Know how you feel.
I can't be with Dana today because we're too busy for me to have a day off. Or even two half days. Or one half day.

Yet the Finance Clerk was off on Monday. Which is why I spent my lunchbreak in the bank sorting out an urgent payment.
And my manager is only in two days a week (working one from home) and won't change that no matter how busy we are, because that's what her contract says. And the boss of the company rushes off every afternoon to pick up her grandson, no matter who needs to talk to her because her slacker daughter has just started a new job and "can't afford" to make proper childcare arrangements.

Don't get me wrong - the flexibility offered to other people is not a problem for me. It's just when it seems selective that it bugs me.

Exchange server is lost in the wilderness this am. I may escalate this irritation to the what's threatening your life thread later...

Back. Thank goodness.

That was easy.

Fear is a great motivator.

Funny, I've never had any trouble from Microsoft Exchange.

haw haw.

I've never had any funny trouble either.

Of course I don't allow it on my network, but still . . .

Fucking god damn shit don't fit.

we must acquit?

HM has just come home from a wedding. He's drunk and has hiccups. The former I can excuse, the latter he can't help. What he can help is the fact he has his bedroom door open and is moaning and swearing after evert croaky GURK! Every six seconds. Yes I timed it, because it's so irritating I was trying to put it in perspective.

Am going to have to get up and shut MY bedroom door, which means Diz will think he's missing out on something and immediately demand to be let out.

BTW - I have my earplugs in. I put them in after he came back. He's still disturbing my thought patterns!

$5 American says he hurls.

Yay, $5 to me!
He's flat out on his back and snoring. TV on, light on, pants on (luckily!)

The lamp is on the other side of the room, as is the TV, otherwise I'd switch them off. Honestly, I'm not that much of a witch, I was just grumpy at the noise. Have gone down and switched the lights off downstairs and closed my door.

Am pleased I judged the situation correctly in that I didn't get up to see how the wedding went. I'll ask tomorrow when he's on better form.

ah man, that sucks! but did you get to treat yourself?

who's tw? j/k

I think what you are doing is a wonderful thing. Volunteering is close to my heart. I admire people who actually got the gumption to get up and do it instead of think about it.( like me)

that tire! the photo is painful

OH. MY. GOD.

There is a new show on Cartoon Network that, of course, the kids loved at first sight. It's called "Total Drama Island."

It is an animated, fictional, reality show. Seriously. It's Survivor, with all the sassy one-on-one interviews and alliances and voting people off the show... but it's animated.

It makes me grind my teeth just thinking about it.

"Mildly."

"Irritating."

• The Great Database Implementation continues at work. People continue to need basic education on the fact that things will not be spoon-fed to them by me, but that they have to take some responsibility for their own operations. In particular, people need to learn to deal in specifics. ("I need to know how this is set up." "Well, there are three different ways you can use it, A, B, or C. Here's what each of them does [blah blah blah explanation]. If you need a different set up we can do a fair amount of customization." "Well, I need to know how it's set up." "Ummm... is there a specific area or feature you have a concern about?" "I just need to understand how it's set up."
• Also at work, a senior person is departing. Ramifications are unclear, but it's sure to make things extra fun during the inevitable transition period.
• Also at work, a vendor is shocked, shocked! that we are looking to move their service contract to somebody else. Two service calls ago they had to replace an older server with IDE drives with a newer one with SATA drives. They had no idea how to move the files from an IDE drive to a SATA. The last service call the technician admitted he wasn't up to speed on the software in question and his best advice was to reboot it. "OK, but the real problem is the primary partition is too small. What we really need to know is, was there a reason it was set up that way? Is there any reason we should not resize it?" "Well, I don't really know. Anyway, you can't resize partitions after they've been created."
• Mrs. Dallas prepares for her performance in England; she leaves in two weeks. The previously announced rehearsal schedule, which was onerous, has been enhanced to the point that it's now torturous. Stateside sendoff performances are this weekend.
• We're throwing a baby shower for a friend tomorrow. Psychotic house cleaning ensues.
• On the plus side, the church she was subbing at "just till the end of june" has nobody permanent and she'll be playing there at least into September. Which means more $$$. Which is good, because her summer freelance gig consisted of transcribing "one hour interviews." Unfortunately, the real interviews turned out to be more like 30-35 minutes apiece, which means less $$$ as the pay is per audio minute transcribed.
• She's now reading off a list of baby shower food ideas. I told her to just stop after she got to the one where you use the potty seat as a jello mold.
• We have completely succeeded in raising twowhiny, entitled, self-centered children. Yay us.

