I can’t argue with that 
I’ve actually been using the W10 tech preview on my main system for the last couple of months, for what is effectively beta software it’s surprisingly stable and I’ve had no problems so far. So there’s always that option?
Dear Husband: I admire your faith in your brother’s ability to help you replace our water heater. I know he has done it before. But for the love of all that is good and holy, WHY did you wait until he got here to go buy the damned thing?? Your half-assed ridiculous reason is that since he’s done it before he’ll know what you need to buy, but the store has freaking EMPLOYEES for that. It is already almost six freaking 30 pee em. You’ll be gone for AT LEAST an hour, and then need to eat, and THEN finally get around to putting the gorram thing in at about 8. In case you forgot, it’s your night to put the kids to bed, but I guess that isn’t going to happen. I just hope guys don’t screw anything up.
In case you do, I have a back up plan. It involves my showering at our daycare provider’s house in the morning and then me paying a friend’s husband $100 under the table to install the damned thing. I will have hot water before we leave for the weekend!!
Ah, fuck! Attempting to clean up my shop and knocked a very large and heavy glueing clamp off its perch, which landed on the top of my foot. Swelled up immediately, so ice and Aleve all afternoon. I don’t think anything is broken, but it’s going to be a colorful bruise. Oh, and company coming to stay with us this coming weekend; they can sit around and watch me sit around. Fun!
Nope. Wrong. I didn’t update anything. The phone nagged me to the extent of being unusable until I agreed to let it update itself. I’m the user, the phone is the device. The idea that the phone should require me to devote my time and energy to become an android hobbyist and research its firmware and do its bidding so it will continue to maintain its initial level of functionality reverses those roles and is not the solution, it is the problem. This is not a cheap buggy open source beta release or a DIY kit it is a retail consumer electronic device. If it arbitrarily stops doing what it’s supposed to do it’s trash.
Still think it’s a carrier issue, and not the device with insisting on pushing the update. I’ve had Galaxies for going on 5 years now and haven’t seen persistence like you describe. Every couple of days, yes, but not every time I wake the phone. Different carriers send OS updates differently, and a store should fix it if you take it to them. At this point, either that brief hassle, or keep carrying a brick around until you go the expensive route.
I am here to pit the jar of pitted olives I bought from the Safeway that do in fact have pits. At least one of the ones in the jar did.
I may have chipped a tooth. Ouch.
Entering Day 6 of Frontier fuck-ups. I’m officially waiting for a phone call from an “executive” with their “customer relations team.” Basically, I’m tired of hearing “oh, reset your router, blah blah blah, it’s just you, we’ll send a technician out sometime between 8 am and never next Thursday.” This is a more widespread problem - numerous private and business consumers in my area are reporting the same problems, repeatedly. None of Frontier’s CSRs seem to receive any information on the actual problem. (My suspicion - no one wants to spend the $$ required to actually repair/modernize the local equipment, so the techs on the ground here continue to patch things together as best they can, with predictable and frustrating results.)
Anyhoo, I expect that I’ll get the same answers from the “executive” tomorrow as I’ve received from Frontier’s minimum wage flunkies on the phones. I hope not, but that’s what I expect. If my worst fears are confirmed, my next step is contacting the FCC, my state’s office of consumer protection, and maybe a friend in the local media. It’s ridiculous - businesses can’t use their service to process payments, students can’t access their classes nor submit homework, consumers can’t check their e-mail or bank accounts, and people who work from home are literally in danger of losing jobs because they’re only allowed so much down time.
Fuckers.
That really, really, really sucks.
On the subject of desserts, no, you sanctimommy moron on Facebook, breast milk icing is not a good idea for a baby’s birthday cake. It’s breast milk. It’s something that most women make after giving birth and that’s it. It is not a cure for cancer from your magical unicorn body made of rainwater, kittens and June roses. Why do some women think giving birth turns them into a cross between Glenda the good witch and Albert freaking Einstein?
Update required! 
gag
It’s time for my annual letter to pecans and black walnut trees: I hate you and your obnoxious pollen. Please get out of both my sinuses and my throat posthaste.
Catamount, if one looks hard (microcenter.com) Windows 7 Pro boxes are still available. Business won’t touch 8 with a ten meter cattle prod. Ten may not be better.
Ewwwww!
Fuck you, pertussis. I’m 31 weeks pregnant and had to get a Tdap shot a couple of days ago. I got swelling where they did the shot, and today it’s started itching. I don’t think it’s anything serious, and I’m quite sure it’s way better than having my baby get pertussis, but it still sucks.
Got a second one! What is up with people who find a conversation about “I want recipes to make XYZ at home from scratch” and wandering in just to say “The grocery store has something that’s just like XYZ only premade!”
45 minute ground delay due to big ass thunderstorms over IAH, 45 aircraft ahead of us , and they just deplaned us . Today is going to be an absolute delight. On the plus side , wine makes it more tolerable.
We’re buying a short sale house . . . and the bank just dropped the bombshell on us that they want to close in May, rather than in June.
This is sort of awesome for us; taking possession sooner would be great . . . except that the current occupants have already asked for a “rentback” after closing because they couldn’t get their shit out by the end of June.
We originally said “no fucking way”, but now it looks like we’ll have no choice. I was raised in the sort of hardass world where when you sell a fucking house you never get to go back to it, so have shit out the fucking door, but I guess the world has gone soft. They have four teenage sons. They live in a port city with tons of rentals. There is no real reason for them not to be able to get their shit out in a week . . . but yeah. Almost certainly not gonna happen. Almost certainly gonna be buying a house while the mortgage-defaulting occupants are still there.
What guarantees they will move out willingly,even after that? What guarantees they wont trash the place?
I have seen repos trashed, so this isn’t some weird unlikely happenstance.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious. Yes, that’s exactly what we’re worried about. We assume that if we let them step foot in the house after closing, they’re going to tear the walls open and steal the copper pipe.
As I was saying: in my world, it isn’t unreasonable to expect a family with four teenage boys to be able to get their shit OUT of the fucking house in a week. But I’m not the only person with a say in this, so I’m now pacing around waiting for our realtor to call me back and tell me exactly what kind of agreement could be drawn up that would give a rentback some teeth. Something like “their realtor’s agency is directly responsible for 100% of damages occurring after the final walk-through” is probably too fucking much to ask.
I’ve decided to create a new disease for everyone to use as an excuse for getting up late.
Post-ortus Dormientes Syndrome
It means sleeping after sunrise.
Plague, day 7
Still coughing Cough syrup is vile, and has a unexpected side effect–now my pupils are constricted to f11.
Still doing the 3 hours up, followed by a nap.
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. RIGHT…
You don’t know that it isn’t going to kill you . . .