The hailstorm last night beat the shit out of my garden, and a lot of my flowering plants. This happens almost every summer - I wonder why I try to grow plants here. I should hardscape the whole damned yard. :mad:
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Dear Twin Bro:
Sorry you had to have 15 out of 50 tumors removed the other day (benign fatty tumors–runs in the family) with more surgeries to go. I’m also sorry my first thought was, “Better you than me.” 
Love,
Your Sister
Haley Joel Osment, what the fuck have you done to yourself?
What did he do?
Thanks to a doc-in-the-box visit at first followed by a regular doc visit, plus an x-ray and ultrasound, because my pain was so severe, my UTI in this month of UTIs has cost $379, including the free Cipro and $4 pee-turned-bright-orange medicine.
I also have a new diagnosis of rheumatoid, rather than osteo, arthritis. Joy. At least it explains the flares when I can barely move my hip, but doesn’t make me happy.
Something similar happened to my elderly TinyDog, may he rest in peace poor pup. We taped a wad of aluminum foil in the bowl to fill up the half of it he couldn’t quite see, and that solved the problem in the main.
I don’t know. But right now, he looks terrible – all bloated, and I’m hoping it’s for some innocuous reason like he’s taking protein supplements. I think this is what people mean when they talk about a thin person looking out. The bone structure is still barely visible, but he just doesn’t look healthy.
Still, at least he’s clean, appropriately dressed and seemingly coherent, not staggering around with a hole in his pants like Joaquin Phoenix.
Link? I GISed him after your first post and all the pictures of him looked fine to me so either I’m less critical or his manager has awesome SEO skills.
Well, compare this to this. Second link was taken last night or the night before.
What are SEO skills?
Search Engine Optimization. Making the results you want show up rather than results that may be more accurate.
I see. Thank you. Anyway, it’s just this recent set of photos, but he seems to have crossed the line from odd-in-a-good-way to freakish. 
To me, it looks like his face is too small for his head.
The newspaper delivery lady saw fit to deposit my paper yesterday in the deep, muddy puddle at the end of my driveway. (When it is raining or has been raining, she always throws it into the middle of the saturated yard.) When I left this morning in the rain, I didn’t see the paper in the yard, and it never occurred to me to search the puddle…I cheerfully drove through the puddle and went on my way. I came back home to a flat, pulpy, inky mess where the puddle had been. Nice.
I got taken in by a nanny scam on Craigslist recently. “Ray Smith” needed a tutor/nanny four hours a week for his orphaned son, and was willing to pony up $350 a week. I’ve been desperately looking for a job all summer, so this seemed like a great and easy opportunity. Okay, so he doesn’t speak perfect English, whatever. I corresponded with this person and gave him the phone numbers of four of my friends for references. He emailed me back today and said he’d love to hire me, if I just send him my full address and phone number. He would also send me a check for $2000 that I would deduct a few hundred from and give the rest to his “neighbor”. This is really starting to sound fishy, so I googled “nanny scam”, which I should have done in the first place. Voila, there are a number of scams on craigslist with similar MOs. I feel stupid for believing this crap as long as I did and giving out phone numbers. But at least I didn’t go through with it and end up cashing a bad check.
Call the circulation desk and complain. You should at least not have to pay for the issue.
Argh. I agreed to do a website, gratis, for a local charity organization that a friend is running. It’s a shoestring operation, but they work in a niche and so far they’re doing well, and they need something better than the crappy Blogspot they’re using so far.
I’m glad to work in shades of green (though it’s a bit on the nose for an environmental group IMO) I’m glad to change to a font that I find really desperately ugly. I draw the link at having every link on the site, including the internal ones, forced to open in a new window. It’s a bad practice and for internal links makes no sense because there’s a menu at the top of every single page.
I have a feeling that I’m not going to be able to persuade them as to the error of their ways on this one easily, too. Bah.
I gotta say, whether it’s bad practice or not, as a user I generally prefer this. Sometimes I want to switch back and forth between pages. Not tabs, pages. I’m aware that I can rightclick and choose “Open link in a new window”, but I prefer it to be automatic.
Well, the option is there for you to continue your surfing in the style to which you have become accustomed. For the rest of us, internal links opening in the same tab is standard for a reason.
Also while there is a shortcut to allow you to open the link in a new window there isn’t one to disable it and open in the same window if they’ve coded it this way.
Website that do this make me stabby. See also, websites that disable the back button so I can’t leave their site.
Oh, sweet Jeebus.
I just found out that grandboss - the crazy bipolar bitch? I may have mentioned her once or twice? - posted on FB this weekend that SHE’S PREGNANT.
So: she’s off her meds, and will now be extra-super-plus hormonal. Pregnancy #1 had her screaming obsenities and throwing things around the office. Time for round two!