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Jun. 7th, 2008
The Not-Who Saturday Post
Jun. 7th, 2008 06:37 pmThe killer heat of summer has arrived - it hit 101 today according to the car - and my A/C is working flat out, with an attitude of "I may be set to 74, but you'll take 78 and you'll like it!"
There has been much thunder and lightning, and the sky has turned puce as the trees thrash. *scurries to read up on LJ while electric lasts. Prays electric does last, as it's going to be too damned hot to sleep without A/C.*
Why I Give Up On Borders:
So, here I am in a two-story Borders with a wallet full of money and a 30% coupon. Can I find *anything* that I'm looking for? No. That might be because not only are they not carrying full series of books or more than a few token books in certain categories, but needlecrafts are so misshelved that crochet is in beadwork and knitting and quilting have been mixed together. I'd like to say that it was whatever moron was working that section, but in history, biographies of Princess Di were next to ones for Henry VIII.
And when I went to ask for help, one guy at the desk had nothing in his world but the keyboard he was working. The other one was also staring fixedly at a screen, tendons in his neck raised, utterly oblivious to the ringing phone and the three people in front of him. Except that on about the 10th ring, he leaned over to the typing guy and hissed "So you're not going to get the phone? You're not just ruining my life, but everyone else's!"
Y'all, I can "walk" into Amazon, go right to what I'm looking for, get a 20-30% discount on other days aside from Thursday-Sunday, and if I order more than $25 (never hard), get free shipping. So why I should screw around in a store getting tired, frustrated, and blown off, is beyond me.
I remember Cracked magazine from my childhood as a really weak wannabe Mad magazine. However, lately I've been linked to all sorts of fabulous pages there, including 20 Websites From Before the Internet Was Invented![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
misscam you have *got* to see #7. #2 is... somewhere in that intersection between triggeringly nasty and hilarious.
Fic Recs:
I'm so happy that people are linking to their![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sizeofthatthing fics, because it's damned hard to keep track of anything in a monster list of comments.
Nos' Doctor/River porn. Love the last line! NSFW, obviously.
The World's Funniest Internet Sex
SMITH1980: Doctor? It's been nearly two minutes. Are you still there?
DOCTOR10: Sorry. I keep deleting the bits that sound too rude.
SMITH1980: I don't think it's going to work if you do that.
Seriously, if you don't ever click a rec of mine, try this one. Except if you're at work. Or under 18. DO NOT HAVE A DRINK NEAR THE MONITOR!
The sky just strobed like a disco, with less than 3 seconds before the thunder. Hitting post NOW.
There has been much thunder and lightning, and the sky has turned puce as the trees thrash. *scurries to read up on LJ while electric lasts. Prays electric does last, as it's going to be too damned hot to sleep without A/C.*
Why I Give Up On Borders:
So, here I am in a two-story Borders with a wallet full of money and a 30% coupon. Can I find *anything* that I'm looking for? No. That might be because not only are they not carrying full series of books or more than a few token books in certain categories, but needlecrafts are so misshelved that crochet is in beadwork and knitting and quilting have been mixed together. I'd like to say that it was whatever moron was working that section, but in history, biographies of Princess Di were next to ones for Henry VIII.
And when I went to ask for help, one guy at the desk had nothing in his world but the keyboard he was working. The other one was also staring fixedly at a screen, tendons in his neck raised, utterly oblivious to the ringing phone and the three people in front of him. Except that on about the 10th ring, he leaned over to the typing guy and hissed "So you're not going to get the phone? You're not just ruining my life, but everyone else's!"
Y'all, I can "walk" into Amazon, go right to what I'm looking for, get a 20-30% discount on other days aside from Thursday-Sunday, and if I order more than $25 (never hard), get free shipping. So why I should screw around in a store getting tired, frustrated, and blown off, is beyond me.
I remember Cracked magazine from my childhood as a really weak wannabe Mad magazine. However, lately I've been linked to all sorts of fabulous pages there, including 20 Websites From Before the Internet Was Invented
misscam you have *got* to see #7. #2 is... somewhere in that intersection between triggeringly nasty and hilarious.Fic Recs:
I'm so happy that people are linking to their
sizeofthatthing fics, because it's damned hard to keep track of anything in a monster list of comments. Nos' Doctor/River porn. Love the last line! NSFW, obviously.
The World's Funniest Internet Sex
SMITH1980: Doctor? It's been nearly two minutes. Are you still there?
DOCTOR10: Sorry. I keep deleting the bits that sound too rude.
SMITH1980: I don't think it's going to work if you do that.
Seriously, if you don't ever click a rec of mine, try this one. Except if you're at work. Or under 18. DO NOT HAVE A DRINK NEAR THE MONITOR!
The sky just strobed like a disco, with less than 3 seconds before the thunder. Hitting post NOW.