Fool Me Twice: April Mini-Rants

Plain black USB dongles
Is it for a mouse? A gamepad? Is it a wifi receiver? Who knows, there’s no identifying information on the outside whatsoever.

Bonus points for devices like gamepads not having an on/off switch or light to say whether they are on, so identifying which dongle is for what also involves checking all the batteries / charging all the devices.

I hate that!

Not with Ferror Rocher in particular, I don’t think I’ve had any of their bonbons that I didn’t like. But there are others who make candies, snacks, and so on, where there is only one item I really like and it’s only available in a variety pack. That’s a huge pet peeve of mine.

My cross-country road trip mini-rant: So, I drive all the way from California to Florida. I finally get here and I try to go to the beach in Destin…and they have the red flags out. Nope, no frolicking in the blue-green waters of the gulf for me on my first day in the sunshine state. :roll_eyes:

If only the people in charge of that state limited or eliminated waste discharge into those waters… arranged for proper regular testing for chemicals in those waters… cared about the sustainability of the tourist industry… cared about the sustainability of the fishing and boating industry… or in any meaningful way actually governed that state (other than sticking bribes and graft into their back pockets).

If they had, the water might have been safe to swim in.

It’s a shame because the governor of Florida is usually such a reasonable, respectable, level-headed, and thoughtful governor… always thinking about what’s best for his constituents.

/s

Not just people food that does this. My cats are very fond of a cat food that’s a really silky pate with a glop of gravy in the middle of the can. It comes in chicken, beef and salmon. They love the chicken and like the beef ok. They do NOT like salmon. But it only comes in a package with 8 cans of each flavor. I guess the animal shelter is going to get a lot of salmon donated; hope at least some of their kitties like fish.

I have a really stupid parakeet.

The birdcage is in the family room. The birds are actually somewhat free range - but somehow, basically, stick to the family room. Except sometimes.

If you envision a capital T, the family room is at the right end of the upper part of the T. The front door leads into a “2 story entrance hall” with the stairs right there, and a short hallway at the top leading to the bedrooms. This is at the very bottom of the T. To get to it from the birdcage, you have to walk (or fly, but we usually walk!) all the way through the family room, halfway through the kitchen, and turn left down a hallway.

The birds mostly stay in the family room - but about every 4 to 6 months, Morty will somehow fly into the kitchen, freak, take a hard left, and wind up by the front door - on a window frame that is level with the second floor of the house.

And he stays there. OK, sometimes he panics and flies across the entryway, and lands on the light fixture at the top of the stairs. But he CANNOT seem to figure out how to get “home”, even though he can hear Rick chirping at him from the family room. Meanwhile, he’s out of our reach, and won’t be tempted by millet or water. He’s done this for over 24 hours several times; today was a record-breaking 48+ hours, before my son finally tempted him from the light fixture into a container of millet, and the poor bird stayed in the container while my son carried him back downstairs to the family room.

We have, in some instances, basically chased him with a broom until he accidentally winds up back in the kitchen. Otherwise, I am terrified that he’ll basically starve himself to death.

I’m currently playing Dracula- The Last Sanctuary (sequel to Dracula- Resurrection). It’s a good game and fun. But the different audio tracks and segments were recorded at vastly different volumes. There is no way to turn on captions either. So, I might turn up my laptop volume all the way to hear vital clues in a speech and then be deafened by a track of what is supposed to be background noise.

Variety packs is one of my on-going annoyances that I’ve grumbled about here before. Specifically Gatorade at Sam’s club. They’ll invariably have two flavors that I like and one that I can’t stand. ie. Lemon Lime, Tangerine, and Yak Ball Sweat. Sure they call it Fruit Punch, but everyone knows that’s Enochian for Yak Ball Sweat.

Hershey
has something similar
But poor old Nestlé
has no bunnies at all

It scans better if you say “buns” rather than “bunnies”.

I’ve developed a new “floater” in my right eye. It’s just to the right and below the field of vision in my right eye, and it’s oval and longish. If I have a pale wall to my right, it looks just like a long bug on the wall that scuttles away just as I move my eyes to try to look at it. I thought it was a bug on the wrist of my white shirt last night that scuttled up my arm and onto my shoulder.

I had a sudden bout of floaters in one eye a few months ago. It was one of the reasons I had an exam at an ophthalmologist’s. The tests showed that I have some degree of cataracts in one eye, but the doctor stressed that the floaters were random things that were completely unrelated. And, indeed, they appear to have mostly gone away on their own. Hopefully yours will, too.

I did have one in the other eye a few months ago, and the ophthalmologist checked it out, but saw nothing to be concerned about. That one faded away after awhile. I hope this one does, too. That phantom bug is driving me crazy.

Why am I burping so much? I’ve been burping multiple times a day for over a week now for no reason I can think of. And every time I burp, I taste hard boiled eggs. Now, I like hard boiled eggs, but I also haven’t eaten any hard boiled eggs in several weeks.

It’s weird.

When I had that problem it turned out to be a side effect of taking Ozempic. Check your meds (if you’re on any) for side effects.

Hmmm. The only recent change has been the addition of Wellbutrin, and burping isn’t a listed side-effect (which I just checked on, thank you for the suggestion). All the other meds I’ve been on for about 2 years now, and the burping is recent.

I wouldn’t mind the weight loss one, but that never happens for me. :wink:

Me neither, more’s the pity.

They’re BAAACK - the neighbors who light off their firecrackers at night are back. As I mentioned earlier, they have a particularly odious way of doing it: BOOM. Wait 15-20 minutes for people to go back to sleep. BOOM. Wait 15-20 minutes…

If anyone cares, the burping has finally stopped, and other things are firming up and are less frequent.

That’s good to hear. Constant burping sounds awful.

I’ve had times when I’ve had to burp a lot but that’s never happened for more than an hour or so.