Him: "We're out of coffee."

Me: "What?"

Him: "This has never happened before."

Me (starting to panic): "How can we be out of coffee? Don't we subscribe to coffee?"

Happily, we remembered the small can of Café du Monde that hides out away from the normal coffee zone.

Now New-Age Woman is making up etymology! Because "imagination" and "magus" MUST be related, right? They have the SAME THREE LETTERS!

(I was very nice in my comment, but it's caused a newage backup here, and I think I'm starting to get a headache.)

I just listened to the White House chief of staff attempt to explain the Bush administration's "argument" against funding embryonic stem-cell research, and immediately after that fiasco, I received my latest editing project by email-but it was the wrong one. Again.

Remind me to turn off "provide feedback with sound" in Word when working at night and listening to music through headphones attached to my computer.

China and Japan are evidently the same fucking country.

So...

4:37 p.m.
Send email announcing that emergency edit has been uploaded; go off and do Other Things, fully expecting a speedy reply letting me know that a full mockup is available for me to red-pencil, especially because I have been told it is "essentially done" and that it has to be all done by tomorrow.

5:40Operation Clusterfuck Avoidance ( Read more... )

Shortened to save time:

AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH! AUGH!

Clicked on an Adsense link to help out a blogger I enjoy, and was confronted with:

What is a "Blog"?
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It's Father Christmas!

Broadband is down! Ack! Happened yesterday too, but only for about fifteen minutes.

Luckily I have the smartphone. And hell, it's probably good for me to get away from the 'net for a little bit. (Emphasis on "a little bit," please.)