Check the label on the box the Kindle came in. They might have made a mistake and shipped you a paperWEIGHT.
Non ex-housemate rant: I’m going to my orthopedist tomorrow (a referral) because once again I’ve somehow wrenched my thumb enough that it no longer bends at the middle joint (bends fine at the basal, btw, so it isn’t arthritis…yet). I can’t press anything with it nor put any kind of pressure on it without screaming. Ditto for that “web” between thumb and forefinger.
This is my dominant hand. I’m doing more cake decorating at work right now, so you understand my dilemma. I have no fucking idea what I did. My stomach also doesn’t want me to keep eating 800mg ibuprofen but I’m beginning to believe I have no choice 
You might have something there. :eek: I’ve had really bad luck with the paperweights, I’m confused by how they are supposed to work
(Actually, it makes me sad that they don’t work like they should. I’m careful with my tech toys and it just seems as though the paperwhites are very fragile. It took almost folding my original kindle in half to break it, despite much prior abuse. My 2-year old fire is still going strong. Its just the small, light paperwhite that can’t take being used a couple of hours a day, every day.)
Dear People Who Sniffle Every 5-10 Seconds:
Please go die in a fire.
With sincere thanks,
SeaDragonTattoo
I just got a medical bill. Not a big deal, only $20.00 for the co-pay. Except that it is for a procedure that we haven’t needed in a long time. On closer look, it is from something in 2008.
What the hell major hospital in Orange County - it took you that long to figure this out? You were paid back in 2009 (and we paid $20 at the time as well). So how the hell do you find yourself needed another $20.00 NOW?
This is why people want to nationalize y’all and back Bernie’s Medicare for All plan…
There was one on NPR this morning. sniff Just carrying on a normal conversation sniff with no obvious signs of congestion in his voice but sniff he wouldn’t stop with the sniffing.
Sometimes I hate living in Iowa. Mainly during the Political Seasons (that never seem to end).
I heard the landline ring* and knew it had to be either someone asking if I was going to the caucus or someone doing a survey. I decided to ignore it. I told the youngest boy I was ignoring the phone. As I walked down the hall I heard my husband answer the phone. “yeah, no, no…Hey do you want to talk to “insert political name”?”
No.
“No, she doesn’t. Good-bye.” click
Ring, ring
I answered it and I was steamed. “Hello.”
“Oh, we must have been disconnected.”
“Yes, yes we were. We had hung up the phone…”
and from there I got really salty, frothy and maybe even a bit spitty. I was in the middle of cooking dinner. I had not eaten all day. Thankfully, the phone is on the other side of the kitchen from the stove so no food was harmed. The guy’s ears might have been scorched a little, though.
And that was for the political campaign I had planned on voting for. But since they have called at least once a night for the last month… I’m tempted to vote for someone else.
Lying and saying I will be at the caucus would bring other ramifications about: they’d want to place signs in our yards, they’d be calling me more often asking for me to do calling or door knocking. Things I did do years back but none of the current candidates are worth my time or energy.
2 more weeks… I’ll go to the caucus and pick my spot in the room.
*landline has an answering machine but no caller id. It’s why I was going to just let it ring.
How stupidly selfishly lazy does something purporting to be a human being have to be to dump shopping carts in clearly marked handicap parking spaces? (fume fume)
No, I do not need such spaces myself, but basic human kindness would seem to call for leaving those spaces USABLE by people who may not be able to blithely hop out of the car and move some thoughtless scum’s cart.
Driving in snow is simple.
- Drive Slow-- the posted speed limit assumes dry pavement
- Leave extra following space-- it often takes longer to stop, and this allows you more time if the person in front of you has trouble-- especially at corners where the slushy stuff builds up.
- Clean your windows off! All of them!
(We got less than an inch. We’re far enough south that we don’t have enough plows and such to get all the roads clear quickly. Plus, this is the biggest snowfall of the winter so far. Because of the timing of my work schedule and the actual snow arrival time, I had dry roads when I went to work. But crappy ones when I came home. Which was ok, except for the people who don’t believe in slowing down and leaving enough following distance).
I read what you said about cake decorating, are you a baker?
You missed a big one.
DO NOT assume that you can pull out in traffic like any other day. You’re going to slip and crawl, so give plenty of time so that you don’t end up slowly swinging out in front of someone who may not be able to stop.
Of just pissing them off by being directly in front of them at 5mph.
Do we really have TWO Doper Bakers? If so, where is my cupcake? Where are my cookies? Come on, folks, let’s get going!
I am!
Apparently we do
(I already knew Baker was a baker :D)
We’re having a discussion about frostings/icings over in Cafe Society 
Cute Overload, one of my favorite websites, has come to an end. I visited it daily to look at otters, pugs, baby hamsters, and itty bitty frogs. Now I don’t have a “cute fix” place to go to anymore.
Attention North Carolina residents: the stuff the DOT is spraying on the road is called brine. It is not brime. What the hell is brime? Damn if I know, but it sure isn’t a mix of water and salt. Also, it’s not necessary to reduce your speed to 30 MPH when driving on dried brine prior to the arrival of the winter weather.
And since I can’t find the work rants thread…attention work ladies: the restroom is where folks go to deal with bodily functions. So when I duck in to deal with a coughing fit or get rid of some thick mucus resulting from my dwindling sinus infection, please refrain from interrogating me:
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[li]“Do you have a cold?”[/li][li]“You still have that sinus thing?”[/li][li]“You’re coughing from a sinus infection?”[/li][li]“Have you tried Delsym/Mucinex/Claritin/Allegra/[other drug that I’ve told you dozens of times gives me horrible side effects]?”[/li][/ul]
I’m confident that I would be called out by HR if I made a comment every time one of you pinches a loaf…so why do you find it necessary to comment on every little respiratory sound I make? I actually went out the back door of our building a few times today to blow my nose just because there were too many people chatting in the restroom. :mad:
You might try here. Some of the other pages there are good too. I also hate to spend the day without a cute fix.
I, too, mourn the passing of Cute Overload. Icanhascheezburger is okay, but not as great as Cute Overload.
My computer just up and died. My BB happily took it apart and did all sorts of techy things to it, but it had a catastrophic failure. A new computer happened. Most of my data was stored on the cloud, but I still had to re-download stuff.
All is good now, except it didn’t like my old keyboard. I don’t like my new keyboard. I think the keys are about a gillionith of an inch further apart or something. It just feels wrong and I don’t like it.
Hey…this is the mini-rant thread, right?
I like http://www.zooborns.com/. They have otters and lemurs and giraffes and polar bears and so much more.