Alright, alright, I won’t become crazy spinster cat lady. Yet. Besides, my HOA would probably frown on jungle cats and wolves. They’re such buzzkills.
Sorry about the Brit leaving you in the lurch, Armando. Hope you can salvage something out of it. They really should have an international “punch in the face” service. You’d make millions off people slugging the cast of The Hills alone.
Good on you for following your dream, Dawn. At this point I’d be happy just to have a dream to follow. There’s too many areas that interest me, none of them all that profitable, and I’ve already spent way too much money on higher education. Three degrees and I still don’t have the faintest idea what I want to be when I grow up.
I did correpond with “the Brit” after my original post. Turns out, he’s in a bit of a tough situation too and this is not at all what he wants to do. But I think all is well. I’m pretty sure I can salvage at least an aspect of this project on my own and if I can, I will make it available to him and other groups in England anyway because, well, I kind of wouldn’t mind having music played in England.
NCT, don’t worry about what you want to be when you grow up. My mother went back to school after my father died (admittedy, she was the same age I am now, which back then seemed rather advanced but doesn’t seem so much the case now) and became a painter. Now she’s a jewelry designer. Mostly freelance work. Doesn’t make much money at it but she enjoys it and works very hard at it. She’d originally wanted to be a doctor, back in the day. So, it’s never too late.
I do, however, urge you to rethink the jungle cats. I can’t see how anyone would be in your face about it. Really, they could come in quite handy.
Aw, poor kitty. I hope y’all are able to find him soon. That’s such an awful, uncertain feeling.
I still kinda want to be an Astronaut when I grow up, but they don’t let people like me go into space, I’m genetically inferior.
And now I’m bummed my life is GATTACA.
I WANNA LIVE IN A COOL FILM!
Me, too! I wanna’ live in Sliding Doors and fake an English accent and have John Hannah buy me milkshakes. Is that too much to ask?!
Isn’t Richard Branson taking people up into space? You’re likely genetically superior to anyone on the passenger manifesto for that arrogant sorryBarb’s expedition.
You don’t want to live in Sliding Doors! You’d have to have weird ears!
Seriously, have you seen that chicks ears? they make me feel like I have vertigo!
Bit of Sliding Doors trivia for the early 90’s UK people: Sliding Doors was directed by the original Joey from “Bread”.
WHY DO I KNOW THESE THINGS!?
Isn’t Richard Branson taking people up into space? You’re likely genetically superior to anyone on the passenger manifest for that arrogant sorryBarb’s expedition.
I probably could have afforded that at one point, but I spent my £100,000 on other, more important things!
If you live near an Apple Store, you can take it in and have the genius bar people look at it. I did that a few years ago when mine died and they pronounced the problem to be the battery and told me that that would give me a 10% discount on a new one.
After messing with it some more before work, I’m wondering if it’s the Itunes that’s crap? I “restored” the Ipod overnight again and the laptop sees it and then Itunes pops up and wants to know if I want to restore it or hook it up as a new Ipod. I tried both and once you click “Done”, Itunes seems to lock up and then my Ipod acts like the sync is done and the device is ready to go. It’s weird. I’m heading over to the Itunes website to search through the “Support” section.
EDIT: Apparently 64-bit Windows 7 on quad-processor PC’s has issues. It’s a power-save thing and once I disabled power savings on my USB ports, it WORKS! Hopefully either Windows or Itunes will put out a better fix than this or the MS hotfix (that is “not compatible” with my PC) so that things play nice.
I finally got it all fixed up last night. Basically, I had to turn off power management to my USB ports, tell the Ipod service to start automatically and not manually, and then setup my Ipod to not start Itunes for me and then to not automatically sync anything. Somewhat painful but now that I’ve got the basics back on my Ipod, I should be good to go!
I feel like I’m living in my car this week. Especially after tonight, since, thanks to the rain, which makes the already horrible DC traffic just insane, I spent two hours driving to an event that it should’ve taken me maybe 35 minutes to get to. UGH!
The hours at Starbucks suck. My body clock hates me. I don’t even know what time of day it is anymore, especially now that the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon.
And now, since I was behind the pack in asking off for days during Thanksgiving week, I’m working every day from now through next Saturday. Ten days in a row without a break. Ugh.
Look at it this way - it’s a job! Right now even us state government workers aren’t safe from layoff or terminations. It’s going to get ugly around here during this election season…
Yes, I have to keep remembering that. I’ve been able to afford a new computer, catch up on bills, and restock my wardrobe (thanks to the local thrift stores). And today I actually didn’t start till 8:30am, so I got to wake up after the sun rose.
So, Splatterson, are you worried that if one candidate or another gets elected, your job might be trimmed?
All 5 gubernatorial candidates have some out and said (in a very nice news piece on the 6pm news last night) that they need to downsize state government to a rate lesser than the (I think) inflation rate. Evidently the world grows only by 3% a year and the state government has grown by 7% for several years. Since we are no longer able to hire new employees and all existing vacancies became terminated positions, I don’t see how they’re going to do that without getting rid of the folks that are still working. We’ll see what happens - I have 16 years in so I should be up a few rungs on the chopping block ladder instead of at the bottom…
