JCC ITT we complain about our 1st world problems...

My daughter is going to Italy with the school today.


I've currently at the school waiting for the coach to take them to the airport.

It's just turned 0420 and I've been up since 3

Ugh

 

Yeah, merchant is resending and HOPEFULLY the local post office will hold it there. They promised!

 

Despite not being a fan, was all set to help Shaw Brothers actor Gordon Liu (who suffered a stroke in 2011) in buying official merchandise, but the postage to the States is almost the same price as the shirt. That kicks any purchase out of my budget.

I get it. Postage is ridiculous (costs $23 to mail an 8 ounce package to the UK now ), but real life bills come first.

 

I tell ya what I need : an Ed Sheeran-free zone.

I mean jesus , have a little mercy!

 

Found a bug in my coffee and poured the cup out. Unfortunately it was the last of the pot, so now I have to wait for the fresh pot to finish perculating so I can have a cup of coffee.

 

You'd think you'd be grateful for the existence of computers permitting you to be three times as efficient as if you worked without. But no, I'm grumbling because of the heat mine exudes.

 

Lol yeah I have a Keurig but I don't really use it at home. However I use the one in the office daily. It's not as fancy as mine (mine has a frother for lattes!) but it works. I love donut shop style coffee.

 

I hoped I could work martial arts into my budget, but there’s no way right now, real life stuff comes first (After cutting way down on entertainment purchases and work day food, not happening). If I didn’t have to buy groceries

So I’ll look into more videos just for exercising. Must check if I still have the David Carradine Hung Gar style one (somehow I do not think so).

 

Body thinks it’s 1:15 a.m. instead of 1:15 p.m.

 

I have my Amazon credit card set to autopay, so I never check it. But today I got curious. The balance is a whopping $1700. Evidently, I am addicted to online shopping. I took the card away and hid it in my drawer.

 

For 12 years the landlords did not allow pets. New owners came in and allowed pets. The dog poop problem has gotten so bad they are now requiring all dog owners to bring their pets in to have their mouths swabbed and a company will be called in if anyone sees poop laying around and have their DNA compared to then fine the owner.

 

Ugh. I am using this credit card sparingly but do make reasonable charges every other month. I have the cc and a debit card on Amazon and keep the debit set as my preferred payment. I feel for you.

Well I fixed needing WiFi or cellular for playing videos on my iDevices (Thank you, VLC!), but I still need iTunes to navigate to VLC file sharing and add movies to the app from my computer.

 

My cable box is acting funky. I have to unplug it and then plug it back in for the cable to kick back on every time I turn on the TV. I'm just too lazy to take it to the cable company and get it replaced.

Eventually, those few seconds of unplugging it and plugging it back in will become more than the time it will take to drive to the cable company in my off time and get the box replaced.

 

Bleeping A.C. near my new desk at work is meat locker frigid.

 

Been there and done that - you have my sympathy.

 

At least you can wear a sweater. It's 75 degrees in my office all the time and I'm always sweaty in shorts and a tshirt.

 

Yeah, you can always put as much clothing on as possible. There's a limit of how much you can take off...well, away from home.

 

In light of all the Chrome-spying, I decided to switch back to Firefox (which I haven't used since probably before Chrome's initial launch). Importing bookmarks and stuff has been a huge inconvenience, and now somehow I have duplicates of many of my Chrome bookmarks in Firefox, or nothing in some cases. Plus the Firefox mobile app takes some getting used to, since the UI is slightly different from Chrome's.

But I will say, Firefox has been noticeably faster. I'm glad I switched. Chrome was taking forever to load everything recently. It's become everything it was supposed to be the alternative for.

 

Because that BiG when I forget to include the English subtitles on a movie I am ripping to my computer. Take 2 in process.

Make that Take 3, I just overwrote the take 2 copy with the earlier one that didn't have the subs.

 

I was able to move in several more chairs and (finally) a dinner table into my apartment, but alas we couldn't fit in a couch just yet.

 

wouldn't you want the couch before a dinner table?

 

Kinda hard to eat dinner off of a couch..

 

The only time we use our dinner table for dinner is at christmas .