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I always wondered how they "do" dreads. There is a woman on my new current favorite website http://www.skalatitude.com/p/wow-women-on-wheels.html who is biking round the world solo (as are all the women on the website) and she has very long beautiful dreads. I always admired them but thought they would require too much up keep but I guess not. Up until recently I had long (butt length) hair and it is super easy to deal with - pony tail, braid, bun when camping or hiking or whatever for days on end. But since I cut it shorter (below shoulders) it's even easier!http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2SwlQU8dQE.../photo+(2).jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by SiouzQ.
I am stuck in Clarksville, land of 7 lane black top, 100,000 plus people, 4 Walmarts. The country songs lied to me about Tennessee !Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartana
Wow, Clarksville has 4 Walmarts now? I only knew of 2, maybe 3 now that I think about it, when I worked there. I used to live just down I-24 at exit 30.
Hmmmm. I'm 59 and I have butt-length hair. Ever since I started wearing it long (back in middle school) my Mom has been after me to cut it. I did a couple of times, mostly during times I was unhappy with other parts of my life, and hated it short. She mostly leaves me alone about it, but she definitely knows how I feel about her comments.
OK, Today I am peeved that there are loves instead of peeves in this thread.:laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jilly
Couldn't resist
:laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
we are in clarksville temporarily for another year. The city is I believe the third worst in the country for urban sprawl. I honestly can tell you, I had no idea the USA was like this. I realized after being there, that I had lived in a very small bubble my entire life. I miss my bubble! The population is around 150,000 now the master plan is 250,000 in 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by shadowmoss
I cannot help myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
It seems that I do have a peeve.
The man who cuts the grass for my landlord has completely shredded my ground fabric (to reduce weeds) on my vegetable garden. I am having a late start because I neglected the plants and had to purchase new plant. He surely must be doing it intentionally, as there are no weeds there, or any weeds creeping at the edge along the sidewalk.
I am going to patch as best I can and plant milkweed.
Peeved that I am still sick (day six by now) and it is a beautiful day here. Maybe my voice will come back today, as I lost it on Thursday. I am trying for a two day vow of silence until I have to work on Tuesday. I sure hate being sick because I am derailed from my usual routines and activities, but I am trying real hard to do everything I am supposed to do to break up this horrid congestion and stop the coughing. I want my normal life back!
Me too, SiouzQ. Who would have thought you could get a cold/cough in 110 degree weather?? ugh. I'm going into week two with this so I'm hoping this clears up for both of us soon.
Week Two? Sheesh, I don't have time for this! I am on Day Five of laryngitis; I think by tomorrow I will be able to do a pretty good Tom Waits impression. This better get better SOON because I have a gig on August 15th and I have A LOT of rehearsing to do.
I have never had laryngitis for more than three days at the most; part of the problem is that I have to talk a lot at work (customer service) and I had to work for two days while it was coming on and I struggled and strained myself to be heard. I have just had two days off in a row and haven't talked to anyone very much at all so hopefully that helped matters.
Hmm very few apts in the building with an energy use less than mine - and some so low I think they are the vacant ones really. But my neighbors is somewhat lower. I think that's because I'm subsidizing his energy use. So he'll have the radio on at 1am at night (news, not that music would be any better at that time of night - 1am - either go to sleep or do something quiet like internet or read - ok old enough and broke enough to probably not even have the net but then read - or do something quiet! it's fricken 1 fricken am for heavens sake!!). So how does this get to my subsidizing his electricity bill. Well I run a stand up fan in the other room all night for white noise, in addition to earplugs!, to block out his radio!!! Without his radio, earplugs would be more than sufficient. And then today I saw he is leaving his windows open. Ok so the guy is running his radio at 1 fricken am or later (sometimes 2 or 3) and leaving the window open right by my bedroom!!! Such an ahole he is. Maybe he leaves it open because "it's hot" and as he said when contesting his bill "he never runs A/C". Oh no dude, instead of running A/C you leave the window open while playing the radio loud at 1am at night. Because "you don't run A/C", isn't that nice (you really should run A/C if your hot and close the window if you are going to insist on blaring radio all night and not do something sensible like read a book). Meanwhile my fan runs all night purely to generate white noise. And I don't open my window or the noise would really be bad. Maybe it is why they probably aren't eager to raise rent, I really think very few people would put up with some of these neighbors for long.
