A Social Worker's call

I don't even know how to explain this.  Mike McLaughlin from the CVSA said I needed to talk to a Social Worker.  Fine, Social Workers are caring people.  So she calls me, and I miss the call because I had to wait on hold for AT&T.  My sister, who's my care giver, wouldn't stay there and handle the 15-some minutes of "your call is important to us," when I was calling to get my phone, deactivated by Tracfone after I was a customer since 2002, reactivated, because she thought AT&T wouldn't want my business.  I wanted to save my cellphone number, which I'm losing because Tracfone found the phone I'd been using with them since I got it, a perfectly fine Samsung Galaxy S7, won't work with the sim Verizon sent me.  Because it needs AT&Ts towers.  Locked?  What do I care, I need to save my cellphone number so people can verify my identity -- insecurely, but what can I do?

"Your call is important to us."  So why was I on hold for 15 minutes?  How long does a _very_ important call wait?  Was I too important, or not important enough?  I'm Autistic.  Autistic people get confused sometimes.  But I missed this call from this caring Social Worker I was looking forward to.

Finally got back and called the Social Worker back.  I asked if I was eligible for VA health coverage.  She thought I was, but had to send a form off to get me on her docket or whatever so she would be allowed to call me.  But she was already on the phone with me...

So I asked if she needed the form.  "Yes, so I can call you on my whatchamacallit."  But she was already on the phone with me, just before 5 pm this was.  "I have another meeting to get to," the Social Worker said. "I have to call you back tomorrow to do a 30-minute survey to make sure you're eligible."  ????

"Do you need the form?"  "Well, I need to get you on my docket so I can call you tomorrow."  "We can't get this done tonight?"  I wondered if she was protecting me from something.  "No, I have to call you back tomorrow to..."  "But Microsoft is shutting off the Skype Number service, so I dunno if you'll even be able to."  I don't know if she understood me, because she was talking while I was talking.  I asked if I was being rude: no.  I asked if she was being rude by talking over me: also no... wait...

I told her I was Rev Dr David "Grizzly" Smith, DDHC, Honorus causa that last bit is, an honorary degree I got from ULC, that church you don't think is a real church.  I asked her once again if I was being rude, asking her to get the 30 minute call done now so I could be eligible for my VA benefits now, which Mike McLaughlin, a fellow USAF veteran, says I should be.

"I have another meeting."  Apparently after 5 pm.  But she couldn't do her 30 minute call for tomorrow, because she has to send this form off to another department, because Policy.  I called her back, she's on the phone with me, she's not being rude talking over me... And she confirmed repeatedly I'm not being rude to her...

But she wouldn't complete the 30-minute call she was already on so I could be eligible right away and say so to Essentia Health Duluth.  She said she didn't need the form, but "I have another meeting" when I was requesting to get the call done with in case I lost the use of my Skype Number...

But she wasn't being rude?  I'm sorry, I'm autistic, I miss things, why wouldn't it be rude for her to talk over me?  Why isn't it rude to tell me she won't finish giving me my benefits because "I have another meeting," and "policy..."

Can someone explain this to me?

Rev Dr David "Grizzly" Smith, DDHC

ULC considers me a minister (one who ministers to others, cares for them) and a Doctor of Divinity Honorus Causa, "Caused by Honor."  The USAF considers me an honorably discharged veteran who is eligible for VA benefits.  I'm also Autistic, have osteoarthritis, maccular degeneration in my left eye due to glaucoma, and Multiple Myeloma.  But she has "another meeting," and has to send a form elsewhere so she can call me back tomorrow to say so.  But she's already on the phone with me.  But "I have another meeting." I want to complete the 30 minute call while we're on the phone right now, but...

Can someone explain this to me in a way that makes sense?  Mike, fellow USAF veteran, can you explain why her "another meeting" was more important than finishing with me?

 Griz

 

 

Oh, brave new world, that has such people in't!!!

 Shakespeare, remember him?  Dead what, a few centuries anyway.  Do your own research, google it and find out, you brilliant people who elected a half-wit thug and a bully to be your President because he promised to stop bugging you about taking responsibility for your own actions.

