How about I tell you about the decade when my husband and daughter and I were the only white people on our block…and the next block over? The other blocks were businesses.
Any day in which I don’t throw up is a day that I regard as a triumph.
Yep, sounds like he’s getting a lot better. Human kids are like this too. When they’re really sick, it seems like they just don’t have the energy to get into trouble. Once they start to feeling better, though…
One time my little brother had to get a kidney operated on. He was about 10 at the time. For a few days, he was co-operative about bed rest. After that, though, he and his roommate would have climbed the blinds if they’d been able to. They did things like shoot spitballs all over the room, and generally made as much fuss and mess as possible. Housekeeping was nearly in tears.
If you spam the company to beg for internal candidates for a cushy position, would it kill you to spam us when it’s filled, too? Also, fuck you for not interviewing me for this one. I would have been a great fit.
I thought it was an interesting idea for a show, just not well done. And I agree, I seem to remember it being very monotone, sepia and yellowish. Maybe it was done with filters over a color filming? I think I will see if I can dig up a copy of the series. I remember it got cancelled before the series arc finished?
They finish the main story line but do try to set up a sequel in the final minutes. Although on one level you can really look at it as resolving the gap created by one character’s father.
I did like it or I wouldn’t have watched the whole series. It’s just not the sort of thing that holds up well to binge viewing. You tend to notice flaws like overuse of certain techniques and devices for example when you watch something straight through.
I’ll bet everyone else involved was pretty happy, though. Human or furface, nobody has the energy to get into trouble if they are really sick.
Last night, I left a paperback library book in the rescue room. Baker has never before messed with our books, but last night the poor bored fuzzface made up for lost time. He ripped out about half the pages and shredded them, and chewed up the spine.
For some reason, Bill finds the idea of me taking the poor sad remains to the circulation desk and telling that our cat ate it is hysterically funny.
digs, you knows that we loves you, right? Sit next to me, I’ve got something snarky to say about that idiot who just walked into a lamp-post while texting.
Thanks for the encouragement about my going out last night. I did have a very good time. I tell myself that every time I manage to make it to an event like this, it will be a little easier the next time.
flatlined, sorry about your library book, but I’m glad Baker is feeling so much better.
Happy dance did happen Hopes that everyone elses furfaces are doing well.
Thank you. I’m so happy that Baker is feeling well enough to rip up a book. I feel oddly guilty about it being a library book. It was just a paperback copy of a book by a popular author, the world of good literature won’t suffer because our cat ate it. I’ll do the walk of shame and tell the nice library person the truth.
Rhiannon8404, I used to be so shy, but I loved to be around people. I wanted to hang out with groups and I wanted to make a difference with my volunteer efforts. I couldn’t do that because I’d do just the same thing as you…“sure, I’d love to do that…” then find excuses as to why I couldn’t.
Finally, I realized that I was afraid because I had no self-confidence. I couldn’t buy self-confidence, but I could fake it, so that’s what I did. I started pretending that people really did like me and wanted me around. I volunteered for cat rescue and became one of those folks who spend their weekends pimping out their critters at PetBigBox stores.
I’m not quite sure when my act stopped being an act. I am confident and popular. I feel very comfortable doing fund raising for my causes. I can walk into a room of drunk bikers and get most of them to agree that we should just stagger around to find a motel instead of riding.
I’m not bragging, just saying that what worked for me was faking it until I got it. So, my advice for you is that everytime you start getting the “oh, I don’t want to do this” part, pretend. Think of stuff to say, imagine how good you will look with your chosen outfit.
Wow, if the toughest gal I “know” can say that, it really is a universal part of the human condition.
What did the trick for me was to realize that it is universal: everyone you know, everyone you see, everyone at the party is struggling with self-esteem issues. NO one is “there” yet. I still have a shy streak, but no one except my closest friends know that, because I can talk to anyone, realizing that we’re all equals. Those CEOs and beauty queens are just as screwed up, just in different ways.
This has helped me SO much!
In fact, I tell my students that I’m planning on writing a self-help book:*** I’m OK, You’re So-So**: Boosting your self-image by realizing the mediocrity of everyone else*.
OK, so this rant is as mini as it gets. Last night I’m browsing the web on my iPhone, using Straight Talk and it stops working. I get a message “You are not subscribed to a cellular data service.” Um, no, I have an unlimited plan and just refilled it. There’s no way it should stop working. Customer support doesn’t open until 8:00 a.m. EST, so I wait until morning and give them a call. The tech tells me that the APN carrier setting has expired and I need to go on wifi and download a new one. OK, makes sense to me. I’ve changed my APN before and am familiar with how to do it. He also tells me I need to upgrade to iOS 7. That doesn’t make sense. It was working fine on iOS 4.3.
“You mean I have to connect to iTunes, get the upgrade and install it?”
“No, you can do it on wifi. We’ll give you the URL and walk you through it.”
At this point I realized he was probably following prompts in a troubleshooting program and didn’t really have an idea what he was talking about. I don’t have wifi, so I drove to the local library, which does. I also figured I’d just do it myself and not call Straight Talk back. I logged into the wifi, went to unlockit.co.nz., and found that indeed Straight Talk has a new APN. I downloaded it, installed it, and was back on the 3G data network. Easy-peasy.
I’m not ranting on the tech, I know they have to follow their prompts. My rant with Straight Talk is this:
They should have notified subscribers that they were changing APN settings. Like an email or a text. “Your APN settings are changing on 18/11/2013. Please go to unlockit.co.nz using any wifi network and download the updated setting.”
Telling people they have to upgrade to iOS 7 is misleading. I’m still on iOS 4.3. I have an iPhone 3GS, so I figure it’s like upgrading a PC running WinXP to Windows 8. It’s better to just buy a new machine and there are undoubtedly millions of people still using old iPhones.
My husband bought a space heater for the den, which is where my computer lives. We have a perfectly adequate AC/heating unit, but he likes the house MUCH cooler than I do, so it’s best for me to have a couple of warmer spots and for him to have a couple of cooler spots. And guess which of us usually has the cats around? Anyway, it’s been less than a month since he bought this heater, and it’s NOT WORKING. And yes, I checked to see if it was plugged in.
This wouldn’t bother me nearly so much if our hot water heater hadn’t run out of hot yesterday. Yeah, he bought and installed a new one, but I am wondering what’s going to break TOMORROW!
Urgh, my computer wasn’t starting, the fans would whirr, but it wouldn’t make any POST beeps. The tech people unanimously agreed that it was the motherboard, and definitely not the power supply.
$1000 - a new mobo, CPU, hard drive, and tower later… same symptoms. It was most likely the PSU. At least I have a mostly new computer I guess.
Frustrated. I have a friend who had necessary, expensive surgery while uninsured so now of course she has a pile of bills to pay. So she is going to file for bankruptcy so she doesn’t have to pay them, which may or may not be actually something she needs to do. But in the same breath she is buying unnecessary not-cheap stuff and making plans as to how she is going to buy a new vehicle.
The kicker? She could have had insurance, she just chose not to because it’s “so expensive”.
Anyway, it’s been less than a month since he bought this heater, and it’s NOT WORKING. And yes, I checked to see if it was plugged in.