Dammit. Our car just got towed. ARGH.

There's a lot of construction in our neighborhood, with lots and lots of otherwise usable parking spaces blocked off by construction signs. Last night Hec parked in a safe place --adjacent to a tow zone, but totally safe and legal. Sometime today the construction people added new signs, then called the city and had our car (and probably several others) towed.

And, thanks to ongoing stupidity with my daycare FSA administrators, the $500 reimbursement I was expecting last week has turned into $84 sometime later this week.

And now I have to run off to a joyless (and refreshment-less) staff meeting for the next hour. GNARGH.

JZ, they can do that? Just change the zoning under cars that are legally parked and have them hauled away with no notice? That's insane.

I'm thinking of getting the Living Dead Dolls Christmas doll.

Cocktail Party Physics discusses Allyson's book and bats in general: batty for sam

OMG! Someone just linked that Evan Bayh editoral as a way to prove her point that Democrats are demagogues. Way to miss the point there.

bad work day. Computer never got fixed, client hassled me about not being able to work on two projects at once, and I came home and checked my email and there is help desk ticket from a user who is saying how much are system sucks and how the agency should ditch. He is an idiot who doesn't know how to use apostrophes properly and thinks he should be able to program the system himself so I shouldn't be bothered but I'm really upset about it right now.

He is an idiot who doesn't know how to use apostrophes properly and thinks he should be able to program the system himself so I shouldn't be bothered but I'm really upset about it right now.

I HATE users like this. We usually get (for applications and stuff) Mr. Thinkshesaprogramer who is all, "Yeah good first try. Really needs to [do all this stuff it totally doesn't need to do and probably shouldn't do]but it will do."

OMG, WTF, and also BBQ. I got home (with handouts for my meeting tomorrow, and also groceries) to find the building alarm going off, but nothing apparently wrong. "Luckily" there was a notice on the front door about extermination, so the management company number was handy. I called them and got an answering service person who didn't seem to believe I was calling the right place. Then I called the number on the actual alarm, just in case, but again, the person I talked to had no idea why I was calling her. So I just came up. It is fairly loud, even inside my apartment. And also disconcerting.

I'm also annoyed about the extermination situation, because I can't really be here, I'm concerned about the cat, and I haven't seen any vermin in the year I've lived here!

In short: Bah.

OH THANK GOODNESS. It just stopped.

10 very hairy celebs. It reads sort of like a defense of not shaving, but then Jojo the dog-faced boy? Seriously?

"Evan Bayh" tells me I don't have to read it. Dude's a concern troll. I wish the Emanuel shirts said "I'm running for mayor right now, and it's fucking great."