Stoooopid Daylight Savings Time and other rants

Rant #1
I forgot (or didn't even know) that this was the weekend. I hate DST. You want more "sunlight" hours? Get up earlier on your own, but don't make me do it. My body knows, that even though the clock says "6:00", that it's really Five.Freaking.O'clock. in the morning. And then when people say it gives you more hours in the day???? No, it doesn't. There are still only 24 hours in the day. Deal with it.

Rant #2
Book publishers who re-release books in different formats and book sellers who show those as "new releases". OK, and the moron who doesn't or can't remember that she already has that book, so orders it online because it's a new book! I think they should be required to include a statement to the effect that this book has already been published released in a different format (hardback vs trade paperback vs mass market paperback). The really bad part is I'm such a moron. I keep a spreadsheet listing all the books I own (I know, that makes me anal-retentive, not moronic), and I even checked the listing to "be sure" I didn't already have the book, because the title sounded familiar. (That's the part that makes me a moron.) Luckily, I was able to take the book to the local store of this chain, and return it for store credit.

Rant #3
Cats who bite. Or maybe the rant should just be about cats in general. It drives me nuts. Stinkerbelle will climb up on me, and then if I try to pet her while she's laying on me, she'll bite me. I'm also just a wee bit tired of being woken up between 3 & 5 in the morning, when she decides it's "quality time" and wants me to pet her. She climbs up on my shoulder and just starts meowing until I pet her. If I stop before she's ready, she puts her paw on my face. I haven't decided if the message is a gentle "please don't stop yet" or a more urgent "keep petting me, or I'll claw your face to shreds". Sometimes she makes this funny grunting sound if I stop or if I'm petting too slowly. Reminds me a bit of the grunts that the big cats make.

Rant #4
I went out to eat Friday night at a somewhat more upscale restaurant than I normally go to. When the hostess seated me, she makes this comment - "I wish I was brave enough to go eat by myself." Wow. Way to make me feel like a total loser by having to go out by myself. Not to mention the table she sat me at was waaaaaaaaaaay crappy. It wasn't so much the table as it was the floor. It wasn't even, so my chair and table were at a tilt. Seriously. Light-weight items would have slid off the table.
*Not ranting, just rambling*
I probably won't go back to that place. I would be tempted to go to the bar area, but only if they had happy hour specials. I tried 2 different drinks. The first one was $10. The 2nd one cost $9 - a passion fruit margarita. It was very good. I had 2 of those. I could have had another, but I was frugal. Frugal. *snort* Right. My check was $51 plus change, before tip. I'm soooooooooooooo frugal. I muchly prefer going somewhere that my check will be under $20. Especially when it's just for one person. I could deal with a $50 check if I was paying for 2 people.

*Back to ranting*
Rant #5
I really dislike Best Buy. I went to Best Buy last night, wanting to buy a laptop and/or a new TV (I want a flatscreen). I walked around looking at stuff for probably 30 minutes. I had questions, but the sales associates wouldn't even ask if I needed assistance. I was trying to catch their eyes, but they would walk right past me to offere assistance to someone else who just walked into the area. Arkieboy wanted a video camera, so I went over to that area (he already had one picked out). When I got over to the cameras, there were 3 associates standing together, just talking. We stood there, looking at the one camera, for about 5 minutes. I told arkieboy that I was going to count to 10, and if someone hadn't come over by then to help us, we were leaving. He was all, "But, Mom", but I told him I didn't care, this was pissing me off, and we would go somewhere else. Luckily for him, finally one of the dufus's came over before I could begin my count. Later, I went to Circuit City, because I really wanted a laptop. Service there was just as crappy. But I did go ahead and get a laptop. It just pisses me off when these snotty little teenagers decide that I (a potential customer) am not worth their time or something. I don't know if they think I can't afford the items, or what their deal is, but it really pisses me off.