Update by Vynda, 0002.27
The annoying guy who always yells at me about my mother was in last night. G and I almost had to play "Paper, Rock, Scissors" to see which one of us would have to wait on him. I ended up getting stuck with the job. First, he bought in almost every one of his kids, who were running around and screaming what movies they wanted and crying when their parents told them no. Then, he sends his wife up with the selections, so I'm thinking, "WOOHOO! I'm not gonna have to deal with him tonight!" WRONG! After I've finished writing the reciept (we have to hand-write everything b/c we don't have a computer) and totaling it up, he decides he wants to get one more movie. Or does he? Spent 5 minutes trying to decide whether or not to get this movie, but I can't wait on anyone else in line cos that's "rude". So he decides to get it. I'm scratching the original total out and writing it up, and he decides not to get it. Great. Grand. Wonderful. $7.95, sir, and GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!! Well, not really, but that would have been cool. Soon after they left, this woman calls up and proceeds to bitch me out because she supposedly gave her movies to a friend to drop off, and she put them in our drop box around 2pm, but we can only find one of them. I tried explaining to her that those movies are her responsibility unless they are placed in the hands of and employee or at least put on the OPEN side of the counter. You know, the one without the giant CLOSED sign that so many people refuse to see? Our drop box is closed during business hours, so if her friend put them in the drop box, then somebody could have easily walked over there, grabbed the movie, and walked off with it. And (surprise, surprise), they're her responsibility since they were not given to an employee (we have this clause clearly posted both in the store and on our reciepts). So she changes her story. Now her friend came in and gave both the movies to someone, and she's got witnesses to prove it. Oh really? The person that worked that day says they didn't even come in. I explained to her the policy and told her that this movie is not in the store, and advised her to check under the car seats, in her house, etc. But still she tells me that she's got witnesses, and we're trying to cheat her out of money. Yeah, whatever lady. $10 says the movie shows up either today or Monday in the night drop. Further investigation showed that the membership in question doesn't even have a woman on it, leading me to believe my irate caller was really the friend who dropped them off. Oy vey...I hate this town.
Update by Vynda, 0002.26
Happy belated George Harrison's birthday to all! Finally finished my Disney Vacation Synopsis (which, despite it's length, is prolly only 2/3 of everything that happened). Nothing much else is happening around here. Oh well, c'est ma vie. I'll prolly write more when I get back from work.
Update by Vynda, 0002.23
Added the lyrics to "David Duchovny" by Bree Sharp. Maybe that's just a sick private joke between Reythe and I, but, hey, you're free to look at the lyrics. They're quite amusing.
I spent all President's Day Weekend (we got Friday through Monday off! WOOHOO! 4-day weekend!) at Disney World in Orlando with Rah and her fam. I'm in the works of chronicling our misadventures (which will be featured on Mina: The Solo Project, my other, slighty dysfunctional site with my other, slightly dysfunctional persona, Mina Harker), but here's a little tidbit to tide you over:
**setup: the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror @ MGM has seats with bars, and a mystery seat in the back with just a seatbelt. There is like 9 seats in the back incl. the mystery seat**
Girl 1: "There's 8 seats in the back!"
Girl 2: "No, there's 6! 3 on each side and one in the middle!"
Scare you enough? Sometimes I wonder if some hospitals don't give frontal lobotomies at birth to select people.
Update by Vynda, 0002.13
Had today off. Seriously sorry I couldn't go to the medieval faire with Reythe and Joshfather and alla them today, but it was hunt for new glasses day for me (I'm going tomorrow with Rah, Flux, Vyx, Balth, and Andy). Surprisingly, they look just like my old glasses. Only side effect is that I have a new perscription, so things are lookin very trippy right now....
