Why, when asking for advice on something… say, “are these apples any good?” is the first answer some people go to something along the lines of “if you’ve bought bad apples in the past that’s on you, and the question you should really be asking is Why Haven’t You Tried …
For about the last week, I feel like I’ve been gently hit by a bus. Not really full-on smashed into, but more like… clipped, and knocked out into traffic, where another bus hit me and sent me reeling over that way, where another bus…. get the idea? I’ve just been …
Lately I’ve been on a rant (I know, when am I not, right?) about those memes that go around… I know you’ve seen them… they all say something along the lines of “here’s you” (small dot on the page) and “here’s all the good stuff that happens way the hell …
I’d say I’m not feeling the Christmas spirit yet, but if you work retail you probably know I’m feeling the Christmas spirit alright, but it’s a spirit that wants to smack people across the back of the head and drink tequila straight out of the bottle. But today is going …
As I was getting my coffee ready I was planning out my blog post, where I was going to talk about how I didn’t feel well again, woke up with a sore throat again, and am really hoping it’s just exhaustion and not being sick again… and then I hopped …
I was hoping to be able to copy and paste parts of a blog post I wrote years ago about all the volunteering I’ve done, but unfortunately it looks like I lost that post in the Great Blog Migration of 2007. Ugh. So, I used to be … I used …
So, I get this text message from Verizon yesterday. It says, in a nutshell, that they are no longer going to make or sell the Note 7, power down and turn off your phone, and return it immediately. Here’s a link to a website on how to do that. Leaving aside …
This post is brought to you by the fact that anything below 61 or over 86 and I become a raving, angry crankpot who can’t hold a thought in her head for more than about two seconds. I do not for the life of me understand people who, when you …
I’m cranky and haven’t slept well the last couple of nights, so feel free to not even read this Ranty McRantyPants post. I have about twenty minutes of physical therapy exercises for my hand that I’m supposed to do six times a day, plus a 13-minute contrast baths for my hand …
I’m sick of being sick. I’ve been on-again-off-again sick since JANUARY 3rd. That’s TWO WEEKS. Sweet Zombie Jesus. It’s been the same sore throat/post nasal drip/sneezing/non-productive cough/snot factory… in varying degrees… for two weeks. Some days I feel almost human, until late in the afternoon, when I start wanting to …
Oh, Gmail. You might have thought it was helpful to start dividing into five tabbed categories, but really, that just gives me five times as many lost things that I can’t find or answer. Ten, if you count both work and personal email. Have I not gotten back to you? …
One of my old Regional Managers, back when I worked at a Big Box Bookstore, used to say that “energy comes from the top.” Meaning, the cashiers aren’t going to be happy unless the department heads are happy, the department heads aren’t happy unless the assistant managers are happy, and …
If I ever have time to blog regularly again it’ll be a Christmas fucking miracle. We used to have a saying at the Enginerding company – “when everything is important, nothing is important.” I’m working on about sixteen things that all need to get done first, and I feel like …
Another thing that’s on my mind right now is the amount of time I spend online answering questions (and this is NOT to make anyone who has asked me a question lately feel guilty). I think I’m agitated about this right now because not only have a pulled a muscle …
There have not been enough hours in the days this week. A lot of that, though, is because I’m not trying to push myself to do ALL THE THINGS. So is it really fair to say there aren’t enough hours? Or would it be more fair to say that I …
Who’s got two thumbs and got hot water all over her because her dye bar still wasn’t fixed yesterday, only she didn’t know it until three hours into the dyeing cycle when she went to dump the hot water in the sink, exactly the same thing that’s happened for the …
I know I say this all the time, so you’re probably surprised that I’m surprised this still happens, but why do strangers want to give you business advice? Especially when they’ve never even met you before, know nothing about your business… or even worse they DO know you, rarely purchase …
Dear office; when I started coming to you in about 1993 or so, you were fabulous. Now you suck. Blow me. No, no, no – let me start that again. Dear office; here are some things I used to like about you: – reliability – the same person working on …
Last week sucked like a big sucking thing that sucked a lot. The high points were dinner with Tim and Jenn on Tuesday night, watching zombie belly dancing; lunch with Katherine on Wednesday; lunch with Susan on Friday. Other than that, the week was an utter wash. It’s Monday, it’s …
Two things are really getting my panties in a bunch right now. Both of them are how I’m being treated by companies, and I think it boils down to my impotent anger at not being treated the way I treat people. Why is customer service such a GD challenge for …
Here are yesterdays Twitter and Facebook posts, explained. This all started because… well, a month or two ago I won an eBay bid on a mold for a mug with an old-fashioned turn-of-the-century man in a bowler with a mustache (the man has the mustache, not the bowler). But the …
Here’s a pretty picture of yarn. The rest of this post will be me bitching about my food allergies. Feel free to just look at the pretty yarn and then move on about your day.
People who blame their problems on [ insert everything external here ] when the problem (and oddly enough, the solution) is, in fact, inside them. Bicyclists who run red lights when I have the right-of-way, and then flip ME off. This letter from the USOC to Ravelry, which resulted in …
