11232200.1That's right, 2200. I'ven been doing this so long that I noticed something significant tonight: one of the first things to go for Old People is multi-tasking. Just to prove that to you, I should leave this entry as originally typed with my 2:40.10 playlist going. Loud, of course.
I wonder how many music aficionados of today, people with thousands of tunes on their ipods, remember the band Bread. I looked them up on Wikipedia tonight and guess what, the entry was entirely BREAD, the eating variety, with no cross-references to the group. Seems they broke up about thirty-five years ago. I hadn't heard. Guess if you're going to try and be "with it," you need to keep up better with the happenings. Macherat
11232199.1Tunz. I'm listening to the music from Witness, the movie, the scene where they're building the barn. Always puts me where I like to be. And loud, real loud. Surprised I can even type. Anyway, the music was composed and played on an synthesizer, laid down digitally and I'm now getting those sounds through a computer. Furthermore, I bought the electrons which produce this song online, using my Discovercard. Nothing material ever changed hands. The whole process would make an android ecstatic .. or whatever would pass for that.
Earlier, I noticed the DVD player connected to the main television had died. Imagine that; I didn't think this could happen to digital and solid state, Made In China and all. The machine only cost me $25 about six years ago .. so, I went online and bought a new one on Amazon. Typed in digits. Typed in money. It will be here Wednesday. Then I can watch last season's Dexter. Quirky serial killer. Digital, of course. The show, not the killing. Murder isn't digital yet. Macherat
11232198.1So.. A very little manic research turned this up,
and no, I don't feel a bit guilty about copying the information right off their page and putting it on mine. "Right Media" operates YIELDMANAGER, that gawdawful popup which no computer power on earth can kill, and Yahoo just bought Right Media.
See, when the sharpies sit down and look at the figures on P&L and just how they're doin' -- the one thing they never take into consideration is Ill Will. That's because they don't teach Ill Will in business school. Funny, because we know exactly what Ill Will is, don't we? It's when you don't buy.Macherat
11232196.1A small temporary victory. I had the beginning of another nasty fight with Company A yesterday. By "beginning" I mean that it quickly became obvious that a company which contracts out their Customer Service department cannot be battled in a conventional fashion. All those young people on the other end of the phone are thoroughly used to listening to irate customers. You cannot get to them. I quit before getting mad and saved a few angina pills.
However, on another front. I have to tell you this one. I ordered a bookshelf, one that it turned out required a huge number of screws for "some assembly required." I told you this part already - not enough screws came in the package. Long, short .. they offered to send me another complete bookcase since they weren't equipped to "do screws," as the tepid young snot put it, and if I would kindly repackage and return the other one, the one with the missing screws. Follow me so far? Yes, this really happened!! I was to have in hand two complete products after having paid for only one, violating the cardinal rule of mail order.
For awhile, they didn't get it. But today I received the first stirrings, as their machine sent me a "Do not reply to this e-mail" communication about the second shipment. Estimated arrival date: Sept. 13th. Today is October 9th. The machine is confused: Package was shipped. We have no money. What could possibly have happened?
