Trying to find something to be thankful for
It's Thanksgiving Day. History tells us this is the time when the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in this country were saved from starving to death by the native peoples. Abraham Lincoln designated the last Thursday of November as a national day of Thanksgiving. It's the start of the "holidays", it's the day your newspaper will be stuffed full of advertisements for "early bird specials", it's the day when the most abused substance in America will be the amino acid Tryptophan and the only day of the year you don't need to be loaded to see flying critters sailing down 5th Avenue in New York City.
I haven't had a lot to be thankful for this year. I'm thankful my brother allowed me to move back in. I'm thankful to my friends Spencer and Holly for providing some semblance of dignity in allowing me to work for them rather than just treating me like a charity case. I'm thankful to the two managers that did at least allow me to interview, unlike the 48 that just round filed my resume because I haven't had a steady paying technical job since 2001. I'm thankful to the psychiatric professionals in Tulsa that diagnosed my problem, even if the ones here in Lewisville seem to have dropped the ball and only want to treat half the problem... and it's not the half that needs treatment the most.
To those I love, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving.
posted by CopperTop at
3:47 AM
2 Comments:
You'll pull through...just having a tough stretch right now, methinks :)eventually someone with common sense will utilize yer skills to the benefit of all involved...*thumbs up*
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Anonymous, at November 29, 2004 at 12:39 AM
I just wish that IT managers would realize that real hardcore computer nerds do not just sit on their hands during period where they don't have paying jobs - we get out there and troubleshoot computers for free, just to be making sick computers healthy again. We're the people that were out in the cold this past Black Friday at the electronic retailers, undercutting the prices the being quoted by the tech department of the electronic retailer and offering more services. We were the ultranerds that "team-shopped" with others and when we had a partner at a store with a wireless router $40 less than the one in your basket, we got on the phone, had it pre-purchased and delivered to the retailer where it took 2 hours to get through the damn line... and explained how THAT retailer's rebate worked. So when you manage to get an ultranerd to part with the number of the phone they carry on their belt and you have a problem with your computer, call them. If it doesn't take them three hours to solve it, chances are the only fee may be a soda ad a smoke if you can spare it.
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CopperTop, at November 29, 2004 at 4:35 AM
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