bad mac user, no cookie

What, pray tell, is the point of the iPod Shuffle? I mean, you're paying in some cases almost as much money for LESS storage and functionality and no user-replacable battery. I don't get it.

Transportation == still fubared. Hopefully it will start tomorrow. I refuse to believe this until I see it.

Chris and I had an interesting discussion regarding the nature of Karma Points, but I haven't had enough coffee to properly process that yet.

jim morrison was right

People are strange.

So Chris has the interview with the guide dog people (he's going to be going to the Oregon campus of this school, for those of you to whom that means anything, so he may have to sleep there for four weeks (ugh) but at least he'll be a local call (watch me desperately try and find the silver lining here)) next week.

Still, UGH. FOUR WEEKS. SUCK.

Anyway, that wasn't why people are strange. The point is that they have to do a home interview, which includes something they call a Juno Walk, wherein the interviewer puts on a custom made dog-style harness (edit: okay, no, apparently they just hold an empty harness and make 'doggy motions', which is still bizarre, if you ask me) and they walk around the neighborhood.

(I don't have to make things like this up. They happen regardless. I swear this is true.)

But this is not the strange part (well ... hell yes it is, but it's not the one that makes me sad). The sad/strange part is that I /have/ to be there for part of the interview because they have to make sure that I'm "accepting of the fact that he's getting the dog."

Uh ...

Why wouldn't I be?

And then I realize that there are people out there who would feel replaced by the dog, because they have no lives of their own, nor a spine, apparently they feel the need to guide their "charge" everywhere because it makes THEM feel better, never mind how their "charge" feels ... and this makes me sad. It's the Supermommies-On-Crack, who don't feel satisfied enough controlling every aspect of their kids' lives, they need to Take Care of their Husbands, too. (I refuse to use 'hubby' here, because I hate the word 'hubby' a lot. But you can imagine it there. And that's a different rant.)

I mean, Chris knew someone once that felt envious of her husband's OCR package that he used to read his mail. ENVIOUS of the frigging FEMALE VOICE SYNTH. This is not a woman. This is not even a fake woman that has a Slot B into which you could insert your Tab A. (Or if you do, please don't tell me, for the love of all that is good.)

Anyway, yeah. Dog interview. Not that I wouldn't be home anyway, but that's not the point.

da rules

The 26 unwritten rules of advertising.

I would add #27: 'Dad is always a drooling bumbling idiot, and Mom is always brilliant and psychic and knows everything. Dad can only cook with the assistance of canned soup, while Mom can balance three children on each limb and turn out a beef wellington in eighteen minutes without batting an eyelash.'

(Ask me which one of my parents did the cooking most of the time. Go on, ask me. :-D)