Category: daily drivel
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creepy bot
Just hours after I posted my rant about a telemarketer trying to sell me a Charter Communications cable package, a comment appeared after the post that was apparently from a representative of Charter offering to put me on their Do Not Call list if I just gave them my name and phone number. I was… Read.
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lappy
Our cats are both “lappy,” Bonkers more so than Boo. Bonkers almost always sits in my lap, Boo in B’s lap. When I was too busy to share a lap the other night, though, Bonkers jumped up in B’s lap after he thought he’d waited long enough. Then Boo, green-eyed monster that she can be,… Read.
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shoes
When I retired from the military and went on the job hunt, I was offered a job at a bank and took it, thinking it would be pretty financially secure because, you know, that’s where the money’s at. In banks. Or maybe not. And when we went shopping for cars, I was dead set on… Read.
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pensive
Our dish washer’s broke, so we had to call Sears to get a technician out here to look at it and it’s one of those service calls they can’t give you an exact time for because timetables embolden the terrorists and endanger national security. So I took the day off from work to sit in… Read.
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creepy bot
I’d been sitting beside the phone for about an hour waiting for a phone call from the technician who’s supposed to come fix my dish washer. At some time this morning he promised to call and tell me when he’d be on the way. When the phone finally rang, it turned out to be a… Read.
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itchin
A gaggle of gun-totin’ self-defenders gathered at a Starbuck’s in Sussex yesterday to pick up some java before demonstrating at the headquarters of the State Patrol. Starbucks corporate policy allows people to pack heat in their stores if state law allows it. I love the quote from Krysta Sutterfield, one of the protesters, who generalized… Read.
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on the fritz
The dish washer is on the blink. Seems to be something wrong with the logic in the software, something I can’t fix with a screwdriver and a hammer. When I load it up and turn it on, the timer says it’s going to take 199 minutes to wash everything. Two hours later, the timer says… Read.
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flying hotcakes
Tonight’s talk radio was full of metaphors. Bad ones. Really bad ones. It started off with a discussion on the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Waziristan and all those other stans. There were quite a few bad actors on that stage, one of the listeners called in to say, and another one called in to venture… Read.
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