fried shrimp and oysters last night.

It's just pitiful to abuse food the way we must to please Girl. The shrimp were tougher than my moccasins and the oysters twould have put an eye out if thrown. But she thought it was wonderful.

She LIKES them chewy like that!?

Oh, yes. If there's a drop of moisture left in something, it's not cooked enough.

I'm up.

Miss Janis, no offense to her, but that just sounds terrible.

Since those things can be cooked in batches, at least the rest of us don't have to suffer.

Gosh, you should see what she can do to an innocent pork chop, or forbid, a steak.

Hey, let's not be dissing the IT guys. They have feelings too, ya know. If you cut them, do they not bleed?

Uh, er, never mind that last part - wouldn't want to give you any more "ideas". Maybe if all of you changed to Linux then you wouldn't have all these problems.

Hehehehee--as if the IT guys would let us just go and swith operating systems!!

I just wont do that. I have to cook the way a contract calls for but at home, heck no. Just wont do it.

Swith?

I think I meant "switch," but it's getting hard to tell nowadays exactly what I meant to do.

Oh, c'mon, Tony. Wouldn't you do it for aged parents, too?