I HATE COMPUTERS!

That is all.

Don’t forget!

Voter Registration in West Virginia ENDS Tuesday, October 17th. So if you are not registered to vote, make sure to get yourself to the courthouse and do so!

Additionally, early voting starts on the 18th of October and runs through November 4th. So starting the 18th, you can go to the County Courthouse and vote early.

So there is no excuse not to vote!

Okay, in context this makes sense, but I find it highly amusing out of context.
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2006 Ig Nobel prizes were awarded!

The Peace prize was awarded to:

Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant — a device that makes annoying noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not to their teachers.
REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk

Dad: Do you remember when we lived on Clark Street…
Michelle: Yes.
Michelle: Was there more I was supposed to remember?

Having OCD is a funny thing sometimes. And I mean that both as funny strange and funny ha ha. After all, if I couldn’t laugh at myself, then things could be much worse than they are. As it is, sometimes I even find it useful. I mean, I can organize the heck out of anything when I set my mind to it.

Most of the time I don’t even really notice that there’s anything different.

Of course, I’m not sure I’d know what it would feel like if I wasn’t different.

For me, it’s mostly little things. I don’t have obsessive hand washing, however, I do know how my hands feel dirty when I touch something my mind believes to be unclean.

But the things that really drive me nuts are 3-way light switches. Not all of them mind you, but the ones with multiple switches. I cannot stand it when the switches go in different directions. It bugs the crap out of me. I will walk across a darkened room or up an unlit stairwell so that the switches will be in the same direction. (That’s a fun one. I usually run up the stairs, because I imagine things in the dark corners of the basement. Things that come out when the lights are out. [This is why I don’t watch horror movies. My imagination doesn’t need the help.])

Meanwhile, the whole thing kinda defeats the purpose of having 3-way switches in the first place.

I wonder, sometimes, what is it like to go through a day and not be worried about things like that? Not to be bothered by mismatched light switches or floor tiles that are different colors. (That’s a fun one too. Because there is something “wrong” with the mismatched tiles, I can’t step on two different colored tiles at the same time.)

What is the point of this mutation I have? Why did it develop? What has allowed it to survive? What is it’s evolutionary significance? It must have some adaptive use. I mean, how else has is survived? Because I know for damned sure that just as living with OCD can at times be hard, I’m sure that living with me must often be harder still.

Don’t get me wrong though. Most days I don’t even think about the things I do. They don’t bother me, they just are. And when I do think about it, I usually laugh it off. Because there is something hilariously stupid about acting against my own self-interest.

But sometimes I do wonder, “why me?” And today was one of those days.

Why? Because Michael just repaired the 3-way switch in the kitchen. So that’s one more for me to worry about.

On the bright side, think of all the extra exercise I’ll get, walking back and forth across yet another room, to put the switches in the correct direction!

Any Discworld readers may enjoy this Discworld cake.

Almost forgot, there is an electronics recycling place in Morgantown now, PC Renewal.

Micahel took our old broken TV there, and some other miscellaneous electronics, and it cost just a couple bucks. So if you’d like to be environmentally conscious as you get rid of your old electronics, there’s now a place to do it.

Female Occupational Therapy Student: “I’m good to get four showers in a week. He just really likes to be clean, doesn’t he?”

This made me laugh. Out loud.

Armageddon Flowchart

(via Making Light)

This year Mountaineer Week is Nov 3rd through Nov 12. The Craft show will be the 3d, 4th, and 5th(?).

Hey! I knew this one!

golem

•noun (in Jewish legend) a clay figure brought to life by magic.
• an automaton or robot.
— origin late 19th cent.: from Yiddish goylem, from Hebrew golem ‘shapeless mass’.

The other day when I was walking down the hallway, I passed three Chinese women who were talking to each other in Chinese.

I heard, Chinese Chinese Chinese Chinese school bus Chinese Chinese Chinese Chinese.

I love coming across things like that.

An Experiment in Treason (2002) Bruce Alexander

Mister Donnelly takes Jeremy out to Portsmouth to see Benjamin Franklin perform an experiment. Although his politics is reviled by many, others are fascinated by his scientific experiments, and may have some sympathy for his politics. While Jeremy is gone, there is a brutal murder during the course of a burglary, and Clarissa briefly takes Jeremy’s place as Sir John’s eyes.

An Experiment in Treason