June 2007

I somehow managed to get home a little while ago even with two managers being out. I’m still not sure how I managed that one but I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. I know one thing, it’s frigging hot outside. I let the wife have my car awhile back since it is the one with air and she generally ferries the kids back and forth.

Riding back and forth between the stores is extremely hot in the damn car without air. I am drenched by the time I get home. Once fall gets here (just in time to NOT need air) I will get a new vehicle, but not until then unless my wheels fall off first.

My fucking Internet connection is down again. Goddamn Charter Communication is starting to piss me off. This is the second time this week. It was down for several hours last time so I did what I hate to do and called tech support. I got a gentleman who was very polite but for whom english was apparently a second language. I asked him if we were having a high speed internet outage in my area, so he gets my address and zip, puts me on hold for five minutes and when he comes back he tells me “Yes we have High Speed Internet available in your area as well as phone service and digital cable.

NO NUMBNUTS!

I was pretty pissed off but I stayed nice to the guy. I explained that I have service but my internet isn’t working. He got the rest of my info and came back to me. By that time my cable light was solid on the modem so I scurried back upstairs to check my server. About the time I realized that I was finally getting an IP address but that something was wrong between the house and their DNS servers he tells me that something must be wrong with my equipment but he could schedule someone to come to the house. I explained that my equipment was just fine (I use my own modem, not the cable company’s) and that THEY had a problem and then he says “Oh, I see a bulletin, we have an outage in your area but now ETA.

Where the fuck do they find these folks? At least he didn’t bother to ask me to restart the modem this time. Normally by the time I am desperate enough to call tech support I have already gone through everything possible that I might be able to do here on my end, and THEY have a problem but normally their tech support makes you go through 30 minutes of bullshit before they can be bothered to check HEAT or whatever call center software they are using to see if there are any outage bulletins.

Assholes.

I need some fucking air conditioning before I reach though the phone and yank someone’s tonsils out of their head.

I don’t know how I do it sometimes. I had to handle shift change at one of the restaurants last night (I never did get that nap yesterday) so I got home around ten or so. I ended up going to bed after eleven last night but still managed to get up by a quarter to five. I’ve got a manager starting her ten day vacation today and another one that is off for the next two days, so it’s bound to be quite a long day.

Only a couple more weeks until I get a vacation and I am looking forward to it. I start on July 5th and that will be cool in itself because all of my managers will be in that day with it being a holiday so I might actually get to watch fireworks this year.

Anyway, the idea of some kind of Atlanta meet was being bandied around late this month or early next, which would be really cool. I know that Sandy will be in town during that time, actually I think she is probably in the air now, so perhaps something along the lines of a get-together is in order.

This post is Sponsored by My Solitaire.

I don’t do a whole lot of jewelry and my wife doesn’t wear a whole lot more. I do know what I like though. Silver, Gold, Aquamarine, and Garnets. I used to wear my father’s Marine Corp Rifle Sharpshooter badge on a silver chain for years and years, but it disappeared quite some time ago. I also have a couple of silver Mickey Mouse earrings and a gold Mickey watch that plays the theme to the Mickey Mouse Club that I wear but that is pretty much it. I have a couple of Aquamarine Rings that I wear on occasion as well as some others that I don’t wear as often though.

The wife just doesn’t wear much jewelry at all unless we are going out for a special occasion. She has her wedding band (mine doesn’t fit my fat little fingers any more) as well as her engagement ring, and maybe earrings, but that is about it. My Solitaire does have some pretty cool Aquamarine Earrings that I was looking at though. I don’t know if I could get her to wear them or not. She would look great in Aquamarine Jewelry but that’s more a matter of taste than anything else.

These Aquamarine Earrings are pretty cool. The run about $365 so are definitely something for a special occasion.

I really like these Aquamarine Pendants that I found. This one in particular has a Peridot, Mandarin Garnet, Aquamarine, Tanzanite, & Pink Tourmaline set in 14K gold and runs around $220. Much more in line with my budget and the way the stones all look together is just very cool.

I’m certainly no expert at picking out or buying jewelry, but you could do a lot worse. That’s why I always go to the experts that know what they are talking about when I am buying jewelry.

I don’t remember the last time I was at home this early on a weekday when one of my managers was off. Actually I do, it was before I took the promotion. I’m tired as hell and my back hurts to the point where I am getting ready to have a muscle relaxer and a beer, but it’s a been a damn good day.