City asks applicants for Internet passwords

I cannot even begin to describe how much this fracks me off. This is completely and totally unacceptable in every conceivable way. Whoever dreamed up this insane idea should be shot. :terrence:

People who moan and wail about an abusive user (not here), and don't do a thing about it. It is annoying and retarded, and I hate it. (If that isn't a good enough explanation, nothing is.)

*facepalms*

That's not cool... :frankiemad:

It certainly isn't. It's none of the govermnent's damn business what people are doing on FaceBook or any other social network. :frankiemad:

Yesterday was a weird day at work. :P

It started out learning that the girl who was suppose to come in earlier and do the job I usually do was a no show, and the out-of-touch managers didn't realize she hadn't showed up until three hours later when the store was suppose to open. Well, if they had scheduled me to come in and do it like they should have, there would have been no worries. So a manager had to cashier for an hour until I came in. Haha, serves them right!

We were also getting ready for a visit from someone from corporate, and when we do that, there's a lot of cleaning and auditing and tweaking going on. And everyone's up tight because they're nervous about how the visit will go.

But the grand finale was a fight between a few customers! A woman and her teenage son had a Great Pyrenees (which is a BIG dog), and the son was holding the leash. The dog was an alpha, and decided it needed to put all other dogs in their place. It barked at every single freakin' other dog it saw. Soon the whole store was full of dogs barking, and it was giving everyone a headache, employees and customers alike. And the boy didn't even try to control the dog. He held tight to the leash, but let the dog lunge and bark up a storm, and didn't even try to get it under control. While up at the register, another lady at the next register had enough, and she started yelling at the boy about how he needs to learn how to control the dog, and the mother jumped in with "How dare you talk to my son that way!!" and a full on yelling and cursing match broke out. The boy, in trying to control the dog, hit the poor thing, and the other lady yelled at him even more. He finally threw the leash at his mom and stormed out, while the two women continued screaming at eachother. Our dog obedience trainer finally stepped in, took the dog, got it to be quiet, and finally the other lady finished checking out and left. But wow, I haven't witnessed anything like that in some time. It was veeeerrryy uncomfortable for five or so minutes.

Today was weird too. A dog collapsed just inside the door and started convulsing, and his owner started yelling at me to help her dog and get a vet even though I was the only one running a register at the moment and I had a line. I tried my best to stay calm in order to keep the other customers calm, and paged a manager up right away. But our manager was way in the back and it took him forever to get up there. By the time he did, one of our dog groomers had run into the vet clinic on the other side of the store to get the vet. The vet and the groomer carried the dog, still convulsing, into the clinic. I never heard if it was ok or not, I sure hope it was. :bloosad: But that was another very uncomfortable few minutes.

Based on your day L - I am glad I have the job I have! I would have been like that dog convulsing if I was in your shoes!8D

I'm glad you have the job you have, too. I certainly don't have a glamorous one. Eh, but it pays the bills. :P

My father bought me The Sims 3 and I'm sorry to say I agree with you completely ("sorry" because it was quite expensive). I just don't find it as fun as Sims 2.

There are actually a lot of things that tick me off, but the only one I can think of right now is how badly Disney has sold out with Cars. No offense to any fans of the movie, but I didn't really like it much and I certainly don't see why they have to milk three years worth of merchandise out of it. It's particularly annoying when I'm searching for merchandise for movies or shows I like and can't find any, or struggle to, while this stuff is EVERYWHERE. And no, I'm not happy about the sequel. This business nearly put me off Pixar altogether; which is a shame because their other movies are brilliant.

They're still pumping out merchandise for "Cars"? Geez... Oh, well. It is Disney, afterall. They're pretty much willing to pump out every last bit of profit with any succesful film/TV show these days... No matter how old the film/TV show is.

Don't know what it is with people who make arrangements and promises and then think it's great to break them without warning.

Disney have sold out, you say? But surely not... ;)

Eh, merchandising the snot out of a popular franchise, be it Pixar's or their own, is nothing really new as far as Disney is concerned. It seems to me that, for the past several years or so, if you walked into any given Disney Store, no less than 50% of their stock would have that Winnie the Pooh fellow's face on it. More pivotal Disney characters like Mickey and Donald probably got less than 10% at the best of times. And don't get me wrong, I do have fond childhood memories of that movie, and of the A.A. Milne originals, but it did get a teensy tiny bit irritating that, for years on end, pretty much all the Disney merchandising has been between Pooh, the Princesses, and whatever movie they happen to be peddling at the moment. The 20th anniversary for Oliver and Company came and went without so much as one stinking new plush toy, that I could find, which hardly surprised me. O&C isn't one of Disney's more popular ventures (though it is one of my personal favourites), so as far as they're concerned its existence isn't even worth acknowledging. The so-called "20th Anniversary Special Edition" is essentially just the bog-standard DVD, repackaged and with a glossier cover.

