Tuesday, June 28, 2005
(8:34 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred 6
Today is the feast of St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, reputed to have been martyred under circumstances that are unclear, the author of Against all heresies, a refutation of Gnosticism, which was, in all fairness, a pretty stupid religion. The hatred comes in because tomorrow is the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, which is so big that it gets a vigil mass, meaning that Irenaeus gets commemorated only in morning prayer, not in evening prayer. I finally find a saint I like, who isn't a war criminal, and the church shortchanges him.Our shower hasn't been draining lately. For a few days, it would just take a couple hours to drain after a shower, but then it stopped altogether. I cannot handle it emotionally when the shower isn't draining. It is in the top five of things that make me extremely angry. Also, the toilet doesn't flush completely, so there's always that last piece of toilet paper lingering, at best.
I hate that Adobe Reader support in Firefox is buggy. It is the only thing that causes it to lock up in my experience, and it locks up approximately once a day. I hate that you can't copy and paste text from a PDF using Adobe Reader. I hate alt-tabbing among three or more windows. I hate that you can't change the default paste behavior in Microsoft programs and that it always seems to default to the stupidest and most disruptive way to paste something in. (I know that I could fix this problem by writing some VBA scripts and remapping my keyboard shortcuts, but it should be simpler to change it.)
I hate how easily I fall asleep when I try to read at night.
