See, this is why I hate doing updates. I did my updates this morning like a good little girl, and now Safari doesn’t work. It came up with some stupid message about not having Magic any more - since that meant nothing to me, I clicked OK, expecting to get on with my day. Well, the Magic certainly is gone now - all I get is blank pages. And for the love of God, PithHelmet developer, would you please fix the latest version so I can download it and go back to getting all that internet shit righteously blocked? All PithHelmet is doing for me now is giving me a SIMBL error every time I start up Safari, which hangs it up half the time. I liked PithHelmet so much I even sent that wanker actual money to pay for it.
We got a new big beautiful TV. I ordered, days before we actually got the TV, a sound system with a Blu-Ray player. But between the weekend and the holiday and somehow they rescheduled my shipment and I won’t get it until at least Friday. I WANT MY BLU-RAY. Also I want to get to the point where I can reprogram my Harmony remote with the new stuff so I don’t have to keep using six remotes.
I can’t watch a half hour of TV without seeing this pair of PSA pairs:
Smokey 1: Guy throws cigarette on ground. Guy in restaurant turns into Smokey and asks if he’s trying to start a wildfire.
Smokey 2: Hot camping babe tells clueless partner the fire isn’t out. He says close enough. She turns into Smokey and lays into him. He says that means we’re not going anywhere. She turns back into hot self and says exactly. Looks in his eyes, then down, then into his eyes again, then down again.
Questions 1: Cute girl in restaurant asks the waiter about the specials, how it’s cooked, is he an actor, is he from Ohio, etc. When her doctor asks if she has any questions, she clams up.
Questions 2: Middle aged dweeb is in the cell phone shop, asking a boatload of questions. When his doctor asks if he has any questions, he says no.
ENOUGH, ALREADY! I GET IT! Do we HAVE to see them back to back every freaking half hour?
Pit the people upselling works on. If they didn’t buy the crap, no businesses would waste their time on it. (Never gonna happen–too many impulse buyers.)
Whenever the speaker-person at the drive-through begins the conversation with “Would you like to try our…” I’m always tempted to simply answer “No” and silently wait for them to make more suggestions until they’ve correctly guessed what I do want to order.
-The neurologist’s office had better get my prescription right this time. I take 500 mgs of Lamictal a day (250mg twice a day). I usually do a 200mg tablet and a 100mg tablet cut in half. Why not take all 100s, you ask? Well, the 100s are more expensive, and I don’t have insurance. It’s just cheaper to do it the first way.
Sooooo…when I called in the other week and told them I needed a refill on my 200 mgs – you guessed it! I got all 100mg pills!!! Fortunately, when I called back to the doctor’s office yesterday, the girl was very nice, put a note in my chart, and I was able to get a refill SPECIFICALLY for 200mgs. (I’m down to only a week’s supply of the 100s now, if I don’t get the 200.)
(I HATE those voice mail prescription systems!!!)
-Last night, Luci, who, like Maggie, will chew through bags to get to the food she wants (donuts, biscuits, etc), somehow found and chewed through a packet of…instant oatmeal. Since when do cats like oatmeal? It was all over the cupboard! sigh
-Annie, if you don’t leave the damned dog alone, I’m going to cut your tail off and beat you with it! (YOU may like to hear her bark. The rest of us do not. Nor do I think Lexie appreciates being teased)
-What the FUCK is wrong with the Penguins? Are they taking tips from the Steelers?
Somehow, that makes it all better. I’m going to be playing that video a lot in the 24 days before she goes away. Thanks. 
I installed Windows 7 (32 bit) on my laptop back in November. I love Windows 7 (although I was one of the few not upset with Vista). I also use iTunes for my iPod Touch. I followed all the directions: I uninstalled iTunes before I installed Windows 7. I reinstalled it after.
iTunes is fine, as long as I don’t actually want to sync my iPod to it. As soon as I plug in my iPod, it freezes. I’ve tried all the fixes I can find on the 'net, including trying to go back to an earlier version, uninstalling EVERYTHING Apple on my laptop & reinstalling it, making sure there are no conflicts between iTunes & something else on my laptop, etc.
Now there’s a software update that I can’t get because I can’t sync my fucking iPod to my fucking laptop because iTunes doesn’t fucking like Windows 7.
Bollocks.
