Estrogen Rush
The Mayan Calendar only runs to the year 2012 and then abruptly stops. Good news for anyone who owes a lot of money on Credit Cards, if you can just hold on a little longer, your misery will soon be over.
Bad news for all those people who are selling Mayan Calendars.
Started my morning re-loading my music program, the sucker was locked up and I naturally assumed that it was a “hardware problem.” When I find I have a hardware problem, it is usually located “directly between MY ears” and not in the hard drive.
Humans are not hard-wired for this stuff, and as we tend to think of ourselves as perfect, somewhat omnipotent, we always assume it is the computer …. Not so. Vince Gill playlist has a glitch in it and that was the problem, which is by the way, something that “I PUT TOGETHER” and not something that was already on the computer to begin with. Computers! I just wanted some Musak to soothe my jagged edges …..
Let me ask you something? When you are writing a post, article, comment, and that little red flag appears up there on the screen and it informs you that you have a comment, do you go up there immediately or keep on working? I am just curious. Often it is awfully hard to just ignore the thing. I see it, it is as if it is almost screaming at me like a baby that is hungry or something, but I usually resist, until I can wrap up what it is that I am working on.
Some people have discipline and some do not. In which camp do you reside?
The other day I am at the barbershop and my cellphone goes off in my pocket. Not wanting to answer it, I just ignore it, knowing full well that it will drop them in voice mail, it is no big deal to me. This guy sitting there is bothered by it ringing, he says “You gonna answer that?” and I reply, “Naw, it will go to voice mail.”
He says, “It might be important, answer it.” Which kind of irritated me, I mean, “Who is this bozo to telling me to answer my phone?” I reply, “no big deal, don’t worry about it.” He then says, “It might be your kids.”
Jeeeze, how in the world does this complete stranger even know I have kids … I just wanted to get my ears lowered and read my paper. Trying hard not to just stand up and strangle the guy, in a nice, calm voice I reply, “Listen, when you start paying $49.60 per month for this little marvel of technology, then you can tell me what to do with it.” End of conversation. I guess I am just technically challenged or something.
Role Call! Answer up when you hear yo’ name …. Cell-phone impaired? … Yo’ here sir!
While we are at it. Women and cell phones crack me up. They see a number on their telephone and they do not recognize the number, so they then call the number, and ask who it is on their phone? Never fails. I can’t get enough of that, it just amazes the fizz out of me. I have misdialed numbers and women call me and ask who I am and why am I calling them. Wanting to know if I am personally entered into the Charles Manson early release stalker program or something.
Jeeeze Louise, it was a wrong number.
My wife yesterday had two of calls of this nature. She was given wrong numbers by people at work, so the women call her up and ask her what is going on. And on top of all this … She explains it to them! This is insane. I find two or three; sometimes even more numbers on my telephone routinely.
And I just delete them. That is a man for you. Pragmatic … To the point, most always.
The Lone Ranger has an episode on today with a female sheriff …… What is this world coming to for crying out loud? Bad news for Comanche Joe and the folks in Gunstock! I seem to be on some kind of estrogen rush this morning.
A man in Texas used a loaded gun to scratch his back Thursday and ended up shooting himself. He wasn’t unhappy though; that day he had lots of gold-bond powder in his underpants. Thinking along these same lines, “If Dick Cheney attended the recent wedding in Crawford, Texas, would that qualify it for the misnomer of a shot-gun wedding?”
Hmmmm Kemo-Sabe … A female sheriff in Gunstock? Who would’ve ever thought …
I get letters ….. lot’s and lot’s of letters.
000
Unrelated: (But very good) The Lone Ranger
Love the way you ramble on!
You asked so I’m answering! If I get a comment/e-mail and I’m in the middle of writing a post, if I’m engaged in what I’m doing, I ignore it.
If, however, I’m just messing around, or browsing I read it straight away.
I just love comments - it’s what blogging is about for me - it’s the interaction between people that makes it interesting.if you never got any comments it would make blogging seem pointless - a bit like talking to yourself!
Re mobile phones - I take a pic of all my friends /family when I put their numbers on my mobile phone. That way, when they ring me, their face appears on the hand set (or any part of their body I’ve taken a pic of!!!!)
So if a number appears with no pic - I assume it’s someone trying to sell me something, or the phone company trying to get me to renew my contract for a more expensive one - so I delete them! it’s very therapuetic deleting someone you don’t want to receive a phone call from.
Erm, any other questions?
Actually, I’ve got one for you! Why do you want to switch the smileys off? :-) :-)
Thanks!
I too ignore them, but often I want to stop and see what it is about, but the issue at hand also needs attention. Nine times out of ten, I will just wait until later.
I didn’t know that you could do that with the telephones, but then again, I am old school, and most of this new-age stuff is way over my head. I am still trying to learn how to program my vcr and don’t even get me started on the microwave dinner circuit. Hopeless.
What I do is log them “No Answer” and then asign it a # it then comes up “no answer” and I just blow it off. Doesn’t bother me, and if they do not leave a message, then so much for that. Telephones are no longer a big priority in my life.
The smiley things are constantly poppin up on me when I put something in parathensis (guess that is what triggers them somehow) and they tend to irritate me when I have to go back in and edit them out.
DS
Are you putting things like : or ; in front of ) or (? At your current settings things like : ( will make an unhappy face and : ) will make a happy face. Or perhaps ; ) which is a “winking” face. I showed you today how to go into your settings and switch that feature off so that WordPress will not convert those symbols into faces. They will just be what they are after that. :)
Are you putting things like : or ; in front of ) or (?
Under your current settings things like :) will make a happy face. I showed you today how to go into your settings and switch that feature off so that WordPress will not convert those symbols into faces. They will just be what they are after that. :)
Are you putting things like : or ; in front of ) or (? At your current settings things like : ( will make an unhappy face and : ) will make a happy face. Or perhaps ; )which is a “winking” face. I showed you today how to go into your settings and switch that feature off so that WordPress will not convert those symbols into faces. They will just be what they are after that. :)
You know John, I really do not know, I am writing and putting it down on the page, and then when I go to review page, there the little booger is!
It is usually after ) when I see it, like I had all the “years” in ( ) on The Record the other day, and they were all over the thing. That is why I went to the and put the years inside them, to get rid of the smileys.
Pesky little boogers, the RSS thing is cool John, got that going.
Did you switch off your Smiley’s yet? You won’t have to deal with parenthesis being converted to faces after you switch it off in WordPress.
This will give you a small chuckle, I am still looking for it. I hear you giggling and snickering all the way back to Harrisburg on that one.
DS
Don, These things happen. I’m not that kind of teacher. I believe in lifting up instead of tearing down. Don’t know if you noticed but I recently dusted off my prehistoric Microsoft Outlook program and started sending you eMail’s from there. With Outlook, unlike gMail (Google Mail), I can compose a note and INCLUDE images right in the text as I go. When composing in gMail, it forces you to attach images to the end of your eMail. Makes it hard to explain what the person “should be” seeing. I’ll fire up Outlook and will send you another image of where it can be located.
Brother John
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA
I appreciate all the help John, I really do. But it just is overwhelming me at times. Plus I have this computer that seems to have a mind of its own, and I am sure it doesn’t like me John, I know it.
First, I am good at this, knowing when things are awry. I quit watching NFL Football for this very reason, I knew, I just KNEW that everytime they huddled up, they were talking about me and I simply could not stand it.
This computer, the information appliance from hell, does NOT like me. I am sure of it.
DS
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