start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

JUst wondering if travel sites are more likely to be accessed from smart phones than computer terminals these days. So what I was exepriencing with that air site earlier might have been swapping over to something that was designed for smart phone use and was therefore less good on a computer terminal.

The new Amazon (UK) invoices/checkout summaries. Either they got more confusing or I got stupider.

Item Subtotal: (not the sum of the listed item prices)
Postage & Packing: (hey wait I thought I clicked free shipping but - oh there it is:)
Free Shipping: -(a different amount to the p&p price)

Random unnamed discount: (I have no idea what this was for. maybe it's good! I like discounts! and the total did seem a bit expensive! oh shit, did I accidentally sign up for something?)
Total before VAT: (not an obvious combination of any of the preceding numbers)
VAT: (wait I have to pay VAT on top of the prices now oh what, also VAT is 20% and this isn't 20% of anything)
Total: (admittedly the sum of the two previous lines, but by now I have no idea whether I'm paying what I expected)

Yes!! I'm sure I keep adding stuff with free shipping then there's a shipping charge and I just get confused and do something else

this is prob rational anger, but are all landlords mildly addicted to trying to subjugate people?

I imagine that there have to be landlords who are decent people. Still awaiting empirical evidence but I live in hope.

Sweartogod our landlord is a really nice guy. He's also desperately trying to see our building and get out of the landlording business. Make of that what you will.

Buy the building, kick everyone else out, and start the ilx commune!

i have my first nice landlord ever :)

asked him for some spare keys recently and he'd popped them through the letterbox by the time I got home from work, no charge.

otoh the two landlords before that were satan

I'm sure Ive told the story about the time my last landlord who I unfortunately lived *next door* to, barged angrily into my house one evening shouting abuse and drawing "turn me off" on the wall under a light switch, bcs I'd had the temerity to leave the porchlight on all day, and this somehow made me ungrateful for him having changed the bulb... no, I didn't get the logic either.(it was my electricity on that bulb, not his).

Whenever I see people at the gym who, like, sit on an exercise bike reading a book and barely pedaling at all. It's like, you bothered to take time out of your day to go to a gym, and now you are passive-aggressively wasting your time because you are too good for, or too scared of working out or something. Get over your weird hangups and just work out.

http://www.carolwrightgifts.com/emojikins-as-seen-on-tv_43084_zoom1.jpg

People who bitch loudly and incessantly about stores that put Xmas shit up before Xgiving.

Christmas creeps

slightly mispronouncing actors names

"Julianna Moore"
"Pierce Bronson"
"Joseph Gordon Lovitt"

The advertising formulation 'If you liked X then you'll _LOVE_ Y!', when it's apparent to everyone on earth that Y is a cynical, half-arsed attempt to rip off X

"From the studio that brought you ___!"

Casual games that send notifications at 02:55

So , finally got some actionon the washing machine front. GOt sent one out today.
IT's a washer dryer but there are no instructions in the manual as to how to use the dryer. Several ways of setting up wash cycles, nothing about setting up the dryer. can't even tell if it is supposed to automatically switch onto dryer after a wash. If it is it doesn't seem to have worked.
Only thing i can see it able to do is set up a drying cycle that lasts 16 minutes and I can't see that being right.

Looks from an advice booklet that came with the instructions booklet as though there should be specific instructions for setting up the dryer so wondering if I'm just missing a booklet or what.

Previous machine was much easier to see how to set things up.
The guy who delivered it said he just grabbed one from their storage place or something. So am hoping i have got a good one. He had to undo the packaging around it anyway so it was new or at least unused.
But not the best set of instructions and I can't find anything online that doesn't simply reproduce the contents of teh boklet taht only talks about wash cycles.

& of course the reason is that the landlord took away a broken washer/dryer and replaced it with a washing machine without a dryer which is a drag over the winter.

I nearly fucked up a brand new Bosch washing machine last year by not removing the transit bolts, it was quite traumatic at the time and the 2nd time I had made the same mistake.

Oh god I had a horror of that with the machines I got delivered last year - I hadnt paid close attention to the delivery men's unpacking and setting up/plugging in of the washer and dryer and when they left, I thought "er... did they take those bolts out?". Couldnt see em, they hadnt mentioned it, and now they were installed there was no way I was gonna shift them on my own. I just crossed my fingers and started the machine up and was lucky.

If they are still there the spin cycle becomes quite violent and then you ponder how much damage has been caused to this appliance that you haven't even started paying for yet!

I think I'm just suffering from a lack of communication between the various letting agents and the various repairmen. Had one guy come out to my place a couple of weeks back, look at the machine, say it was probably kaput because it was a heating element gone & they don't get replaced any more. Then tell me I was going to hear from the office over the next week, & then when I did hear it looks like it was a response to an earlier email I'd sent rather than to this guy having reported back. I finally got the agent who was looking after this premises ring me the next week and say he was going to come over and check the machine, to have me respond wondering if he was aware that somebody had already been around a week and a half earlier.
So this guy had never come around to see what the machine being replaced was and thinking back I'd been refering to it asa wasghing machine rather than a washer/dryer. So may have been better if I'd actually had this guy come around too cos he would have known better that it was one thing rather than the other. Not sure if that letting agency had been looking afte rthis property when I'd been given the previous one.
Now just wondering if I can survive without that drying facility. Hope I'm not going to wind up with mildewed clothing.