Look, Visa folks, I know there’s a lot of fraudsters out there, and I appreciate that you’re trying to minimize your losses. However, when you decide you’re going to put a hold on my credit card because of “suspicious activity”, could you at least, ya know, CALL ME TO LET ME KNOW? I’ve spent a good part of the morning sorting out automated payments that were declined. I’ve also probably lost the super duper cheap airline seats that I couldn’t buy online because my card didn’t work, because the airline’s reservation line is now busy because of an “unexpectedly high call volume”. And since when is a small charge at a reputable chain store that’s not outside my usual spending pattern “suspicious activity” anyways?
I am well hydrated. I am upright. I am avoiding drafts. I am not wearing a hat, headband or anything else on my head that is too tight. So why, oh why, dear sinuses, are you swollen and mucousy and making my forehead feel like it’s been whacked repeatedly with a 2x4? Please go to hell and die, thank you.
Also, why oh why oh why is Quick Reply broken?
I bought my brother a blu-ray player for Christmas. The stupid thing doesn’t work. That’s one way to get things to stores in time for Christmas. :rolleyes:
I dunno. But after having a little talk with our credit card’s fraud department in which I asked them if they could exercise some common sense, like seeing we had purchased airline tickets and made hotel reservations out of town weeks in advance and then *not *freaking out when we began to make purchases in said town, they have cut way down on the fraud alerts. I guess that might be setting us up for fraud down the line, but meanwhile we’re not having to call the mothership every time we buy gas outside the city limits.
I’ve been walking around all day with something in my shoe… well, boot. I took it off several times today, and since it’s my old army issue boot, I have to take a minute and sit down to do it. I never found shit.
Till I got home and took my socks off. It was a piece of uncooked spaghetti noodle in my sock. How the fuck did that get there?
Yeah, I guess I don’t understand the randomness of the fraud department. Apparently, a charge at Restoration Hardware is enough to put them on high alert, but they didn’t catch two charges for exactly $300.00 on consecutive days at a Popeye’s Chicken in a city halfway across the country from us. I had to report that one myself when I found it on our bill two weeks later.
I’ve been getting spanish language magazines in the mail and i’m not sure why. So far i have a Cosmopolitan en espanol and a TV y Novela. I fucking HATE soaps in general and have never watched telenovelas.
I’m not fluent in Spanish either, so i can’t read this fucking trash, it’s a waste of paper and postage, and it’s going to end its days in the really fucking big bag of papery-shit that we shove newspapers in so we can take them to the elementary school to be recycled so some good can come from this utter nonsense.
I hate snow and winter, ice and especially lake effect snow! Fuck Winter!!!
To the lady who asked it if it was ok if her daughter rode one of the bikes for sale in the store, kindly think about all the stores that sell bikes in them and notice how many kids are riding them in the store. Then go DIAF.
To the grandma who pointed to me while dealing with a tired toddler, " See, that’s the manager ( I’m not) if you don’t stop misbehaving, she is going to throw us out of the store."
I’ll throw you out of the store and put the kid down for a nap in the furniture section.
There’s a family that lives down the hall with I think 3 kids. 4-5 nights a week they’ll be running up and down the hall playing, laughing, screaming. It’s annoying but it’s dark and wet outside and really nowhere decent for kids to go play outdoors, especially with a really busy street right there, so I try to ignore them. I’d gotten fairly good at tuning them out, until the last week or two.
The noise level has increased and they’ve been spending more time on our end of the hall instead of their own. Plus they apparently think it’s a cool idea to knock on our door or ring our doorbell and run away (no flaming bag of poo… yet). We never open the door when they do, so it’s not like they’re even getting a reaction as far as they know… yet they persist. The lady across from us has gotten after them a few times for the noise, but they only stop for an hour or two.
There really isn’t much we can do about this since it’s before quiet hours, I’m not likely to intimidate them if I say something (I might even encourage the behavior since they’d be getting a reaction), and even though I know where they live, their parents don’t seem to speak english well. It’s also a bunch of condos, so no leasing office or manager around to talk to about this, either.
So…
FUCKING STOP PESTERING STRANGERS, YOU INCONSIDERATE SHITS, AND STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY DOOR.
Oh, UK, your snow had better not close London Stansted, or we will have words. Mainly involving two-by-fours on my side.
Seriously? I think you could buy a Popeye’s franchise for $300! Who the hell is eating that much chicken? I think they must have purchased chicken for everyone in the city or something.