I didn't say it was anything new. It still annoys the hell out of me, though, especially since they never seem to do that with movies I actually want to by merchandise from. At the moment, two-thirds of our local Disney Store is taken over by Cars and Princesses merchandise; even overshadowing movies like WALL-E and Bolt.

a bit of a rant (shut up if you've nothing kind to say about it)
 

Anime haters... just UGH. They have got to be some of the most retarded morons I've ever seen. :\ Have they even tried any anime outside of craptooncartoon network? Guess they don't have enough brain cells to do so, I guess. Screw the hardcore fans, of course, but not like any other hardcore fans for other forms of entertainment are any better. Still, the anime shows themselves are quite good.

Also, the abnormal number of good/cool/slightly better celebrities dying. Why can't the stupid celebrities like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears just drop dead? :/ I mean, really.

That is EXACTLY what I told my roomie!:frankiesmile:

I dunno, maybe some people don't like the way it's drawn, much like I dislike the drawing style of Ed, Edd, And Eddy. Squigglevision makes my eyes water. That aside, anything anime is just another cartoon to me; some is good, some is bad, just like any other animated show.

Sailor Moon rocks, by the way. ;D

8D 8D 8D Best laugh I've had all day. :up:

Bit of a rant about Skype: don't get me wrong, it's a handy program, but using it by phone is almost a battle because the network coverage is not reliable (at least that's the case with mine).

I don't think I'd say it ticks me off so much as it is annoying and just ugh. :P But I got a note on my door today notifying me that the apartment staff will be entering my apartment (along with everyone else's) on Wednesday to check for safety issues. They do this biannually and they gave us 48 hour notice as law requires. But dang it, 48 hours isn't long enough! I didn't get the note until this evening, I'll be at both the day and side jobs all day tomorrow, and I won't have much time to clean and make sure there's no mildew or fire hazards. Ugh. ::) I doubt I'll find anything they won't like, but I like to at least clean.

Oh, and I noticed today that the Bloo/Cheese socks I was wearing now have a hole in them. Easy enough to mend, but it's still upsetting. :bloosad:

Our apartment staff usually give less than 24 hour notice for stuff. :jk: I just don't care anymore. To be honest, I think when they come in for the safety checks and all that, that they try to be in and out of here asap because of the snake and 9 tarantulas...That's it, get a crawly pet. :slybendy:

Hmm, perhaps. It's not people who dislike it in general that ticked me off, it was the rabid haters whom I was ticked off about.

I heard about it. Never watched much of it, though. Seems popular.

Haha, yeah, that's what I call CN, after they took off Fosters', and most other shows worth a care, and replaced them with crap, haha, back on topic.
Erm, people that spew quotes nonstop are quite annoying, and it's especially bad when you just watched a show or video, and someone keeps saying quotes out of it nonstop. SO annoying. :jk: Especially when they go on for over 10 minutes about it. Been having to put up with this for a bit of time. Never complained about it until recently, hmm.

Ya know, I do have a thing for hermit crabs. ;) I can get a bunch, drape my walls with moss and let them climb the walls freely. Think that will send the complex safety patrol running? 8D :slybendy:

Mr Ditsy came back to work today. I thought he was on vacation for a week. But he was gone only four days. It's not a vacation unless you're gone for an entire week's schedule, if you ask me. I was hoping I'd be spending most of the week without him. ::)

I made a video while I was in San Francisco this weekend that a lot of people want to see, but I just can't get the camera and this computer to get along. :P So I may not be able to get that video online until I get my laptop back from the shop, and even then there's no guarantee, as I plan to update it to Vista and I read online that Vista doesn't like this camera's software. -_-

In the morning, I get to start training for another dept./line of business at freaking 7am. Ugh, I don't get up that early. It's going to be fun. :P

Another nosebleed. I get them a lot during the summer. I just move my head or sneeze - and I become the Red Sea. I usually wrap a towel in ice, and lie down on the sofa with it between my neck and head. It is so annoying!:frankiemad:

You must have jinxed me! 8D

While sitting in the office today making labels, my nose started bleeding out of nowhere. I don't understand it, it's even been a little humid the last few days. Maybe it's the heat. I dunno. One of my managers (one of the cool ones) walked in and asked me if I was ok. :P Yeah, I was fine, I just really shouldn't stand up until it's over or I might pass out. I hate that.

I use to get them all the time too when I lived in Albuquerque, it was so dry there. There were times I'd wake up in the morning with a big red spot on my pillow, and a dried brown "trail" down my cheek. And I had no idea, since I was sleeping.

I used to get nosebleeds constantly when I was in my my mid-teens. They just stopped coming for some reason but I have no idea why. Not that I'm complaining, of course; walking around with a paper towel stuffed up my nose got to be very tiresome after awhile. :P

They are a drag, and I am afraid at my age that it might have something to do with high blood pressure as well; and that it just happens. Will this be the first sign of a stroke for me?:o

It's probably just thin-walled blood vessels or the dry Arizona air. I have high blood pressure too, (thanks a lot, dad :P) but I haven't had a nosebleed in years.