My small, ancient French Bulldog who cannot hear and can only see a bit, starts yapping for dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon. I am sorry, but even if dinner is the highlight of your day, I'm not going to give it to you that early. Dinner is served here no earlier than 5:30 pm.
Today she let out some preliminary yaps at 12:30 in the afternoon. Winding up for a 5 hour marathon of yaps? oh god no, please.
This dog also eats in the morning, and may start yapping for breakfast as early as 2 hour before breakfast is served. She is well fed and well hydrated, no yapping is necessary.
Well, I have found that I am not entitled to any Peeves. They are just a sign of my tense impatience, lack of maturity, and bad attitude. Or so I'm told. Hope that answers your question.
Slackers at work who take advantage of my willingness to bust my a** and get things done. I finally went to store leadership to apprise them of the situation. We'll see if anything actually changes. As far as I am concerned, the best thing would be if this person went to a different department.
Netiquette: Please change the subject line of your emails. Do not be lazy and just pull up the last email to the same group of people and type in a different topic.
Confusion this week came from a meeting that was originally scheduled for 9/15 and we, the presenters, were moved from the agenda to next month. Got a followup email from the organizer about the October meeting forwarding the original email still titled "meeting on 15th".
I reply to confirm, do you mean October's meeting is on the 15th? No, she replies, it's the 22nd. uh, okay, so how hard is it to let us know that, and to also change the date in the subject line??
AAARRRRGH!!! House is turned over from getting ready to move, I can't find the disclosure forms for the cabin, dh is being paranoid and thinks all real estate agents are out to get him, my paypal stopped working, my dogs are peeing all over the place, and dd got her first cavity >:(
Gardenarian, Just breathe! All will be well.
Thanks nswef :)
Peeve for today: if you are sick, stay home - or at least don't come to my library! It's like a fracking flu clinic in here with all the coughing and sneezing and sniffling. Ick!
Contractors who Say they will come out and quote...then never show. Or one shows but does not want the job, so no call back with estimate.
Lately this has been happening and it is really ANNOYING!!!! Today I was on a blog by Shalom Mama and she had a recipe for how to make your own natural coffee creamer. As I was about to write the recipe... a pop up asking if you wanted to sign up for her blog. HOWEVER, there was no way to get out of it... you had to sign up or not continue reading. Anyone find a way around this? pffftttttttttttttt
That would depend on what your using for a browser. Not all plugin's are compatable with all browsers, and even then, some of those type of pop ups, must be manually shut off (dealt with one today that the x didn't close it).Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
http://www.computerworld.com/article...r-privacy.html
The cost of everything, lately!
Use safari for our Apple.....Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
I actually use two browsers. Safari is one of them and I leave it wide open: no anti-ad software, no cookie monitors, nothing. It's the browser I use when I encounter a Web site that insists on how I should use it. >8) The other browser is Firefox, and it's pretty well bolted down. It has the ad-blocking software and cookie monitors, and I have not installed Flash on it (Flash is evil; another thread). Nothing happens on that browser unless I want it to.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
For sites like Shalom Mama, that insist on information like an email address before doing anything useful, I have a couple of choices. One is giving it a not-my-real-email address; a free one from Yahoo that is only given out to non-critical sites. Nothing important is sent to that account. The other choice I have is to just walk away. In this case, maybe copy the name of the recipe and see if I can find it on a site that behaves a little better. And, if not, decide that my privacy is worth more than they're offering in return.
I have several browsers too, mostly a well bolted down Firefox, also a fairly well (not as many add-ons available) bolted down other Mozilla browser (Firefox occasionally but rarely releases editions that don't seem to work period - yea they fix them eventually but that's why another Mozilla browser). And then I have IE. Why IE? Because it's the browser that work VPN is designed for and I need to enable stuff for that to happen as well, so it's wide open. In theory work VPN should work with any browser, but in reality I've never had any success with that, bolted down or not, just easier to use IE as is most recommended. I've played with Chrome but I don't need another browser so it's not installed now.
daily peeve: rolls of quarters from the bank. EVERY SINGLE TIME there's at least one foreign coin in there that may look a little like a quarter but is not, Can I use them to do my laundry? No of course not, they are completely useless. It's a rip off.
