pisses me off...

...its fucking window-washing day again @ the office...

WHAM WHAM WHAM

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WHAM

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WHAM WHAM

ok, how the hell am I supposed to call someone back

when they don't leave a damn phone number on the damn voicemail?

Some "David Johnson" claiming to be from "Adelphia" (yes, we use them for cable modem, but not cable service) has twice now left a voicemail on my home # asking to call him back but with no phone number or other means to get back to him.  the customer service line at adelphia (the nationwide 888 number) can't find any record and they say the local adelphia office no longer accepts incoming calls (a STUPID policy if ever there was one).  billing can at least tell me that its not a problem with the account so chances are the guy's just trying to sell me cable service i don't need, but still that's REALLY stupid customer relations, especially if the guy's in sales.

3 times one feels old

1. when you visit a doctor.  any doctor.  for any reason.
2. when you ache and there is nothing you did to make it ache but it aches anyways.
3. when you're around kids 20 years younger than you.

that pretty much covers most of it.

observations from an occurance of #3 just a little while ago:

1. its "dating" again.  back in the day, it was "going out" because dating implied such a commitment!
2. girls are called "chicks" again.  "babes" has retreated yet again.  I can't remember - did "dolls" come before or after "chicks"?

anybody out there with a my.yahoo.com home page

getting sick to death of this damn "Globe Probe" commericial making all that racket?

onlin ads rule #1: NO FUCKING AUDIO

sheesh.

too damn educated...

on a discussion about kids recognizing "wrong" chords in a progression (because by western standards they're "dissonant"), I wrote the following

Cognitive Daily: What kids know about music (updated with poll):

wrong is such a loaded term, implying a sense of musical rightness to which the wars over that were fought over 100 years ago between the Wagnerites and the Brahmsians, and in the end the Russians won.

(that last bit was an intentional musical-history joke, as the Russian works stayed on the sidelines and then exploded in popularity around 1910 just as the "war" was coming to an end with the deaths of many of the composers of the German traditions).