I'll let you know if anything else comes up, but I'm tired now.

Sorry man, it sounds like life's crap is starting to accumulate.

If it makes you feel better, this last heat wave may have been the end of our refrigerator.

Coworkers who don't believe me when I tell them it can't be done. It's my job to do it, and by your own admission I am really damn good at it, so if it could be done, you know I would have found a way. Don't come back with retarded suggestions of things that are not actually even close to feasible as if it had never occurred to me to think of them. It just means you're going to have to pay me extra while I compose a long email explaining the vagaries of pronunciation to you.

Liars and deceptive, sneaky people

Here! Here! And Amen to that!
I need to keep that as my screen saver. Oh and a line about how you don't get to have my personal cell phone number because it was abused during off hours and not compensated for. So if you are looking for it stop now.....


3 minutes later.....

Aaargh! I just got a call! That's it!! Now I have to turn my phone off when there might be a call I actually want to take.

I feel crappy/sick this afternoon and evening. Am popping acetaminophen and going to sleep. real soon.

Bitten four times last night.
Itching like buggery.

One on the right cheek (face), one on the outside of my left knee, one on the top of my right foot and one on my right ankle.

Have some cream, but the knee one was under my leggings while I was out today and despite me efforts not to scratch it seems to have been rubbed by my clothes so that it's spread. Feels like any bite - is if there's a shedload of spiders underneath, trying to break their way out through the skin. Itchy and throbby and sore.

Once my camera battery has charged I'll take a pic. Nothing like as bad as the ant bites of course, I'm just a wuss when it comes to bites. It shouldn't happen here! Another reason to despise the summer.

Sorry, I didn't get round to it. And the one on my ankle was SOOOO mutant, you'd have loved it. It was almost spherical - a little cloudy yellow crystal ball...

But it burst while I was minuting the board meeting. I had to keep mopping at it surreptiously with a napkin so it didn't run into my shoes. Now it's an open sore which isn't worth taking pictures of, just like a burst blister.

Luckily I'd already shown it to Deb (chief honcho here) so I can always refer people back to her in future.

I'm faffing about here rather than go home between shifts. I think if I sit down I'll want to blag off the pub and that wouldn't be fair. So I'll stick around here for another 40 mins or so then go home & feed the cats & change the litter tray and go straight to work.

My face is the itchiest right now. Probably because I felt obliged to try & cover it with make-up. :(

Surgery prep today. All that clear liquid stuff, and then that other stuff, too. Oh well. I suppose I'd rather be nauseated here at my own home than in a public hospital room, but it sure ain't fun.:greenface

People that don't understand that I too have an approval process to go through. Should've answered my questions two weeks ago, then they wouldn't be in a bind. No pity, I'm a bitch.

Woohoo...the biggest one of those who works here is leaving for higher ground.

Can't find my damned camera.
I haven't lost it (that would be major upset). I must have brought it home in order to take the battery out - said battery in charger, quite happily charged up.

But where is the camera?
Not anywhere obvious, that's for sure.

I want to show you my amazing technicolor gradiated peacock hair.
Which is slightly irritating of itself, as I would swear up and down that I managed even coverage. But it ranges from bright sea blue-green to navy. Currently too tired to find that much more than interesting and anyway I can have another stab at it tomorrow night.

