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I’ve forgotten more blog post ideas than I’ve written in the last month or two. It’s sad really … I’ll say “I am SO blogging that” and am all hot to trot before getting side-tracked by something else and then eventually completely forgetting what it was I had wanted to blog about in the first place.

/sigh

Today, though, I have a shit-load of a list to pour out on paper. This is what happens when I don’t make a note when I think of the topics – I end up with such a long list of items, that the blog posts are just WAY too long to be interesting.

I’ll tell you what – I’ll leave the bitching for that OTHER place (wink-wink at those in the know) and focus on the positive experiences today.

The day started out rather badly: I couldn’t sleep last night and ended up dozing on the couch in front of the Smallville discs hubby left with me after R&R. So no walking this morning – and frankly, I’ve been doing pretty good with the walking this last week. I managed to haul myself off the couch at about 6:45 or so and hit the shower. Ever since hubby left off R&R, my focus has been shot to shit. I can’t focus on work for nothing. So on a day like today, I get the bare minimum done, which makes me feel like such a failure and a time-waster.

Course days like yesterday where I push at it for almost 10 hours makes up for days like today.

After about half an hour worth of work, interjected with breakfast, and a phone call with hubby, I decided I needed to hit the post office to send off the HomeAgain pet recovery service primary owner transfer request for Nala. Figured while I was out there, I’d send off the package to the in-laws. I get done at the post office and figure since I am out, I may as well get the Jeep’s oil change off my to-do list. While I am driving, I decide I need to call in the windscreen crack details to the insurance company because … really, the longer I wait, the worse it gets – right?

The oil change took maybe 20 minutes. Figured since I was out and about and going to be passing the USAA Killeen store on my way back home, I’d stop in, look around and maybe even talk to them about some stuff.

I’ll tell you this – the USAA store was complete geek overload for me. 3 ATMS – 2 inside on either side of the lobby, computer monitors everywhere which became pretty obvious quickly that they were almost all for customers. I signed in to wait for an agent to talk to me, and when my turn comes up, I am ushered into a little cubicle with a desk against the wall, a phone and computer screen, a pen and a scratch pad. The girl tells me to take a seat. I ask her where she’s gonna sit, she says “Oh I’ll leave you alone with the agent on the IP phone once I get you all connected.”

Picture jaw on the ground. Not only am I going to have some privacy to talk to them, but it’s going to be over a video IP phone.

We concluded our business – extremely favourably, I may add – I am always left with a surrealistic feeling of accomplishment and warmth after dealing with the USAA staff. I can’t tell you what it is about them that makes such an impression, but I would guess that it’s simply because they are all people who are close to the service and are fully aware of the difficulties, challenges, joys and jokes of the service… and even that sounds like a weak explanation of the image their staff puts out there.

In short: they just get it.

All in all, a productive day even though I wasn’t able to do shit at home in front of my computer for work.

Oh well – maybe tomorrow or Sunday…

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