Short-term plans

The posting for the job went up today. The newest phone trainee starts Monday or Tuesday. If they had any sense, they'd be looking for a second phone person. Not that I'm entirely certain that I'm going to get the job, but I'm certain that if I DON'T get it, I'm going to pitch enough of a fit that they'll fire me. I'm tired of apologizing all day for everyone else's fuck-ups. I seem to catch all the mistakes, so I get to fix them. Fuck that shit.

Meanwhile, I'm going to practice deep breathing and try to decaffinate....

Short-term plans

The posting for the job went up today. The newest phone trainee starts Monday or Tuesday. If they had any sense, they'd be looking for a second phone person. Not that I'm entirely certain that I'm going to get the job, but I'm certain that if I DON'T get it, I'm going to pitch enough of a fit that they'll fire me. I'm tired of apologizing all day for everyone else's fuck-ups. I seem to catch all the mistakes, so I get to fix them. Fuck that shit.

Meanwhile, I'm going to practice deep breathing and try to decaffinate....

Date meme - September 9th

Gacked from most of my f'list, by the looks of it!

Events
1000 - Battle of Swold somewhere in the Baltic Sea between Norway and other Scandinavians.
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the Constitution).
1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found": a moth lodges in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard University. There's some kind of cosmic irony at work here....
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.


Births
1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer
1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor Sorry, George--you're not even in my top three as far as James Bond goes! (Connery, Brosnan and Dalton--in that order, for the record.)
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor Okay, that's a little scary....


Deaths
1000 - Olaf I of Norway Wonder if that's related to the Battle of Swold?!
1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907) The Penguin on Batman the TV series!


Holidays and observances
Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku) That's cool; I've always liked chrysanthemums!

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How to: Go to Wikipedia homepage and type in the day you were born. Fun, easy and yields trivia to amaze and stupify your friends with! ;~D
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Date meme - September 9th

Gacked from most of my f'list, by the looks of it!

Events
1000 - Battle of Swold somewhere in the Baltic Sea between Norway and other Scandinavians.
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the Constitution).
1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found": a moth lodges in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard University. There's some kind of cosmic irony at work here....
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.


Births
1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer
1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor Sorry, George--you're not even in my top three as far as James Bond goes! (Connery, Brosnan and Dalton--in that order, for the record.)
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor Okay, that's a little scary....


Deaths
1000 - Olaf I of Norway Wonder if that's related to the Battle of Swold?!
1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907) The Penguin on Batman the TV series!


Holidays and observances
Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku) That's cool; I've always liked chrysanthemums!

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How to: Go to Wikipedia homepage and type in the day you were born. Fun, easy and yields trivia to amaze and stupify your friends with! ;~D
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