Mildly irritating?

I've waited my whole life for it to snow in my hometown on Christmas.

We have passed the 1890's record for snow in the valley.

Even though I have appreciated the neighbors snowman, another neighbor shoveling the snow drifts away from the cars I have not appreciated my dry and creaky frame. I have not appreciated how cars bob and weave on the packed snow like little ships on choppy water. I did not appreciate chisling my car out of a foot of ice and snow.The stores are out of chains,and the city doesn't own enough snowplows.

Maybe the snow gods took every single valley childs wish of snow and dropped it here in one huge wish fulfilment episode without giving us a handbook to know how the rest of you all actually deal with the snow. If they were ever listening to me whine about the lack of snow on Christmas then they are about 30 years too late. :( and it's punching me right in the small of my back.

You in New England, sky? Or Washington state? Louisiana?

;)

Out west! ooh I wish I lived in New England and what do you mean .NE gets lots of snow eh?

In my opinion Washington state is more rural that Oregon. Except for Seattle which in my opinion is the only hub of human existence I can think of gets more snow than we do. In fact the more north one goes the more snow. Don't ya think Everet Wa is just so quaint. If it weren't so blasted cold in Washington I might consider to move there one day but I ever go north I just might go all the way into Canada. ......nah

so off rant....

No I am located in the lull between warm weather and northern hemispheres where it rains 8 months out of the year....yada yada..

sorry, need more coffee.

You haven't been to Boardman, eh? :haha:

yabut....On the Columbia gorge highway. Should be labeled an event to be on highway 84 so near someplace people actually travel to go see PLUS it is so close to Washington as not to be a good example on both accounts.

So what was so evil about Boardman then?

I say if you want to see hell in Oregon go to Garibaldi. If you want to feel as if primordial slime can rise from the fog and moss at any moment then go to Myrtle Point. There are some places on earth people should avoid at all costs. I don't believe Boardman can measure up there sir.

Boardman's not evil, just rural... a blip in the middle of nowhere. The power plant, the railroad siding for loading locally grown veggies, and a circle K.


Oh, and the Navy bombing range... that the power plant driveway passes through. :unsure:

ah the loyal Circle K. Not so bad then!;)

at least you could get a chili dog.


ah, your edit answered my unasked question. I was wondering which of those three fine establishments you were involved with...now I know.

Now it's really getting interesting.

'Driving through the power plant - avoiding bombs- eating chili dogs.'

I don't think you can get to that level of excitement with my examples.

Irritating in a literal sense:

With Mum & Dad away, I get to keep the house at the temperature I like. About 15 degrees. However, I wake up later than they would - about 09.00 as opposed to about 07.00.

This means that instead of the warm house I usually get up to, it's damned chilly. So far, so acceptable. But in truth, Diz wakes up about the same time as my parents. He expects to find the bedroom door open so he can go and sleep on the storage heater (which is on a timer, unlike the central heatin). It's not open, so he comes back to snuggle with me.

So I keep waking up with a tickly nose, because he wants to sleep cheek to cheek. Add that to the chillier house, and I now have dry skin coating my nose. Damn. How am I supposed to save the planet and lower my parents' heating bill with a heat-seeking cat and a flaky nose!

[FTR I love to wake up with Diz in my arms - how he insinuates himself there is a mystery though]

Mildly irritating? The "Check Engine" light on my 2001 Kia Sephia came on today.

That light is designed to make you go to your nearest dealer, pronto, and have it checked out. For a price. I suggest black electrical tape.[/conspiracytheorythatistrue]

I ran a fever all last night, my throat hurts and my voice is leaving me. I tried to get me detailed schedule for my classes, we have 3 fucking IDs/PW for our online site, and I can't get the ID for the one I need. I know I'm using the one that has worked in the past, no fucking luck. And the "Forgot Pin" link, does nothing. "Help" has no link to retrieve THAT ID and P/W, and when I look for another way to get to my schedule, thats a dud too b/c "Help" tells me to go to the "Calander" link, there is no fucking Calander link that is personalized. I just need to know what rooms my classes are in! Ugh, I just want to go back home and lie down.

