Kicking off for June.
Minor rant. Wanted a Blizzard. Headed over to the local Dairy Queen and got there at 10:22pm. It was fucking closed. On a Friday night at 10:22pm. Who the fuck does that???
Apparently, Dairy Queens everywhere do that! A couple of Fridays ago, we had the same situation, with the Fellow wanting a Blizzard, and it was closed when I went by at 10:15 pm. WTF?!
Another WTF today: After months of nagging (or as he would say, “reminding me,”) about taking him to get his learner’s permit, the Boy finally went today. And failed the written test. Seriously? You’ve had an extra FIVE MONTHS to study, and you failed? (I really intended to take him during Christmas break. We got sidetracked with Tony’s wreck and stuff.) This is a kid who maintains honor roll grades in advanced classes, never seems to crack a book, and he couldn’t pass the written test for his permit?! (Maybe next time he’ll listen when I tell him that he might want to read the book again to refresh his memory?)
Oh well. I guess that means that I get to drive “his” truck a bit longer. (That little Toyota gets much better mileage than my big ol’ MommyMobile. The first time I filled it up, and the pump stopped at $38.00, I honestly thought something was wrong! $38.00 is like an appetizer for the Suburban or the van…)
Follow up to an earlier rant: What I was afraid was a major issue with the Fellow - possibly concussion-related, or worse - may be pretty minor and self-correcting. As part of his treatment, Tony had been going to hyperbaric chamber therapy 5x/week for the past couple of months. For his last couple of “dives,” though, he forgot to tell the tech that he was having some allergy-related sinus problems. And that seems to have caused him some hearing problems - temporary, we’re assured. But that would explain why he’s suddenly all grumpy, and doesn’t “remember” what I just told him - he didn’t hear me, and I assume he’s all senile, and he assumes that I’m “keeping things from him,” and suddenly it’s WWIII, with each of us believing that “I’m reasonable, but I’m married to a crazy person.” 
LacunaeI really hope that the hearing loss is only a temporary problem. Bill has a lot of hearing problems and its very frustrating for both of us. I often have to translate for servers, Bill will answer the question he expected to hear, so I will smile at the server, say something about him being deaf and answer the question that was really asked.
At least we can still see. I really think that I’d eat my gun if I went blind.
My rant: Lucky got locked in a closet and peed on the floor. Idiot cat was probably in there for at least 6 hours. At least he got locked in a closet that we use on a regular basis.
I follow this guy on Twitter. He works with the opera department at the university I went to. I thought he would be an interesting person to follow. However, most of his recent tweets have been about his goddamn moustache! It’s so annoying! He has such a hard-on for that moustache! It’s getting kind of tiring.
Why am I so sure that it was Bob the cat that closed the door on him?
To be fair, it is a magnificent moustache. I tweet about it as well.
I’m all for honesty, but having someone tell me, “Wow, overly, you look like you’ve been beat up,” when I walk into a conference room full of people is a little much. Granted, it’s been a shitty week at work - escalations right and left and I just got management responsibilities - so I probably do look like hell. But can’t you do the polite thing and say, “Wow, you look kinda tired.”?
And I mildly pit myself. I probably could’ve been way more enthusiastic looking when they announced the org changes, but a) the changes are supposedly temporary and b) I’ve never been a manager, so I’m kinda nervous and c) I’m running on less than 20 hours of sleep this entire week thanks to my children and my own stupidity. I was appreciative and said a polite thank you to everyone who congratulated me afterward and smiled at the meeting, but it was probably clear I just wasn’t feeling super accomplished and was tending toward tired as hell. Oh, well - I’m probably reading too much into it and I can be all enthusiastic Monday.
Damn it, Chimera. You ninja’d my thread. Oh whatever, I will post my mini-rant here again…
It is like 30 degrees (Celsius) in many of my classrooms. You know, I am always praising about summer and how it is the best season and how I wish to live in the south. And heat is part of the cost of enjoying such a great season…I don’t have a problem with it being hot outside because that is what it is supposed to be. My problem is with no air conditioning in buildings! The thermometer in Spanish (one of the hottest rooms in my school) read 86 degrees Fahrenheit. While that is great for outdoors, it is quite a discomfort when you are trying to conjugate verbs in the preterit and imperfect. And sadly, this isn’t even the worst of it. It has been said that these rooms can even get to about 32 to 34 degrees in there (I speak in Celsius now)! And we will be taking our final exams during that time too! In that same room! How the hell are we supposed to do well on an exam when it is 32 degrees there?
I’ll admit that closing at 10:22 is really weird. Are you sure they weren’t also closed at 10:21 and several minutes before that?
I admit, it is rather eye-catching.
103 today. 105 tomorrow. Someone wake me up when the cool weather comes back (in about 6 months)
Not sure if this is a rant, but I am now in between jobs. Got laid off yesterday. Wheee! Summer vacation! Not unexpected, more like ‘it’s about time.’
You know how to estivate? Could you give lessons?
That’s my cat’s special talent - if I open a door for seconds, somehow she’ll be shut into the space when I close the door (and I never notice her going in). I don’t know how many peaceful evenings we’ve had before realizing that the cat hasn’t been seen for hours, and go check the garage, and there she is!
I opened the hall closet door for a minute a few weeks ago, and we kept hearing this strange thumping sound coming from somewhere. She’s never gotten shut into that closet before (and she wasn’t meowing), so it took us a while to figure out that the thumping was her banging on the closet door (probably trying to head-butt it open - she’s not the brightest cat around 
).
Sorry to hear that. I’m glad she’s (mostly) all right.
I think New Earthers think it’s about 60,000 years old.
Well, looks like nice weather on Monday, so we’ll probably end up going on a class picnic instead of to the eeeevil Planetarium.:rolleyes:
And a three-fer from me!
Calgary Parking Authority, you stupid gits, this is the second time that I’ve called in an abandoned car (I think one of my neighbours thinks the side street by my house is where he can warehouse his unwanted cars), and you’ve gone to my address to look, rather than where I told you the car actually was. It’s not in front of my house; it’s on the side street. I give you the location, you punch in my address, they go there, there’s no car. How many times do we have to do this dance before you listen to me when I tell you IT’S ON A SIDE STREET!!!
So… you want to use your pen to manipulate the touchscreen monitor at work? That’s cool, I can understand that. BUT GOD DAMN! DON’T USE THE SIDE YOU WRITE WITH YOU MORONS! USE THE BACK OF YOU PEN SO YOU DON’T GET INK ALL OVER THE SCREEN!
Hey douchebag in a black Mustang pulling out of the parking lot: No I will not “pull forward” so you can get out. Do you see that big red thing in front of me? That is a stopped car and that is the reason why I am not moving. Do you see that line of cars in front? Good. Now do you see that traffic light up ahead? The one that is currently red? That means we all have to stop. You can wait a goddamned minute before you leave the parking lot.
After a rather chilly spring, we’re getting blasted with 90+ degree weather in New England. Which isn’t all that hot, but there was no gradual transition through the 70’s and 80’s. Parts of the state had freeze warnings earlier this week! So I’m trying to accomplish stuff today and after approximately five minutes in the garden, I’m wiped out and browsing the internet in the relatively cool inside again.