pet_peeve belly fire forgetting I cut my finger open at work until I gob a ton of shampoo into it... 030123 ... DammitJanet i have so many pet peeves i can't keep track of them all and it often feels like everyone around me knows them better then me because they keep egging me on reminding me of more every day it's a wonder i'm not a bitter, annoyed, angry person. oh... wait... 030124 ... jane next pet i get will be named "peeve" 070803 ... raze people who sit in their parked car at 2:23 a.m. and blast an adele song loud enough to shake the earth, or at least so every person within a radius of a mile or so can hear it loud and clear. i spy with my little eye something called "future hearing loss". 161023 ... raze related, sort of: people who have yet to learn how to lock a car after parking it, and so they use the key fob not once, not twice, but sometimes three, four, or five times in a row, because they need repeated confirmation of what the first beep told them. (if it's an OCD thing, i understand, but when it isn't ... ugh.) 181028 ... raze this one will never cease to bewilder me. someone advertises a service. in this case, it's photography or video-related. i contact them and say i'd like to hire them for a photo shoot, or to have something filmed, and ask how much they charge. one of two things happen: (1) i get no response. (2) i get a response to fails to answer my question and gives me no useful information at all (usually it's one of those "i've read your email and will respond soon" things that never, ever gets followed up on). I WANT TO HIRE YOU TO DO THE THING YOU CLAIM TO DO FOR A LIVING. YOU LIKE MONEY. I WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY. WHAT IS SO COMPLICATED ABOUT THIS THAT IT PREVENTS YOU FROM COMMUNICATING WITH ME? i'm not even talking about one or two people here. i've contacted dozens of so-called professionals. they're all like this. every last one of them. so i buy a better camera and do it myself. life's too short to try and force people to let you pay them to do the thing they want to be paid to do. 190215 ... raze a "to" should be a "that". a dog should be a cat. i ate before i shat. drat. 190215 ... e_o_i "I WANT TO HIRE YOU TO DO THE THING YOU CLAIM TO DO FOR A LIVING. YOU LIKE MONEY. I WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY. WHAT IS SO COMPLICATED ABOUT THIS THAT IT PREVENTS YOU FROM COMMUNICATING WITH ME?" You made me smile. And also sigh in frustration. There's someone in my artisans club who co-runs a restaurant. A couple of weeks ago I tried to go there but it was closed. So I emailed her asking what the hours were, since I'd like to go there, and she hasn't answered me yet. Mind you, it may just be the email address she uses for artisan stuff. And running a restaurant makes you pretty busy. But I'm like, "I will give you money!" ... I have a pet peeve that my pet peeve is the word "concerning" being used as an adjective. I have no idea why this annoys me. I guess it's just that every time I hear "It's concerning," I think, "Concerning WHAT?" Language changes, thou knowest. 190216 ... raze "language changes, thou knowest" needs to be the name of a book that examines the weirdness of modern word re-appropriation. one that always makes me tilt my head like a confused animal: when someone says, "[some event] is gonna be lit." well, i would hope so. without a source of light, everyone would just keep walking into walls or one another. and what fun would that be? but no, they don't mean light at all. "lit" is now a substitute for "exciting" and "awesome" and other such words that were perfectly adequate descriptors. i kind of want to poke fun at that. you know, every time i'm hosting a get-together or putting on a show or something, say, "it's gonna be well-lit tonight!" and then fire up a lightbulb like a rebel. 190216 ... e_o_i Weird flex but OK. ;) 190218 ... past i carefully read the email. i copied the email address of whom to contact if i had questions, as i had questions. i sent said questions to said email address as laid out. when the response finally came, he said he was not the person for the questions. he didn't tell me who was, or what their email address might be. he didn't forward my email to the correct person or help desk or office. just a short note that was effectively "nah, not me, bye." 221212 ... e_o_i Two-device authentication. The excuse is security, but it seems it's more about the security of companies than ordinary users. For us - at least me - it's a pain in the ass. For banking, okay, sure, but for the Concordia course website? Grrr. Whenever I log into the course website I have to get a text and then write that into the second password field before I can get into it. It's hugely frustrating. Once I left my phone at home and couldn't log into it until I got back. And just now I put in my student password instead of the employee password, which...didn't take me as long as it did to write this, but I felt like I wanted to complain_here. 231208 what's it to you? who go blather from