Archive for the 'Annoyances' Category

I wish Dell wouldn’t use weird connectors for their laptop hard drives. I opened up an HP laptop and there was no unusual connector, it was straight IDE. Two of the laptops I have gotten from Krissy’s dad are missing the converter from IDE to some proprietary thing. Now I get to troll around on eBay and bid ninety-nine cents and pay six dollars in shipping on these things. I can’t wait for the UPS ground to get from Florida to California. Let’s see how long it takes.

What do you get when huge boulders are dropped into large metal trailers right outside your window at 7am every morning? If you can read the title of this post, then you know the answer is the Construction Alarm Clock! It doesn’t need to be set, and it just keeps going off no matter what you do. It will keep waking you up all the way until 4pm if you need it! It is unbelievable how loud it is.

I did some digging around and found out that there wouldn’t be very many pre-orders accepted. Then I found out that a pre-order doesn’t guarantee anything. All it does is give you a place in line on the day the Wii is released. That would have been pretty good, but the Wii is being released on a Sunday. I don’t shop on Sundays because I don’t think it’s right to make people work on Sundays. That means that a pre-order would be useless because they won’t hold a Wii system for me until Monday morning. I drove over to the local EB Games since I was right near it anyway and at 9:30am there were about 20 people in line outside the store. I thought about taking pictures, but the scene wasn’t as interesting as I was hoping for so I just left. I figure that it’s not that important to get one as soon as it comes out. I think there will be enough to go around that I should be able to get one on Monday, November 20th. Let’s cross our fingers.

I feel like I’m repeating myself a little bit. It wasn’t a week ago that I was complaining generally about bad drivers. Last night we were driving on the rural back road on our way home and some guy in front of us in a truck was going back and forth between accelerating and riding on the person’s bumper in front of him and letting off the gas until he was going 10 miles per hour in front of us forcing us to slam on our brakes to avoid him. A couple of times he put on his right turn indicator or his hazard lights. Once he almost ran off the side of the road. At first I thought maybe he was drunk. Then I thought maybe he was looking for a certain house or road and wasn’t too sure of where it was at night. Krissy was convinced that he was just a jerk and wanted to make people mad. I don’t really know what was going on. He never turned off the road, and he seemed to start driving normally when we got into the city again. It was just a little scary, though. Have you ever had an experience like that? Let’s hear about it!

One of Krissy’s coworkers is getting married in just over a week and the people at work decided that they wanted to go out to eat with him and his fiancee. We went to this brewery/Italian sports restaurant called Oggi’s. It was pretty distracting as there were around forty TVs all over the restaurant. When we ordered our food our waiter hesitated for a moment when I ordered a calzone. I guess I didn’t understand the menu very well. There was a heading that said “Pizzas & Calzones” and under that heading there were about sixteen different pizzas listed. I found one that seemed to have a good combination and just assumed that I could order a calzone made from the same ingredients. I guess I missed that the top nine-tenths of the page was the pizza section and the bottom one-tenth was for calzones. The calzone was pretty good. The sauce was on the side, though, and I wish that it had been inside the calzone. When the check came I thought it was the bill for the four people sitting next to us. Krissy had a sandwich that was $8.00 with a $2.00 soda. I also had a $2.00 soda, but the total was $30.00! My calzone had cost me $15.00! I thought it was going to be about half that. As it turns out the base calzone with nothing on it costs around $7.00 and it costs around $1.50 for each additional topping. I asked for their “special” pizza in a calzone form. That was like five or six extra toppings!

When we left I told Krissy, “I just ate a video game!” That was the most expensive calzone I’d ever eaten.

I have taken to keeping my thumb over the horn (which is idiotically not placed in the middle of the steering wheel) just waiting for people to do foolish and idiotic things. It drives me nuts and I often wonder if the people are ignorant of the law, just making an honest mistake, or purposefully breaking laws just to get one car-length ahead. I feel like it’s my obligation to let them know that others notice when they do dumb things and force good drivers to avoid them. Sometimes I wish I could just let people hit my car and then have to pay for their inconsiderate driving. If I were in a position where money were not an object then I would allow the guy who starts in the rightmost left-turn lane and ends up in the left lane before the turn is over to just plow into the side of my car. I could just get another one and let the insurance take care of his idiocy.

Dr. Laura said that she listens to Saturday Night Fever to sedate herself while driving so she doesn’t explode at the inhumanity on the road. I don’t know what sond would do it for me. It still doesn’t change the fact that the only reason bad drivers don’t get into accidents more often is because of all the good drivers around them who suffer.

My cell phone disappeared while we were house sitting, but today we got a call that it has been located! The worst part about not having it is that I don’t ever know what time it is. I don’t wear a watch anymore since my watch battery died. I have enjoyed having a free pocket though. Too many gadgets to carry around nowadays.

“Awwww… nothing gets chocolate out, see?” I got a Chocolate Blast from Baskin Robbins and on the way home I realized I had dribbled little droplets of chocolate on my favorite shirt. They weren’t on the outside of the container, but rather on the underside of the lip of the plastic lid. I never even saw it coming. I checked online to see how to get chocolate stains out. I hope it works. The last time this happened was the first time I wore my Homestar Runner t-shirt. You may be wondering, “Do you even have a Homestar Runner shirt?” Well, I do, but I ought to throw it away. I dropped a glop of a Wendy’s Frosty on it and went into the bathroom to try and clean it off. It never came out all the way, so it went into the pile of work shirts.

Why must chocolate taste so good and yet behave so badly?

Those most likely to pirate music are between the ages of 13 and 17. That same age group shares something else in common. They can’t get a credit card on their own. Why is this important? You need a credit card to purchase music online. You can’t buy MP3s at the music store. Kids don’t want to buy CDs. I think if there were an easy way for kids to buy music online then they would do it, but only if it were easy to buy individual tracks. This won’t stop music piracy, but if they could get a song easier and faster by buying it and they already knew they liked it, then they would buy it. I think kids just want to try out music without getting burned. Everyone has bought at least one CD that you thought you would like and after trying it twice you just couldn’t stand it. Is there a solution to this problem?

Digital Restrictions Management, cialis or DRM, forces people to buy the same sond over and over again or be forced to do things the way that others dictate. Click on the link to find out more!