Also, since I only have a day left, I wanted to do some touristing today, but the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh died in a plane crash the other day (his plane was found last night) and out of respect, everything is closed. And Sonia Gandhi is in town and there is a lot of security and news stuff.
Also, as I understand it, it’s the final day of the festival for Ganesh and they’re going to immerse Ganesh in the river (?) and there will be a big crowd. And it’s Ramadan. So I have been advised to just stick around here and instead of doing something exciting and Indian, I am in the office reading the SDMB.
Same thing here. Except he is a colleague, not a son. And he is 30, not 15. But the fact we have adjoining offices is no excuse to come into mine 10 to 15 times a day and stand there jabbering about something inane. The fact my back is to you and I am working on my computer doesn’t send some kind of message I am not really into the conversation?
This barely qualifies as a rant, so I guess the mini-rant section is as good a place as any.
And, yes, this is yet another in the continuing series of Atheism for Fun and Cynicism.
Here’s the thing … I’m scheduled to go in for minor surgery in a couple of weeks (gall stones) so I was on the phone with the hospital admitting office yesterday to get all my info in to make things go smoothly – insurance, billing addresses, next of kin … all that fun stuff. One question was: “Religious affiliation?” I went simple and answered: “None.” So she said, “I’ll just put down [some acronym I can’t remember]; that just indicates no response.”
I said nothing and let her get on to the next question, but what I wanted to say was, “Lady, I fucking responded. No religious affiliation. I swear if I wake up out of coma and see a priest standing over me, I’m going to go fucking bat-shit. You’ll write down ‘Atheist’ in big black bold letters, and you’ll do it with a smile, capice Nurse Ratchett?”
That’s just been irritating me. But I think I’m over it now.
If they did, it wouldn’t make any sense. Atheism isn’t a religious affiliation, hence my response of “none” when queried.
Like I said, I’m over it … but still, if something goes south and I see any sort of clergy show up, I’m just going spin my head around backwards and puke up some pea soup all over them just out of spite.
Hmm. Three women don’t want their husbands hanging around with you. What’s the common factor in these situations?
Well, you’re a Doper, so I’m inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt. Still, you might want to flesh it out some for the benefit of those who don’t operate the way I do. I’m just sayin’.
Today is the first day of the college football season. I am watching the first game.
They just aired a Christmas commercial for the new Guitar Hero.
Are you fucking kidding me? It’s not even Labor Day yet. The system that this game is running on could be fucking OBSOLETE in that amount of time. Jesus Christ. Sometimes I really hate this country. I know I’m really going to hate it in a few years when my kid is older and has FOUR FUCKING MONTHS before Christmas to nag me about whatever crap they’re trying to sell her on TV.
I don’t know if you have cable, Drainy, but allow me to recommend a channel to you: Noggin. It’s aimed at the preschool set and has a lot of cool educational and semi-educational shows – and no commercials. My daughter LOVED it for several years… alas, she has recently fallen under the spell of Spongebob Squarepants and all his toy-shilling commercials.
Addendum: as it turns out, the engineer who “discovered” that this chip was broken screwed up royally and didn’t confirm that the system would fail with the chip taken out of the equation. We’ve spent the past two days insisting to the vendor that their hardware is completely broken, when more than likely the PC the engineer was testing with has a major hardware fault. So now we’re no closer to finding the real root of our issue and we’ve pissed off the vendor who’s help we’ll probably need to track this down.
Did I mention that they’ve known that this issue exists since the start of the new year, and they’ve only started investigating it in depth in the past month?
(viewing the other posts) I probably should not start singing,
*Well, it’s a long, long time
From May to December.
But the days grow short,
When you reach September.
And the autumn weather
Turns the leaves to gray
And I haven’t got time
For the waiting game.
*
:eek:
Labor Day is on Monday. How soon will I mini-rant about blaring radio ads for a holiday that isn’t part of my faith?
I expect the TV ads will start on Tuesday. But the last time I took a weekend trip (in early August), I turned off the power strip for the TV and related gear, and haven’t turned it back on yet.
It’s not just me - don’t want them spending any time around any of their guy friends, everything is a couple-centric activity, wife uses “we” language for everything including things like his haircut and clothes (“we like his hair shorter,” “we prefer flat-front pants on him”), makes him give up his pastimes and hobbies through guilt or flat-out demands, etc. until he’s a husband accessory completely under her control and at her whim.
Three women, three years, three lost friends. Unbelievable.
Football themed commercials for completely non-sports products. Actors wearing giant cat costumes also wearing football uniforms in kitty litter boxes? Right after that was a second commercial which I’ve completely forgotten except for my ‘oh no, another football reference commercial’ reaction. I love fall but I hate this aspect of the season. And yeah, totally not looking forward to the beginning of xmas advertising either.
Mr. Coach Dude. He’s 14. He’s a freshman in high school. He does the Cross Country thing because he actually LIKES to run. No, he will not take your “vitamins” to increase his stamina. No, Cross Country is not the end all and be all. I’m sorry, but his grades and sleep are more important. If you continue to call me trying to get him to take the “vitamins” that you are trying to SELL me, I will report you. He takes a multivitamin, thank you, and I don’t trust your “natural product”. It’s actually shameful that a high school coach can do this stuff. Stop it.
