They don’t play Freebird in “Hair”.
Our a/c blower motor died to day. It’s 87° in my house right now. Complicating factors include lack of screens in our bedroom windows, lack of a screen door on the front door, and a 2 year old who refuses to leave the sliding screen door on the back of the house alone. So basically we can only have three windows open. I am sweating it my chair right now. Thankfully my husband’s uncle did HVAC work for years so he’s willing to come over and look at it tomorrow, but it won’t be until almost 4PM. I hope my husband and the kids don’t kill each other. OH YEAH - my daycare is closed because the owner’s mom was rushed to the hospital out of state and she won’t be home in time to open up tomorrow, so my husband has to stay home with them.
I’ve never been so happy to go to work on a Monday morning.
Home Depot’s open a few more hours - get a dowel cut to fit the track in the sliding door and then it can’t be opened. I know for sure they have screens (if you already have the frames), and I’m pretty sure they have screen frames if needed. Get those windows open! You need them for not-so hot days anyway, right? Ah! I wouldn’t be able to stand it! Makes me sweaty just thinking about it even if it’s just for a day.
Thankfully after 10 minutes of playing with the back screen door he got bored with it. Plus I was able to get one of the bent, holey screens for the front windows back into the frame enough to work (at least for a day).
The first pluots of the season are here, and I bought a few. I took a big bite out of one, and it was heavenly - sweet and almost almondy. I took a second bite and it had a weird, nasty acrid flavor. I looked down at it and saw I had bitten into a blackened chamber that had contained a bug, and that bug was now scrabbling out onto my hand. It was a big black earwig.
I choked and threw the fruit and earwig out the car window (we were traveling), and spit and gagged out the bite of fruit in my mouth. I guess I had a mouthful of mixed fruit and bug shit. It’s going to take days for me to not gag at the memory.
And I’m cutting open all my fruit with a knife before eating it from now on.
Oh, ugh!!!
At least it didn’t explode and take your head off.
I did. She came unglued. I have one less friend. 
I don’t know why an otherwise lovely person can have so much hate in them.
Wow. So sorry. Sounds like a friend you really didn’t need. I hope you won’t be sad for long, and perhaps consider blocking her on FB at this point, in case she decides to revisit her ungluing upon you some other time. It’s really too bad someone you considered a friend refuses to listen to reason, but as we all learn (over and over) some people are simply incapable.
Preach it! fistbump
Also stupid: St. Lou. It’s not like Schenectady or something; it’s an extra word and syllable!
I’m thinking good thoughts for my son’s truck, which just stopped at a light yesterday and wouldn’t restart. After pushing it to the side and waiting about five minutes, it restarted, but the engine sounded rough and unbalanced.
That’s his annoying part of the event, though. We were going on a comparison shop for a microwave hutch I’d found online, the same one sold by different stores. On the up side, all three were located in one shopping arcade. On the down side, they were not close to each other, so much walking in the heat.
Turns out that for all three stores, the item is only available online. Although it can be ordered shipped to the store for free. I could have stayed home if I’d known.
It’s the Conservative Business Model. Fear and Anger. Constantly telling people why they should be angry over shit that doesn’t affect them. Claim “liberals” are trying to force them to apologize (seriously, one of my gamer buddies keeps posting this claim, but I have NEVER heard any such thing out of an actual Liberal), etc.
“I’m sick of hearing about Caitlyn Jenner!”
Really? Because I don’t care about this person at all and make no effort to read articles about her and as a consequence, while I may occasionally see a headline, I’m not by any means “constantly hearing about her”. Whatever she has or has not done, whoever she chooses to be, has exactly ZERO impact on my daily life, or on his life for that matter.
Therefore the only reason I can see to be railing about it is that these people CHOOSE to be angry about it, because it upsets some tiny little vision of how they choose to see the world.
I on the other hand, am quite well aware that a fuckload of what Humanity gets up to isn’t to my liking and there isn’t a damned thing I can do about it. But at the same time, this particular issue isn’t even remotely on my radar of things that I don’t like about the world.
Torture, slavery, racism, evil… Someone having a sex change operation. Which of these things is not like the others?
First time soldering since being in college lab 30 years ago. So I’m rewiring my guitar and…
I lean over to get a close look at the iron/solder/surface point I’m cleaning off and the old ball of solder (like it’s supposed to) instantly turns from solid to liquid with a poof. In my startled excitement, I inhale the resulting cloud of smoke, cough and gag, eyes watering over, drop the solder iron, and blindly grab it before it can damage anything…blindly by feel…at the wrong end…
Tears that combine both pain and sweet nostalgia are the tastiest tears of all…
One of the companies I work for part-time has decided that future pay on this project should be half of what it is now. Because that’s how you fucking attract and keep qualified people: by forcing enormous pay cuts on them! The company is ridiculously profitable, btw.
Fucking rat bastards.
I just spilled an entire pot of tea all over my kitchen counter. I needed to clean the kitchen today, but not in a hurry throwing every clean dish towel I have over the counters and floor.
Stupid HVAC system. My bathroom as of right now is around 52 degrees. The rest of my house is around 84 degrees. This is partly because I closed the bathroom door for some reason after my shower. But it is mostly because of some goddamn thing in my vents which routs nearly all the air to the bathroom, and has been pumping it full of cold all afternoon apparently.
It feels… odd… to set up a network of fans to try to blow bathroom air over the house.
My daughter has a speech disorder. She’s 11. Our miracle of a speech therapist called today to tell me that she’s having emergency surgery for a tumor. I’m absolutely gutted. I’m thankful for all we’ve received from her thus far, but we need more. Terrified.
Apologize for what?
Doesn’t matter. The Conservative Business Model Chimera is describing is a template; it will be applied in any situation to which there is the most remotely plausible excuse, and will include as standard equipment a claim that the libruls are demanding an apology.
Another micro-Amazon rant. Amazon has discovered that second day shipping, even for Prime members, costs them a crap ton of money. So they’re now offering promotional credits if you choose the “Ah, this is an impulse purchase, I don’t really need this in two days, or ever” shipping option. The problem is, the promotional credits expire. And there’s no good way to track them, except by groveling through old Amazon emails.
Obviously, it’s to Amazon’s benefit to not have any mechanism by which you can easily view your promotional credits (there is a page, but good luck getting there from your accounts page) and to not have a mechanism by which you can when they are expiring. They’re not actually in the business of giving away digital media. So they hope you’ll forget about it until it evaporates. Like companies that give out gift cards that expire in your wallet before you have a chance to use them.
Still, promotional credits that expire without warning suck. And businesses that deliberately make it easy to forget about this kind of credit also sort of suck.
Fuck insurance companies.