I want to get an old-fashioned looking bed frame. The only pic I could find that is close to what I have in mind is

http://www.brianvandenbrink.com/r_be-16.html

Does anyone know how to find these rustic looking bed frames ? I need one badly. Thank you.

1. When a tech says he’s coming right over, log out and go for coffee. It’s no problem for us to remember 2700 network passwords.

2. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle art. We don’t have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

3. When tech support sends you an e-mail with high importance, delete it at once. We’re probably just testing out the public groups.

4. When a tech is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts out and expect him to respond immediately. We exist only to serve and are always ready to think about fixing computers.

5. When Pat is at the water cooler or outside having a smoke, ask her a mail question. The only reason why she drinks water or smokes at all is to ferret out all those users who don’t have email or a telephone line.

6. Send urgent email ALL IN UPPERCASE. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.

7. When you call a tech’s direct line, press 5 to skip the bilingual greeting that says he’s out of town for a week, record your message, and wait exactly 24 hours before you send an email straight to the director because no one ever returned your call. You’re entitled to common courtesy.

8. When the photocopier doesn’t work, call computer support. There’s electronics in it, right?

9. When you’re getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer support. We can even fix telephone problems from here.

10. When something’s wrong with your home PC, dump it on a tech’s chair with no name, no phone number, and no description of the problem. We love a good mystery.

11. When you have a tech on the phone walking you through changing a setting read the paper. We don’t actually mean for you to DO anything we just love to hear ourselves talk.

12. When we offer training on an upcoming software upgrade, don’t bother. We’ll be there to hold your hand after it is done.

13. When the printer won’t print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently just disappear into the cosmos for no reason.

14. When the printer still won’t print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the office. One of them is bound to work.

15. Don’t use online help. Online help is for wimps.

16. If you’re taking night classes in computer science, feel free to go around and update the network drivers for you and all you co-workers. We’re grateful for the overtime when we have to stay until 2:30am fixing them.

17. When you have a tech fixing your computer at a quarter past one, eat your lunch in his face. We function better when slightly dizzy.

18. Don’t ever thank us. We love this AND we get paid for it!

19. When a tech asks you whether you’ve installed any new software on this computer, lie. It’s nobody’s business what you’ve got on your computer.

20. If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were designed to have 45 lbs. of computer sitting on top of them.

21. If the space bar on your keyboard doesn’t work, blame it on the mail upgrade. Keyboards work much better with half a pound of muffin crumbs, nail clippings, and big sticky drops of Coke under the keys.

22. When you get the message saying "Are you sure?", click on that Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren’t sure, you wouldn’t Be doing it, would you?

23. Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don’t know nothing about that computer crap". It never bothers us to hear our area of professional expertise referred to as crap.

24. When you need to change the toner cartridge, call tech support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a professional engineer with a Master’s degree in nuclear physics.

25. When something’s the matter with your computer, ask your secretary to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a third party who doesn’t know jack shit about the problem.

26. When you receive a 30-meg movie file, send it to everyone as a high-priority mail attachment. We’ve got plenty of disk space and processor capacity on that mail server.

27. Don’t even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller chunks. God forbid somebody else might get a chance to squeeze into the queue.

28. When you bump into a tech in the grocery store on a Saturday, ask a computer question. We work 24/7, even while at the grocery store on
weekends.

29. If your son is a student in computer science, have him come in on the weekends and do his projects on your office computer. We’ll be there for you when his illegal copy of Visual Basic 6.0 makes your Access database flip out.

30. When you bring us your own no-brand home PC to repair for free at the office, tell us how urgently we need to fix it so your son can get back to playing DOOM. We’ll get right on it because we have so much free time at the office. Everybody knows all we do is surf the Internet all day anyway.

A Film Of Mattress Glue Has Created A Weirdness That Has Rendered Me Impotent

They tied a pink bandanna around my arm
and told me to go up the stairs and wait.
The smell of piss stung my eyes.
A blond haired guy with a jean jacket around his waist was clinging
to the banister, crying.
I shoved him out of the way and went on up.

There were lawn chairs at the top,
folded neatly and stacked in the corner.
I stood on the landing, waiting for a door to open.
I watched the bar down below.
Paper-wrapped burritos piled on a table near an old man with white hair
and dark brown skin;
a dog at his side, mangy and sleeping.

The door opened and a midget shuffled out,
blood coming from his nose.
He laughed
and she laughed right behind him,
wiggling her finger at me.
He grunted something in Spanish and stumbled
down the stairs.
"Senor?"
I plucked a bed sheet from the hall closet before I went in,
and she grabbed my arm.
"Extra!"
I put it back and went to the edge of the bed.