One thing I've found. Hit ctrl and then the - sign. it reduces the size of the image onscreen, and sometimes there is an "x" button for these stupid popups lurking where you couldn't see it. Of course, sometimes not! (ctrl + will enlarge your image again.)Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
PM Allen and point him to this thread. I haven't played with a Mac since the first Bondi Blue in the KC area, they were never my thing, so he would be much better help with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
No desire? energy? to Run lately.
Time to get stronger reading glasses. Again.
the wind, really windy today
My peeve du jour: Looking for a specific one sentence piece of online info and being forced to view the video or the slide show instead. I don't want to watch bad home movies while someone blathers on like an eight year old on coke for fifteen minutes, unless the how-to info truly can't be described without it. Similarly, a site that is so slow it basically won't load at all because it's so bogged down with ads, links and "join now" inserts. Links that appear to be useful (you know, they're underlined in blue) and turn out to be a simple definition having nothing to do with the topic at hand. [topic at hand: what is being discussed.] Finally, the fact that I have to sign up to do just about anything. Simply must have my email address, and make me go there and verify that I have indeed unwillingly signed up, and then go back and find the page all over again, simply in order to do a one-off view of a website, take a quiz, leave a comment. I know, too much time on my hands, but it's like junk mail: is anything other than a gigantic increase in wasted time and irritation actually accomplished?
Absolutely with you there! I can read far faster than most people talk, and most written text contains visual clues that break up the information so I can jump to the next paragraph or chapter. With a video or podcast, that indexing is rare, wasting even more time to get to the info I want.Quote:
Originally Posted by kib
And, even worse, a site that keeps pushing the content around because elements up the page are resizing. Impossible to read when the text keeps jumping up and down (and, sometimes, behind) the page.Quote:
Originally Posted by kib
Oh, preach on, brother! That has got to be the worst, when you simply can't manipulate the page for all the jumping around, sometimes in slow motion; you wait and wait and think it's ok to click, it must be ready by now but no, now you've managed to get to the Hair Club For Men instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveinMN
Granny, stop barking! Stop it!
edited to add: I see that I already posted this peeve back in August. Well, she is still yapping for dinner hours before dinner time. ack!
I SECOND THIS - Different Granny. She talks to you when you're in the room. She talks to you when you're not in the room. When you're on the phone, when you're watching tv, when you're on the toilet, when you're lying in bed. While you're texting, while you're dressing, while you're trying to gather ten minutes of meditation time to keep from strangling her. About people you've never met and details that don't matter. Every time you begin a sentence or even just try to have a conversation by validating what she's saying. It's The Granny Channel, 16 hours a day each and every day until she goes home. She's right and you're wrong and never mind that she didn't hear a word you said. Lady! It's bad enough that you need to micro manage me and I'm a control freak and barely tolerate this but OH. PLEASE. PLEASE! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE!!! SHUT. UP.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Oh mother of god it's three hours later and she hasn't stopped yet. Now it's a running commentary as she online shops for Christmas gifts for people i don't know, narrating online shopping as if no one else in the room has ever done it, oh, she forgot to take off the capitals lock! ... oh ... whimper ... please ...
oh honey, you win by a mile. There are few things worse than yapping humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by kib
With my little Granny dog I can pick her up and put her in the basement if her noise goes beyond what I can tolerate.
My father-in-law has a live-in girlfriend who is of the busy-body talker ilk. She talks talks talks about mind numbingly dull stuff and is always bustling around buying crap for people and inserting herself into their lives and talking about each step along the way. She took care of her elderly father until he died at the age of 103. Now she's "taking care" of my FIL and while some of it is good, some of it isn't so good. He is feeling a little crowded. and she interferes with things he wants to do.
Today I was skimming a book by philosopher John Lachs called Meddling: on the virtures of leaving others alone where he talks about the ethical considerations of humans' need to boss others around and tell them how to live. He is a proponent of Stoic pragmatism, which is a philosophy that encourages us to be satisfied with what is "good enough." He sounds right up my alley, and I'm going to read more of his works.