Burn baby, burnSo, I wanted to post this sooner, but my TV & internet were out from about noon on Sunday until sometime Tuesday evening. On Monday afternoon, while sitting at my desk at work, listening to my headphones, I notice a lot of people getting up & looking out the window towards the street. So I take a look & there's a truck pulled over to the side of the road. My guess is that there was a small fire in the engine bay, but it eventually grew to this
Burn baby, burnSo, I wanted to post this sooner, but my TV & internet were out from about noon on Sunday until sometime Tuesday evening. On Monday afternoon, while sitting at my desk at work, listening to my headphones, I notice a lot of people getting up & looking out the window towards the street. So I take a look & there's a truck pulled over to the side of the road. My guess is that there was a small fire in the engine bay, but it eventually grew to this
Let's PlaySo, I just saw the newest Let's Play video in Minecraft, which was fucking hilarious. I especially loved how it seemingly randomly went to video from Notch on top of Geoff's monolithic house.
The thing I want to now is, what is with the image of Geoff & Gavin in the lower left corner when it switches to Notch's view.
So I'm back in Chicago, from Omaha, it was nice to see the family & go to my cousin's wedding, but it's so good to be back home, with a constant data connection to my phone & back to my own computer, with comparatively fast internet speed.
We stopped in Iowa for a day as well, to visit my grandmother, who is in a nursing home because she has dementia, which is hard to watch.
So, I got off of work today and thanks to the shitload of vacation days I have this year, I don't work again until June 11th. And while I'm going to my cousin's wedding this weekend, in IA, other than that, I have absolutely nothing planned, I am just going to play a lot of games & sleep in as much as I want.
Third times the charmSo I wear size 14 shoes, so it can be difficult to find a good pair that are available in my size. Well, I've recently had to look for a new pair, as I've had my old pair since 2005 and they're starting to hurt my feet, as the padding around the heels has worn down so much the plastic is exposed. So just under 2 weeks ago, I went to a famous footwear & found a pair from DC shoes that I wanted. They didn't have them in my size at the store, but said they were available & could ship them to me, which is what I did.
A week later and the order tracker on their site still doesn't show my order, despite it saying it takes only 3 business days to show up. So I call them & find out that they're not sure if the shoes I ordered are available in my size at all, but they're taking a look, which is great to know, since I've already paid them. So I give them a few more days, but they still can't find any, so I told them to cancel the order & give me a refund, which they did, but since I paid by debit card, they're going to send me a check for the refund, which could take up to 15 days, fucking lovely.
So, since I don't want to deal with them again, I check out online & find a different pair of DC shoes on eastbay for about $30 less than on the DC site & they say it's available in my size, so I ordered them on tuesday night, with overnight shipping so they would arrive by today. I'm watching the order on wednesday for any updates & most of the day it says ready to be shipped, until about 4pm, when on one page it says "released to ship" but on another it says cancelled. So I call eastbay & find out that there was a discrepancy in their computer, that said they had 1 pair left in my size, when they didn't, so I cancel this order as well with a refund back to paypal.
So once that happens, I decide to just go to the source, DC's online store & order a pair of shoes in my size, requesting 1 day shipping so they'd hopefully be here tomorrow, since it was after 5 already. So this time it goes through, I got a UPS tracking number late last night saying DC gave the package to them at about 1:30 in the morning in KY and since I live just outside Chicago, they were able to get them here really quickly, it was on the truck for delivery at about 5:30 this morning & was delivered to my office at about 9:30, a day earlier than I expected. So, moral of the story, if I want any DC shoes in my size in the future, I'm ordering from them directly.
This pisses me off.I saw this article from MSNBC earlier today about how 1 in 4 adults diagnosed with ADHD may be faking it, either by exaggerating their symptoms or by outright lying. They do this in order to get access to the ADD medicine, so that it can help them do better at work and such. It also says that students in high school & college will do this in order to help them do better in class and to get considerations, such as more time to take tests.
This pisses me of, I was diagnosed with ADD when I was in 1st grade, I was on ritalin until middle school and have been on adderall since then. And I can tell you, if I forget to take my adderall before going to work, it's noticeable. I actually had to increase my dosage last year because what I was doing at work changed & there was less there to keep me from being distracted. To the point where, if I hadn't gotten the dosage increased, I probably would have lost my job.
So the fact that so many people are basically faking it in order to get the medication pisses me off, it feels like it denigrates it for people that genuinely have it, like I do. Not to mention that there's a short of ADD medicine, so people trying to get prescriptions of it, who don't really need it, just makes it even worse. Also, the fact that students are faking it in order to get more time on tests as well, pisses me off, because I was never given more time due to me having ADD.
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