yarr!

Ahoy me hearties! Today be yer chance to raise the Jolly Roger and enjoy some grog whilst ye raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer yer weasely black guts out!

Aye! Ye guessed it!

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!

don't you hate it when...

...YOU are the idiot of the situation?

I moved into my new flat exactly 2 weeks ago today (8/31). When I called BT to ask them to move my telephone service to join me they said they could switch the service over on the following Monday (9/4). There was no service technician required, that's just...well, that's just when it would happen.

(Did anyone else get visions/memories of a Brian Regan bit just then? "Can you flip it now? Can I come and flip it?")

Oh, and by the way, my broadband service (also provided by BT) wouldn't be switched over until Friday (9/8) because BT needs "at least 7 days notice to move broadband services". (Whatever.)

I don't use the land line telephone all that much, so I noticed on Friday night (9/8) when I tried to set up the broadband that neither was working. I couldn't manage to remember to call BT for help during working hours until Monday (9/11), at which point they decided it best to send out a technician, whose first available appointment was "sometime between 8 and 12" on Thursday (today, 9/14). Great. I'll take the morning off and stroll into the office at lunchtime. No worries.

This morning, at the very same moment my arse landed on my desk chair (7:45am), I remembered the appointment with BT and cried aloud:

"DAMMIT!"

Now I get to start all over again with BT, and I have nobody to blame but myself.

mark your calendars!

September 29 is
Office Olympics Day!

There's still time to prepare! Recruit fellow team-mates...challenge rival departments...create charts and spreadsheets for multi-heat events...design the gold, silver and bronze medals!

Come on, people! Give that competitive spirit a pair of wings!

it's not all about me...

...even though almost every time I check out John's blog, I think it is.

See, John has some whiz-bang super-cool something going on in the depths of his blog engine that knows it's me every time I visit his blog (since I've posted a comment in the past, maybe?), so every time I check it out to see if he's written anything recently (and he hasn't...shame), his blog says "Welcome Back, Dovie!"

The very first thing I see is "Dovie!" in bold letters - and I think, for about 0.5 seconds, that he's written a whole blog entry about me...but he hasn't.

Oh, the dissappointment!!

the wales / johnson soundtrack

Well...since Dennis outed them here, I figure this is a good place to create the Dennis Wales / Laurie Johnson soundtrack.

My suggestions, in no particular order:

• "Angel Eyes" - Jeff Healey / John Hiatt (Master Hits / The Best of...)
• "Over My Head - The Fray (How to Save a Life)
• "White T-Shirt" - Tara Leigh Cobble (Things You Can't Stop...)
• "Harbor" - ViennaTeng (Warm Strangers)
• "Strange Condition" - Pete Yorn (Music for the Morning After)
• "All About Our Love" - Sade (Lovers Rock)
• "Falling into Love" - Dana Glover (Testimony)
• "Heart of Mine" - Norah Jones & The Peter Malek Group (New York City)
• "Don't Give Up On Me" - Solomon Burke (title track)
• "When Love Comes to Town" - U2 & BB King (The Best of 1980 - 1990)
  
  

my montage soundtrack

If memory serves, most music montages are only long enough to warrant the use of one song (edited for flow, even). However, I do like the idea of a soundtrack, because in real life...the montage does last a long time, doesn't it?

Therefore, I will list below several songs I know are on the soundtrack...even though there are others that will inevitably be added as time goes on.

• "This is Your Life" - Switchfoot (The Beautiful Letdown)
• "Where Will I Be" - Emmylou Harris (Wrecking Ball)
• "Hope to Carry On" - Caedmon's Call (Caedmon's Call)
• "She Must and Shall Go Free" - Derek Webb (title track)
• "I'm Alright" - Kenny Loggins (various albums)
• "A Foggy Day (In London Town)" - Michael Buble (It's Time)
• "I Like the Way You Move" - Bodyrockers (Bodyrockers)
• "Oh Eh" - Gipsy Kings (The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings)
• "Springtime Indiana" - Sandra McCracken (Gypsy Flat Road)
• "All That You Have is Your Soul" - Tracy Chapman (Crossroads '89)

music montage

you know how in the movies you'll see some dramatic scene followed by a music montage that shows you all sorts of bits and pieces of "life after the scene" during which the person in the dramatic situation gets her stuff together, recovers from the drama, or goes into a really productive time in life that's not really all that fabulously exciting but is full of that 'good life stuff that just needs to be done'?

yeah, well...i think i'm about to enter a music montage.

i like these moments...er, montages.

in fact, when people ask me how things are going when i'm in one of these seasons, i think i'm going to start saying "i'm in a montage" instead of saying "oh, nothing terribly exciting" because although the bits of the montage aren't exciting in and of themselves - i mean, there's a reason they put all that stuff to music and just show you the highlights - the fact that i'm in a montage actually is exciting.

friday funnies - or not

I know I've just totally plagiarized the "friday funnies" title from Laurie, but she inspired me...and she's way funnier than me, so I don't think I'm stealing any thunder here or anything.

I started this post on Tuesday thinking the list would create itself. In the end, I only came up with three things to include, which I happen to think are funny...but also happen to have been said by ME.

• "These guys are NOT Pennsylvania Dutch." (okay, well, this was me quoting something I read on the Internet, but still...)
• "Let's review the technical definition of homelessness, shall we?"
• "I'm reading this book that keeps making me think of you; it's called 'Don't Waste Your Life'."
  

I'm not even sure if they're funny. I mean...I think they were at the time...but when you look back on the funniest moments of the week, that you can actually remember (by the way, how DO you do that Laurie?), shouldn't there be some sort of warning light that goes off when they're all quotes of yourself?