Caught on the way out of Dad's this morning by my uncle for a few rounds of buck-passing on the topic of Something Should Be Done about Dad. Butch seemed taken aback when I said outright and matter-of-factly that Dad's in the process of drinking himself to death, and finished out the conversation by trying to guilt-trip me with the statement that ( Read more... )

Just a little while ago I installed a series of reverse lookup apps and tested them out on my recent call log. The one I kept was the one that was able to tell me the number that called six times in the last week was a local roofer, rather than being stumped or demanding a ridiculous amount of my own personal data before it would function ( Read more... )

Copied from Facebook:I don't know whether it's Amazon's tracking system or UPS' that screwed up twice in the past month and claimed a package was lost en route that arrived just fine a few days later. The first time led to a confusing exchange of e-mails with a third party seller, but this time around they sent the same shipment a second time and ( Read more... )

Thursday is my day to come home from work, collapse onto the couch and catch up on sleep. And I was really looking forward to it today, since I got so little sleep yesterday and the day before ( Read more... )

Being annoyed by family right now, since Mom arranged for my sister to cut Mom's sister's hair and for some damned reason decided they needed to meet up at our place on a Saturday afternoon instead of one of them going to the other's house. So I was aggravated during my watching of the last couple of eps of Daredevil by Mom bustling around trying ( Read more... )

So the bad news is I broke my phone -- smashed the bottom corner of the touchscreen, meaning the inside is functional but my ability to work with it is severely compromised. The good news is that I had insurance on it that is going to cover replacing it. The bad news is that there was a $150 deductible. The good news is that I learned I'm only a ( Read more... )

So I'm having a three-day weekend, and I was told that my aunt was taking care of Grandma's lunch today, which is leaving today very unstructured because neither of my two major timed obligations for a Tuesday (lunch and tonight's shift at work) are happening. ( I was greatly annoyed by my mother yesterday... )

So Saturday I didn't get into bed in a timely fashion (think there was a nap right when I got home from work, and then lunch and time-wastage) and then when I woke up that night and was trying to motivate myself out of the warm, warm bed into the freezing cold room, I discovered a notification of an LJ comment on my last entry from
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So by my new "unemployed but vaguely productive" schedule, Sunday late morning/early afternoon is about LJ catchup and knitting photos and computer backups. (Ooh, better get my backup started running!) Weekends are not greatly changed -- same list of things I need to do, minus clearing thumb drives or spending all of Saturday night catching up on ( Read more... )

So last night I visited Grandma for a bit and put some rows onto the Warlock Sock.  Then I got home, had a quick dinner, and started fiddling with the new Android.

( Venting my extreme dissatisfaction )