Big {{HUGS}} to you and your husband, Sierra Indigo.
Yanno, reading this story I have two thoughts:
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That was a really stupid thing that kid did. And not very nice to his grandmother.
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There’s no way in Hell that it deserved 18 months incarceration, followed by three years probation.
Elder abuse is failing to feed someone in your care. Elder abuse is letting someone who has become incontinent sit in their own filth. Elder abuse is neglecting their laundry for weeks on end. Elder abuse is keeping someone naked on a rubber sheet, in definitely so that they can be hosed off easily. Elder abuse is raping a senior in your care.
Taking your grandmother out to make a video with you, even if it’s not music she would normally have liked, is not elder abuse. Or if it is, it’s still less abusive than taking the grandparents with the kids to Chuck E. Cheese’s. Trust me on this.
Was this tasteless? Yes. Were the discharge of firearms from a vehicle dangerous, as well as illegal? Yes. Unless one can prove that the woman was holding a loaded pistol while she made the video, I just cannot support the charge of elder abuse.
Did you miss the part where he also pled guilty to shooting into a building and shooting out of a vehicle? I think the sentence reflects all three charges, and I have to say that I think a year and a half for shooting at random in a populated area definitely deserves some jail time.
Also, IIRC, people have been charged with elder abuse in a number of cases when the elder in question is videotaped without consent - I think this is perfectly appropriate. Taking advantage of senility to benefit yourself is not acceptable.
If I’m subjected to one more political commercial, I’m going to scream. Come the commercial break, I try changing channels to avoid them, only to find that every. single. channel. is showing an endless loop of “paid political announcements”.
I already voted via absentee ballot. Leave me alone!
This is why I have made the DVR my best friend. I even DVR the local news. If I have to see Michelle Bachman’s creepy eyes again I will scream. Wednesday cannot come soon enough!
Attention all word-processing programs - I spend more time turning off your goddamn bullets and fixing the havoc they wreak than doing just about anything else. How about you quit “helping” me and don’t bullet ANYTHING until I actually go click the “Bullets” button? Thanks. I’d appreciate that.
ETA: Regarding political commercials - you do realize the second they’re over, the Christmas commercials start? 
Thanks for the reminder. I’ve got to use my DVR more.
WRT word processing, is it Word you’re talking about? If so, if you go to Tools/Autocorrect Options/Autoformat As You Type, you’ll see lists of automatic crap which you can toggle off. Like you, I HATE that Word defaults to doing bullets or numbered lists unless you proactively tell it to knock it the fuck off.
I feel the same way. I don’t have a DVR, but I do have a mute button and a good book that I can read during the commercial breaks.
It’s not Word specifically; it’s every single word processing program I’ve ever worked on. And not every program allows you to turn it off. Jerks.
At this point I don’t even care if Obama wins. He has already won. I really hope he can shut the fuck up for 24 hours so that I can find one tv or radio station without an Obama commercial or ad.
Obama has sucked the life out of me. I relent.
I know this won’t happen but I can have my fantasies.
Try FrameMaker. I’m using version 7.2, which is not the most recent, but it’s really good about not having automated crap to drive you insane.
Blerdy Orange (mobile phone) technical support. Grrr.
I switched from pay monthly to pay-as-you-go (keeping the same number) about a couple of months ago. The transition was a bit bumpy, but everything got sorted in the end.
Except one thing - now, when I check my email on my phone, the GPRS connection doesn’t stay disconnected afterwards. I quit the email app and watch it disconnect, then a couple of minutes later, it reconnects - I go into the prefs and disconnect manually, then it reconnects again spontaneously after another minute.
It isn’t the handset, because it never once did this before I swapped to the PAYG SIM card, and the condition occurs even if I do a battery-disconnect-reboot in between.
Try convincing the blerdy technical support folks about this though.
First off, they tried to deny that the little green arrows next to the network signal indicator actually have anything to do with GPRS connections. I corrected them on this by quoting the manual.
Then they just got entirely confused over the nature of the problem. Couldn’t I connect? Couldn’t I browse the web? Couldn’t I get my emails? What was the problem, then, if all of those things worked?
Then they tried to tell me that they can’t support me because my phone is a blackberry.
It’s not - it’s a Palm Treo 650. “Yes, that means it’s a blackberry” said the call centre guy.
No. Blackberry is a brand. My phone is made by PalmOne - it’s a Palm.
“Yes, that is a blackberry”
No, a blackberry is a phone made by Blackberry. Mine is a Palm Treo 650, not a blackberry, because it’s not made by blackberry and is entirely a different device.
“Yes, but it’s still a blackberry”
I just hung up. There is no hope. Wankers.
Yep, you’re screwed. Not because of tech support, but because you got a Treo. I’ve been through three warranty replacements (Verizon – US) since March 07. I did not change anything, but yet every freaking unit works great for a while, and then the damn thing randomly connects to my email account. Then scrambles the address book. Then loses all sound. Then resends every third text message. Then turns on (silent) random MP3 files.
If you are out of warranty, throw the fucking thing away, and get a Blackberry. If it isn’t out of warranty, have a polite hissyfit until your provider gives you a new (NOTnotNOT “reconditioned” – NEW) one. So far, my new, not reconditioned, unit is behaving. So far.
Good Luck
I don’t think the problem is the handset though - I mean, it could be, but this only started happening when I switched plans. I’ve had it quite a while and it’s been pretty well-behaved really.
Anyway - I don’t think a blackberry would work for me - I rely on a number of third-party apps that I’m pretty sure won’t be available for it.
Being home on my own hardcore sucks. There’s nobody here to listen to my ranting at the TV, or to agree when I’m railing against the injustices of the universe - such as that bitch Rosann not being kicked out of Hell’s Kitchen yet. I miss him.
(For those following along at home, he seems to be on the up now. The hallucinations have stopped, he’s got a feeding tube in so no matter what he’s got nutrition going in, and his pneumonia has improved by leaps and bounds. I’m still not anticipating him home before the end of next week, but for the first time in a week I’m feeling like I will actually get my husband back one day soon.)
Another Hair issue.
Today is easy. I am going as Where’s Waldo for my kids’ halloween parties at school and ToT tonight around the village.
Tomorrow, with the Mandate to dress skankily for an Adult Costume Party, I am going as Catwoman, complete with a tight black body suit of the not-pleather-kinda-plastic kind. I have never worn something so revealing before and my boobages will be overflowing from the outfit due to the fat containment device that I wear underneath.
My dilemma is not the " Oh My Gosh, my boobies are exposed!!!"
It is, " WTF do I do with my Hair?"
I’m contemplating dying my reddish brown locks a jet black for the holiday weekend. But I still don’t know what the hell to do with the actual styling of it all.
AIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Maybe I should wear my self-knit Where’s Waldo hat with the kitty slutastic suit.
Catwoman has an updo!
No, BlackBerry is a phone made by RIM. I feel your pain, though; I get new phones about as often as I wear underwear. When, oh, when will they come up with a slider phone that is water resistant?
Sweet! I’m totally stealing your idea! I have a rugby jersey from Bideford, England that will work perfect!
Halle Berry as Catwoman Do you have a black swim cap? 
