At 4, he’ll be thrilled if you can set up the tent inside – in his room, basement, or other out-of-the-way location. I found something similar useful with my nephews, and later my niece, to send them away so the adults could have a few moments of free time without impending disaster. (the tent collapsed on them a few times while unsupervised, but that just added to the fun; much better than unsupervised pull-desired-toy-from-the-shelf stuff that might’ve gone on instead.)
Apparently Verizon is experiencing a widespread email outage. Possibly related to their plan to farm out email services to AOL (yep, not kidding about that).
I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to convert a PDF file into something that I can read from my e-reader. In principle this should have been a simple operation but the PDF was formatted stupidly, which makes the conversion far more difficult than it should be.
I finally gave up when it dawned on me that I could have pretty much read the entire thing in the time I spent trying to get this stupid conversion to work. :smack:
A while back, I saw a mapping of the “perfect US road trip”, which visits an awesome place in every lower-48 state in a nice loop. Curiously, for the state of Washington, the tourist highlight is the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. This utterly baffled me, given that Hanford is somewhat infamous for being an really big mess. Not to mention, the scenery in the area is worth, well, flying over very quickly.
Right now, it is looking like tourism will probably be suspended for a while. This could be very bad for a very large area. But we will probably find out, from the most honest and transparent government ever, that all is well, not to worry.
Bloody hell I think I have gout! Woke up with swollen foot, Friday could not walk on it at all. Finally made it to Urgent Care on Sunday. X-ray no broken bones, didn’t know what happen. Need blood work for diagnosis, they don’t do lab work. So off to doc today for a look see.
Maybe he’s looking for a job.
What’s surprising to me is that this state doesn’t have its own oversight on Hanford. The governor found out from the DOE. I don’t trust them to tell the truth.
Last week I deposited a refund check from my doctor for $47.11. I was paying a bill from my account Monday and noticed the bank had debited my account for $47.11. This was treated like a check and not a deposit. There is an image of the deposit slip accompanying the entry like there is when someone cashes a check you wrote. I called customer service and talked to someone for 38 minutes about this. She was very confused about the whole thing. Unfortunately, her supervisor was in a meeting but she assured me that she would talk to her about this and get it all straight. Fine.
I just checked and the bank has credited my account for $47.11. Well, thanks for giving me my money back but where is the credit for the damn check?! Fuck, I guess I’ll have to go to the bank tomorrow and try to get someone to understand what they’ve done. Damn it.
Ya know what smells worse than Kangaroo piss? (Don’t ask, or judge)
The fucking “Nature’s Secret” crap you shell out big bucks for to “eliminate pet odors”. Christ! Shit drove me out of the fucking house!
One more: A few days ago, I take the dogs out for the daily ritual. Run, hunt, Jeep ride home.
Well, at least one of them (pretty sure it was Ted, saw him chankin’ on something. My girls would never do something this horrid) got into a field mouse/rat burrow and ate up their fill.
Sometime on the ride home, got sick, and threw up a partially digested, de-furred rat in the back of the Jeep. And there it sat, till the next day, when we saddled up for the daily ritual.
Good Lord! That was disgusting!
I’m still finding little pieces every now and then…
When it rains it pours huh.
I decided to finally get the laminate we bought put in the second floor of the house, I had a little cushion saved up and this will help my allergies and asthma.
The same week my car check engine light comes on and it decides to run really rough. Oh, it needs all the spark plugs replaced and the ignition coil. When not a month and a half before a seal got busted and it needed all sorts of work. So of course I got that fixed because it’s a hassle and the car is older (new to me), but almost paid off and I want to drive it as long as I can and if I don’t get it fixed now well, that’s not going to happen.
And today… today one of my front windows has a pane of glass smashed. They are pretty big windows and I think original to the house. So now I need to ask around work for the best place to go to get a new window, probably two because in for a penny in for a pound and get them done. This was something that would need to be done eventually, but it just got moved up the list. Ugh.
And god knows how it got smashed, my house is set fairly back from the road and the hole is a good inch and a half. It only went through the outer pane, not the inner and there is nothing around on the ground outside below the window that could have done it. So I want to bet it was someone with a ball or something. Of course there is no note in the mailbox or anything.
:mad:
Speaking of which - The Weather Channel is getting ever more desperate to hook readers/viewers through scare tactics.
Their website invites you to click on a mini-map with the headline: “Be Prepared - Thunderous Storms Coming”.
Apparently, merely talking about “thunderstorms” is not sufficiently frightening clickbait.
But these are ‘Thunderous Storms’, not mere thunderstorms. I don’t know what the difference is.
Y’know, some ‘Thunderous Storms’ are also ‘Lightningous Storms’.
Now I’m scared enough that I’m going to click on that new mini-map of ‘Delugenous Raincloud Rainstorm Storms’
So all the sudden I can’t take photos or properly use half of my apps including Tap-a-Talk because out of nowhere Apple decided to issue an update which eats 700mb of data on my iPhone until its installed.
Which I would love to do except you can’t download and install the fucking update unless you are connected to WIFI and are plugged in or have at least 50% power but I’m at a restaurant.
So the bottom line is because Apple has decided to shove yet another worthless update up my ass that I neither want nor asked for, my iPhone is a semi-functioning brick for the rest of the evening. Why all the updates? Why can’t Apple just get it’s shit together the first time it releases a new OS???
Hey Apple take your shitty iPhone and your annoying update and shove them up YOUR ass! Fuck Apple and fuck the iPhone!
I’ve managed to turn a fairly straight-forward project into a PITA. We have small closets that have only one high shelf and a hanger bar. For eight years now, we’ve been using plastic crap to keep undies and things in, so I decided to do a shelving project in the larger of the two. Cooking right along, right up until I drilled into a wire, causing all the bedroom lights to go out.
Cut out a chunk of drywall and fixed the fuckup, but now there’s a big hole to patch, which will require a patch kit, at least two coats of mud, and paint. Well, I needed something to do on my 70th birthday. Crap.
At least you have a hanger bar. My closet has a piece of molding off the shelf to serve that function, which does work, but you can only set a hanger with the hook facing outward. That sucks when you are tired and have to go through the extra motion to hang something up.
The new configuration looks like the following:
+++ = wood shelf
oooo = hanger bar
----- = wire shelves
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‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’‘’''oooooooooooo
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Those idiot parents that bring a *baby *to a baseball game and sit in the lower deck close to the field.
Someday a ball or bat is going to sail into the stands and destroy some kid.
“Oh, the parent can protect the kid from anything that goes into the stands.”
Well, what if they can’t?
MLB says that netting has to be within 70 feet of homeplate, but balls and bats have sailed into the stands farther than that and injured adult fans.
Just wanted to thank the fucko who had to sit next to me at the bar and proceed to have a five minute sneezing fit, with some of the particles landing on me. Hey, Patient Zero: take it outside!
I’m traveling to Mexico tomorrow for a vacation. If I come home sick I’m bringing home a bottle of pure Mexican tapwater with me that will get poured into your drink when your not looking.
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