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| Thursday, January 7th, 2010 |
technophobe1975
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10:49p |
Telephonic Triumphalism!
Just before Christmas we received a prescription for Sandostatin LAR, which is an extremely expensive drug designed to treat certain forms of cancer. Due to its rarity and price we could not order it through any of our normal wholesalers but had to go directly to the manufacturer which in this case was Novartis UK. This would not normally be a problem - after all the patient in question had been having this for almost a year now so when I navigated my way through their automated phone system, merrily pressing the correct buttons as I went, I was not expecting any problems. This however turned out to be a mistake. As the days went by and nothing had arrived, we were not initially worried - after all in that period between Christmas and the New Year I would imagine that the postal service has a huge backlog of stuff to get through but as January arrived the boss started to get jittery. Now instead of doing the obvious thing and ringing the company to find out what was happening, he instead targetted what he thought was the weakest link in the supply chain - the one who put the order through, which was myself. So on a daily basis I started off being asked was I "sure that I had done it properly?" This changed after a while to "I don't think you have done it properly", then to "why hasn't it arrived then?" to "are you sure you put an order through at all?" and finally to "you must have done it wrong". So yesterday morning he tossed the prescription down in front of me (most annoying), telling me that I had obviously done it wrong, the woman was going to be out of medication and it was going to be all my fault. So I rang up the company, which is what he should have done in the first place, got through to a nice lady in the orders department and asked her what had happened to the order, and her reply? Yes, we received the order but we are not despatching it because several outstanding bills had not been paid. So it was with a sense of quiet satisfaction that I was able to pass on the receiver to the boss who was standing by me hanging on to my every word, occasionally telling me what to say (again, most annoying) and tell him that the problem was one that he should be able to sort out. I then carried on working while he made his excuses, and in the next quiet period went upstairs, found an empty room, shut the door and shouted YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS! IN YOUR F A C E ! ! ! At the top of my voice. I didn't get any apologies, in case you were wondering ;) |
cosmosin_strife
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10:48p |
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cosmosin_strife
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7:21p |
Seeeeer, the stuff arrived today, thank you :D *molest liek woah* \o/ Also... A MONTH TO GO O_O Not much else to report apart from that lol. Current Mood:  full |
| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 |
technophobe1975
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11:04p |
Trailer Trash Tuesday.
Well, it took 16 long weeks, but I am finally going to feature a film by a company called Troma. It is a fiercely independant outfit, specialising in niche horror/exploitation films, such as "Killer Condoms" and "Rabid Grannies" which never trouble the mainstream but nonethless have gained a loyal following. This week's trailer is taken from the film MONSTER IN THE CLOSET. I love the line "The most highly developed nuclear flowerpots COULD NOT STOP IT"! Anyway, the plot such as it is begins with a sudden rash of unexplainable deaths with the bodies being found within closets with strange puncture marks in the middle of their chests. At first thought to be the work of some strange snake, one killing spree later convinces the authorities of its existence and the struggle to destroy it begins. Interestingly enough, the film features a very young Stacey Ferguson (Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas) and even better, she gets killed! *waits for wild cheering to subside* Interestingly enough, the monster turns out to be gay, and falls in love with a cute reporter;  (Well you would, wouldn't you) And after its sources of energy (the closets) are destroyed, it takes him off to San Francisco where they live happily ever after, until its energy runs out and it dies. Anyway, a lot of fun, if not particularly scary. |
cosmosin_strife
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9:31p |
All in all, tbh it's been a very average day. And it won't stop snowing D: Mega molestings and thanks to Ser and Loomy, you guys are the best <3 And it's sad that your posts are probably the highlight of today XD. lol from Andy I got £20 and a trip to the chinese buffet (so I guess I can't complain considering he didn't moan at all at having to pay :p) and from Loomy I got an Obama roth page a day calendar. And from myself I got the Aerith Crisis Core playarts figure, as well as The Tudors season 3 and Bruno. I'm kinda disappointed my stuff from ebay hasn't shown up yet, but with a bit of luck it should get here this week. Current Mood:  okay |
| Monday, January 4th, 2010 |
cosmosin_strife
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4:33p |
yay for new layout \o/
Dear self, no really, sitting on your own listening to the Fatal Frame soundtracks with the headphones on is not a clever idea. Rly. I totes didn't expect the sounds of the ghosts to be on the tracks, so it's freaky as hell O_O Anyhoo, off tomorrow :D Got Andy to agree to take me to Jimmy Chung's too, so that'll be good. Hopefully my stuff from ebay will turn up, if not, it'll be just another sucky birthday for me lol. I just need to remember to take my camera so I can get a pic of the snow for everyone to lol at too. Aaaand it's only 4 weeks til I go to America, so I need to get my ass in gear and buy shit for that, including travel insurance, joy. Current Mood:  coldCurrent Music: Fatal Frame 1 OST - Despair. |
| Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 |
cosmosin_strife
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9:51p |
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cosmosin_strife
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6:37p |
STOP SNOWING DAMNIT D: Blergh, getting to work at 6 tomorrow morning will be fun :S Current Mood:  boredCurrent Music: Fatal Frame 1 ost - what do they want to say? |
| Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 |
cosmosin_strife
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1:30p |
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technophobe1975
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12:37p |
Why our postman probably hates me...
