so in additiona to dealing with my mom passing in September, cleaning out her apartment, trying to get the local utility company, the post office and the lawyer to handle the buisness they need to handle (everythingis way harder than it needs to be). Friday on the way to work someone plowed into the back of my vehicle. My car is worth about $5000.00 and the back hatch bumper, taillight and whatever the part is that wraps from the back to the front is damaged. I am positive they will total my car. I will be inheriting my moms car but I dont have the title yet to put it in my name and get the tags and insurance updated. I really dont need this right now. 
For those without children Artsonia is a business that takes your kid’s school projects and slaps an image of it on a coffee mug or something for a markup. I have no doubt the school gets a pittance as well as gets some fee for even allowing it access to your children’s creations.
I want the things my kids make.
I don’t want a t shirt made in Thailand with a photo of a grainy image of the mug my 10 year old made. I want the mug.
But the school won’t send the mug home because then you won’t buy the t shirt. Asking about this dynamic starts a fog machine of bullshit or I get blinded by gaslight. Whatever the metaphor I am done.
Existence has many bitter pills, but this one is chalk flavored.
My gf has a 30 year old ficus that is huge. Yesterday I used our refrigerator dolly to move it from the back patio to the sunroom. Last year I re-potted it, lifting it off the ground with a pulley system. I knocked the old pot off and root pruned the tree with my sawzall. Its trunk is as big around as my thigh.
Threaten a copyright infringement suit. If your child made the mug/picture/whatever, he/she owns the copyright on it. Any routine photo/copy made of it without permission is a violation.
I have no doubt I signed some wavier a year ago in order for my child to learn in that building that absolves them and anyone else from litigation.
You can’t win.
I was watching Italy vs Malta soccer match Italy won 4-0.
But I was laughing hysterically when I realized the play by play announcer, when Italy had possession, sounded like he was naming all the different types of noodles available in Italy.
Mad magazine certainly always used the names of pasta shapes and other food items whenever referring to an Italian-American character, and especially if the character was part of organized crime.
I distinctly recall a menacing goon named “Rocco Pastapizza”
I swear some really were pasta shapes. Piperadella, Tagliatella, Etc. They absolutely crushed Malta though.
What an awful situation. I’m so sorry.
Strozzapreti is my favorite.
Heh, that’s a real noodle, not an Italian soccer player (I checked)!
You might have been thinking of paperdelle. Delicious pasta.
That one is closer, the pasta is tagliatelle.
I’ve never had it but it looks a lot like fettuccine.
Had a little workplace accident. Definitely needed to go get checked out. I wanted to go to the urgent care run by my Dr’s office network, but noooooo work made me go to a crapass Concentra clinic.
So I’ve been sitting here waiting for about 2 1/2 hours. At least I’m getting paid.
ETA and I’m fucking hungry because I didn’t eat before I came.
Tagliatelle is slightly wider than fettucine. But the Italians make many fine distinctions among their pastas.
Shit, sorry about posting pasta pictures.
It’s OK, they just put me in a room so at least I’ll be done in an hour, hour and a half at the rate this has been going.
My personal Hell O’Weenie, a new mini-dachshund puppy I’ve had for a whole 3 1/2 months (he’s 5 1/2 months old) managed yesterday morning to grab a block of D-Con mouse bait to chew on in my workshop in the 30 seconds I was putting stuff in an outdoor freezer. I didn’t even know there was still bait out there. Last time I baited was more than 2 years ago when I had no animals at all.
I turned just in time to notice him chewing away on the crumbling block that was still somewhat contained in its plastic shrink wrap. Immediately grabbed it out of his mouth, then ran him into the house and waterboarded him for a few moments to rinse his mouth and get rid of as much of the stuff as I could. Then called the emergency vet hospital.
They had me call Animal Poison Control. I gave them the information on the particular mouse bait Ollie had got hold of and the news wasn’t good. A mere half a gram is enough to potentially do damage to kidneys and liver.
Raced him to the emergency vet, they induced vomiting then kept him to run some additional tests after some time had passed. So far, so good.
We spent the entire day dealing with it and we’re heading over shortly today to his regular vet for follow-up tests. He must have bloodwork done every day through Thursday to ensure he’s out of the woods.
My guilt is enormous and that was $1,000 I wasn’t planning to spend yesterday. A tough lesson for me, and I just hope my little guy continues to do well. Poor little biscuit. 
Oh, boy–my thoughts are with you. Darn dogs. Get a few bottles of hydrogen peroxide–that is a reliable emicent for dogs. Every owner should have some around. Hang in there, Ollie!
Wow, so sorry to hear that. But it sounds like the poor little guy is going to be OK thanks to your quick action. Here’s hoping for a quick recovery! 
Thanks to both.
Yes, he’s doing just fine so far. Eating well, drinking well, playing, being annoying just like any other day. Currently flinging himself against my head.
Blood work done late yesterday afternoon was perfect, so there is reason to hope he’s going to fully recover. But what a scary day, and I won’t really relax until he gets the all-clear on Thursday afternoon.
Dogs!!