Thank you. Yeah, I did feel a bit put out at first, but I got over it. No worries. 
Wanna hear more? My wife’s car died yesterday, too. We’ve only had it two months. I had to drive over an hour away to go get her and her sister and get the car towed home. (It was at the beach, so not all bad.) You can’t ride with the tow truck driver because of Covid, but really, who wants to? It didn’t help that I was grouchy about the unemployment debacle.
Well, at least you’re in California and can talk about “the beach”. Here, I can look out the window and talk about “the snow”. Yes, it’s snowing again.
Anyway, your situation just confirms my theory that suckages tend to cluster together – when one sucky thing happens, there’s generally another one close behind. They attract each other. I remember being at a real low point in my life many years ago, and it was that exact moment that the federal tax people chose to come down like a ton of bricks and start harassing me for various tax things. It never fails.
The censorship on I Heart Radio is getting out of control. Today as I was out driving one of their local stations was playing Post Malone’s “Circles.” Only it wasn’t the version I knew. This version had a slight adjustment to one of the verses:
“You thought that it was special, special
[silence]
And I still hear the echoes, the echoes
I got a feeling that it’s time to let go, let it go.”
What was the silence covering up? “But it was just the sex though, the sex though”
No, I will not let this go. I Heart Radio has played this song hundreds, no thousands, of times without deleting the sex line but now they do?
I’d like to note that this is the same media conglomerate that had me convinced that the lyrics to Rihanna’s “S&M” were dirtier than they were because they deleted the word “sex” from the line “Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of it.” My mind substituted a lot more worse words until I looked up the lyrics.
You can have my strA, strB, strC and intX, intY, intZ when you pry them off my keyboard.
If you are using those as counters in FOR loops, you have my blessing (and I like the intA/strA convention for such temporary variables).
I’m campaigning against “devDtCorp” and its cousins. Which undoubtedly means something to the original programmer, and the meaning of which can probably be extracted after much study, spell the damn thing out.
Dear Amazon customers. When you buy something you will occasionally get an email asking a question submitted on the product page. If you do not know the answer there is no need to submit an answer saying you don’t know the answer.
Example: I bought a remote for our Vizio smart TV after The Dog chewed up ours. About once a week I get an email with “Perhaps you can answer this question: Does it work with the [long string of letters and numbers] model TV?”
When you look at questions part of the product page about every third question is like that with one (or more) I don’t know. answers.
… a pop up ad with multiple remote controls? “Hey, you bought a remote from us, bet you need another one already… or how about four, each wildly different from each other? And just to be helpful, we’ll show you this ad for the next two years, along with ‘based on your history’ suggestions every time you wander onto our web site. You’re welcome!”
ps, Looking for a chandelier a year later? Here’s an assortment of TV remotes! Annnd a decade’s worth of chandelier ads, even after you purchase the only one you’ll ever need…"
All true but that’s just corporate trying to (re)sell you something, pretty much the norm for today.
I was talking about real people with the opinion that their every passing thought needs to be shared with strangers.
Oh, wait…
Oh, I know, I was just piggybacking my rant onto yours…
(and… being a real person with the opinion that my every passing thought needs to be shared with strangers:)
Having a prayer to open Congress is stupid. Ending said prayer with “Amen and awoman” is next level stupid.
How about ending it with “ah wilderness!”?
(I grew up Catholic. The “a” is pronounced “ah.”)
I’d rather they said “Ah-choo!”
Then the members can say “Bless you” and the circle is complete.
“So say we all!”
Hey @Spice_Weasel! I heard you wrote a novel! Wow, good work, I’m seriously impressed.
I tried writing short Lovecraft tribute stories because I thought I could do at least as well as some of the other free ebook submissions I read and I was totally wrong. Every single time I sat down to work on it, I would read it from the start and then need to fix everything I had already done, which made me forget the wonderful idea I had when I sat down to write.
You have much more discipline than me and I would also like to read your book sometime.
So, my rant is our cat again. He wouldn’t eat breakfast today, hubs said he sniffed at it like he wanted to eat but walked away. Kitty is in hospice, so I fed him warmed turkey baby food and treats to get his appetite jump started. We aren’t really worried about him going blind from lack of taurine, he doesn’t have 6 weeks left.
We are majorly concerned about his last vet visit because our vet hasn’t allowed us in with our cats since the world ended. We are not willing to just hand the poor guy over to strangers and then walk away, we want to be there with him.
Another congrats to @Spice_Weasel! Completing a novel is quite an accomplishment. I bet it’s probably much better than you think – sometimes authors are their own toughest critics. But be prepared for tons of rejections, because that’s just the nature of the biz. Quite a few acclaimed authors had to self-publish their first works, because no publisher would touch them.
Is there a mobile vet in your area? I’ve used one for the last two kitties of mine when I knew their time had come. It’s a peaceful way to say goodbye at home while you hold them or let them lay in their favorite spot.
Ask your vet - most I think are allowing people to come in to say goodbye. Risk has a lot to do with depth of exposure, so with everyone well masked, spacing as much as possible, and limiting the time of under-6ft-distancing to the minimum necessary you should all be ok.
I’m so sorry about your kit 
Oops. On rereading it might have looked like I was aiming my comment at your reply. I meant the IDKers.
You know, I got up at 8am this morning - 4pm Wednesday, US Eastern time - and flipped on the computer, hoping/expecting to see news that Ossoff had won in Georgia.
Instead, I see a banner headline about fascists occupying the US Capitol building.
A bit later on, I headed over to the grocery store to pick up some odds and ends, and stood for a moment, contemplating the mask I was about to put on, due to a pandemic sweeping the world.
This is not a future I had ever contemplated.
You and me both. 2021 is off to a glorious start!