I can imagine that I was not the postman's favourite person after all the boxes below arrived in one single delivery yesterday. Although to be fair, it wasn't entirely my fault - some of them dated from before Christmas and HMV packages all its DVDs up individually for some reason as opposed to somewhere like Amazon who send them all in one large box. So when I got home there was a large teetering pile of cardboard waiting for me to spend a disproportionally long amount of time and painfully break a nail getting into. And one of them was wrong :( Still, I have much televisual goodness to look forward to, or I would do if I wasn't experiencing so many strange pains, almost as if someone had a small voodoo doll of me, which they were merrily sticking pins into!  |
| Friday, January 1st, 2010 |
cosmosin_strife
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6:14p |
Just a quick post before I go to watch Dr Who to wish y'all a Happy New Year :D Current Mood:  relaxed |
| Thursday, December 31st, 2009 |
technophobe1975
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9:44p |
Methadone Musings.
As we are closed tomorrow, I had to get ready two days worth of Methadone (a liquid designed to help addicts wean themselves off of Heroin or other opioid based substances) prescriptions ready for our regular customers and as you can see, there was a fair few to get ready, as the number of people coming in for it has steadily grown over the last month or so.  The idea being that the patients are put on a gradually reducing dose so that in time they can quit altogether, although in my experience the success rate seems to be fairly low. Anyway as I carefully measured out each dose - long term patients can tell if you are even a few mls out, and as I laid them all out in front of me I was struck with the realisation that there is no such thing as a "typical" addict, and each of those bottles filled with revolting looking green liquid had a story behind it. There is one which has to be sugar free, as the patient is concerned about how drinking it every day might be affecting his teeth. There is one which has to be a specific brand as any other sort makes them throw up. There is one for one half of a prolific shoplifting couple who have become so notorious that when either of them is spotted in the town centre, the security guards in the main stores contact each other to warn them that "Posh & Becks" have been sited. There is one who I am fairly sure is in an abusive relationship as she frequently comes in with bruises and the occasional black eye. There is one who is somehow managing to hold down a steady job and who peels the labels off in the shop as his girlfriend does not know anything about his problem. There is one who has his own decorating business. There is one who I am almost certain is just taking it away to sell on as the police raided his house and discovered 29 small bottles there. There is one who insists on having each days dose in an individual bottle so if he has a run-in with the police, which according to him happens quite regularly, then they can only confiscate the one... There is one which is collected by a middle class looking young mum after she has dropped her children off at school. We also have one who is not trusted to take his away with him like everyone else due to the fact that he has been caught selling several times in the past. So now, someone has to watch him drink it, then get him to speak to them afterwards to make sure that he is not keeping as much of it in his mouth as he can then rushing outside and transferring it directly into someone else's mouth (known as a Green Kiss)! |
| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 |
technophobe1975
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10:12p |
Trailer Trash Tuesday.
