Since hardly anything ever happens to me, I thought I’d relate to you the Saga of the Home Depot Window Debacle.
My husband has determined that we need to replace the old crappy windows in the house with new, shiny, UV resistant windows. He will be undertaking this endeavor himself. So, Saturday he went window shopping. <SNERK!> First of all, he wants to make one large ($1500!) purchase, so as to take advantage of their offer of no interest for a year. He went to one Home Depot, and they didn’t have some of the windows in stock, and didn’t know how to order the ones he wanted. He went to another store, and they only had some things in stock, too. So one store had half of his order, and another had the other half. But the maroons at both stores didn’t know how to transfer stock from one store to another, or any way to get ALL of the merchandise on one purchase.
He finally talks to someone who knows what the hell he’s doing. That guy is ringing up his order, and Tom is helping another guy pull down windows from stock. Yet another guy is standing around talking to another employee and Tom asked him if he would please get him another cart. The guy said he was busy (he was holding a broom!) and the carts were in the parking lot.
All the frustration of running around trying to get stupid people to help him exploded at that moment. Tom said F this and F you and F your store and I’m never coming back to this store ever again! The helpful guy stood there with his jaw on the floor! The dickweed looked like he swallowed a bowling ball. They just lost out on a huge order.
So yesterday he went to yet another Home Depot, and got a guy who could help him. We hope, anyway.
And if you’re Drae with all the pain meds and a broke butt, it’s Happy Rump Day!
Rebo I feel Tom’s pain. I once asked one of the ever so [sub]un[/sub]helpful employees of Home Dumbass is stoopid was one of his listed job duties. This was after about twenty minutes of him trying to figure out how to put fifty bucks on one of their gift cards. :rolleyes:
This will actually be the second house I’ve bought, so I know exactly what I’m in for. Like my dad told me years ago, “When you own a house, you don’t ever have to worry about something to do on weekends and vacations.”
We have beer here at work. And while I don’t do it often, I have been known to grab one after 4 pm, and finish up paperwork at my desk. I does make that last hour go by faster.
I keep telling people not to pick her. She’s going to get the names of everyone that ever put her on a list like that, and then go kick every one of their asses. Besdies, she’s her generation’s version of Keith Richards.
I went to a jersey auction once! 'Cept it wasn’t anything like what you’re talking about. There weren’t any shirts being sold, just cows. :eek: Why yes, I’m from farm country, how’d you know??
swampy, garlic smashed N.O.T. were supposed to be on the menu with the meatloaf last night but I was just sooooo tired when I got home that I didn’t make them. So **KeithT ** got meatloaf, butternut squash, and leftover mac & cheese.
Are you cooking for your own birthday LiLi?? Or are those the choices of places to go out? 'Cause cooking for yourself on your birthday just doesn’t sound like the way to go. Especially with all those husbands, you should be able to get someone to take you out to dinner!
**Delores ** (Do you have a nickname?), that sucks. Sometimes HD is a great place to shop and sometimes they suck. So much for a chain offering consistency!
I haven’t seen TSOM in years. I can’t even remember whether I like it or not! It couldn’t be hurt by being rewritten in a LOTR-style though with elves and dwarves and whatnot. I’d go to see that!
I would pay good money to see LOTR redone as a parody of TSOM. (omg acronyms lol wtf bbq)
ahem
Anyway. Yeah. Umm … right. Nothing new has happened since yesterday, except that I made more progress on my mechanics homework last night. I should be able to finish it today without staying up to a ridiculous hour. Oh! We did go for pizza last night. One of the local places has a buy one get one free deal on Tuesday nights, so we were able to get four pizza pies for the price of two. I still have five slices sitting in our refrigerator. Hello breakfast!
I once blew up at a HD ‘helper’ too, it’s almost the national sport I believe. Old bastard wouldn’t answer a one-word question (yes? or no?) because he was trying to enter someone’s name onto his computer.
Oooh. Are all the leaves changing there? So it was foggy and pretty colors? Mornings like that are nice. (Especially with a good cup o’ Dunkin Donuts coffee. )
MUsicals? did someone say musicals? I’ll star in whatever you guys write! I am, afterall, a Broadway Diva at heart. You should hear me belt out “Rose’s Turn” and strut the runway
Is it possible for an entire week to be hideous? So far Monday, Tuesday, and now Wednesday have been hideous.
nava, such a lovely way to start the day. And good on you for enjoying the scenery instead of grousing about having to leave so early. Me? I get traffic. :rolleyes:
I don’t think I will have to kill my mother…she is probably going to do that all by herself. Yesterday she was hell bent on scoring more drugs. Nevermind that she’s been taking so many that she is squirrelly as all hell. Know what? The hospital she went to knowingly gave her a perscription for Darvacets anyway. She basically told me to “quit trying to run her life” and to leave her alone. Yeah, right! 82 years old, can’t hear, can’t walk, and squirrelly. Did I mention that already? Yep, squirrelly.
Other than that…work is hideous. Did I mention that already?
