I Hate Everything

[cjsmith]

I am having an I Hate Everything day.

I broke the comb I've been carrying. Trash to treasure: what can you make from a broken comb? Good luck; I can't even make a joke out of it.

What the @#$!ing @#$! happened to BRCM Tuesday? Blargh.

Speaking of money, there's... never mind. Just let's not even go there. I sum up: I am NOT cut out for investing.

Too much to do. Learn every microscopic detail of USB. Oops, no, learn every microscopic detail of PCI. Oops, no, fix the build. Oops, no, fix these three bugs. How's that USB project coming? Hey! the build! ...*boom*.

My hair is growing. Can't I just turn that off? I already cut it once! Only two months ago, even! But it's really ugly awful hard-to-manage long for the style I (must admit I) hadn't actually mastered anyway.

My next free time is some time Monday night. As stressful as my job is, I love the work week because no one can add anything MORE to it. I work, I stress about work, I don't have to stress about anything else until the weekend, end of story.

And I seem to be allergic to -- just from personal observation, mind you, no tests yet, but the reaction's pretty noticeable -- I seem to be allergic to, get this, Caladryl.

Comments

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

That bit about being allergic to Caladryl IS kind of funny.

I hope tomorrow is better.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Isn't it though? I mean, who'd have thought of THAT? Sheesh! :-)

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you are having a wet cat kinda day. I hope things get better for you soon.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I sure hope tomorrow's better.

[jb98.livejournal.com]

I seem to be allergic to, get this, Caladryl.

My weirdness is that Pepto Bismol makes me throw up immediately. Sheesh, bodies.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Augh, that's awful too! Bodies. Yeah. :-P

BRCM

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

You know it split right?

Re: BRCM

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

It was a 2 for 3 split. The stock is up from Tuesday the last two days. It's still almost $68 pre-split value.

Re: BRCM

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaah. Thank you; I hadn't caught that at all.

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[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh! That's nice. MUCH better than when we had to take a bath with the AMT a few years back. Maybe this stock won't be a complete loss after all!

Re: BRCM

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yikes, you had AMT? Owie. Owie owie.

(Still not sure how I got out of that myself. Maybe having 83(b)'ed it helped.)

Re: BRCM

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, we did. Took a bath, and had to sell about 1/2 our stock to pay it. We would have done better to have paid it early, but at that time, we simply didn't have the cash, and foolishly thought that it wouldnt' be a problem, since we'd have the stock to pay it from. Ha. You know how THAT turned out.

OTOH, we did better than our friends (another company) who ended up filing bankruptcy last year because of their AMT issues back then. We just basically lost our retirement fund.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Grr! I suppose this means the IRS is holding on to your retirement fund, as often you can "get back" the AMT over the years. Lots harder to treat that as retirement money though.

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[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose you could look at it that way. Except it doesn't really go back into retirement stuff. We are getting it back in dribs and drabs (just finished up the Fed credit; still have several years of state credit, I think), and it just ends up offsetting other things, not being something that we can actually afford to reinvest. *sigh* And of course it's only a portion of what we paid in AMT.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, dribs and drabs is exactly the problem -- that's a LOT harder to treat as retirement money than a lump sum you can stash "out of mind" for a while.

Blegh.

Re: BRCM

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH. That explains a little, yes it does. Thank you.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're MacGyver, a broken comb makes a dandy nuclear energy shield, or an antitank gun, or an air filter for an impromptu SCUBA device, or ... never mind, it was a rhetorical question. Just in case you're not laughing by now, I'll shut up on this part.

Caladryl? AHA! I wondered if you were having a dermatoallergenic [is that a word?] reaction to something.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's true that the skin was already itchy before I used any Caladryl... but it sure did get a lot worse after. I suspect it was simply dry-and-itchy and now it's allergic-and-rashy. (That's some medical-icky stuff going on inside those bumps. I popped a few.)

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Comb: Kazoo?

Caladryl: Yuck! Funny, but... yuck!

Stock: Yay for split. Sorta feels like they took the ground glass out of the lube this time. ;^)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Sorta feels like they took the ground glass out of the lube this time.

*splorf*

That made me laugh out loud. Thank you. I needed it. :-)

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh, so glad to help! I knew you of anyone out there would understand my feelings about BRCM.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. Me and a few other people, yeah, we're RIGHT there with ya.

[airporter.livejournal.com]

I tried not to giggle. I really did. But I could hear you.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Tone comes through best when I'm too frustrated to bother with editing! :-)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry. When it rains, it pours, eh? When I was a kid I thought the salt people were high for putting that on their product, because it made no sense to me. Now, I understand it all too well!

*long hugs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

As a kid I thought they meant that when it was raining, salt should be poured, and aside from the salting or sanding of the roads in winter I never did figure out what the connection should be.

Thanks!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

You know, come to think of it, though I understand the phrase, I still don't understand the connection with salt. And the little girl with the umbrella on the box -- didn't it look to you like it was salt raining down on her?

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Salt will clump up when it gets damp--so the 'When it rains, it pours' thing emphasized that it didn't clump up.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey -- that's kinda clever.

Thirty years it's taken me to get that.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Found this on mortonsalt.com:

"Morton loved the picture that expressed the Morton message — the message that salt would run in damp weather. But they felt the copy that went with it — ("Even in rainy weather, it flows freely") was too long. They felt it needed to be shorter and snappier.

More suggestions included "Flows Freely," "Runs Freely," "Pours" and finally, an old proverb, "It never rains, but it pours." The adage was vetoed as being too negative, and a more positive spin on it resulted in the now famous slogan, "When it Rains It Pours." "

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Cool!
When I lived in the tropics, even Morton wouldn't pour--we used to have to put rice into the shaker to help break it up.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I thought that's just what everybody did. I guess some people choose a particular kind of salt instead! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! That makes sense once it's explained. Thanks.

How about a haiku?

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

Ode to broken comb
Loved your glorious plastic
Alas, now useless

Re: How about a haiku?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh perfect! I am imagining that in beautiful calligraphy, framed, with the comb below in a shadow box.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

It could be worse - I know someone who's allergic to benedryl.

Send your hair growth this way - mine seems to have stalled out about an inch above my waistline. Grrrr.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the -dryl in Caladryl. If I had to pick, though, I'd still take either of those over being allergic to corn in any form. For someone in the US that's a serious impediment to eating any food.

I wish I could beam my hair growth toward you! :)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

adore the userpic!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I want a variant without the words, but eh, either way. :-)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

The best I can do without the original photo (which I can't find! Waaaaaa!) is to make it smaller.



You can tell I'm supposed to be working, can't you?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Huh - I'm not seeing it. Ah well: with the words isn't so bad. And some day I'll probably run across the original again, as a few friendsfriends used that image for icons for a while.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Oops. As my son would say, my bad.

Here, let me try again:



How did that one work?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Excellent! 8-)