In December it was the car and the dryer. Yesterday I took my puppy to the vet to see why he’s limping. He has a fractured radius and will be in a cast for a month. It’s a clean break, healing well, but…
Crocodile is a year-old Blue Heeler, a notoriously high energy dog. Now his front leg is a club. This will be a fun month.
I am so very sorry for the loss of loved ones; two legged and four legged.
For those loved ones who are ill, I truly hope they get well soon!
Not exactly a rant, but the irony…
Today would have been the 104th b-day of one Edward A Murphy, Jr. Y’all know of him, I mean he had a law named after him!
It comes from early USAF work on ejection seats, & G-forces & rocket sleds. There was a fascinating 4-part story about it; I went to pull up the link to it last night to send to someone & it returns a blank, white page. Not a 404-error, not a 'Whoops there’s a problem" message, just a white screen. I emailed the website contact. A little over 24 hrs later I get an ‘undeliverable’ message back.
Try the Internet Archive?
I keep seeing commercials for a new cruise ship on TV. Granted, I wouldn’t sail on a cruise ship now but what’s the draw to sailing a cruise ship that looks like it’s based on a WW1 Dreadnought design?
Other side of my family just lovvvvves cruises, and DisneyWorld, and… Disney Cruises! And they wouldn’t deprive themselves for something as petty as Public Health.
Cruises were floating Petri dishes long before Covid.
Now? ‘’‘shudder’’’
We were back in central Ohio for a couple of days on personal business, and decided to drive by the old place to see what atrocities the new owners might have committed.
These people had two large mature maples in the front yard chopped down, because who wants shade and lower A/C bills in summer, plus attractive fall color? They also took down two staggered rows of 35-foot-tall Green Giant arborvitae we had planted nearly 20 years ago to provide privacy from the road (who in their right mind would want that?). And since the 100-acre farm tract across from the house will inevitably be developed in the near future like every other bit of open space in the region has in the last few years, these people will be fully exposed to the sight and sound of home construction as a new Vinyl Village goes up on tiny lots.
Enjoy your peaceful surroundings while you can, dimwits!
Dear Arby’s, lay off the fuckin’ sauce, will ya? Twice recently I have gone to a nearby Arby’s for lunch on a day when I went into the office and didn’t pack a lunch. Both times I have gotten food drenched in so much sauce, I wound up wearing about half of it. Today my chicken sandwich had so much honey mustard slathered on that when I squeezed the bun, the meat slid right out. That’s what she said. Good thing they gave me about twenty napkins - I had to use most of them. Won’t be going back there any time soon.
I suspect you can ask them to have no sauce on the sandwich but have it in a packet instead so you can add it yourself.
After all, their most popular sandwiches (roast beef) have no sauce on them at all, just beef and bread, and you just put the sauce you want on it.
My favorite sandwich there is the Chicken Bacon Swiss, though. Mmm. And yeah, it comes with honey mustard (that they put on) but I’ve never seen them overdo it.
One of my husband’s sons is staying with us for a couple of days. It’s been a real reminder of how nice it is to have the kids gone.
I walked into the house after work yesterday to see :03 displayed on the microwave, and the door left ajar. Now, I know it seems like a minor thing, but just how lazy does a person have to be to leave this sort of thing in their wake? When he lived with us before it was a frequent occurrence.
Next, I discovered two fast food sandwiches in the garbage. One had a single bite taken out. I’m an atheist, but “sin” is still the word I would use for such profligate waste of food.
Cigarette butts are starting to show up in the yard.
I am just grinding my teeth in silence until we help him move into a new apartment this weekend.
Why? As a guest he has a responsibility to not mess things up for you. If that means he has to police his butts and close the microwave door, then he should be doing that.
Tell him his behavior is rude and disrespectful and that he needs to police his butts and be mindful of putting things back in order when he’s done with them.
Although if he’s going to be gone day after tomorrow, maybe gritting your teeth will get you through. I admit to getting prickly about people trying to step on me.
It’s a waste of time. He’ll nod and apologize and go right on sucking. At least he’ll be on his way soon.
How old is he? And what does your husband think of all this?
My 33yo roommate does this. Drives me up the wall out of all proportion to the misdeed. Hope she enjoys the chore of replacing the interior light bulb when it burns out way before it’s time.
She pays rent so I let it slide. Far more is sweet and adorable about her.
On Monday we found out our dog (Blue Heeler puppy) has a fractured radius. He was sedated, put in a cast, and sent home in a Cone of Shame. I switched his hard plastic cone out for a soft cone because he was constantly banging it into walls, furniture, and people. He also learned very quickly how to bludgeon us with the cast, which goes from his elbow all the way down to the floor.
Today when I got up I discovered that he had chewed through the cone, torn off the bandages, and was hobbling around on a cast that was split in two. I nabbed him and hunted for something to hold the cast together. I ended up duct taping it to his leg and driving us to the vet, where he spent the day being re-sedated and getting a new cast. He was sent home in another hard cone and with a bottle of Trazodone. Right now he’s sitting in my dining room higher than Cheech and Chong put together. If he gets the cast off again, it’s off to Pittsburgh for a pin. That’s a four hour round trip. Damn dog.
I’m sorry to hear about your dog’s leg. If you do end up in the 'burgh, will you be taking him to PVSEC?
I don’t know. I live in Johnstown so I’ll go to whoever my vet refers me to, I guess.
PVSEC is great. So is AVETS (Dr Goodrich repaired our GSD’s cruciate).
My toddler had the tip of his finger nearly shorn off when it was caught in a doorframe this week. There was nobody in the Urgent Care waiting room when we got there and everything generally seemed quiet. It only took about 20 minutes to get it xrayed, but it took over 5 hours to get it examined, cleaned up, and stitched back together.
He’s 29!
I have always been grateful that my husband and I met later in life and didn’t have any kids together. It would not have gone well!