There was still blood near the top of the mattress.
A ripped poster slumped on the wall: "A Mexican Opera!" The colors were faded
and most of the scene was unrecognizable.
Before I could ask about the blood, she was on me,
rubbing the sweat of her thighs on my stomach
as she unsnapped the buttons of my shirt.
Laughter right outside the door; a British accent
and the clapping of hands.
Her breath smelled like cigars and for a moment
the smell of piss was gone.
My bare back hit the mattress and I slid backwards,
her face landing in my crotch, her mouth chewing, her hair
stuck to her cheeks, the ceiling fan spitting dust,
while I waited for it without focus or care,

death a better place, hell a calm seclusion,
bathing in this vile…

I had a brick patio installed last fall and left my metal lawn furniture on it over the winter. To my surprise some of the furniture was rusting and there are some rust stains on the bricks below the furniture.

I heard CLR can do the trick, but I’m not sure if this could potentially stain the bricks even more.

-Thanks

Ok, I need some opinions!

My friend’s guy friend is really really cute. A week ago we played poker at his apartment. He sat next to me and kept glancing at me. I’m very shy and just didn’t want to look at him. When I lost he still included me by showing me his cards. When it was time to leave, I was standing by the door waiting for my girlfriend, and he kept glancing at me over his shoulder. He made sure to say bye before I left.

The next day I went out to eat with a bunch of people. He kept glancing at me again. My friend brought her nephew. He was playing with the nephew, smiling at me whenever I watched and laughed. After dinner, he seemed to take his time leaving, fixing the chairs at the table. Then was the last to leave, walking behind me. Outside, he kept taking glances at me again, but I just pretended to not notice.

A couple of days later, we went to a bar. I felt he was watching me the whole time. When it was time for me to go, I waved bye to him, and he reached out to give me a hug. I felt he was still watching me leave.

Does he like me or something? What should i do?

My Rottweiler puppy is 9 weeks old and came down with Parvo 2 weeks ago. She wound up surviving it with the vet’s help, my intensive care at home. When I took her back to the vet to be re-checked last Monday she got a clean bill of health!

She has had Solid stools all last week and now yesterday and today I am noticing she is having brown diarrhea with spots of blood! but at the same time she is VERY hyper and active, eating her puppy chow on her own,playing with my cats like she always does,doesn’t look skinny and has her fat puppy body back, she also isn’t dehydrated at all, and she isn’t vomiting.

When she was sick with the Parvo, she threw up foam and mucous/water looking vomit a lot with barely any diarrhea. She also was a bag of bones in meaning she was very skinny from not eating any food what so ever, and she also was very lethargic and the only thing she would do is sleep in her bed under a blanket in the bathroom all day, everyday for 5 days straight while I was giving her Pedialite,Parvoguard,Vibactra Plus ( i researched the web and found out that these home remedies if given consistently, will beat Parvo) every hour on the hour 24 hours a day,and when she started showing interest in food, I gave her cooked white rice and boiled chicken. The first day she was sick, she was at the vet for IV medication and fluid overnight, but it got too expensive so I had to take her home and try to nurse her back to health which was tricky and touch and go, but it worked and I was over the moon happy!.. now I am getting nervous again seeing diarrhea with blood!. But I also heard from the vet, once a puppy has Parvo and gets over it, she can never get it again since they build up an immunity. I was going to get her second shot this weekend, but the vet told me to hold off until next weekend… so I am.

Why is she going backwards with her progress yesterday and today?? I don’t understand why its happening if the vet checked her up last monday and came back to the room telling us "She looks beautiful and looks like she beat the Parvo!". Her words exactly.

I was giving her Parvoguard and I stopped giving it last Tuesday, the day after the vet said she looks perfectly well. Should I start giving it to her again?

Anyone else ever deal with a few days of going backwards with Parvo (only 1 symptom) and it went away and she was fine again?

Right now she is going crazy with my cats.. running all over the kitchen with them and doing her puppy growl thinking she is their boss while they swat at her,its the cutest thing! Back when she was deathly ill she wouldn’t even as much as lift her head off her bed in the bathroom! So that is why I am confused!

If you have any advice.. PLEASE let me know right away!

Oh one more thing I had asked a question about puppies and Parvo yesterday and someone who responded asked if I was the user ATL and then they started saying rude things! I am not that person! I live in Georgia, but I am not them! I promise! I have a Rottweiler Puppy and a Boxer puppy. I just got the boxer puppy yesterday too, so another thing I am worried about is she might catch the parvo.. My husband brought her home as an early Valentines gift to me since i’ve been wanting one badly!.. So far she is fine, but I know it takes weeks for symptoms to show. I do have her away from my Rottweiler though, they haven’t touched yet.
Thanks!

I have hard wood floors, dark tan walls with white trim, oak mission style coffee and end tables, tan sofa and chair, deep red accent wall, and a black rustic armoire. Black accessories.

I have known this girl for years but we wern’et close mates. Recently we have seen more of each other and I think she likes me. She asked for my mobile to send jokes etc and she signs off love emma xxx It’s like she wants to be near me all the time and spend her free time with me. We don’t hug but there was a wasp in the house once and she grabbed onto giggling and asking me to kill it. She then asked what body spray I used because it smelled really nice. We were in the pub once and my mate nicked her chair when she went to the loo. She came back and perched on the arm of my seat with her arm around the back of me and her breasts sort of almost in my face. She started touching my shirt and asking what the writing on it said. She stayed there for ages and when I went to the bar she didn’t nick my seat. At the end of the night she asked if I could drop her off home and asked me if I was seeing anyone. I said no. If we joke about sexual stuff now she gets all embarrassed. Like or not?
Tar68 I don’t know where bisexuality comes into this. I’m a man, she’s a woman!

Moving to a place with a huge patio!!! Pumped! What can i put on it…besides a BBQ and patio furniture?
thanks!

your unwrapping a candy bar thats wrapped in cellophane and the cellophane wrapping kinda sticks to you because of the static electricity on your body and no matter what you doyou cannot get rid of that lousy piece of cellophane? if you wipe it off on a chair or a bed it will stick there as well. ugh!

i met a girl a couple of weeks ago. for the last 1.5 weeks or so, we’ve been talking more.

a week ago, we played chess at a cafe. she kept kicking my leg under the table. she also laid her legs on a chair and pulled her skirt up, very close to me.

the next day, she sat far from me at the same cafe and didn’t say much.

another day, i sat very close to her. she never moved away. she touched my foot, didn’t flinch or apologize. i touched her hand, and again no pulling away.

when i am with another friend of hers, she says hello to me first. and when she leaves, she often says goodbye only to me. she repeats my name to me often….doesn’t call me "him." she left and showered and returned once, as soon as i came.

another night, i saw her at a bar with our friends, and she said little.

she’s single and straight. she’s 6’1" and i’m tall enough for her at 6’6′". i never see her flirting with other guys. she hangs out with gay guys and girls. she knows i’m straight.

does she like me?
it’s hard to get her alone, though i sometimes have, cuz our friends are always around.

Ok, so since i was 8 years old or so, i have had this thing with the number three, which i never thought was odd, because i was used to it, i never knew it was ‘different’ in any way.

see the number three to me, always made sense, i never picked it or anything, just one day i realized all these things came together, and made sense, the number three had to be my special number.

for starters, i am the third daughter,third child, lived in 3 houses, had 3 cats, 3 living grandparents, lived in 3 different towns, 3 different houses, 3 different schools, now ive had 3 rodents, my grand parents each had 3 kids, my grandparents have 9 grandkids, divided by 3 is obvoiusly, THREE. ive gone through 3 phones, ive lived in 3 different rooms in the house, my sister went through 3 different careers, i have 3 pairs of shoes, i sleep on 3 matresses, and so on and so forth.

and they all just keep on adding up, i was little when i noticed all of this, now im fifteen, and more and more have added onto the pile.

since i was little ive noticed myself getting ready in the morning, putting my makeup on in steps of three, showering with three different shampoos, shaving with three strokes per what should be a long stroke, and then when i get through my morning process, i get to the bus stop and i wait, three busses pass until i get to mine, and then i get to my school, all together in one day i have a cycle of 3 busses to ride, until i get to my school. and once i get there, i get my lunch ticket, tap it three times with one hand and three times with the other, and three times with both.

then whenever i get to my class, i tap my feet in threes, if i mess up with a sentence i usually write over it three times. when i get up to close a door, ill pull it shut a little with one hand, and then the other, and then both, just so its even, so my hands feel even. other wise it gets this odd sensation in the hand that didnt touch it.

another thing ive noticed, is i feel bad for inanimate objects. like, if i always use one pen, instead of the pencil, ill use the pencil, because i feel it ‘feels’ its left out. same with chairs, and when i throw things away. i stop myself from doing things because i think of the butterfly affect they will have.

i also developed a click in my throat, i would un controllably make this clicking noise in my throat, like i was flexing it, it would come in threes. i would do it for hours, people thought i was coughing, or tapping my teeth (which later developed in threes), but i couldnt stop doing it. no matter how hard i tried, or how much my throat hurt, it would just do it on its own. i couldnt stop.

my mind goes from one thing to the next. i have a history of depression, and and anorexia, except i was so young i didnt know what exactly what it was called. all i knew is i thought i was fat, and i wanted to kill myself. for the longest time, i didnt eat, my parents had to force me to eat a few carrots because my stomach had shrunk from eating MAYBE a granola bar a day. I thought i was crazy until i got older and understood it more.

i had a very hard time controlling my emotions, and began to harm myself, thank god, ive been clean a year, and i have no intentions of starting again, although things are hard lately.

i just need to know, if i do have ocd, and if i do, are the depression lingering thoughts about my weight, and this ocd all connected?

my parents havent really seen much of this, because im usually ou, out and about or in my room, or at my boyfriends. after the things i used to do, i think they just are trying to avoid any other problems possible.

but sorry for such a long summary, i just had to get it all in here ten points for whoever gives best answer!
also, i tend to eat in threes. when i drink something, ill swallow it in thirds.

and i have recently developed glucose problems, could that somehow be connected also?
because my doctor told me my glucose hits dangerously low, every three hours, so my body shuts down.

ironic, but i have to eat every 3 hours.

help?
i also do not think when i do these things, sorry for alL
the details

Okay, let me give you a little detail on what my room looks like now, the size of it, what’s already in it, etc:
The size of my room is exactly 10 feet by 11 feet 2 inches (I’m in an apartment).
The things already in my room are a brown oakwood dresser, a matching nightstand, a double slider window with that little bar at the top, a silver TV stand, a protruding heater, a built-in double door closet, a queen sized bed with no slacks or nothing, it’s just sitting on the floor. Oh, and there’s this little wall when you come in my room about the length of one of my arms (I’m 5’8).
The walls of my room are all white with the exception of a few little marks and/or stains that unfortunately my younger brother put up when he was in here. Same thing goes for the cream-colored floor (I’m really looking for something that cover the stains.)

Now let me tell you what I’m looking to achieve after the makeover:

I want my room to look like something out of a better homes and garden magazine or something remotely close to it. Like I want the walls to be a bright white, the floor to be covered by a nice colored or patterned rug. I want some really bright curtains with some matching patterned bedding. I want like some really nice furniture coverings for my dresser and nightstand and stuff. Um, I want to be able to cover my walls in like some really pretty posters of people or patterns and if I can, I want to be able to hang like some little shapes or something from my ceiling. I’m also looking for a cute lamp to go in here too. Oh yeah, I have a lot of stuff in my room everywhere (tons of shoes, clothes, makeup, etc.), so any cute stylish storage suggestions would be nice too. And anything else that could really set my room off as lovely and beautiful would be grand.

Oh yeah, if you haven’t noticed, I’m a little bit of a pattern and color freak

If it helps, my favorite colors are royal purple and cerulean blue.

Thanks In Advance For Your Help!

Most Descriptive Answer Gets Best Answer.

P.S. I don’t have a lot of money like that so if the suggestions could be low-price, that’d be even better.

My school requires that we go on a two week or more trip during the summer to a different evironment away from our parents to grow and learn independence and also to have fun. my friend told me about www.rusticpathways.com and i looked at it and it looks like they have some really fun trips.

has anyone been on one of their trips? if so how was it?
thanks xxx

I’m looking for outdoor furniture for the patio and have found a set that I really like and is reasonably priced. It is made of kiln-dried hardwood, not teak, so I am wondering how bad it is to leave some of it outdoors over the winter. We live in CT so winters can be bad here. While I will probably be able to store some of it indoors, I’m just not sure if we have room to move everything indoors for the winter. I would obviously cover everything with furniture covers if left outdoors, but it would likely sit in some snow at some point. Will it be destroyed? I’m going to look for other options if you all think it’s a bad idea. Thanks in advance for your advice!
I would take it inside as I know that would extend the life of it, unfortunately, that just isn’t an option for me…we just don’t have room for it. We are trying to build a shed for some of it but the town is giving us grief…that’s a whole other story though…so I’m not counting on that as a storage space as of now.