Crabby Blogging Lady

Just wanted to say hi to all the trolls visiting my blog lately!

Gee, I can’t believe that I didn’t post this before… maybe I just assumed that everyone would recognize my brilliance and my uncanny knack of pleasantly and mannerly getting to the crux of an issue… but there are just some folks who– for some unknown reason– dislike my style.

So I made a “Disclaimer” page. Hope you like it.

For the Easily Offended

**SIGHHHHH**

I’m at the orthodontist’s office, sitting in the waiting room. Boooring. Thank God for wireless Internet. My daughter is getting her braces removed. The office here is “open” with just partitions between the nervous mothers in the waiting room, the front desk with clattering telephones, and the orthodontists’ haven where they do all their work.

It’s driving me crazy.

I can hear the nasty sound of the dental drill from here.

It’s bad enough that I have to release my lovely and gentle young daughter into the hands of semi-strangers cloaked generic lab coats, who whisk her away to wrench their meaty hands into her small mouth and rearrange her delicate teeth. It’s sheer horror to hear the screaming of the drills, the clunking of the pipes, the growling of the motors.

And it got me thinking: modern technology– BAH! I’ll believe it when I hear it.

You see– they can put a man on the moon (at least, that’s what the government told us they did), they can create nano-microchips for computers, they can create atomic bombs and flourescent lighting and self-starting coffeemakers and fancy swirly skateboard ramps. But can they create a SILENT dental drill?! NOOOOO! Can they make a QUIET vacuum cleaner?!? NOOOOO! How about inventing a jackhammer that doesn’t kill your inner ear? How about making jet engines that only rattle the windows and not the bones of the dead and buried? Huh huh??

They’ve got it all wrong. Instead of making silencers for rifles, laser beams for warfare, stealthy aircraft for dropping bombs, why don’t they put technology to GOOD use, huh? The jerks.

Yeah, I’m a little tense. You would be, too. It’s bad enough having to endure the loathesome dentist experience for yourself; it’s another to have to sit for hours in a waiting room, hearing your tender young child go through it… :-p

P.S. By the way, guess what career my daughter is interested in? :-p

Wow. Just, just… WOW.

I’m validated! See!

That means that this theme– the theme I spent weeks looking for, the theme I searched high and low for– is cool with the WordPress dudes. Man, that feels great. Thanks guys, whoever you are, for making such an artful and accomplished theme. And THANK GOD I don’t have to fiddle with the code to make it work! It just… it just WORKS already!

I feel like I’ve won an Oscar. Wow.

Well at last I’m blogging something. I still have that generic “Hello” WordPress post up. I can’t delete it yet, seeing as it was my only post for two weeks, and seeing that this post is its only partner right now.

I have loads and loads of things to say… just don’t have time to type it all in yet. Oh, but rest assured, once something gets my dander up again, I’ll be back. Ad now that I’ve found a very nice theme for this blog, I’m sure I’ll have more motivation.

… P.S. Just as I hit the “Publish” button, the entire web host server crashed. OH GREAT WHAT PERFECT TIMING! All 5 of my blogs, not to mention everyone else’s sityes on this server, were showing database errors. Obviously, it’s all back now, but that was a wild ride for about 15 minutes. :-p I’m getting too old for this kind of excitement.

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