Thursday, September 27, 2001
|8:00 PM|
Best title for a book all week:
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
I may buy it just for the title alone, or perhaps the fact that dictionary.com's word of the day yesterday was pulled from this book's tender pages.
Stentorian
Work went reasonably well. I solved an issue that would have cost the company $900. One of my over-bosses was stalking around the halls of Dell, and found a printer.(This woman too closely resembles the midwives of System Shock 2 fame, so I can only see her stalking around Dell. The stiff armed walk of terrible, servo-whining evil) She wanted this printer repaired, though all that was really left of it was the Lexmark logo and some metal bits that would confuse 16th century Man. We were bound by contract to fix this hunk of junk, which actually came from the junk pile. I pointed out that this means Dell could, concievably "starfish" their printers. Starfishing would be: Take a chainsaw, cut a printer in half, bring us the halves and demand repairs. 1 printer becomes 2, and it never stops until we destabilize the gravitational balance of the Earth with all the printer, and printer toner. Instead of paying the $900 in repairs and parts, I found a functional printer of the same model on ebay, for $90. I now possess my company's credit card. I have been entrusted with the holy task of winning that printer for less than the cost of a black market kidney.
So, I'm becoming a hero at my job again. This means I should abuse the brownie points earned with a sudden trip.
The damn mood swings are becoming more violent. Right now I feel nothing but love. A bright white emission of "Healing Light" or some such. It's actually kind a of a nice feeling, though that which is left of my rational brain is worried about what a sudden change like that in the space of 2 hours means.
I will soon fix menus and images. Suuuuuure.
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