A few months back, I ranted about my favorite bead store closing its store front…in preparation for this closing, they had frequent “destashings” on Facebook…they would post a picture and description for several lots of beads, and the first x number of people to comment would receive a lot. I managed to snag a $12 lot of lovely vintage beads. I sent my payment by Paypal on April 18th; it appears to have been accepted. Yet the beads have not arrived. I’ve sent one email, and have received no response. :smack: I’m really, really hoping that the last few batches just haven’t been mailed out yet due to the rush to clean out the store…after all, customers typically comment on the store’s Facebook page as soon as they receive their items, and there have been no such replies on the last few listings. On the other hand, I may be out $12.
My mother sings off-key. And I’m a musician, so it bugs me. One time we were singing a duet for church (well, singing the same part.) She just didn’t understand how to sing the right notes.
Oh yeah, and I found my watch. I keep losing things. The next thing I’ll lose will be my mind.
Unfortunately how my setup is that would be more of a pain than anything. The water is right by the front door.. nowhere near either garden. Just to water anything I have to run a long hose down the side of the house and if I don’t put it away after it’s just in the way of anyone entering or exiting the house. Good idea though!
This may work. I like marigolds, I plant them out front. Maybe I need to border my veggie garden with them also. It’s not usually a lot of poop, and only in one corner but I hate having it there at all.
Now I have 3 popped blisters and one not popped, thanks to prepping the garden. I still can’t plant anything except maybe try a couple cool weather crops and see if they will not be killed off by the inevitable frost/snow that we will get as the last gasp of winter.
Right now though I’m sitting on the patio, waiting for the beer to cool and the BBQ to heat up.. and my school books open before me as I study.
EmilyG: I put my glasses, cash, spare keys and mp3 players in one of my bureau drawers so that all my important things are in one place.
In the meanwhile, I pit myself- for being a book hoarder who can’t decide if I should pitch the Terry Goodkind stuff or the Jordan Wheel of Time stuff.
Wheel of Time. I was going to read that series until a friend whose literary judgment I mostly trust told me what a disappointment it was as it continued on and on and on. Bonus: You’ll free up at least six feet of shelf space by dumping that series!
My desktop computer appears to have decided it’s Retirement Time. It just won’t finish booting. At one point it’s gone done a chkdsk and all that jazz but then it’s. Just. Gotten. Stuck. Again.
Since it’s a local holiday, I can’t drop it on the nearest Computer Guy’s desk and ask him to kick it into gear. Tomorrow I have to go to work, if I can’t do it after work it’ll have to be the next day I’m off, whenever that happens to be (I’m working part-time but full days).
But what I’m pitting is “oooh shiny lights” me, cos on one hand it sucks that the computer is misbehaving and on the other I found an excuse to look at new models
Grrrrrrrrr. I need to remember that despite all my husband’s urgings to the contrary, his mother is NOT my friend and she WILL metaphorically sell me down the river with misquotes, willful misunderstandings, and exaggerations, in a desperate subconscious attempt to supplant me as the co-manager in our lives. I need to find some magical way of pretending to trust her while not actually depending on her for anything, and take acting lessons, because my “trying to be friendly” schtick makes her think I secretly despise her. Which I kind of do. Crap crap crap.
I had a shit-ton of stuff I wanted to get to this weekend, and I’m not sure if I was coming down with something or what, but I basically slept through the entire weekend. Barely ate, didn’t clean. Ok, I did some laundry and had to wash diarrhea out of both of our cats’ assfur, but other than that? Bupkis.
Those floors ain’t gonna mop themselves, purple. Now that the cats are done shitting mud, it’s definitely time to get on that! :eek:
For some reason when they try to report on linguistics-related materials, their quality control goes down the tubes and any yahoo who took fourth-grade english thinks they know enough to pass judgement on work done by trained linguists. I saw one where a random dude took issue with IPA and decided to create his own phonetic language that had only 23 characters and its vowel system was so reduced as to make it useless for representing english dialects much less another language. It was shoddy, at best for english and went down from there but the BBC had a whole little write up about how it could be the next big thing. Another article was about an economist who decided that speaking chinese makes you more likely to save money because english requires temporal markers and chinese doesn’t. And the one I just read, well, listened to as it was BBC Radio was some dude who has come up with Bad Grammar awards which as far as I can tell are his personal preferences enshrined as rules.
I don’t know if this belongs in Mini-Rants or Cafe Society but I just finished A Dance With Dragons and would just like to say - Fuck you George R.R. Martin.
I probably abbreviated it too much. His ‘findings’ were that languages that force temporal markers dissociate the present from the future and the past and make it harder for speakers to, I dunno, imagine themselves in that future position. To call it a shaky conclusion is charitable.
We have these two young male dipshit foster dogs, right? They’re like middle-schoolers. Always fighting and trying to pick on the other dogs and being total macho babies.
ANYWAY they have an obnoxious tendency to want to fight as close as possible to my face. About five minutes ago, that meant having a row right on my computer keyboard.
AND THEY TURNED MY SCREEN SIDEWAYS. Nothing remotely like this has ever happened to me. I have no idea why anyone would want this done. I have no idea how to fix it or even what to call it in order to google. I don’t know what they hit, but it’s awful. Worst part is that the mouse controls are flipped as well, so I’m having a lot of difficulty controlling anything. HELLLPPPPP how do I make this go away? What kind of stupid feature is this, anyway? I have to turn my head to the left to read anything.
I’m going to try to google my way out of this.
eta: duh. Got it. ctrl + alt + up. I still think it’s a really stupid feature.
