Haaaaaaaate.
Jan. 15th, 2009 03:25 pmAlright, I realize that I'm spoiled, but come on, people! Text rotation and text direction. I want them. ( I do databases. Not spreadsheets, databases. )
It all started when the microwave went kaput.
We use our microwave every single day, so replacing it was absolutely necessary. And we did. And in the process, I noticed a refrigerator, which turned out to be completely wrong, but still got my parents (especially my mother, but me too, we all agreed) on a fridge kick. And so we replaced the refrigerator. It arrived yesterday, and we had to take off half of the doorframe between the living room and the kitchen in order to fit it in. (Which we wanted to do anyway, but still. That does need to be fixed. We've got raw wall exposed right now.) And we knew -- have known for a long time -- that the oven needs to be replaced sometime in here, because we had to re-calibrate it several years ago, and now we can't trust it to cook things right at all. But.
The kitchen sink is broken.
And the part which is broken, is broken clean through on one side. It's made of lead. And its got non-regulation/code/whatever threads, which means that it cannot be replaced.
( Excuse me, I need to vent, and the lack of swearing is a sign of my rage. )
Hate the people who built this house, the crummy luck right now. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.
We use our microwave every single day, so replacing it was absolutely necessary. And we did. And in the process, I noticed a refrigerator, which turned out to be completely wrong, but still got my parents (especially my mother, but me too, we all agreed) on a fridge kick. And so we replaced the refrigerator. It arrived yesterday, and we had to take off half of the doorframe between the living room and the kitchen in order to fit it in. (Which we wanted to do anyway, but still. That does need to be fixed. We've got raw wall exposed right now.) And we knew -- have known for a long time -- that the oven needs to be replaced sometime in here, because we had to re-calibrate it several years ago, and now we can't trust it to cook things right at all. But.
The kitchen sink is broken.
And the part which is broken, is broken clean through on one side. It's made of lead. And its got non-regulation/code/whatever threads, which means that it cannot be replaced.
( Excuse me, I need to vent, and the lack of swearing is a sign of my rage. )
Hate the people who built this house, the crummy luck right now. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.
To Whom It May Concern:
Sep. 13th, 2005 06:32 pmYou may like the smell of carob and burnt honey, but I don't. I'm pretty sure the hall agrees with me. Please stop it.
Every now and then I hear complaints from people - "they were jackhammering in front of the dorm" or the like, "at 6 am" or the like. Yadda.
It's never so early as that, but there's always somebody doing something loud outside my window, sometime during the day. Right now it seems to be a lawn mower. The most common one sounds like a generator doing something. I can't hear my music because it's drowning everything out. It's also really really annoying.
It's never so early as that, but there's always somebody doing something loud outside my window, sometime during the day. Right now it seems to be a lawn mower. The most common one sounds like a generator doing something. I can't hear my music because it's drowning everything out. It's also really really annoying.
they strike again
Jul. 7th, 2005 08:18 pm---------------------------------------------
Terrorist, n.
1. As a political term: Any one who attempts to further his views by a system of coercive intimidation.
OED
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Y'know, if these people were smart, they might have waited until interest in "the war on terrorism" petered out and the people pushing it got out of office and nobody was looking at them any more, and then tried to do something. Instead they have to blow people up in London. London!
The two terrorist organizations I know the most about - IRA and ELF - mainly focus on damaging property in order to make their point. In fact, the ELF takes great pride in not harming any living thing (by their definition, of course, which means people and animals). One blows up parts of buildings, the other writes messages in acid and tries to destroy research in genetic alterations.
Now, I'm not against killing. Where there are carnivores, and omnivores, and threats to life, there will be killing. But it's one thing to kill an animal (humans included) and then do something with the body, to put it to use. It's one thing to kill an animal in self defence, or in protection of young, or to prevent the spread of a disease, or to stop a crime. It's something entirely different to kill something in cold blood and leave it there to rot.
It just strikes me as stupid.
Terrorist, n.
1. As a political term: Any one who attempts to further his views by a system of coercive intimidation.
- (In early use also applied spec. to members of one of the extreme revolutionary societies in Russia. The term now usually refers to a member of a clandestine or expatriate organization aiming to coerce an established government by acts of violence against it or its subjects.)
OED
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Y'know, if these people were smart, they might have waited until interest in "the war on terrorism" petered out and the people pushing it got out of office and nobody was looking at them any more, and then tried to do something. Instead they have to blow people up in London. London!
The two terrorist organizations I know the most about - IRA and ELF - mainly focus on damaging property in order to make their point. In fact, the ELF takes great pride in not harming any living thing (by their definition, of course, which means people and animals). One blows up parts of buildings, the other writes messages in acid and tries to destroy research in genetic alterations.
Now, I'm not against killing. Where there are carnivores, and omnivores, and threats to life, there will be killing. But it's one thing to kill an animal (humans included) and then do something with the body, to put it to use. It's one thing to kill an animal in self defence, or in protection of young, or to prevent the spread of a disease, or to stop a crime. It's something entirely different to kill something in cold blood and leave it there to rot.
It just strikes me as stupid.
Stupid neck tendons hopping around under my skin. It's still swollen somewhat.
I don't take pills. They don't do me any good. What's wrong with me - tendons with a preference for dislocation, knotted muscles, overlayered skin, wonky toes, and scars that look like vampire bites, to name a few - isn't something to be cured by pills, or anything really. My body is simply a rather strange and very reluctant landlord.
Ironically, I'm the only member of my closer family that doesn't have regular medication.
Aaaagh. Stupid neck, stupid headache.
I don't take pills. They don't do me any good. What's wrong with me - tendons with a preference for dislocation, knotted muscles, overlayered skin, wonky toes, and scars that look like vampire bites, to name a few - isn't something to be cured by pills, or anything really. My body is simply a rather strange and very reluctant landlord.
Ironically, I'm the only member of my closer family that doesn't have regular medication.
Aaaagh. Stupid neck, stupid headache.
So I needed to write one more CRQ (and the class is DONE! Yay!), and wound up chewing the class itself out for not being what I expected, and the entire department as well, for not being able to provide according to my expectations. Ancient, Western, and "modern" philosophies, are, I know, not all there is. I know there are Asian philosophies, dammit! I wanted to study one of them!
Right, so I was scathing. And although I wrote in the heat of the moment, I'm pretty sure it will come out cold. For some reason it always does. It was concise. It was clear, although whether or not he'll let himself understand I'm not sure. And I'm done.
Stupid class.
Right, so I was scathing. And although I wrote in the heat of the moment, I'm pretty sure it will come out cold. For some reason it always does. It was concise. It was clear, although whether or not he'll let himself understand I'm not sure. And I'm done.
Stupid class.
