Still has that great new-Spam smell!

Wow! I just got a new spam message that I've never gotten before! Looks like a variation of the old "And all I need is your bank account # to transfer the gobs of cash in to" scam. Please note that this message MUST be legit because he knows that I requested information from a website once!

This is a very important message is for Brian

A while back you requested information from a website.

The company that we am affiliated with has a new and powerful energy drink that is quickly becoming is the worlds #1 drink.

The energy drink business is a growing industry.

I am looking for business partners and was wondering if you were still looking for a something to do at home?

If indeed you are still looking, I am think you will find this very interesting.

...And then it goes on to a phone number to call for more information and even a dead link to a non-existant website to prove just how legit this new and powerful #1 energy drink truly is.

Before I forget!

You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was! Don't forget your towel today, since it *is* Towel Day, after all! To quote the Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy...

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

My BIIIIIG Mouth (again)

In the e-mail message that i sent to our HR department requestign that they NOT make me take 40-minutes unpaid time every day for restroom breaks, I jokingly ended the note with this witty line:

"If given the choice between wetting myself at my desk or being docked 40 minutes pay daily, I'll go ahead and soil myself thank you very much!"

Well at least this time no one is demanding my immediate dismissal, but I *will* need to come in early tomorrow and personally apologize to the HR Rep who was deeply offended by that line.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?

All my life, not just at work, I've been like this! In times of tension, confrontation and/or anger I tend to respond with innapropriate HUMOR.

I'd say that 9 out of 10 times my innapropriate humor does it's job; it defuses the situation and lets all parties involved take a step back and see just how rediculous it is to be so tense and angry over the situation.

But that 10th time...

Ugh.

I've had more "Tenth Times" since I started working at Comcast than I've ever had before. Is it because I'm older now and people expect more maturity from me ("me" being the guy in the bright pink Bananna shirt)? Or is it just that this is a more corporate setting than I'm used to?

Whatever it is, I hate it when I end up upsetting someone I don't even know with something that I thought was just a one-shot lame-ass attempt at humor :(

But on the PLUS side, in the CQE meeting where I found out I had offend the HR rep? I also found out that management is VERY impressed with the improvements I've made over the past few months! So at least there's a few corn-kernels of joy in the poo=pile of my day!

See? RIGHT THERE! Innapropriate!