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Out on the street
Oct 17th
I haven’t really been paying attention around here. I’ve been a bit distracted with stuff.
WHEN THE HELL DID MY APARTMENT COMPLEX BECOME GATED?
I went out tonight and when I got home the entrance I usually enter had the gate closed. I mean sure, there’s been a gate there all along, it’s just never been closed. None of the gates around here have ever been closed. So I slid past and u-turned and went back to the main entrance. Closed. Code box? Don’tcha think you should hand out the fucking codes BEFORE you enable the locked gates? So I whipped around and went to the rear entrance which happened to be open.
Not to mention my A/C has been wanky for days. Finally today they came by to use a garden hose to flush out the brown shit, whatever that was.
Yeah, I’m a little disgrunted.
AND the power cord to this laptop fried out again. It’s only been a couple of months since I bought the last replacement! Poor design. I don’t misuse or twist this thing around. I pretty much stay plugged in in the same spot in my living room except for when I pack it all up and go to Gangplank to record. Last night it started sparking so I went to Fry’s Electronics and bought another cord. Shit.
I told the kids today that December 1st was the cut-off date. Get your shit together by then guys. Mom’s sick and tired of taking care of your asses.
Let's just hope I don't regret this
Jan 3rd
You know, my PC has been slowly falling apart. First the fancy flat screen took a giant dump virtually overnight, so I’ve been using an old monitor Ginnie got from her school. It literally takes up my entire desk. I have it butted against the back and the screen sits three inches from the front edge of my computer desk. Hard to see that close up. AAAANNNNDDD the whole issue of not being able to turn the whole thing off for fear it won’t power back up again. I sleep three feet from this computer that rattles and ticks all night.
But I would die if I didn’t have a computer. Seriously. I neeeeeeed you people.
So recently a friend offered me her laptop. She’d had to send it in for something or other and couldn’t wait to get it back so she went out and bought a new one. Smoking deal I really couldn’t turn down. Really.
I know, I know, I’m broke all the time and have no job, and struggle to pay my bills, and am getting sick of soup and cereal, but it was a smokin’ deal! Priorities, right! I’ve been doing the right thing for a year now and I just needed to do this. I asked if I could get out of my lease and that’s a no-go so I’m stuck with this rent until August.
And now I really have to get a JOB. I know I keep saying that and have even made a half-hearted attempt to clean up my resume and perused craigslist a couple of times. In fact, Evo keeps sending me craigslist ads for jobs for which I am in no way qualified. People keep telling me I should bluff my way but my innate honestly keeps me from applying. Oh sure, I’m a quick learner and I could probably figure out some of these programs as most WP or database programs are pretty similar. I’m not a complete techtard.
Job fairies are as imaginary as Santa and God so I’m vowing Monday morning I’m kicking myself in the ass and doing some serious job hunting. I need a paycheck.
I put myself on Yahoo Personals. I’ve heard a couple of people say they’ve had pretty good luck with it. If I can’t get sex I as least want some company.
Max left a message yesterday and he’s fine.
Casey got a message yesterday that someone had broke into his house and stole his big ole flat screen TV, stereo and new house phone. He still spent all day here and when I got home from #EVFN last night his car is here but I dunno where he and Kira are.
#EVFN you ask? Haven’t I mentioned that to you? What started out as a bunch of local twitter people getting together for Phoenix First Friday (art walk every month), which turned into #PFN dinner/drinks at various locations every Friday night, which morphed into #EVFN for those of us who didn’t want to trot out to Phoenix every week. We select a different location in the east valley and anyone can show up. We’re up to about 25-30 people wandering in and socializing. We keep picking up new people who see we’re having such fun and get them on twitter too.
It’s a good start to a Friday night, and I’ve been going out with my friend twinklergirl after and watching her (and others) do karaoke. I’m | | this much closer to actually getting up and trying it myself. Who knows.
Complaint of the day: signatures
Oct 24th
Every-freaking-where!
End the madness. Not just on message boards, but in emails and discussion groups, every online correspondence is littered with these huge signatures.
In my personal opinion, I think signatures should include:
Your Official Name on that site/subject
Phone number IF the correspondence requires a phone number
ONE URL. ONE. Pick the one that has the most information about you people might need.
NO cute sayings.
NO list of every website you’re associated with
NO profound words from your hero of choice
NO links to your pictures of kittens
DO NOT DOUBLE SPACE – DO NOT USE ANY ANIMATION/GRAPHICS
You want to get all cute and fuzzy? Make a MySpace page full of butterflies or puking smilies and use your one URL for that.
Shit! I get sick and tired of scrolling through screen-fulls of signatures to get to the next semi-important part of a conversation. Do you even pay any attention to the crap automatically dumped at the end of every one of your posts? GROW THE FUCK UP! Especially in a more businesslike setting, try to maintain a modicum of professionalism.
Please?
Debbie spellwight Walker
spellwight.livejournal.com
Edited to add a correction: If you want to use a profound quote from your hero in place of a URL, that’s peachy too. What I’m asking for is brevity.
Happy Independence Day
Jul 4th
Having peeps from all over the world on my flist, I also need to say Have A Nice Day to those who don’t celebrate their country’s independence today.
Whew.
My computer wouldn’t power up yesterday (again) so now I know it’s on borrowed time. I know it’s something in the power supply. Could be the actual power supply (I did a quick price check last night and I’m screwed) or maybe just the stupid blue power button. Here’s hoping it’s the frakking button. As with last Saturday, I checked all the connections and finally gave up and took the damned tower out to the nearest repair place (Data Doctors) to get a diagnosis. They wanted $125 just to diagnose so fuggedaboudit for now. As before I left the stupid tower in the car in the heat for hours and when I plugged it all back in again it starts fine. For now, I just won’t turn it off. Of course, the warranty period has passed, and when I called Gateway (I got Inari with the eastern indian accent) they wanted $59 to chat about it. I know it’s a hardware problem and that can’t be fixed over the phone. Why would I pay someone across the world to ask me a bunch of stupid questions and then tell me they can’t help.
Today, today, today. I’m going over Ladawn’s tonight. Casey invited me to go with his bunch to the ginormous church around the corner that does a whole public 4th of July thing – music, games, food, fireworks – but he sent Kira to stay with her mother for a week, which will probably end much sooner knowing her – and I’d rather not. Ginnie’s working til about 8? 9? and I don’t know what her plans are for the night.
Hope you all have a good day whatever you do.
