What the hell, everyone?
This morning I'm walking to work and this woman makes a right turn out of a driveway and manages to drive up and over the curb, forcing me to jump backwards to avoid getting hit (I was waiting for her to pull out so I could cross behind her, because I do not trust people who creep out to merge with traffic or make a turn). She didn't even look back, which to me, says she never saw me in the first place. It was broad goddamn daylight and I was not wearing camouflage, so what the fuck? I'm not even safe on the sidewalk anymore? What the hell, lady?
I get into work and I have to change my password. Apparently we had a massive attack on our database which resulted in one of the nicest guys I know at this company to work until at least 9:30 last night. Apparently "[h]undreds of thousands of websites around the world have been attacked by possibly the same attackers in the past two weeks." What the hell, people?
So, in case you didn't know, Burma/Myanmar is in huge political turmoil right now and they just got hit with a cyclone (about 20,000 people dead). I'm trying to donate what I think is a small amount of money to the Red Cross/Red Crescent and my credit card company declines the payment because it looks "suspicious," despite the fact that the organization has been around for over a century. I check my account online and it says that my account is on hold and to call customer service. So I'm on the phone with customer service and the woman tells me, "this is not a purchase you usually make." She may as well have finished that sentence with "you tightwad" or "you selfish bitch." Then they keep playing up how much money it is, and why that's so sketchy (did they not notice that I bought a pair of Birkenstocks a week ago? I'm a fucking hippie. You should know this). So I get transferred to fraud and everything is supposedly cleared up. I go to make the donation like 10 minutes later -- my card is still declined. What the hell, Capital One?
So, in an effort to cheer myself (and anyone else who is having a bad day) up, here's my favorite video ever that I always post: Fred Rogers appealing to Congress for more money for public broadcasting:
And his goodbye from when he retired --
"I'm just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger: 'I like you just the way you are.'":
I get into work and I have to change my password. Apparently we had a massive attack on our database which resulted in one of the nicest guys I know at this company to work until at least 9:30 last night. Apparently "[h]undreds of thousands of websites around the world have been attacked by possibly the same attackers in the past two weeks." What the hell, people?
So, in case you didn't know, Burma/Myanmar is in huge political turmoil right now and they just got hit with a cyclone (about 20,000 people dead). I'm trying to donate what I think is a small amount of money to the Red Cross/Red Crescent and my credit card company declines the payment because it looks "suspicious," despite the fact that the organization has been around for over a century. I check my account online and it says that my account is on hold and to call customer service. So I'm on the phone with customer service and the woman tells me, "this is not a purchase you usually make." She may as well have finished that sentence with "you tightwad" or "you selfish bitch." Then they keep playing up how much money it is, and why that's so sketchy (did they not notice that I bought a pair of Birkenstocks a week ago? I'm a fucking hippie. You should know this). So I get transferred to fraud and everything is supposedly cleared up. I go to make the donation like 10 minutes later -- my card is still declined. What the hell, Capital One?
So, in an effort to cheer myself (and anyone else who is having a bad day) up, here's my favorite video ever that I always post: Fred Rogers appealing to Congress for more money for public broadcasting:
And his goodbye from when he retired --
"I'm just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger: 'I like you just the way you are.'":
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