adult content

Everyone has already commented on the adult content thing. I just went here to adjust mine.
I set it to "Adult Concepts" because of the illustrative example that follows.

I was going to set it to "Adult Content" and then post a celebratory photo of my naked boobs, but a) I don't have one, and b) I'm at work so I can't take one.
And that's kind of how this journal goes. I'd be a lot filthier but I never get around to it.

Am I pro or con? I think 6A has been consistently asshats about the whole censorship debacle, but then, before 6A, how many of us remember when Livejournal's homemade servers, powered by rubberbands, used to overheat and nobody could get on? I bought my first membership partly out of pity for their plight and partly because the paid users could more consistently actually get access to the site.
Every organization will have its problems. I am just not that committed to 6A. I am committed to LJ because I've been here so long. But eventually I will probably archive my journal and put it onto my own website, or keep it private. It's a lot of years, and I've changed a lot through having it. I don't feel the need to make a political issue of 6A's questionable leadership. In a world where, insert political observation here, has anything positive ever happened in politics?, I just don't feel it's reasonable to expect any better of any organization.

edit: I also had intended to post something about how I sometimes wished I could easily tag my entries that weren't suitable for kids to read, up to the point that I do have a custom friends filter to exclude those members of my flist who I know are quite young, but this isn't what I had in mind. Still, it's not that there's no call for anything of this nature at all. /edit


I'm not saying that to sound cynical or jaded, I'm just saying, it's not usually worth the outrage, and I just can't muster any on my own. I don't have enough invested. As long as my content remains my own, I am, well, not content, but not unhappy.

Eh. In other news, my eyes started bothering me this morning at 9 am, but at least I'm being generally recognized as useful around the office.

I have an essay brewing on the whole "war on christmas" thing at some point, in the same tone of mild reasonability informing this post, sparked by a woman I answered product questions on the phone for just now who thanked me, sincerely, for the hold music, which is Christmas music piped in from a local station. "A real Christmas carol!" Oh dear, ma'am. But it made her happy, and I can't argue with that.
But I don't have time for the essay just now.

more tales from work

This is an absolutely verbatim transcript of a customer service call, as reported by my coworker who took the call.

Customer: I got a suspicion my filter took a shitcan because it smells like vinegar. I had a girlfriend smelled like vinegar, I got rid a her too.
Coworker: ... Uh, yes, a vinegar smell usually indicates that the filter has become exhausted.
Customer: It's a great little machine, I've had it two years. It's really awesome. I got it off a friend for ten bucks.
Coworker: You got a pretty good deal.
Customer: Really?
Coworker: They retail for $450.
Customer: Holy shit!
[he orders replacement filter]
Coworker: We'll get that sent out. UPS Ground should have it to you within about two or three days.
Customer: Man, you guys rock.
Coworker: Why thank you.



Customer service isn't always bad. It's usually either boring or weird, but it's not always bad. I've been getting fewer customer service calls of late, since I'm supposed to be doing more Important things (I dunno, whatever), and while on the one hand, I'm much less frustrated by the end of the day, I also get a lot less entertainment.


Speaking of frustration, the light over my head has been blinking on and off at 15-30 minute intervals all day.
Fortunately it's sunny out so I actually kind of like it being off. I just wish it would stay off.