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- Wed, 16:01: #doctorwho #year50 http://t.co/Oz82fUxuts
- Wed, 17:47: People pocket dial the power company a lot.
- Wed, 21:06: Watching the first #TheCrazyOnes on the DVR. Do they make halfhour one-camera sitcoms any more?
- Wed, 22:25: #AKOTAS update: refusing the journey. http://t.co/WhKCzanH29 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Wed, 23:48: Does Abed on #Community carry a tablet or does he do mobile websearches on his phone?
- Thu, 00:06: Hero of Three Faces update: lampshade. http://t.co/ACgwkD9h9S #community #doctorwho
- Thu, 08:27: I think I'll save the ofher 3Faces script I wrote Tuesday for next week, since tonight I need to put together a Creative Process.
- Thu, 08:29: You can tell I'm in a place of slacking off and taking it easy because I haven't deleted and resent the last tweet because of the typo
- Thu, 08:55: RT @DrJaneChi: Our narrative must include the ways pregnancy can kill or debilitate. That risk must be undertaken freely.
- Wed, 12:39: Difference between Tumblr and LiveJournal: much quicker recognition development of characters from fandoms you don't watch.
- Wed, 14:42: RT @TheEconomist: Barack Obama has given in to a key Republican demand on calculating Social Security benefits http://t.co/Z95Qrf6u
- Wed, 14:45: RT @maddow: Wish I could autotweet this link every time someone ALLCAPS EXCLAIMS faith in this stupid rescue fantasy: http://t.co/t4zOPwbD
- Wed, 14:55: I keep seeing people independently suggesting that the DVDs of The Hobbit need a director's cut where the trilogy is cut down to one film.
- Wed, 14:58: RT @garwboy: The focus is always on what music mass killers listen to, or what video games they play. Never what newspapers they read. Weird, that.
- Wed, 14:59: I'm about seventy five tweets from 12,000. Prolly forget when I get there.
- Wed, 17:09: Blizzard. Home. Must update with the hotspot onstead of library wifi.
- Wed, 17:52: Connected again. Got half the files loaded last time.
- Wed, 17:53: #AKOTAS update: sauce for the turkey. http://t.co/4d8fZ3f1 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Thu, 09:25: I am passionate about Star Trek, and Doctor Who, and fanfiction, and perhaps I am irrational; but, I hope, not rude.
- Thu, 09:42: When I hear an IVR recording saying the customer wants information, I have the (usually unresisted) urge to say aloud, "You won't get it!"
- Thu, 10:34: Opportunity has opened up for me to put in thirteen hours of work today. Won't have to come in Saturday, and less than eight hours tomorrow.
- Thu, 10:39: What happened last summer - lacigreen: I can’t help but notice bout after bout of chaotic uproar on Tumblr, t… http://t.co/xfzrqC3u
- Thu, 12:53: Number strings are the worst IVR recordings to proof. They require above average attention to detail and are twice to ten times longer.
- Thu, 14:38: RT @daibhidc: #Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill could mean life in prison for LGBT people. We've days to stop it. Email the authorities ht ...
- Thu, 16:53: At vet w/big cat. Seemed really sick days ago - better now but still thin. Mighta got into something when she got out last week.
- Thu, 18:27: Cat having tests run and getting diarrhea meds. We may lose cable and internet Monday.
- Thu, 19:04: Cat has colitis.
- Thu, 20:36: Cat is home. There's pills we're going to have to force on her and we're supposed to check whether we have hemorrhoid creme.
- Thu, 21:01: Thursday night is for drawing webcomics, yay. No script yet for AKOTAS or Creative Process, boo.
- Thu, 21:05: "Careful, he's a bomber." #elementary
- Thu, 21:08: The radio voice sounded to me like it said, "Captain. Tinkerbell." #elementary
- Thu, 21:36: Please stop it, people. #DoctorWho was never targeted at "children". It's always been targeted at families.
- Thu, 21:37: Had a phone call, now twenty minutes behind on #Elementary.
