Why My Life Sucks

I had to bury a kitten today.

Run with Bast, little Paladin

Hello to all of you from “Living in a Book Mobile“.

I’m the J. Michael mentioned there.  My relationship with Ashton and Mike is complex. We will leave it at that for now.

I’m also the primary photographer for that blog and the owner of the driveway Nadia the Gertenslager is in right now.

This blog is more about my ongoing attempts to become a rational functioning member of normal American society than any thing else.  I’m not doing very well at it this week.  You will note I didn’t say “become a member of normal American society again”.  I never really was.  It’s a long hard road, but one I hope I don’t have to travel alone.

It’s also got more that it’s share of rants and raves, plus Music To Scare Normals

Enjoy.

Was, well, different.

I learned something very freaking important.  I really do need to take my Adderall.   When I forget several times what my “job” is during a “empty a double wide trailer into a Uhaul as quickly as possible” operation I’ve got some issues.   This resulted in more hard feelings than it should have.  I just hope I haven’t ruined a friendship.

More later, once the Uhaul in question is empty.

The Darling Wife took the car out last night, after I took my night time meds.   Just a note, after I take my night time meds, I’m done for the day.  Really, totally out of it. Any rate, this morning she said that she thought it (the car) sounded funny.   If a flat tire on the drivers side front sounds funny, this was a laugh riot.   Can’t find my jack.  Ashton’s triple A is dead.   Mike will be by some time soon to take me to work,  where I have a meeting with the boss scheduled.  Then we have the “move Mike and Ashton’s things” to deal with, then getting my tire fixed.  It’s going to be a fun day.

Brandy, my Miniature Pincher got out some time two days ago.  Got clipped by a car, resulting in a dash to the emergency vet, where they wanted to do all sorts of things to her.  Roughly $800.00 worth of things.   After my PayPal card went “beep beep beep” on the card machine (i.e. declined), the on duty vet said that really, we could just clean it and close it and have us take her to our normal vet in the morning.  That’s $98 or so.  PayPal could deal with that.

He, of course, said this after the normal amount of family drama, due to me having my mothers Gold Card on me, but her not being there, and several cell phone calls back and forth.

Trip to the vet in the morning happened.  Lady Vet said that the wound looked good, and that her (Brandy, not the vet) heart and lungs sounded OK and she wasn’t walking or acting like she was in distress, so she (Vet, not Brandy) really didn’t think she needed to X-Ray her, unless she (Brandy, not Vet) starts acting different.     Lady Vet put her on antibiotics for 2 weeks and told me that her staples needed to come out in two weeks.   Mike, bless his heart, asked “so, do you use a needle nose to do that”?

We go back to the vet in two weeks.

Photos of the staples in question when I get my camera back from Random Dafydd

Still alive.  Just got to make it through oh, 5-7 days or so and should be golden.

I posted some images up on Living in a Bookmobile.  Check em out.

A while ago, I mentioned in a w00t! post Pops and said I had pictures. Here is a picture of Ashton in “the pose” in front of the “pops” statue to soda.

In related news, the sole seller of Jolt Cola in Tulsa has decided to NOT carry it any more. I bought the last bottle of it. I am sad. I will be forced to get it on the inter-webs or via trips to OKC.

FedEx’s API as seen from a web master’s point of view.

For starters, it has a _very_ odd method of sending data back and forth, which makes for a _fun_ time getting data parsed.

Then their servers just dies at random.

Then, of course, the whole meter issue.

You will note this is NOT my first rant about FedEx or some aspect of them. I’m seeing a trend.

The sad part is they are best of the package shippers.

Not Safe For Work, like any thing I do is.

This was sent to me by a cow-orker that was making a reply to this one.

Things that sucks

1. Last night, for reasons I’m not going into for privacy of others reasons
2. Freon.  Or the lack of it in a central air conditioning system.
3. Either the Bank of Oklahoma or Well’s Fargo.  Maybe both.
4. The City of Tulsa’s abatement inspectors
5. One of my neighbors.  not sure which one.
6. ONG.  Just in general.
7. Postfix on Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
8. Fink on the Mac PPC OS X 10.4 version
9. Ingram Micro,Petra,D & H, and Navarre’s some what odd B2B data systems. Each sucks in their own odd way.
10. Dog Poo
11. The GSL
12. AOL and  ComCast’s white listing system
13. Subscribe Me Professional (yeah, related to above)
14. What ever it is in the air this week that is making me sneeze
15. Forgetting to take my sleep aid
16. Getting a total of 6 hours of sleep over 3 days (yeah, see above)
17. The Cities of Wichita KS and Oklahoma City, OK
18. Internet streaming radio “stations” with ads.  A limited number of ads that you hear over and over and over and over.

Things that don’t suck

1. The Darling Wife
2. Mike and Ashton
3. Dungeons and Dragons 4th ed.
4. Jolt Cola
5. Choc 1919 beer
6. Cats and Kittens
7. Miniature Pinchers
8. German Shepherds