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[mrissa]

+ Tiny dusting of snow!!! I will take it. It's better than no snow.

+ Concert last night: good good good. Antje Duvekot opened, and WPA was the main act. Definitely worth my time and energy and money to see. Also it was a grown-up concert at the Cedar, which means chairs to sit in and a concert that starts on time. Hurrah. Duvekot said it was her worst set ever. If this is the case, she is a candidate for best worst set ever.

+ Pepparkakor dough in a minute. Cookie Day tomorrow. Yay! First Cookie Day with Grandma in town to share it! Yay!

- People. Nobody is tone death. Some people are tone deaf. Tone death would be some kind of superpower; I'm pretty sure you only wish that the person in your office who cannot sing but does so anyway would die a tone death. One problem with teaching children to spell phonetically is that some of them do not enunciate for sour owl crap, and spend their time around other people who do not enunciate for sour owl crap.

- Online clothing retailers, seriously: size first, color second. When does anybody ever say, "Well, I totally want the purple one, but I don't care which of the six sizes is available?" This is an instance where size very much matters. You do not buy your 2XL aunt or your XS aunt an M sweater because M is what the retailer has and you like that sweater. If you do, you are being stupid and should stop.

- DVD manufacturers: stop putting an infinite repeat sound loop on the menu screen. It makes perfect sense to put the DVD in and go somewhere else to do laundry, put something in the oven, etc. while the warnings and disclaimers are playing. Nobody who is up to their elbows in clean, dry towels finds the experience enhanced by the same thirty seconds of your theme song over and over again. Just stop.

Comments

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Not sorting by size first has bugged me several times in offline clothing stores, as well. It is particularly bothersome to me when they sort first by manufacturer. I do not care who made my trousers, and I only care whether they are aesthetically pleasing once they have been determined to fit.

[redbird]

Some of us care about the manufacturer because we've found that one manufacturer's size n is another's n+1 and a third's n-2, so we can waste a lot of time trying on stuff from a stack of 16s, and then trying to find the 18 in one style and the 14 in another.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Seems like that would be best addressed by standardizing clothing size numbers.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You are not, alas, the first person to have had that notion, and have nothing come of it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For me, it's often that the size 4 is the size that fits me if any size fits me, but many manufacturers simply do not make clothes that fit me. So I care about the manufacturer in that I want to dodge the people whose clothes are made for people shaped drastically differently than I am.