- Thu, 22:02: #AKOTAS update: you should hear what Jefferson said on the subject. http://t.co/DLRLZi9x #webcomics #kingarthur
- Thu, 22:08: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: Dudziak tries to help out an ex-WAC who has become a prostitute.
- Thu, 22:44: So much grist for Creative Process gag in the past week, just need a punchline that doesn't sound like sucking around for contributions.
- Thu, 23:05: Okay, now I just have to decide who from the audience of my journal comic to draw in as saying this one's punchline. #firstpersonproblems
- Thu, 23:06: It has to be someone with personal knowledge of webcomics culture. #firsthandproblems
- Thu, 23:09: And, of course, someone who I know what they look like. #firstlookproblems #nowimreaching
- Thu, 23:34: Creative Process uploaded and ready for updating. Put my stepdaughter in it for the first time cuz it shouldn't have been this long.
- Thu, 23:37: So, time for sleeping. Chemo day tomorrow. Later start than usual, though, which only means we could possibly be there till 23:00 or 00:00.
- Fri, 08:51: Creative Process update: gateway. http://t.co/UsBRz94p #webcomics #CreativeProcess
- Fri, 09:37: @GailSimone I'm eating cisbagels with cream cheese. I feel left out.
- Fri, 10:19: Time to pack up for chemo. Have caught up on Tumblr since, even if the wifi is working, the server blocks Tumblr as porn.
- Fri, 11:39: Think I've finally written the AKOTAS gag that rates having Jesus in it. Will take till Christmas to decide.
- Tue, 12:55: GOP social policy: "Don't give a man a fish because then he won't learn to fish. Then close all the fishing schools."
- Tue, 13:18: I just figured out how the last scene between the Doctor and Brian Williams goes. Now I have to draw it. #doctorwho
- Tue, 16:37: lol #Castle palying with the green screen
- Tue, 17:26: @TheOnlyTrout I saw your name at Websnark all the time, but didn't start reading you till LitBrick. #fwiw
- Tue, 17:38: I scripted the Brian WIlliams 3Faces at work and forgot to email it to myself. 3Faces sketch this evening.
- Tue, 20:25: Never twitted yesterday's #AKOTAS update: kinda glad to have missed this part. http://t.co/4uM6gUqa #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 20:26: #AKOTAS update: rather filler than that. http://t.co/Hb7JXHrk #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 20:52: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: In a fit of nostalgia for the MASH, Hawkeye, Trapper John, B.J., Charles and Spearchucker play poker all night.
- Tue, 21:50: #starwars http://t.co/lukmEuMV
- Tue, 22:06: Hero of Three Faces sketches: spies, cute, news. http://t.co/JOPRdEGu
- Wed, 06:20: @hijinksensue For future reference, Bert's hands are operated by wand, not glove. #fwiw
- Wed, 07:36: There's nothing like preferring Coke to coffee for reminding yourself that you did brush your teeth this morning.
- Wed, 07:39: After almost a year, have just transcribed my first IVR recording of a customer complaining that they -don't- need to speak to an agent.
- Wed, 08:44: The days when it was useful to keep my LJ flist in an open browser tab all the time appear to be over.
- Чт, 22:24: #AKOTAS update: harbinger. http://t.co/B30kD7V0 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Чт, 22:27: Hero of Three Faces sketches: checking out Windpows 7 MSPaint. http://t.co/tyOdvD68 #aftermash #startrekvoyager #buffy
- Пт, 07:27: Not going to Dreamwidth http://t.co/Sx1dC3FD
- Пт, 09:34: Every time I stop to make sure I have my nitroglycerin pills with me, I think of Ace. #heartattack #doctorwho
- Пт, 09:44: "Ace, I've got angina. Give me some of that Nitrostat you're not carrying."
- Пт, 09:49: See, Ace would have to carry it, because you can't keep it in a pocket because it'd get too warm; so Ace'd keep it in her sack.
- Пт, 09:50: Is Time Lord angina twice as painful?
- Пт, 10:34: Boy, a lot of people calling a technical assistance IVR get really testy.
