Enough with the Personalized Junk Mail!

I do not own a shredder.If I did, I'd want one of those atomizing shredders that practically pulverize a sheet of paper to a bloody pulp. It always seems a waste to run something on electricity that you could do by hand. Which is why I don't own a shredder,since I rip the crap by hand (or at least the personalize parts). It somewhat satisfying to go all Hulk on the stuff.

But a person's only got so much time. So I try to get out only the personal info to keep identity thieves at bay. And because some miscreant once dragged some of my garbage to another address and I got fined for littering!

But this personalized junk mail, they like to print my personal info ten times in the same tiny envelope-ful of stuff! Really? 'Cause truly personal letters should really call you by your full name five different times. And credit card companies really need all your personal info on their form in four different places.

Way to piss off someone you're trying to woo.

Just a second...

By the time someone turns away after saying this, isn't their second already up? Why not just a minute? But then they might take several minutes. Or just a moment since moments don't have a definite length?

Just a second while I prepare for the next blog post...

Happy New Year!

So the world didn't end...

Well, gosh darn it, I guess I'll have to continue this blog after all. And make New Year's resolutions. And finish writing that novel. And eat all 21 bags of York Peppermint Patties I bought yesterday. Plus the bag of 3 Musketeers Fun Size Candy. Well, there goes my resolution to get healthier.

Oh, well. Happy holidays!

I'm a writer. No, really!

I'm a writer a la Nick Miller of New Girl. Ok, so I don't knock my computer to the floor to avoid writing (the thing's expensive!) but I do manage to avoid the dread - did I say dread? I meant beloved - task using other methods. No, not by getting drunk at the zoo in lieu of life experience, there are plenty of other ways to gain "life experience". I'm a busy girl, you know. I had to shop all Black Friday. And Cyber Monday. And Cyber Week. And Cyber Month?

Being a writer is the best! In what other profession is it acceptable not to do the work? I have writer's block, damn it. It's an occupational hazard. I'll get the work done whenever. Really! In my spare time - not that I have any. You know, after the shopping. Or after I catch up on my shows, like New Girl.

Captain America 1966 Cartoon - All those who oppose his shield must yield

• Why, Bucky, of course you can be my sidekick! Never mind that you're just the teen mascot

  

  Are those micro-shorts?

  and not a soldier. I'll train you so well, you won't need armor, a shield, superpowers or a weapon either. You won't die under my watch. Oh, whoops, you did.
  
• Red Skull's delusional! Then again, what would you expect from someone willing to bake in a hideous head-encompassing mask and gloves 24/7? He actually thought that he and Cap were alike, that Cap would sympathize with his story of how he was plucked from obscurity to become a fearsome figurehead (then disposed of his puppeteer leader). And how did he think crushing the weak and helpless would give him great power? Presumably, they're weak and helpless because they have no power to take.

  

  Not a happy camper

  
  
• He's athletic! Just check out those cartwheels! No one else could make it look so easy, like he doesn't even really have to use his hands or feet!
  
• That's one sharp shield! "All those who oppose his shield must yield." Even if the opposition is his own parachute. He accidentally sliced the strings with it and went plummeting.
  
• Is it just me? The prisoner escaping to cause so much trouble in one episode wasn't even restrained! They sat him in the back of an open air truck with no handcuffs or guards, or at least no way to keep him from literally falling off the truck. And expected him to be a good  little boy and stay.
  
• That A wasn't sewn on or woven into his mask? He removed

  

  Horns of plenty?

  
  

  
  

  and replaced it as easily as a velcro patch or magnet to put some device behind it.How doesn't it fall off in the heat of battle?
  
• After they brought him out of frozen death and he became the leader, all of the other headlining members of the Avengers were mysteriously always busy or away. He had to work with the B team. Wow, even  Wolverine's pointy do has nothing on Quicksilver's hair!
  

Get Captain America - The Complete 1966 Series on DVD now! 