I'd say this on my podcast, but Libsyn who have my podcast won't let me go from this blog to Libsyn because they say I don't have an account... after podcasting there since 02/04/2007 or so.  They still have my content, but they're not sure who I am.  But I'm rude, ain't I?  Just some old guy, ten years younger than President Beavis, who hates military veterans like me, and disabled people like me.  He's my President, this guy who hates me?  

 He wants America to be great, like it was when my Dad fought the Nazis in World War II, and came back home a wounded veteran with a Purple Heart... this fella who hates my late father, who was a wounded veteran?  My brother, a Disabled American Veteran?  Me, a peacetime veteran and not a DAV because I didn't go into combat?

Let's Make America Great Again, and ignore the so-called Greatest Generation, because President Beavis' dad didn't go get wounded in Africa.  First American shell was fired at the Germans in Africa, fired by the 175 Field Artillery Division, my Dad's unit.  Who came back a wounded veteran.  Embarrassed to talk about the purple heart he hid in is dresser drawer, because it was a small thing.  He was in Africa, and Sicily, and Italy, and was there when the D-Day invasion took place.  And he was too proud to let people see his Purple Heart... No, I'm not crying, you are.  He's my President?  Go back and find the time when he asked to be my leader, this guy who hates people like me...

Just got off the phone with Mike McLaughlin the rep from the county's CVSA.  Like an asshole -- though that's only a part of me -- I sent a nastygram to the County's communication manager about Mike not taking my call.  You'd think a peacetime vet with an IQ of 141 would be smarter than that, hell, people keep calling me a genius... I cheated on the IQ test, I'm probably not that smart at all!  Genius is 160, I'm only 141 after cheating?

Besides, and I mean this in a nice way, Geniuses seem to be rather annoying and arrogant because they're by-God Geniuses.  And you think I'm annoying and arrogant?  Geee... thanks...

 Website thought I wanted an emoji because my fingers slipped off and hit the wrong key.  I can't even see emojis on those teensy phone screens, why am I being asked to use them?  I'm half blind from Glaucoma, maccular degeneration in my left eye, and I should use this stupid little picture I can't really see?  Seriously?

Where was I?  Oh, Mike, wonderful guy, called me on my Skype Number, my last remaining phone number, and apologized for not taking my call because he was already with a veteran, and his female sidekick -- maybe a Secretary, I was one for nine years and respect the job -- thought she should say "we have what we need..."  And I got angry about that.  What an asshole, huh?  Still think I'm a genius? 

But Microsoft is eliminating Skype Numbers because "nobody" uses them.  So now I'm nobody, according to Microsoft.  I talked to them on the phone, and they were very apologetic, but are still shutting it down.  I don't get why.  I suppose it costs them money, and it's just for me.  I'm fine, it's not even one of the bad cancers.  Still got too much hair and everything.  Dave Crosby said,

Almost cut my hair, just the other day,

It was gettin' kinda long, I coulda said it just wasn't my way,

But I didn't, and I wonder why, I keep lettin' my freak flag fly,

Cause I feel like I owe it to someone...

I think he'd not mind, sad he's gone now, we had some nice chats on Twitter back before the DOGE guy ruined it.  Why Department of Government Efficiency and not Department of Presidential Efficiency?  Some reason they didn't want to use DOPE?  Why do you think they didn't call it DOPE?

Griz 

Hey Leo Laporte! (waves wildly)

 Hey, @Leo!  Baffling problem.  It appears Twit.social won't let me back in because I used one of those randomized passwords I've gotten to like.  Doesn't fit the password standard -- so effectively, it's not accepted *after it's changed to that* because it's too secure.

 Any thoughts, Leo?  Leave a comment, I'll try to remember to check them while running back and forth for chemo and such.  Laterz!

 Griz

 

 

 Hey, Libsyn!!!! (waves)

 

Email provided doesn't have a valid My Libsyn account.  To access the podcast I've been producing since 02/04/2007???  My gmail email that I use to access this blog, isn't valid to let me back in my own podcast?  And that's not a problem?

 Griz 

Guys... seriously, I prefer to podcast, but if you insist I go back to just blogging, Libsyn... I don't have an account, for my own podcast?  What is up with y'all?