7/25/12

I'm a little annoyed.  “So what’s new?” I heard from the peanut gallery.  Well, shut up.  Here’s why I'm annoyed, when I returned to my office after lunch, I was met with an acrid, “Somethin’ ain’t right” smell and saw that one of the new projectors was off.  “Oh shit!” I said.  I tried to power cycle the thing to no avail; it was as dead as Mel Gibson’s career.  I called service and spoke to the guy who usually comes out here to service stuff, and babysit the place when I'm otherwise occupied, and we determined it needs to go back to the manufacturer for service.  I then took one of the old projectors and set it up in place of the dead one.  The image didn’t fit the screen.  Not like, “That’s zoomed out too far” or anything, the actual information was cutoff on the right side.  I fiddled with various settings and finally got the image to all show up on the screen.  Now, here’s what annoys me: I'm so proud of myself for fingering it out but I can't brag about it because it’s my job to know how to do that.  Were I to brag about it, other than here of course, people would finger out what a monumental fraud I am!  I am a classic example of the Peter Principle.  Look it up.  Psh, like I don’t have time to ‘splain what the Peter Principle is.  Ok, so the Peter Principle states that in a system where promotion is based on merit and achievement, people will be promoted to a level above their skill set eventually.  It is also stated as, “A person will rise to the level of their incompetence.”  I'm just about there… and technology is marching me right to the edge.  T’won’t be pretty for me when they finally finger it out.  10,000!  Why did I just say, “10,000”?  Because that was the ten thousandth word in this month’s collection of rants.  I just happened to notice it, that’s all.  Anyhoo, so there’s all of that going on.  So, let’s see, what else is there?  Oh, John has found a 280Z for sale too cheap to pass up.  I think we’re going to go look at/buy it this Saturday.  No, neither of us needs a 280Z… but, like I said, it is too cheap to pass up.  He’s also bailed on the steering wheel he ordered for me and has ordered another one.  I'm kind of glad too because the one that wasn’t showing up didn’t have the red stitching whereas the one he just ordered does… I hope.  The red stitching will really tie the room together.  I just hope no nihilists ever pee on it.  Anyhoo, on another front, did I ever tall y'all about my TV not tuning in the cable signal anymore?  The Breeder’s Disgust Convinced Virgin is: cat knocked front cover of TV off and pulled a wire loose, loose wire pissed me off and got ripped out, now TV won't tune.  I had a VCR, you younger kids might have to look that one up, hooked up to do the tuning but it pissed me off last night.  For some reason it lost its memory and forgot all of the channels I want to skip while surfing.  After doing about half the reprogramming I said “Fuck this!” and ripped that son of a bitch out as well.  So, to make a short story long, I am without TV again.  Now, mom has been asking me for some time if I thought we otter get out frumunda cable and go with one of the other systems for receiving television.  I need to ask John and Pat what they are using and see what their opinions are.  I read a thing about DirecTV… and John is telling me on the phone right now to get anything BUT DirecTV.  So I'm back at square one.  Well, let me go into some other details.  We discussed U-verse and Fios but neither are available at my address, THAT is why I'm back at square one.  So, I don’t know what we’re going to do.  I know what I am going to do, I am going to call this a rant and go home.  So there.