*wrangles self into inner tube*

*spies cold beverage out of reach*

*splash splash spl--SPLOOSH* ... fell in...

Our printer at work is f***ing retarded.

It's slow at everything. Duplexing takes forever, but I'd rather not waste the paper.
We buy cheap toner for it, which is not the printer's fault, but it's still cheap toner that comes off if you rub it too hard (no joke, and it isn't even that hard) and the cartridges are only good for ~3000 pages.
But today took the cake! So this past week, I discovered that when you tell it to print more than 1 copy, it does not automatically collate the pages, this goes for duplex printing, too. Luckily, I've only been printing 2 copies of 3-4 pages, so it wasn't a huge deal. I thought I out-smarted it today, and checked the "collate" box. Well, it showed me up! I was trying to print 2 copies of a 3 page document, duplexed. I got: First paper containing pg 1 & pg 2, Second paper containing pg 3 & pg 1, Third paper containing pg 2 & pg 3. REALLY????????? *goes Office Space on the printer*

I had a personal printer that had really crappy drivers, so it wouldn't print half the time until I did the uninstall/reinstall tango... but that was about the worst.

The kicker? This is supposedly "better" than one we just got rid of. (I and everyone else who actually uses it disagrees, but big boss who bought all the printers must've gotten some kind of deal. He also sits next to our big multi-function office printer, and anytime you print more than 10 pages on it (because you want it done sometime today), he runs over and stops the process because you "must've accidentally sent it over." Try and logic through why we rent this big beast of a printer but can't use it for big print jobs...)

Just had my last music lesson before the summer.

Sleep well, Sahi!

I'm waiting for my last load of laundry before I can go to bed. Then I will finally have conquered Mount Laundry!

Just wrote a somewhat rant-y blog post about all the thing I wish I could say to stupid customers. It feels strangely cathartic - now I just have to hope I don't accidentally say one of these things out loud the next time someone annoys me.

Busy day so far today at work! Mailing lots of bills, charging credit cards, faxing invoices... Oh and going on a hunt for printer paper (since apparently the person who took the last bit of paper didn't tell anyone or bother going to get more...lazy ppl)

Gotta do some last minute cleaning tonight, fiancee's friend is coming into town tomorrow for a few days which will be fun. I forsee lots of coffee, hookah, and bbq'ing, as long as the weather stays nice, which it looks like it will!

Also, I should've learned by now... I should not place book orders through work, because everyday I come in and hope 'Is it here yet?' And it never is, because it usually takes a week or two for orders to come in, unless we ask them to rush it. I am not a patient person...

Looking after my brother today. And of course I got some extra tasks, such as putting stuff on my mother's new mp3 player. Yes, like I don't have anything else to do!

Today, we actually had a busy day at work - a rare thing in summer. But today, not one, but two deliveries of chrysanthemum plants arrived, the cutflower and the ones for pots, so they all needed to be potted up or planted as quickly as possible.

I have to get off this computer! It's so noisy, it's driving me mad!

*phew* So they decided to ship a lot of stuff out today... ~50 invoices, all to one billing dept! (We participate in this online ordering program for the air force... people on the bases can order online and if it's a product we have, the air force's system sends the order to us.) wheeeeee

And I was productive... I scheduled my wedding rehearsal, and booked us for tastings!

Ick, that sucks, Magpie! Maybe you could set up one of the converters to do all the songs you want, but set it to run overnight?

Phew. Tired. Extra long work out today, as friend is coming into town tonight and we didn't want to abandon him for ~2 hrs on Friday :P Not that he would be awake or untrustworthy, but fiancee didn't want to be a "poor host" I guess.

Another day of not getting anything done. I was at my mother's place again, celebrating my other brother's birthday.
The youngest turned 18 last week, and today he finally got our "traditional" 18th-birthday present (our father decided to send it by mail because his plans to come visit didn't work out - not his fault for once).
Back before I was born, my father told my mother, "If we ever have children, the day they turn 18, they'll get 500 schillings, and then we'll kick them out!"
Then, 500 schillings might have been a lot of money - now they'd barely pay three day's rent (and my apartment is pretty cheap)! And who would have guessed that by the time the oldest (me) turned 18, we'd have a different currency?
Luckily, our father planned ahead and bought three silver 500 schilling coins - when I got mine, my youngest brother told him he'd better have one for his 18th birthday as well, but by now, he'd totally forgotten about it, so it came as a nice surprise!