Good morning, all. At least I hope it’s good in your part of the world. What’s left of it, which isn’t very much.
I had to close the windows and turn on the freaking air conditioning at 10:30 this morning. It is October. It is autumn. This is wrong.
My stupid transcript continues to run waay, waay long. I hate jobs that run waay, waay long. Especially when the stupid lawyers start bickering like a bunch of little children. “Stop insulting the witness!” “Did not!” “Did too!” Etc. And with 14 of 'em in one room? Oy.
My neck hurts. And I’m getting tennis elbow (tendinitis) in my right arm. So my arm hurts.
Back to work. I’m having such a fun day, can’t you tell?
Oh, I am getting taken out for dinner. Damned if I’m cooking for my own birthday. I might try to teach Mr. Lissar how to make the Extremely Easy Cake in Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking*, and have it for my birthday.
Classic Genoise, even with some measurements!:
1/4 cup softish butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
Capful vanilla, almond extraxt, or whatever. I actually find this recipe works best doubled. i made it yesterday.
Heat the oven to 350F. Cream the butter and sugar together. I stick them in the KitchenAid. Add the eggs, and beat until everything is fluffly and pale. Fold in the flour and baking powder. I actually beat it in, and it doesn’t get tough. Put it in a greased pan (small for undoubled recipe). Bake for 20-30min. Laurie Colwin likes jam and powdered sugar with it. You could ice it, but I’d layer it with jam and whipped cream. It takes about seven minutes to put together. Maybe five.
It’s good cake. I wonder what would happen if you added cocoa?
It’s probably also the only musical that references a corporation that’s still in business. Can’t say I like the song much, though. For the SF Pride Parade we tow one of our genuine antique stagecoaches on a flatbed truck and blast that infernal song over and over and over again while shooting tons of metallic confetti into the air. I’m not sure what gets stuck worse - the song in your head, or the confetti in places you never thought confetti could stick.
The same coach travels on its own wheels behind a team of horses in other parades, but Market Street has streetcar tracks that are just waiting to catch those skinny wood wheels and snap an axle.
A couple weeks ago, somone asked me if I was a smoker, thanks to the lung-rattling coughing - nope, just too much Faire dust.
The AM commute was a booger today. Two trains had electrical troubles on one line, another line had “police activity,” somewhere else had switching problems causing trains to turn around at an unusual location, and overall, it was just slow and packed. Definitely one of those “no need to hang on - you’re crammed in so tight, there’s no chance you could fall over” rides. At least they were able to condense all the troubles into one commute, rather than spreading them out over a week like they usually do.
Cake without cocoa? Heavens! What’s the world come to?
**Mama ** - We’ve had goofy weather here as well. A week ago it was so hot that we had the air conditioning on. Two days ago, it was so chilly that we turned on the heat. Today’s just drab and gray - supposed to drizzle a bit. If we get a quarter inch of rain, the news people will call it the Storm of 2006! Seriously - they get a little too excited over rain here, especially considering we have some sort of atmospheric oddity that makes lightning and real pelting rain exceedingly rare.
Bobbio we’d work well as a team. See, I’d do all the artistical (HAH!) stuff and you’d put in all the parts where stuff blows up and such. A musical that goes KA*BOOM! I smell a Tony!
Good morning again, y’all.
I have come to admit and make excuses. Would you believe that until just this morning, I did not make the connection that anyrose=Rosie? This revelation renders most of my previous post obsolete, 'cause I know I only know her from here! <waves at Rosie> :smack:
I don’t sleep well. That is my excuse. I would be a GENIUS if I ever got enough sleep.
MamaTiger, I’m sorry to hear about your elbow. I am experiencing my first case of tendonitis in my right shoulder, and I’m fit to be tied. You never realize how much you use your strong side until it hurts every time you do. It will NOT go away. shrug Getting older is a bitch.
Mama Tiger, the Starfleet Academy jersey is several years old, I think I got it on e-bay. I get lots of strange looks when I wear it. I think it’s going to be my Halloween costume this year, if I can find some latex to make pointed ears.
Home Depot is not my friend, either. Those “You can do it, We can help” commercials are always greeted by a loud “Bullshit” from me. I had to go there this morning to buy some deadbolts for a friend (who bought the doors without realizing there were two holes in them until the guy was there to do the installation.). An almost pain free shopping experience! I went straight to the aisle with the locks, found the ones I wanted, and asked where I needed to go to get them keyed. I then approached the woman who was pointed out to me, who was very bothered to have to wait on someone and asked me to leave the locks. I said I couldn’t do that, because the workers were waiting to install them. Bitch gave a deep sigh, rolled her eyes, and said “It will be a minute.” At this point. if I had been shopping for myself, I would have dropped the locks at her feet and left. I couldn’t do that to my friend, so I walked to the keying station where a very helpful young man had the locks re-keyed in about five minutes, without a single sigh or rolled eye.
I hate Home Depot. I try to use Lowes whenever possible, even though it is further from my house.
I got the postcards mailed. I need to go get cat litter and cat food.
Why yes, I’m from farm country, how’d you know??