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My planned activity for today was as follows,

1) Go to the eye doctor and get my eyes checked and order new glasses to replace my broken ones. 12:30 pm

2) Sit around a little while and maybe have a nice nap.

3) Have some supper

4) Go up to the Creation Room and goof off some more.

5) Finish Chapter 18 of CTT and post it (hopefully)

6) Maybe have some time to waste down some rabbit hole on Ancestry before bedtime

How my day actually went?

1) Go to work, because I forgot that I had a basket of stuff I meant to buy on my way out yesterday. Buy stuff:

2) Go to the eye doctor and reschedule my appointment in person because the doctor is STILL out sick. Next available appointment on my day off two weeks hence.  Minimum time before having new glasses now? 3 weeks.

3) Sit around a short while... No nap.

4) Spend 2 or 3 hours putting the window insert in the dining room window (this is the last big 105 year old sash window downstairs that hasn't been replaced with a new double tilt sash window.  Cleaning thoroughly under the big cube unit (which I moved out from in front of the window put the insert into it.) vacuuming and scrubbing all the floors in the dining room because they are just GROSS. Switching the big cube unit with the buffet table because the big buffet table is actually EASIER to move from in front of the window than the cube. Polish all the wood flooring in the dining room because it looks worn and dull.  Tighten up the legs of the table and chairs Put the rest of the furniture back where it belongs.  I did enlist help from marynachaotica in the furniture moving and tightening part.

5) Have supper. (ok. I got to do that an hour later than intended.)

6) Try to figure out why Outlook is getting duplicates of some (most) of my emails from Gmail Pop3. (Don't know if this was successful yet or not.) Set up 3 more filters, and unsubscribe from another 10 mailing lists I don't need and probably didn't sign up for.

7) Complain on LJ about how I didn't follow my own guidelines for my day off, because the first thing on the list ended up messed up and threw off everything else.

8) Start thinking about Chapter 18 of CTT at 20:42 hours... Bedtime?  01:30

I'm probably not going to finish it today either. I also want to eat cookies.

Welp... I'm caught up.  I skimmed a LOT and scanned a LOT and SKIPPED a lot... so if you posted something you thought I should comment on, or would have liked my opinion on and didn't get it, this is the place to post the links to it. I will try not to get an entire month behind again.  One thing that I am determined will happen is that Facebook is going to be left to the wayside almost entirely. I'm sick of it, can't keep up with it, and it appears that most people on it are too stupid to acutally use the internet. To such a degree where multiple times saying, either email me or text me, but do not use Facebook messaging to contact me  does not stop them from sending me FxcxBook messages with time sensitive information.  So They're going to understand pretty soon when they realise I'm not even bothering with it any more. It consumes too much time and is nothing useful at all.



Now... It's  bed time. I'm opening tomorrow. The Wedding is over, I have two days to finish putting my house in order with no help and working both days. YAY... *rolls eyes*. Probably am going to end up with huge piles of randome crap from all three rooms that was left on various furniture in MY room ... along with my own pile of random crap... so that at least every room excep mine can look remotely decent. We'll see. In the mean time. Good nght.

Her mission is to be the final one ever in the space shuttle program. Now, I understand that the technology is now 30 years old, however, the next generation of launch vehicles are not ready for use. So what I want to know is why are we retiring the existing system before the next generation is ready?Aren't we going to continue to be involved in international space station project and stuff? Seriously? WTF is up with that? Why are they retiring them now before we're ready with the next bold step?

Dream Chaser by SpaceDevAdvanced
And while I'm ranting on that, when the hell are they going to invent the impulse engine? Fusion Drive? Isn't it about time? I'm just saying.

First read this:
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/05/pete_degraaf_rape_flat_tire.php

So my plan for today was simple.

1. Call AT&T and get them to straighten out my DSL account because it has at this point been disconnected due to a $75 credit that was supposed to have been applied and apparently never has been. Get my service reinstated.
2. Call Unemployment and have them fix my online account (which surprisingly has an old password from way back in 1998 or some such year and won't let me in) so I can apply for services.
3. Go to the grocery and get pop and fresh veggies for my planned multicook session tomorrow.
4. (Um... stick in here that helping marynachaotica understand an algebraic concept ended up in here too)
5. Do some beta work for evil_little_dog
6. Long hot bath and reading session
7. Watch Inuyasha episodes and finish the purple circles to squares blanket I started last week.
8. Watch Kuroshitsuji Episodes and start on a different blanket using these two giant balls of rose that I got from spookshow1313 last year or the year before.

