Category: Life-condensed

Well, that was unpleasant.

I am currently at the public library and I not only ran into some heavy rain, but hail as well.

Rain? I can handle. Hail? Not so much.

I’m driving an ’08 Vibe and the thought of having hail damage freaks me out. Luckily, the library used to be an old lumber yard and they have huge carport structures back behind the building. So, I raced to get under one …

… me and about half a dozen other people.

I can’t really tell at this point if there is any damage, but I’ll be on pins and needles until I know for sure.

In addition, this is Halloween. And there are a TON of little kids dressed up in costume. I’m assuming the library is having some kind of shindig for the children. This also means there are a ton of screaming, yelling, excited children running around.

Swell. At least they are adorable to look at or I might have to get cranky. *grin*

Quick note: I haven’t been to this library in quite a few months. I was pleasantly surprised to see they had added quite a few cubicles, complete with power bars, as well as a few funky tall tables and chairs, next to outlets, I might add. I’m currently sitting in a cubicle, though I wanted to sit at one of the two funky tables.

Only I couldn’t because one table is occupied by a sleeping student and the way the tables are situated, I would be sitting facing the kid and I didn’t want him to think I was staring at him.

Which I would totally be doing if I were sitting at the next table. Not because I’m weird like that, but because I’d be staring and zoning while thinking (I do that) and it could be misconstrued as being stalker-ish.

Another quick note: My mini-Dell is acting squirrely. It keeps toggling from top of page to bottom of page, while I’m typing. Most of the time I don’t notice what’s going on and keep on typing, in the middle of another paragraph because the cursor jumped so I end up spending all of my time undoing the last command and putting the cursor in the correct position. It’s beyond frustrating. It could be a setting, or maybe I’m hitting something by accident, but if we can’t figure it out soon, it may have to go back to the shop.

And there is no way I can use it for NaNoWriMo because I’ll be typing, fast, and I don’t have the time or patience to deal with a bi-polar computer.

It’s a good thing I have my Toshiba laptop to fall back on (and from which I’m typing this now).

In case you’re keeping track, I now have four computers, all to myself.

I’m beyond spoiled.

And yes, I’m embarrassed to tell you that.

I’m seeing these things all over cars where I live:

What does that even mean?? Is that an insult to children? Is that an insult to the parents of honor students? Are animal owners jealous of people with honor students? Is that dissing our school system? Our teachers? Our education system overall?

I’ve even seen a bumper sticker like this on an SUV that I see in the car line everyday when picking up my sons. So I’m assuming they have a child at that school. Is this an insult to their child? How does that child feel being compared to the family pet and in essence being told, “Our dog is smarter than you are!”

AARGH! I’m confused!

I seriously don’t get it.

I have a headache trying to make sense of this.

Enlighten me, Internet.

I’m disturbed and confused over this statement that Biden made last week:

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking,” Biden said.

“Remember I said it standing here. if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he’s gonna have to make some really tough — I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen,” Biden continued.

Have you heard about this? I’m betting no. Why hasn’t the news media picked up on this? You can bet your bottom dollar it would have been ALL we heard about if a Republican candidate had said something similar. Why aren’t we hounding Senator Biden to explain this statement? Do we really need further proof that our liberal media is seriously biased?

Why do I get the feeling that Biden knows something and is trying to warn us? And what exactly does he mean by “generated crisis?” Have we already been threatened?

And the bigger question is, IF Obama makes it to the White House, how will he react IF we’re attacked again? Will he be decisive and strong, thereby discouraging future attacks? Or will he be too concerned about hurting someone’s feelings to react at all?

I’m telling you folks, this seriously worries me.