Yes, I logged on WoW. I was not my decision. Certain people did certain things but didn’t get those certain things done so I had to do things to get things done. I got my things done, and now that they’re done, WoW is gone again. If you don’t understand — and you probably don’t — don’t ask; I can’t say.
No, I am not playing WoW.
No, I have not been hacked.
No, I am not selling my account.
No, nothing, no.
Now, onto blathering.
Blather 1: My new dishwasher, how much I love thee. Do you remember getting something extraordinary for Christmas, like the best toy of the season that would make all your friends jealous? Try hand-washing your dishes for two months and then getting a new energy-efficient dishwasher. Better than Christmas, seriously.
Blather 2: Dear lord I’m getting old thinking a dishwasher is better than Christmas.
Blather 3: My refrigerator’s ice maker is crushing my cube-ice. WTH?
Blather 4: So if I wanted to boost an attorney’s web site presence in Google, how would I do that?
Blather 5: Tropic Thunder is a d@mn funny movie.
Blather 6: There is no such thing as The Greatest Thing in Life. There are lots of em, and they happen every day, if you just stop and look for them.
Blather 7: And even on the seemingly worst day possible, you can find Joy.
Blather 8:
Daniel, where the {expletive deleted} are we going?
To our cars. We’re parked in the same place.
I don’t remember coming in this {expletive deleted} way.
You also got lost in the elevator this morning*. You don’t get a navigation-vote.
I can’t be {expletive deleted} late for my next appointment.
I was in special forces and Desert Storm. I’m not going to get lost walking from the elevator to the parking garage.
We’re in a {expletive deleted} tunnel!
The door is on the other side. See it?
{Expletive deleted}.
Was that how you say Thank You?
Um, no.
* Don’t ask.
Daniel you never cease to crack me up. BTW was that you that TJ ran into at Blizzcon?
Blather 4: SEO = proper keywords, an optimized website, and inbound links. Easy! (ish) Do you get a price cut for SEOing the site?
good luck
1) Hope you checked out the DishDrawer – http://www.fisherpaykel.com/dishwashing/
4) SEO – Blog about it and post links to high ranked sites. Your old BRK site probably has a decent page rank – links on there (with good keywords in the anchor text) will help, as will links to his site from here (and any other forum you regularly post to, as long as it’s not spammy in nature)
Re: #8…I have a girlfriend who could get lost in an elevator. Oh my, oh my. You know the elevators in hospitals that have dual doors with the accompanying button sets? When her mom had hip replacement surgery, she called me from one of the waiting rooms. How soon would I be arriving? She had pushed the wrong button and didn’t know how to find her mom’s room now. I had to tell her to go to the elevator and stay there so a security guard could find her. We never take elevators if we can avoid it. She is totally clueless about space.
And yet, she has been one of my strongest friends when life has closed in about me. You ignore such things as “couldn’t find her way out of a paper bag with a road map, seeing-eye dog, flashlight and arrows painted on the ground” when friends are just there for you.
Still, I was laughing at the image….
Sweetie, you are not old until you get a log splitter or a chain saw for Christmas and you are thrilled! Anyone is happy when they don’t have to wash dishes by hand. That is just sensible.
I lost all my spoiled princess cred that year. sigh
I work for my college to make some money and we were helping the incoming freshmen with their emails, etc.etc. so we used 4 floors in the business building. One freshmen went to the secretarial area (in the lobby) and asked them if the elevators go up.
I hope that’s not what you were referring too with your little *
I vote you punch the refrigerator (moderately) gently in an attempt to shake up the stuff inside that does the crushing instead of the cubeing.
I can totally relate to the dishwasher thing. I just moved from a house that had a circa 1930s dishwasher, look and function. We basically had to handwash everything anyway, and just use it to sterilize the dishes. In fact, I’m pretty well convinced that it had a one way line from the garbage disposal to the dishwasher, because every time you ran it, the dishes would end up with bits of food on them that hadn’t been there when loaded. So then we’d end up having to rinse everything before putting them away.
I can only assume we kept using the dishwasher out of some masochistic stubborness that now seems ridiculous. Trust me a crappy dishwasher is worse that no dishwasher at all. I now have a beautiful, new, fully-functional gorgeous dishwasher. I’m thinking of having it’s babies.
-Del
*asks*
About Blather #4, I just happen to be in the SEO business. We can improve the attorney’s Google results as much as you’d like. Get in touch with me and we can set you up with an estimate.
@Dishwashers: after about 7.5 years of living alone and depending on my own hands or those of a visiting girlfriend to do my dishes, I moved to someplace with a dishwasher. It is like discovering a delicious box of chocolates every day!
So, Daniel, I never have figured out if you actually take the time to read the comments or not, but I keep asking, and hoping.
Are you ever going back to WoW, or are you just plain DONE?
Blather 3: My refrigerator’s ice maker is crushing my cube-ice. WTH?
Mine’s doing that too! I tried the light punching without success. I’m too scared to disassemble the door myself, and too lazy/cheap to call someone. If you figure it out, post it!
For the refrigerator, try removing the ice maker. (this should just slip out of the fridge by a gentle tug most ice makers do this so you can clean them which you’re supposed to do so they don’t get unhealthy).
Then, look at the blade area. You should notice that you can twist this into different positions. Yours might even be marked with a handy picture of crushed ice or solid. Move it so it’s in the correct position.
You might also need to push it back into the fridge and wiggle the back crank that connects to the fridge a bit to make sure you have a good connector with everything. (if you don’t, ice will fall behind your icemaker and make a mess)
Sometimes, if you slam the freezer door often enough, those little units will get moved slightly. Then, it will think it’s supposed to be crushing ice when it’s actually not. Can you tell I just spent 4 hours of one Saturday figuring this out because I didn’t want to have to look for directions?
Who is Joy? *smile*
@ Halite
I noticed that too. Hmmmm….
Grossman rules. Great pic pick!
I admire your strength and resolve in walking away from the WoW temptress. I do admit I miss the BRK perspectives and the excellent podcasts, but I do so with a smiling heart.
Be well, Daniel.
Tropic thunder=hillarious!!
After that, I have a new found respect for Tom Cruise. He is still a nutcase, but man was he funny in that dance sequence!!