There Are Songs...

... which simply must be cranked up to normal listening volume, even when one's desk is in an open-to-everyone location and when one's job involves answering the phone.

Joan Osborne's "Son of a Preacher Man" is one of those songs.

-- Katrina, who is quick with the volume control dial.

smoon! and quetzalcoatl_9!

They showed up, out of the blue-like, at my workplace. It was awesome beyond compare. We hugged and talked and stuff, and then quetzalcoatl_9 started looking at our seemingly hopeless computer non-network, and produced us some hope.

YAY!!

They even got to see what I'm talking about with the callers being stupid and me getting impatient with the stupid people because I've got two other lines ringing. So, um, PROOF, because you all totally thought I was making that shit up.