Julia Hayden

Gone. Find me at BlueSky/Insta/FB.

artist, ux designer, & professional gadabout - known most places as julen. Occasional treasure hunter on demand. She/her.

[Julia Hayden @julenesque]

Oblique statement venting my disgust with an institution, complete with trailing zinger.

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I 1000% get where Tony is coming from and think we should form an early retiree lunch club

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We've all lost the pool for when 29 would get their broadcast fixed (2 hours in, still broken!), and we staged our drinking game poorly, so we're all sober. It's an enlightening primer on how valued men's gymnastics, though.

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Broadcast still broken. I've got 1:45 in the pool.

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We honestly can't tell if someone has been in the NBC control room trying to fix things for 25 minutes or if this is just randomized bugginess that result in the occasional 1-3 seconds of sound or video split up by long stretches of black screen.

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Fun fact: NBC29's preferred way for me to contact them is to send them a letter via postal mail (1 week minimum for delivery, thanks USPS sorting facility).

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Ah, Channel 29, where they assign whoever yells "Not It" to run the control room on weekends.

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Whiskey and Fig! Whiskey and Fig!

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Ol' Roy really is living his best life.

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these unending 5th district ads are mean in every way, and they're making me meaner, too.

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NBC needs to give more time on the field part of track and field.

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Now that the Waynesboro quarry park is open, is there any chance we could get Mark Cline's elephants back? Those were awesome. I still regret not flagging him down and asking how much it'd cost to buy them and put them in my front yard.

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Locals: Please consider taking this survey to let local regional planners know what roads need fixin'.

https://t.co/Kzm2l0tL3k

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Got a very scammy-looking postcard allegedly from my graduate school giving me 5 days to "confirm the accuracy of your record." I think it is actually probably from UNC-CH since most of their communication to me has been very unfortunate and poorly conveyed.

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The Faded Poppy is moving into (part of?) the Rockfish Gap Outfitters building; it makes some sense considering the building they are currently in (the low 50s slung one near the Christmas House) is for sale and losing half of their tenants.

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Had to come to a complete screeching stop at the 250/240 Mechums split today because people assume the stop sign they have is optional and they go ahead and pull out into oncoming 250 traffic (who don't have a stop sign and are going 45-55mph). grrrrr.

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Does anyone local use Lumos for their internet? Do you like it?

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So there is a Brightspeed internet outage (#4 this month) that they are projecting to be fixed by 6pm Monday. Delightful.

They also flat out said I use too much internet (presumably because I worked from home) so they are degrading my speed.

[Julia Hayden @julenesque]

@uxemily I said the exact same thing the other day, and I couldn't believe it was coming out of my mouth. Ugh. Needless to say, we're looking at our options, too because their automated services are no better than their customer reps.

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Woke up to no internet. How did Brightspeed get 10x worse than CenturyLink? There has to be something better

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@CenturyLink You sold my account to Brightspeed so you can not help me.

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This was a master class in terrible customer experience (more stressful than doing my taxes, actually), but it's good to know HR Block thinks all is fine now because it was just a "small" number of users affected who, it is implied, aren't as important as their other customers.

[H&R Block @HRBlock]

We are happy to report the issue that was affecting a small number of our downloadable desktop software users has been resolved.