I promised myself I wouldn't write this, but I'm geeking out about several things lately, and if I don't write it down, I am bound to explode.
First off, is it just me, or is there a large difference between less than 800 and pretty near 1 grand? I told my computer builder, which happens to be kin, what I was comfortable paying...only to find out after it's been ordered and in process of being shipped( he put a rush order on it) that it would be two hundred dollars more. I need this computer, and it's still cheaper than prebuilt, but that I wasn't expecting.
Secondly, I'm flattered that people want to connect to me, but I have no interest in clogging up my feed with posts that are not original. I can go to my email if I wanted to see things like this. I'm all for interesting, funny, and original. Not copied and pasted... If I don't accept you, don't feel slighted in any way. I just want to keep my interests peaked. I dislike most email forwards, and only rarely if ever comment on them. I feel as if I am letting people down where that is all they post, and won't connect with them because of this. It would only end up being a one sided commitment, and as the saying goes, it takes two to tango. I am irritated that you would think of sending a request over and over again within a matter of seconds. Even more irritated, that I was once connected to this person, and chose to disconnect because of what this person posted on a routine basis....irritated with the fact that everything, including communication is in all caps with this person. Irritated even more so that they state they are going to keep sending a request until they get a response.... UMM....HELLO..ME DENYING YOU IS MY RESPONSE. I don't deny often. I only ever denied 3 people....and it happens to be for all the same reasons. I like to give everyone a chance, but some are just shockingly difficult to do so.
Thirdly, I'm tired of all the mud slinging garbage making it's way to my inbox here and off site. I am not involved in any way with politics, nor do I plan to be so involved in the immediate future. I'm not registered to vote, and have no immediate intention of doing so. I refuse to vote in an election, primary, whatever you want to call it, when all it really ends up being is a huge popularity contest. That's all it ever was, and I fear that is all it will ever be.
In my eyes, it is nothing more than a 4 year job, and if you're lucky you get 8 years. You don't walk into a room full of applicants for your next potential job, and call the others names, and expose their private life for all to see. Private life, is just what it is---private. When each candidate can treat themselves like the civilized human beings they are supposed to be, I may consider doing such a thing. Until then, I'll just lose myself in the confusion, and live with whatever my choice seems to be. I just wish some people would stop trying to change me or push me to sway in one direction or the other.
Finally, the last rant for today was that it is Tuesday. I have 3 days left here at work, and I feel like a robot on overload. Even with my friend, who works here as well.( I've known him since college) I get all the work. That's why I'm working overtime. That's why I have several projects on my desk, and he has none. Yes, Friday is going to be fun, when I finally have to explain all that I've done in the last few weeks. Fun, yes. I'm bringing cupcakes, and he's bringing cookies...but that's another article.
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I hope you will be able to off-load those projects.....
The 200 bucks - that totally depends, but from what you said I have to agree with you!
I also know how 200 bucks can make a difference money wise. I am feeling myself this week. My daughter broke her glasses in to. So, I had to get her new frames. Than I went to order a second pair because husband said we had enough money...but after I get home..he tells me to wait til next week..hello they already have her prescription...you can't wait a week. I already went up there.......Smack..thats what I want to do to him right now. Now I have to go back up to the place monday and look like a fool saying we won't have the money for another week. So please don't place the order. How embarassing.
As for disconnecting from ceertain people. I do the same thing as well. I have many many friends on Gather that I can't keep up feeds. You can only see what your friends post if you are online when they are or around the same time they are. Otherwise you don't see their stuff. So I tend to get notify by emails. That way I can also see what the article is about and if I even want to bother giving it a veiw. If someone posted all in caps it would bug me to.
As for the politics..I have stayed away from that for awhile now. I dislike mudslinging. I knwo who I plan on voting for. Noone on here will change my mind.
That's what I've taken to doing with some articles in my group, since one person doesn't get the fact that it is not a political group and didn't understand my politely worded comment on one of her posts or my politely worded email to the entire group about what is accepted in my "fiction only" group.
Heather's suggestion is really good- just ignore the request. Then the person will see they are in pending. I hope that if someone denies me they will explain why, just so I know not to bother them anymore.
At least the election stuff is pretty much all over :-)