happy new month!

rant of the day
this is a free country. you have a right to eat things that are unhealthy. you have the right to smoke cigarillos. you have the right to get drunk every day and never brush your teeth. HOWEVER, if you live an unhealthy lifestyle, you do not have the right to ask me to pay for your health care. if you are a driving risk, you pay more for car insurance. if you are a health risk, you pay more for health insurance. period. end of story.

answer of the day
from the chicago manual of style answer lady:
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Q. I need help on how it would be easier to make a bibliography easier.
A. You could keep it short. You could find the references online and copy and paste them in so you don't have to type them. You could buy some software that helps format bibliographies. You could ask your mom to do it.
»
YOU COULD ASK YOUR MOM TO DO IT!! ppfahahaha!! you go answer lady - i love you!

quote of the day
from gmail: «"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." -- Kurt Cobain» i am just going to posit that being kurt cobain is a waste of being a person. except that would be unduly mean. plus, he's not being himself much these days, is he?

pet peeve of the day
people say schedule when they mean deadline. i am just catching on to this word foible. see, my job is to create schedules for my department's work. a schedule is a list of the steps one must follow to accomplish a completed project + the date that each of the steps is due. when my teammates ask for a schedule and want to know it RIGHT THEN, i sort of break out in a cold sweat b/c there are a number of factors that go into creating a schedule. it's not like i have to gather eye of newt and wait for the planets to align, but i do have to map out the steps and calculate the date for each based on standard intervals + unique needs of this project. it's not rockit skyence, but it's work. that is why they pay me for it. i am not going to know it BOOMP like that. but, today, based on context, i realized that they are asking for, not a schedule, but rather a deadline. hell, i can give 'em a deadline. take today's date, add three weeks. BOOMP. deadline. does it fit in with the schedule? i have no freakin' idea, but bygod, it's a deadline so there ya go buddy.


wrong number of the day
several years ago i started getting calls from creditors looking for "lance". they called & called & called. i finally quit answering, and they left myriad messages. i had pages & pages of notes with dates that they called & numbers they called from. then, it quit. i kept the notes for a few years, but then i believe i threw them out. guess who called tonight? you know the punch line. capital management services, looking for ol' lance. the problem here is that lance needs to get his own phone.