One of my coworkers has made a hobby of finding all the sites online that list personal information without your consent. He's also a dab hand at stalking people on social networking sites, which he actually uses sometimes to find out if someone has placed a bogus order with us. We'll call him the Wizard. This is a chat with one of the guys from ( Read more... )

I just got back from finally hanging out with the mysterious neighbors, Ryan and Gibson. I went out with the Muffins tonight for Erin's birthday, and had just come home, tired and slightly tipsy, when Gibson came and knocked on my door. They had a couple friends over, so we all hung out and talked and listening to music for a few hours before I had ( Read more... )

There are some times when, for no reason I can discern, I need to hear The Mountain Goats' "Lovecraft in Brooklyn." I put on my "Favorite Goats" playlist, and Lovecraft finely tunes the intensity of my soul ( Read more... )

At work we use Windows Live Messenger to chat/ask each other questions/share funny youtube videos while on calls. If any of you use it and want to chat with me during the occasional long stretches between calls, let me know your e-mail address. Mine is sarahalyse@live.com.

And now, your Daily Moment of Zen.


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Well, that's it. Today was my last day at Silver Platters ( Read more... )

I missed it, but last Wednesday was my four-year anniversary with Silver Platters. Yay? Four years is a long time ( Read more... )

I just noticed that in Pavement's "Stereo," when he says the bit about "you're my fact checking cuz," the other guy goes, "Aaaw ( Read more... )

The Boss left for lunch without giving me any more tasks to do...so when I finished the RED book (about 15 minutes after he left), I had nothing to do. I peeked at his desk to see if anything obvious was sitting out for me to do, but it's a disaster area somewhat cluttered. I did a few little tasks that had been sitting around (database corrections ( Read more... )

Today at work, the regular I have a huge crush on came in...

with his wife.

Oh, cruel fate! Why dost thou taunt me?
*shakes fist at the heavens*

I wish to God and any power that exists that I had heard the first half of this story. Sadly, by the time the guy got to the register, this was all I heard him say to his unimpressed female companion ( Read more... )