Why is my coffee shaking?!

If I were going to actually number the top ten to reflect order of favourite-ness, this song would definitely be in my personal top 3. I certainly can't think of one I like better when it comes to pure raw feeling, and being able to dance to it. You notice I don't tend to gravitate toward the weepy whiny side of breaking up, which is why I bring you Mr. Bitterness...



There will be no lyrics as they are built into the video, which I promise is not the Karaoke version, though I really wish I had that too. Sadly a Karaoke version does not seem to exist or I'd be delivering it to dj_fos already.

Yeah, so what, I sing Karaoke now... It's not like I'm doing it in hopes of trying out to be the next Canada's Got Asshats or whatever. There's beer, and singing, and hilarity, and I don't suck at singing, so it's fun. Don't make fun of me, or I'll send you recordings of the people who DO suck. I'm serious! Alternately, if you're a local you could be coming out to make fun of me yourself, every Wednesday night at Club Ren, right across from the Kitchener bus terminal. I won't even make you sing! Though I might buy Renee a beer if she makes you. ;D

I think it is hilarious when someone with really huge personal problems dies, mostly because of the reactions of certain people.... Let's talk about Amy Winehouse as an example.

Yes, I put up a video as a tribute. I do this because A) I like Amy Winehouse's music, and B) I have a lot of sympathy for broken people who can still create amazing music at the same time, probably because I'm a really broken person who still tries to create stuff, and I can't seem to make anything as cool as what she's done.

Does my putting up a tribute to her mean that I care more about her than anything else in the world? No, I would have to say most certainly not. Should I then feel bad that I posted about her, instead of, I dunno, issues in the world, or I dunno, the latest study on how global warming affects people's parenting skills? I don't think so.

But certain people seem to get really bent out of shape when other people pay any kind of attention to it when someone with negative personal issues dies, like it is somehow something we should celebrate instead. As a person with a few negative personal issues, that is sort of WHY I post a tribute, since I understand how hard it was for someone like Amy Winehouse to get through a simple day. I understand that eventually it was just too hard for her, and whatever happened probably did happen for that reason, and I don't feel like it's appropriate to just say "well she probably deserved it" just because her pain is now ended.

It's also not appropriate to try to take away the sympathy of others for that person by trying to imply that there are other more important things to talk about than the death of someone with negative personal issues. It's like trying to pretend the only people worth talking about are the people who don't have any of those issues. Turn to the person next to you and ask them if they never heard a story in their home town of a school teacher who turned out to have a terrible drinking or gambling problem, or a mayor with a mistress, or anyone with any kind of secret. Are you so clean that you can't look at Amy Winehouse and not see even the thin shade of something you yourself might have a problem with? She just had more than most people. She also made amazing music that I liked, and I will miss it. I'm sorry other people in the world die, but my journal isn't about the world, it's about me and what I like. You can get over yourself and read something else if you have a problem with that.

Thanks for listening.



Adiam Dymott- Pizza

I had an awesome post prepared for this song late on Wednesday night, but my damn browser ate it on Thursday morning. I was trying to be good and not post before work, and so I stayed good and just deleted what was left and went to work instead. Don't hate me.

And speaking of don't-hate-me... Today's break-up song is going to be in my top 3 of all time, since it definitely has special meaning for me. It happens to be the song that uniquecrash5 sent to me, almost a year after I had broken off our decade+ long relationship. I have always aimed to be a decent person when I have to end a relationship, and I had taken extra care with Crash, not just because of K but because I knew I wanted him to still be my close friend too. There were a few really sticky reasons I knew this would be particularly difficult, and I knew if I wasn't serious about making him still feel my respect and caring for him that I would not be able to live with myself. Considering that he sent me this song after what in Joss Whedon terms would be my Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal (and the subsequent ironic-comedic-but-no-less-inevitable conclusion of same), as an attempt to make me feel better about my life, I would have to say I guess I did what I had set out to do. Proud is not the right word, since what I get when I hear this song is more of a lump in my throat of feeling good that I am smart enough to not hurt people whose love is very important to me.




