Just one quick bitch, part two

[skyblue1]

[odeon]

Falling behind with replying to threads.

[bodie]

   I understand now.  I didn't mean all cards are insincere.  They are only irksome if you keep receiving them when you have made it clear you don't want to bother.

I used to send them.  They gradually became less and less important until I decided the negatives outweighed the positives.
* I used to make a list.  Then it would take me ages to get addresses.  Usually involved a trip to my mom's at some inconvenient hour to raid her address book.  She would look at me and tut because it was the same the previous year despite buying me numerous address books.

* I am crap at remembering the names of peoples partners and thought it seemed shitty to just put, for example, Diana and partner.

* After completing said list, shock horror, I would get one off someone I had forgotten about.  Out they come again (cards)
or go and buy more.

* Started to think wtf am i sending cards to people just because they sent one to me? Seemed a bit meaningless.

* I recall putting a whole night to one side for sending christmas cards.  It felt a chore. 

* Saw something on TV about a comedienne who quit sending them altogether (possibly Dawn French or Jennifer Saunders) and to overcome any guilt they made a donation to charity.  I said 'that's for me'.

* About ten/twelve years ago started using internet and email and it became easier to keep in touch with relatives who don't live locally.  Then FB etc just eliminated the need to send them.

* I have already said why I don't like receiving them.  They do become more irksome after you tell people you don't want them.  Also my house is Victorian style and instead of one nice big living room I have two smaller rooms.  They feel small anyway.  When Christmas tree is up and decorations ...and then cards, I felt that I was being engulfed in Christmas, hence the bitch.

The above points are only relating to me.  They reflect my own experience and my own short comings.   I really didn't mean to imply that other share the same views.  Or that anyone receiving a Christmas Card thinks the way about them I do.  

[Jack]

  I understand now.  I didn't mean all cards are insincere.  They are only irksome if you keep receiving them when you have made it clear you don't want to bother.

If someone I knew said they don't want to receive my family's card because they don't send us one, would still send them one anyway. Guess they would just have to get over it.

[TheoK]

A thunderstorm in late December - and of course it managed to destroy the router 

['andersom']

I had planned to leave her there for a few days (she is not into people things like Christmas and shit anyway), but I got a call at work and they told me there was nothing they could do for her.

I knew she would not live forever, but shit.

 

[odeon]

A thunderstorm in late December - and of course it managed to destroy the router 

Really? Just the router?

[TheoK]

Yup. It has even happened twice - it happened in 2011 too, though that year in October.

[odeon]

Get something like this (sorry folks, Swedish-language link). Your router was probably hit by a power spike through the wall socket.

[TheoK]

 

[Parts]

Had to do and send out a ton of paperwork relating to my fathers estate I hope it was all done correctly

[bodie]

chipped a tooth

[Icequeen]

Windows 8.

Neighbor just got a laptop with it...had to set up the printer and misc.

Microsoft....WTF were you thinking?

 

[DirtDawg]

Windows 8.

Neighbor just got a laptop with it...had to set up the printer and misc.

Microsoft....WTF were you thinking?

They were thinking that you people were READY to go "touchy."  DO you have a touch screen? If not get one, or at least one of those Logitech touch pads. You need to be touchy if you want to use Win8, efficiently.

... or else, just set the entire GUI to be "old school"  and use a start button, massive menu, search boxes and a mouse if you have to.  It will look like Win7.



I can remember seeing a cartoon with Jobs, Gates and a few others all arguing about what tech is next and how each one will claim which shared of the market. "We will own the kids with the pants down off their asses" "We will own the parents of school kids"  "We will own everyone who hates hi- tech"  etc.

What I remember most about that cartoon was an evil faced Steve Jobs, looking up into the crowd with a satanic grin, holding up his juice, saying, "I already owned all these hippies you're talking about when I made all mine touch screen!"

 

Love it, but trust me, I will never own an Apple product. I do not even allow apple software into any of my machines.  Yeah, wish there was something  more universal and better at the same time, but we are stuck, for now.

[Jack]

Prefer having a keyboard.