Thursday night
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same_skyCouldn't post this last night due to internet suckiness, so here it is.. yesterday's entry.
I think I'm finally caught up on the interview stuff. If I missed something, then it's cause I'm ditzy, not because I'm trying to be rude. This has been fun, but coming up with the questions has been hard!
I have to be home tomorrow afternoon for the cable guy to come out. M finally got fed up last night at our fickle internet connection and called to gripe at them. We have a connection.. sometimes. It'll work fine for three minutes and then be out for five minutes, on for sixteen seconds and off for fifteen minutes, on for an hour, off for twenty minutes. (This does not make LJing any more reliable or any easier to use!) The tech said that there was an 80% packet loss at our end, and neither of them seemed to have seen this problem before. There's no rhyme or reason in it, and there's certainly not a consistent speed. It only does this occasionally, to make things harder. Sometimes, it'll happen for a while.. say, a couple of weeks, and then it'll clear up and work okay for months. They've been out to the house before for this issue, and usually they either a) don't show up b) come out, replace a cable or other hardware part, say "It's fixed!" and leave without solving anything or c) come out, look around and say, "Hmmm. Seems to be working now." and leave. That's why I'm annoyed about being home tomorrow afternoon. (Slightly annoyed. It will be nice to have the afternoon off work, but I won't get paid for that time, of course, which is not so great.) If they would actually fix something, I'd be glad for them to come out, but they're not going to. Gee, aren't I pessimistic tonight?
I was going to look for and then link to an entry I wrote last year relating to this subject, but I can't, of course, because we don't currently have an internet connection. It was pretty funny, though, because three days after we had been stood up by our cable guy, a customer service chick called routinely to ask if we were satisfied with our cable service call. Rofl. She got an earful, let me tell you!
Today was exceptionally slow at the store, but I wasn't bored, which made it all good. I hate the afternoons, usually, cause there's nothing much to do other than wait for people to come in. I spent much of the day stringing beans. I really don't mind it, and I really like having something to do with my hands. We had a bunch of leftovers.. beans that got rusty or generally didn't sell. I strung and broke 13.26 pounds of green beans today... a lot, in other words.. especially considering that I don't even like beans. I did have some help, but I did the majority alone. M can't believe how well the beans sell. People are obsessed with the 1/2 runner green beans. We had pole beans last week, but they barely sold at all. They're somewhat high ($1.59/lb), and people seem to be completely oblivious to it and cheerily buy large quantities without flinching at the price. I, on the other hand, don't pay $9 for steak, much less vegetables. Oh, well.
You wanna know what's weird? Apples. Apples are weird. Did you know that we're selling last year's apples? Apples aren't in season yet, so what we get in has been stored somewhere, somehow, for the winter. And the weirdest thing of all is that when we get a fresh box of good apples, they're typically very fresh. Firm, pleasantly scented, nice color. But they're months old. My poor, overworked brain has a difficult time wrapping itself around this apple information. And speaking of apples.. people, stop asking me if we have June apples. We don't. When we do, we'll probably put them out in the apple bins instead of squirreling them away in the back where no one can buy them but the special people who happen to ask for them. This has put me almost almost in the mood to write the next installment of As the Produce Turns, but I'm really more in the mood to end this post and get ready for bed, and besides, I hate to ramble about fruit all the time. Anyway, g'night folks!
I think I'm finally caught up on the interview stuff. If I missed something, then it's cause I'm ditzy, not because I'm trying to be rude. This has been fun, but coming up with the questions has been hard!
I have to be home tomorrow afternoon for the cable guy to come out. M finally got fed up last night at our fickle internet connection and called to gripe at them. We have a connection.. sometimes. It'll work fine for three minutes and then be out for five minutes, on for sixteen seconds and off for fifteen minutes, on for an hour, off for twenty minutes. (This does not make LJing any more reliable or any easier to use!) The tech said that there was an 80% packet loss at our end, and neither of them seemed to have seen this problem before. There's no rhyme or reason in it, and there's certainly not a consistent speed. It only does this occasionally, to make things harder. Sometimes, it'll happen for a while.. say, a couple of weeks, and then it'll clear up and work okay for months. They've been out to the house before for this issue, and usually they either a) don't show up b) come out, replace a cable or other hardware part, say "It's fixed!" and leave without solving anything or c) come out, look around and say, "Hmmm. Seems to be working now." and leave. That's why I'm annoyed about being home tomorrow afternoon. (Slightly annoyed. It will be nice to have the afternoon off work, but I won't get paid for that time, of course, which is not so great.) If they would actually fix something, I'd be glad for them to come out, but they're not going to. Gee, aren't I pessimistic tonight?
I was going to look for and then link to an entry I wrote last year relating to this subject, but I can't, of course, because we don't currently have an internet connection. It was pretty funny, though, because three days after we had been stood up by our cable guy, a customer service chick called routinely to ask if we were satisfied with our cable service call. Rofl. She got an earful, let me tell you!
Today was exceptionally slow at the store, but I wasn't bored, which made it all good. I hate the afternoons, usually, cause there's nothing much to do other than wait for people to come in. I spent much of the day stringing beans. I really don't mind it, and I really like having something to do with my hands. We had a bunch of leftovers.. beans that got rusty or generally didn't sell. I strung and broke 13.26 pounds of green beans today... a lot, in other words.. especially considering that I don't even like beans. I did have some help, but I did the majority alone. M can't believe how well the beans sell. People are obsessed with the 1/2 runner green beans. We had pole beans last week, but they barely sold at all. They're somewhat high ($1.59/lb), and people seem to be completely oblivious to it and cheerily buy large quantities without flinching at the price. I, on the other hand, don't pay $9 for steak, much less vegetables. Oh, well.
You wanna know what's weird? Apples. Apples are weird. Did you know that we're selling last year's apples? Apples aren't in season yet, so what we get in has been stored somewhere, somehow, for the winter. And the weirdest thing of all is that when we get a fresh box of good apples, they're typically very fresh. Firm, pleasantly scented, nice color. But they're months old. My poor, overworked brain has a difficult time wrapping itself around this apple information. And speaking of apples.. people, stop asking me if we have June apples. We don't. When we do, we'll probably put them out in the apple bins instead of squirreling them away in the back where no one can buy them but the special people who happen to ask for them. This has put me almost almost in the mood to write the next installment of As the Produce Turns, but I'm really more in the mood to end this post and get ready for bed, and besides, I hate to ramble about fruit all the time. Anyway, g'night folks!
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Date: 2003-06-06 11:18 am (UTC)1) Do you live more in reality or fantasy?
2) Has working at a produce market changed the way you eat?
3) What's your fondest childhood Christmas memory?
4) How much time each day do you spend on the computer? Are you okay with that?
5) If you were being punished in some far-off cruel world and you had to choose one body part to be cut off of yourself, which would you choose and why?
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Date: 2003-06-06 11:33 am (UTC)