ABC News online has a box with lesser story headlines you can click on, with the last word of the headline sometimes abbreviated to save space.
This morning I saw “Arizona City Sees Success Keeping Its Nig…”
Click on that, and it’s a story about keeping the night sky dark so you can see the stars.
Somehow I was expecting different subject matter. :dubious:
No, it’s Purina UR. And he will NOT eat the canned version.
I’ve had this bloody ear infection for a week now, and while I’m not having the incredible pain of the first two days anymore, the “my ears want to pop but can’t” feeling persists and is driving me nuts.
Having it on top of a nasty cold is also wearing me out. Yesterday I worked from home, got not much done, closed up at 5:30 to lay on the couch for a short time letting the ear drops do their work, and woke up this morning at 8:30.
In our company president’s new year message, he mentions that a consulting company will begin working with leadership soon to “design an organizational culture that will allow us to successfully implement our strategic plan”. New buzzwords and bullshit coming. Oh, goody! After all, it’s been a couple years since we did this. So will I no longer have to “be here now”? Or focus on “blue chips”? Were we unsuccessful in implementing our plan with those ideas? Really, is there anyone who thinks this stuff is worthwhile? And if it is, why does the affect only last a couple years before you have to go through it again in a new and different guise? Maybe the games we have to play in training will REALLY make us a team this time! I hate this shit. The last time we went through this I thought my eyeballs were going to get stuck from rolling them back so much.
So it’s no secret that I’m an FSU fan. Our men’s basketball team is off to an amazing start this season.
FSU (#9AP, #10CP) is 16-1 overall, 4-0 in conference having beaten Wake, VT, UVA (ranked), and Duke (ranked).
Notre Dame (#20AP, #20CP) is 15-2, 4-0 in conference having beaten Pitt, Louisville (ranked), Clemson, and Miami.
Notre Dame won tonight against Miami and the fucking ESPN announcer says that Notre Dame is atop the ACC with “FSU just behind”.
What the ever-loving fucking fuck?! Jesus, ESPN, even your own website shows FSU ahead by virtue of the better overall record. Does your corporate hatred of FSU really run that deep that a third-tier announcer has to toe the party line?
I am trying not to whinge about the election too much. I really am.
But my brother, the free-lancer for a major news network, only gets health insurance through the ACA. So does my mother, the woman who’s worked her ass off as a nurse for the past 40+ years.
My maternal grandparents voted for Trump. Mainly to get rid of ‘the Obamacare’. And because they were convinced by the rich, distant and flat out nasty members of the family, because the rich know everything.
And then they tell me that my NHS access here in the U.K. (And the socialised healthcare on the continent before that) sounds wonderful and that we should have something like that in America.
And I want to cry.
(Let me tell you some time about how one of these rich, nasty people convinced same grandmother that it was okay for 50 yr old them to call 14 yr old me disgusting, because reasons, how said grandparents argued to a woman who escaped the nazis and lived in the woods in Poland that their son not getting his first choice med school was anti-semitism, and how I am nearly 40 myself now, but not enough of an adult to watch my daughter while the 90 year old assholes go out- I can’t be trusted because ‘only old people have brains’.)
Huh. Thanks. I’m surprised you can get the prescription stuff online.
Had to stay late last night to help review a report. Fine, that happens. Today, supervisor suddenly announced to me that he was leaving at lunch today. Ok.
Found out late afternoon from a coworker that a couple of us would have to stay late to review the report he would be writing as soon as the paperwork came back from the vendor. 6 PM rolls around, and the paperwork still hasn’t shown up…turns out it won’t actually be available until Monday. We stayed at work for absolutely nothing. Also, supervisor’s sudden lunchtime exit looks a bit suspicious now. :mad:
Yesterday’s Windows 10 update installed several “malicious software removal tools” – and removed Firefox from my taskbar, where it has been pinned long-term.
Firefox may be competing with Windows Explorer, but it’s Windows 10 that proved to be malicious software. And whoever authorized that is a tool.
Whoever thought it was a good idea for the system to install updates without even notifying the user is a tool. I made the grave mistake of leaving my computer on (sleeping)…the latest update downloaded, I never saw the restart notification, and Windows automatically installed the update during what it deemed to be “inactive hours”. Geez, can we at least go back to having Windows notify us so we can tell the computer a day and time to install the update??
I’m getting tired of the “Buy Office now” “notifications”.
That’s not a “notification” Bill Gates. You are spamming me with your shitty ads. I hope you see a picture of cute doggy that is not being hugged by it’s human. That’ll teach you.
Yep, I get the “Buy Office Now” notification daily and I’m sick of it.
I keep getting a big green screen that says the system is going to shut down to install updates, yes or no. I usually tell it no, because I’m in the middle of stuff. But this comes up every day at about 2:30, and I shut down every night, so why doesn’t it install when I turn it back on? And if I do choose yes, it does nothing.
How about the ‘helpful’ popup notifying me that Edge sucks 20% more cock than Firefox whenever I launch Firefox?
Additional weekend piss-off: no, NHS, my statement that I have been a permanent legal resident of the UK for five years does not mean that I have told you I have lived here less than 12 months.
No, I would not like to come in your narrow range of office opening times, by bus, with documentation and a toddler, to prove that I have lived in the country since 2003. I did that shit back in 2011 and paid an awful lot of money to the government to not have to do that anymore.
Yes, my darling husband, this is why I want to get a British passport. Because you just couldn’t see why I’d be bothered.
Stupid fucking dreams. I woke up this morning laughing. In my dream, I was doing a circuit with a guy, like a naval officer on a small boat or something, and we arrived back at hq and were being grilled about what went on out there. I was trying to explain it as well as I could, but everything I said kept making the other guy look worse and worse. I did not mean to, and I kept trying to mitigate the damage, but I was on a downward spiral.
It was fucking hilarious. And I cannot remember a bit of it. Damn lightmares.
Here is what you do with those stupid fucking things: Put them together, so the “eyes” are together, wrap them in electrical tape, cut the wires to about 8", hook them up and zip-tie them to the top of the opener. Problem solved with the door never closing due to wind, dust and shit piled down in the corner of the garage.
Fucking post office. Everyone had packages to mail today, knowing they’ll be closed on Monday. The line was literally out the door. Why? Because only one window was open. One single clerk to service an endless stream of customers. And of course she was busy making small talk with her friends in line.
Mini-rant? Ok here’s one.
Caitlyn Jenner is going to the inauguration and spent about $20,000 getting gusssied up for it.
Is she still “Strong and brave”? Or will the left drop her like a hot ball of proto freedom fries?