Crap.

Well, I thought about my little experience with Mr. I’ll-promise-to-ship-in-ten-days-or-less-but-won’t-really-ship-for-a-month. To be honest, I did get my package, I did get a response to my email even if said response was a bit loopy, and I did get the merchandise at a very reasonable price. So what doI want to give the guy negative feedback…

I hate getting those cutesy mail-it-to-everbody joke emails. As a rule, I don’t send them, and I seldom read them. I have a friend, who I otherwise think very highly of, who includes me on his mass-emailing list of jokes. He’ll send out three or four of these a week, and each email may contain…

Just called the vet hospital, and the Grey Terror is doing well. Her temperature is back down to normal, she hasn’t vomitted at all (not that she’s eaten anything to vomit), she’s bright and alert, and she apparently hasn’t broken any equipment that they feel compelled to ask me to reimburse the hospital for. They’re…

I’m off-center today. I seem to have come down with a temporary case of ADD, and can’t settle in on any one project on my desk for longer than half an hour. I received totally undeserved praise on one job that is now a full month overdue … the guy who assigned it to me…

So, yes, this is Dentist Day, boys and girls, when Salamander is forcibly dragged out from under her rock and strapped into the dentist’s chair. I couldn’t sleep last night … ended up staying up past midnight washing my new dishware, packing the remnants of the old stoneware up, and emptying the contents of the…

Survival. I guess that’s what it’s all about. I just have to figure out if I still have a pulse at this point. I got almost no sleep Sunday night. I kept waking up, worrying about how Monday was going to go. I had visions of National Geographic showing up unannounced on my doorstep Monday…