Thank you Flutterby. I really don’t want everyone here to read about me beating cops up with a beer bottle. Promises to wear sexy underware for the pics, though.
I forgot my rant about the wildfires and the media coverage. We have a wild fire season, it happens every year. Our fire fighters are well trained and well equiped. We know that this will happen every year. We clear the weeds and brush out to have a defensible zone. Its part of life here.
Why do the media make it sound like the entire state is burnt to the ground every time a fire happens? Bill called me all paniced over a fire that is 20 miles away. I can smell the smoke and there is a little bit of ash falling, but its not a threat to me. He wouldn’t have even known except that the media says ARIZONA IS BURNING TO THE GROUND AND EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE!!!
This happens every year and it just ticks me off enough to make me say poopyhead words.
Any day now the village will be coming around with a ticket because the stupid lawn is way too high. I know it is. My husband knows it is. The lawn mower is currently living with our son, but it isn’t working right. He’ll bring it as soon as he can get it working and has time to get it here. In the meantime I’m not happy about being the redneck house on the block. We’ve had two different lawn care/mowing/landscaping people ask about doing it for us. One of them actually came to the door and left me his card. However, neither of them will return a dang phone call, so the lawn that I thought would be on the way to decent a week ago is still overgrown and getting worse.
I went out and hoed one of the areas where I’d like to put in some flowers (between the side sidewalk and the house, so not really lawn) and some more of that is in the plan for this week, but I can’t cut the long grass with scissors. Or even the lopper.
If these people were so eager to do the job, why the heck didn’t they call back? I guess I’ll have to look for yet a third one.
Can you rent a mower for a day or a weekend? I’ve rented one from a small local outfit, also from RSC Rentals, which I think have branches all over the place. (That’s if you are in the US of course, but other countries must have similar companies?)
That’s actually an idea I hadn’t thought of. Might have to look into that. Thanks. I’d still like one of these guys to call back, since there’s more to be done out there than mowing and it will take a lot longer if I have to do it myself. But at least getting the grass cut would make us look better.
Just saw a yahoo article that made my blood boil. Not because of the content (it was about whether people should post photos of their kids on facebook - not exactly news, but what the hell) but because of the new term “oversharenting.” Goddammit. Are you fucking kidding me? We have to have a brand-spanking new word for every damn trend now? Christ, that bothers me. It really, really bothers me. It shouldn’t bother me as much as it does, but, well…it irritates the shit out of me.
Are you in one of those parts of the country where unemployed dudes hang out in the parking lots of big-box home improvement stores waiting for jobs … ? Many of them have, or know someone who has, a lawn mower.
Dear brain, thank you so much for this morning’s exciting and inspirational dream in which I seemed to spend HOURS unsuccessfully trying to remember the correct four-digit sequence for a combination padlock. I can still remember some of the combinations I tried in the dream, and I don’t even have a combination padlock.
If that’s what passes for oneiric entertainment these days according to you, you need to get some better fucking scriptwriters.
Costco: If you stack shirts so that the size stickers are on alternate sides of each shirt in the pile, it’s YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT when the shirts are not piled up neatly. You KNOW that people are going to have to look through the pile of shirts for their size, and the pile is going to get disheveled when they do this. I could see why you would put hangers facing opposite ways on a clothes pole, but I don’t see how stacking the shirts this way is going to deter thieves, or do anything other than frustrate your customers and the poor bastards who have to stack and re-stack them. Do you not actually want people to have the audacity to try to buy one of those shirts stacked on the table?
Trader Joe’s: A curse on stores that put the milk on the shelves with the date facing backwards. At least I see why you would do this, but it’s still fucking annoying. Giant Eagle doesn’t do that. Every milk jug always has the date toward the back of the case every time I buy milk at Trader Joe’s, so don’t say you’re not doing it on purpose. We both know you are.
I think we need to bring back “gag me with a spoon” to describe this situation.
Believe me, a little surrealism in the form of a nonexistent padlock design would have made a welcome break in the monotony.
Okay, but considering the quality of the screenplays my scriptwriting dream team seems to be currently churning out, I wouldn’t advise holding your breath.
I don’t have a Trader Joe’s handy to me, so I tend to get my milk at the supermarket. I just looked at the bottle I have in the refrigerator right now. There are two labels on it. The one on what I call the “front” has the information denoting that it’s the store brand, and the fact that it’s whole milk, rather than a reduced-fat type (I need this information to know that I’m getting the store-brand price, and the
type of milk I want). The label on the back has the standard nutritional information chart that all food packaging has these days.
The tattoo with the sell-by date is on the BACK of the bottle. Maybe Trader Joe’s applies their labels differently, though. Anyway, just take the bottle that’s toward the back of the shelf, and you’re more likely to get the latest sell-by date.
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen that around here. For quite some time there was a guy who did odd landscaping and outdoor jobs, and we hired him several times. The first time he came to the door I turned him away because I didn’t trust the look of him, but at some point we did have him do a job for us and he did it very well, so we called him a few more times. I haven’t seen him around for probably five years, though, so I think maybe the cigarettes finally caught up with him.
If I do try Craigslist, it will be over my husband’s protests. He doesn’t really trust it.
I’m sorry, but every time I see this sentence, it reads as “oversharting”. I think any sharting is probably oversharting, but the visual really does not seem to be what they intended.
