Delicious Placebo

I have never been good at making or keeping friends.  People tend to like me, but because I can’t usually relate to people, or reciprocate their interest, I never end up actually having friends.  The people I call friends now aren’t really what I thought of back when I was in school and had a group of folks that I hung out with every weekend.  I had some very preconceived ideas about what I was supposed to do to be a good friend.. yadda yadda…
The people I associate with now, who I consider friends, are the most wonderful people in the world.  They have shown me that I can just be me.  My friends are honest about who they are and that is all I want from them.  I don’t care if they have faults, or even if they are really strange/annoying/geeky/dumb whatever. 

This thought is hard to put into words, so maybe it doesn’t make sense to everyone.  I’m just trying to say that I’m glad to know a group of people who I can be around, and I don’t have to figure out their motives as we have a conversation.  I don’t have to worry about what they want from me, why they’re talking to me, or what they expect from my friendship.  It’s good to be around people who also just like to be around me.  I love my friends just as they are, with all their beautiful eccentricities.

Guess who didn’t file any taxes…
If you guessed me, you’re right!

…Ok maybe it’s just me…

Am I the only one who has had it up to here *holds hand above head* with not being able to say to people what you REALLY want to?  This only applies to people I deal with at work but since at least 50% of my life is spent here (at work) it comes up a lot.  I have also noticed that it comes up most often when I’m dealing with email.  Yes, I could fill many books with the emails I have from people who don’t know what they’re talking about.  That’s ok, most of the time I just remind myself that I am the tech and they are the end user.  I shouldn’t expect them to know what they are talking about. 

But seriously.. Do you think there is an acceptable level of  belligerence when responding to email?  Can I somehow get away with writing replies that are at an equal or lesser level of coherence or mindfulness?  Is it ok if I use netspeak (omg fix my computerz!) like the people who write to me?  Sometimes I just leave the bad emails for the day shift to worry about, but my boss doesn’t like that. 

It just takes too much energy to word a reply that diplomatically says “WTF is wrong with you, why would you even think the helpdesk can fix your air-conditioner.”

Work safe, and very bizzare.  Here is the excerpt from the Geekologie blog:
This is a picture of a scary webpage [picture not included in my post, see link below] you can go to where that creepy woman there follows your cursor around and freaks you out. It works, I am freaked. I actually got so scared that I tried moving the cursor around erratically in an attempt to break her neck. But alas, cyborgs are trickier to kill that I had initially anticipated. Give it a go yourself, but be warned: you will cry, mess your pants, and put your fist through the monitor*. That, or fall in love. With a robot face on a website. In which case you need to get out more.

http://cubo.cc/