#hoooooooboy

[the-trails-we-blaze]

I'm finally getting caught up on ZZZ, and boy oh boy, my Lighter muse grows stronger by the day.

Also hi I'm not dead, just focused on my other blog skxjkwnsk

[shampoodles]

My one on one with my manager went fine I literally was like today will be the end of times shaking thru the day and all this

[ventussolder]

I am...emotional.....

[vsemily]

We have the freshest pizza in The Springs. The best part is? We Deliver.

[july-19th-club]

this Bitcoin Scam Extravaganza is reminding me of the phone call I got at work the other week. At our library, which is in a small town, we frequently get calls from elderly or country folks who don’t have the internet at home and need to look something up - so, rather than coming in and struggling to figure out the computer themselves, they’ll call us at the front desk and have us Google a phone number for them or something. We have one guy who’s blind, so he calls in to have us check the newspaper for him sometimes, we like him, he’s chill; and one lady who watches a lot of Bill O’Reilly and similar, so she calls us to have us look up the ridiculous addresses she’ll see on TV for various conservative bastions of ‘news’ (we dont like her much). 

But the most interesting and, frankly, stupidest phone call I’ve ever gotten from a patron who wanted me to do a Google for them was the Bitcoin Lady. This was just recently, in early November. She sounded middle-aged and deeply harassed, and when I picked up the phone with my standard line: “Hi, this is the ___ Library’s main desk! What can I do for ya?” she took a DEEP breath and launched right into her woes. 

“Can you look up the phone number for Bitcoin?” she asked me. “Because I need to call them and complain. I just saw about Bitcoin on TV, and I don’t think you can use them over the phone, and they need to know that they’re alienating a lot of people, they’re excluding a lot of people, having it only be on the computer, lots of people don’t have online, and they should have it be over the phone.” She said all of this in a very rushed, irritable voice, as if I, personally, had been on the drawing board at Bitcoin and suggested that they not include an over-the-phone option in their virtual online currency invention. 

So I dutifully Googled ‘bitcoin’ for our irate friend. Turns out that Bitcoin does have a website, but surprising nobody, it didn’t actually have a phone number you could call, just a ‘contact us’ bar on the site itself. I let her know that she could come in and lodge her complaint personally, but that I wouldn’t be able to fill in the request for her myself. She hung up in a huff, and I never even got to explain to her that she simply had a fundamental misunderstanding of what, exactly, Bitcoin is even for. 

[aesthetiicly]

guess who can get to school at 10:20 tomorrow

me

[strifetime]

I never want to hear "Does ___ look Naruto to you?" from my sibling ever again.

[skeksis-fr]

Ooooooh man this is gonna be so good for my lore holy shit