Sunday, August 17, 2014

We went on a cabin weekend with some friends and their families.

We went on a cabin weekend with some friends and their families. James to one of the older boys, "Do you know my name?"
Older boy puzzled, "Yeah, it's James."
James with conviction, "No! Today my name is DARTH VADER!!"

Sunday, August 10, 2014

At the playground.

At the playground. Sara yelling to the boys on the play structure, "If you want to take off your hats, you can. You just have to bring them to me."
James excited, "I want to take off my pants!"
Sara, "No, HATS. If you want to take off your HATS, you can."

Thursday, August 07, 2014

Nate, "I practice for petting dogs, by petting Liam's head."

Is it wrong if it feels so right?

Is it wrong if it feels so right?

Originally shared by Chris Blasko

Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and scream at them, you ask? Certainly not. Like a good IT administrator I put my skills to use for their benefit. Here's how the conversation went:

Computer: "Press 9 to not be contacted in the future. Press 4 to speak to someone about your mortgage issues"

TM: "Hello, are you having problems paying your mortgage?"
Me: "Hi, this is the IT department. We intercepted your call as we detected a problem with you phone and need to fix it."
TM: "Oh... ok, well what do we need to do?"
Me: "We're going to need to fix the settings by pressing 4-6-8 and * at the same time"
TM: "Ok, nothing happened."

Me: "Are you using the new Polycom phones that we deployed?"
TM: "No, it's a Yealink"
Me: "Ok, I see. You haven't had the new Polycom phone deployed to your desk yet. Let me check our technical documentations for the Yealink."

Me: "Alright, do you see an "OK" button on your phone?"
TM: "Yes I do"
Me: "Alright, you're going to press and hold that button for 10 seconds."
TM: "OK, pressing it now"
Me: "Perfect, let me know if you get a password request"
TM: "OK, nothing has popped up ye----"


That's right. I made a telemarketer unwittingly factory reset his phone which means he will be unable to make anymore calls until someone is able to reconfigure his phone and that will take at least an hour or longer if they can't do it right away!

Monday, August 04, 2014

James gets a letter in the mail.

James gets a letter in the mail.