> get lamp

Why does single-clicking on bookmarks in the "Library" (stupid, stupid name change... makes it look like I have a window open on a web page titled "Library". What was wrong with "Bookmarks"?) in Firefox cause it to actually contact that site, and therefore whatever cookies it may want to try to be set? Massively annoying if you have Firefox set to "ask me every time". How the heck do I turn this behavior off, if you can?

P.S. Ya gotta love how places.sqlite is, like, quintuple the size of the bookmarks.html it replaced. No wonder I thought my syncing extension was crashing when I tried to upload my bookmarks: it was just taking forever to upload this damn huge file over dialup, and with no progress bar, it seemed to simply stop responding.

Okay, look, I know the universe was recently blown up and all, but I think showing it recondensing from the primal quark soup via gradually darkening and reddening panels (at least, I think that's what he's doing) seems like a cheap way to get a week or more's worth of comics, ne?

Stygian says:
apparently your dad has managed to actually get a att [AT&T] "weenie" to talk to him
pervy snape fancier says:
lol
Stygian says:
apparently there are yet more problems..
pervy snape fancier says:
oh?
Stygian says:
apparently they won't install if the outlets aren't grounded..
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In summary: Y BROADBAND BE HATIN YO

srsly. this is almost 2009. I know the US is way behind Europe and Japan and all but IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD to get internet that isn't dial-up. This is Silicon Valley, gol-dangit. Al Gore invented the left half of the intertubes here. Or something.


Now that I've got that entitled-sounding rant out of the way, I should be thankful that this is all the sort of thing I have to worry about, and not, you know, where my next meal is coming from or anything.

Capslock rage imminent. Turn your head now.

I AM UNTHRILLED AT GETTING THE DAMN SNAP PREVIEWS EVEN THOUGH I HAVE EXPLICITLY TURNED THEM OFF. I know I did it before but I thought hey, maybe it got turned on again in the latest code push and no, lo and behold, THE CHECKBOX FOR THAT IS EVEN EMPTY AND I AM STILL GETTING THEM. In other words MY SETTING IS BEING IGNORED. thanksalot.

I can't imagine why anyone ever thought this was a good idea, period, for any website ever. I hope they go to hell and die.

Why is it that, in the place where the Internet was half fucking born, I can't get decent Internet service? Where decent is defined rather liberally (by today's standards) as 384+kbps and reliably on? Right now I'm on a rare (over the past several days rare, anyway) good 50.6k connection. Where "good" is defined as "stays connected and I don't have to redial every five fucking minutes".

I've been sharing this for over two days with the other two occupants since the local free wireless seems to have gone crazy again (= won't assign IPs, and when it will, nothing comes down the pipe) and we don't have any other alternatives.

It's really this last that I'm ranting against -- this shouldn't even be an issue. But I'm out on the back forty of a copper wire loop, so no DSL, and cable and satellite are both unfeasible for various reasons of their own.

It's stupid, I repeat.

AT&T, I beg thee start stringing fiber. Plz?

This is hastily cut and pasted from MSN, so I apologize for the formatting.


getting employment verification, easy

convincing my banks to give me total deposits for the past year in addition to "she has this account, and it's been open this long, and has this much in it", nearly impossible

wells fargo's default letter says "if you require deposit info, contact the customer" and i had to argue and argue with the person that like hell was the consulate going to phone me up and ask me, honestly!?!, and i didn't want to run the risk of them rejecting it based on insufficient info, and i don't care if you have used this form letter for exactly this purpose before...

even if you claim "it's always been fine" how would you know? they certainly aren't going to call *you* for further info; the sufferer would be the rejected petitioner.

commonwealth didn't argue so much, but seemed very confused, even after i pointed it out in the instructions twice, and said well, we can have accounting do that, but it's $25 an hour for the research

hoenstly, they just want the total amount i added to my accounts during the past 12 months. that's got to be like 5 minutes of clicking

the banker at wf finally bowed and looked up every checking statement over the past year and did the math by hand and wrote a separate letter, but that's got to be the long way around

so since CW is now charging me for a service, i'll need to re-total my accounts with whatever the final number is i get tomorrow, and reprint the form, and have that notarized the next day

since i can only squeeze in so much running around before work

so with luck i may be able to get this off to you friday afternoon?

if not, saturday

*crosses fingers*

i left home at 11:00 this morning and was still about 5 minutes late to work. [12:30]

honestly., getting these forms shouldn't have taken that long

why do immigration authorities always have to ask for such goddamn nonstandard information?

Well shit. enotsola tells me that the Cambridge library (to whom I had submitted a resume in June, for no specific position, their site just says "we keep things on file and we'll call you") just called me in Kitchener to ask me in for an interview or something. Apparently they were disappointed to hear I had moved back to California as they were really hoping I'd work out. So not that I haven't already been kicking myself for several months wondering if I was right to move back, and being weirdly emotional about it such that so much as seeing a Canadian flag can make me almost burst into tears, but then they go and try to call me (undertone in my brain of "well where was this offer six or even three months ago, ya jerks?", though).

So would it have worked? If I had hung on through the winter and spent another couple thousand dollars of my savings (I was already down to about 2/3 what I started last year with by the time everything was said and done and I was back here), would I now (soon) be living the Coarsegold dream, so to speak? When I was there I was panicking that it had been the wrong idea, that I should have slowed down and reconsidered in January when I got the visa, and noticed that things had changed and it would have been a better overall path to just stop then and bring him here, since I had a near-perfect job situation, and that by charging ahead with "damnit, I started it, I'm going to finish it" was probably not the wisest choice. I have already been full of anxious "what ifs", and now here's something concrete. So did I do the wrong thing AGAIN?

I am sick and tired of not knowing where I'm supposed to be and what I'm supposed to be doing; when I am jumping the gun and when if I wait any longer I will be just wasting my time. I gave up something good which I can probably never get back in the hopes that I might be able to make something different work. I wasn't able to do it as fast as I needed to, or thought I needed to, so I said "fuck it". And now it looks like I may have again given up something good which I can never get back (at least, not easily, although I am really not sure what the government of Canada thinks I am - do they even know I've left? the MTO knows that I have re-licensed my car in California, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything of itself, and the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing) in the hopes of making something else work out, and AUGH!!!!!!!



did I mention, AUGH!!!!!!! ?

In less feel-good news, IT SHOULD BE FUCKING ILLEGAL TO USE A LAWNMOWER AND A LEAFBLOWER AT 8:30 AM. *kills the neighbour's gardeners*

(why yet another post? because I wanted to use this icon. i'm done being posty mcpostpants for now.)