Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...

I had a blathering entry typed out but it's summed up by 3 things:

Phone installs at work never go well. I've had the same phone number for over 7 years here, but at least my new one is cool.

Having a dead phone but an active voice mail that makes people think they're able to reach you when they're really not sucks.

The suckage multiplies exponentially with a payroll deadline affecting over 200 people mere hours away, you know there is a problem because the manager of campus payroll left you a vague voice mail implying there is a lot of confidential information involved, and you can't get a hold of her despite leaving your cell phone number.

In praise of grandmas

If my grandmas were still alive today, I know they'd have wanted actual (not email) pictures from graduation to share with their friends and all those degrees of cousins and great aunts & uncles you never see much of.

Then, there's my grandma's 79-year-old cousin, whose website I found last year by Googling the name of the town in Germany where my great-great-great grandmother was born.

She took the jpgs I sent her (including the one of our 3 generations by the university library sign with our common name connection on it for fun), asked me to write about graduation & my college education story starting back at SSU, made a graduation webpage about me to include on the huge family/genealogy site, then emailed hundreds of various degrees of cousins on the family email list the URL.

I still have to help my mom navigate email sometimes.