Thinking of you today, purple.
(((purplehorseshoe)))
Oh crap, my Windows 8.1 [Professional] machine installed an update last night. 
No kerplooey yet…
And (((purplehorseshoe))).
Three straight days of evening thunderstorms. Why the hell can’t we have a nice dry summer like Southern California?
Drought is bad, and I love thunderstorms. I’ll have what you’re having. Also, people are whining about the jet stream dropping south next week, predicting we’ll have temps in the 60’s and 70’s next week. Heaven. These people who want it to be in the 90’s need to move the fuck south and STFU.
Those come as a package deal with the summer fires.
{{{{{{purplehorseshoe}}}}}}
My worst nightmare.
Motorcycle riders, a word please. I understand why you have your brights on. It is 10 at night and we are on the Blue Ridge Parkway. However, I have the courtesy to dim my brights when I see another vehicle coming. I ask that you do the same, especially if you have halogen lights. Otherwise you are blinding oncoming traffic (me) and that causes a hazard. If you blind someone in a car on a winding country road–on a curve, no less–you are putting yourself at risk.
In other words, if I hit you because your fucking bright-ass halogen brights blind me, I will berate you thoroughly until the ambulance arrives.
The most micro of micro rants. I ordered something from Amazon with free shipping. OK, I freely grant that for a $7.00 object , you’re not going to overnight anything to anyone. But I didn’t even know that there was a shipment method that took two weeks to get from Texas to the East Coast. Apparently they handed the package to some random hitchhiker heading east and said “Hey, whenever it gets there, that’s fine with us.”
Also, guy who’s supposed to fix my boat? It’s halfway through July and you haven’t even gotten me a quote yet. I know it’s your busy season, but it’s been two months; it’s nice out, and I want to go sailing. If you’re so damn busy, hire some help. (And a special fuck you to the people I bought the boat from for leaving the hatch open and letting rain water permeate all the way down to the keel, causing me no end of problems over the years.)
We’re starting to think it may have something to with the encryption on the machines. However, we were able to successfully uninstall the updates and our IT guy is going to test the encryption theory next week on a spare laptop.
Oh, and big hugs, purplehorseshoe.
I love cooler weather, my happy place is 65-70 degrees and in the winter I drive mrAru nuts because I will happily sleep with the window open. Hell, if I have to go somewhere and wait for him in the mom van in the winter I am probably the only one not sitting with the engine running because I am flaked out with the seat laid back and my in car blanket over me napping with the CD player cranking tunes.
And I had a blast researching saami stuff for a friend, I found there is actually a name for the type ofsnow caves Dad taught my brother and I to make for winter camping!
My minipit right now is that the cat managed to get the back door open sometime between 5 am and 9 am, and it let in about 30 damned flies, 3 or 4 moths and one damned horsefly [that freaking stung/bit me and IT FUCKING HURTS:(] so mrAru and the cats are running around trying to kill or catch and eat the bugs. [mrAru is using one of those electric fly swatter tennis paddle thingies]
Bloody hell, have to get a root canal next week. :eek:
My condolences. I just had a lot of dental stuff happen a couple of days ago myself.
Whew! (^_^)
Have you ever had one before? In my case, the root canal was a walk in the park compared to the throbbing pain in my face that kept waking me up at night and prevented me from eating or drinking anything that wasn’t lukewarm.
The expense sucked though.
Jeezus Peezus, ANOTHER kidney stone? This is the fourth in the last eight months.
The local 24-hour emergency room is gonna name one of their examination rooms after me, I’ve been in it so often.
Nope, first one…yep expensive …
Oh honey we went to junior high school together. I know exactly how old you are. You can keep posting selfies on Facebook and attempting to solicit “advice” about bikinis that are clearly intended to net you complements about your appearance. You’re still in your mid-forties. You look like it. It’s okay. Accept it, let it go and stop pretending otherwise. That’s what’s really making you look bad. Not the wrinkles.
I have an officious colleague with a martyr complex, who is driving me batty with her sanctimonious bullshit. I want to tell her to go fellate a leprous goat, but…you know, hostile work environment.
So…find her a friendly and receptive leprous goat.
As I mentioned in a thread we had a while back about root canals, I’ve had a couple. I wouldn’t call them much worse from the point of view of pain as a normal filling.