This.

Sucks.

Bad.

Thank God for Stacey who’s come to take care of us today.  Elijah is also complaining from time to time that he feels sick.  I’m only up right now because Stacey ran to the store and K wanted to get out of her pack and play and run around on the floor.  Thankfully she is being good (as long as Elijah stays out of her way) so right now all I have to do is sit here on the love seat and feel nauseous.

However, Elijah is watching Max & Ruby and I have a few complaints.

1.. Max is a little brat who can’t do what he’s told.

2. Ruby is a dirty hypocrite.

3. In what universe does a new pair of kid’s overalls cost only $5?

and most importantly: 4. WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS!?

I hate this show.

And I’m grumpy today.

Please stop. You are driving me crazy with all the emails.

The account belongs to me. Try to remember your own user name!

Thanks.

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So not only are they trying to submit comments that look real, but they’re trying to be insulting to the webmaster and other visitors as well.

Rude. :P

Then there’s stuff like: “Hello can I use some of the insight here in this entry if I link back to you?”

No. kthxbai.

Really, have to wonder why a “p3n!$ enlarger” site might have to use something I’ve posted. lol

Ahhhhh but, yes, thank you Akismet! :)

I can’t figure out what the deal is, but a lot of the time when I click on something, it double clicks. It’s insanely annoying and frustrating when it does that when I’m trying to control+ select stuff and then all the files open. Or when I close a tab in the browser and it closes two or three. Then, to make matters even more interesting, after it started doing that about a week ago, it started sometimes not clicking at all when I click. So either a single click is getting me nothing or it’s getting me a double click!

It’s driving me nuts but I don’t really know for sure if this is just the mouse’s problem – maybe there could be something wrong with my blue tooth module? Maybe my last mouse didn’t really die, maybe there’s something wrong with the blue tooth. Almost wish I hadn’t thrown it away!

But it’s driving me batty!!!!!

I already use a lot of keyboard short cuts but I guess I need to learn to use my touch pad more when I’m at home. Blah.

But my whole point is… the whole time I just kept thinking what a blessing it was that Kayleigh is off the oxygen, doesn’t need the feeding pump, the monitors, or anything that required electricity. Granted, when she was on oxygen, we did have some portable tanks, but if she had been on oxygen and the power hadn’t come back on after about a half an hour, I would have taken the concentrator and high-tailed it to my parents’ house to have some refuge and assurance that we suddenly wouldn’t run out of oxygen or use up all our reserves. We had no idea when the power would be back.

I was on the phone with my dad, I actually was really considering going up there because of the way Elijah was freaking out, it seemed to be growing hotter, and I knew I needed some good sleep before K’s renal scan the next morning. I mentioned that I was thankful Kayleigh didn’t have any of her equipment anymore and my dad said, “oh, aren’t you on a priority list? [Yes.] Did anyone even call you?”

Then I thought about it. The first business day after K came home, Steve went and submitted papers to the electric company and the 911 service. They basically stated that we had an infant at home with special needs and that if power is out, we NEED it for that oxygen and then (for 911) that if a call comes from this house, it’s very important! The equipment company had given us one for the phone company, too, for if service was out but we didn’t fill that one out because we both have cell phones.

So, yes, I know we were not a priority house because it was such a huge problem. However, don’t you think it would have been good for the electric company to give us a call? Say, “hey, look, we got this problem… wanted to make sure you’re ok… we think it will take us this long to get things back up, can you make it that long? …do you want us to help you find a place to go where you can have electricity?”

Yes, I am aware that electricity is a glorious privilege, and, yes, I’m aware that they didn’t have electricity x years ago, blah, blah, blah. But to think about it, if this had happened when Kayleigh’s life still depended on extra oxygen support and what if we didn’t have portable tanks? And what if we had nowhere to go? And it took 4 1/2 hours to get that support back? She’d have had to go to the hospital. It was also extra aggravating because they got the rest of the county back up about an hour and a half before the town and immediate surrounding area.

So, thanks for nothing, electric company, I’m glad my daughter’s life wasn’t in your hands.

Case in point, I just got this email:

Now you know “the rest of the story”… Unfortunately the damage has been done.

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This is unbelievable

Be sure and watch this video which was not allowed in America .

This video shows that George Bush tried to warn Congress in 2002 that this economic crisis was coming, if something was not done. But congress refused to listen, along with Barney Franks. This video says it all.

Also that the liberal AMERICAN media did not want this video on You Tube, so they had Time Warner threaten a law suit (proprietary rights) if it was not taken off.

This link is of the same video but is routed through Canada . Everyone in America needs to see this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1

Can you already see how laughable that is? I’m not even talking about the merits of the video…. I mean, whatever. I’m just looking at the email itself. Whoever first wrote this claims that the video is “not allowed” in America (therefore censored), even though it obviously came from American station Fox News. (Don’t let the blue bar at the top fool you, that was added later by the person who uploaded the video.)

They also claim that the link is “routed through Canada” (what the heck?) but it’s clearly just another YouTube link that does nothing but take you to the video.

The email claims that “the American liberal media did not want this video on You Tube, so they had Time Warner threaten a law suit (proprietary rights) if it was not taken off.” Now, I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell Fox News is owned by Fox Entertainment Group which is a subsidiary of News Corporation which has its roots in, I believe, Australia. From what I can tell, they have no connection to Time Warner, especially not in the way to make Time Warner the owner of the copyright on the video. Looks like Time Warner owns AOL, New Line Cinema, Time Inc., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW, UBU Productions, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Cartoon Network, CNN, DC Comics, Mohawk Productions, and more… but, gasp, no Fox News! Therefore, Time Warner would have no rights to bring forth a lawsuit about some video from Fox News being on YouTube! Not to mention, even if I’m wrong and they do own copyright, all they have to do is serve a DMCA and YouTube will automatically yank the video, no lawsuit needed.

Heh, I wouldn’t be surprised if the person who started the email was the same one that uploaded his video and is purposely trying to scare people into watching some big conspiracy just for his YouTube views/ratings.

I know these are small potatoes, but it’s been really bad lately. I’ve been getting tons of emails like this. Of course, I never forward them, I always check them out, and I sometimes respond with proper information. Also recently I’ve received one that said if you are ever being held up at the ATM, enter your pin in backwards and it will call the police (omg!!11!!1!!). Not. True. Apparently some dude tried to pass a law like that but it was deemed non-effective. (Try thinking of your pin backwards when you’re under stress, at gunpoint, or knife point, or whatever. Yeah, can you even remember your pin forwards? Not to mention by the time the cops get there, he’s either gone or you’re dead or both.) And it took me all of 2 seconds to find this out on Google. Then there was the heartwarming story I got about the mother tiger who lost all her baby tigers and was in depression so the zoo found some motherless pigs, put them in baby tiger fur and miraculously, the mother tiger nursed them! That one turned out to be real as far as the photos went, but fake in that it was just some gimic by a Southeast-area Asian zoo! A form of entertainment.

Now I love the people that forward me this stuff. I really do. Most are family. I just wish that they would stop a second and run a search on whatever it is. Any phrase plus “Snopes” will do it! Then if it’s incorrect, don’t pass it on!

Oh, well. I could have griped about this tonight or you could listen to me rant about Craigslist people again who don’t listen and keep emailing us saying, “I’m interested in xxx call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx” when our listing clearly states NOT to do that, that we can tell you anything you need to know via email. (Steve does not have the time to sit and return all these phone calls and start getting in a phone tag game with these people who are probably just going to try and scam him anyway. After all, he’d rather spend his precious few hours between work and/or school or tutoring and bed time with his family, ya know?)