Unexpected

AOL sucking slightly less than usual this morning! Wow!

For those of you with the sense NOT to use AOL, it has for months now had a screen that comes up automatically when you log on. This screen shows a slideshow of stories, with moving pics. You could choose the general type of story shown, but you could not just say, no, I don't want this. Also, there is no way to x out of the screen. It just minimizes. To the worst possible spot, making running more than one window at a time very awkward.

When the most recent hostage was beheaded, AOL ran that story for days on Husband's screen. It was terrible. I have the entertainment version up, so you can imagine the crap I get to see on a regular basis.

I recently found a work around for the problem. "Close" the screen so it minimized, then drag it over and stick it behind my buddy list. Ha! Perfection!

But this morning, there was a new screen. Much less intrusive. And it minimized down to a sidebar like the sidebar they used to have before. So basically, it went away! And if I want to get rid of the side bar, I can still use my workaround. Though, stupidly, when you x out of it, the side bar now minimizes the same stupid way the screen used to. Blah, blah. So sucks slightly less.

"sex with a man"

The Husband cracks me up.

He was grousing about the new thing he has to do at work.

"This is a terrible project!" Adopts Scott Thompson voice, "I'm gonna need a lot of sex with a man when this is over."

*snickers*

Freud and The Small Boy

"Forget about your ego, forget about your pride
And you will never have to compromise."

So say the Indigo Girls in Joking. It was playing in the car last night as Small Boy laughed at the word ego.

Which let to me explaining my probably quite lame understanding of the ego, superego and id.

Small Boy, clever child that he is, immediately observed that he was probably under the influence of his id a lot of the time. I agreed, saying that I was pretty sure it was one of the premises of the theory that children are creatures of the id, and as they mature their superego comes to the fore. Though we also agreed that he is developing a lovely superego in many respects.

Welllll....

Mom sent me my birthday present by mail yesterday.

The box is sitting on the kitchen table. Small Boy just came through the kitchen. He says, "You shouldn't have left that on the table. But my superego won!" I was confused. He said, "The present!"

Now indulging in maternal gloating over my offspring. Sorry. Moving on. :)

The best!

I have the best friends list! This has yet to result in a single "wha?" Though I suppose the post is still young... You are all so fab! :) And will relay your well wishes to The Husband. Who will be mortified.

Goddammit!

What the F*#*$ do you people think I am going to do with your personal information!!!!

I am seriously going to start telling people that they can't talk to Olivier until they give me the necessary billing information.

It pisses me off!

That guy knew it, too. And I sure as hell am not apologizing.

UPDATE: The guy called back. He gave me his info. *shakes head*

The Story of the Two Green Frogs

One day, I arrived at work. My desk was a mess from the previous day. I found, on the floor under my chair, a little plastic green froggy. He has a hole in his body that would allow him to go on the end of a pencil. Then, digging through the paper on my desk, I found his twin.

Two Green Frogs.

And no one has ever admitted that they gave them to me, though I have asked all over the office.

They now sit on my monitor. Their presence in my life leaves me in a sort of wide-eyed, child-like wonder of the mysteries of the universe.

Paging tech support

There's a way to see Lost online. How's it done? I'm looking in your direction, dork_elf. :)

Hunting the Simpsons for icon fodder

...on your way out, if you wanna kill somebody, it would help a lot.
-Hank Scorpio

This is by far and away my favorite Simpsons episode. And, apparently, someone else's, as it has its own website.

If I were one to squee!

Now seeking a similar site for Treehouse of Horror VII, with my second favorite episode from the 1996 election, where Kang and Kodos disguise themselves as Dole and Clinton.

"If you know a better way to exchange long protien strands, I'd like to hear it!"

"Go ahead! Throw your vote away!"

I found an acceptable Mr. Burns this evening. So Simpsons icons on the way. Go me!