That's what I get

Remember all of my moaning about how hot it was and how miserable it was sweating all day in the heat of the apartment?

Well, wouldn't you know it, it's coming back to bite me.

It. Is. Freezing.

We cranked up our heater a couple of weeks ago. And although it doesn't run all day, it's definitely getting cold enough that it needs to kick on a couple of times at night and in the morning for it to be comfortable. If our windows were at all decent, I think we could get away without heat for another couple of weeks, but you can literally feel the draft coming from them.

At the end of the year last year we started having trouble getting our very scary wall heater to kick on. We'd have to open the cover to the thermostat and wiggle a sensor to get it to turn on. That worked this year, until last night. No amount of wiggling is getting that puppy to give us the sweet heat.

We woke up freezing this morning, not wanting to get out of bed. My hands are currently like popsicles as I try to type. I just want a happy, comfortable medium.

Off to call the landlord.

Oh my gosh, stupids!

I am running into ridiculous amounts of stupidity today. AND I WORK AT HOME!! And no, Marti is not the stupidity that I'm running into, jerks.

Unfortunately, the stupids are able to find me by phone and via email. If I had to be within spitting distance, I might explode.

Example 1
For the newsletter at work, I send instructions and all content to people in Iowa. They in turn do it up nice and send a proof email. I get an email from one of them regarding the proof:

"The subject line in the proof is different from the one you sent in the instructions, which do I use?"

Um. Maybe the ONE I SENT WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS? And the one I mentioned SEPARATELY IN THE EMAIL. And NOT THE SAME AS THE ONE TWO WEEKS AGO.

Iowans. (sorry non-idiots from Iowa.)

Example 2
A company gets back with me regarding a product information request.

Stupid: "Does this cost money?"

Me: It's editorial, free of charge.

Stupid: Is there anything that costs money?


Yeah, if you want to advertise. But no, what I'm asking for does not cost money. I'm not trying to trick you here.


I could keep going, but don't want to bore with details of my dramatic dumb day.