Category: Rantings

Venting, bitching, and like that

Gee, Thanks For Letting Me Keep Some

~ JodiLea ~ 4 Comments

Dear IRS,
I’ll be sending you half of my inheritance next week. I must have done something wrong because I could not find a loop-hole, or any exemption to prevent getting nailed with the maximum capital gains tax.

Please, insist the federal government spend my inheritance wisely. I don’t want to find out that my dear mother’s trust funded something she would disapprove of.  And if I were you, I wouldn’t piss her off.

Oh, and FYI – I will NOT be sending you money every quarter next year, so forget those voucher thingys. Everyone who could leave me money is dead. I retired and my pension is notably less than my former income.  You’ll have to look for a different grieving heir.

Now that I think about it,  you may want to put some of my inheritance in reserve – you’ll be sending ME money next year.

Sincerely,

A Tax-Payer

Please, Take It Back!!

~ JodiLea ~ 7 Comments

Dear Mr. Gates,

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but somebody has to. Maybe you will listen to me because I am a computer technician who has worked a lot with various Windows Operating Systems.

YOUR WINDOWS 8 SUCKS!

Let me count the ways…

  1. The new Start Menu is ridiculous.  Your desktop is one of the boxes called “tiles”.  They are buttons that must be clicked on my laptop.
  2. I wont use half of the “tiles”, yet I cannot edit the menu to remove them from sight. I may not have found the correct place to accomplish the task, and who’s fault is that?
  3. Speaking of finding things… Where is the damn user manual that needs to be sent out with each new Windows 8 OS?? Because it certainly was not in the box with my new laptop.
  4. The “Quick Start Guide” was well named. It had 8 languages and 5 steps (no photos, no directions)
  5. You can’t fool me, this OS was designed for a smart phone. Not my dumb laptop, I assure you.
  6. If a computer technician is really pissed off about an OS, imagine how your  non-technical users are feeling…

I’m begging you, please make OS 8 for a laptop/desktop. Writers (at least this one) need consistent functionality way more than we need “Cool”.

Sincerely,

Jodi Lea; author of  Not Pretending (to be sane)

P.S.

Windows 7 =  Windows 7   Windows 8 =  Win 8

Why Do Kickers Always Get The Boot?

~ JodiLea
Akers Field Goal Attempt A Farce
Akers Field Goal Attempt A Winner!

Pun intended, but I’m not laughing. In fact,  I am ranting now. To you poor people, because y’all are incredible listeners, and I haven’t figured out a way to rant directly to the 49er’s coaching staff. Yet.

A place-kicker has a crappy day (maybe two) and it’s “Sorry, you’re fired”.  And suddenly, Mr. newly hired Kicker appears from out of the NFL’s kicker’s pool. Do they really think that is where the better kickers come from? Are they thinking at all?

Our awesome leg man, David Akers, who helped get the 49ers to the playoffs 2 years in a row,  and tied the NFL record with a 63-yard field goal, could be replaced by a kicker that has never played with the 49er’s before this week’s playoff game. I’m sure Billy Cundiff is a good kicker. But David Akers is OUR kicker, dammit!  David has saved the 49er’s ass many more times than he didn’t. And yet, it’s all his fault for us not beating the Rams.

Seriously? Are the 49er’s management staff watching the games? Well I am, and they should be aware of the following:

David Akers has NEVER, EVER:

  • Thrown an interception
  • Dropped the ball
  • Fumbled the ball
  • Missed catching the ball
  • and, the most important never in my book – Been flagged for a penalty.

None of our “star” players can say that.

And yet, they will fire David, because it’s all his fault. How convenient for our receivers, tight-ends, corners and QBs. They won’t have to worry about their place on the team. Well… Alex Smith may worry considering the franchises loyalty issues of late.

David won’t be the first kicker to go like this, and probably not the last.

Watch out Billy Cundiff – you’re next …