I’m back! I think…

Well!
I get back from Vegas only to find out that while I was gone, a comedy of errors took place.
First, a lightening storm obliterated both the modem and the wireless router.  Then, my car’s Check Engine light came on.  Shortly thereafter, my dad’s car overheated.  Then a man who was supposed to fix the washing [...]

Tomorrow’s a ‘Celebration.’ Maybe

Been busy recently with work and haven’t had time to update anything.  Plus, all I want to do when I get home is precisely nothing.
However, tomorrow is the Bank Formerly Known As Commercial Federal’s “Celebrates America” concert in Omaha, which is free to the public.  This year’s headliner is Kool & the Gang, which is [...]

Sleepy, sleepy, sleepy

This was a tough week of work.  Each day was at least 10 hours with Thursday clocking in at 12.  So I treated myself to some awesome video games—the Lego Star Wars and Indiana Jones games, recommended by many 10-year-olds. :-P  But seriously, I played them, and they’re both excellent.
The grandparents are also over so [...]

Parents’ Night is for suckers!! Oh, wait

As a camp counselor and not a teacher, we don’t need to attend Parnets’ Parents’ Night, which is an extra two hours of time with the kids—and their parents!
Well, tomorrow, I’m staying and filling in for a teacher in exchange for her doing my “after care” session Friday, which is like a daycare for the [...]

Can’t…move…brain…shutting down

Work today was excruciating.  I was in a Lego Robotics class all week, which culminates in an inventory of all the tiny friggin’ Lego pieces, of which there are thousands.  I didn’t get off work until 5:30.  And I haven’t been able to sit down at all today (not uncommon) so I can barely stand.
The [...]

Can’t take it no more

I don’t think I can take the humidity.  After two weeks in a climate with 0% humidity and then coming home to a climate with 500% humidity, I don’t think I’m going to make it next week when I have to be outside for lunch duty at the summer camp.

Bleeerrgh

I just got done with four hours of CPR training and stuff for my summer job.
As boring as it was, it had its moments of hilarity, especially during the movies, which featured clearly under-competent actors attempting to be way too dramatic given the fact (a) there is no emergency, (b) they’re doing CPR on a [...]

For the deaf

There’s a guy in the computer lab just now who answered his cell phone. This is the conversation:
“Hello? What? Yes. No. I’m in the computer lab. Yes? No! Uh-huh. I don’t know. Maybe? You should—I said, you should—huh? No! I mean, yes! YES! OK! I’ll talk to you later.”

Bored, bored, bored

Finals are this week.  Though they coincide with normal class time for the most part, I only have one per day (two on Tuesday) but I still have to work.  So I have loooooooong periods of waiting around doing nothing because it’s inefficient and silly to go back home for three or four hours.
So I’m [...]

Just make it stop thinking

I don’t have too many entertaining work-related stories because I no longer pull the midnight shift, which is when the socially awkward people appear in droves.
However recently, I had someone all in a tizzy as me if I would be able to make computer “stop thinking.”
Whaaaa?
I kind of knew what she meant; she was complaining [...]

The unanswerable question

I just had a lady in the computer lab ask me “How many pieces of paper can you three-hole-punch at a time?”
To which I answered: “If I tell you that, you’ll have to tell me how many licks it takes to get the the center of a Tootsie Pop.”

More tales from the crypt

Another short computer lab story.
I just had some guy in here with a question. An assignment had appeared on his online grade list and it hadn’t been graded. He wanted to know what the assignment was. I looked at the left hand column where the title is, and told him it said, [...]

Rabid English major

I work in the computer labs at school. Ten minutes before I’m supposed to get off on Wednesday, I get a call from my boss who said the printer in the 24-hour lab in the student center was not working properly. They fixed it, they thought, but needed someone to print something to [...]

Ringtones

It’s always entertaining to listen to other people’s ringtones when they go off in the computer labs. One person’s went off just as they got to the door and blasted showtunes music at a decibel normally reserved for jet aircraft. Another’s went off to the song from “Titanic.” What the hell?
My ringtone [...]

Goombas!

Someone’s cell phone went off to the tune of the Mario song. Now I’m going to have that stuck in my head for the rest of the day. And so with any luck, I’ll get it stuck in your head, too.
Doo doo doo, doo doo DOO…doo. Doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo [...]