I am having trouble logging into the calendar to update it, it’s still there and visible and everything, but I need to sort out why I can’t log in and then I will be able to start updating it again. Really annoying way to start off the day, and does not bode well for how my day is going to go after this.
I was enjoying watching CSI: Miami, which in the past few weeks I have developed an addiction for, and was caught off guard by a 60 second recap by Airwick… nice idea, however, they totally messed it up. 30 minutes into the one hour show they give a recap of the entire main plot line of the episode. Really really annoyed me. I’m now only watching for the subplot they have going, which thankfully was the one I was more interested in anyway, so the episode was not entirely ruined for me.
It just makes no sense that their recap thing would tell not just what happened in the first half of the episode, but also what happened in the part that has not yet been watched.
I was sick most of this past week, kept meaning to get more done, but never even managed to get onto AOL Instant Messenger to talk to my friends. Now that I am starting to feel better, I am working to get caught up on the work that I had missed out on all week. At least that is what I want to be doing, but some of the websites I want to work on are not working at the moment, and I’m feeling too exhausted to fight getting them all to work right.
After sleeping in late with a toothache, I got a phone call just before noon. It was some gal that could barely speak much less barely speak English. She sounded like she was sitting across the room from a speaker phone and mumbling toward her feet. I kept trying to ask her to speak up or take it off speaker phone or whatever, but she did not seem to understand what I was trying to explain about not being able to hear her.
I finally gave up on trying to point out the detail that I could not understand a word she was saying, and just had her repeat things until I understood it. I was amazed she actually did it. Turned out she wanted to have me take a survey and if I qualified for it then I could take the survey and be paid $15. That’s kewl, so why not, I’m in advertising stuff online so I figured it might be pertaining to one of those companies I work for - although I would hope they all have better sense than to hire someone you can’t understand.
Well, she launches into her spiel about do I work for marketing or advertising (I explained I write online ads, but she did not seem to think that qualified, so ::shrug:: ) then she asked if I was involved in any health care profession - both of these took far longer for her to ask and entailed a dozen scenarios each, but bottom line was nope, no advertising companies or health care places employ me - go on to
step two of the “do you qualify?”
This is one question after another about have I ever been diagnosed for such and such by a doctor. I finally head her off and explain, for the third time, that I have never seen a doctor, have never been diagnosed for any of what she’s asking, have not been sick enough to see a doctor since I was ten. (Okay, I saw one for tonsillitis at about twelve and one for a busted arm at 13 and had a checkup at 16 - but come on, the woman’s going on and on and I ain’t seen a doctor for any of that stuff.)
She started thanking me for my time and I asked if that meant I was disqualified because I had not seen a doctor for any of those things. Yup. Okay, so, I asked who she worked for. Oh boy, if I thought she could not talk before… ::shakes head:: I finally get her to spit out “Health Related Studies” and just shake my head. I try again, “Who do you work for? What company pays you?” She is silent for a long time, then asks me if I can hold for a moment. “Sure thing.”
Yeah, you guessed it. She hung up the phone on me. I still don’t know what to make of the call, but I assume that it was not a case of I had not been diagnosed with things as it was that I was not gullible enough to fall for her scam when she got to it so she needed to ditch me fast. My best guess s far is either someone that was looking for somebody they could get bank information from or someone that they could sell health insurance to.
I’m lounged back in one of those massaging back rest chairs with a bed tray over my lap to hold my laptop computer. 
I have a TV tray set up beside the bed to hold my toothache medicine and other necessities like something to sip and my glasses ans so on.
