Do you ever feel that the weight of stupid sexism is so heavy, that you just want to pick up a baseball bat and start swinging? How do you keep your sanity?

Yes. I don't own a baseball bat, just in case.

Liese, that's a marvelous quote.

Burrell, thanks for sharing it.

Dilbert creator exposed sock puppeting.

He's such a wanker I feel cheated by every chuckle I got from that dumb thing. Take that, certified genius.

I wonder if he appreciated credibility back when he had any of it.

Awesome, ita.

I am not quite evil enough to hope Scott Adams gets pulled from a burning car by a female firefighter. But if he ever does get trapped in a burning car, I really hope that a female firefighter rescues him.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I HATE it when I get dragged into a project at the very last minute, and then everyone else assumes that I know more about the project than they do.

Yeah, that sucks.

I am having an aggravating day, too, but it's mostly of my own making. I decided I was having problems with the laser printer because of the drum. But instead of buying the $600 maintenance kit, I bought just the drum itself for $150. I get it, no instructions, fine, I buy a service manual from a slightly skeevy website. Manual's great.

But the process of replacing the drum is way more complicated than I'd planned on, mostly because I am a klutz and spilled toner at pretty much every possible interval. The replacement of the drum does not, in fact, solve the problem. And now I have two additional problems, mostly stemming from me trying to clean up the toner.

I think both problems may be resolvable. But the end result appears to be that the drum was fine, but the surrounding bits needed cleaning. But to get those problems resolved means opening it up again, for the fourth time, and I'm just not up to that right now.

To make matters worse, the SO wanted me to go ahead and print the newsletters before I started all this, and I got all the way to the point where I was ready to do so, but then didn't. Now I may not be able to get it back to the point of slightly messy printing where it was. So I should have done what he wanted to begin with.

Blargh.

I always was worse at the physical tech tasks than the programming ones, but I feel this was within my range. Just...not successful.

-t, how did you find out that your taxes had been rejected? I'm not going to be around this weekend to mail them if I need to, and now I'm getting paranoid.

H&R Block sent me an e-mail. It took less than a day. There should be somewhere you can check on your status, however you filed. In fact, I'm going to check the Franchise Tax Board website and maybe try e-filing again directly.

Eta: ah, can't CalFile for a deceased taxpayer. I suppose I can send another copy certified mail on Monday if I get too nervous about it.

It sucks. But the alternative (giving in) is worse.

Preach.