Reminiscing with Vyx today, I remembered something incredibly amusing that happened at work a couple of months ago involving someone Vyx and I seriously don't like. There's this girl who's always calling the cops if something happens to them and blaming this on Vyx. Every time this happens, Vyx always happens to be out of town, so their credibility is shot to hell as it is. This all stems back to an arguement between Vyx and this girl's mother, wherein the mother in question pushed Vyx (a minor @ the time) and law enforcement was called in and etcetera, etcetera. So anyways, this girl and her mother came in to the video store to buy internet passes (we sell passes and programs for the local ISP. We are not their tech suppourt, though people tend to think we are.). They got the installation disks and 31 day passes and went home, thankfully causing me not to deal more than five minutes with them. About twenty minutes later, they call up wanting to know how to use the dial-up networking. I explain to them how, and they tell me it doesn't work. I troubleshoot and troubleshoot until i finally think I have the problem all figured out. I was right. "Ma'am, how many phones do you have in your house?"
"Two. Why?"
"Is your computer hooked into the line you want it hooked to?"
"Yes."
"Okay....are both phones the same number?"
"No, one's a cell phone."
"Are you talking to me on the cell phone."
No, I'm talking to you on the regular phone."
At this point, I really felt like an idiot for not putting on my cerebrally challenged thinking cap. Of course she can't connect, she's talking to me!! So, I tell her as *politely* as possible that she needs to hang up with me and try it, and here's the response I recieve:
"Oh. I thought you could talk and be on the internet on the same phoneline! Well damn, now I gotta buy another line! *talking to her daughter* Shit, honey! you're costing me a fortune!"
What's worse is that this girl is dog-ugly (seriously, I feel I'm not one to talk, but she was hit by an ugly forest. They uprooted just to attack her!), and advertised in the registry (and gawd-knows-where-else) as "hot and sexy 18 year old" with a bunch of other sexual connotations (I know she's younger than I am). Her mother actually came into the video store and bitched *us* out b/c her daughter was getting inappropriate e-mails! Like A) we could do anything about that, and B) the ISP's gonna read her mail and decide what she gets. This is a good example of why people shouldn't inbreed...
Update by Vynda, 0002.11
I love Fridays, don't you? Another fruitful week is behind us and we can (hopefully) sleep 'till noon the next day. Wow...that sounded optimistic...I'd better cut down on the NyQuil dosage...
One of the things I hate about Fridays is the first of two weekend crowds at the video store. I can just about clock our regulars now, and know which ones I need to try to keep out of sight from. One guy always comes in to complain about the owner (who happens to be my mother. Yeah, I know what you're thinking..."why does she complain? she's working for mommy!" Truth is, I get much more crap to do because it's my mother, and I have to field a lot of the complaints and technical problems because I generally know what I'm doing. If you think your job is ikky and nasty, work for your parents. People that don't know you are much easier to work for than people who can tell when you're faking sick to get out of working so you can go to the mall.). Anyways, this guy knows who I am, so he will immediately come up to me (whether I'm waiting on someone or on the phone) and whine about us charging him a late charge. "It's only a day late! I'm a regular customer, can't you let me slide?" Yeah, you're a regularly LATE customer. Since we started to policy of double late fees if the movie is on reserve, he's been extra-special whiny. So he'll complain for about an hour, realize we won't budge, threaten to cancel his membership, walk out, and come back an hour later wanting to rent more movies. The difference is that the second time he comes in, it's always, "Late charge? Oh, how much? Okay, I'll pay it. I've really got to remember to bring my movies in on time." This happens every weekend. One time, a co-worker and I found out where he worked (some rental furniture outlet place) and wanted to go down there and bug him while he was trying to work. Too bad, toug, 'cos two hours later he came in and complained that he just got fired 'cos he showed up for work two hours late...
Update by Vynda, 0002.09
First thing's first, updated The Quotebook (newest entries are towards the bottom)
Alright, the really-really-ultra-super-duper-neato news: As I diligently worked in Digital Publishing this morning (and I use the word 'diligently' loosely), I checked up on ThoughtViper, a site that I visit at least one or two times per day (and I know Reythe averages about the same). I get to reading about how he bought Kill Kill (his cat...i know some of y'all don't know what I'm talking about) a Hello Kitty cat bed (which is awesome, by the way. I want one for Abbey now!), and how he checks the search engines for his site every once in a while. He then mentions a link to a site with a, " a fellow retail drone ranting amusingly." So, I'm thinkin', "Cool! another person fed up with customers! Wait...I know this address...waitaminute...that's OUR address!" At this point, I began to smile brightly and make a high pitched squealing noise that got me several stares. Oh well, it's still cool. So, I guess I need to be updating more frequently or something (i've got a cold that's pretty much tapped me out at the moment). For those of you who have not been here, go ahead and have a look around the place. Do mind the mess, though. Like I said, It's been forever since we've updated.
