The paid Internet situation may qualify as harassment or discrimination. I don't know. Microsoft only threatened to make this laptop unusable in October. My sponsor paid for service in April, May, and June, but that service has not been available. This laptop absolutely refuses to recognize the object that's been put in the place where my router ought to be as a router.
Anyway, I painted myself into a corner by having only one means of communication. I need to be at home with Serena and her kitten--one has survived a week, even though "New Roundup" was sprayed during the week. And Serena unfortunately can't be trusted to hang out in the office all day, so either she has to be locked out while baby is inside, or they have to spend the day together in Cat Jail. This is not good for any of the parties involved. But in order to tell the company they've not fixed the problem I have to come into town...
The odd jobs man showed up around 8 a.m. looking for five-dollar jobs. Said, if I understood him, which is never completely certain, that he'd already agreed to do some job somewhere just for eggs. I saw eggs at Wal-Mart last week for only about twice as much as I'm willing to pay for them. Maybe he was working cheap for a disabled patient? Anyway I thought "I shouldn't let a lift to McDonald's go to waste since I need to get down the company's neck and bite," and then thought "But I'm most likely to get a lift back from McDonald's at 8 p.m." That's a long time to leave a cat who's been behaving very well in Cat Jail. When I sentence cats to that much "jail time" it's usually for acting sick, to give the possum time to eat whatever's left of whatever they ate.
Yes, once in a great while I do sort of miss phones. There are still a few in storage at the Cat Sanctuary, old land-line phones, but their insides are probably corroded by now.
Fashion
Real turquoise and silver may be prettier, but isn't this jasper and copper bracelet distinctive? Click on the link, get a clever cartoon as a reward, and then the site will let you buy it. If you are or know a person who wears bead bracelets. They tend to look best on women who either (a) have very long arms and need something to fill in the space at the end of off-the-rack shirt sleeves, or (b) are 5'4" and want to wear something cut for someone who is 5'2," or (c) are 5'8" and want to wear something cut for someone who is 5'6".
Politics
Not worth a link, but Rahm Emanuel wants to run for President in 2028. Hoot-hootie-hooo! The Mean Girl lost, thunderously, despite the sympathy vote, and now this fellow thinks that a Mean Boy--his friends in the Clinton White House called him "the mean one"--is going to win without the sympathy vote? Maybe the thinking was something like "The label 'Mean Boy' won't stick since the hair is now completely grey"?
There were Clinton White House people I liked and sympathized with...people who did not give all Ds a bad name, whom some Ds might be able to vote for. There was, though I'm quite sure he wouldn't run, and I'm glad, Alan Greenspan, who was responsible for the one thing the administration did that people actually liked--batting the economic bubble up off the ground for a few more years.
That's my perspective, anyway. I could be wrong. How do people in your neighborhood feel about Rahm Emanuel? Has he ever done anything that anybody liked?
Zazzle
A new collection: T-shirts that warn rude people to leave you alone...I posted the "That's Sir to You" shirt on X, but Zazzle failed to add it to the collection, so I'm waiting for the site to sort itself out before posting the "Maintain Healthy Distance" and "The Person Wearing This Shirt Is Showing Respect by Leaving You Alone" shirts.
"That's Ma'am to You" T-shirt:
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