OK, Immune system, you have made your point. The big, bad pollen is scared and will definitely not come back here and cause harm. You can stop throwing your fit now. I’m gonna have to pick a new allergy medicine because the zyrtec isn’t cutting it.
We are trying to GIVE YOU MONEY. Roughly ten thousand dollars to be exact! Please send us a damn invoice so we can have university accounting do a bank transfer and I can stop being stressed out about the fact that we’re about to show up in a foreign country with seventeen students and we haven’t paid for our last week of housing yet!
I usually have to rotate between Zyrtec, Claritin, and Benadryl when the first two are ineffective. The only one with a side effect for me is Benadryl (zzzzzzzzz) so I try to minimize it’s time.
I updated Adobe Reader last week. And I uninstalled McAfee Security Scan today. I didn’t mean to install McAfee, but when you update Adobe Reader you have no choice. Adobe’s installer is like: “Hey, thanks for installing Adobe! You MUST want to install McAfee. Well, we don’t give a shit if you want to or not, we’re going to make you install it because that’s part of our update process.” So Fuck You to Adobe for your evil installer.
I thought you could decline McAfee during the Adobe Reader install. If not, you should be able to uninstall the unwanted software.
The bigger question to me is why Adobe continues this 1994 behavior here in 2022.
Google can fuck right off. First of all I start getting numerous unwanted pop-ups on my tablet that Google MUST have my birth date in order to “comply with the law”. What law, Google? Fuck off.
Then I get a notice in my email that I must confirm my recovery email address to “strengthen the security of my Google account”. Fuck off, Google. It hasn’t changed. If it had changed, I would have let you know.
And I’m now faced with the termination of password-only access to Gmail from POP3 and IMAP clients, because … reasons. Fuck you, Google.
Fuck you with a cactus, Google, or Alphabet Soup, or whatever the fuck you call yourselves now. You’re just making life harder for everyone using the pretext of protecting their interests, while in fact only protecting your own.
There is a total lunar eclipse tomorrow, May 16, with totallity at 06:11 (CAT)
Two people who I have invited to join me to watch it, have interpretated that time as 18:11 (CAT)
I plan to climb a small mountain in order to get a decent view, and I specifically mentioned a cold early morning walk… and yet people still misread 06:11 (a.m) with 18:11 (pm).
Let me not start ranting about programmers who fail to use the ISO 8601 standard date format… people exist who cannot identify the correct time using normal 24hr time.
So, if you want precision in times given, what the heck is 06:11 (CAT)? Central Abnormal Time? Canadian Time?
eta: ok, I googled… (but I hate when I have to do that)… did you mean Central African Time? Is that UTC+2? Is it different than South African Time?
No. It’s the same as South African Standard Time, as well as Egypt Standard Time, Kaliningrad Time, Central European Summer Time, and Eastern European Time.
If you’re so snippy about chronological precision, why are you not properly using UTC?
I know, I’ve read that online and I sure looked on every screen that came up during install but nope, there was no chance to decline anything or alter the install in any way.
Felt a little off last evening, and had a nagging little cough, like something was stuck in the back of my throat. Allergies, I’m thinking. Get up this morning, felt the same way. I decided to use one of the home Covid tests we have. Surprise! First time I’ve called out sick for over 10 years. I feel crappy, but not horrible.
My biggest heartbreak is that I will have to miss a half marathon in Brooklyn that I was very much looking forward to. And cancel a medical appointment and a massage this week. At least the hotel will let me cancel.
It seems like I remember at some point that Adobe changed from having an option to not install McAfee, to having two separate installers, one with McAfee and one without. You had to be careful to make sure you downloaded the one without McAfee.
ETA: I think that was for Flash updates, not Adobe Reader, but wouldn’t be surprised if the same principle holds.
I have an ash tree in my front yard that provides a ton of shade to the house, so it’s very important to me that it stay alive and thrive. I get it treated for emerald ash borer. Last year it started dropping leaves in the spring, which turned out to be a fungus called anthracnose. Had it treated and told the arborist to put me on the schedule for this year. Well this year rolls around and the damn tree is dropping leaves again. Turns out the arborist sent me a quote on Christmas Eve which I blew past in the madness of the time. Well he’s coming out today to once again treat the tree.
So in the end I pit the arborist for shitty timing, myself for not following up and most of all the damn tree that seems intent on getting killed!
A nice young woman was just hired here, and they were showing her around. I shook hands with her, and after she moved on, I noticed a heavy coconut scent in the air. I smelled my hand, and it reeked of coconut. I hate coconut smell. Luckily, it washed off when I went to scrub my hands just now.
But she’s seated a couple of desks away from me, and it’s going to be coconut city from now on I suppose.
It’s a good excuse to drink pineapple juice and rum all day… with the coconut smell it’d be piña coladas and you’d feel like you were on an all-inclusive island somewhere.
It’s either that or fake severe anaphylactic shock, maybe with some flopping around on the floor. While a coworker friend of yours yells “Omigod, did she eat, or even smell, something with coconut?!?”
Coulda been hand sanitizer (some people seem to think it will incentivize people use hand sanitizer; not sure how that squares with incentivizing them to keep their hands away from their faces).
The coconut thing reminds me that I was running low on the liquid hand soap I’ve been using for years (and also as a shower soap) and the grocery store where I did my last shopping didn’t have any of the big refill bottles. They did have refills of all kinds of scented versions, but fuck that shit. Back when COVID was creating all kinds of shortages, I picked up two different pump bottles of scented liquid soap because that’s all there was. Both turned out to be unusable – in my opinion, they stank to high heaven. I threw them out. Fortunately by then my standard neutral liquid soap was back in stock.
Use lime-scented hand sanitizer.
Then next time you shake hands you put the lime in the coconut.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I have two black cats, brothers, which I’ve had since they were kittens 14 years ago. In the interest of being able to tell them apart without actually having to pick them up, one of them has been wearing a blue collar. Unfortunately, in the past week he’s been managing to get his collar off just about every night. It’s a breakaway collar, and apparently either the catch has gotten loose with age or he’s suddenly decided he doesn’t like it and has been pulling it off. I suspect the former, since he hasn’t fought me when I put it back on, and I’ve never seen him pawing at it.
I’m thinking of buying him a new collar, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the trouble. He’s strictly an indoor cat, and has shown zero interest in trying to get outside, so it’s not like I need to worry about him getting lost. In recent years their behavior has deviated to the point where I can tell them apart much easier.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen DirtyHippy — their last post was 4 months ago
Seriously SDMB? Is there anyone that pretends to give a fuck? Just turn this shit off and no one will notice. Yes, we’re glad that they’ve contributed, but we wouldn’t care if they didn’t.
Yes, I’m going to put this in ATMB.