hey, you could post the grocery list here and then pull up the thread when in the supermarket… 
Yea, though I walk through the valley of rants . . .
I’m not having a great work day.
I should say, my work day has not started yet. I had an AM meeting, then I had to pick up my kid since school is cancelled, and now it seems everyone I work with is trying by design to force me to get things done at the last minute, so until they act, I’m just sitting here stressing about it.
I’m very close to declaring the whole day a wash and spending the rest of the day writing and shoveling. That would be more productive than staring at my Inbox.
I sent Teams messages to 3 different people this morning around 8. I have finally heard back from 1 of them. (It’s 1:00 pm) Work can go so slowly sometimes when you get no feedback.
So go shovel, check your inbox, then do some writing, then ignore the inbox, then oops, it’s after hours, you don’t get paid to check emails then!
Sounds like you got a Snow Day!
I woke up today to find a dead rodent of some kind in one of my two traps. Last week I had vague hopes that my apartment was now rodent free. There was obviously at least one more. I’m also confused by the rodent being dead. It was a non-lethal trap. I’m hoping the other poison baits I put out are to blame. The other alternative is that the Jif peanut butter I used as bait is poisonous.
“Choosey Mother Fuckers Choose Jif.”
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( You know, I would pay Real Money for Keanu to say that line in some future movie. )
You don’t say what you caught, but if it was a mouse and you are using live traps, mice expire pretty quickly without access to food and water. I’ve used live traps here to catch mice and when they are deployed, I check them three times a day.
With live traps, you also need to be prepared to relocate your catch to an area sufficiently distant from your location to ensure they do not return. If you can’t do that, I’d not bother.
I find glue traps sadistic- and you need to kill what they catch anyway. Being a very clumsy man with poor manual dexerity, I fear that I will break my fingers and toes using a classic metal spring-loaded trap. If my remaining non lethal trap catches anything- the whole kaboodle live or dead goes in the dumpster.
Oh, and I think it was a mouse. I’m not too sure.
Mice are way smaller than rats, and snap traps for mice aren’t strong enough to cause anything other than minor pain to you if you get snapped. They’ll also be more likely to kill the mouse, which is actually more humane than allowing them to die of thirst or starvation.
Remember my Unrelated Child Not Otherwise Specified? The one my boss has custody of and whose biological mom can’t be bothered to pay basic attention to her, show up for her when she says she will, or do even the basic “show up and consent” stuff when she needs medical care?
Well, bio mom is pregnant. Fifth kid with the fifth different guy. She has custody of none of them. Apparently, 6-7 months(?!) along.
Boss says she gave her several thousand dollars a couple years ago to “get fixed,” which I assume means get her tubes tied. Her assumption, naturally, is that she just took the money and never actually got it done. Bio mom says she did, but this is a miracle. That’s… not exactly what I would call it.
- $777 fucking dollars for my asthma medication, pre-deductible.
- “I don’t want to add anything else to your plate… but here’s something I’m going to add to your plate.” Just don’t fucking bother with the first part, then.
It’s the same as saying, “No offense, but…” then saying something offensive.
A very tiny rant:
Last night I was hosting a Zoom meeting and went to share a video. I tried to check the two checkboxes (share computer sound, optimize for video) and the “optimize for video” checkbox was grayed out.
I really don’t like applications that disable buttons or menu options with no way of knowing why they are unavailable. Sure, it’s obvious that “save” shouldn’t work if you don’t have a file open, but the more esoteric functions should make it easy to find out how to get them to “un gray”
I had to start Googling around why that checkbox would be grayed out. I found that if you have sharing enabled for multiple participants (i.e. two or more people sharing simultaneously) they disable the “optimize for video” checkbox.
Why should I have to Google that?
There is a very easy way for developers to help me as a user: just put a darned tool tip on the grayed out thing that says exactly why it is grayed out. That way I can hover my mouse over it and it would say “can’t use this feature if multiple sharing is enabled” or something like that.
The price of inhalers is a scam.
And it’s not like I can go without it. During the months of October-March, peak cold and flu season, I’m barely functional without it. It’s crazy.
Supposed to go to a work baby shower tomorrow and I ordered a really nice soft baby blanket you can only get online and I just knew Amazon was going to fuck up the delivery time, I just knew it. And they did. So now I’m going to have to ship it to her after it arrives at my house. Waste of goddamn time and money.
I’m not that bad…yet. My maintenance inhaler has caused me to not sign up for medigap when I could. I had to go with an “advantage” policy. None of the options for part D I had in my county covered that inhaler at all. It’s a generic and the yearly cost outstripped the advantage plan deductible. It’s an old medication and a generic. Ridiculous.
The irony is I’m only using this one because my insurance company stopped covering the other one. By sheer coincidence, this one works better - but it’s the only one my insurance is willing to cover and they expect me to pay out the asshole for it. I’m so unhappy with this insurance company but I know they’re all terrible and I can’t guess what a pain in the ass it would be to get coverage for my son’s services all over again. This is where we landed.
Health “insurance” is a scam. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but this backwards country needs single payer like 50 years ago. Oh, and the way pharma manipulates the price of inhalers should be against the law. Too bad all certain members of congress can worry about is impeaching members of the administration, the border “crisis,” banning books, “woke,” and waving porn pics. of Hunter Biden around in the halls of congress. We, as a nation, are falling fast.
It’s so bizarre that something that keeps so many people alive costs so much. The same with blood test strips. Those should be almost free, so why do they cost so much?
My mini rant for today is about shoes. I have weird feet (kind of like duck feet), and I can’t find any shoes that fit. I have to get extra-wide shoes with a wide toe box, and they’re not available in the brand I’ve been buying. The main brand for extra wide shoes is very poor quality, so I don’t want to buy those. I have no idea what I’m going to do when my current shoes are too worn out to wear. The shoe industry sucks. There are so damn many shoes (just go look at Zappos and see how many shoes are out there!), but shoe companies can’t be bothered to make any in different widths, which is kind of a public health issue.