Oh and my ID for the online toll-tag site isn't working either, I KNOW that one is right, I have it in my email.

They have finally banned you. :lol2:

Got called into work an hour early today, because of some kind of "Supervisors Meeting."

I am worried that they have found a way to outsource my job.

Of course this could just be an after-action meeting about a suicide attempt on the unit last week. When stuff like that happens, blame needs to be assigned and a knee jerk reaction that just makes everyone's job more difficult rather than improving safety put into policy.

One never knows. Emergency meetings are rare at the nuthouse, especially since Interdepartmental (that would be a meeting of all the supervisors) is on Wednesdays.

Hmm. Good luck with Wolf. Hope all's ok.

What's mildly irritating me today is that I thought my student finance cheque was due in my bank today...turns out I was wrong it's due in next monday! I am £1.24 away from my overdraft limit!

Fortunately J got his student finance this week, so he's lending me a hundred squids.* Yey for good friends!



[eta] * hundred squids = hundred quid = £100

The USPS is raising rates again. ::stamps feet, raises fist, starts to shout then looks down at feet and says, "Well, at least that sort of stamping doesn't cost more."::

...yet :)

Not a lot you can do about the shipping rates, but they long ago gave up putting actual values on the stamps, they're just "first-class stamps." So if you buy a bunch of envelope stamps today, they will still be good when the rates go up in May.

What about that "forever stamp"? will they be doing that again?

The 2 year old girl still sleeps with her Ocean Wonders Aquarium propped up in her twin bed... she loves it... and the motor finally died...

The logical thing would be to let her tough it out... she is old enough to move past a crib toy... or we could cave and buy another one... but unfortunatly... they've been discontinued as Fisher Price is moving from the ocean wonder's theme to the rainforset.... fuck. Meanwhile our 2 year old is shreaking because her fish won't swim anymore.

Do you mean like this one? ebay

Doesn't Flint have a box of motors? Just fix the damn thing.;)

No the one I'm talking about is no longer availible... that is a later model. The one we have the fish circle around from front to back. I did find one on ebay for $12... the shipping is aldo $12... which is about what we paid for a new one... I just can't pay that for a used one... call me cheap

I know exactly which one you are talking about Pooka. Lil Lookout had that one. Actually two but they never worked right and we finally gave up and got a different one.

First Class stamps are still Forever Stamps. Go buy a bunch.

DH is a mail carrier, so when you spend all that money, you can think of me. :) Seriously though, we wish the USPS would just stop Saturday delivery. That would make more sense, and make MY life easier too!

The system is locked up on one student and it's keeping my process hung up. No one has any idea how long it will take to fix...so I'm dead in the water right now, as are many other offices including bursars.

The campus police are here because one of our crazies who was banned from campus is back harrassing (sp?) one of my cow orkers.

The sleet is coming down...so the drive home after this day which will end up seeming terribly long will be very slow.

Or, maybe they'll shut down early. Wishful thinking.

PayPal. Their customer service sucks.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Reports showing the interstate is CLOSED on my way home. grumble grumble...gonna have to take another route, like every other monkey out there.

The OSP should hand out ganja on days like this.

Eff it...if the roads are bad in the a.m. I'm taking a personal day.

All that cold you folks have had out west is coming here. It won't be above freezing for the next seven days. Griff don't go outside on Friday or Saturday night. Stockpile yer heatin' wood, you'll probably be like -10. (That's -23 for our Celsius loving friends.)

I hate the cold. It will be warmer here in Virginia. We'll be at +5 at night, and will make it up to the teens during the day. Brr.

This is the time of year that my walking commute isn't quite as much fun.

Hey, this reminds me. Did you make the complaint about people driving on the walkway yet?

I don't see the walkway in the last photo do I?

(I hope I have the right cellarite here) ;) My memory is shotty at best.

Yeah, that was me. I made the complaint, and they didn't install any barricades or anything like that, but I haven't seen anyone doing it either, so they must have put out a memo or something.

In the commute pics, the sidewalk segment was just behind me when I took picture 6.

It's +6 here at present but the sun is about to drop outa the sky. I just dug the door out on the goat shed, everybody is tucked in. It continues to be dogs inside weather.