But what is life without documentation?!
I have never had hair like this before - I want it on record damnit!

Bloody hiding things. Hiding round the house. I'll wallop them when I find them I will. Teach them a lesson for hiding. Stomp, stomp, stomp. Come out and take your medicine!

My angioedema. Apparently my thumb itched in the middle of the night, and I scratched it. Now it's swollen to twice its size and itches like a fothermucker. When I straighten it out you can see a distinct line around where the swelling begins and ends, and because the condition is swollen capillaries, my heartbeat is making it fade and redden, fade and redden. It kind of reminds me of ET's heart. Anyway, it's a pain pain pain. I could take benadryl but that makes me sleepy.

I'm irritated that I'm irritated. I have no rational reason for being a crank today but I'm in a seriously pissy mood. I can feel the potential for lashing out just bubbling under the surface and I'm not sure why. Seriously.

I hate that, lookout. Time to freakin' meditate or something. I play my drums.

@Shawnee: I am sorry about your finger.

Shawnee, maybe some Preparation H would help.

lol @ flint.

HLJ? That actually might work. It DOES shrink swelling of hemmo..hemo...hemmm...butt tissues.

Someone earlier posted a link about using it for bags under the eyes. It said Preparation H is a powerful vasoconstrictor.

I usually play soccer, but the knee won't really allow that right now.:(

I bet something zen like archery would work... of course, I hit people with swords.

Usually I go on a murderous rampage. After about a week, I feel much better, much more calm.

I'm annoyed at the fact that I've had the trots the last two nights.

Apparently it's a side effect of my 'condition' atm. Never happened before. I guess this one is going to be 'special'.

The youngest always is. They're damn entertaining though, enjoy the ride!

This crazy gnat that is stalking me. (I was just informed after several years that someone from another state is trying to find out where I am through myspace mailing) Unfortunately my myspace was not set to private, and this person probably knows which state I am in now, and now I have had to change the account to indicate a different state and drop hints that I am in the process of moving. That's greeeat.

Why are people so insane sometimes? What kind of loser seeks people of long ago out to try and be vindictive? Especially when the alleged slight was another crazy hallucination?

Everyone and everything, due to lack of sleep.
And Mondays are always my busiest day as more artists are in than on any other day. And they all believe that all I do is sit and wait for them to need something.

Example.
Chris is on the phone to a supplier. I don't think about it one way or the other (except she has been mithering me re getting an order number and the order book has not been replaced by the last person who used it and her guess is as good as mine as to where it is)

I've just stood up to go to the toilet and she calls across the office - "I need the company credit card!"

So if I'd been 30 seconds faster, what would she have done? I come back, unlock the safe and get it out for her. But honestly - she knew she was placing an order. She knew she was calling a company we didn't have an account with. So how come she waits until they ask for card details to get the card from me?

Because they are used to dealing with me by phone. And that gets an instant response. So they expect it's the same in person.

Grumble, grumble, grumble. I hate Mondays.

I'm with you, girlfriend. This is an especially hairy Monday because it is my designated counseling day and payment due date for fall. This means I will hear a lot of "I filled out the paperwork yesterday...you should have it. What takes you so long? I'm the only student here, aren't I? You people suck and are trying to ruin my life. My dead dog is rotting in the backyard because I can't afford to buy a shovel to bury him. That's your fault. I popped out sixteen kids because I didn't understand the concept of birth control and that's your fault too. They're turning off my electric and I find your school to be at fault there. Them applications is hard, I can't figure it out but I am trainin' to be a rocket science person..." and various combinations and variations of the above.

Anyway, there was a little yellow butterfly in my car this a.m. The wind from the window I can't close was whipping him around, and I told him he should fly out. I was worried about him. ;) So he flies over and lands on my shirt and I drove the rest of the way to work with him there. I considered it a good luck sign for the day. :)

Thats should be in the other thread

That does sound like good luck!
I predict it is a symbol for something mundane and perhaps even slightly ugly coming to beautiful fruition.

