That’s my impression of Mike Johnson too…
The weather is shifting from needing the AC to needing the heater. So today is transition day aka the first day that the floor heater has been turned on. It’s not that it’s that cold outside, it’s that we need to do it before it’s that cold outside.
We vacuum off all of the obvious dust and bits that have fallen into the heater over the summer, but there’s always enough micro-dust to raise a stink. All of the windows have been opened and fans have been placed in windows at the front and back of the house. The doors are open.
There’s still a mini-stink in most rooms and a slightly cooler than comfortable breeze. Good enough for a mini-rant.
This morning I was looking in the grocery store for some sort of spray bottle that I could use to spritz olive oil on stuff going into the air fryer. Couldn’t find one, but I did get a couple of cans of pressurized olive oil spray.
The cans have a protective cap that is sealed with an absolutely invisible plastic seal, cleverly wrapped around just the bottom half in such a way that it’s virtually undetectable except with advanced imaging apparatus involving proton beams. I did finally find it and get it off but in the struggle I thought I might have dislodged the nozzle. Long story short, in examining the situation I managed to spray myself in the face with olive oil. The good news: it’s extra-virgin cold pressed olive oil, so I drenched myself with nothing but the best! I’ve now washed my face and had a shower and I think I no longer smell like an Italian salad.
I hate that smell and yeah, it’s impossible to avoid it completely. At least it’s only until the dust burns off.
I always thought you were slick.
EVOOps!
if you think that olive-oil is the best, then you never have held the carb-cleaner-spray in your hand with the nozzle pointing backwards… talk about burning sensations in your eyes.
And it did not clean the noodles very well - AND tasted nasty …
We got dispatched to an MVA (years ago); the deer jumped but caught the dead top center of the windshield on a Mitsubishi 3000 GT. The impact forced the outer windshield to shatter & flex in a bit, enough that it created some gaps in the glass where fur entered, when it rebounded to it’s original position, those gaps closed up, apparently they’re stronger than the follicle end of fur so this guy had a furry windshield & the only way to get it out was with to shave it with a razor.
PAM makes a non-aerosol pump spray bottle.
Mobile phone providers who don’t seem to understand how to deal with customers. If you send me something that’s not intended for me but comes to my address, I want to tell you about it. There’s absolutely nothing on the mailing to help me contact you. Your website offers nothing at all to anyone who doesn’t have an account with you. I could set up an account just to contact you, but why would I do that? Eventually found a phone number by a very tortuous route, phoned it and found it only accepts voicemails. Left a message with all the pertinent details. A week later, no response.
Rang again, left another message. Then decided to look them up on farcebook and contacted them via messenger. Only to be told that the person responding to my message can’t help with my issue, only the voicemail people can do that. But they don’t call you back, they only respond via email! What?! I have to phone you, but you can’t phone me back? What kind of a mobile service provider are you?!
Clearly a very bad one.
I found a similar runaround when dealing with an internet provider. They made it a pain to sign up, a pain to get the service installed, a pain to get repairs when it kept failing. Ironically, the only easy part was ending the service. It’s like they were doing everything they could to drive me away. I guess they were successful in that.
A mutual on a social media platform has completely bought into “both sides are the same because of the current administration’s actions on Israel/Palestine,” and I’m weighing how much it upsets/angers me (and trust me, I’m resisting the urge to respond because I know it’ll just cause a bunch of useless shit flinging, even with the small hope that I may change some reader’s mind) vs. me feeling bad about dropping the mutuality entirely.
But the existence of this attitude still annoys me on its own, and I hope it doesn’t affect the political landscape overly much.
Today I am thankful for all of you, being able to post here, and for the anticipation of what the title of next month’s thread will be.
Our grocery bills are $400/week.
I’ve tried to lower them before. My son has some kind of eating disorder so we’re paying out the nose for the things he’s willing to eat. Right now he’s only willing to eat dried goods, protein waffles and sometimes nuggets.
For dinner I usually cook rice and beans or chicken. I’ve been cutting back on red meat including pork. About half of our meals are vegan. My husband mostly eats canned beans and vegetables.
The bills just get higher and higher.
Meanwhile, we are going to start ABA for our son, and the coordinator just told us, “Expect to hit your out of pocket max every year.”
We make a good income, but you wouldn’t know it.
Do you have an Aldi near you? Mine has been carrying protein waffles and has great prices on canned beans and frozen veg. It might be worth looking if you haven’t. But you probably have…
The toddler boy is still coughing. I’m not sleeping well because of it. I cannot wait until he’s feeling better.
There are individual hairs stuck fast to the entire right side of my car. Weird.
Your car wants to be cool and tried to grow sideburns.
No Thanks Given
Thanks for Nothing
Everybody Post Why This Month Is A Turkey.
(Subtitle: This Space For Rant)
Yay for your son. When I got married, my father coughed up an electric garage door opener - 6 months later.