-=(Sagien)=-

Valentine's Day, 2006

These events happen between the hours of 4:30AM until 9:45AM, on Valentine's Day and the day after, 2006.

4:30 AM

The phone rings. Sagien goes to answer it.

"Time to go to work!" It was the boss.

"Yep."

"Alright, come on in and take it ea --"

*click*

4:51 AM

Sagien decides that since he's up, he might as well go deliver some newspapers.

After a relaxed 20 minute drive to Pleasantville, he finally shows up at the newspaper plant to pick up the payload.

6:30 AM

Papers are finished. Time to go home.

He stops at the Wawa to pick up some orange juice and a bagel. mm bagels.

6:49 AM

At home, and blogging, eating a bagel, drinking some OJ. Very exciting, I know.

Also, checking on downloads and movie ripping. Also, very exciting.

And being chatty on AIM.

Lost fight with printer.

8:15 AM

Phone rings.

"You ready to roll?" It was Camel.

"Yeah, I need your help printing something."

"Oh god, man. Well you better hurry then."

"oh em double you"

9:13AM

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Phone rings.

"Where are you?" It was Camel.

"Almost there."

"By there, where do you mean?"

"At Stockton."

"Oh. I thought you were stopping by here first."

"By here, where do you mean?"

"Casa de Camel."

"Oh. I thought I was picking you up at Stockton."

"I thought you were gonna follow me to Stockton then pick me up."

"Well just get here, man. I'll park where you can see me."

"Park behind Big Blue."

"Okay."

9:45 AM

Camel drives up. Sagien was taking a nap and waiting. He sees Camel approach and he turns his vehicle on. Camel jumps out of his moving vehicle and on to Sagien's moving vehicle.

And we're on our way.

First stop, Casa de Camel.

10:00 AM

Casa de Camel.

"Get me online," demands Sagien. Camel gets right on it.

"Hurry up."

"I'm moving as fast as AOL will carry me, Joe. I just have to print out a few emails."

"I hope they're not PDFs. That computer hates PDFs."

"They're PDFs."

"Well, it can't be done." Sagien keeps clicking.

"What part of they can't be done didn't you understand. I've never had that thing be able to print PDFs, and you wont be able to either."

Sagien keeps clicking. "This thing is frickin slow, how can you live like this?"

"Are you listening to me?"

"It'll work."

"Yeah, it'll magically work because you are printing them, and not me."

Sagien keeps clicking. Camel leaves the room.

When he gets back, the All-in-One Lexmark printer is printing. It's printing PDFs. Sagien's stealing his Twix's.

10:13 AM

Parked next to the flower shop. Camel is inside, Sagien's on his phone.

"I'll be a little bit late. The job I'm on is lasting a tad longer than I expected," he said into it.

The back door to the SUV opens and Camel shoves 15 balloons in the back.

"I may need your help carrying these in," he said and went back into the flower shop.

He returns a few minutes later carring a gigantic, gaudy vase full of flowers.

"I don't suppose those are for Ashley."

"No, they aren't"

He situates himself in the front seat, holding the enormous vase. Sagien starts driving.

"I really want a cigarette, but I can't."

"I don't think I'll be very keen to a burning bush of flowers in my car, Joe."

10:45 AM

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

[EDIT: Camel took it upon himself to draw a rectangle over his eyes. He likes it better that way.]

All Sagien needed to do was open three doors for Camel and then he left.

11:01 AM

Sagien is driving to Long Beach Island, NJ. Travel time: one hour and eight minutes according to Mapquest.

11:45 AM

"So, it's a hard drive install?"

"Well, my son already installed the hard drive," customer says. Sagien looks at his work order(the PDF that printed out). It read:

Problem description: Replace hard drive.

"Well, that's what my work order is telling me to do."

"Oh. Well we're still having problems with it after he put it in. I'm not exactly sure what, but it's a problem."

"Well, let's take a look." Sagien turns the customer's PC on and gets a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the corner.

"Is this all it does?" he asked.

"I don't really know. My son was working on it."

"Where's your restore CD?"

12:15 PM

Sagien's on hold with tech support.

12:30 PM

"Technical services, how can I help you?"

"You need to ship the customer a new restore CD."

"Why?"

"Because this one doesn't work."

"What doesn't work about it?"

"Windows won't install because it can't find it's own End User License Agreement."

"Aren't you just supposed to install the hard drive."

"Yeah, but I'm a nice guy. I figured I'd make sure that their computer's working too before I left it."

"Okay, we'll send them a new one."

"Can you close the work order for me?"

12:55 PM

Job's done. Driving home.

1:45 PM

The Rice Pad. Sleeping.

3:01 PM

Phone rings.

"It's 3. Wake up." It was wombat.

"Okay."

5:05 PM

Sagien wakes up and starts cleaning. He makes several phone calls to make sure tonight happens.

9:24 PM

The Valentine's Day Poker Game at the Rice Pad.

Sagien is staring at a low stack of chips, with about 6 beers inside his body. He looks at his cards. 10 8 offsuit. On the board was a three a seven and a ten.

"I'm all in," he declares.

"I'll call ya," said wombat and flips over an A 7.

The turn card was inconsequential.

Sagien looks at the dealer.

"If you put an ace on the board, I will slit your throat," he said to him.

The dealer tentatively places the last card on the table.

It was the ace of hearts.

1:45 AM

Drunk. Busted out for $60. Everyone's leaving and saying their goodbyes. Sagien goes to bed.

5:45 AM

Sagien takes one glance at the clock and goes back to sleep.

9:45 AM

AIM conversation with mincus:

sagien: Well I don't have a route anymore. =P
mincus: lol
mincus: how'd that work out?
sagien: I dunno.
sagien: I just checked voicemail, my boss had to do my route.
sagien: The message said "You know what happens when I have to do the route.. you have to call me when you wake up."
sagien: But since I already knows what happens when he had to do the route, why would I need to call him?
mincus: hahahaha

Happy Valentine's Day.

Posted by sagien at February 15, 2006 11:05 AM