Okay, This Is Annoying

Posted by on Jul 3, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Is it just me who finds the whole “upgrade to the newest newest version of all your software RIGHT NOW” urgency of Internet communications just a bit obnoxious? Hello, like some of us can’t afford to buy new computers, operating systems, software, etc. the second the new version comes out?Can you guess that I can’t download a file I really need because in the ‘net...
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Here We Go Again

Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Alberto is coming! Alberto is coming!And with that, the 2006 hurricane season really begins. It’s pouring outside right now–not that I’m complaining, given the near-drought we’ve been experiencing the past couple of months–but today really felt like Seattle. Gray. Wet. Depressing. At least it’s not 55 degrees, and after Señor Alberto makes landfall,...
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The Taxman Cometh

Posted by on Apr 17, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Okay, okay, I get it. If I don’t manage to file a tax return early and get back somewhere in the neighborhood of $50, I am an accounting doofus and don’t deserve to swim in the big kids’ pool with everybody else.Well, that’s not how it works in my neck of the woods. Anytime a bonus gets shoveled toward a Florida teacher, they tax the living daylights out of it, to the...
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Where Have All the Parents Gone?

Posted by on Apr 2, 2006 in dish | 1 comment DH and I aren’t perfect parents–heck, he was in the Mega-Lo-Mart at 10:30 tonight buying kites for the kids to use during Kite Week this week–but at least his kids were home in bed. He came home incredulous at the number of kids with their parents in the Mega-Lo-Mart at 10:30 on a Sunday night.Hello? Do the words SCHOOL NIGHT not mean what they used to when I was a kid? Dang,...
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Me and My R(N)C

Posted by on Feb 6, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Florida’s an interesting state, especially politically. There’s something to be said (I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it’s good or bad) for having the President’s brother as your governor. Another quirk of Florida politics is its reliance on a closed-party primary system. In primaries, you can vote only for candidates from your party. There are a million...
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