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when summer is sweet and all green
So I had to drag my ass into work early this morning for a phone call w/ an 8 a.m. international client. And after I brushed off the snarky comment from a co-worker (You're giving young hipsters a bad name by being here so early*), I settled down to get ready for the call and then dialed.
And dialed.
And redialed.
And redialed.
And after about seven redials - all leading to either busy signals or 'you're call did not go through recordings', I finally called international assistance, only to find out that the number that the client e-mailed me is missing one digit.
One freaking digit.
For this I had to get up at 6:30 a.m.
Not a big fan of 6:30 a.m.
Especially when it means trying to go to bed early on a warm late spring night when there is a light breeze blowing and iced tea to be had and a new TV to be watched.
Check out the new TV:
Imagine basketball players inside the screen instead of a goofy car
It's pretty cool - but big. Damn big. Almost too big.
A friend with a truck took GB to the place to buy it. But then he left the two of us to try and get it out of the box and on to the TV stand.
That didn't work too well - we finally had to call over M&R to help us.
Which they didn't mind because we had beer and the Western conference finals on cable and we threw in a loan of the first season of The Sopranos on DVD plus a gift of the free DVD player** we got as a bonus for buying the damn TV.
They wanted to know if we had anything else we had to move.
Anyway, tonight we'll break it in with two episodes of The Gilmore Girls (last week's episode, taped, and the new one), plus maybe a movie. We tried out a few minutes of Moulin Rouge last night and it looked pretty damn good.
The best thing, however, is that my blind eyes can now see. I can see the ball wherever it is on the court! I can read the ticker on CNN! I don't have to squint!
This is a good thing.
I hope it's nice again tonight and we can throw open all the windows in the house and drink iced tea and listen to the whir of the ceiling fan and let the shadows flicker on the wall as we watch our new gigantor TV...
*This is the dumbest thing anyone's said to me in a while. For one, I'm not that young. I'm not that hop and who's business is it if I get to work at 7:45 a.m. instead of 9:05?
**free DVD player=off-brand. We already have a DVD player and even though M&R do too, they also have a TV in their bedroom so we thought they might want it...they did...
P.S. Client's PR person just called. She swears the number is correct and I'm to try again at 10 a.m. Urgh....
9:09 am - 05.20.03
sounds: C1em Snide
words: Fast F00D Nation
i am: up too early
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