You’re not wrong. And there is an inground pool in their backyard for easy access to water. They have a firepit; why didn’t they use that?
Alcohol.
ISTM nearly every rant here could either be prevented by, caused by, or cured by alcohol. Truly a miracle drug in human society.
There’s no doubt all the adults were drinking all day. I’m surprised none of their kids drowned Stew Leonard style.
Not only did I do it yesterday, I just took my temperature for today now. It’s normal.
And of course the universe had to mess with me yesterday. I went to a Fourth of July gathering at my friend’s parents house. Their dog got overstimulated with all the people going in and out of the house and started barking. I bent down near him just as he jumped up and he caught my nose with his tooth. Now I have a nice cut on the bridge of my nose. My friend’s sister gave me paper towels, an ice pack, and cleaned me up with some antibiotic ointment and a bandage. So now I have something else to keep an eye on.
It’s scabbed over and I cleaned it up again this morning. The dog was very sorry for what he did and spent the rest of the night coming up to me with sad eyes to make sure we were cool. We were. I gave him many skritches.
Cut the front lawn today… in pain. The heat was brutal (to me). One of the newer neighbors was intentionally turning his back to me as part of The New York Shuffle (shun). Whatever. He has two huge dogs. That he has to scoop up huge mounds of doo seems appropriate.
That said a further neighbor, who we knew from when our kids were in grade school together, was out watering his plants. He was looking at me, but he didn’t wave. I was going to wave until I noticed his red MAGA hat.
Fine, buddy. Glad to know now that you’re an asshole.
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I had fun hanging out with family and family friends for the holidays, but dammit I lost money at the casino and for my hotel room!
That’s how you pay for fun and entertainment.
We’re gonna have amateur fireworks all weekend, fine. They were going nonstop earlier, but tapered off around 1 am ish. (I think they’re supposed to stop at midnight according to Zeh Law, but .. { scoffs }
Two friggin thirty after relative quiet for a while, I’m getting my pillows arranged just so and preparing to drift off to peaceful slumber, when outta nowhere an Earth-shattering window rattling BOOM and well, I’m wide awake now. 
For no good reason. Not part of a big display, just a random explosion like a truck drove into a wall in a Michael Bay movie.
I hope someone lost a finger. 
I thought Italian brain rot was the worst YouTube had to offer.
Now Wee Weasel is watching the most low-effort, annoying voice overs for the brilliant Animation vs Math and associated videos. It’s just a guy describing what happens in a dopey voice. Not describing the math or anything, in fact he says asinine things like, “Why are there letters here?” the moment algebra is introduced. “Oh, I’m running away!”
Shoot me now.
(Check out the link. It’s awesome. What I would love to see is reaction videos from actual math nerds.)
Those do exist. This is just the first one YouTube showed me, but I know there are others.
That’s a shame. So, family/friends do Not want you in their house(s) so it’s time for you to suckle the teats of Rump and Steve Winn?
And… you Lost Money…?
You know how many USB-A to wall outlet converter boxes I have? So now cables are coming that are USB-C on both ends so I need to but more of those little converter boxes, this time USB-C to wall outlet
The good thing is that C-C cab charge faster at least.
About the time you pitch your USB-A wallwarts and all your USB-A to USB-C cables you’ll start seeing the wall outlets with USB-A receptacles become ubiquitous.
Mark my words: the Universe hates you. No more or less than any other human, but it’s still lots. 
Just a quick note: I created a Monthly Mini-Rant tag. When a new thread is started each month, posters can add the tag (or ask a mod to do it), and hopefully that will help everyone find new threads when they are created.
This is amazing and THANK YOU.
You are most welcome. 
I’m also in the habit of updating the old thread titles in the MMP with (Old) when a new thread is started. I don’t know if it helps much, but I’m happy to do that for the Mini-Rant threads, too, if you think it would be useful.
I like the idea, as long as it’s not making extra work for mods, though I can’t speak for the rest of the board of course.
'Tis the work of but a moment, and I’m the only mod that has made it a habit – but of course, any mod can do it if needed. This is not a monumental change.
IMHO, since each thread is already labeled with the month, and there’s unlikely to be confusion between, say, the current July rants thread and last year’s July thread, I think the “[old]” label is probably unnecessary. But the “monthly-mini-rant” tag is awesome, thank you!