Joel Plaskett "You Let Me Down"

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koogrr, sent me this video a while back, so it's his fault I keep telling people about it, and why I am posting it here for those people now. Never hesitate to question the physics of your favourite show, even if it is animated, with rainbows, and ponies. NEVAR. Because it's awesome! WARNING: This video contains math.

So, five minutes after I made my previous post about my Boss' awesomeness and my embarrassing moments at work, I managed to make myself actually LATE for work by, and I'm not kidding when I say this, spilling coffee on one of my cats. That is a reason so dumb you really can't make it up, but it was serious all the same. The coffee in question was brutally fresh and hot, and the cat in question (Purrrl) reacted rather strongly to it being spilled on her, so of course I had to chase her down and drag her up to the bathroom for a soothing cool bath. She hated that too, but at least she no longer had a hot/wet coffee spot on her, and was no longer scared. I knew I should technically email my boss, but yeah, I knew what his reaction was going to be.

When I got to work, they were waiting for me, I tells ya.... It was not because I was late, oh no, they wanted to mock me for being NEW :D We had a really good laugh about that, and I did tell my boss that I really like him, but in the context of his being lucky because that was what kept me from killing him for embarrassing me. *chuckle* Then I finally went ahead and said I wanted to tell him why I was late, and had decided to tell him in person. You already know the punch line, so I won't keep you waiting- His reaction: Doubled over laughing.

That's my boss. :D

Dear Appliance Manufacturers of the World,

We live in the modern world now, not the fifties. People build websites to discuss and describe their products all the time, and so should you. I should not have to spend more than ten minutes on a website of a manufacturer of a product I have purchased but lost/tossed/never had the manual for, just to find out what all six buttons do. SIX BUTTONS. Don't make me call your help line and waste yet more of my precious time, even if it does create a job for some under-appreciated call centre monkey, just to find out that the three non-obvious buttons mean what I think they mean. You should never make me call you if I don't actually have a problem you can help me with. Websites are supposed to be there to answer my utterly stupid questions, not your underpaid monkeys.

Seriously. They are called web designers, and it will actually save you money and hassle to hire some, plus you get to stop looking like pre-internet fossils. It's embarrassing. Stop it.

Thank you for your time.

A Not-So-Funny thing happened to me during my really fun weekend...

I got caught in the massive rain storm wearing my glasses (with their handy-dandy reflective coating) and sunscreen (with its fabulous array of chemicals), and the combination of elements began to eat the AR coating right off my lenses, rendering them kinda, well, FUCKED.

Fast forward to later, when having made a couple inquiries, the internet tells me what I need is actually something we sell at work, called Armour Etch, which makes actual glass really damn foggy, but if you rub it all over your poly carbonate eyeglass lens that is having some offensive AR coating wear off, it will be shiny and like new! But also SHINY and did I mention reflective? Oh well. I am sure I can get used to that again, since that was my life for a bjillion years when I was a kid wearing glasses and they didn't have fancy shit like AR coatings and transition lenses still looked stupid.

BUT that's the sad part- My other non-stupid looking transitioning glasses that I thought had the exact same problem? They turn out to have some other kind of problem that is making them bubble that mere etching cream does not seem to want to address. I am trying to google it, but for some reason the word bubbling makes it want to tell me about how it's not smart to soap your camera lenses. SO MUCH DUH.

Any glasses wearers who have had bubbling on the surface coating of their lenses before? I am tempted to start taking other chemicals to them, like sunscreen or nail polish remover, since they were already ruined, so the worst I can do is ruin them more.

From my monthly Bernat pattern spam: This 'scarf' pattern for mother's day looks suspiciously like a throw rug my mom used to have. I couldn't stop chuckling, and so I share... Does this look work for anyone??

http://www.bernat.com/data/pattern/pdf/Bernat_SofteeChunky495_kn_scarf.en_US.pdf

Note to Facebook: 'Something' is one of those words people don't like when it's the only subject you use in your sentence: "Something went wrong. We're working on getting it fixed as soon as we can. We're sorry for the inconvenience."

Oooookay? What's the Something? How wrong are we talking? Should I be waiting? Will there be dragons if I don't? I could use a little more input while I decide whether I should actually attempt to care...

...and in case it was not abundantly clear, yes, I still pretty much hate Facebook.