Or maybe you should just get a butterfly tattoo on the way home.

lol

I will use my standby phrase for the tattoo: That'd be like scribbling on the Mona Lisa.

I bought a wireless keyboard & mouse from Logitech for our home PC.

I liked it enough that I picked one up for my desk at work, and our server room as well.

The KVM switch in our server room flips back and forth using the scroll lock key.

The keyboard not only does not have a scroll lock key, you can't program one using the four blank, programmable function keys.

* KVM = Keyboard Video Mouse. Lets you take one set of k, v, and m and hook them up to multiple computers and swap back and forth.

you bought a keyboard that does not have a scroll lock key? wtf?

I once bought a keyboard that had, of all things, a POWER key where the sixpack of ins/del home/end pgup/pgdn resides. WTF?? I had to disassemble the keyboard, surgically excise the switch under that keycap, and then close the incision. don't think it was a logitech (who imho make otherwise excellent products) though.

Yeah, really. It would never have occurred to me in a million years that I needed to check about the scroll lock key. Check out the Logitech Forum.

My favorite is the bit about how "we don't support KVM switches."

Their...ummm...keyboards don't "support" KVM switches?! wtfa ha ha

I use an IOGEAR USB KVM switch at home, and I think you can reprogram which key is used to switch inputs.

Edit: For the IOGEAR GCS632U, the port switching key can be changed to use "control - control" for keyboards that don't have a scroll lock key.

Maybe Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator could be a work-around?

(It re-defines/re-assigns what your physical keys actually key.)

Mum's away in Wales with the girls, which means I am looking after her dog (Pilau's brother, Dante). Unfortunately, Dan has hurt his paw, quite badly. He is limping something shocking and the vets is looking likely for tomorrow. Whilst he's not able to walk properly I want him to be in his own home and so stayed at Mum's house last night and will do so again tonight.

Why is this irritating? I'll tell you. Mum's computer is paggered and I was relying on my laptop to keep me in touvh with the Cellar whist down there and to listen to some audio plays at night. Bloody sodding powerpack has died. I can't recharge the laptop. This is particularly irritating because the same thing happened on Thursday and the IT dept. sorted me out a spare for the weekend. It worked once and then packed up.

I have about 40 mins of battery power left and may end up at mum's for several nights. I will do most of my internet stuff here during the day, but I hate not being able to just leave my computer on all evening. Grrr. Particularly annoying given I only just got my desktop working and would have liked to just maul about on it last night.

And my dog is having (ir)regular bouts of diarrhea. Of course I had just finished grooming her when she had her latest splat attack. And as a bonus she has has extensive feathering on her hindquarters and tail. I should just run her through the cur wash next time. I'll treat at home for a day or two then to the vet's if that doesn't work. Off to boil chicken and rice for the little critter now - and I rarely cook even for myself!

We (Seattle) failed to abide by the Federal Clean Air Act Sunday. This was the first violation since 1992. Dammit.

Didn't get my workout in this morning. Must make sure to go at lunch. Good thing it's close.

Don't you have a power cord for the laptop?

Fat phony fuck-face effeminate-looking losers who pretend to not be losers all the while acting like asshats. You know who you are. Yeah, you got it all going on...NOT!

:lol2:

That was either an excelent pun or a fortuitous typo!

mmmm......You may be right. I might be a fuck-face.:p lol! It's been a loong time since I've heard that term! I like it!

It was deliberate. I've been saying it for years just waiting for somebody, anybody, to notice and appreciate it. Now I can concentrate on saying "I need a trepanation like I need a hole in the head" and see how long that one takes to get an audience. :)

@Dar, nope. The powerpack has blown, that's what's wrong with the laptop. Annoyingly, they gave me a replacement after the first was blown by a powercut....then the replacement stopped working.