electricland: (me by ohi)
electricland ([personal profile] electricland) wrote2006-01-19 10:45 pm

in no particular order

Side benefit of a late night and bed gravity keeping me out of the shower this morning: my hair was so filthy I decided to go get it cut at lunch just so I could have it washed. (Sorry, that's probably more than you wanted to know about my personal hygiene.) It looks great and I've had many compliments, except from my parents, who haven't noticed. So here's hoping it still looks great tomorrow.

Gave my dad an emergency Outlook tutorial last night. When I entered the room he had 3 instances of Outlook and about 20 message windows open and was complaining that things kept disappearing. Turned out he was minimizing the Outlook every time he wanted to close a message in the preview pane, and then wondering where it had gone. Suddenly these complaints make a lot more sense. I explained about the bold-with-blue-numbers indicating unread messages and he was indignant. Still, I feel we've made some progress with the parental Luddism.*

Choir good. New Mozart, not filthy this time. I have Thoughts on choir which I may share at a later date. It'll probably involve pontification, so don't look forward to it too much.

Last night's candidates meeting made the paper. There was a photo in the print edition. I don't think I was visible, but I'd only have been about 2 pixels high in any case.

*He claims it's not being a Luddite, as the Luddites smashed things because they worked. I say, if you can't bother to figure out how they work and then complain about it, isn't that just as bad? Although not, of course, to his face. Ah, parents.

[identity profile] mr-weasel.livejournal.com 2006-01-20 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
My Dad tends to fix computers and their ilk rather forcefully...with a sledgehammer. Or at least that's what he's always threatening to do.

[identity profile] jenlev.livejournal.com 2006-01-20 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
ok, that loud squealing sound you heard was me laughing at the phrase "parental luddism". i can't wait to call my mother "parental luddite". kind of like "parental unit". hee!

yay for new haircuts, and for mozart. *hugs*