I just got another email from my local Freecycle group - I have yet to put anything on Freecycle because I’m afraid to. I tried to post that we were looking for a screen door years ago, and got a fairly snippy response - “You can’t ask for something first; you have to offer something first. If everyone just took, there’d be nothing left,” or something stupid like that. Uh, actually, if my math is right, you need as many takers as you need offerers if this is going to work. Since then, I periodically get peremptory emails from them commanding me about how the Rules of Freecycle work - “YOU SHALL…” “YOU SHALL NOT…” - the whole tone has turned me off, and I have never used them either to give or take.
I don’t know if this is a Freecycle thing, or if it’s just a local Calgary chapter thing - that the people running it here have delusions of bossing everyone else around.
Cat Whisperer, I never got freecycle. Why not just use Craiglist and list it for free? Or is Craigslist not big in Calgary?
I hate the hipster-holier-than-thou attitude. “If everyone just FOLLOWED OUR AUTHORITARIAN RULE, EVERYTHING WOULD WORK OUT FINE!!!” Really puts a bug up my ass. I got that at the Rachel Carson sustainable feast, when a dirty 40 year old hipster lectured me on which of four different garbage bags to use to dump my garbage. Listen, if it’s not instantly obvious (like at Whole Foods) I’m not going to spend 60 seconds of my life listening as to how to do it for a fucking one day event. And I paid $10 for the the food, not for the granola crunching condescension.
There is Craigslist here, but I think Usedcalgary.com is a lot more active. I’ve used them myself - no hassles about following their authoritarian (good word) rules.
As far as I am concerned- **Angel of Doubt ** the thermostat is fine, and I do not need to fiddle with it, but i have heavy blankets on my bed and wear a sweater in the house.
I get that it’s an older house, and on the corner room which i HAVE can be chilly, but I have no problem with it and i wear nothing to bed, so i don’t get what the problem is here. Changed the filters and it seems ok but i don’t know what to do when she asks every 15 minutes except want to scream shut the fuck up.
You know what’s incredibly frustrating? When someone tries to show initiative by disregarding simple instructions. For example, IF Item X costs less than $Y, THEN buy it on my behalf. There is a reason I said I didn’t want to buy it if it cost more than $Y, and that’s because I didn’t want to buy it if it cost more than $Y.
Feel like crap today - got a cold - stayed home though, but still working. Right now waiting for the Theraflu (nasty tasting) drink to kick in and knock me back out.
Discovered the utter worthlessness of some health insurance: friend’s hubby was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, and Mayo clinic is not “in network” for her insurance. The HR bitch had the nerve to say “don’t say that the treatment isn’t covered under your insurance”. What a fucking bitch. It could end up costing her $200k to save his life. What a fucked up mess. This is the kinda shit I want my insurance to cover - I could give a fuck about my annual exams - I want it to kick in when shit gets scary! Now she’s regretting not being affiliated with a church to get charity - that’s a pretty shitty system for paying for healthcare.
I went grocery shopping and while there, suddenly decided to make the fixin’s for a big pot of chili, and to eat it with some corn chips.
Somehow, in eating it, a small piece of chili coated corn chip lodged in the back of my sinuses. Hurts like hell, keeps driving mucus creation to sooth it, and I can’t seem to dislodge it. Made sleeping hell.
Stupid library - I don’t want to buy every book I read, I just want to read them; between my local library dumping all sci fi type paperback books together and not having many of the books I’m looking for, I’m having a really hard time getting books from them. If I want some sappy Oprah Book Club selection, they’d have a million copies, but when I want some post-apocalyptic fiction, sorry. They may or may not have any, and I may or may not be able to find them amongst Volumes 1 to 200 of Terry Pritchards’ Half-Naked Orc Epics and Volumes 1 to 300 of David Eddings’ Magic and Shit Epics.
So I heard today that several of my coworkers are planning to go on a total bender Friday night. We hold our annual company-wide meeting Friday morning.
Actually, you’d be surprised. The Milwaukee Public Library system is linked to all of the burbs; more than once I requested an item that wasn’t available from the MPL and it showed up with a little slip reminding me that it was part of a different library system with different rules for due dates and overdraft fees.
We figured it out! Somebody pulled the dishwasher open in the middle of a cycle and then didn’t re-latch the door.
