For the life of me I can’t keep track of holidays. I was totally unaware that today is Stick-Your-Head-Up-Your-Ass-and-Drive-Slow-In-th-Passing-Lane-On-Your-Way-to-Work Day. #2 Mini rant - Sometimes I wish that Facebook would operated under pit rules as I have a few friends who say the stupidest things and desperately needed to be slapped down.
I had a plan for this week. Workouts were planned (gym in the morning, swimming in the afternoon), a haircut was planned, finally settling on a headshot photographer and making an appointment was planned, volunteering at the cat shelter was planned. Things were going according to plan until Wednesday, when I came down with a cold. At least I got Wednesday morning’s workout in before I was knocked flat. I had to cancel my volunteer shift, my hair is unwashed, never mind cut, and to make things even more fun I broke a front lower tooth this evening, so I can’t even think about new headshots until I get it fixed, and my dentist is out of town for another week or so - I’m not in pain but it looks like crap. That’ll teach me to make plans, right?
Netflix god damn, you have become fucking pathetic. I keep my streaming membership only for children viewable distractions and the desperate chance something I might care about will be viewable on the lone tv in my house without Amazon Prime, which happens to be in the living room.
I know, First World problems, and this Pit is pretty much to myself for the monthly payment of garbage I don’t use. I just know though, 2 minutes after cancelling my subscription an only Netflix original I actually care about will be released.
Is there a fucking point to the Facebook Messenger app on iPhone? I swear overtime I try to use it, whether I’m on Wifi or network, I get a “No Internet Connection” error. BTW, half the time I try to post something to Facebook from my iPhone, no post. How can a multi-gazillion company suck so much on smart phones??? :mad::mad::mad:
Even after changing out our modem we’re STILL having issues with Netflix too. The damn thing has to buffer at least a half dozen times before a particular show (doesn’t matter what show, btw) will finally run. Our ISP tried telling us it’s because we haven’t upgraded our subscription (and therefore internet speed). My husband the IT guy told them to [insert impolite action here].
What I hate most is that it forces you to binge watch. I’ve never been a big TV/movie fan to begin with. I don’t want to become one. My husband, OTOH, will happily binge watch an entire series. AAAAAAAAARGH.
Dropped off my sweet, snuggly ginger kitty at her new owners’ house this afternoon. Managed to get the majority of my crying out of the way this morning so I could make it through the dropoff. I think they’ll be a good fit, and they’ve told us to stop by any time to see her, but it’s still going to be an adjustment.
At least the long national nightmare is over for the other kitty and the better half.
I’m sorry it had to work out this way, bobkitty. You are a good person for trying so hard to keep her, and for finding her a good home when it became clear that you couldn’t.
Dear Brother in Law: You are an enormous piece of shit. It was bad enough, 18 years ago, when your wife/my sister died, and you chose to let your insane parents raise my niece. I almost forgave that - you were a young single father. Maybe you thought it was best.
But you re-married. Your wife seems like a nice lady. But your daughter was stuck with your parents. My side of the family wasn’t allowed to interact until my niece was an adult. And today, I am the closest she has to a mom. I’m cool with that.
Our girl got married last month. We are planning a reception in the fall. After a couple of decades of ignoring your eldest child, I’m not surprised to hear “oh, I don’t think I can be there.” But I’m thoroughly pissed that your excuse is “it’s football season for my 12-year-old son.” Your son is never going to play professional sports. His middle school game will never trump a celebration of your daughter’s marriage. She deserves a million times better, and you deserve nothing except my contempt.
Hey, Rocketfish: Fuck you very much for taking away the drivers for your discontinued USB mic that I have, the one with the eight foot cord which would be perfect for Youtube uploads. It’s been my experience that most OEMS continue to offer driver downloads even if the product has been discontinued, but that doesn’t include you for some reason.
Dearest sisters, you texted me and said that if I picked Dad up, one of you would take him home. The time to change your minds about this is not fifteen minutes after Dad and I show up. Thanks to you two, I didn’t get home until almost midnight last night.
In conclusion, please remember that I live further away from Dad than either of you (and this includes after you move to Capital City, Oldest Sister) so these last minute changes can be a real hassle. You each have two cars. Use one of them to shuttle your children off to the next engagement in their active social lives and one of them to take Dad home so I’m not stuck driving around the middle and western parts of NC for ten hours.
I don’t normally unfriend people on Facebook. I have a bunch of people on “ignore”, including some nutty relatives that would probably notice if I unfriended them. But I don’t usually unfriend people because sometimes I will “un-ignore” them to see if they’re still nuts. They usually still are but that’s beside the point.
I just unfriended a guy I know from the hockey games I go to. Self-professed Christian posting nasty, vile, crap about the nightclub shooting in Orlando. Cracking jokes about how it must be the gun’s fault.
Call it a terrorist act, call it a hate crime, either way- show some respect, you asshole. 50 people died. Unfriending isn’t much but I don’t ever see him in person outside of hockey games so I couldn’t tell him off to his face. Some Christian you are…