As my router, my modem and other various technical things lying about decided to perform a coup over the last week, I’ve been limited to the innertubes. These things, after hours of inanimate objects plotting my demise in a bloody fashion tried to kill me and my family, it appears that we have some things fixed only by sheer will and violence we didn’t know we had in us.
During my forced sabbatical, I received a couple of emails on why I wasn’t blogging politics much lately. I had to think on that for awhile. So, I guess I’ll respond here.
About 30 percent of my friends and immediate family are unemployed right now. Our minds are on that particular issue because it effects us deeply and the fact that many of us don’t have simple things like health care. Yeah, we see people writing about the jobless right now but I haven’t really seen any real solutions. I’m glad gubernatorial candidates raised a boatload of money. Kudos to them. But I can’t really get all in arms right now about certain things as most of my buddies and I are dealing with talking to robots regarding unemployment benefits we earned over more than two decades. Seriously, I haven’t talked to a human yet. But I’m grateful, don’t doubt that.
And, you see, that isn’t really very sexy in reading about is it? Unemployment is not very entertaining. I expected sooo much more when my robot overlords took over.
“I Robot” it ain’t.
On to other things, I am now the aunt to a teenager. She’s a pretty good one and I feel as old as Methusalah. She went to see Wicked for her birthday a couple of weeks ago and will have a Harry Potter outing this week with her friends. Now that Daniel Radcliffe is of age, I can legally say “ROWR.”
I know, that’s pretty skeezy but Homer said the same thing. Heh. Maybe we aren’t so old after all.
Well, I have a telephone interview with a robot in about a half an hour. The robots will not let have a life during their ownership of you.
What does one wear to a telephone bureaucratic robot interview?
“What does one wear to a telephone bureaucratic robot interview?”
Be naked and make sure you tell them.
Blows their circuits every time.
I got a call from a Collector Robot once. She asked when I was going to pay. I said “did you know I’m naked”?
Looooong pause. She said “excuse me, sir”?
I said “you know, naked. Like having no clothes on”. “I have a Frisbee too” I says.
I heard a loud Rice-Crispies type sound and the line went dead.
“Naked” just doesn’t compute I guess.
[...] Newscoma: About 30 percent of my friends and immediate family are unemployed right now. Our minds are on that particular issue because it effects us deeply and the fact that many of us don’t have simple things like health care. Yeah, we see people writing about the jobless right now but I haven’t really seen any real solutions. I’m glad gubernatorial candidates raised a boatload of money. Kudos to them. [...]
I said “you know, naked. Like having no clothes on”. “I have a Frisbee too” I says.
It’s the Frisbee part that makes it classic, bud. Absolutely.
HEE.