Thinking i can untangle the thread that's wrapped itself around the spindle under the bobbin I was trying to thread. So spending ages while I'm trying to watch some show on tv driving myself up the wall trying to unravel it so that it can be used. seemed like almost a reel full. Well finally saw sense and gave up so just wasted it. Hope taht isn't going to repeat

That coupled with just missing the bus last night while I was trying to get the sewing machine home so I get into rush hour time with a large box on me that I have to fight through a crowd to get onto transport. Saw the one I missed seemed to be half empty.
But there's always a bus disappears from the timetable at the beginnning of the rush hour so there's always twice as many people need to get on the one that does appear.
Thanfully did manage to get to a rear corner seat so didn't have the entire crowd pressing up against the thing.

BUt I do no have a sewing machine that should be much better than the previous one so I can get down to building even more of a wardrobe. hopefully catch up with all the things I've been meaning to make all year, if I can just get the energy together.

at the supermarket checkout today he wasn't pushing the things he'd scanned down the little slope into the bagging area but just leaving them on the flat bit at the top by the scanner. was a surprisingly awkward place for me to reach.

boomkat's audio player which has no volume control must die. it's bad enough that radio6 and radio3 play at wildly different volumes but boomkat is just taking the piss.

Yeah apparently putting a volume control on Flash (or whatever) audio is a computing problem on par with passing a fucking Turing test.

blog pieces with the theme/structure: "I read a bunch about foreign place and though I thoroughly understood it, but then I traveled there for two weeks, and now I actually do."

Fucking Trader Joe's canned tomatoes with (in tiny tiny text) basil leaves. If I want basil in my tomatoes, I will ADD BASIL, motherfuckers! Stop ruining my chili.

This movie theatre stupidly went to reserved seating. The seat I pick isn't marked handicapped and I show up and it is.

I don't wanna take away handicapped seats from people who need it dammiit

I moved tho

Hard drive just gave up registering out of the blue. Not sure what was on it, but it was the last one I filled before the current one and I really don't know why it did so. Unless it is just suddenly overheating and I don't know why anything there would have changed.

This has happened before with other drives but every time they do this it's annoying. 1 TB nearly completely full. Thne yesterday it started saying that there were no files on there though it was reading how much of the disc was full. & it did reappear the files when the computer was restarted. Bummer.

Wondering if my yahoo mailbox has just messed up because of the upgrade of my computer to Windows 10 or if it is just conicidence.
It keeps failing to load, has claimed it hasn't connected to the internet at times and has just disappeared at least one email because fo this lack of connection.
Maybe I should just stop using the service since it hasn't really gone good after the major upheaval a couple of years ago. but I just have that as the main address for everything and have had for like 13 years.

Is it Universally panned and only used by me out of habit ?
Are other services much better?

I only use yahoo mail for anything I need to make an account for/get discounts etc but yeah it's shit, can't get the search to work for emails older than a few months. Sure it's a bug but no way to fix.

I was under the impression Yahoo's mail was barely even supported anymore.

that's my impression too when I tried to find a fix...
it's a piece of shit but I like having a totally separate mail account

there's a sign at work pointing out how to get to a specific wing on the 2nd floor. the sign points you to go around and to the right, and cutting back in left after walking a distance.

however, if you ignore the sign and just walk straight back, the wing is right there. the directions the sign gives take twicea s long to get there. why the hell do they make you go all the way around when it's just straight back?

Job creation or social darwinism?

Is that the cheese wing?

sign on left-hand-side shop door:

USE THIS DOOR
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ffs

Fandango gives you the option of mobile tickets. Says take to ticket taker.

I get there and show to ticket taker and he goes "nope you gotta go to guest services".

So I wait in that line...get the tickets...have to wait in original line again. People that printed their tickets waited half the time I did.

FB friends who have their FB profiles set to public, so that when you post on their walls or comment on their threads, you get your own friends who are not their mutual friends responding/commenting/liking.

a friend of mine posted on her wall about Obama's executive action on gun laws, and a couple people posted "about time!" or something, then either one of the commenters' friends or a friend of someone who "liked" it (and not a friend of MY friend) went on a long rant about the "secret muslim president" and how "you are all no different from nazis prazing (sic) hitler and hitler junior is going to" etc etc etc. like, why would you even do that?

either performance art/irony, they really believe it, or in-between ("just sayin'")

Not that distant from a Moe Tucker feed really. Sad to say.

That is to say that Moe Tucker's facebook feed seems to consist largely of similar commentary. Very sad to see the drummer of one of my favourite bands come out with such endless garbage. & it does seem to be several different similar posts per day.

Why follow her then?

Just haven't got to the point where I've unfollowed her.
Why friend her? VU & late 80s solo stuff.
& it can be interesting to see what the Tea Party have managed to convince themselves.

Windows 10 has a new surprise. Going to blackscreen after you sign into your computer account.
Appears that the computer misrecognises the location of the desktop display as though you have 2 monitors so sends the image to the wrong place. Makes it look like your computer hasn't booted.

No, the fact that your grandmother was born in Dublin doesn't make you Irish

Should have licences for driving prams innit?
Hate walking down narrow pavements, trying to work my way through a crowd only to find my path is blocked by somebody picking that moment to spin their pram around.

THen walking to a building I have an appointment in only to find out that somebody with a double buggy has parked it right across teh doorway.

Maybe pram clamp/boot things wouldn't be amiss either.