Mid-week Musings

Heading out this morning I was bombarded by sleet. It was as if a small army had taken it upon itself to try to slow down the movement of traffic and raise the hope of school children everywhere with its attack. It was not to be. Traffic still moved and children still went to school. The snow that followed was pretty, even though it was not long lasting. The rain for the rest of the day just made everything cold and wet. Yuck!

I was steadily busy all day at the office. First thing this morning I was surprised by an email for yet another teleconference that was going on. Wow! The biggest and 'bestest' thing that happened this afternoon was the arrival of the Dell technician to work on our server. What should have been a very simple operation turned into a minor nightmare. As the story goes, the new DVD player for the server that was purchased last week (it took 3 hours to make the purchase) turned out to be for a different server, not ours. The tech spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone trying to track down what had gone wrong. He talked to people in California and Panama. How and why he got connect to Panama we may never know. [Sort of like the old Tootie Pop commericals, "And the world may never know."]

Finally after much fanagling we was able to pass me off to someone who was compentent to handle the situation. Although it was made much more challenging than it should have because the phone call kept getting dropped. The representative did have my number, thank goodness, so she was able to call me back. Come on a dropped call is one thing, but six times is a whole other thing. In the end they were able to save the company over $120.00 on the new part. I guess you could call it the silver lining at the end of a three hour phone marathon.

The evening teleconference happily turned out to be much shorter than anticipated. I was able to have a few minutes afterward to talk with Roz. Normally neither one of us has much time to just chat. Work keeps both of us hopping.

Here's to a speedy Thursday, although it is going to go long. After hours tomorrow the office is having a reception for patients to celebrate Dr. Martin's 25th year of doing implants. In addition to that there are two teleconferences. One at 7 p.m. followed by one at 10 p.m. EST. Busy, busy.

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Thought for the Day: A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.

Cow's Tail
A man staggered into a hospital with a concussion, multiple bruises, two black eyes, and a five iron wrapped tightly around his throat.

Naturally, the doctor asked him, 'What happened to YOU?'

'Well, I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife, when at a difficult hole, we both sliced our golf balls into a field of cattle. And I noticed one of the cows had something white at its rear end.'

'I walked over, lifted its tail, and sure enough, there was a golf ball with my wife's monogram on it - stuck right in the middle of the cow's fanny.'

'Still holding the cow's tail up, I yelled to my wife, 'Hey, this looks like yours!''

'I don't remember much after that.'