These 7 day work weeks are really
starting to wipe me out. Today marked 15 straight days I have been
at work, and by the end of it all I wanted to do was go home and eat
and lay down for a bit. So I get home, I toss some pot roast and
mashed potatoes in the microwave and fire up ye olde laptop and
settle in. I just did the Windows 10 download yesterday and wanted
to see if I could figure out where all the bells and whistles were.
It still isn't XP, which was my favorite Windows system and saying it
is better than Windows 8 would be damning it with faint praise given
how much I hate Windows 8, but for now it seems to be better than
that, for whatever it is worth.
Spotify failed me today as well,
it is supposed to update my suggested listening list every 7 days but
I just went back in and it is the same exact list from 8 days ago.
So I went searching for some blogging music and settled on some Gene
Loves Jezebel. Now where was I?
So I sit down to eat,, and for
food from work the pot roast was pretty damn tasty. Thumbs up to
that, but after filling my belly and working 15 days in a row I just
wanted to lay down, so I grabbed m tablet and played a little MPQ
until my eyes got heavy, then I set it down and closed my eyes. That
was until someone knocked on my door. Mind you, being the anti
social butterfly that I am I get maybe a visitor a year, tops. If I
want to get away from everyone I can just come home, nobody else
comes here.
Anyway, I am curious as to who is
at my door, so I throw on a pair of shorts and answer it. Perhaps
one of the reasons no one visits is that as soon as I get home the
clothes come off. I am much more comfortable meandering around in my
boxers than with clothes on, but if there is someone at the door then
yes, I will put clothes on. I get to the door and it is one of the
electric utility salespeople. Mind you, they just set someone here
last Thursday and apparently my saying no that time wasn't enough for
them, so I was somewhat curt with my responses to this gentleman. I
mentioned that they were just here last week and he tried to tell me
no, they weren't. I kindly replied I think I know who comes to my
door when I fucking answer it. Then he started his spiel about rates
going up and he could lock me in at a certain price and blah, blah
freaking blah, and I replied I heard this all before and my answer
hasn't changed it is still no. He said well people are going to keep
coming and I said let the, they will get the same treatment you are
getting now. If they think they can ear down my anger, they don't
know me well at all.
The only plus from that
interaction was that I felt like I was starting off in what felt like
it was going to be a bad dream. The details are sketchy, but I just
know that the person I was dreaming about and I were not getting
along. Why can't I dream happy thoughts, like about the barista and
Crazy Mocha. My interactions with her have become the highlight of
my day. Of course I am now going to make a game of this and see how
long we can go before actually introducing ourselves to each other.
Yes, the stupid things I do to amuse myself.
Anyway, I should get to bed and
try to catch up on some of that sleep that was denied me earlier.
And only 10 hours or so until I find out if I can keep my name a
secret from the Crazy Mocha barista for another day.
Good Lord! Utility people want to negotiate? I never heard of such a thing! Here, they just slap a rate increase on you, no offers to lock in anything. We're already like prison inmates.
ReplyDeleteIt was part of utility deregulation we went through a few years back. Now we have companies that promise some phenomenal rate for a year if you sign up, only to screw you on the second year while demanding at least a two year commitment. Or they go door to door and try to scare people about impending increases if you don't switch. It is all about scaring elderly folk out of their money, it just doesn't work with me. as long as the lights come on when I flip the switch I don't need to be making any changes.
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