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County Blah

22 July 2008, 11:58 pm. 6 Comments. Filed under Rant.

Why do we have a reverse-​​911 sys­tem, if the county won’t use it to tell us things like, “Hey, we had a water main break and you need to boil your water before using it.”

We’ve had so many water main breaks in the last year that I’m glad we don’t drink tap water, any­way (even with boil­ing, it tastes nasty to me). We do cook with it, though.

Oh – I guess since we don’t have (or want) a land line, they wouldn’t call us any­way, would they? It seems to me that cell phones should be included some­how, based on the address on the account or where you are when an alert goes out, or some­thing. Since more and more peo­ple don’t bother with land lines, that’s a sig­nif­i­cant issue.

So, yeah, boil­ing water ’til Wednes­day after­noon at the very least. I’m glad I looked at the local newspaper’s web site!

And That’s the Week

10 May 2008, 11:07 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Family, Health, Home, Love, Rant.

I con­sider Sun­day the first day of the week, rather than the last.

It was a week full of appoint­ments for the girl, and get­ting paper­work shuf­fled to var­i­ous bureau­cra­cies. Sam and I had lovely dates Wednes­day and tonight, although both of us were so exhausted Wednes­day that we turned in much ear­lier than usual.

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Stoopid School!

4 April 2008, 4:39 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under College, Rant.

I just found out that DeVry didn’t “pack­age” my finan­cial aid for this semes­ter. Huh? I reg­is­tered the day reg­is­tra­tion opened, or nearly so, as I recall. I wasn’t sched­uled to grad­u­ate. I did every­thing I’m sup­posed to do, in fact. Some­body there just dropped the ball.

Why isn’t that sort of thing auto­mated so that doesn’t hap­pen? It isn’t as if the place spe­cial­ized in, oh, tech­ni­cal degrees or any­thing like that, right?

Then they inform me that because of their mis­take, my stu­dent loans are also screwed up, and I’m going to end up owing them over $4k for the semes­ter! What?!

Yes, I’m fight­ing this. That school has screwed up some­thing every sin­gle semes­ter I’ve attended it! Unfor­tu­nately, so did SPSU. Is this just a given with col­leges? They only hire the incom­pe­tent, or they don’t honor com­pe­tence, or what? I know that schools usu­ally pay less than other employ­ers, so maybe they can’t com­pete and don’t care to try?

For your sakes, I will not upload a record­ing of the bel­low of inar­tic­u­late rage this crap pro­voked. I think it would have bro­ken my micro­phone, anyway.

Some people

11 January 2008, 7:03 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Rant.

What is it that dri­ves some peo­ple to con­stantly seek argu­ments? It doesn’t mat­ter what you say, they have to pick at it. I truly think, on one mail­ing list, that I could just post, “Oh, I totally agree with you” and a few peo­ple there would still find a rea­son to bitch.

I have to won­der what they’re like in real life. Scratch that, I know what they’re like. You say, “What a great day! Every­thing smells so clean right after it rains!” and they respond with, “I hate all the mud” or “Damned county still won’t let me water my grass” or some­thing else that’s neg­a­tive, in a tone that indi­cates they sus­pect you to be per­son­ally respon­si­ble for the rain, and maybe the drought, too. If it hadn’t rained, they’d gripe about that, too.
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Disappointed!

6 January 2008, 11:47 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Rant, Reading.

(I’m hear­ing Gary Old­man in The Fifth Ele­ment when I read the sub­ject there. Yes, I prob­a­bly could have found a sound clip and included it, but I’m count­ing on your imag­i­na­tions and mem­o­ries here.)

Well, I finally got around to read­ing the rest of Fledg­ling, the Liaden Uni­verse novel pub­lished by seri­ally by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller in 2007 using the storyteller’s bowl con­cept.1 Sam has recorded the final chap­ters for pod­cast­ing and is edit­ing the record­ing this week.
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