:)

Please indulge me for a minute:

grumble grumble grumble. *&(*&#(*&(&#$##$ #%$%^#*&((

That is all.

let no groove go scorched today.

it's already raining it down, but, HEY! April showers and all that bull!

:D

God, my own cheerfulness is making me kinda sick.

Job. That's the scorcher.

well, then stone them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_hlMK7tCks

Heh, that's not a bad idea.

You know what's weird, the rain is the one thing I'm liking about today!

I'm just not used to being treated like a lesser. I must learn someday to stop being nice and accomodating and start showing that I can run circles around most of 'em.

Give no quarter, Shawnee. Those people don't got nuttin' on ya. The more pompous the ass, the harder a window makes lemonade slam in their face!

Thanks Bri. I'll be OK, just having a really bad moment.

sorry. I don't mean to be making light of your situation. :sniff:

NO, you're not. I appreciated your response. I meant thanks. Did it sound sarcastic? Sometimes I don't know how the things I say come off.

I'm just having a bad day, and a lot of recent hurts are surfacing and I feel angry, and sad. Just a phase.

Perfection. I should memorize that.

Be glad there's one place in the world
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to go where people know,
People are all the same;
You want to go where everybody knows your name. :D

That is the truth, and that is the Cellar. Thanks. :)

My sister has this thing about having to do whatever I do. Normally, it doesn't bother me, but the latest thing... well, here's the backstory:

My youngest daughter has been referred to OHSU for neurological and developmental assessment of linguistic and motor development delays. Her speech therapist suspects she may have an auditory processing disorder. My two older kids are in an academy for high-achieving students, and despite her communication issues, it looks likely that my youngest will also qualify for the academy.

My sister wants her daughter to attend the academy, and recently had her tested for TAG. She didn't get into TAG so she's having a neurological assessment done. WTF??? I asked her why, and she said it's because her scores are lower "than expected". I know she scored above average on the testing, just not high enough to be identified as having special academic needs.

The kid is bright, and does well in school as long as she applies herself. I don't think she needs to be in TAG. I'm getting the feeling that the "expected" scores are something my sister was expecting, not necessarily the teachers. TAG is an unfunded mandate in Oregon, anyway, and my experience with my kids being in it was that they get absolutely NO difference in curriculum.

I do not see the value in trying to force a perfectly normal above-average bright child into a high-achievement bracket. I am very grateful the high-achievement school exists for kids who would otherwise not have their needs met by the regular schools, but for those kids who ARE having their needs met, what, besides the parent's ego, benefits from trying to move them from where they are already? I feel like she's treating her kid like there's something "wrong" with her just because she's "average", and that's fucked-up.

Got a 79 on the trig test I studied uber hard for. Mostly because of piddly mistakes. I'm failing English because I'm lazy. I feel sick, and drained for no reason, I meant to call the doc today but fell asleep instead.

I'm going through a cold and our attic has been invaded by a racoon. The combination of the two means I'm seriously short on sleep.

When a raccoon got into our chimney, repeated application of rags soaked liberally with ammonia got it out. The fumes drove it away.

I bought cheese-flavored snack mix that smells like feet.

Limburger cheese?

"Italian Cheese Blend." I guess parmesean can be a little stinky...but now everyone probably thinks it's my feet.

I fee like I've been kicked, hard, in the right ovary. Fucking hurts man...

appendix maybe?

Or a cyst?

Get it checked, though, jinx. I know how painful that is, and maybe they can do something for it.

I love racoons. Is it young? If you could catch it, you could keep it as a pet. :D

Excel. Why the eff is it returning "false" for 61 entries that match and the other 9963 entries, which are formatted exactly the same, are giving me the correct return of "true?"

An extra space or othe rnon-printing character (for text)? Rounding error (for numbers)?

Either they are not formatted the same or the formatting is not the relevant attribute.

Thank you for choosing Computo-Answer™
The nation's #1 automated text genrator

lol

Yeah, I've checked all the usual suspects. Formatting of SSNs, dollar amounts, etc. I just gave up and started over with my original spreadsheets. At this point I think that will be easier than to try to figure out what I did wrong.

I think I scared it off. (or gave it a heart attack and it's dying in the attic)

I am a fucking retard. I deleted all of my saved passwords from firefox. I wish they'd had a warning dialogue box that popped up saying something like, oh I don't know,
"What, are you fucking retarded? Why would you want to delete all your saved passwords? As if you'll remember half of them. Good luck logging into your email, douchebag. What a fucking numb nuts."

Then I could click "Cancel" or "haha just kidding, I'd never do something that frigging dumb."

but we love you, foot.

:mecry::nuts::eek3::lol:That is soooo something I would do! Let's create the code for your suggested response - i know we'd make a million due to all of the morons like us out there.

damn foot. Sorry to hear about that little brain fart.

my JR terrier is kinda scorching my groove. she wants to be with me. all the time. constantly. everywhere.

footfootfoot... and yet.... you're here.....

:chill:

my groove scorcher:

A brand new Dell Lat E4200.. just opened the flippin box an hour ago, needs over 330 MB of updates. That's not a computer. That's a kit. :doh:

stalker dog

My ex.

Isn't that why he is your ... ex? He's probably some damn right wing tea partier too!:rolleyes:

Far from it. He's more radical than I am even, and you know what a leftie I am. :D

Yes, he's my ex precisely because of things like what happened yesterday.

sorry - not humanly possible, ya treehugger

Comcast just raised my $28 cable rate to $58, so Icalled them up to downgrade to limited basic cable for $23. I cant find the channel line-up for it on their website so I have no idea what channels I will be losing. Hubby is going to be seriously stressed if he wont be able to watch Family Guy and that Ghost Hunters show....:worried:

Family Guy is FOX, so you should still get it. I have no idea about the other one.

