But then you get messages like

"OMG I jst cut down this awesome oak tree LOL. It's totly falling down thi1irlwekjtr;ekrnqnflwef fuxor"

Sure now you do, but after the nuclear holocaust you'll get useful information. Say you get a message from Frank, "OMG 2 many 2 mny sh*t no ammo :( no esc jf0wapuesajfalsdg 123849hwlk brains brains brains brains". You know to avoid where Frank was.

Glitter Rally!

So it turns out that talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres hates glitter. Can you imagine? Naturally this doesn't sit well with Kathy Cano-Murillo--aka the Crafty Chica--who is spearheading a movement to win Ellen over to the sparkly side. It all starts with a glitter-positive rally (complete with craft supplies from Duncan) outside Ellen's television studio in Burbank on April 8. I'll be there supporting the cause in a glitter-painted CRAFT teeshirt, alongside the Crafty Chica herself, members of the LA Craft Mafia, and fun folks like TLC's Mark Montano (author of Big-Ass Book of Crafts) and Cathie Filian from DIY's Creative Juice! If you'd like to join us, just come on by Ellen's studio at 3000 West Alameda Ave. in Burbank, CA at 12 noon on April 8.

Holy CRAP. This has an event for ita written all over it.

I'm with Ellen. Hate glitter. Glitter doesn't make you look sparkley or mysterious or anything other than messy.

AND I think safe sparkle is all a lie. Glitter almost always ends up all over you or your loved ones even with almost no contact. I still find glitter on me a few days after seeing ita.

I actually broke up with someone by reprimanding him about text messaging using up prepaid phone minutes that I needed for emergency calls from my parents.

I suspect he wrote about what a big meanie I was in his diary and then started cutting himself.

I knew texting was huge in Europe and has been for some time. I used to watch archaeologists doing field survey texting while walking in 2001. But my impression at that time was it hadn't caught on in the US yet. I guess now it has.

glitter-positive rally

That's hilarous. I'm pretty sure what Ellen mostly hates is stealth-glitter in cards and stuff. I don't think she cares if other people want to have glitter, she just doesn't want to be attacked by it.

There's a whole thing on the woman's website about "safe sparkle" and non-loose glitter.

Ellen thinks glitter should be in zones and glitter free zones should exist.

I do think the Kids These Days text a lot more than people my age -- even coworkers five years younger are way more about the texting.

My babysitters were very amazed that I was into this new technology. One of them said to a co-worker, "Isn't she cool? She texts!" I must look like I'm 65 years old or something.

DH wants a iJtterbug phone so he doesn't have to mess with anything techy. He just wants to be able to take and make calls. And sometimes, not even that.

I knew texting was huge in Europe and has been for some time.

I think that it's much cheaper to text than talk in Europe.

SAP is why my job was eliminated -- indirectly responsible, as in they overspent by about $20mill getting it implemented (very VERY poorly) and then had to spend probably another $10m getting it implemented properly. So they cut the jobs of many of the "non-essential" support personell who actually knew how to make the legacy apps work.

The thing about SAP as a database is that you don't interact with it directly -- you use a middleware that you use to connect to the apps that actually connect to your front ends. So technically, IMHO, it's like a game of data Telephone where there are many points of slippage where stuff (like what teachers actually get paid and have taxes taken out) can go pear-shaped without anybody noticing for far far too long.

It makes me mad all over again trying to summarize this. I may have to go sit with shrift for a little while.