Caffeine!!!

Oh my goodness, I’m so jittery today.  I’ve switched to drinking pretty much nothing but propel (water) over the past few months.  Even when I’ve drank cokes the past two weeks, I’ve had root beer, which has been caffeine free.  So, today, I had to come to work at 1am, after only 3 1/2 hours sleep, so I thought I’d grab something to help me stay awake.  I’ve had three 20 oz mountain dews now, and I’m completely wired.  I’m basically vibrating in place.  I’d try to stop, but I’m pretty sure that grabbing on to something right now would have that cartoony effect of just making whatever I grab also vibrate.  I’m having visions of me grabbing my desk and stopping moving for a second, only to then have the whole desk start shaking and all my books fall down on me, etc.  I’m sure you get the point. 

Let’s see…   what else has been happening.  Got a blackberry.  I love it.  I’m now tied to my work email and calendar 24/7.  and while some people may say that’s insane, it’s really helped me stay organized and avoid those panic attacks where I can’t remember if I’m missing some important meeting that I forgot about. 

In other news, Best Buy took Deedee’s laptop in for a warranty repair and returned to us a plastic bag of about 100 parts.  No, I’m not kidding.  Plastic bag.  No padding.  All parts.  And I’m not even sure that all of the parts were there.  There’s no way all of the microscopic screws survived travelling in a plastic bag.  And then the manager wanted to tell us that it’s our fault because they found corrosion in the laptop, which voided our warranty, and so they weren’t responsible for what happened to it.  The manager actually started yelling at me when I insisted that this was unacceptable.  Then the little geek squad manager brat cocked an attitude and started loudly spouting off that corrosion was an obvious sign of cat urine, and so it was all our fault anyway.  ((At this point, I have to say that I really wanted to pop him in the face.  It’s horrible of me to say this, but what saved him is his stupidity, thus making him not worth my full wrath.  Either that, or chemistry is wrong, and the largest conspiracy/cover-up in history surrounds the fact that the government has been sneaking into people’s garages and driveways, opening up their car hoods, and pouring cat urine on their battery connectors.))

I’ll stop ranting and say that Best Buy corporate found them in the wrong on this issue, and is going to replace Deedee’s laptop.  Yay, Best Buy corporate.

In other, other news, we’re in the second month of getting our 11-month warranty work done.  They have replaced the floor in our master bathroom 3 times now, and they’ve re-caulked it another 3.  I’m putting my money on them never getting it right.  They also had to completely cut out one of my door frames and replace it, after they couldn’t fix the door that they broke in my garage.  Everytime they come in, I find paint in my carpet, scratches on my walls, paint on my clothes (did I mention they painted one of my suitcoats?).  I’m really starting to wonder whether it’s worth it.  Besides the fact that it’s what they owe me, another main reason is what the supervisor told me — that if my house had been cleaner to start with, they would have been more careful and would not have created such a mess in my house.  I’m sorry, but dirty clothes on the floor is a LOT different than latex paint in the carpet.  I refuse to believe that I am an inferior customer because of the fact that I work so much that I don’t have time to keep a Better Homes and Gardens quality cleaned house. 

Ok, done ranting.  I can’t think of any other, other, other news to report…  I mean, I can think of other, other, other news, but not really to report here.  Besides, I’m convinced that no one really reads this anymore, anyway.      It’s just a semi-private record of all the times in my life (since 2001) when I’ve been so bored that I’ve resorted to typing to myself.   Sad, no?