Bad news for Morgantown. One of my favorite places to eat is closing.

There was an article in the Diminishing Pest today saying that Flying Fish is tentatively scheduled to close on the 12th. The problem is not a lack of customers, but because increasing fuel prices have drive upon the cost of bringing fresh fish into Morgantown.

There is talk of moving closer to Glasshouse Grille (Flying Fish and Glasshouse Grille are run by members of the same family) or changing the nature of the of the place and possibly the location. I hope that thy managed to remain open in some manner, because we eat at there at least once a week, and I’ll be very sad if we don’t have a place to get fresh fish anymore. (Flying Fish is were I ordered Dad’s birthday crab feast last year.)

So if you’re in town, you’ll want to make sure you make it to Flying Fish as much as you can before the 12th–but keep your fingers crossed they won’t have to close at all.

Hello Kitty Assault Rifle.

I’m continuing to work on the MS Outlook documentation.

And I still hate Microsoft.

Let me just say that when I click on a help file, I want something useful RIGHT NOW I don’t want to have to wait for my browser to load up and give me the option to watch some stupid video that I don’t have the interest in watching because it won’t answer my question.

All I want is to know what proxy access is called in Microsoft. But no, those terms are unrecognized and provide no useful assistance AT ALL.

Why is this so difficult? WHY?! WHY?! Why are their help files absolutely none at all?

(sigh)

ADDENDUM the First:

You can share calendar information with other people by using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 in many ways.

I don’t think I understand what that sentence means. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

The Steelers just signed a new contract with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. I didn’t pay much attention to this until I heard the following quote:

This is about being a Pittsburgh Steeler for as long as I can be. I don’t want to go anywhere else. I love Pittsburgh. I love the fans. I love the organization and I don’t want to go anywhere.

Danger! Danger!

WVU fans have heard similar things before!

I plan on being at West Virginia the rest of my career.

Hopefully Roethlisberger is a man of his word and not a big fat liar.

I’m writing documentation for Microsoft Outlook (yes, there are people who don’t know how to use e-mail. [Be afraid.]) and I discovered that apparently to get out Office 2007, they applied the 2007 changes to only PART of Outlook. This means that half the time you’re using the toolbar and menu, while the rest of the time you’re using the ribbon.

Do you have any idea how confusing this is going to be for people who are already going to be cranky about change?

I HATE Microsoft and hope that if there is an afterlife, Bill Gates spends it supporting MS Windows Office products.

Yesterday we had an inch of snow and the temperature didn’t get about 35 (however, this was limited to this area, as it was in the upper 40s at Parkersburg). Today the temperature got up to the low 60s and was sunny.

Hurrah for layers!

We all went out to lunch today, which is a good thing, because my grandmother doesn’t really like to go out that much, but my house is so small, she doesn’t get enough walking around here, even when she walks back and forth through the house. Of course since she’s out at least once a week for doctor appointments, I suppose she’s getting her exercise there.

But back to lunch. We went her new favorite restaurant, Cheddar’s, which she likes because the food is very good and very inexpensive. (Three of us ate lunch and shared a dessert for $25.) But as it is Sunday, it was incredibly busy (And there’s something I don’t get either. How come all these “Christians” who think that homosexuality is EVIL because the bible says so, have no problem ignoring the command to keep the sabbath holy by forcing minimum wage workers to work long shifts on Sunday and be away from their families? There’s a long rant for another time.) so we had to wait half an hour for a table, which I was expecting (having worked food service for years myself. [Are you still with me here? Not to many parenthetical asides for you? Good.]) What was interesting to notice which customers paid attention to others in the waiting area.

By the time I had parked the car, my grandmother was seated on one of the benches and Michael was standing in front of her chatting. After a brief moment, the mother and daughter who were sitting beside her got up so Michael and I could have their seats. I protested, but they left, so we sat. As we waited, I paid attention to who sat and who stood, and who offered their seats to others.

After one white haired couple put their name on the list, they turned around and there were no seats, so they stood in the middle of the lobby, right in front of us and two college students (a young couple). After a minute, when the college students didn’t get up to offer their seats, I got up and offered them my seat (and Michael’s seat).

It just leads me to wonder, what people are thinking (or not) as they wait. When we’ve got (without my grandmother) to restaurants where there is a long wait, I inevitably give up my seat for older customers or pregnant women (especially the ones who like they’re about 10 months pregnant and about to fall over). Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely don’t mind doing this, but as there are other able bodied men and women in the lobby, I wonder why no one else ever offers their seat to someone else? Is this common elsewhere or just here? Or do I spent more time people watching and am just more likely to notice older couples and pregnant women who need to get off their feet?

We’re off to Parkersburg to spend the day with mah brudder.

We’re hoping the snow that fell is limited to Mon county.