Month: July 2002

I’m on hold with Verizon right now, and I have to pee. I have to peeeeeeee. I thought typing it might make me feel better but it doesn’t.

I’m on hold because they said someone needs to go to the house to “switch” my line to DSL. Huh? What? What exactly will they be “switching,” considering I was told they wouldn’t need to come to the house?

Also, you can bet this hold music isn’t being piped into the customer service cubicle farm or they’d have to pay everyone time and a half.

I’m on hold with Verizon right now, and I have to pee. I have to peeeeeeee. I thought typing it might make me feel better but it doesn’t.

I’m on hold because they said someone needs to go to the house to “switch” my line to DSL. Huh? What? What exactly will they be “switching,” considering I was told they wouldn’t need to come to the house?

Also, you can bet this hold music isn’t being piped into the customer service cubicle farm or they’d have to pay everyone time and a half.

I poked my nose into the tracking site for one of my 401Ks, and saw that since the last statement (period ending June 30th) it has lost 14% of its value. AGAIN. I’m soooo sad. It’s not like there was enough in there to actually retire on, but hell, that’s painful. And now I’m afraid to move my money around (into less-volatile funds) because I just have so damned many shares of the ones I’m in, that it seems a shame to move them. After all, as of this second, the Dow is 320 points higher than it was when I woke up, so maybe tomorrow my 14% will be back.

One can only hope.

Here’s what the Sanford (Uni-ball) people had to say, in case anyone else out there is looking for those pens (and I know you are…I see the search words you use to get to my site. Dang, those fireworks pens got me a LOT of traffic.)

You may want to try your local Sav-on Drug Store for the # 60038 3-pk of

uni-ball Onyx Rollerball Pen.

You can also try www.shoplet.com for ordering most Sanford and Paper Mate

items on-line. If you can order by the dozen call Standard Office (800)742-8247, Gray

Enterprises (800)970-7367 or www.kingpen.com.

That would be when my sister ended up with cat poop completely covering the bottom of her shoe. It allowed to follow her around the grocery store (after she’d cleaned up) saying “Do you smell something?” very loudly.

Heh.