The Corner of Insanity

Dear asshole in charge of my part of the universe,

FUCK. OFF. AND. DIE.

Nowuv,

Me

The fact that I can't even empty the thrice-damned dryer without my shoulders starting to hurt is beginning to piss me off.

PDF of the decision

The Easter sunrise service in the Wal-Mart parking lot was supposed to start at 7am.

So why the fuck was I woken up at 5:26am by their music?!?!?

Although you may attempt to meet your current obligations while responding to the changing dynamics at work, you could grow tired of office shenanigans and decide not to play the game any longer.

In other words, the first time someone tries to pull a "funny" cruel April Fool's prank on me or mine, I will not be a nice person about it.

I wish I was making this up.

Huffington Post quotes CNN, local newspaper, and Politico, so that shoots the "it's just a joke" theory out of the water.

Money quote:
Sanford: "What you're doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don't have and send it to different states, we'll create jobs," he said. "If that's the case, why isn't Zimbabwe a rich place?"
--Yeah, just ignore the fact that the leader of the country is a CORRUPT DICTATOR... unless he's also trying to compare Obama to Mugabe

( Some things can only be expressed by macros... )

There are days when I really really really really hate the people who run my state. I keep voting against them, and they keep coming back...

We got nuthin'

No inches of snow, no dusting of snow, not one godsdamned flake of snow.

My inner 3 year old is having a temper tantrum and calling people poopy-heads.

The bad thing is, a lot of schools and work places (but, alas, not mine) went ahead and announced they'd be closed today while they were still predicting Snowageddon yesterday. I haven't gone to my local news website yet, but I can bet there will be some pissed off parents.

Well, kinda....

All I have to say is that there better be some damn snow on the ground when the alarm goes off at 4:45 tomorrow morning, or I'm kicking all kinds of weather-people's ass. :-p

Today is the Light Up the Night for Equality vigils coordinated by Join the Impact. I have them on my Twitter, and this just flashed by...

JoinTheImpact: FRED PHELPS PLANS TO BE AT CHICAGO VIGIL!!!! SPREAD THE WORD!! Show him what love looks like Chicago! PLZ RETWEET!!

If any of y'all live in Chicago and can be there at 5pm your time, could you go support human rights?

Absolutely nothing about yesterday's protest. Like we weren't even there. Like it doesn't matter.

Fuck you. Fuck you and the fucking neo-con high horse you rode in on. We WERE there. It DOES matter. And we WON'T STOP until we're all equal.

First hand account of the round-ups here

This is still America, right? I didn't get teleported to another world while I was working, did I?

I've been in contact with these guys since SUNDAY. Here's what I just got.


Dear Jennifer Sigman,

Thank you for contacting Dell Technical Support.

I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you so far. The Windows XP CD has been dispatched now.

We have shipped CD on the following address.

(my home address)

You should receive the CD within next 3 to 5 business days, depending upon the availability of the part in stock. The case and dispatch number is:

Case #

Dispatch #

You can use the dispatch number for tracking the shipment by calling at ***.

I apologize I would not be able to send you the Drivers and Resource CD for your system as the system is End of Life and is no longer under shipping.
I bought this computer LESS THAN TWO YEARS AGO! Yeesh!

However all the drivers are available at: www.support.dell.com

You can get all the drivers by going under drivers and downloads section and entering the system service tag.

Alternatively, you may also get in touch with the Expired warranty department for the driver links as the warranty on your system is expired.

It is a fee-based phone support by Dell?s Expired Warranty Support team and they can be reached at 1-888-261-1716.


So... 72+ hours and 4 emails to get just the operating system CD, which, with my luck, won't even be here until the middle of next week, considering the holiday. I really don't think my next computer will be a Dell...

This is about to become fact, which has potential repercussions to go WAY beyond the obvious pro-lifer's no abortions thing.

We won't even mention the horrifying image that someone on the medical team could decide to have a crisis of conscious while you're strapped to the table and walk away.

Oops, I did.

Stop this. Go to Planned Parenthood and see how to help them stop this. Call/write/email your Senators and Legislators and tell this to stop this. Write/email/call McCain and Obama and tell them to stop this.

Computer is dead again.

We may be talking Aerith style, no resurrection possible.

Out of warrentee, of course.

IT IS NOT JULY 4TH ANYMORE, so please to not be shooting off your fireworks while we're under DROUGHT CONDITIONS.

Fuck you,

Me


This goes hand in hand with the thought I had this morning while running my errands: Gee, a GAS STATION doesn't seem like a smart place to set up a FIREWORKS STAND...

Hillary Clinton called "a white bitch" by Alex Castellanos, during "The Situation Room" airing May 20th. About 2/3rds of the way down on the transcript. And no-one really calls him out on it.

So my gut's upset at something, and my wafer wants to peel itself off of me, so I make some plain spaghetti in the hopes of calming my gut down long enough to change the bag and wafer.

Two bites into dinner, Goldeneye comes careening through the living room, jumps onto the chest that I use as a table, and knocks dinner to the floor, breaking the bowl in the process.

Screaming until my throat hurt was probably not the best reaction, but I feel a little better mentally. :-p

My doctor's nurse is a fucking idiot.

Last week I called him because of the pain from my arthritis, and the only thing she had to say to me when she called back was to ask if I really wanted to talk to him about it, since I apparently used the wrong name by accident. Then and only then would she bother to pass my note on to the doctor. He had me try taking 2 Aleve twice a day, since this is prescription strength, to see if it helps.

It does, thankfully. So I call back today to leave another message asking if they could call in a prescription for it, since the over the counter brand tends to be a bit expensive. 6 hours later, the nurse calls me back: "There is no prescription for Aleve, it's only over the counter." I tell her that he said there was prescription strength of the medicine. "Oh, do you want Naproxen Sodium? It's not the same thing, really."

Excuse me, but read the fucking label, it's THE SAME GODSDAMNED MEDICINE, just the cheaper generic version!

"Oh, well, if that's what you want, I'll pass it on to the doctor."

Which means I'll be lucky if it gets called in tomorrow, which means I'm going to have to buy more of the full price stuff, since I'd only bought a week's worth to test it out. How this woman got to be a nurse, I have no idea...

If I'm not responding to comments, it's nothing personal, but Hotmail is working on a Fail of Epic Proportions and blocking InsaneJournal's notifications, even though I have the domain in my safe list.

Why are you suddenly blocking the delivery of email from @insanejournal.com even though I have it marked as safe? This is unacceptable and inexcusable, and if it is not resolved soon I will move my email elsewhere.
I sure hope they don't think I'm joking because... I'm not.