What I have done so far to day is talk to AT&T for almost 5 hours.  See... it turns out that the reason my service was disrupted is because the ordering agent in Bangladesh, or Philippines, or India or wherever it was.  It took 4 transfers to get me to someone who could help, and then a total of about 4 hours on the phone with her.  So apparently the offshore agent instead of transferring my service to my new address, created a NEW account, and did NOT TURN OFF my old account.  So after I paid it off, it continued to rack up charges. It took forever to figure that out, because the account was not showing up as being disconnected. The problem is that my login credentials were transferred from the old account into the new one, and the OLD one was disconnected for nonpayment yesterday (obviously, since it was suppose to be discontinued in October, I did not continue paying a bill I didn't know I had.) Once we got the CURRENT account set up correctly, then once my service was restored I had to go over to Accounts Receivable to talk about the old incorrect account, get correct notation in the account, and then to Customer Service (again) to get the actual credits. Ok so now I have service again, and I don't owe any money, AND I have a credit.

Meanwhile, I was on the phone until after 5pm and couldn't call the unemployment office to get my account unlocked. I'll have to wait until Monday now, and if I can't get through I am going down there again and tell them that NO they were NOT able to help me with just a phone call, because I could not get through after nearly a week trying. I think I will tell them that I'd like a job there since obviously they need help.  I will need to apply for whatever other assistance I can get as well. I hate to do it, but THIS is the reason that system is in place. Unfortunately it's usually not what's it's used for. Most of the people on this system are NOT actually looking for work and don't actually want jobs.  I do, and my taxes pay into what I will draw out while I look for a decent job.

Anyway, so I did get to the store. 

I did help marynachaotica with her math problem. Glad to be of service.

I did get started on that Beta for evil_little_dog, but I'll have to look at it some more tomorrow as the day is just about over now, and I haven't got much done on it. I'm pleased that this is something I asked her to finish recently. haha I remember that much. I haven't got far enough to be reminded if it's the one that's one of my TOP PRIORITY PLEASE FINISH THIS stories. hahhaa

I did not get my bath, just the PTA this morning. *rolls eyes*
I did not finish the blanket.
I did not watch any Inuyasha (which I expected to finish the first run of the Animé this evening)
I did not start the new blanket
I did not watch any of Kuroshitsuji

Oh well. It's tomorrow now. *snort* So that was my day. At least I don't feel like I'm nearing my demise any more. That's a plus.  Too bad my job thought it was acceptable and legal to fire someone for being out sick even when they have indicated repeatedly that they have documentation and need to know what to do with it.

Anyway, since it's tomorrow, I'm going to start a new day now.

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To the two (2) different SUV loads of assholes who felt they had the right to tell me where I could ride my bike, I invite you to Fuck OFF. No seriously. So very sorry that both of you had to wait for 15 whole seconds behind me in MY lane while you waited for the NEXT LANE OVER to clear enough for you go freaking go around. Oh my GOD, you must have both been in such a terrible hurry.

Asshole Group 1: Do not ride up 3 or 4 feet from my back tire for two or three minutes in order to harass me because YOU think I should be riding on the sidewalk. Then when you are STUCK there because other cars have decided to go on past you, do not honk your horn at me as if you expect that I should just pull over and get off my bike for your pleasure. Btw, the Dominos Driver who came along behind you cheered me for flipping you off for your rude and ignorant behavior. Buddy let me tell you that I didn't spend half a grand on my bike to destroy it riding through tree branches and over cracked pavement and potholes on the sidewalk. You and your pal there need to read up on the traffic laws before you start honking at a cyclist. That is one of the questions on the driving test you probably barely passed. You're lucky you didn't get that question. I wasn't going fast enough for you? Sorry, my pistons are calves and thighs, and I challenge you to keep up with me for any length of time on your own bikes, (probably some of those little boys' bmx models that I see guys like you riding all the time. The ones with scratched up frames that are so small that you ride with your knees practically hitting your chins. You guys don't even know how much you look like circus clowns folded up on those things. You would not cruise along at 20 mph) Oh btw? The speed limit through there was 25. That's the maximum, not the minimum. I'm not required to go 25, but that doesn't mean I can't. Just keep that in mind. So terribly sorry I didn't get my foot clipped back to my pedal fast enough to do the jack rabbit start you expected of me at that light, though I challenge you to do any better.

Asshole Group 2: You DEMANDED LOUDLY and pointed violently at the bike path to my right as if you felt that its existence somehow REQUIRED me to use it even if it is not going where I am. So I guess you expected me to get off my bike when my road journey brought me within sight it, PICK IT UP AND CARRY IT over the curb for your pleasure, through the grass and trees, and then get back on and ride the 1500 or so feet until the place where I would be TURNING off the road and away from the bike path. Then dismount again, carry my bike back to the road, walk it across the street and then once I was in the parking lot, I could get back on if I wanted? Is that your plan? Lady, let me tell you something. When I am riding my bike, my feet are ATTACHED to my pedals with SPD Cleats. While you were flapping your underarm FLAB at me, I was working my way up a hill at 13 miles per hour. I challenge you to ride up that hill at all, or maintain 13 miles per hour at ANY time on ANY bike for ANY length of time. While you were so distracted by my horrible presence on the ROAD *gasp* and refusal to use the poorly repaired, insect ridden bike path (which was not going where I was) you nearly ran yourself off the road. I was on my bike running errands, and planning to stop at that BK half a block up for a Whopper Junior on my way home. Meanwhile your 400 plus pound self was in a large ill maintained SUV that probably gets 15 miles per gallon at best, (probably heading to McD's to supersize it) probably driving fewer miles than I have ridden on my bike today as I ran my errands. I was in this lane all the way from Main street. You can't tell me that you didn't see me here so you could change lanes and go around like all the other cars did until the last minute. Don't presume to demand I ride somewhere else.

