The Big DumpTruck

The day after a holiday is always weird. My trash went out this morning, which makes if feel like a Monday. Junior’s at daycare and I’m sitting here jobhunting and updating my website, which is pretty Monday-ish. Well, it’s sort of Monday through Friday-ish but Junior and I just had three swell days in a row together so him being gone is Monday-ish.

I promised myself that I would accomplish at least 3 things today, so I’d better get going. Here’s the to-do list.

1. Get all the screenplay currently in my notebook into the screenwriting software.

2. Do at least one more chapter in the PHP book.

3. Clean off the counter…again.

4. Re-caulk the bathtub.

5. Wash the kitchen floor

6. Clean the tub/replace the shower curtain liner

7. Write a short story

8. Find at least 3 places to send my resume

9. Vacuum the bedrooms

10. Mow the lawn.

11. Update the Main Dump

12. Mail Bills

Okay, of that list, I can’t mow today, because it’s raining. I can do maybe 3 or 4, some of them will take longer than others. And as for the tub, well, if the linoleum is starting to pull up, how is it possible to caulk it and have it stay? I don’t really want to re-do the floor up there this week. I wish some guy would show up in my life who liked to do stuff like this for a hobby. He’s tile my bathroom to impress me, and when I showed a little bit of interest, he’d tile my kitchen to completely win me over.

Whew! Thanks to some of the help from the HP guy, and my own very smart self, I got the BIOS downloaded and installed. I’d like to say here for the record that if the TWO POOPIE HEADS from last week hadn’t told me to do thing A and thing B I would have probably done it last week. I went and changed things back in my software and all my problems went away. Grrrrr. So enough about that, let’s hope they don’t update anything else.

I’m back on the HP support chat line. New person. I had my head explode when I went to the page they had me bookmark (keeping track of my help request) and THEY closed the request because I hadn’t posted anything for two days. See the thing is, THEY hadn’t posted anything for FOUR days. I was waiting for THEM to reply, and instead of replying they closed the request. I cannot express to you how much this just pissed me off.

Just got notification today that some kind soul used the Amazon.com paybox to donate to the Dump, but I have no way of knowing who it was. So Mr./Ms. Anonymous, THANK YOU!

(Now why don’t you want me to know who you are? Ok, I’ll just pretend it was Ben Affleck. Thanks Ben, you’re a sweetie!)

I am just so DONE with the yardsale. Yes, I made some money, of course, it was like maybe 3% of the original retail value of the stuff sold, but better than throwing it away. I don’t see myself having that quality or quantity of stuff for sale again for quite a while. I didn’t sell the lawnmower, and I blame the local paper. My mom had a yard sale ad form, and we filled it out, making sure to specify that we had baby stuff and a lawnmower. I figured maybe we’d get someone who was specifically looking for one to stop by. When she got to the paper’s office they said they’d changed things and you only get 12 WORDS for a yard sale ad, and you need to include your address in there. Stupid. So turns out the ad didn’t actually mention the mower. And I still have it.