You know, you can watch almost any TV show on the internet for free, and if your TV has a USB port you can connect your computer to it. surfthchannel.com has most shows. They aren't hosted on that site, but it will link you to sites where shows are hosted.

If you paid me $50 an hour I'd watch TV, otherwise. No thanks.

$820 for brakes

9.5 hour difference between EDT and India time.

the dog

well apparently, the weather here will scorch my groove on Saturday, but that's after freezing it on Weds. :rolleyes:

Our weather is just terrible. :D

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Wea...ation=USGA0506

I've been on antibiotics for a week and my sinus infection feels worse today. Coughing and throat hurts, which was not a problem before.
I'm also really tired and want coffee, but don't have any at all.

Yeah I'm cranky

The forecast didn't mention the storms... other than that it was bang on.... actually no rain or damaging hail, but strong winds, dodgy looking sky, and the second soccer game was called about 10 minutes into the second half because of lightening/thunder.

Came upon this post with instructions on how to Eat Fire:

http://tcavengers.wordpress.com/eat-fire/

Neat link, but haven't you spoken out before about the dangers of backyard fireworks? And now you are linking to instructions of how to intentionally take burning flammable liquids into your mouth? I'm not judging. Just perplexed. I actually think it's an interesting link.

well, I'm not saying you should do it . . . and I would NEVER do it, but I thought it was interesting, tis all

The Thrift store I volunteer at which earns money for the schools deperately needs volunteers They have to do an orientation session first. so I had a GREAT idea to set one up in advance just for families at my school (I'm the school rep) so they could learn with friend and know the date rather than the current system of calling the volunteer co-ordinator and waiting to be told when the next one is. Everyone agreed it was a great idea, so I set up a session for tonight (two weeks ago) and naively assumed since we had agreed the date and I hadn't heard otherwise -and had emailed the only contact address allowed several times about it, it would be fine.

wrong.

yesterday i was getting a little concerned that i'd heard nothing, but had to assume my emails had been read so no news is good news....
grrrrr

(ME last night)

> > Hi Uselessbitch,

> >
> > I'm a little concerned that I haven't heard back from you about this -this
> > is my third email since we talked at the meeting on the 23rd and picked
> > some dates. Please let me know if there is a problem -I'd hate for my
> > volunteers to turn up tomorrow night and there be no session.
> >
> >
> >
> > here's my list for Weds 7th Oct 7-9pm
......

(HER this morning)

> Monster,
> We need to verify a date for orientation before sending word out for a
> session. I am NOT able to hold orientation on Wednesday Oct. 7. I can
> hold a session on Sunday Oct. 11 from 5-7. I hope you'll be able to let
> your families know that tonight's session is NOT scheduled. Perhaps they
> can attend on Sunday. Thank you.
> UselessBitch
>


(Me.... just right fucking now, I'm so damn mad. I'm gonna get ger job and do it properly. And get paid. She's not even a volunteer -she gets paid to do this! How fucking unprofessional and useless can you get?):

>> Thank you for getting back to me. I am confused as to how I should have verified the date with you further than I did? You said it was good at the meeting on the 23rd and would email straight away if you found it wasn't when you got home. You didn't, so I got the word out straight away. I have emailed about it several times to make sure it was still good and heard nothing -I guess I was naive to assume no news was good news, but it would have been unprofessional of me to tell my families "well I'm not hearing anything so maybe it's not going to happen".

Is is possible for me to run the orientation -do you have notes? If not, can we reschedule for next Wednesday? These families were excited about this date because it's a weekday evening. yes, I can contact them, but I am loathe to because we so desperately need good volunteers in the shop.

What is scorching my groove is that my problems are all problems of thinking and logic and NONE of mechanics.

No. I will NOT re-write!

The background:
Our swim club runs lessons for toddlers in a theraputic (= warm, zero depth entry) pool at an elementary school. They have the pool because they have a program for kids with physical special needs, and they are required to make it available to us to offer lessons to the community. Classes are either on Mon/Weds or Tues/Thurs. They should have started last Monday, but the health dept closed the pool because the levels were bad (that's the school's responsibility). So they started Tues. On Weds, a kid at school pooped in the pool, so it had to be shocked and was unavaialble for Weds night. Thurs was fine. Friday too (we run two baby/parent classes then). Monday was MLK day -on the calendar as a no swim day. Tues was fine. Tonight (Weds) a kid in our early class barfed in the pool. so we had to cancel the late class (no-nos are poop, barf and blood). We sent an email out immediately we heard....
(I didn't write it, but I think it makes it pretty clear what happened)

and we got this from a parent


What exactly the fuck do they expect us to do? duct tape all mouths and buttholes before kids enter the pool? Including the kids in school during the day? WTF does America have to do with it? (I'm not the prez -who is American through and through- she deals with the emails. Although we share the pain.)


this was my suggested reply:

go for it.....

i'd add.....a quick....'you fucking immigrant' in right after 'Milon' ...as clearly she is NOT American.

the prez's "suggested" reply was more to that vein.... including the work "Fuck" more than once (and she is a "freak" freak :lol:)

but I'm an immigrant too.....

yeah...but you're the good kind of immigrant.

Love the "this is america" bit.


Probably wouldn't hurt to remind parents not to bring sick kids to swim, though.