Loathing Macro$loth more than usual. Had Chrome crash so hard that rebooting the laptop, which isn’t THAT old, was the only solution. Over an HOUR later, it had finally finished updates, and I do stay reasonably current on those!
I can sleep like a log in any recliner. If I lay down on my bed, I immediately start with the should-a, could-a, would-as. Past, present, future disasters and dangers. … If I sleep on my back, the post nasal drip drip drip keeps ME awake, yet I have dry mouth and wake up with everything on me dry and glued shut.
Yes, me too. Mine sat at the very tiptop of a tree, directly outside my window, ‘cheeer cheeer cheeeeer’-ing at the top of his little lungs. My crack-of-dawn nature’s alarm clock
In retrospect, I probably should have stopped putting thistle and oily sunflower seeds in the feeder, but I was too tired to think about it when it would have helped.
YouTube has a new habit o g generating ads and publicity for videos … make the videos themselves ads …like my physically (and somewhat mentally) disabled cousin loves watching the video game streamers play Pokémon games because she physically cant
Well right in the middle of the video some ad comes up for some new kids channel that’s streaming on YouTube … the cartoon episode was half of an hour-long and had ads for the channel in the cartoon … and not to mention it was a cheap knock off of mediocre PBS kids show … she called me into skip it for her which i gladly did ,
But the thing is ive seen this for a while now even when on different accounts or just using it without singing in
they do it with music videos also …
I tried them, years (decades) ago. Not for me. I couldn’t stand them.
This isn’t that big a deal. I’m fine wearing glasses. I have for, well, forever.
Just that these lenses suck. For those in the thread who’ve had better experiences with photochromic lenses, maybe you got a different brand or something. Seems like you got what was advertised.
I didn’t, that’s all. They’re useless in hot weather.
Lesson learned. I’ll carry sunglasses with me. No big deal.
The car repairs are starting to roll in, 2013 suburban with 110k has now racked up brake pads , rotors bearing assembly , shocks oil sensor , oxygen sensor , leak on steering pump, and now both front hubs need replacing so about 5k of repairs in the last 4 months.
I think I must have mentioned, probably more than once, the Giant Mutant Bush I have in front of the house. It grows so fast that it takes over everything, and starts to block the house entrance and part of the driveway. I’ve had it cut down to the stump (with a chainsaw) twice in the past three or four years but it keeps growing back. I’m getting a tree maintenance place to grind the stump but it will likely be a while, and meanwhile the thing is growing back like some mutant zombie from Neptune luxuriating in the warmth of Planet Earth.
So I Googled for herbicide home remedies. Last night I tried the simplest and most eco-friendly: just pour a big pot of boiling water over the undesired vegetation.
Hah! I checked it this morning, and the boiling water seems to have invigorated it and caused it to start growing even faster! 
So today I got serious. So go ahead, @Jackmannii, point and laugh and mock me, but after all my railing against Monsanto and Roundup, I went out today and bought … Roundup. That ought to do the job. Hey, desperate situations demand desperate solutions! 
Interesting side note. Roundup is kept under lock and key, by law. When you buy it, you get a little card that tells you the legally permitted and prohibited uses here in Ontario. They take it pretty seriously.
When I worked night shift I’d crank up the tv in the breakroom and shut it off so they’d get a good blast when they came in all bleary eyed.
Being August, it’s been miserably hot and humid, mid to upper 90s with overnight lows in the mid to upper 70s…so very high dew points. Ugh!
As of 2 days ago the forecast had it that come saturday into sunday, a front, heralded by yet more thunderstorms, was to bring cooler temperatures ( mid 80s ) and lower humidity into the area for the beginning of next week. Well thanks to yet another new tropical storm/depression ( Fred? ) we’re not getting the break in the heat wave, but we are getting the rain, which we do not need.
At this rate, this pattern will “steal” autumn from us, like it has some years.
God, I hate gas lawnmowers! I have a nice quiet electric one myself. Everyone around me has gas-powered lawnmowers that sound like a herd of baying dinosaurs.
+1 on the gas mower hate. When I got my electric, one of the features of it weren’t apparent until I used it. Quiet!
The push behind gas mower, while louder, only noise pollute a 2 house radius. Beyond that, one can hear it, but it’s a more easily tuned out drone. Those commercial grade zero-turn riders though…
I haven’t used Roundup in a long time. A poison ivy plant sprang up in a crack by the garage wall, and I’ve been spraying it with white vinegar for a few weeks now (it’s close to valued vegetation). The poison ivy has died back more than 90% but still clings stubbornly to life.
I hear that Brush-B-Gon is good for total shrub removal, but in Canada you probably need a license and a degree in Horticultural Annihilation to buy it.
This is why I use a push mower. (Well, that and the fact that my small yard makes it feasible to do so.) Quiet and relatively environmentally friendly. I suppose I could learn to use a scythe, but I don’t have the black robe or skeletal build to really make that work.
Vinegar is one of the other “home remedy” herbicide solutions, but apparently ordinary household vinegar (5% acetic acid) isn’t always strong enough to kill some plants. Home Depot here sells 10% “cleaning vinegar” and Amazon sells 20% and 30% vinegar.
I can’t tell you how much I hate that fucking shrub. I’m interested in trying out the infamous Roundup to stop its third zombie reincarnation. I can’t wait for that stump to be ground into nice fertilizing wood chips.
I would suggest a flamethrower …
I’ve used Roundup to get rid of unwanted vegetation and it does a hell of a job. Good luck with your battle against Mother Nature.
If you can carve another chunk off the top of the stump and then carefully paint the fresh cut with Roundup, you should go a long way towards killing it for good.
Applying it that way also has the benefit of greatly minimizing the chance of it affecting things you don’t want harmed.
Thanks for the suggestion. The last chainsaw cutting was only a few weeks ago. The emerging growth – which is coming out of the sides as well as the surface of the stump – have now all been well sprayed with Roundup. I await the results!
And I fully appreciate that grinding down that fucker into wood chips is the only permanent solution. In any case, the only solution that will free up the soil to let me plant something decent in there. I just want to stop this mutant thing from Neptune from really taking hold again before I have a chance to get that done.
I have some 30% from Amazon. Works well on dandelions. It’s powerful stuff.