Dear So and So

[lph]

Dear Body,

Thank you for being such a good sport and healing up so nicely after you got a week on the couch. Lungs - a special thanks to you for picking up on normal good working order again. Obsessive, don't-wanna-be-last-even-if-I-have-a-good-excuse Brain up here sure appreciates it

[SadieKate]

Dear Software Companies,

What is so fascinating about including all kinds of bells and whistles of useless software when a basic package with drivers is sufficient and mostly likely to have the most successful install and utilization? When I shell out the bucks for new hardware, why do I have to spend over 2 hours researching, uninstalling crap and rebooting for known common problems.

For instance, Google taskbar and search: I work for approximately the 27th largest company in the US with 30-some thousand employees, and they forbid both because they don't play nicely with business apps. I just did the recommended automatic install last night and all things IE related crashed. Two uninstalls and one reboot later IE is working again. Given that I already have problems with IE and Google that are so unfixable that my 1 week old laptop has to be replaced, I'm a tad cranky. Neither of these apps have anything to do at all with the actual operation of your hardware. They are just frills. Please don't go on Happy Hour binges with Google sales people any longer, m'kay?

Next I have a delightful morning wrestling with another app for the same hardware. I signed into the work network and BOOM! everything freezes. I can't even get the task manager to pop. WTF? 3 hard reboots later, I give up and use a personal computer to research the problem only to find that one of these stupid non-essential software apps is known to not play nicey, nicey with Cisco VPN. You think this could have been detected during install? Your product is titled "Office Edition." Let me think. Two people working from home in this household and 100% of us use Cisco VPN for either the aforementioned gigantic company or for another public employer who would be the 6th (or 5th?) largest economy in the world if it seceded from the US of A. Gosh, what are the chances that your product will be loaded to an office computer using Cisco VPN? Even I, a non-statistician, can figure that one out. The fix there only took 2 more re-boots to clear. And I’m still left with another SW app that I have to research getting it to not automatically start with each boot.

Oh wait a minute. I just figured out why you do it. It is so you can go giggle with Google during happy hour with all that time you’ve saved by not providing user manuals that cover all these apps.

K.I.S.S. and make your customers happy.

[Tuckervill]

Dear husband. re the post above...thank you for my new Macbook!

Karen

[SadieKate]

Dear Tuckervill,

These products were designed for business use even with MS and Mac products. I haven't had these problems with Microsoft home-use products. Don't break out in a happy Mac dance over this . . . .

SK

[bmccasland]

Dear lady in the office with the new flowery perfume,

I realize that YOU like it, but do you have to bathe in it? Some of us are hypersensitive to smells and like-to-die every time you pass by. Thank goodness I don't work directly with you or I would say something.

[firenze11]

Dear Realty Gods,

Please send someone to buy our house. It's only been on a week, but I am EXHAUSTED. The constant cleaning and waiting for a showing is stressful, more than I remember. I also feel like I'm living in someone else's house. I've washed the kitchen floor so much I think I'm going to wash a hole in the wood, especially with a dog and the cat putting paw prints on it all the time. I've been so busy I haven't really answered my emails, been on TE at all, or even been on my bike in a week. . .I think hear him crying from the garage at night. This weekend was a bust. Three showings Saturday and a last minute second showing Sunday that lasted forever. And all those strange people wandering through your rooms. . .yuck.

Goodness that felt good to rant about. That being said I'm trying to keep up with the cleaning a little each day and keeping positive that the right buyer will come along! Fingers crossed.

~Firenze

[redrhodie]

Dear So and So,

You know I luv ya, but your kid's a brat! I hate to say this, but I think it's all the yelling you do at her. Now, she doesn't know when you're serious or not, and it's confusing for her, so she never listens to you. I also think you need to cut back on the sugar you give her. She was bouncing off the walls after that lemonade, and it was not fun for me to be around her. I gave up the best riding day this week to be with you, and it was less than gold star.

Spending time with her does make me appreciate my decisons, though, so I'm grateful for that. Easy for me to criticize your parenting, since I don't have to do it. Don't think I could do it any better, btw.

Maybe come alone next time. You need a break. She's not easy for an afternoon, I don't know how you do it full time.

[applegum]

Dear insane lack of motivation,

I realize that home and summer break are only two weeks away, but could you please exert the minimal effort required to quit making me lurk the TE forums instead of picking up my philosophy books and actually reading so I pass and might be allowed to come back to school next year? Lovely.

Alex

[VeloVT]

Dear insane lack of motivation,

I realize that home and summer break are only two weeks away, but could you please exert the minimal effort required to quit making me lurk the TE forums instead of picking up my philosophy books and actually reading so I pass and might be allowed to come back to school next year? Lovely.

Alex

ummm.... me too? please???

[vmax]

Dear (unexpected) overnight guest:

I was more than happy to let you stay overnight Saturday as your furnace had died and it is still too cold here in MN to be without heat at night.

I was disappointed (and hurt) come Sunday morning when all you did was complain that the house was too cold, bed was too hard, the heat register made too much noise in the night so that you could not "get your beauty sleep". You even made a comment about getting up so early (8:00 a.m.) even though I'd informed you that I needed to leave no later than 10 am to go visit an elderly aunt out of town. I also got up early to make us a nice breakfast which I think is what a gracious hostess should do for company.

I'm certainly willing to help friends when necessary but phhllleaaaze . . . no whining or complaining, ok?

- Vmax

[maillotpois]

Vmax -

[SouthernBelle]

Reply: "Next time perhaps you would be more comfortable in a hotel."

[SouthernBelle]

Dear Computer Gods,

I'm unsure whether you are trying to protect me or screw me up.

When I'm trying to bid on a commuting bike on Ebay as an auction is ending, this is not normally a good time for my virus software to start updating.

However, as I may have found better on Craigslist this morning, perhaps you are acting in my best interest

[sundial]

Dear Potential Home Buyer,

I know you are searching for the perfect home for your pet. Firenze11 has just the home! It is neat, tidy and comes furnished with pet hair. What more could you ask? Oh, and the price is just right. Please make a bid soon so she doesn't have to bust her hiney day in and day out just to keep the house extra clean for non-pet buyers.

Sincerely,
Dyson Dame

[teawoman]

Dear Weather Gods:

Will you PLEASE get with it so we can have some spring rides with our club? 3/4 scheduled rides have been cancelled over the last 2 weeks because of SNOW. Hello? It's the end of April already!

Our weekly rides are supposed to start today. It's raining AND snowing out there. Yesterday it was beautiful. Tomorrow it's supposed to be beautiful again. Please make sure from now on that all the Wednesdays are nice.

Thank you kindly,
Me