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You may have noticed a unimaginative announcement on the front page of this newspaper one day last week:
"The News Sentinel is installing a new phone system. Please forgive any inconvenience you might have reaching our offices."
Perhaps it won't be necessary to repeat this dope in the future. But I ain't holding my breath. Instead, I'm rounding up as many tin cans, and as much qualifications, as possible.
Hoo-boy. First a "new and improved" computer program last summer. Now a "new and improved" phone system. Lifetime can't get much better.
At this rate, we're "new and improving" ourselves back to 1977. I'm thinking about buying a respite suit and dusting off my Bee Gees tapes. That's my only hope of "stayin' allliiiive" during the transformation.
Agreed, I am a fossilized curmudgeon when it comes to change. As the longest-serving associate of the editorial department (41 years and counting, thank you very much), I'm permitted this perk.
But, dadnabbit, this newfangled bosh doesn't operate like normal equipment!
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel