It's that time again!

Ok, you know how the name of this here blog is LisaPie's Musings, Ramblings & Rants??


Today is kind of a Ranting day.  Aren't you glad you tuned in after I have taken a 2 week long hiatus?

Things on my Rant/Bitch List:

1. Idiots on Jeopardy!, pay attention!  Listen closely.

THE WORD IS HUNDRED.  hunDRED.

It is NOT Hunnerd.  If you say hunnerd, you should be disqualified and be forced to let Alex Trebek talk to you non-stop for 3 full weeks.  Quit saying hunnerd, you lower your iq by a hunDRED points every time you do it.

2. When you abbreviate things as we all do, would it kill you to use the correct "Fridge" for refrigerator rather than Frig??  Makes me want to say "What frigging thing are you talking about now?"

3. I read a book this past weekend.  It was a small paperback that I found in the bottom of an overnight bag I hadn't used in a couple years.  I have no idea where this book came from.  Certainly someone passed it on to me because I didn't buy it.  It was fair to middling.  If I were grading it I would give it a C-.  The reason I bring it up at all is the typos!

Did I ever tell you that in a former life I used to work in printing?  I did typesetting and proofreading.  I loved it.  It was a really fun job.  It was all creative, fun and yet very precise at the same time.  Since everything has gone to the digital age and proofreaders have become as obselete as real corks in real wine bottles, it seems that standards have also fallen by the wayside.

I don't care what you are reading, a blog, a newspaper, an obituary, a crummy paperback, a novel from a very talented author, or a comic book; there will be a typo.  Magazines have them.  Menus?  They are the WORST!  Oh Lordy, reading a menu can be excruciating!

What the hell is wrong with people?  No one cares?

And saying this I know full well that someone will comment and point out a rather glaring misspelling of my very own.  This is my own failing when I get all excited, flustered and on my high horse about something and then just push the button for Publish Post rather than spell check first.  So that's okay.  I understand that about myself and I hope that you will take this blog with it's grammatical failings for what it is, just my little way of sharing a bit of myself.  Warts and all, as they say.

4. The last thing I want to rant/bitch about is people lacking basic kindness for our fellow man.  Can we please be kind and considerate with each other?  You and I don't know what the person in the next house/office/car are going through.  Would it kill us to be nice?  Can't we let that person merge into our lane?  Can we see that it's not all about us?  The world does not revolve around you, or me.  Let's just find a way to treat each other with the respect and consideration that we would like our mothers and children to have.  I would say "as you would like to be treated", but there are a ton of people out there who don't really care about themselves and get trampled on a daily basis, but they would stand up for their loved ones.

That's it.  I am done bitching today.  I am sorry that I have taken such a break from this blog and you have probably lost all interest.  Things have just not been easy around here and I couldn't come up with anything positive to say.  My next post will be much sooner and it will positive.  Promise.

Thanks for listening.