Firstly, a great big bloodstained welcome to new readers of this look at the tackier side of cinematic history. In brief, this weekly column concentrates on films that you can tell are going to be bad simply by watching the trailer, yet strangely compel you to find out more about them - beware, for regular reading of this feature can temporarily over-ride your good taste glands and cause you to buy some films featured, speaking personally I am looking forward to my copy of Uwe Boll's House Of The Dead to arrive! The poll from last week is still up and running and those who wish to check out older reviews can simply click the link at the bottom of the page. This week, we confront the foul horror of THE GINGERDEAD MAN. Oookay, the trailer pretty much sums up the film - A wildly overacting Gary Busey robs a diner, killing several people in the process. He is sentenced to death, electrocuted and his ashes sent to his mother, thus starting the long and tenuous train of events that will eventually lead to his resurrection as the worlds deadliest biscuit/cake (delete as appropriate), for his mother HAPPENS to be a witch, who mixes her son's ashes with some gingerbread mix which she leaves outside a bakery run by the surviving child from the original robbery. Despite the fact that most normal people would ignore a batch of suspect baking ingredients left on their back door by someone in a long black cloak, the heroine mixes it with some dough to create, not many gingerbread men as you would imagine a smart businesswoman doing but one large gingerbread man. Her fellow cook then HAPPENS to cut himself and bleeds what looks like half a pint of blood into the dough. Again, most normal people here would throw away the infected food mix and start again, but things must really be desperate, or she must despise her clientelle as she merrily ignores what must be several dozen health and safety laws and bungs it in the oven, which then HAPPENS to be it by a sudden surge in electricity, thus creating The Gingerdead Man. (Phew). This takes up a surprisingly large chunk of the movie, which leaves little time for what we all came to see - killer confectionary. Someone loses a finger and is shoved in the oven, someone else is run over (how? He is tinier than Short Round in Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom, but as we are watching a film where a gingerbread man is on the rampage, we must temporarily suspend our disbelief) and someone else is encased in icing and locked in the freezer. He seems to be vanquished when his head is bitten off, as this clip shows (beware, contains small amounts of naughty language.) The first thing you might notice is what a terrible shot he is. Obviously those little cookie fingers do not help when aiming a revolver at someone literally a couple of feet in front of you! But that of course is not the end... The good thing about this film is the design of the Gingerdead Man himself. Apparently the makers were going to go for a completely CGI look, which would have only looked half as fun, but the modelwork is cheesily effective. The bad points of course as is usual in this sort of film are the acting and the script. The characters menaced are complete idiots and deserve everything they get, demonstrating some appalling gaps in logic and the script misses out on several golden opportunities to have a proper wise-cracking villain. When you consider the amount of comedy gold that is in the concept it is sad to see how they messed it all up. And of course as it is a low budget production there is too much bad acting and not enough Gingerdead Man. Those who still wish to see more will find the entire film on youtube, which will help you to avoid paying for it! |
cosmosin_strife
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7:21p |
Meme
ganked from Loomy Give me a character and I will tell you:
+ OTP for them.
+ Runner-up pairing.
+ Honorable mention(s).
+ Crack pairing(s).
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't. Current Mood:  soreCurrent Music: Stephen King's IT on youtube |
cosmosin_strife
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4:51p |
lol I'm falling apart it seems :p Didn't go to work today as earlier I couldn't even go 5 minutes without hacking up my lungs, and I had another nosebleed last night, oh joy. My lower back and ass are still sore and I've done something to my right elbow as that's sore too. ... Least I won that auction for some limited edition Crisis Core stuff earlier :D Current Mood: sore |
| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
cosmosin_strife
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9:49p |
Meme time :D
So here's the rules: 1. Write down the names of ten characters. 2. Write a fic of fifteen words or more for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do not read the prompts before you do step one. 1)Cloud 2)Zack 3)Sephiroth 4)Genesis 5)Aerith 6)Sasuke 7)Naruto 8)Itachi 9)The Master 10)The Tenth Doctor ( lulz shall be had ) Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Voices of the lifestream - Collision (The north cave) |
cosmosin_strife
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7:00p |
Blah, work was deader than Dumbledore today, it being a public holiday and all. So yay, today I spent it cold, ill, bored and sore thanks to falling on my ass on some black ice while I was in town yesterday - joy :S Christmas was ok, despite the fail of FFXI being retarded and not letting my controller work. It was just fine on the control panel to change controller settings for the game, and it was fine on the menu, but it crashed ingame, and idk why. Dr Who was awesome, and apart from that spent most of my time playing Crisis Core surprise surprise. Current Mood: sore and sick |
| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
cosmosin_strife
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7:43p |
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