Buggy

Sitting here around midnight, long after our houseguests and Danny have shuffled off to bed, I'm catching up on news around the world.

There's a very tiny beetle that's gravitated to me. It flies. I've brushed it off, but it comes back. I've encountered it before; it leaves a scent after it.

The scent smells exactly like the inside of an unused, freshly unwrapped Band-Aid.

What's that all about?

Buggy

Sitting here around midnight, long after our houseguests and Danny have shuffled off to bed, I'm catching up on news around the world.

There's a very tiny beetle that's gravitated to me. It flies. I've brushed it off, but it comes back. I've encountered it before; it leaves a scent after it.

The scent smells exactly like the inside of an unused, freshly unwrapped Band-Aid.

What's that all about?

Confused as to intent

Somehow, Albuquerque has become customer-support-India.

Some years ago, there was a 'ginormous' (I love that word. I'm sure it'll be in the dictionary soon) MCI customer support center way up in the northeast heights. I became aware of it because I had to actually call a square dance for their quarterly awards party many years ago. It was a hoot, since I had to research hundreds of square dance patter couplets to insert into the dance.

MCI is long gone, but about the time they left, Sprint opened a majorly huge support center on the outskirts of Rio Rancho. I had a friend that worked there for a long time, commuting daily 120 miles. I have a memory of him telling me that the hardest thing he had to do for his 60K a year was create a spreadsheet of productivity. Sprint is still there, but I don't know anyone personally that uses their service anymore, nor do I hear advertising for it. My friend moved on long ago to other opportunities.

Last night, I drove our visiting friends up old Route 66 to 9 Mile Hill to see the view of Albuquerque. That corridor on the west side of town is what you'd call 'rapidly developing.'

I noticed on my left as we hit 98th Street (or was it Unser Blvd), that there was a double ginormous Verizon call center that appeared out of nowhere. Do people actually use Verizon? Hmmm...

I'm waiting for a T-Mobile call center to pop up somewhere here in the desert very soon. Maybe next to the Tempurpedic Mattress Factory next to the Petroglyph National Park.

Confused as to intent

Somehow, Albuquerque has become customer-support-India.

Some years ago, there was a 'ginormous' (I love that word. I'm sure it'll be in the dictionary soon) MCI customer support center way up in the northeast heights. I became aware of it because I had to actually call a square dance for their quarterly awards party many years ago. It was a hoot, since I had to research hundreds of square dance patter couplets to insert into the dance.

MCI is long gone, but about the time they left, Sprint opened a majorly huge support center on the outskirts of Rio Rancho. I had a friend that worked there for a long time, commuting daily 120 miles. I have a memory of him telling me that the hardest thing he had to do for his 60K a year was create a spreadsheet of productivity. Sprint is still there, but I don't know anyone personally that uses their service anymore, nor do I hear advertising for it. My friend moved on long ago to other opportunities.

Last night, I drove our visiting friends up old Route 66 to 9 Mile Hill to see the view of Albuquerque. That corridor on the west side of town is what you'd call 'rapidly developing.'

I noticed on my left as we hit 98th Street (or was it Unser Blvd), that there was a double ginormous Verizon call center that appeared out of nowhere. Do people actually use Verizon? Hmmm...

I'm waiting for a T-Mobile call center to pop up somewhere here in the desert very soon. Maybe next to the Tempurpedic Mattress Factory next to the Petroglyph National Park.

Slap me before I get like this!

Slap me before I get like this!