The last change to the Spanish road code saw, among other changes, the rules about “no lighting up, no cellphone use, no eating while at the wheel” turned to “no driving while distracted by something else”. For a while, the news were showing actual police video of people shaving while driving (both faces and legs), making a sandwich while driving, applying makeup while driving, hugging the dog riding shotgun (also banned), etc. People iz nuts.
Why does the all-videos TV station turn into all-shopping at night?
Oh dear God those are horrible. I was feeling sheepish about liking my black-framed glasses so much, but mine are rectangular frames and don’t sit on my cheekbones like that. Those people need glasses-wearing lessons.
(The real reason I got plastic frames this time is because I was sick of my wire-framed ones needing to be adjusted all the time. I’ve had these adjusted once since I bought them about six or seven months ago.)
This morning I had an adventure with the McDonalds drive-thru. Now I was already a bit pissed off when I got to the McDonalds for a couple of reasons, most of them related to lack of sleep and traffic, but I feel their performance was still objectively horrible. For one, the drive-thru had four cars in it when I entered and it still took fifteen minutes to get through. The order taker interrupted me between every item and still missed one. (Yay, the apple slices will definitely be enough. I totally didn’t actually want the McMuffin too even though I asked for it.) The menus were still showing lunch instead of breakfast. The food deliverer person was slow and probably the whole reason it took so long to get through. I watched her take four trips to hand out two drinks and a small bag. Now this drive-thru has a delivery device kind of like the ones you see at the bank that protects the teller. she had ample space to stage the order and could have handed it out all at once. No, she literally needed to use one if her trips to hand out the dang straws. When it was my turn, she didn’t give me a straw. For some strange reason, that missing straw just sent me over the edge. By that time, I needed to get into work. I just left fuming. I was mad enough to leave a review for that store one the McDonalds website.
Gah! I am so mad that a fast food experience made me so mad. And that a straw was the straw that broke the camels back.
There is a point at which I say “Fuck you and your horrible service, I will be reporting this to your corporate offices” and drive off. Not like there isn’t another McDonalds (or whatever) for another 50 miles.
When I wear sunglasses, I wear something like this. I’m sure they look unfashionably large, but they fit over my regular glasses, and I like the side protection as well. I hate clip-ons and I never wanted to spend the money for prescription sunglasses, so this is my solution.
I have been all over our back yard digging up the weeds (and old dog bones, and old cans of cooking grease) left behind in our back yard by the previous owners, and nary a gold coin in sight. Le sigh.
Roddy
Dear friend, your dad is a psychologist. I’m hoping maybe some concepts of mental health privacy rubbed off on you as a result, but apparently not. Or perhaps your failing was not understanding Facebook sufficiently. You see, when you tag people in your shared Facebook article about dealing with depression and anxiety, it not only alerts them. It also shares that article with all of their friends, some of whom may wonder what is up and may get gossipy or something. So maybe you want to either look into the private messaging function, or just share it without fucking tagging people.
(I wasn’t one of the people tagged, but I feel like I potentially know way too much about these other people now.)
IMHO this is one case where you should NOT assume that your friend should realize the implications of what they are doing. It is sufficiently complicated figuring out who can see what in Facebook under which circumstances and phase of the moon that I would assume simple lack of knowledge and send the culprit a friendly warning.
Are the wear-over glasses comfortable? Does it feel weird to have two separate bridges resting on your nose? If one starts to slide down, does it take its partner with it?
They … they buried cans of grease?!? Wow. Just, wow. I guess it beats calling the plumber when your pipes get clogged, but damn, way to pass the buck onto the next poor soul. I don’t see how digging a fucking hole in the ground is somehow easier than tossing it in the trash, but then, I’m both lazy AND reasonable!
Concur. I honestly didn’t know tagged stuff gets mega-super-shared like that either.
I have a pair that looks a lot like those. (I don’t look much like the model wearing them, but then again, I’m looks down, checks not a dude.) Now I’m paranoid that you’re making fun of people who wear them and that I’ve been one of “those people” and everyone is secretly laughing at me behind my back.
Have you looked at Zenni Optical? I just bought three pairs of glasses from them for $83 with shipping. They will make sunglasses out of any of their frames for a whole extra $5. My Rx sunglasses were $22.95 ($12.95 frames, $5 80% grey shading, $5 shipping).
Those are perfect. Trendy black plastic, yet sexy unisex style. Well, doesn’t hurt they’re on Cumberbach in that photo. Rowr. But, purple, those work on women, too. IMHO. It all comes down to whether they fit your face.
I don’t have any problems with them, but you have to get a good fit around your glasses (they make maybe 3 different sizes). Somehow it sort of becomes all one thing and it’s only my actual glasses resting on my nose. Might not be for everyone.
Yeah, 2-lb coffee cans full of what seemed to be congealed cooked animal fat (probably bacon). I did poke into the cans with a long screwdriver a couple of times to see if that’s all that was in there, but it now occurs to me with a sinking heart that maybe the priceless gold coins were at the bottom and I never knew. There were only a couple of cans. The previous owners were an older couple whose son was living downstairs and the yard was mostly his, I guess, and who knows why he might have done this.
SeaDragon Tattoo, I’ll give them a look, but it’s not only the expense, it’s the nuisance of having to be even a little careful with them. And the fact that these wrap around giving me full coverage.
Roddy
You win the cookie! She seemed to be bewildered about us glaring at her (and everyone else going around her).
Man, I’ve been digging all over two different yards, too, and I’ve never found a bag of gold coins either. Sheesh.
A very, very mini-rant for today - I’m alphabetizing all of our dvds and blu-rays, and it drives me just a little crazy when we get a dvd with two or more movies in the same box - I file it under the first movie name listed, but then the other names aren’t showing on the shelf! I guess if I wanted to be all Type A about it, I’d make placeholders for the other names.
People whose glasses don’t meet the criteria for lab goggles need to wear the goggles over their regular glasses (many labs don’t accept contacts, mostly for safety reasons). We joked that this model should always be kept available for people who work with stuff that can make you blind if it gets in your eyes.
My experience has been that going 6-eyed would be extremely uncomfortable for someone who had been wearing contacts comfortably, quite bad if the big glasses don’t fit well over the smaller ones, but if the two pairs fit well one inside the other after a while you forget you have them on.
You are doing it wrong. What you need to do is file them by the first movie name and use a pen to number the spines, then create a spreadsheet so you can look up the name of the other movies and find the number and watch the movie. That way your collection looks neat and orderly, but you can still find what you want by name.
This advice comes from an archivist and you are a librarian*. OCD has nothing to do with it. So I’m not going to mention that if you set the spread sheet up properly, it will not only tell you which movie/director/category your movies are, you can also see which shelf to look at first. And it should be CDO so that all the letters are in the proper order, dangit!
My BFF is in rehab now, she is lucid all of the time and able to make decisions. I’m setting things up so I can go home. Today, I went to the feed store and told them what was going on with BFF and that I needed to get food delivered for the horses.
Of course, they knew just what she would need, and they had her cell on file and called her. HOLY COW!!! Horses are expensive!!! While I was watching the totals I was honestly WTF!!!
And…I really wish that I hadn’t been so quick to change my voter registration to Texas. Nothing I say in Arizona is important to the Elected Officials, but like all of my friends here in AZ, we are all saying THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!!
