That’s an issue with your browser, Lynn. Not the “contact us” link coding.
I went to the Girls with Slingshots page and clicked on their “contact us” link. That links to a page with a couple of email addresses linked. I had a look at them. They’re just mailto refs.
Literally the code is <a href="mailto:girlswithslingshots@gmail.com">. If I click on it it opens my mail program, because I use windows mail as my default email program.
The browser I use, Opera, has a setting where you can dictate what program or webpage the mailto ref specifically tries to open. Perhaps you’d best be served checking your browser settings to see if you can tell it how to handle a mailto ref. Nobody at Girls with Slingshots is trying to tell you what email program to use.
In better news, BIL’s surgery went very well–he is alert and in good spirits. They even had him up and walking with his injured ankle in a soft boot. It was a real relief to hear!
When I was little I joked about getting presents from “The Santa Claus with Nana’s handwriting.”
My rant:
On Sunday my husband and I went to the mall and he bought a $75 gift card for his mom. He handed the envelope to me and I put it in the little tote bag I was carrying that I’d put a frame in that we bought our friend. Thought nothing more about it.
Last night while wrapping presents I was all, “Honey where is that gift card for your mom?”
“It’s in that little bag with the frame.”
“No it’s not. I have the frame but can’t find the gift card anywhere.”
I know I had it in my hand at the mall, but I don’t recall it ever being in my hand at home. The only thing we can think of is that it was somehow swiped out of that bag. Which would have been pretty slick, but there are professional bad people out there. (My friend had her wallet stolen literally out from under her ass in Thailand.) All I know is we’re missing a $75 gift card and it sucks.
It wasn’t worth $75, but we did something similar this summer. We bought a nice souvenir gift for Jim’s parents while we were on vacation, and after we came home, we showed the gift to my mom (who was housesitting for us), and that was the last we ever saw it. It’s either in our house somewhere that we can’t find it, or it got into a garbage can accidentally and went out with the trash. SO annoying!
In order to get a pre-employment fingerprint/background check at Metro PD (DC), you have to pay by standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The civilian fingerprinting office is two floors above and has absolutely nothing to do with the DMV. Yet they send you down there to wait in the (really, really long) line of people trying pay traffic tickets, renew licenses, etc. When I go to the police station to get fingerprinted, I do not expect to have any involvement with the DMV. Trips to the DMV require a lot of mental preparation and patient for me and I like to have advance warning that that is where I will have to go. I just had to hand over $35 cash. Why the hell couldn’t I do that upstairs? It’s not like the people up there were doing anything, the secretary was on hold with her pharmacy or something trying to get her prescription refilled. Rrrrghh.
Fortunately, some practically-minded DMV employee (a rare gem) saw the huge long line at the counter and pulled the 2 of us there to pay for the background check out of it and into a special, faster line. So it was only 15 minutes instead of 2 hours. But still.
A good friend of mine has an adopted child. This little girl has suddenly stopped gaining weight. Seven tubes of blood have gone in for testing, and my friend is a basket case.
If any of you are they praying sort, please ask your Deity of choice to look kindly on this little girl. She’s only two…
I just checked with Firefox. In Firefox, what to use for a mailto: is set in your Options, Applications, mailto. I have a feeling offering that choice is a new feature (which may be why she thought sites had changed their procedure); I got what I suspect was the prompt that she saw not very long ago. If it wasn’t a new feature I think I would have seen it **much **much longer ago. Regardless, I had no problem setting it to Thunderbird, and once I set it I wasn’t prompted about what to use any more.
I’m nearly 80 and I never met or heard of anyone named Aiden. But Sierra must be right about the name being around a while - in today’s news there is mention of a St. Aiden’s church. I used to keep records of names, and earnestly wished people would give real names, correctly spelled – boy, has that concept failed!
Why do pop-up blockers feature a bar that shows up at the top of the page every time they supposedly block an ad, to allow you to view the pop-up ad if you want? Isn’t the fact that you installed a blocker kind of a hint that you don’t want to see the damn things?
I figure it’s like a cat that drops a dead bird at your feet, showing that they’re on the job. Annoying though.
He penetrates the left side of the belly.
One get to the very heart of the Darkening of the Light,
and leaves gate and courtyard.
I Ching, Hexagram 36, Line 4.
Now I know the truth about why I won’t ever be considered for any kind of promotion at work. It would be tragic if I didn’t find it so damned funny. The man whose management style is to jump in people’s faces and scream at them is intimidated by a man he doesn’t think he can intimidate.
Mother sonofabitchin Firefox! Why is my browser suddenly demanding to be on top of everything? I click on the folders and other things in the taskbar, but they all pop up under my open Firefox browser window. I have to minimize the browser to be able to see whatever is opening underneath it.
Firefox, you will cease such attention-grabbing behavior at once! You are not the only open window on my desktop!
Dammit! It’s a day off for hubby, but he was asked whether he would work a road check tonight. The overtime would be welcome, so he agreed. So at briefing, the crew is told that they can look forward to a 12-20 hour shift! WTF?! We’re having our big family to-do tomorrow afternoon, and Tony will be practically comatose from exhaustion!
