I call my USB cellular modem a dongle. Also the whosit.

Card games with regular cards: do you guys play Up and Down the River? We were introduced to it by our friends in Kansas and we play it every time we see each other. It can totally be a vicious game. I am fine with it except for the social aspects at which I predictably suck.

When is a flash drive a "dongle"? Also, if I never have to hear my boss at the theatre talking about his "dongle" again, it will be to soon.

It's like when my friend refers to random objects as a "hoo-hah". I'm like "um, that refers to lady parts, not the stapler"

Jesse, that is of the massive suck.

Pool was....I needed a catcher's mask, swear to god. Hand in the face, balls in my lane at least every other, ball to the face once and a near miss. I wanted to strangle those kids.

Mom made my reservations to pick up D. I fly out with him on the 22 and back to B'ham alone the 27. I'm probably going to aim to come straight back here, but go out for a long weekend on the way out. I realize part of my stress about this is a) not really being in a position to control the dates and times much (if she put me on a dawn flight....blearg) and b) cat anxiety. Namely, not really knowing how Mister Kitty'll be doing. Anti-bs were to have worn off this weekend, and his face hasn't blown up, but...I kinda worry about leaving even for a week this soon. And then there are the expenses, which I really don't want to have right now, but mom is at least footing the flights, she really wants to see me, it'll be the first time I've been back to NM in a couple years at least (and the new screened porch will be finished), and I can't pass up an opportunity to see my brother and family. So.

Am so fucking cranky.

Jesse, that sucks!! Especially since you did it with H&RBlock, shouldn't they have some kind of guarantee or help??

Especially since you did it with H&RBlock, shouldn't they have some kind of guarantee or help??

I would have thought.... I mean, they did help -- the guy figured out what I had missed, but still. I don't know.

We have dongles for the soooper special customized captioning software we use at work. They are tiny and each of them costs $10,000.

I think my boss just likes the word "dongle".

Speaking of being twelve, I was reading some Flylady emails about setting aside some private alone time for yourself. One of the suggestions was to take along your vibrating timer.

Hrm. Their guarantee on their website is pretty crappy--if it's an arithmetic error (!?!) they'll pay the penalties and interest.

Megan, was it you that mentioned Pit? I loved that, but we had to stop playing because my grandmother and great aunt were so cutthroat. Risk was also banned in our house because my mother couldn't take how vicious we all got.

Someone else mentioned it before me, but, yeah. It's a great get-people-into-gaming-mode game. Plus, it's easy to learn and quick to play.

Mine has a bell, which is awesome, but I'd rather have our old version with the original commodities (flax, etc.), for one thing, the point values had better distribution.

Hrm. Their guarantee on their website is pretty crappy--if it's an arithmetic error (!?!) they'll pay the penalties and interest.

Yeah, I guess it's technically my fault, and I don't have to pay any penalty (just my real taxes that were hiding from me). Whatever. I'm getting over it.