I just got back from the podiatrist. He carved about a spoonful of dead tissue out of one of my big toes. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. I’m supposed to stay OFF my foot. I’m not allowed to stand for any length of time. He said that if this toe isn’t MARKEDLY better by Monday, he’s going to order me into a power chair. I’ve tried so hard to stay out of a wheelchair/powerchair. I’m afraid that once I start using one, I’ll never really be able to get back to walking.
Dammit.
Oh, and I’ve been standing more than usual, because our dishwasher has been acting up, so I’ve been handwashing the dishes. Well, THAT’S gonna stop. I can’t honestly say that I’m too heartbroken at the prospect of not handwashing dishes. We have a dishwasher on order, but it won’t get here for another week and a half, at least. It’s too bad that I don’t have a frilly apron that I can hand to my husband for HIM to wash dishes in.
What is it with the appliances? We had to buy a new washing machine a few weeks ago, and found out that our fridge can’t be fixed, either. The washing machine was old and leaking oil and water - fair enough, I’m sure it’s put in its time. The fridge, however, is between four and six years old, and needs to be replaced because the condenser tube is blocked, and this can’t be fixed on these fridges (only cost us a few minutes and $80 to find that out, so I guess we should be grateful). What I understand is one of the most common problems with fridges is built so it can’t be fixed - planned obsolescence run amok!
Mini-rant: Furnace broke, it’s probably the ignition like the last couple times, heating company hasn’t called us back even after leaving two messages on their emergency number. :mad:
I suppose in the end, it actually applied. On account of it was not, in fact, about you. But I was talking more about people who, in situations completely unrelated to themselves, get all, “it’s because everyone hates me!!” and I’m left scratching my head, wondering where they got that idea, and insulted back because they just accused me (and everyone else) of mistreating them when nobody has done any such thing.
Anyway, new mini-rant.
I think it’s about time to put some serious distance between myself and my best friend. I went out with another friend recently and I hadn’t realized how long it’s been since I’ve been out like that and not felt like I was babysitting someone.
My best friend is prone to tantrums/breakdowns/drama. She doesn’t know how to behave in public- like thanking waiters or people who hold doors, tipping, waiting in lines, putting things back where she found them when she decides she doesn’t want them in stores, using her inside voice, and so on. She pitches a fit or whines and sulks when she doesn’t get her way, so I usually just don’t fight her if it’s not worth it. She has a kid, too, so when we’re together she’s on vacation from the kid and he becomes my job.
This is all to the point now where her dad has started trying to pay me when I go hang out over there. He says it’s for watching the little one, but he only does it when my friend has thrown a tantrum or had some drama. And that’s totally awkward.
We have a lot of fun and I really do love her, but in the end I think it’s not a healthy friendship if I’ve started to resent her. And it’s nobody’s fault but my own that I have such a friend (it’s complicated by a lot of other factors, but it’s still a matter of choice.) and that I let her drive me crazy and drain my energy.
If the scan is any decent, a character recognition program can save you a lot of work, turning it from typing everything in to checking what the OCR has done. But the scan has to be visible.
All I ask of any sort of health care professional is two little tiny things:
READ THE FUCKING FORM. I don’t care if I’m a new patient or not. If you want me to get there ten minutes early to fill out a fucking form about anything, READ THE FUCKING THING. (Yes, I mean you, “Dr.” “Oh, do you have a history of <eye condition>” when the exam clearly demonstrates something which is only a sign of <eye condition> and I wrote ON THE FUCKING FORM a nice long history of the treatment I had as a child for <eye condition>.)
LISTEN TO ME. If I say I don’t want a certain exam and yes I KNOW I should have it done, but for whatever reason which I am under no obligation to explain I don’t want it done, please just fucking listen and accept it and move the fuck on. And if I say, fine, I’ll try some new contact lenses because you refuse to renew the prescription for the type I’ve been using for six years because you want to try to scam me into buying more expensive lenses – but DO NOT even bother with <brand X>, because I tried those before and absolutely could not tolerate those lenses, they were painful, I’m not going to even try those, so if you order a trial pair of those you just eat the cost. If I say that, and then come in to pick up the trial lenses, and the first ones you want me to try are <brand X> after I specifically and clearly explained I have tried them and cannot wear them, I’m going to be just a little pissed off that YOU ARE NOT FUCKING LISTENING TO ME.
Hey Dell Financial Services; you are fucking stupid.
Do not call me about being a recording, especially after I ALREADY PAID YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! In your stupid recording, asking me to verify myself, you do not even give me the option of saying I already paid. Dammit, I’m paid up until February 20 th, shut the fuck up and leave me alone.
I will never, ever have anything to do with Dell again.
Followup: Aforementioned heating company can bite me for not getting back to us at all. We’ve got another company, sent by our rental group, over to check our furnace out some time this afternoon.
Teeny-weeny rant: Space heater made the bedroom quite tolerable, but just can’t cope with heating the living room. Brr.
The three color ink cartridges in my Brother printer are dried out. This is because I never print in color. I already know I’m out of color ink. Stop erroring out and telling me I’m out of color ink. However, the black ink cartridge is quite full and ready to go. Please stop erroring out because I’m out of color ink and refusing to fucking print my black and white documents using the full black ink cartridge. I have to keep replacing my unused color cartridges to print in black and white?? Even though they’ll just dry out unused? Really?? You fucking crooks!
No. No, you do not have the freedom to say whatever you want without repercussion. That is not how freedom of speech works. You have the freedom to say whatever you want. And then everyone else in the class has the freedom to ask if you have brain damage. See? It goes both ways.
you should take your own advice and not type bullshit statements like “I spent a year in northern Manitoba working in the hospital there - let me just simply say that Natives earn a lot of the discrimination they face.”
This strikes me as an opportunity for some inventive person: create a color cartridge substitute gizmo you can plug in that fools the printer into thinking there’s a full color cartridge there.
That gizmo would probably void the warranty on the printer. I think it would be a wonderful invention, don’t get me wrong. But I hardly ever print in color. Mostly I use the fast/economical printing setting, because I just need a list of directions, or a recipe, or something.
The last time I printed something in color was when I saw a loldeer on ICanHasCheezburger.