July mini-rants. Who is this Julius Caesar guy anyway? Why does HE deserve a month?

I could never understand the idea behind this. Tires are expensive!

To understand, you must first be an idiot.

“Bitcoin is fine, I guess, but the real money is made on the fringes” he told me when he started. Oops.

We had to rehome one of the cats today. Ever since we got our pandemic cats, the Boondock Boys (Murphy and Connor), Tiny Tabitha has not been happy. She started bullying the boys when they were kittens and when they got big they started bullying her until she was stress-peeing all over the place. So she got her own room and today a nice old lady came by to give her a nice home where she could be the Only Cat. I miss her already. I know it’s for the best but she was so tiny and so tabby.

Samantha Cat is happier because she has the upstairs all to herself now. But Samantha Cat is middle-aged and set in her ways like that.

We’ve had 3 sideshows at the intersection by my place in the last 9 months. I had the impression that the San Jose Police were getting up to speed on handling them. A couple of weeks ago there was a big sideshow downtown and they were able to box the racers and spectators in. They arrested a bunch of people on weapons charges and handed out something like 500 citations to the spectators.

I live in the San Joaquin Valley, in a town not far from a HUGE abandoned former military test plane airport. (I drove my car the length of the runway once – well over a mile long.) These guys used to come all the way out here for their drag races, wheelie contests and whatever. One day a few years ago, the cops from a whole bunch of police forces were out there just waiting for them. Oops. They hauled in a lot of ass that day.

I’m sure that’s hard. Our household would be much improved if we could rehome one of our dogs, but it would break my heart to do it.

I thought maybe Ill text “maganut” and see if he had an opinion on the Roe decision. Thankfully, he didnt. Then he texted me a link to a video called something like, Why Trump is awesome.
I ask if he’ll watch a video I send him.
Sure, as long as its not Hunters laptop. I say no, and am tired of people mocking Hunter for having a drug problem. He says, but wait, theres more.
Him with children; Joe probably raped his kids.
I texted back-probably. Hm
Then, to go all out batshit, he says Hunters mom probably smashed the car back when to save the children.
I dont think that can be topped. Hes blocked.

Fucking fuck, the power went out in the middle of cooking dinner, and I can hear thunder, so the power crews won’t be able to start working on the problem right away. The power company’s app let me report the outage, but is refusing to acknowledge there’s an outage. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: The automated number is giving a repair ETA of 9:45 tonight.

On the plus side, my grill’s problem turned out to be an easy fix, so dinner isn’t a complete loss.

I had to read everything in this post three times, to figure out what it meant. Sometimes I never could. Finally I just gave up.

Finally got power back at 2:17 AM.

Also found out that the downed line picture Wake Electric was displaying on social media as the cause of the problem actually occurred long before the outage, and likely is in another power company’s coverage area. :face_with_raised_eyebrow: (It still isn’t fixed, and enough people in that area are still without power that it made the news.)

I have a problem. It is painful. I feel rude for talking about it because we don’t talk about the our bathing suit areas in polite conversation, even though my issue is related to the totally normal function of breastfeeding. Suffice it to say, it hurts a lot and I’m in a really bad mood about it and I don’t know how to fix it.

I had the same difficulty. Here’s what I came up with:

"I thought I’d text my Trumpist friend about the overturning of Roe v. Wade. That didn’t get the anticipated reaction, but I did get sent a Trumpist video. So I escalated by offering to send a counter-video, and got a nice reply with some outdated snark about Hunter Biden. Then, with the lines of communication open, the conspiracies about pedophilia and various other things started coming out, all tied to issues that were already fringe when Biden was campaigning.

“I had succeeded in provoking my friend, but it didn’t bring me satisfaction, so I ended the friendship.”

I did not provoke my acquaintance. He is a true believer in woo. Biden being president is all the provocation he needs. I thought it was horrible to insinuate his former wife deliberated killed herself.

I Pit Lyrical Entropy.

“What is Lyrical Entropy,” you might ask. (Or you probably won’t, because you don’t give a shit, but I will tell you anyways.) It’s a stupid term I just made up today, so it’s nonsense. But I’m rolling with it.

It is what happens when you are trying to look up the lyrics of a song you really enjoy. And instead of getting the results you expect, you are finding lyrics for a different song by a different artist. An artist you’ve never heard of, and a song you’ve never listened to. And you check out a video of the song, and it sucks. You then have to specify the song and artist to get the correct lyrics. What is this shit replacing a decent song? What garbage are the youth of today being subjected to rather than real music?

In other words, it’s a sign that I’m old and becoming even more out of touch. This old man is yelling at The Cloud, rather than clouds.

(Given who your acquaintance is, do you really blame her?)

I think she means that there was an insinuation that Biden’s former wife killed herself.

Yes! I gotta work on my phrasing.

A Catholic who went to church every Sunday? That Trumpist’s stupidity knows no bounds.

My old spark ring broke. I ordered a new one. It arrived today. Only after opening the blister card did I discover it shipped with the flint and flint-covering screw unattached. The flint is still in the plastic blister. I don’t know where the screw is. Instead of getting a much needed boost. I am sad and cursing myself.