Ramble On

This just happened to me at work. To set the stage, I had to call a phone company to inquire about the telephone numbers at Wedmore Place and how to switch our toll-free line over to the other building. Phone recording : Hello, you have reached Cavalier Telephone company. Please state the telephone number of your account. Me: 7-5-7-2-5-8-0-8-9-9 Phone recording : 7-9-7-3-5-2-0-5-9-9 (Pause) Is that correct? Me : Not even close. Phone recording : You can speak to me like you would a normal phone operator . Me : I don't think you want me to do that . Phone Recording: Please state the telephone number of your account. Me : 7-5-7-2-5-8-0-8-9-9 Phone Recording : 7-3-6-3-2-9-0-5-8-8 (Pause ) Is that correct? Me: Are you SERIOUS?? Phone Recording : You can speak to me like you would a normal phone operator. Me: Can I also punch you in the face? Phone Recording: Please state the telephone number of your account. Me: Heaven help us . 7-5-7-2-5-8-0-8-9-9

I was thinking today how awesome it would be to work from home based on a series of articles CNN has been posting online. Then they posted this Dilbert cartoon which I found pretty funny:

Only because I work in an air-conditioned office and my apartment has an ambient temperature of about 50 degrees can I say that for about the first minute after I go outside does that blast of summer heat feel good. It embodies everything that I love about summer. The slight laziness that everyone feels entitled to because there's no school, it's too hot to do a lot outside that doesn't involve a water park. The feeling of the hot sun shining on you. The sensation that the beach is right around the corner. It's really the beach that I think of when I feel that summer heat. And when I say "the beach" I am thinking of only one place which embodies all that those words mean to me: Sunset Beach, North Carolina. I don't feel like a year has actually happened until I get to Sunset with my family. This year will be the first year in a very long time that I won't be in attendance for the whole thing, or possibly even any of it. And I'm starting to realize

I don't think I will ever forget the look on that face. That is far and away the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my professional life. I can't help feeling horrible. Blah. I need to stay away from the ice cream case when I go grocery shopping tonight or I might try and drown myself in mint chocolate chip. My one consolation is that it didn't go as badly as it did in that episode of The Office.

I'll tell you what's awesome. It's a Tuesday night and I don't have to go to work tomorrow. Collin (my 9 yr. old new best friend for the sole reason that I have a bike and he has one too) and I are going on a bike ride to the duck pond at 10am. I have a new life goal: to compete in the world series of pop culture and to get respectably far, (at least past the first round), and I have people willing to help me accomplish this RIDICULOUS life goal. I laughed a lot today, and I like to laugh, especially when things are stressful and crazy like they are at work. I love barbeques and I get to go to one tomorrow. I broke one hundred when I went bowling last night. (Then proceeded to bowl a 46 in the next game... but that's not the point). I own Animaniacs on DVD... I'm sorry, but that is awesome. I have a pool in my backyard. this has been an unrealized dream of mine ever since I knew that you could have pools in your backyard and that I probably wouldn't ever.