Oh, yeah, I suppoise you might like a formal introduction since you won't find it anywhere else on the site. I'm Govynda, also known as Vynda, Vyn, and Mina (depending on my mood). My cohort, Reythe, is my best friend and will prolly add a better intro for herself later. I'm an avid Beatles and Anne Rice fan, and I'm usually going off on something or other that sparks my creative streak. I really don't know what to say (I really don't want to sound like I'm full of myself or just a complete idiot), so i invite you to mail me your questions and/or comments at jaigurudeva@hotmail.com.
Update by Vynda, 9910.16
After a challenge posed by Fluxxie, i created a tarot deck outta all my friends. You can see it here. Also added lyrics to "Trigger Happy Jack" by Poe.
The onslaught of Hurricane Irene (yeah, it blew over one of my mom's plants on the back patio....big deal, n'est ce pas?) sent many people out to rent videos tonight. I really don't get that....wind, rain, possible power outages, and you're out driving through this to go get movies?? Having half the damn town in there is one thing, but when people come in about two hours before we close and start complaining that we don't have "The Matrix" (it's only been out like two weeks, we can't keep it on the shelves!), i get a little pissed. I get even more pissed when it's fifteen minutes passed closing, we've just sent the last customer out, we've turned the friggin 'Open' sign off, turned all the lights off out front, we're vacuuming, and, before we can lock the door, people start come in. But this wasn't any ordinary group of people.....this was a family of about seven with little children that kept getting into things and fighting with each other. Spent thirty freakin' minutes only to walk out without picking anything out. It's store policy that we can't force them to leave, which is too bad because i was pretty damned pissed about having to vaccum all over again and pick up movie boxes and candy wrappers they left behind. I may have handled that situation differently if the rest of the night hadn't been incredibly harrowing. This couple came in with this kid about five or six who was kicking and screaming at the top of his lungs because he wanted a candy bar and his parents would not buy one for him. This went on for almost an hour. You think when he started this one of them would have taken him out to the car, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. To paraphrase ThoughtViper, "Mommy seems to think just because she can ignore it, everyone can (note to Mommy: WE CAN'T).". After that, I got an inkling to hear Ringo Starr's "The No No Song" ("...No no no no, I don't smoke it no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor...." alright, i can think of only 3 people who might read this page, myself included, that are actually gonna know the insanity of which i speak). The radio station we listen to has like a 70's Saturday night request show, so I called them up. The guy proceeds to tell me he deleted the file for that song, "for the common decency of the American people." Oh that's it! I started yelling at him, "You just played the freakin' Partridge Family, and you deleted RINGO?!?!??!?!??!?!" That's okay, though. He made the mistake of giving out their homepage which contains his e-mail address. SOMEONE is gonna pay for the deletion...oh yes...someone will pay....
Update by Vynda, 9909.12
Added lyrics to "Secretly" by Skunk Anansie, "Coffee and TV" by Blur, and "Comin' Up From Behind" by Marcy Playground, all from the Cruel Intentions soundtrack. Also added lyrics to "Angel of the Forever Sleep" by Marcy Playground (from the "Sex and Candy" single) because I could.
Update by Vynda, 9908.22
Added The QuoteBook! YAY!
Update by Vynda, 9908.18
Whew...busy day...added lyrics to "Every You Every Me" (Placebo, from the Cruel Intentions soundtrack), "High" (Feeder, from the Can't Hardly Wait soundtrack), "What's My Age Again?" (Blink 182, from Enema of the State, and for Balthsarr o_o), and "You Wanted More" (Tonic, from the American Pie Soundtrack, and for me and Rah and Balth and Flux and Vyx).
