On the other hand...OMG, how come people don't know how to use conference lines? I can hear your heavy breathing. It's all I can hear. We *all* hate your hold music. Always. Every time. We can also hear your screaming children. Typing. Beeps of incoming email. That's about all that's not really distracting.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2012 9:07:15 am PST #23303 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scrappy - Feb 22, 2012 9:08:57 am PST #23304 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Happy happy HAPPY birthday to the wonderful, caring and totes adorbs Laura!
Consuela - Feb 22, 2012 9:14:56 am PST #23305 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
OMG, how come people don't know how to use conference lines?
Did I tell the story about the 30-person telecon I was on a few weeks ago, in which someone put the call on HOLD? We had ten minutes of John Philip Sousa before the meeting organizers gave up.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2012 9:29:56 am PST #23306 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did I tell the story about the 30-person telecon I was on a few weeks ago, in which someone put the call on HOLD? We had ten minutes of John Philip Sousa before the meeting organizers gave up.
Luckily the company that hosts our calls has operators that are pretty snappy about disconnecting the person with the music. It saves about a call a month, when the person doesn't come back in a couple minutes acting all sheepish saying "Oh, was that the hold button?" YES AND WE HATESSS IT ALWAYSSSS.
My home phone was specifically chosen to have a mute button. Most phones have them these days, and I can't recommend them highly enough.
Jesse - Feb 22, 2012 9:33:16 am PST #23307 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Luckily the company that hosts our calls have operators that are pretty snappy about disconnecting the person with the music.
Ooh, that's brilliant.
I was on a huge webinar the other day that somehow got patched into someone else's call. That was kind of awesome, in a terrible way. And it must have been that, since all lines were muted by the concall company, aside from the presenters, and it definitely wasn't them...
Sophia Brooks - Feb 22, 2012 9:36:12 am PST #23308 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You know what opera term I hate- "Sitzprobe" [link] I am not so fond of "wandel-probe" either.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2012 9:39:07 am PST #23309 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I officially don't hate any opera terms, but I'm willing to side with you on principle, Sophia.
SuziQ - Feb 22, 2012 9:44:50 am PST #23310 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have had quite the productive morning. I saw my orthopod this morning and I will be having shoulder surgery on March 8th. It is outpatient and I should have full use of my arm pretty much after surgery. Yay?
The imaging office is downstairs from the orthopedic office, so I stopped into schedule a mammogram (I try to do them around my birthday and I'm a over a week late). Well, guess what? They were able to do it right then, so squish, squash, boom, I was done.
Now I'm trying to get caught up on work and figure out what work I need to shuffle so I can take off a couple of days for the surgery.
Liese S. - Feb 22, 2012 9:45:51 am PST #23311 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, that's a nice one, Laura, I was just looking at that one at Bass Pro on our last trip.
Amy - Feb 22, 2012 9:49:22 am PST #23312 of 30001
Because books.
squish, squash, boom
I'm going to repeat that to myself when I go. Which I should do ... any day now.
1-800-Contacts managed to send me the wrong contacts, because when they verified the prescription with the doctor, they FAXED THE WRONG ONE. So I was pretty sure my eyes had gone completely bad earlier. That was fun.