I decided to go for a winter walk this morning down to the South Side to get my coffee fix for the day. Along the way on the Furnace Trail I saw a dead deer, a cute little young one. I couldn’t believe it and it shocked me a bit as I did not notice until I was right upon it. It was off to the side by the wall. Looking for tracks, I was wondering which way it came from but saw none. Then I realized just what happened to this poor animal. Up above the trail is the 376 expressway or the “parkway” to locals. It is at least 20 feet or more up the cement wall to cars whizzing by. It became sadly apparent that the deer made it from the other side, crossing six lanes of traffic going in both directions only to fall to its death after first getting safely across , by jumping the guardrail after which it is a straight drop down onto the trail. There is no hill, trees, or other ground to break a fall, just straight down. I called the city “311″ line to report it but had to leave a message. Needless to say it made my walk a bit sad seeing it laying there in the snow.
An example of the fuck tards I have to deal with, and this is only one from today, because there was more….
Guy calls in and talks to a teller about getting a new coupon book for his loan mailed to him. OK no problem, do it all the time as people lose theirs or accidently throw them away. And he has already made this months payment so it is not even a big rush type issue. She tells him she will order it and in the mean time will mail him a couple blank coupons he can use if he was to need them, they should arrive in two or three days. Good customer service right? Sure it is, problem solved. Well this ass-hat can’t possibly fathom why it would take 2-3 days instead of one when he lives in the neighborhood of the branch. I mean god forbid he walks his ignornat ass two streets over and gets them or even waits to see if he needs them, remember we ordered him a new set. So anyway she explains that our branch mail goes to our mail room and gets postage put on and is mailed out. We don’t keep stamps in the office. Good explanation right? A big corporation has a central mailroom to handle mail, sounds reasonable right? Not to this fat headed bundle of stupid. So of course he asks for a manger. That’s where I come in.
Before picking up the phone I get the lowdown from teller and am prepared to just tell him I will put a stamp on the envelope and drop in a mailbox. I have a few of my own I use for personal mail and don’t mind using one for him, kind of pick your battles during a long day type thing. But as soon as I pick up he starts telling me how absurd it is we can’t use petty cash to buy stamps for use at the branch. He said the word “absurd” six or seven times. He just went on and on not letting me say anything. I mean really, is this the type of thing you get excited and so passsionate about? Some people are just so screwed up. So finally it goes like this:
Ass-hat: Is there a main customer service number I can lodge a complaint?
Me: Sure, it’s 1-800-xxx-xxxx
Ass-hat: Oh great that line, I will have better luck finding a bull with tits out on Forbes Avenue than getting any help on that number.
Me: Ok sir, have a good night *click* — I just hung up on him.
Seriously, a bull with tits…
I think I will use that next time I have to change my company password.
From a report on CNN.com
President Barack Obama sought to dampen Republicans’ complaints about the Democrats’ massive economic revival package Friday with an offer to listen carefully to their ideas, too. But he gave no guarantees he’d accept any — and made a point of reminding them who won the November election…..
….At one point in Friday’s meeting in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, GOP Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona objected to a proposal.
Obama replied in a friendly but firm way that an election had been held in November, “and I won. I will trump you on that,” according to several people briefed by participants who took notes.
HAHAHAHA. Serioulsy, the GOP needs to step back and let Obama and the Dem’s try their solutions because they had 8 years to focus on teh American people and failed.
Slept in - a little bit / Went to Caribou Coffee / Read NY Times / Meter ran out got parking ticket
Browsed at REI / Took Thunder walking in the park / Vaccum and dust the house
Chased finnigan around the house
Finnigan then became the chaser and pursued me for a while, attacking calves, he’s faster than me
Grocery shopping / Play online / Pay bills, money bye-bye
Now what to make for dinner?
Thursday dose of Finnigan
He likes to play with my old ties
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My name is Brent…and I’m a gasoholic. I have been using gasoline as my primary fuel for 20 years. I’m trying to stop but it’s hard.
This morning I head down to my favorite morning spot, Caribou Coffee. Fearing I would be longer than the parking meters allow, I turn into the parking garage conveniently located next door. I veer down to my usual row of spaces and see this in each of the spots in my normal row:
Now I believe it is important to promote “green” thinking. But parking spaces? Especially the best spaces? Do people deserve special privileges because they choose to drive or can afford to purchase a “green” car. They already have tax breaks, which I do support. I can’t afford to buy a hybrid right now but I do recycle my garbage, should someone throw rose petals in my path as I walk? Seriously now, for all we know the guy driving the Prius owns a coal company and his second vehicle is a Hummer. That person behind the wheel of the hybrid Ford Escape could be a huge litter bug and kick puppies for a hobby. So to be on the safe side, how about we save the close spaces for people who really need and deserve them, handicapped and preggo’s retaining water in their feet.
My name is Brent, I have a V-6, and I want to park closer to my coffee shop.
Yeah it’s that cold. Right now it is 3 degrees and minus 10 windchill. I still say Yay winter!
So I get to work today with a “can-do” attitude intending to get a lot of work done, work that has piled up. And believe me it is rare that I have any kind of “can do” or anything close to a positive attitude at work. But I did slack off yesterday opting to work on surfing the internet “employee morale” and “customer relations” rather than tedious paperwork. I did this figuring I would get a lot done today. Well can anything ever go as I plan? Nope. I walk in and open up my email to see that I am being audited by our internal audit department from headquarters. So there was several hours of research and gathering paperwork to be faxed and emailed while my pile of crap paperwork grew even larger. Seriously I may have to take over the empty office next to mine just to stash the paper.
Oh well, the weekend is here and its three days !!
…to Schenley Park I go. Finally we are getting some decent snow. I had a morning meeting downtown today and rather than going back to the office afterwards, I decided to go home and take Thunder hiking in the park. The trails are beautiful and Thunder loves the snow.
You would think after 8 terribly long stupid moronic dumbass years of Bush, I would have learned not to read about him while eating. I just lose my appetite every time as the mere viewing or hearing his words make me almost toss chunks.
In his farewell (halleluiah) press conference. He DEFENDS his actions of the past two terms. Seriously if there is anyone that should just leave quietly, it’s him. But no, he has to torture me too with his insane babbling. He says that not finding any WMD’s was a “disappointment.” No, it was actually a huge fuck-up that embarrassed you and your administration. And he says they should not have hung up the infamous “mission accomplished” sign. DUH. He is leaving the economy in the toilet, and future generations will have to pay for it.
He claims history will judge him differently than the present. I don’t think this will be the case. You can’t change history. You can’t take back the failures of this administration’s foreign policy and you certainly can’t bring back the lives of the soldiers lost in a war that should not have been fought. You can’t undo the response to hurricane Katrina or any things on a long list that is far longer than the list of good he has done. Harshly judged, yes. Deserved, also yes.
Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of his presidency will be the fact that it inspired a record number of voters to turn out to vote for change.
Me...Day to Day | Brent | 
January 31, 2009 4:44 pm | 
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