Steph is on the phone with her sister right now reminiscing about playing "Boxcar Children". I laud them for the effort of at least going with the original book and roughing it as opposed to solving mysteries while living with Daddy Warbucks.
When did # become hashtag instead of pound sign? Not this £ sign (alt + 0163) but this one #. Really. Is this all Twitter's doing? In the future, when dealing with automated call centers, will he have to press hashtag on our phones instead of pound once we enter in our sensitive information? When stores have 3# of apples on sale, do our youth feel that the store owners are foolishly putting the hashtag in the wrong place if they want people to visit their twitter site? Will the @ sign be next??? Seriously though, it's a pound sign.
On the note of politics... nah, just kidding.
I felt stupid earlier. I was talking to my neighbors this morning, and they were telling me how they hoped some geese would get here soon because they like eating goose, I guess, or at least shooting them. I mentioned that I thought I'd heard one yesterday, at which point one of my neighbors pulled out a goose call and said he'd been practicing yesterday. Wheeee!
And seriously, what on earth is up with people typing 'would of' instead of 'would've'? Have we regressed so far in our own language that we no longer understand the difference between 'of' and a conjunction meaning 'have'? It's not even a space saver, like shortening 'you're' to 'your' (couldn't help it) or 'ur'.
Steph says I'm becoming a crotchety old man and says she looks forward to the day when we have a lawn so I can shake my fist as I tell people to stay off it.
I should probably get back to studying. I say 'probably' to make myself feel better about it, like it's optional. Remember kids, it's stands for it is, and its is possessive. On the note of studying, they've updated the test so I've had to speed up my studying, lest they change over and a great deal of my studying is for naught.
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