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I relented tonight and let Jane watch American Idol. Why? Because the best reasons I could come up with - that it’s trash and that I pay the bills - were weak, weak, weak.
She made it 15 minutes.
J: Ok, you can watch what you want. I’m leaving.
Me: What made you change your mind?
J: It’s boring!
Me: Yup. And none of them can sing.
J: I know!
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Since Katie and I met online (here, not here), I wonder if I should have proposed to her like this, instead of the whole on one knee bit. What do you think?
He proposed to his girlfriend by telling her to hit F12 on his Mac … at which point out popped an image of a wedding ring with the words will you marry me?
What do you think? It’s definitely memorable
It must be hard for kids.
My niece is at the office with us today. She absolutely loves to go on walks, and whenever someone says “do you want to go for a walk?” she gets extremely excited. She spouts noises so joyful you wish you could bottle them.
But she always needs her diaper changed before she can go. Taunted with promise of walkies, she is instead tortured with a diaper change.
And it didn’t help that when they stood her back up her pants were on backwards, and they had to start over.
Heh.
(I can’t wait till the baby is born!)
And from the random annoyances department….
I know no one cares, but I just noticed that my nifty atomic clock at the office is in fact not an atomic clock. Rather, it is a clock with a really good battery, and it resets itself to the factory-set time whenever it’s unplugged. It’s an autoset clock. Therefore, it is useless. The only thing that saves is the time it takes to turn the hands.
I’m annoyed I paid good money for this junk.
I love cold weather. I really, really do. And I will never understand why people enjoy the summer. You can put on a coat in the winter, but there’s no remedy for sweat in the summer - unless you have a swimming pool and no job, and I don’t want to hear about it if you do. But there are a few cold weather aspects I would pass on if I could:
Also, I miss snow. I’m beginning to accept that we’re not going to get any more decent snows in Knoxville. But I’m not happy about it.
My throat has been sore all day today, and it’s only getting worse.
I was hopeful this morning I had somehow slept with my mouth open last night - I know, attractive thought, right? But I don’t think I’m going to get that lucky.
This is not good.
Katie and I live in a neighborhood with thriving email lists. Combined with city-wide email lists and local blogs, I sometimes get multiple notices about the same thing.
This week, I’ve heard all about the community forum for replacing term-limited officeholders. I’ve seen identical updates on
And sometimes the identical email or post will be rehashed in the news, too. It gets a bit repetitive.
One funny thing, incidentally, is the membership of the various lists. Fourth and Gill has 106 subscribers, ONK has 97, the 37917 list has 508, and K2K has 1134, but K2K by far has the fewest posts.
After filing an initial complaint back in June 2006, the Norwegian Consumer Council has deemed Fairplay (iTunes DRM) illegal in Norway with the possibility of France and Germany following suit. Evidently the Norse people aren’t too happy about the fact that Apple’s DRM technology restricts files downloaded from the iTunes store from being played only on iPod and not other music players. They feel consumers who have lawfully obtained these files are being negatively affected by these anti-piracy measures.
Another reason (if you needed one) not to upgrade to Windows Vista:
The latest concern is the requirement that users installing an upgrade version of Microsoft’s new operating system have an older version of Windows working on their computer. Earlier Windows upgrades simply required users to have an old installation disk on hand as a proof of ownership.
Microsoft says it made the change because Vista, which goes on sale first thing Tuesday, does not check upgrade compliance. But the new requirement has irked many users who prefer “clean installs”–formatting the hard drive before installing the upgrade.
On my way to work this morning (in the glorious cold), the sun was in the worst possible place. Yes, this is the time of the year when the sun - when it’s hiding behind clouds - is at the same level as the road in the morning. Yuck.
So as I was struggling to see without getting into a wreck, I heard a loud pop. I jumped, ears ringing, and frantically searched my car for what had blown up. Was the window about to cave in on me? Did a tire blow? It wouldn’t be the first time. I checked everything I could check and looked at all the sensors in the dashboard. Seeing nothing wrong, I contemplated pulling off the road to figure out what happened; after all, I didn’t want to do any more damage to my poor 13 year old car.
And then the car in front of me - a much newer Jeep Grand Cherokee - pulled off the road. The Jeep was the source of the deafening noise, not me! I don’t know what happened, but since it was loud enough to hurt my ears - and all of their tires looked fine - it must have been expensive.
Do you ever hear an ambulance and think “Somebody’s having a bad day?” In my moment of panic, I thought of having to pay for a new car in addition to the mortgage. But it wasn’t me this time.
Something to be thankful for this Monday morning.
Our new home phone just rang. Being the only person here, I took it upon myself to answer the phone and talk to “wireless caller.”
The person on the other line - whom I couldn’t hear too well - said “Is Janey there?” to which I responded with “No, she’s at her dad’s this weekend.”
After hanging up, though, I had doubts. Doubts kill me. I immediately realized the other person couldn’t have said “Janey.” For one thing, almost nobody calls her “Janey,” certainly not over the phone like that. It must have been somebody looking for “Henry,” not “Janey,” in which case I called H a “she.”
Or was it someone looking for “Katie?” Then they must have thought I was a moron for saying “she’s at her dad’s this weekend.”
*sigh*
This is why I don’t like answering the phone.
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