I was pretty sure my husband’s a Scott Sigler fan, so I started reading the tagline from above to him. I think I got through “The donor animal” when he said, “Oh, Ancestor!”
And yeah, he was a geology/geophysics major in college so he knows about evolution and natural selection. He still thinks it’s an interesting book.
Yeah, I got my kids and husband a token amount of candy. The ladies at work brought in some candy and cookies (as they do at the slightest provocation). I didn’t receive anything, but that’s cool. As long as I get something for Christmas…
At least I wasn’t at work this time so I didn’t get passed over for the gift bags that they gave out to the REAL employees. 
My husband got me a 4wd Kubota tractor for Valentine’s day 
Actually, I am not at all into big deal celebrations of any sort. My parents hated Mother’s/Father’s Day, so we never did anything for those. I had a low key wedding, enough to pacify relatives. I’m grinchy about Christmas, and a “Happy Birthday!” and a kiss is pretty much all I want from my husband on my birthday. Valentine’s is a non-holiday as far as I’m concerned.
You got whooshed. Do I get a cookie?
Yanno, AAA is pretty friendly to deal with. They have a parking lot, really nice receptionists and employees. Dealing with them is a joy. They also lease out a small part for AAA drivers to get their licenses renewed and their photos snapped.
Unfortunately, PennDot runs that area.
So while AAA employees are friendly, kind and helpful, the PennDot employees are surly and lazy. Literally two employees are sitting there doing nothing. They’re not even faking it and pretending to read something important on their computers. They are literally just sitting there while ten of us wait to have our pictures taken.
No, the machine/photo stuff isn’t broken and the one chatting on the phone isn’t attempting to fix it. I asked. Stupid government twats. People wonder why there’s so much angst against government employees. This is why.
margin,
Yikes, yes, your friend…yikes. I have to say I’ve never had a friend watch me sleep…
Well that only took an hour! :smack:
Some comment is on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t … quite … get it out.
Roddy
Spit it out, Roddy. I can’t hold my breath much longer …
Because socialism! OoooOOOoOOOOOooooooOOOOOO!
But shuffling around in slippers is one of life’s great pleasures. Why do you hate our freedom? 
Holy shit. I second the suggestion to approach some newspapers or TV stations in the area, because I don’t know how else you’re going to shame the VA into getting you the care you need and deserve. Unfortunately, ISTM that while good military health benefits are very good, the bad ones are very bad. A friend of mine who’s an Army vet is pretty much permanently disabled because he fucked up his back and spent over a year being told it was “nothing.”
What is that I don’t even.
Yes. This. Just because you’re single and depressed about it doesn’t mean everybody else who’s in a relationship or single and happy or even just okay with it should have to pretend that they’re depressed, too.
You would think the holidays would be more lonely, considering it’s an ongoing month long shenanigans filled with parties, family et al, but many get more depressed over V-day.
I’m glad Mothering Magazine is finally ceasing print publication. Now Peggy O’Mara needs to get off the god damned web and spent the rest of her life repenting for her magazine’s crimes.
She once put AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore – a woman who was pregnant and did not take AZT and then gave birth to an AIDS infected daughter who died – on the cover as some sort of heroine.
The online magazine and website are a true hub of evil. O’Mara runs dreadful anti-vaccine articles, praises quackery like homeopathy and reviles women who work. The forums are filled with people cheering each other on as they have unassisted home births complete with dead babies and then run around attempting to infect their children with measles.
I am not generally in favor of censorship but I continue to hope that her server costs increase to the point where she can’t pay them and her advertisers finally shut her down.
We don’t do gifts on any holidays. It prevents a lot of grief.
margin, I don’t know if it would be helpful, but there is an organization in my city called At Ease (part of Lutheran Family Services) that provides counseling and support for vets suffering from PTSD. I wonder if they may have some leads for some services in your area that can help you.
Here’s a link. At Ease.
I am sorry you are going through this. It’s not your fault.
Somebody set up her the bomb.
Look, you pack of idiots, you can’t make your usual illegal u-turn on my corner at the moment because of the detour due to construction. The volume of traffic won’t allow it. And if you think you’re going to sit in the alley and wait to turn there, and block me from getting into my garage, you are mistaken. I will park my car on the street and go get one of my husband’s many baseball bats. Hey, maybe I should leave one readily available just for such circumstances!
I have to go resurrect the workplace griping thread now. :mad:
Ferret Herder, the best thing about looking up that book is when you do so on Amazon, it suggests other nifty books to you: monsters, disasters, what have you. Stuff I can wish on the idiots I have to deal with.
LOTL…she was just sitting there. It was very very VERY Single White Female.
I’m so very sick of bureaucrats. Dear bureaucrats: Answer the damned phone! Return phone calls! Or talk faster on your damned message, it’s annoying. If you’re taking that much Valium, you should at least share.
I actually contacted the governor. And a reporter. I can tell you at least one thing that’ll happen: my VA was just the subject of just this type of story, and the comments were all about how women just whine about shit, and how they have it so easy, and how some other women didn’t have problems, what’s wrong with this bitch? I need to pit those assholes, too, but I’m whipped for the day.
You know those emergency tools they hawk on TV, showing how you can break a car window and cut your seatbelt if you are submerged in water? I think this would be an excellent use for one of those tools.
margin, you deserve better. There’s no excuse for the sort of shit you’ve had to deal with. I wish I had an answer for you, but this actually seems to be the way the military treats these kinds of problems.
Oh, joy. I get to take another pay cut next fiscal year.
Yes, yes, yes, lucky to have a job in this economy, state employees (including me, a professor at a CC) are paid too much anyway because we’re incompetent, blah blah FUCK YOU.
I know exactly what you mean! The Necco hearts are absolutely foul now. I was pissed to find this out.
The Brach’s conservation hearts are still good. They aren’t like the old Necco, but they’ll do.