I have leak in my guest bathroom (probably caused by condensation of the AC coils. The danger of it, is the water runs right thru the overhead light!:wiltshock: I had to secure the power to that bathroom, and a friend of mine is going to look at it. We have trouble with our kitchen sink too!:frankiemad:

People on youtube, who sign up, and do nothing but make stupid comments everywhere.

BIGGEST RETARDS ON THE INTERNET.

Yeah, I know the type of idiots you mean; I've gotten some stupid stuff posted on my page at one time or another. I just delete their crap and block them. I'd report them but the one time I did YouTube never did a damn thing about it or even acknowledge that I contacted them. :P

I agree completely, I don't understand why these people will go out of their way to abuse others because of the videos they make.

I am currently staying at Myrtle Beach, one of the biggest seaside resorts on the east coast, in a posh Marriott resort...for an educator's conference. The school district paid for the hotel stay and for my attendance in the conference...and for nothing else. I came down here nearly dead-broke. I cannot go out, and I have to eat at fast-food restaurants. I cannot go shopping. I cannot afford it, and still be able to afford gas money to get back home. So, I attend lectures/workshops from 7 am until 2:30 am, have to get out of bed at 6 am(just like work, almost), and I stay in the hotel room, since basically that's all there is to do when you're "po", as my students would say.
Did I mention that it's RAINING? Staying at a resort, with no money, during rainy weather, really ticks me off. At least I do have internet in the room, but I had to pay extra for that, too. A small bag of pretzels in the vending machine in the lobby costs $4.00! You have to PAY just to go IN the restaurant here, and that's if you do not even order anything! I would not be surprised if the hotel didn't charge for shells picked up on the beach outside, by the pound at least. On the plus side, I'm on the 15th floor, overlooking the ocean...and it's really interesting to see just how many sharks are really out there swimming around amongst the happy-go-lucky beach goers, and some of the sharks are really big ones, too. It's funny to see them cutting through shoals of fish within a few feet of oblivious swimmers.

pitbulllady

Being anywhere when you're a bit skint is a bummer but sharks sound good.

What's ticking me off is how clumbsy I am right now. I've been leaving a trail of devastation behind me recently.

There's some weird guy who put me on his emailing list years ago, I have no idea who he even is. He sends out these series of HUGE attachments on an almost daily basis. Asking nicely, begging, pleading, and threatening to remove me from his list have all done no good. Complaining to his isp has also done no good, they just tell me to blacklist his address and "be more careful who you give your address to in the future". I tried blacklisting him,but causing his emails to simply be marked as spam doesn't stop my client from having to download his messages, which slows down my whole computer (I can't trust my filter to just delete everything it thinks is spam, it'll delete important stuff sometimes too then). Right now our connection at home is poor, making it nearly impossible to use my client to download messages at home - I have to take my laptop to the library, just because of this guy. I found a filter on my server some time ago that lets me completely block individual addresses which worked great until he figured it out and now he uses a different address every time to send his crap! I finally had to block ALL attachments, at least for now. Any message that has an attachment will be bounced. So if you have something to send me, let me know in advance. :P

My bank is going to "improve" their website!

The phrase "yeah, right" comes to mind. I remember when TSR made "improvements" to their site; I visit them a lot less than I used to. Same with Yahoo's TV listings, except I no longer visit them at all. Why change something that works? >:(

Doesn't anybody give a stright answer anymore? I feel I have a right to know the status of an account, or purchase, or general information. It seems people now a days like to speak in euphamisms, and beat around the bush. Or there is the ol' pass the buck ("oh sorry, I do not handle this, let me transfer you to..."). Then you have to start your inquiry all over again (which may take verifying yourself - for the umteenth time). I guess nobody wants to be accountable anymore ... hmmm.::)

DeviantART. Under every unsubscribed member, they have this "Needs Premium Membership". Hello, I don't NEED it. I've been fine over the four or so years of me being there without one.

And the free week trial of it I was randomly given few years back? Just things I don't need, too confusing, and I didn't like thumbnail previews of your deviantWATCHers' submittions at the time. Journal customizing was just confusing, polls aren't necessary to me, along on top of other things I don't "need". ::)

I saw that too, and it's ridiculous. I think they're trying to embarrass people into buying premium crap that they don't need in order to bring in cash that the staff there will spend on nothing that will benefit their members. Who the hell are they to tell people what they "need"? The only people they're embarrassing are themselves, although they were doing that long before this newest bit of stupidity. ::) :P

Boy, I can imagine it like this:

"Please get me off your mailing list."
"NO I'M GONNA SEND YOU SPAM AND YOU'RE GONNA LIKE IT >:("

I've had the membership on DA for years and I never noticed it said that on other people's pages. I agree, that's wrong. :/

Anyways that guy sends out the WEIRDEST, most POINTLESS stuff, too. Huge images that he cropped together, or maybe just found someplace (like switching heads on cartoon characters) and lots of "Super Mario Smash Brothers" stuff. Why would I ever want that? Who IS this guy?? Seriously, I have NO idea who he even is.