- Пт, 13:03: #scifichat Intro: Paul Gadzikowski, writier/cartoonist Arthur, King of Time and Space & The Hero of Three Faces. Lurking from work.
- Пт, 13:07: #scifichat A1: Gateway
- Пт, 13:41: #scifichat I lunched with Pohl once, I think at the last Rivercon c. 2001, cuz a friend knew him. I don't think my stepkids knew who he was.
- Пт, 13:51: #scifichat @nvbinder Point. Is there an alternative?
- Пт, 13:53: #scifichat @jbonnell Is that Mordred from Merlin? I saw Merlin in his credits.
- Пт, 14:11: #scifichat @JLichtenberg I think Radar O'Reilly took that course
- Пт, 14:19: #scifichat A6: What I remember of Gateway was the AI. Part was the alternate sexualities. Is this why it won awards? I dunno.
- Пт, 14:34: #scifichat @sgarnell Depends on whether that was what you were writing already?
- Пт, 14:43: #scifichat I liked Blish's early Star Trek work better, before he learned what the fans wanted and/or was beaten into giving it to them.
- Пт, 14:43: #scifichat Cities In Flight
- Пт, 14:48: #scifichat The only Blish I've read other than the Star Trek was A Case Of Conscience
- Пт, 14:54: #scifichat Very well, I'll hunt up Cities In Flight next time I'm at the library. Did you say it was part one of a series?
- Пт, 15:02: #scifichat @DavidRozansky True to the plays' language?
- Пт, 15:05: Thanks again, #scifichat
- Пт, 22:12: #AKOTAS sketch: Arthur's hair has started to fade, though you can't see it yet. http://t.co/XRnAQgiO #webcomics #kingarthur
- Сб, 10:38: Slept 23:00 to 10:00. Got Saturday back. #newjob
Aaand now the card reader isn't working.
Nov. 10th, 2011 02:33 pmThere's a snack room in the building where I work now, where you can use a credit/debit card. You don't have to have cash. An innovation I didn't realize I'd been waiting for.
Except this afternoon the card reader isn't working. It was earlier today, but not now
There's no attendant and no one else was around. Initially I was tempted to go off with the stuff I'd picked out for lunch, even though I was unable to pay (through no lack on my part of intent or resources); and to come back another time when the reader was working again, check out the same selections, pay, and return them to the racks.
I actually got as far as the elevator bank. Then I thought, "I really, really like this job. I'd hate to lose it after three and a half days over a cheeseburger, a Coke and some Bugles." So I took the stuff back, belatedly noting that the room's corner has one of those ceiling camera globes you see in department stores now, and went without lunch.
- Mon, 18:30: @trinalin Yes, first day down. Everything's going to be all right now.
- Tue, 06:50: @dantheshive I don't watch #BigBangTheory. All I have is conflicting memories from early blog reviews on how stereotypical the nerds are.
- Tue, 07:31: Berlusconi looks like Jack Benny when he smiles.
- Tue, 07:48: I decided over the weekend that I need to shave every day again. #newjob
I got the new job.
Oct. 26th, 2011 04:39 pmI've been working in the call center about fifteen months, which is about how long before that I was unemployed (except for a parttime retail position), and about how long I worked before that at the call center job I lost when the plant closed.
The new job is for a different department of the same company. This job is proofing computer transcripts of customer responses to interactive voice recognition system. When your cable company answering computer asks you to speak your choice between account information or technical issues, if they're our client I may hear what you say.
It's staff instead of production, and the pay and health benefits are better. But there may be an even better benefit than all that. I realized yesterday that both the burnout hiatus/timeskips in AKOTAS's history to date were conceived while I had different call center jobs.
Job interview went well.
Oct. 14th, 2011 06:33 pmI had a job interview today with a different division of the same company as the call center where I work now. This job would be, basically, backstopping the clients' customer service IVRs by listening to and transcribing recordings of customer IVR responses. It would be more pay, and better health coverage; for no actual contact with customers, and no staying after shift for being stuck on a long call that came in two minutes before 17:00. I'd really like that and I think they liked me.
