The LC on the DL

What words, for the life of you, can you never spell correctly?
Submitted by Byrne.

Hallelujah for spell check. I have major issues with the simple word restaurant.

Apparently it was a squashed delicacy to the ants feasting on it on the floor of the fast food joint. Gross enough to blog about.

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The product of a planning meeting I failed to enjoy.

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At our quarterly staff birthday party. Our director baked them herself!

The hospital outpatient admitting department uses those blinky pager things to tell you when you are next. Now if only it had been that easy to figure out where to check in to get one. I ended up behind people that arrived after me. Ugh. I did get some satisfaction out of my visit today though. I released a few BookCrossing.com books into the wild at the hospital today and watched as people waiting with nothing to do got some real use out of them. Yay books!

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Things I witnessed this week at work that no one should do in my opinion. Ever.

• Pajama pants in public. White pajama pants are especially heinous. I really don’t want to see your undergarments no matter how hot/cute/sexy you are.
• Slippers to class. If you are paying to take college courses, take the time to put on actual shoes before heading to school.
• Fanny packs. Just don’t. Men, women; around the waist or over the shoulder - it is still a fanny pack. Get a messenger bag that will hold your gadgets and books and media and look good whether you are a guy or a girl.
• White athletic socks with loafers. You think no one notices your socks? Oh, they do.
• Tube tops to work or class. If you aren’t heading straight to a club for a night out, put a jacket on or wear something else. It’s hard to take someone seriously in a professional setting when they are that bare.

Comment posted by Tom
at 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM
Have to agree with you on most of them except for the socks. Someone has to explain to me what’s wrong with athletic socks lol :p . Not that I wear them, but I wonder what people have against them.

Ubuntu Sticker

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With a spectacular Ubuntu sticker stuck on my laptop…. I installed Feisty on my Dell Latitude D820. OMG. It went smoother than ANY install I have ever done — In. My. Life. Seriously. Nvidia driver install? Piece of cake. Beryl was also as simple to install as “sudo apt-get install”…

Out of curiosity, I left the Windows partition intact (still need it for work anyway) and lo’ and behold, just like the “box” says, it picked up (most) of my Winblows settings and ported them on over. I had a few bookmarks (Favorites) in IE but had a metric ton of them in Firefox. Unfortunately, it only ported the IE bookmarks into Firefox on Feisty. That is a tiny little annoyance.

I am still tweaking out my install but I am thus far loving every minute of Feisty. Boy howdy, try it for yourself!

What is your favorite term of endearment?
Submitted by lostdwarf.

To lighten the mood, I call my husband a crack head and he calls me a crack ho and then we have little crack babies. We are a little twisted I suppose, but it makes us giggle and we really do love each other. It is our way of trying to avoid fights mostly… how angry can you stay when you spouse looks at you with big eyes and calls you a crack head? lol The ridiculousness of it makes us smile.

While I was sitting in a lunch meeting today, I got the inspiration to gripe. So here I am, thumb typing away during a meeting pretending to take notes but instead writing a blog post. What passion could I possibly experience during a meeting you ask? Eating habits.

I could not redirect my attention from a vendor sitting directly in my line of sight at the conference table. Watching her take each bite was like staring at an accident…I was grossed out but couldn’t stop watching. Each bite she took of her chicken salad she puckered her lips into an *O* then stuck her tongue out to meet the fork still 1/2 inch or more from her mouth. I felt like I was watching a bug feeding habits documentary on the Discovery Channel complete with some guy narrating in my head.

The luncheon left me wondering where she learned to eat like this? Did her parent’s do this? Does she have dental issues causing her to attempt to suck up her food with her tongue? Perhaps it is an attempt to save her lipstick? Maybe I will start Googling when I get back to my desk… or maybe I need to start paying attention to meeting contents rather than bug people.

Comment posted by Abject
at 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM

[this is good]

oh dear god, lol. Well at least she didn’t puke on her food first to predigest it before slurping it up.

Yeah, I think I’d be blogging during that meeting too.

Have you ever purchased something from an infomercial?
Submitted by Colleen.

A short run down of the infomercial items I have stashed in a closet somewhere or I actually use:

*Note: The links may open you to obnoxious sales sites. You have been warned.

Revo Hairstyler - Basically a spinning hairdryer hairbrush. It scared me. Given to me by my mother in law.

The Smart Spin  - I actually asked for this and use it. This was a gift.

The XL George Foreman Grilling Machine - Yep, use this one lots too. Makes nice grilled veggies indoors. Given to me by my grandmother after she got a new one.

OxyClean - You can now get this just about anywhere although I have found other solutions that work better. This product let me down.

The Tony Little Gazelle  - I traded some household items to my sister in law for this. I wanted it really bad. I enjoy using this quite a bit.

The George Foreman Rotisserie - Bought for us for Christmas, it was a little two small for a family of six.

I am sure there are plenty more items…