 

• Episode 1: The Origin of Captain America, Wreckers Among Us, Enter Red Skull
• Episode 2: The Sentinel and the Spy, The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull, Lest Tyranny Triumph
• Episode 3: Midnight in Greymoor Castle, If This Be Treason, When You Lie Down With Dogs
• Episode 4: The Revenge of Captain America, The Trap Is Sprung, So Dies A Villain
• Episode 5: Return of Captain America, The Search, To Live Again
• Episode 6: Zemo and his Masters of Evil, Zemo Strikes, The Fury of Zemo
• Episode 7: Let The Past Be Gone, The Adaptoid, The Super Adaptoid
• Episode 8: Coming of the Swordsman, Vengeance Is Ours, Emissary of Destruction
• Episode 9: Bitter Taste of Defeat, Sorcery Triumph, The Road Back
• Episode 10: Doorway to Doom, When the Commissar Commands, Duel Or Die
• Episode 11: The Sleeper Shall Awake, Where Walks the Sleeper, The Final Sleep
• Episode 12: The Girl from Cap's Past, The Stage Is Set, 30 Minutes to Live
• Episode 13: The Red Skull Lives, He Who Holds the Cosmic Cube, The Red Skull Supreme

 

Deals! What do purchases say about you?

Deals! Deals! Deals! The funny thing about deals is that they can make you buy things you never intended to. I didn't really need a waffle maker, I just thought it'd be cool to make my own fresh and everything. I used it a total of one time before shoving it somewhere I can't get to it without a complicated set of maneuvers involving boxes and back pain.

I subscribe to daily emails from Slickdeals.net and 3-hourly ones from Fatwallet.com to keep track of deals. It means, of course, that I miss out on most of the deals which usually get snapped up in minutes, if not seconds. Which is fine by my wallet, which would never survive a whole day of real time deals.

And what are these deals for? What would these purchases say about the people buying them? Some of this stuff is supposed to be for reselling on eBay, but even then it means there's quite a market for this stuff. As far as I can tell, Slickdealers/Fatwalleters/eBay buyers are chocolate-loving, coffee-loving, rice-loving, body building, computer building, media loving, gun toting fashionistas quite possibly with revolving balances on lots of credit cards. After all, you can never have too many candies (like Candy House Chocolate Truffles in Gold Foil - Reception Accessories (Google Affiliate Ad)), K-cups, rice cookers, pounds of whey protein, computer parts, BluRays, TVs (like Samsung 46 " Black LED 1080P 120HZ HDTV - UN46EH6000 (Google Affiliate Ad)), ebooks, guns, shoes, and credit cards. Especially when they're 70% or more off or even free! Never mind that you'll never read all those ebooks; they just look cool on your 50% off ereader.

Coddled Kids Run Wild

You know you're old when you find yourself saying, "Those damn kids!" Kids are more wild than ever and it can't help when parents coddle them more than ever. If you're a coddling parent, no offense, and give your kids some room to learn to live without you, because someday they'll have to. (Sorry, but you really had to hear that.) If you're a coddled kid, grow up and stop hiding behind your parents; one day you'll have to stand on your own. (Sorry, but you really had to hear that, too. And please stop throwing rocks at my window.)

Why are grade school age children running around unsupervised all day and night during the school year? They meandering down the center of a busy avenue right outside my window. Yes, really. Cars zooming by all around them. It's a miracle none of them have gotten run over yet. Singly, in pairs, or in small groups, they just roam the streets without any adults during the school day in a neighborhood where at least one registered sex offender lives.

Isn't it enough that they get more snow days off than any previous generation did? It wasn't too long ago (not decades anyway) when I had to walk to school the day after it snowed six feet. On top of several more feet from previous days. Now they cancel school if the forecast even mentions flurries (but the sky doesn't even manage a single flake). Apparently, it's all about the probability of over involved parents ready to sue. Lay off guys, your kids are going to have to slip and slide on ice/sleet/snow sometime.

How are kids supposed to learn if you don't make them go to school? How are they supposed to manage when you're not there to hold their hands, provide for their every whim, and do everything for them? Please don't do their homework for them, you might get it wrong anyway. Ever seen that show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Most American adults really aren't. Nowadays, parents are getting to involved with their kids' professors and even their job interviews. When's it going to stop? Are you still going to do their work (and laundry) for them when they're middle aged and you should be retired? You should be relaxing then, and they should be taking care of YOU. Instead, they won't be able to care for themselves, let alone anyone else.