You people ought to be used to seeing me on our roads. I only ride at least every other day and sometimes every day. Particularly I ride that strip of Kauffman, because it is the way from my house, to most of the places I go in the evening after work, (all destinations that the bike path will not get me close to btw before I would have to be on the road anyway.) Please educate yourselves. In most cities it is not only unsafe, but illegal for me to ride on the sidewalk. In our city, it would be impossible to dodge the trees, potholes and broken concrete along the strip where you demanded that I be relegated there. The road is bad enough through that stretch with the broken pavement at the edge. The center of the lane isn't that much better. However it is my road too, and I will ride on it.

Here's an excerpt from Digest of Ohio Bicycle Traffic Laws, By the Ohio Bicycle Federation:

"Riding on sidewalks or multi-use "bike paths" is moderately safe only if done at slow speeds and extremely carefully. Riding on paths is popular for recreation but provides only limited utility for transportation."

I'll note that some bike paths are better than others. Ours here in Fairborn is poorly maintained at best, has several places where the pavement is severely cracked and has lifted and shifted. Also in the evening the number of bugs I am required to eat on that path is off the scale. Not to mention that it only covers a few short miles along Kauffman, and peters out before it gets into town, and also fails to connect with any of the major pathways in Dayton proper. Hopefully it will eventually connect at least with the Ohio Bike Route 2 at Eastwood's Creekside Trail. I understand that's the plan, and the nice bridge and tunnel they built to take it across the rail and State Route 444 is a nice addition. Now if we could just get a run down along Springfield street to Eastwood we'd be connected.

also according to Ohio Revised code:

"§ 4511.55. Operating bicycles and motorcycles on roadway.
(A) Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable obeying all traffic rules applicable to vehicles and exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.

(B) Persons riding bicycles or motorcycles upon a roadway shall ride not more than two abreast in a single lane, except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles or motorcycles.

(C) This section does not require a person operating a bicycle to ride at the edge of the roadway when it is unreasonable or unsafe to do so. Conditions that may require riding away from the edge of the roadway include when necessary to avoid fixed or moving objects, parked or moving vehicles, surface hazards, or if it otherwise is unsafe or impracticable to do so, including if the lane is too narrow for the bicycle and an overtaking vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane.

You'll notice that this entire section affords me the same rights to be on MY road as you and your SUV has. I am not required to ride on the sidewalk (in fact it is generally dangerous and often impossible.) Also, I am not required to ride in the gutter, which includes broken pavement and often rain sewers with grates that can capture and destroy my wheels, throw me off my vehicle and generally equates to bad news all around. I'm entitled to the entire lane if I need it, and you are required to pass me in the same manner you would any other vehicle: by changing lanes and going around politely with plenty of room to spare. Passing less than two feet from me is not acceptable. Your car should never be close enough that I could reach out and touch you.
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Now, for those of you who are not assholes, just be careful of cyclists. Don't get mad because you have to share the road. Just share it, make sure you are alert, and make sure you know the laws.

<rantlet>One last thing. Be aware that if a cycle is preparing to cross a rail that goes across the road at a diagonal, we will need to change direction slightly in order to cross those rails as close to perpendicular s possible. This avoids a cycle getting a tire wedged between the rail and the frog. Just be aware of that possibility if you are behind or near a bicycle and approaching a rail crossing. I get these guys all the time that when I swing to the right before the rail so I can cross it diagonally, by aiming towards the left of my lane, they seem to think that I'm just inviting them to zoom by me in my lane. NO I am not... They are going to kill someone one of these days.</rantlet>

Yah.. so it's finally warm enough to open windows. Warm enough to get out and ride, and what's it do all day on my day off?? F'ing RAIN. LOTS... ALL. DAY... *pouts* Now it's stopped but it's chilly and getting dark.

Yah.. I did my nails. Wanna see?

I'll just post this one shot. if you click the image if you want to see it full size, but it isn't really any clearer. Wait till you see the dogwood pix though. they look so much better. The tips are teal, and then there is a gold line, and then a black line. In this shot you can barely see the gold line.

The raws are out. However, I do not read Japanese well enough to read it until the scanlations come out. Thus, I would GREATLY appreciate if people would please not talk about it outside of a cut. I don't look at the raws and try to figure out what's going on. So please... cut your comments. Even if they don't seem like spoilers, the emotional response is in fact something of a spoiler for those of us who cannot read it yet.

Please...