Portuguese and Nareesh

Song of the Day

"Open Arms"

I too, like A-Rez, have been neglecting my blog these days. Mostly it stems from a lack of anything blog-worthy. Let’s face it, my life has seen a major drop in the “fun story-ness” since my departure from McD’s. I also spent a lot of my online-writing time on a forum, but I’ve burned myself out on that and it’s time for something new. So I return to my blog, which has been waiting for me with as much eagerness as it can muster. Writing this has triggered the song "Open Arms" in my head. "and so I run to you...with open arms..." Hmm...

This week has been pretty lousy, except for the evenings. I had been looking forward to something and that just came crashing down yesterday so now my days continue as they were – working, eating, sleeping. The evenings though have been fun because my church kicked off it’s Fall Bible Conference. That means we have some guest speakers and most importantly, we make Bibles! We’ve been doing it every year since I can remember, but this is the first year that we’ve done the entire Bible, rather than just the NT. It’s in Portuguese so that’s fun. We’ve done Spanish before and some other languages in the past. Pretty fun stuff! The pieces of the Bibles come in sections, 30 I think altogether. So they have different stations set up – a few to put the sections in order (by a few books), tables where you roll the binding to take out the air and make it flat, then stations where you put the whole shebang together, and then a table where you check to make sure the whole thing is in order and not missing anything. From there it goes to the gluing and binding, and then the cutting room. I worked at collating the smaller sections, then moved to the final checking tables. You memorize the numbers after awhile! We did catch a few mistakes- some missing or doubled pages, and then a few were out of order. Can’t have the rapture before the resurrection!! Our goal was to make 10,000, and we got it done yesterday. So we made 10,000 Bibles in a span of about two days! Not bad! It was good times had by all. The Bibles are being sent to Africa, mostly to Mozambique and Angola. Portuguese in Africa you might wonder (all you non-geography majors…)? Ah the joys of colonization! The Portuguese took their 5 little pieces in Africa and left their stamp on them. Gotta love it! I think we should bring back colonization. We should go colonize France or something. Maybe the Swiss – at least they’d offer no resistance! We (orchestra/choir) also perform each night, which has gone REALLY well. I'll tell you about the offering later...

So, the new job. So far, one of the most annoying things is people who call and INSIST that THEY dialed the right number, and you obviously have NO idea what you’re talking about and must’ve come to work in the wrong place today. They call:

C: Hi, may I speak to Nareesh?
G: Who please?
C: Nareesh. Extension 20.
G: I’m sorry, there’s no one here by that name.
C: Well, is this xxx-xxxx?
G: Yes, but we don’t have anyone by that name
C: It’s extension 20. At so-and-so company
G: I’m sorry, you have the wrong company.
C: Well, do you have an ext. 20?
G: No, I’m sorry we don’t
C: The name is Nareesh.
So what do you have to do to let them know that THEY HAVE THE WRONG COMPANY! What, am I lying? Am I trying to cover for Nareesh? Extension 20 or no, we have no Nareesh!! I get lots of calls like that. They insist that they dialed the right number and obviously you must be mistaken.