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You are a Red Resonant Serpent.
Below is a poem made from combining your Tone (Resonant) and your Seal (Serpent).




Red Resonant Serpent
I Channel in order to Survive
Inspiring Instinct
I seal the Store of Life Force
With the Resonant tone of Attunement
I am guided by the power of Navigation

Time is mathematics, not astrology. There are many things you can learn by looking at this information. Think about it. You can also go back and find the Kin for your friends and family. Follow the calendar day-by-day and things will slowly become more clear. You will get out of it only what you put into it.

i feel more enlightened already!

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the telephone saga

when i arrived at Maxis, there was a phone on my desk, but it wasn't plugged into anything. indeed, the help desk guy who set up my computer said the phone was broken, and he took it away. i mentioned this to my manager, who sent several requests for me to get a phone, to no avail. when we moved over here to EARS, a phone had still not arrived.

here, i had a phone! and it worked! so i gave the number to a few critical people. but i kept getting calls for some other guy. i explained to each caller that i was one of the new Maxis people, i'd been assigned this extension, and i didn't know where Tom, its previous owner, might be.

wednesday morning i got an email from this Tom person's admin, explaining that the extension had been incorrectly assigned to me and asking for the location of my cube so they could resolve the problem. a few minutes later, the extension was reassigned to Tom, and i was told that someone would take care of assigning me a new extension right away... but as of 6pm friday, i still have no extension, and the phone in my cube is still disabled.

this isn't a huge problem. it would be no problem at all if my cellphone worked here, which it doesn't -- apparently most of EARS is a cellphone dead zone.

i'm not complaining, you understand. i have no particular need of an extension here; if i want to talk to someone on my team, all i have to do is yell over the cube wall. i just think it's funny.

i will say, though, that the phones here are wicked cool looking. then again, everything here is like that. there are BLUE LIGHTS in the FLOOR of the ELEVATOR LOBBY. they appear to have no purpose other than to look cool, at which they succeed brilliantly.