Cuddle Cat
This is happening now. Our little stray is growing more and more trusting. Maybe he understands that we helped him. He’s become a truly great companion.
Pure Joy
A few weeks ago I visited the Musical Instrument Museum with my husband and our friend Janice. For hours we viewed and heard every imaginable musical instrument, which was fantastic. THEN we got the the Experience Room. It was so much fun, I only shot this tiny bit of video because I had to play every single instrument in the room, especially the giant gong and the theremin!
I will be returning to spend a good four or more hours in the Experience Room. I’ll shoot better video then, I promise. But in the meanwhile, Janice’s expression sums it up. Playing music with friends is pure joy.
Bonus points if you can name that tune.
My New Email Filter
This message is set as an autoresponse to messages matching the following criteria:
subject contains “Course quota exceeded: SCC.MSTR.ART100.COLAN_C”
Your message has been rejected by the intended recipient because its content is useless. Your message states, in full:
“LS-CS quota manager alert:\nCourse has exceeded the absolute quota limit (250000 K): SCC.MSTR.ART100.COLAN_C (disk usage 2525371 K).”
As you can see, your message alerts me to a problem without providing any indication of what I should do to fix it.
I previously replied requesting that the course file be deleted as I no longer need it. No one responded, and I continue to receive your useless message on a daily basis.
I know my course quota is exceeded. I have been told by Maricopa’s Blackboard support that the course file itself was likely corrupted during the transition to Blackboard 9. After Fall 2010 I will discontinue any further use of Blackboard since it has been nothing but a nightmare this term. If it were in my power to remove the file, I would do so.
Please just delete the offending course file and quit bugging me about it. I will not be making any further attempt to remedy this situation. Further messages will continue to be auto-rejected by the district email system, which may not have been updated in a long time, but at least it actually works.
Good day.
Yes, I really applied this filter. After waiting two weeks for a response. Crickets.
Typical Words with Mom
I had to buy my mom a copy if Words with Friends for her iPod Touch. After a game or two all my other friends quit playing with me (except a few games I have going that are really slow). So far my record is pretty good. I win a lot. I know it’s due to luck of the draw, so I get bummed when my opponent gives up.
It’s fun playing with my mom. We’re both decent players and neither gives up. Sometimes she whips my butt, sometimes I whip hers. Here are samples of our games.
It’s fun because we can text back and forth even though she’s not on a phone. Now I’m playing with my mom every day. That’s pretty special when you think about it.
I’m sorry. There’s a missing scene from War, Inc.
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If this is for real, and I don’t have reason to think it isn’t, nor any confirmation that it is, the mom of a soldier serving in Afghanistan is asking for slingshots or wrist rockets for her son’s batallion. Because they don’t want to shoot the teenagers insurgents are sending with bullets. And the U.S. government won’t provide rubber bullets. There are so many things wrong with this that I can’t even start, but somehow this message on Freecycle, where my neighbors are normally trading mattresses and moving boxes, renewed the nightmare horror of the business of war in my head.
At the same time my dark side thinks there should have been a “Slingshots for Soldiers” scene of some sort in War, Inc. Perhaps just before the Tamerlane’s prosthetics kickline.
