pooping on the rails
Soo today at the apple store.
I had to get my main computer looked at due to a faulty inverter display, and while I was waiting for the people at the Genius Bar to call my name, I overhear this man, suffice to say he sounds like a stereotypical down home bumpkin, and boy was I right. He tells the apple store guy that he loves his Mac, but can't get anything to work right on it. He can't install office (uh, you just put the dvd in, it does pretty much all the work after that*) something was wrong with his dock, and he was trying to do other things too, that I forgot because I was trying to listen to my name being called. The man also goes into the merits of owning a Mac, like he's trying to get into photography (sigh, how many Mac newbies say this when they get their first mac...) and then, then he blurts out how much he loves using...torrents to find software. You know, illegial software. Now I download a song or a tv show every once in a while, but I never go downloading like $400 software. The apple store guy got really quiet and pretty much told him that torrents were not a good idea. Then my name was called.
*=i just realized. He's probably been trying to install the WINDOWS version of Microsoft Office. zomg.
Since my main computer is getting repaired, I'm on my old MacBook. I just realized its two operating systems back now, its still using the last version of Tiger. I can't get Tweetdeck to work (the columns will not display) and its driving me nuts. I tried downloading echofon, but its for OSX 10.5 or greater, and I'm running 10.4.11 = old.
In closing, I am so addicted to "Hoarders" on a&e now. I watch it every monday, I tweet like every 2 seconds while its on because I'm in such disbelief the whole time. On Monday's ep, it was probably the most insane house of all. Cats everywhere (13 dead cats in the house -- and six that were born the day they started cleaning the house, along with a lot of live cats), cat poop everywhere, to the point where everything in the house had to be trashed, HAZ MAT CREWS, and a tub full of BACK water. Now we know why:
lets just get this one out of the way. the hot tub... i have no idea what was in there. It was water, it was brown and their were baby toys. We did troll the bottom to make sure there weren't any animals in the bottom (spaghetti strainer). I think we all know what it really was, but there was no need to verbalize it. The cats were going everywhere else. No running water, no toilets, you do the math. That being said, this is our job and we get paid to do it. you do not judge and sometimes you comments, sometimes you do not. Her brother (Sonny) and I made the decision to clean it and move on. Even the hazmat guys were blown away by the smell. It was VERY aggressive.
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So she was shitting/peeing in a tub full of baby toys (we saw plastic train tracks). yup. The second most unbelieveable hoarder house (to me at least) was the lady who hoarded food. Like, she would buy a pumpkin because she liked it, and then she would just dump it on the floor along with all the other crap on her floor, thus letting the pumpkin rot. There was a scene where she insisted on saying goodbye and picking the seeds out of her rotten pumpkin. She wanted to bake the seeds out of a rotten pumpkin. She wanted to keep chicken broth that expired two years ago, frozen tofu that had puffed up to twice its size, the bins in her fridge had pretty much liquified, and when the cleanup guy poured them out he almost threw up.
I had to get my main computer looked at due to a faulty inverter display, and while I was waiting for the people at the Genius Bar to call my name, I overhear this man, suffice to say he sounds like a stereotypical down home bumpkin, and boy was I right. He tells the apple store guy that he loves his Mac, but can't get anything to work right on it. He can't install office (uh, you just put the dvd in, it does pretty much all the work after that*) something was wrong with his dock, and he was trying to do other things too, that I forgot because I was trying to listen to my name being called. The man also goes into the merits of owning a Mac, like he's trying to get into photography (sigh, how many Mac newbies say this when they get their first mac...) and then, then he blurts out how much he loves using...torrents to find software. You know, illegial software. Now I download a song or a tv show every once in a while, but I never go downloading like $400 software. The apple store guy got really quiet and pretty much told him that torrents were not a good idea. Then my name was called.
*=i just realized. He's probably been trying to install the WINDOWS version of Microsoft Office. zomg.
Since my main computer is getting repaired, I'm on my old MacBook. I just realized its two operating systems back now, its still using the last version of Tiger. I can't get Tweetdeck to work (the columns will not display) and its driving me nuts. I tried downloading echofon, but its for OSX 10.5 or greater, and I'm running 10.4.11 = old.
In closing, I am so addicted to "Hoarders" on a&e now. I watch it every monday, I tweet like every 2 seconds while its on because I'm in such disbelief the whole time. On Monday's ep, it was probably the most insane house of all. Cats everywhere (13 dead cats in the house -- and six that were born the day they started cleaning the house, along with a lot of live cats), cat poop everywhere, to the point where everything in the house had to be trashed, HAZ MAT CREWS, and a tub full of BACK water. Now we know why:
lets just get this one out of the way. the hot tub... i have no idea what was in there. It was water, it was brown and their were baby toys. We did troll the bottom to make sure there weren't any animals in the bottom (spaghetti strainer). I think we all know what it really was, but there was no need to verbalize it. The cats were going everywhere else. No running water, no toilets, you do the math. That being said, this is our job and we get paid to do it. you do not judge and sometimes you comments, sometimes you do not. Her brother (Sonny) and I made the decision to clean it and move on. Even the hazmat guys were blown away by the smell. It was VERY aggressive.
source
So she was shitting/peeing in a tub full of baby toys (we saw plastic train tracks). yup. The second most unbelieveable hoarder house (to me at least) was the lady who hoarded food. Like, she would buy a pumpkin because she liked it, and then she would just dump it on the floor along with all the other crap on her floor, thus letting the pumpkin rot. There was a scene where she insisted on saying goodbye and picking the seeds out of her rotten pumpkin. She wanted to bake the seeds out of a rotten pumpkin. She wanted to keep chicken broth that expired two years ago, frozen tofu that had puffed up to twice its size, the bins in her fridge had pretty much liquified, and when the cleanup guy poured them out he almost threw up.