Marcus got word from his mom today that Gary (Marcus' stepdad) got a new job and now they're not coming. Oh, well. I was so looking forward to not working those three days, but I really can't afford to miss any work right now. I suppose it's for the best since there's supposed to be a winter storm moving in the beginning of next week. Taking trips across the open plains this time of year can be tricky.
I've been having money taken out of my paychecks for the last two months that is supposed to be deposited into my new 401K account. I found out today that, as of yet, no such account exists. The stupid owner has been lazy about finding out how to set up a single account that can accept contributions from basically two different companies. I asked him where this money that was witheld is being kept. He says it's in the store's checking accounts. So, it's not doing me a damn bit of good there, is it? He's the one that pushed me to do this, even though my future employment is shaky. It would be really nice to get this resolved before he has to let me go. Granted, 3% of each paycheck plus his supposed "matching contribution" hasn't added up to a fortune yet, but it's missing the point of being retirement savings if it can't grow in a retirement account. Argh, I swear.
I'm finally starting to like "That 80s Show" and now they keep preempting it for stupid, lame stuff like celebrity boxing. I don't care to see Tanya Harding and Paula Jones duking it out. Give me a break.
I did two day's worth of dough so I wouldn't have to drive to town tomorrow. I really wanted to try out the new shaver, but I am so incredibly tired, it would probably be a big mistake. I think I'm going to bed now.
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Somebody found my site today with a Yahoo search for "HEDGEHOG PENCIL HOLDERS." Why on earth would somebody be looking for that? Scary. Maybe the scariest part is I'm result #2.
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Well, I've got another bad Michaels Arts & Crafts Store story. I was talking to a woman at this scrapbooking store today. She was incensed. Michaels always puts these 40% off coupons in their newspaper ads. She wanted to buy a Fiskars paper cutter with her coupon. It is normally around $40. Well, the Fiskars stuff is 25% off in this week's ad. The clerk told her that the coupon couldn't be used on sale merchandise. The woman said to just charge her the regular price and then take off the coupon amount. The clerk then informed her that she was not allowed to do that as it was not the store policy. Well, if that is true, it cost them another sale. The woman was so mad she stormed out. I wonder if it really is the policy or is it just too difficult to figure out how to get the computerized registers to disregard what the scanned price is? What a bunch of idiots. I wonder if I should add that to my list of gripes in the email I send to corporate?
I had a craving today for coffee ice cream. Out of the blue. No warning. I can't even remember the last time I ate coffee ice cream. It used to be my favorite flavor in college. It might have something to do with the old monthly visitor arriving today. Who knows? Anyway, I gave in and got some at the Diamond Shamrock close to work. Mmmmm.
I returned the clippers to PetSmart. I ended up spending more money to get a professional cordless set. These better be awesome or I'm going to be pissed. They have to charge overnight before you can use them, so I'll see how they work tomorrow.
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From my friend, Rev:
Subject: Bill Gates vs. GM
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
- For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
- Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
- Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
- Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
- Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought CarNT, but then you would have to buy more seats.
- Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive-but would run on only five percent of the roads.
- The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
- New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.
- The airbag system would ask "are you sure" before deploying.
- Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, and turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
- GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's Performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
- Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
- You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
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Yesterday I spent the whole day trying to clean off my desk. I've let stuff get so out of control, recently. I hadn't even reconciled my Visa card in three months. I've just been clearing out my receipts in my purse to a box on my desk. Yesterday the box was overflowing, so I figured I'd better clear it out. I had 4 months worth of bill payment stubs that needed to be filed. Man, what a mess. I figured it would take a couple of hours, at most. Six hours later I was still working on it. When I get home from work today, I need to go through the big pile of floppy disks that are scattered all around and label them. That was the bad thing about school -- Tons of stuff on floppies that I really don't need anymore.
The feed store didn't have any clippers. The guy said he could special order some cattle clippers, but they were too expensive. Oh, well. I'll try to return the broken ones to PetSmart today and if they won't take them back, I'll be bitching about it this afternoon.
As you can probably tell, I'm procrastinating about going to work today. Both stores have opening managers on Tuesday and Wednesday that I absolutely can't stand. It figures those are the two biggest dough-making days. Damn the head managers that write the schedules.
Marcus' folks will be here in a week. I'm starting to panic. It's supposed to rain/snow again at the end of the week. How am I supposed to get this house clean when the weather won't cooperate?
Ok, LaDonna, get your butt to work.
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