Started school again today, what fun (yeah, yeah....Reythe and y'all don't start tillnext week.... :P). It was total chaos this morning, everybody got weird classes they didn't sign up for, and NONE of the teachers even had a class roll. Oh well, got
lucky though. With the exception of 1st period (which is just fine with me), I have classes and lunch with the ITA crowd. That's pretty much all that's going on now. Oh, yeah, almost forgot...
Update by Vynda, 9908.06
>Made the page have a JavaScript thingy in the status box on the index page. Ugh, had to work tonight. I hate (an I KNOW Rey agrees with me here) the people who come in drunk off their asses. Most of them seem to think you've got nothing but time for them (even when you're waiting on someone else), and then when they finally decide on whatever it is that they want, they want you to give them it either for free or at a reduced price because, "Honey, you just look so pretty. Anyone ever tell you that? I bet you're fending the boys off, babe. Hey, can I get this for like $1 instead, cause, sugar, I gotta go get another six pack darlin'..." (usually that sentance is slurred, but I cannot type wino...). Not only do they reek of liquor, but I usually start to get lightheaded from the fumes. It's tempting to ask them if they'd like me to call a family member to come pick them up, not because I'm concerned for their well-being, but because they've just rented new release movies that are on reserve for the people who actually bother to bring their movies in on time and rent more than just on one night a week. I hate having to call up our regular customers and tell them that the movies they put on reserve aren't availiable because the previous nights renter is probably lying somewhere unconcious. What's even worse is when they get a movie and bring it back a few hours later or on the next day, say they'd already seen the movie, then demand a refund or credit towards another movie. Our policy is if the renter brings the movie back within 45 minutes of rental, a credit slip will be issued. when you've had the movie for several hours or overnight, you've had time to watch it the whole way through. Sorry, buddy, but if you had time to watch this movie, chances are you DID, and are trying to get a free rental. Even worse still, those who will rent a movie, watch it, then want a refun or credit because they didn't like the movie. "It was boring." "The language was too crude." "I didn't understand it." "I can't believe this movie had so much sex in it! I thought it was a family movie!" (that last one was actually said about "As Good As It Gets". My reply to a co-worker as the customer left the store: "Do you know of any Jack Nicholson movies that ARE family movies?"). People, please, LEARN TO READ THE BACK OF THE BOX! Also, listen to your TV! If the movie is "Coming Soon to Theaters" or "Just Released at the Box Office", WE DON'T HAVE IT! Just because "Blair Witch Project" is out at the AMC 24 does NOT mean that you can find it at your local video retailer! That is called 'Marketing'. Can you say 'Marketing'? Sure, I knew you could. Why would ANYONE pay $8 to go to a movie at the theaters when they could put it out directly on video for about $2.50 a rental? The movie would make probably 1/6th it's possible income if they did that. Why would you expect them to take a money loss for your convienience? Augh, I'm spent. This is why stress at the workplace can be deadly.
Update by Vynda, 9908.05
Alright, added a wonderful little "what's new in our multiverse" page (this one, dumbass) today. Um...okay, what to write...well, I don't remember anything real memorable happening today. Watched "Breakfast At Tiffany's" this afternoon, which was really cool 'cause I haven't seen it in a long time. The only problem with the video I had (checked out from the library) was that is something called DVS (don't ask what it stands for ...I've looked all over the box and I cannot find it), which is for people who are blind or who have low vision. What happens is, as the movie progresses, a woman describes the scene to the viewer (thankfully without running over the dialogue). An example of this would be the opening scene: "A cab comes to a stop in front of a building in New York. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly gets out of the cab and pays the driver, then walks up to a store window at Tiffany & Company. The credits begin: Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'." Yeah, this gets a little annoying at times, especially when it either sets up a scene which hasn't happened yet or gets the information about a scene wrong. But, I think it's a really interesting idea to make movies like this available to vision-impared individuals. Wonder how many other movies are like this in the library. Not to many, I suppose. I don't imagine many blind people venture into libraries that often. Still, it's a wonderful concept. Alright, granted, I've strayed too far now. "Screw this, I'm going potty!" hehehe...
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