There's been some bitching that things are slow in here. That is perfect timing as I am full-up in production again after a tedious healing of a hernia op.
Business is traditionally slow this time of year, but it gives me time to get the promotional stuff done and to prepare the brown bags of receipts for the annual trip to the accountants.
Also got a nice price increase from one of my solid surface suppliers who does so much business, he doesn't need us anymore. (Berra, paraphrased).
Whilst enjoying a mug of coffee, (freshly ground in my burr-grinder and sent through my BUNN) I took on the task of ripping into my telecom supplier. I have waited for years to be able to tell Ma Bell to go screw herself. As my ISP, the speed has been dropping, dropping.. till I pick up the phone and call the tech dept. I get to talk to Rashni Vindalousyshiat, who promptly tells me it is all my fault, I have to disconnect 'ebreeteeengh' [sic] and start all over. THIS time I told his supervisor he could take my 3 cell phones, my fax line, my house line, my 2 internet connections and satellite dishes and shove them up his ass. I can get all those services from my cable company now... for less. He promptly changed his tone and told me he'd have somebody contact me who would make me happy again. This is where it gets weird. My internet speed suddenly more than doubled. Ergo: the sunsabiatches throttle people down till they complain? WTF? I'm serious, he flipped a switch. I went from 122 kbps to 279 kbps in a few minutes without touching a thing! I was getting that six months ago, when I had to bitch at them then. THEN I thought that they maybe had found a fault and fixed it. You don't really notice the slowdown until you start downloading large user manuals. etc.
I also notice Hitlary rearranging the deck chairs on her Titanic.
Have a nice day.
r-----> who burr-grinds his coffee beans in a 29 dollar refurbished Cuisinart grinder. Just your basic Costco 100% columbian beans, nothing fancy-schmancy, just awesome coffee. *gives Starbucks and Timmy's the finger*