someone hit the monday button - unsent letters

Dear Unnamed Assistive Technology Company For The Blind Based In Indiana,

You do NOT "provide support for the Outlook Calendar" in your latest beta release. You provide an alternate blindy interface to the Outlook Calendar. That is NOT the same. You people COULD just use the component object model and ACTUALLY provide support for the calendar, but that would mean that you'd have to get off your asses and do some actual programming for a change, so I guess you'd rather assume your clientele won't notice because they're all inferior beings that don't need appointments anyway.

Also, grow a scripting language.

You suck and your cat's ugly too, and I refuse to buy your product for my son,

Ms L.

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Dear Woman At The Coffee Shop,

I said PUMPKIN bread. Not BANANA bread. The banana bread was good, but I really WANTED pumpkin bread.

Sad panda Phinnia
(I didn't take it back because it was a to-go thing and I ended up eating it two hours later, before you ask.)

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Dear Impatient Walgreens' Customer,

I am trying to pay for my purchase, put my money in my wallet and my purchase in my bag, and go. This process would be a LOT faster if you would QUIT LOOMING NOT SIX INCHES FROM ME and GET THE HELL OUT OF MY PERSONAL SPACE. Then I wouldn't have to keep looking over my shoulder to see WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE DOING THERE ANYWAY.

A little creeped out,
Me

abuse of italics inside

Is Dance Dance Dance meant to be a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase, or am I just confused in drawing parallels between them?

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Meeting with the SLP next Monday (10/23.) Am going to suggest increasing speech therapy in his IEP (the OT was willing to sign off on increasing her service, so I figure it might be worth a shot.) I'm also giving a thought to private speech therapy in supplement to what he gets at preschool.

The way I see it, the lack of language is a much bigger problem - and it's difficult to address, because most ways of dealing with nonverbal kids involve pictures, and ... yeah.

I've got a call in to Children's Speech/Language services. We'll see what they say.

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Where is the line between advocacy and being an ass? If I push for my kid to have more therapy, this may mean that some other child gets less therapy (inasmuch as there are only x hours in a given day). But I can't just sit around, not knowing what's causing this language delay - and half an hour a week or however much they have him in one on one therapy seems like so little and it feels like it makes no difference, and ARGH. *flails hands incoherently* I am not good with the sense-making today, I think. Did not sleep well. Woke up at 4:00AM because the boy had a nightmare and my hands were cold and stiff enough to be immobile. Ergh.

I think it would be easier if I just knew why, you know? It's not genetic - Chris was talking early, and I had normal language development. What the hell? But whenever I ask, it seems to get shrugged off, and it's really starting to piss me off. Why are we not trying to find the cause of this again? WTF.
</whine>

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Child likes to lie on the floor, listening to music, sometimes rocking a little bit. It's a thing he does.
Neko: Oooh! I will play with The Small One! *bats at Sean's hair*
Sean: *shoves cat away*
Neko: A game! A game! *plays with Sean's hair*
Sean: *shoves cat away*
Lather/rinse/repeat. At least as long as the cat's attention span, anyway.

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Is it just me, or is there something terribly wrong with the whole idea of this product? (probably not worksafe.)

sometimes I amuse myself

I don't suppose any of the other BPAL-obsessed people on my list has a full or partial bottle of Black Moon they want to sell me for a reasonable price, do they?

(Seriously though, if you do I can pay you Friday, or if you're local and going to be at the Meet-and-Swap next week I can pay you there.)

(This could be more amusing. It could be Shub I'm looking for, or Storyville. Ha! Ha ha. It is to laugh.)

Edit: If anyone wants to swap (for this or anything else) this is what I've got.