March 27, 2012

I haven't lived with my son for 8 years.

He's been a Marine. Doing like, Marine stuff with things that explode in places they don't like us much.

He's staying with me for a couple of months until school starts.

So...now every time I hear sirens I have to call him to make sure he's okay...like he's 16 again (he's almost 30). He laughs at me every time.

Children should come with a warning: May cause unnecessary stress, premature aging and depression, combines with random mood swings, elation and irrational behavior. These effects to not diminish with age.

March 27, 2012

The Buddy List needs to come back.

And, because of our new "Transparency", I think under where it says how many star members are ignoring a member, it should say how many star members have added that member to their buddy list (or, maybe not a "buddy" list, but an appreciation list...or, sumthin').

It sort of makes me a little nuts when someone uses "OMG!!! You have 15 star members ignoring you!!! You must be evil" (not an actual quote, but you get it.) DU is damned big. Seeing how many are ignoring a member is misleading. It should be balanced out.

I will apologize in advance for seeming to "abandon" this post. It's difficult for me to keep up at work and I'm headed out the door. I just wanna toss this in here.

Disclosure: I have 0 on ignore, but I'd have a helluva long buddy list.

March 23, 2012

There needs to be another "exception"

We have the Taterguy Exception, we need the "General Ass Exception".

People tagged with the GAE can be called an Ass without the caller-outer being alerted. Of course, the CO would have to yell, "GAE, GAE!!! NO ALERTSIES!!" to make them immune to alerts. They should probably throw in a smilie thingy of some sort for added effect. would be my choice.

I'm 2 posts away from putting my first person on ignore and it's going to ruin my perky attitude. The husband will be sad.

March 21, 2012

Residents raise moral objections to proposed fertility clinic

http://triblocal.com/naperville/2012/03/21/residents-raise-moral-objections-to-proposed-fertility-clinic/



I read this with minimal interest until I read "...an industry that preys on the financial vulnerability of my female peers." It's obvious a woman of college age isn't wise enough to know whether or not she wants to sell her eggs.

Besides all that, I have one child, a son. I had him naturally. My sister could never have children and battled with the decision of whether to adopt or use medical procedures. She did neither, due to procrastination and a hectic life. I have a close friend who can't have children. She's going through the same internal battle. Yes, there are way too many children in the world that need families, but I would not deny a (reasonable...think Octomom) woman's right to choose a medical procedure to have a biological child. In our world, it's okay to force a life to continue (Schiavo), but now we have people telling women that they aren't allowed to have a child.

I never had to decide. It's not my place to tell another woman what to do. I honestly hurt for the women in this world that can't have children. It's an amazing journey. Adoption is always a beautiful option, but this is another. This is all insane. When did a woman's body become public property?

March 12, 2012

I always appreciate Arizona...

...when everyone else is concerned about the time change. It truly is the only thing that Arizona has done that is remotely progressive.

March 9, 2012

Jon Stewart 'our greatest public intellectual'?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-jon-stewart-intellectual-0309-20120309,0,4557494.story

Eat this, FOX, Rush, and all the rest of you fools.

March 8, 2012

Ew. Men, please take note. Women, don't puke.

There's this customer that I've attained. He comes in every other day with some piddly $5 job that he thinks is the most important job in my life.

He's a middle-aged, grey-haired man with a goatee and pierced ear. He pulls up on a crotch rocket. Yes, a crotch rocket. He waits until I get to the counter before he starts to take his helmet off and unzip his leather jacket to reveal a shirt that is unbuttoned to below his breast and his awesome gold chain. He then starts rattling off detailed instructions about whatever stupid job he has. Today, it was a 2 page fax. Wow.

While his fax is going through, one of my other...no...my BEST customer walks in to pick up his job. Mr. Crotch Rocket has taken over my entire counter with his helmet and personal crap, so I just nudge some of it over (he's on his cell phone...). I help my customer and am chatting with him in a normal tone of voice and printing his invoice out on a very noisy printer. I get him all taken care of and he tells me how wonderful I am to go out of my way to get his job done on such short notice. I love the guy, he gets what he needs.

Another customer walks in and we go through the same ordeal. Midway through taking care of the new customer, Mr. Crotch Rocket says in a sarcastic tone, "Well, I guess I'll have to take care of this phone call later since it's so noisy in here." WTF? Yeah, it's noisy because it's a friggin' PRINT SHOP and I have CUSTOMERS. I didn't realize he had rented this as his personal office space.

His fax is almost done when another customer walks in. This one, a mid-40ish very attractive customer that I've known for almost 10 years. I greet her, "Hey! Whataya got for me today?" Mr. Crotch Rocket is obviously much more interested in THIS customer than the others. "Oh! It looks like she has a job for you! And a check!" He giggles and addresses my poor unsuspecting customer "Checks are always good, aren't they?" She just kinda smiles and says, "Uh huh" and skitters out the door like she was being chased by wolves.

Mr. Crotch Rocket was all butt-hurt and continued to make MORE calls on his cell. Every call he made started out, "Hey! I'm sorry I missed your call. I was on my motorcycle and it's tough to take calls when you're on a motorcycle! HA...HA...HA..."

Good friggin' grief.

Men, you're sexy. You don't need a crotch rocket, tight leather jacket, earring, gold chain or any other midlife crisis related accessories. You need a personality. Real women will like you just fine.

Now, I'm going home to my middle-aged, sexy as hell, slightly chubby, talented and thoughtful husband.

March 5, 2012

Samsung Customer Support...

...is a bunch of poopyheads.

I'm not sure which unsmiley thingy to use. Use your imagination. Thanks.

March 1, 2012

A new respect for movers.

My kid's stuff was shipped to my house yesterday. I knew they were sending a semi, but HOLY MOLEY!!!! When the driver called to say he was on his way, I warned him about our roads. I live on a very, very narrow, windy (with very sharp turns), very hilly (with a few pretty radical drops) road. He kind of sighed and said, "Oh no. Well, we'll give you a call if there are any problems".

I started praying. My kid would freak out if they couldn't deliver his stuff.

My son got there about 15 minutes before the truck. GOOD LORD, MAN! This was a REAL semi. Not one of the ones I was expecting. It pulled up and out jumped a Hispanic man that was much shorter than myself (I'm 5'7&quot . He's the driver. He was a little shaken up, but laughed it off. They almost fell off the road a couple of times (yes, you can "fall" off our road into one of two canyons). He asked if getting out the other way would be easier. I smiled. "Um. Sure...sort of." He rolled his eyes and laughed.

They unloaded all my son's stuff in no-time, were super friendly and cautious. Not one of them broke a sweat or looked winded, not even the really large guy. This was also their third delivery of the day with lots of miles between each.

All I kept thinking was, I hope they're union and paid well. Tonite I'm looking the company up to check. FYI: United Van Lines.