Going to agree with you on Jimmy Johns. I find them boring and unappetizing. The sign in the store in the skyway says both “Premium” and “Gourmet”, and they are neither.
Here in central Hoosierland, I discovered this morning that just because temperatures had been in the 40s all day yesterday, stayed above freezing all night long, and was still hovering around 40 degrees this morning, that doesn’t mean that the dark patches you see on the sidewalk at 7:00 in the morning don’t have ice on them.
Zip! Wham! Down I go.
Hurt my right wrist and left knee.
This makes the third winter in a row that I’ve slipped and fallen on some ice, with (almost) the same injuries each time. The first time it happened, I actually broke a bone in the wrist, so at least the last two times haven’t been that bad.
But still, why was there still ice on the otherwise clear sidewalks at this point? Grrrr…
I love raw potatoes. And I like Jimmy John’s.
So there.
I almost fell on some ice in the school parking lot today. Iciest spot in town. :mad: And when I fall, on the ice or elsewhere, I usually end up hurting my hands/arms, and finding it difficult to play the clarinet for a while.
I was thinking of starting a thread in ATMB about this, but I figure it’ll probably get more views here, so enjoy it:
STOP USING PHOTOBUCKET TO LINK TO IMAGES!!!
It’s a horrible, bloated corpse of an image hosting service. It always loads two to three times as slow as basically any other hosting service (Imgur, Flickr, etc…) And even with my ad blocker and script blocking set to “off” on Photobucket, I still routinely run into problems seeing images.
I guess if you have a whole bunch of pictures/albums already on there, it seems like a logical choice…but no, it’s not. Still terrible. Just use Imgur. It’s (IMO,) the easiest and fastest way to host pictures that you intend to share on things like message boards. It even automatically strips EXIF data, so no one can try and see where the picture was taken, on what camera, etc…
There’s even extensions for Chrome and FireFox that let you simply right click on an image, and select “upload to Imgur” and then voila, you’re automatically taken to a new tab with that uploaded image so you can copy+paste the URL.
The best analogy I can come up with for continuing to use Photobucket is this:
Using PhotoBucket over Imgur is like using RealPlayer to embed a video instead Youtube.
Snort. It wasn’t too late. I do know how dangerous cat bites can be, especially housecat bites, but it was still embarrassing to go to my doctor this morning with what looked like an infected splinter. As soon as I said “cat bite”, she pulled her prescription pad out and asked when my last tetanus shot was.
Thanks to everyone who reminded me about what could happen.
I’m still ticked that I did that to the poor guy. He’s usually great about getting his claws clipped. I hope this doesn’t change things.
I’m glad someone else is having these problems too. If someone links to a Photobucket image, I open it in a new tab, go back to reading the thread, make a sandwich, clean the house, build a scale model of the Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks, and *maybe *then the picture will have loaded.
On top of that, often for me, it’s a thumbnail sized picture that I can barely see, and I can’t enlarge it. What’s up with that??
Football commentators, please stop using “defense” as a verb. I know verbing words is fun, but in this case there’s an actual, real verb (related, even!) just a few lines up in the dictionary…
So I’m not the only one who argues with them when they say a play was “well defensed?”
“Well DEFENDED, you idiots!” is my usual (fruitless) argument!
Okay, I think I’m getting irritated now.
Anthem Blue Cross is fucking impossible! Or Covered California or both.
I already had insurance with Anthem, but I switched to a plan offered on Covered California. My premium went down about $50.00, so I was happy. They told me that I didn’t need to cancel the old policy because the system would see the new plan.
Then my husband lost his job and I went through the hoops to make the change online. The income showed my change, but the premium wouldn’t change to the new much lower amount, so I spent hours waiting on the phone to do it that way. Finally succeeded and thought all was well until a couple of days ago when I logged on to my bank account.
Anthem has taken the equivalent of more than 6 months worth of premiums out of my account. I can’t get through to a human being to talk to. I’ve stayed on hold for hours, been disconnected from a live chat just as it was my turn and e-mailed and…I’m at my wits end.
Damn it! Give me back my money, you fuckers!
Treats. Unashamed bald-faced bribery is your friend.
That, and I usually (shhh!) surf the Dope at work, and PhotoBucket is automatically blocked. So I’ve missed out on many cute babies, kittehs, horses, the occasional “ID this insect!” or “ID this plant!” etc.
Fuck it’s hot.
Melbourne (and the rest of southern Australia) is in the grip of a bit of a heatwave with temps over 40C all week…up as high as 46-47C in some regional areas.
Just so’s you know, that’s 104F up to 116F. :eek:
It’s 6.30am here now, and it’s already 30.
I’m loving our stay in Radium (and the hot pool), but the entire town is a skating rink. We could skate from our hotel room to the restaurant down the street.
Sorry - I’ll look into Imgur. 
We installed a cat door for our cats to go into our cat-proofed backyard a couple of summers ago, and the very first night, my cat got her paw caught in the door (from the company PetSafe, ironically enough :rolleyes: ), and was SCREAMING from it. We managed to get her paw out, and she uses the cat door all the time anyway. I hope your cat has as short a memory as ours does. 
One time a few years ago, my home street was so icy that I saw a guy literally skating down the street. I mean, literally. With ice skates!
This is as bad as people who say “conversate.” You know, there’s already a perfectly good verb for that, and it’s shorter!! Although it is easy to avoid that word if you don’t watch any court-related TV shows. It seems to be mostly people on Judge Judy or People’s Court who use that word.
Aww, I think it’s charming. Like that chimp in the Babe sequel (voiced by Stephen Wright, I think): Look, the little guy is just doin’ his job, findin’ stuff, and you come in here accusicatin’ and makin’ demandments!
I really want to strangle my husband right now. When he cleans, he just throws things away without checking to see whether they are important. A little while ago, I noticed that a check that I had put on the desk by the computer was not there. I looked all over the house and cleaned out my purse, but I couldn’t find it. I called him to see whether he remembered doing anything with it. He didn’t. Then I remembered that he had been straightening up a couple of days before. I searched through the kitchen trash, and there it was: an envelope with my name on it in big purple letters, containing a check for $100.00. It smelled the way you might expect from sharing space with a partially eaten can of sardines for a couple of days.
So cracking up.
Today I took the CD eating truck to work so I could go buy pet supplies for my rescue group. Out of habit, I smacked the CD player with my fist after I started it. 5 minutes later, while I’m crossing 97 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic and going at least the speed of sound, the fucking thing started making grinding noises and then spit both of the CDs out.
That truck hates me, it just tried to kill me!!! I drive in downtown Houston, during rush hour traffic and it threw CD’s at me. CD’s from the library book that I did the walk of shame over.
I know that Bill has an emotional attachment to that truck, but I didn’t know that its name was Christine!
In all fairness, Judge Judy does bust them for using that word. I love it when she goes all Grammar Police on people.
My rant du jour - we were having a lovely soak in the hot (soaking) pool on our last night here, when half an hour before closing time, in comes a family with four small kids that proceed to splash and shriek for the last half hour of relaxy-soaky-time. I don’t think parents get it - this is a SOAKING pool, not a swimming pool - it isn’t a splash around and make all kinds of noise pool. The staff at this pool are unfailingly nice, but they need to get a little more stern and explain that to people who don’t seem to know.