:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Thursday, August 21, 2003 ::

no post last night?
Nope. Apparently, big happenings in my Delta Force Squad. People aren't happy with each other, and I feel like the squad's falling apart for real this time. There's things going on behind the scenes that I don't want to say completely here because I have link in my AE forum sig and I don't know how many AE members check out my site on a regular basis. I know a couple joined my forum, so I know that some do at times.

All I'm going to say is this...

I'm afraid for AE's future. A few things were said that probably shouldn't have been said, and now people are reading things that are typed in perhaps a bit differently than they were intended to be read.

That's one of the major downfalls of the internet and a text based forum. A word is a very small part of the communication process, and people just don't seem to understand that anymore. The other parts we take for granted, body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, are all missing in this type of situation.

Ever notice how you can get an idea of what's going on just by watching a person when they talk? Or how you can tell how someone feels from the tone of their voice? the look on their face? These are all things that are missing here. Communication is more than just words and language.

I think some of the members of AE are losing sight of that, and are starting to read more than what's really there on the screen.

I don't want to see the squad break up. It's been fun playing with the same group of people. I'm definitely going to miss it if it breaks up.

catching up
On the otherhand, life outside the internet does go on, despite it's interferance with having fun... LOL...

I fixed a couple of the databases yesterday, so that worked out good. I also got some data entry done for Billy. We're going to have to tell the reps to e-mail their leads in an Excel file. There's no way in hell anyone should have to type in five pages of leads. It's just a big pain.

What really bugged me about it was that it looked like an Excel spreadsheet that someone printed (in tiny letters, mind you) and then faxed over. What didn't he just send the stupid file??? {{sigh}}

today
Lori was out today, so Bill called in his daughter Heather to take care of the phones and do some order entry. He hovers over her just like he hovers over me. Man, it's annoying... I also finished off the spreadsheet and typed in another set of leads that looked like they'd been printed off a website. If I had gotten it even as a stupid HTML file, I still could have converted it around a bit and merged it through Excel into Act... but, again, it had been faxed, so I had to sit there and type the stupid thing in. However, I did finish that one completely today, so I don't have to worry about finishing it tomorrow.

I just don't know what I'm going to do now tomorrow. O.O;;

bills, bills...
I also paid off a bunch of bills last night to mail out today. So, I already spent the money I got earlier this week from work. Go figure. {{sigh}} I hate bills. They suck.

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