In today's adventure, Seagull Boy waited on the phone, on hold, to be taken off a mailing list. You probably know how aggravating this can be, but I think I've figured out a way around it. I believe I have found a way to make waiting on hold fun. (I fully expect a Nobel prize for this.) What you do is, at the start of the wait time, have a few options for the type of music you want to listen to. "For John Tesh, press 1. For Weird Al Yankovic, press 2. For Anthrax, featuring Celine Dion, press 3. etc." So right off the bat, you're listening to something of your own choosing, which helps. Then, if the music gets interrupted by that jerk saying how important your call is to them, you could press buttons to have things happen to that person, and they wouldn't come back. "Your call is important to us. You are an inherently valuable customer to us. We worship the ground you walk on. We'd do anything for you, your highness, except perhaps pick up the phone. We think you're just wonderf..." (Seagull Boy presses 3: 'pack of hyenas'.) "... oh ... oh no ... my god, not the hyenas again! No, please, anything but the..." (Screams, sounds of smarmy individual getting mauled by a couple dozen hyenas, followed by John Tesh coming back on.) That's also how you'd change the music. (Seagull Boy tires of John Tesh, so presses 7: Godzilla attack...)
All that waiting has made me hungry. I go now, to hunt and to gather. Wish me luck.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006
First post
Hello world!
(That's a hint as to what I do for a living. Sort it out on your own time.)
Anyway, this is my first post. I haven't really grasped the concept of blogging yet, so I'm going to go eat breakfast while I think about what to post. (Initial guess: a description of what I will have had for breakfast.)
Okay, I'm back, and I've officially had Nibs for breakfast. They're leftover from the movies last night, I went to see V For Vendetta, which was rather good. The only thing is, I sat on the opposite side of the theatre from where I usually sit, and it threw off my equilibrium or something. I now have a sore neck. Curses. I guess I'm one of those people who is best looking left. Kind of like someone who doesn't like turning left in a car, and makes all right turns to get where they're going. I tried that in my apartment the other day (without the car), and it makes you pretty dizzy, if you do it quickly. However, I was told it was at least mildly entertaining, so that's all right.
I forget what the point of this post was now, so I'd better quit.
(That's a hint as to what I do for a living. Sort it out on your own time.)
Anyway, this is my first post. I haven't really grasped the concept of blogging yet, so I'm going to go eat breakfast while I think about what to post. (Initial guess: a description of what I will have had for breakfast.)
Okay, I'm back, and I've officially had Nibs for breakfast. They're leftover from the movies last night, I went to see V For Vendetta, which was rather good. The only thing is, I sat on the opposite side of the theatre from where I usually sit, and it threw off my equilibrium or something. I now have a sore neck. Curses. I guess I'm one of those people who is best looking left. Kind of like someone who doesn't like turning left in a car, and makes all right turns to get where they're going. I tried that in my apartment the other day (without the car), and it makes you pretty dizzy, if you do it quickly. However, I was told it was at least mildly entertaining, so that's all right.
I forget what the point of this post was now, so I'd better quit.
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