What Are You Doing Right Now?

Getting ready to go see "Dervish" in West hartford, we have torrential rain right now, flooding, etc...

Sitting here saying" were's my invite to go see Dervish in West hartford?"
Still pouring rain, leak in the back porch slider, lost gutter in last storm, reprioritizing spring repair list

YOU WERE INVITED ULSTERSCOTNUTT!!!! You failed to respond to the question back on your intro post!!! and you missed it! They were excellant!! but your lucky, I bought a CD there and I also taped the concert on my handy little digital recorder,
hopefully I can figure out how to download it though.

Sitting here posting and ooking for an excuse not to work on computers that need fixing.

Just finished fixing breakfast for everyone. We had cheese omelets, turkey bacon, and biscuits

Getting ready to go grocery shopping, then I'm taking a nap, this time change really throws me off.

yup to my you know what in research for a fellow poster.

Camac

Just finished with lunch/dinner now looking around the forum and listening to all the wonderful songs here on Highlander Radio.

Slainte

Walking up after an all night session repairing computers. Planning out my week and getting ready to take a bath.

Monday morning back to work, just updated my time on the computer, shouldn't it do that automatically??
Ctbard , you are right, I missed it, glad Dervish was good.
Now must do shipping and deliveries

Sitting at my desk feeling crappy, I hate the time change, the fall one doesnt bother me, just the this one. I want to go home and go to bed.

Just finished a snack and am studying my HTML book here at work. I've actually done a little proofing this morning but that's about it for today.

Reading some good advice I go in an E-mail and am going to pass on to those here.
Tips for Handling Telemarketers

Three Little Words That Work !!

(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...'

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.

These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.


(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.


This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!

(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage 'IF' and when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.

The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're pay ing for it...Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !

If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.

ENJOY IT the Corporations won't!!!!

Finishing my Tilt Wall Panel shop drawings.

Hours of tedium finally over!!

Posting and enjoying the posts of the nice folks here. Also giving Jester food for thought.