Timewaster's Guide Archive

Didn't they make a movie out of that book with Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery?

You are correct.

I upgraded to Expert, so something cool had to come from it =).

Also, I do not fear the circus. If I give enough people hugs they tend to distance themselves from me.

"If you love someone you should set them on fire."

~The Dead Milkmen

This was pretty much the most awesome thing come out since he made Firelfy. I laughed. I cried. I ordered pizza.

Gah! How many levels of this career are there? I asked my Sensei to teach me about the martial arts. All I was told was to tend to the camels. Five years later dealing with camels and poo is getting a little old. If this is another Miyagi style trick I am definitely gonna have to mount a rail gun on this camel Metal Slug style.

Mom's definitely get a great advantage with being home consistently. Are there during the wonderful awe-inspiring moments. I grew up having a single mom so I had to take on a share of the help. I would be upset at childhood lost, but my sisters and I definitely are closer than I think most siblings get to after a lifetime. The first indication of this was when the youngest of my sisters said her first word. It was my own name. I honestly didn't know what to do. One of the few I think I have ever been truly speechless.

My Jobs:

A) Location Manager at a major rental car company in Sedona, AZ.
B) Aspiring Grad Student.

Anyone who has ever worked in a customer service oriented position can understand where most of my grief comes from. The major difference with rental cars though, is that people expect nothing ever to happen to one. Normally most people don't really head or worry greatly what happens to their own vehicles, but with a rental every little piece is a sign the whole car could explode.

The common joke is how badly people treat rental vehicles. Somehow they still expect them to be impervious to every known malady. For instance; when someone runs over a nail, it means that we gave them a car with faulty tires. It is our company and not the nail that caused the problem. I, on a daily basis, am told that I am personally ruining someones vacation.

I am not sure what other job exists where it would seem reasonable for a customer to demand someone stay 3 or 4 hours after the location closes to help assist them. At the end of one of my shift I was told it was unreasonable to close in an hour since the customer had just sat down to dinner.

Every so often I dream of being back doing tech support. At least all my stories of frustration during those days ended with everyone laughing =).

Currently, I am trying to figure how I want to continue my education. Computational Linguistics sounds rather interesting to me at this point in time. I get to go back to working with nothing but geeks again. The only catch is I need to re-learn programming and study for the GRE. All very boring and mundane stuff that I am having a hard time gaining motivation for. The fact that my current job is short staffed and the salaried person is the one needs to pick up the slack isn't helping.

That would put you in the line of fire though. We can't have just after you washed everything off.

A person is never too dead for a wonderful dose of deus ex-machina.

Does that mean J.K. Rowling will help to write the next book?