Fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck, shit.

Our washing machine just flooded the apartment, garage, and garage closet. We seem to have stopped the apartment waterflow to half the hallway, one bathroom, and a bit of K-Bug's room. Most of the garage flow has missed the stuff stored there, but I don't have any place dry to shift things around to check on the questionable areas. The garage closet has the same issue. It seems to have missed the cardboard boxes, but I don't have any place dry to move things to really be able to check.

I called maintenance and the "water extraction" people will be here in an hour to dry the carpet and do the anti-mold thing. I hope they can do something with the garage too. We have swept out what we could and have the garage cracked open, but until that area dries...

We have been planning on getting a new set, but I still need to save up $1,000 more (dang things are expensive and I'd rather get a nice set than settle for a cheep set, but that was the plan while the current set was still working). So fricking frustrating.

Our complex used to rent washers and dryers but now they buy a new set and add an amount to your rent. Which mean I could get a new set, but it wouldn't be mine and I wouldn't have any choice over it. But I would be able to get it within the next week.

The hall is so squishy...gross.

I am pretty sure this means I need to leave work a little early and get some jalepeno poppers before I head home. Possibly a vanilla coke also.

That is a brilliant idea.

Oh shit, Suzi. That sucks!

but it wouldn't be mine and I wouldn't have any choice over it.

You also wouldn't have to move it if and when you go though.

Ugh, no fun.

Argh, Suzi! My washer spewed water all over my garage a few weeks ago, but happily my garage floor is uneven and most of the water pooled away from my boxes of books.

Suzi, that sounds horrible. But there are perks to not owning, just as there are perks to owning, and it sounds like right now you need the former more than the latter. I hope cleanup goes as simply as possible.

I am on .NET fire today. In a half-assed way. I don't think the developer on the project appreciates this in the least (she's the sort that says "Sorry" when I'm expecting her to say "Hi"), but she's only here for one more week, so I have to learn enough about .NET to vault her over some of her psychological obstructions. What is this runat=server fuckery? And why is it breaking the pagination control? I don't know, but I suggest she tries and sees if objects not defined that way also break it (I don't get what some developers don't do as second nature when they're debugging, but I love seeing lightbulbs go off as they talk).

Never mind the javascript she thinks she commented out that is randomly replacing links with a button. I was confused too, when the business explained the problem, but that's why you go experimenting, isn't it?

I must be driving her crazy today. I bet she doesn't appreciate the frock.

You know sometimes when the clothes wear you, but it's not necessarily a bad thing? I have a dress like that, which gets a lot of compliments, and that phrasing is deliberate--I don't get a lot of compliments wearing it, the dress is the target. Which is fine! I love the dress--I dropped $300 on it and don't regret a penny for the oversized hanky. I wonder if my tits can still...hmm. I wore it to one wedding on my mother's side, but I might be able to get another one out of it, if I work out a way to compensate for ten years passing. There's optimism for you. ANYWAY. Today's outfit is kinda like that--the compliments I'm getting are pretty much for having gone to the trouble of wearing all this, more than for looking good in it, which is fine. It's fun, and I'm here to work, not win awards.

IO9 has an article about the boringness of Batman, and I think they're right, but also irrelevant. They do state that he's in good stories still, but I think the perfection helps with good stories more than they're allowing.

my garage floor is uneven and most of the water pooled away from my boxes of books.

This is what we seem to have going on. I just wish I could move a few things to verify that the few boxes I have on the floor of the garage have escaped damage.

No more working for the nonce. I already made one e-mail screw up (luckily it wasn't a big screw up and only 2 recipients).

National Geo photo contest winners: [link]

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday MM!

So I decided I needed a new party dress for GaFilk(The banquet has a jazz band for dancing) as I had worn the same dress several years in a row.(plus it was a bit snug around the chest) Went to Macy's 'cuz I had a gift card. Didn't see a lot I liked, and I had to go up a size, since the dresses in my usual size wouldn't zip past my ribs. Found one that I liked that fit, and it was full price. Gift card covered about half the price.

Also? Side zippers are of the devil.

(Yes, I realize this is sort of a "my diamond shoes are too tight" rant.)

Also? Side zippers are of the devil

See, I prefer side zippers (when I can get them), because as someone who lives alone, I have to be sure I can zip and unzip a dress myself. More than once I have not purchased a dress I otherwise liked, because of that.

The last time, I could not get out of the dress and ended up begging another woman in the dressing room at Nordstrom Rack to unzip me. How embarrassing!