Beautiful pics. Now show us some snow!

- 20 this morning, wind chill hovering -40. Fueled by oatmeal, my right eyelashes crusted and froze over on the 3/4 mile walk into work. Same tomorrow, they say.

No snow here.

Chances are no school here tomorrow, wind chill taking temps below -20F. it's not upsetting me, actually, though. I could do with a day off and so could the kids. they're peeved, though -Friday is their favorite day.

It's pretty hot here today. Supposed to get up close to 100F.

Can anyone send me a load of snow please?

Damn. That's cold.

Yah, you people are a special breed doing that -40 nonsense.

What's mildly irritating me today is a bunch of shit-headed, self-congratulatory dickwads mucking around and being all smug-like.

I wanna cow-punch 'em. But, that'd be vigilante justice, which, I've just decided is probably wrong.

Damn higher education. I was happier when I could just make a shiv and shank a dude.

Oh no, being a vigilante is a good thing!

Go ahead and do it, and don't forget to record it on your cell phone then post it on the internet! ;)

That was the discussion today in my testosterone-y class American Outlaws (all dudes, of course). While we decided we understood vigilantism, we decided lynching people on the spot for mere property theft was a bit...shall we say, harsh.

Well I suppose it depends what and how much property they stole right? But then again, I don't think I'd lynch someone for that. I'd be pretty pissed off though.

I would go vigilante is anyone ever interfered with my kids though. Without even a second thought. With premeditation even.

yeah, with kids I agree.

In this book we read (which was tedious beyond belief) they hung ya fer rustlin' cattle. Then they spit their terbaccy at yas dead corpse. God, it was boring.

I totally forgot to mention that no one is hanging Bernie Madoff...and he stole a shit lot more than cattle. maybe we SHOULD bring vigilantism into his situation...

Did you ever read 'Blood Meridian'? I had to read that for an American Lit course I took at Uni. Now that book had some wild west justice in it.

Cute guy in my lit class.

Lovely blue eyes, wonderful poetic insight, nice smile.

But I'm old enough to be his mom, and I'm married. Not supposed to notice these things, or care. :(

I do.

Oh, sweetie! you're allowed to LOOK! (Just don't touch---at least, not where anyone can see it)

MY problem is not the young ones (somehow, they all remind me of my sons) it's the older men I have a sweet tooth for. You should see on of my new profs---soooooo cute!! But young (like the Yorkshireman) and he really doesn't do much for me. He DOES have purty blue eyes though.

Man, I'm a wench.

-11 temps this morning. Metra is running 15 to 40 minutes late, and the station was already packed wall to wall when I got there. I waited about 10 minutes and then gave up. Working from home.

car won't start coz it's too cold out.

Dammit. I really wanted a Big Mac...

It's -14 here and my living room heater don't work BRRRRRRRR!!!

I need to leave here right at 1pm today, and naturally, there's a deal brewing, and the slowest mook out there has it......I just know I'm going to get this deal at 12:45 and be stuck here until 1:30 fucking around with it.

I have something important to be about.

cock

What's annoying me? Some people just don't know how to cut to the chase. Like (hypothetically speaking speaking) if somebody calls up and says his email isn't working, and I ask what happens when he tries to check his email. I don't ask where he bought the computer, how long he's had it, whether he likes it, or why he really wants his email to be working before this afternoon. But I find out anyway, all before I find out what his email was actually doing.

You'll have to work on your 'butt-in' skills.

Yes but see, we are Customer Oriented. We show Concern at the Customer's Problems. Because IT has such a long reputation as antisocial, insensitive clods, we have to bend over backwards to prove that we are able to be nice to people who, apparently, haven't been taught to be nice back.

All of which constrains me from yelling "Will you shut the hell up and answer the question I actually ASKED you??" when my polite efforts along the lines of "Uh-huh. That's nice... tell me again what the error was it gave you when you tried to download your mail?" failed miserably.

Maybe they are just relieved your not the automated menu anymore.

Try speaking with an Indian accent. :haha:

Figures. :D

C'mon!! Already! Get the deal done!

He's a man that has to be about being, teh ghey...lol j/k

They always hold him up at the last minute, huh?

:)