I am so damn annoyed...
...I'm sitting here like a moron waiting for the FedEx dude who has between 8 AM and 3 PM to drop off a package that should have been here yesterday. If I don't get it today I won't be able to get it until Monday and that's not an option. So, I have to sit here, afraid to leave the house for a quick trip into the city. If I had gone downtown at the original time I'd be on my way back by now. That really, really irritates me. This is worse than the cable people, at least they tell you if it will be morning or afternoon.
And there's never anything to watch on TV during the day. After watching it for over 30 years I quit watching my soap opera, I don't enjoy waiting for Bob Barker to die and even Jerry Springer has lost much of it's charm since they stopped letting the guests knock the hell out of each other. I could watch the news but I don't want to overdose on it.
The world seems so much busier now that there are cameras pointed at everything and we have 24 hours of news to make up. When the news had 30 minutes to inform us, there was 30 minutes worth of news. Now that there are 24 hours to fill up, there are 24 hours of news. And since there are so many news stations broadcasting for 24 hours, they all either have to cover the same stuff differently or they have to cover totally different stuff. So, the news is subject to an awful lot of interpretation.
Most of the news seems to be just gossip, doesn't it? How important is it that we all know who fathered Anna Nicole's baby? Not at all. But it seems to be all over the news channels. That's the perfect example of news being nothing more than gossip. We don't chat with the neighbors over the clothesline anymore so we have to have the news people cover all the smut that we need to know about. They have to do it, they already have the cameras and the reporters.
Luckily, they don't cover the government often. At least not the boring stuff like congressional votes being taken and our money being spent. If every single reporter who is chasing the Anna Nicole story reported on something important, the government would have to act a bit more responsibly. We can't have that.
All right, now I'm really, really, really annoyed. I have to go pace back and forth in front of my picture window to see if a watched FedEx dude evers arrives. See ya.
Meg
...I'm sitting here like a moron waiting for the FedEx dude who has between 8 AM and 3 PM to drop off a package that should have been here yesterday. If I don't get it today I won't be able to get it until Monday and that's not an option. So, I have to sit here, afraid to leave the house for a quick trip into the city. If I had gone downtown at the original time I'd be on my way back by now. That really, really irritates me. This is worse than the cable people, at least they tell you if it will be morning or afternoon.
And there's never anything to watch on TV during the day. After watching it for over 30 years I quit watching my soap opera, I don't enjoy waiting for Bob Barker to die and even Jerry Springer has lost much of it's charm since they stopped letting the guests knock the hell out of each other. I could watch the news but I don't want to overdose on it.
The world seems so much busier now that there are cameras pointed at everything and we have 24 hours of news to make up. When the news had 30 minutes to inform us, there was 30 minutes worth of news. Now that there are 24 hours to fill up, there are 24 hours of news. And since there are so many news stations broadcasting for 24 hours, they all either have to cover the same stuff differently or they have to cover totally different stuff. So, the news is subject to an awful lot of interpretation.
Most of the news seems to be just gossip, doesn't it? How important is it that we all know who fathered Anna Nicole's baby? Not at all. But it seems to be all over the news channels. That's the perfect example of news being nothing more than gossip. We don't chat with the neighbors over the clothesline anymore so we have to have the news people cover all the smut that we need to know about. They have to do it, they already have the cameras and the reporters.
Luckily, they don't cover the government often. At least not the boring stuff like congressional votes being taken and our money being spent. If every single reporter who is chasing the Anna Nicole story reported on something important, the government would have to act a bit more responsibly. We can't have that.
All right, now I'm really, really, really annoyed. I have to go pace back and forth in front of my picture window to see if a watched FedEx dude evers arrives. See ya.
Meg
posted by Meg Kelso | 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
Two solutions...
I have a box at a UPS Store (formally Mail Box Etc.). They will accept and sign for packages for me. I can come by and sign for it any time they are open.
I don't watch TV, I have TIVO. TIVO records shows I like to a hard drive. When I want to watch some TV, I select something from the TIVO playlist. Fast forward the ads. Plus it gets educational shows for my son (I have basic cable, my wife doesn't), so he can see good shows at my place. It is super cool.
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