happyI'm basically writing this entry because it's about time to have something fresh in here, and on my way to the bus stop this morning, I thought back to a few weeks ago when I called Staples to price a USB cable for my mother's new scanner/printer. (This was eventually purchased from Zellers, which offered a 10ft. cable for less money than a 6ft. cable of the same brand and grade, and the price for that 10ft. cable was much less than for the 6ft. cables everywhere else. But I digress. USB cables = Zellers. Mini DV tapes = Atlantic SuperStore (NOT Zellers!).)
Now, there is a guy next to me at the working workstation, keeling on the floor. I love this school!
Anyway, I called Staples and was put through to computers, to wait for the associate there to talk to me. While on hold for an interminably long time, I heard, and I am not making this up:
Sorry I'm not home right now
I'm walking into spiderwebs
So leave a message and I'll call you back
A likely story but
Leave a message and I'll call you back
And it's all your fault
I gotta screen my phone calls
No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phone calls
Sorry I'm not home right now...
Oh, here comes another guy. Hmm... okay, he's gone off in search of a chair. Bah! That's not the rugged Santamarian spirit!
Back to my story. To top it off, after a few minutes of this, I got something like, "We're sorry, but the associate you have requested is unable to take your call. Please leave a message..."
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thoughtboy's words on this subject: "[I've switched] to a less crappy computer with a temporary video card that only gives me 16 colours. As I write this I'm squinting to penetrate a lattice of white and grey passing itself off as light grey, serving to be neither white nor grey nor light grey but rather the shape and pattern of a parking lot inhabited by the entire bird population of the east coast." 