Weekend Ahoy
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altivoGary's planning on going to the Maritime Folk Festival tomorrow, unless the weather turns sour overnight. If he does that, I'm on farm duty all day. Workable as long as I can keep the head cold under control. So far I've only had sniffles and sneezes if I keep taking medication.
Looks like Libya's people have had enough and are willing to risk all to take control of their country back from the robber baron who has been running the place for decades. Even Ronald Reagan wasn't able to push Qaddafi out of power, but I don't see how he can hold on much longer in the face of today's events. When the word gets out, I suspect we'll see more revolutionary attempts in other military dictatorships.
Getting the users out of the library at closing time proved difficult tonight. We were more than 15 minutes late in actually setting the alarms and leaving. When we finally turned the lights off, another guy suddenly came wandering out of the dark. Neither of us had any idea where he had been hiding, and we both made rounds to check beforehand.
Gary called AT&T to make changes to our phone service, trying to lower the outrageous monthly bill. They accepted all his changes, and then tried to sell him a bunch of other stuff we don't need. Finally the sales rep tried to convince him to sign up for ADSL broadband. He had to tell her that we'd love to get ADSL, but AT&T doesn't offer it in our area. She was sure they did. He had to make her check on it, and of course, they don't and have no plans to do so. After all, they're the phone company. Why can't they just charge us for something they don't plan to deliver?
Looks like Libya's people have had enough and are willing to risk all to take control of their country back from the robber baron who has been running the place for decades. Even Ronald Reagan wasn't able to push Qaddafi out of power, but I don't see how he can hold on much longer in the face of today's events. When the word gets out, I suspect we'll see more revolutionary attempts in other military dictatorships.
Getting the users out of the library at closing time proved difficult tonight. We were more than 15 minutes late in actually setting the alarms and leaving. When we finally turned the lights off, another guy suddenly came wandering out of the dark. Neither of us had any idea where he had been hiding, and we both made rounds to check beforehand.
Gary called AT&T to make changes to our phone service, trying to lower the outrageous monthly bill. They accepted all his changes, and then tried to sell him a bunch of other stuff we don't need. Finally the sales rep tried to convince him to sign up for ADSL broadband. He had to tell her that we'd love to get ADSL, but AT&T doesn't offer it in our area. She was sure they did. He had to make her check on it, and of course, they don't and have no plans to do so. After all, they're the phone company. Why can't they just charge us for something they don't plan to deliver?
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Date: 2011-02-26 12:00 pm (UTC)I hope you can keep that cold at bay. The one I've got is proving hard to shift; twelve days and counting...
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Date: 2011-02-26 08:02 pm (UTC)Yeah, the salesdroids are desperate these days. The reference book publishers have been after me at work constantly. "Let us send you the book on trial." No. I have no budget to buy it, so why should I let you send it? And I can't get library users to look at it anyway, they only want to use Google these days. Never mind that the quality of what they find is substandard, "it's so much easier!" Not to mention the fact that said book is priced at $475 or more. Who are they kidding?
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Date: 2011-02-26 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-27 09:03 pm (UTC)