Please do. Oughta be good.
It will be if people have an opinion!
Follow-up on my ER visit last Sunday: The dieresis clinic ran some tests and decided that I need to double my daily dosage of lasix. I expect to be spending a lot of time in the bathroom for a while. They also want me to come in for a follow-up visit next week.
The only times I’ve been in a pub or club for the past many years is if I was playing there with a band. In that case it’s a couple of beers over the evening… not good to get sloshed on stage…
If only I’d known that 40 years ago !!
(I fell into the drumkit on one occasion !)
I suspect that most of us who have paid some dues in the grassroots of the music biz have encountered a few spectacular examples of stage drunkeness! A few people seem to be able to hold it together… others, not so much…
So, the mechanic saw my car. The heat shield had been crushed (the same way described in Reddit when some thieving fuck tried to nickel & dime someone into accepting half price for selling his car ).
That’s some work. The two front tires were from 2012 and had rubber cracks so they had to go. The car needed an engine service & oil change… not for miles driven but for time passed. All in all, that will be a $1500.00 bill. Fun stuff.
Ever evolving corporate buzzword nonsense…our mandatory overtime is now a “lean-in event”. Supposedly you lean in when your car or bike goes around a corner, or when helping someone to your feet? I dunno. Synergistic paradigms abound here.
Holy plethorating synergisms, Batman!
Leaning in is the posture of pushing hard on a nearly immovable object. Try pushing a car sometime leaning over backwards; doesn’t work. Front linemen in the NFL lean in as they’re blocking or rushing or whatever.
August was a horrible month that has carried over into September.
In the Plus Column:
My dog is fully recovered and doing great. I’m so glad that expensive broken tooth is out!
The pond is repaired. The people who built it put a drain in it (Dog knows why, what do they think pumps are for?), and somehow whatever was covering the drain hole came loose.
In the Minus Column:
We had a power outage in mid August. No power, no well pump, meaning no water. Sometimes air gets in the water lines during a power outage, so I turn off the water heater and when power is restored, I open all the faucets in the house for a few minutes to get rid of the air before turning the water heater back on. I was told to do this by the water heater installer.
So the power comes back on after a mere 2 hours and having already gone to bed, I do my faucet routine the following morning. Only this time, when I opened the first faucet there was a great < !!BURP!! > before the water began to run smoothly. Huh.
Later in the morning, I head out to give the dog a wee. And I notice a big wet spot in my gravel driveway. It follows right along the water line from the pump house. This has happened before, and I know it means a plumber. The plumbers come out and spend a morning digging around. Turns out to be a leak, as suspected. Under my concrete patio.
$5,000 repair bill. At least, that’s what they estimate. The job won’t be completed until Monday. But at least they fixed the pond, hey!?
The installation of the new gigabit fiber internet cable proceeds apace, meaning moving like undigested pork through the colon. The internet cable company wants around $4,200 to trench from the road to my house. From any contractor, the best price I could find for this work was $2,000. This does not include the $1,500 for the cost for the internet company’s conduit or for them to install their equipment. Finally a friend stepped up and said he would do the trenching. I expect his bill will be under $1,000. Nice to get a break!
I had to do a Locate for existing utilities and that was finally accomplished last week. I meet with my friend and the internet tech tomorrow to finalize the route for the cable so everyone is on the same page. My friend will come trench next week.
It’s been a costly couple of months, the disruption has gotten so old and I just can’t wait for all this to be over… I’ll have the rest of my life to pay for it, I guess.
Well I actually have a pee-ew mini rant.
My colleague and I purchase used jigsaw puzzles at thrift stores, yard sales and occasionally online. We’ve been doing them at work for about 8 years or so.
It’s a great stress reliever and we donate the puzzles back to another thrift store when we are done unless they are at the end of their practical life.
Occasionally we have run into puzzles with missing pieces or the pieces appear to have been through some significant periods of decay. We do them unless it becomes frustrating and then we simply throw them in the trash.
Today I opened up a colorful beach puzzle that smelled like ripe ass.
I tried to soldier on through the smell but it was disorienting.
I have never encountered a puzzle with such a ghastly, offensive odor.
Attempts were made to alleviate the putrid aroma by spraying the following:
Hand sanitizer clove version
Bath and Body Pear fragrance mist
Full on dousing with Febreeze
But it just ended up smelling like ripe ass intermingled with clove and melon.
We took this one outside to the dumpster.
I love puzzles! That would truly suck. And it’s literally pee-ew!
The hell did they do to it?
LOL I have no idea. I hope I never have to deal with this again.
Just call it what it is. A bend-over event.
I’m late to the party, but I wanted to share that my mother had a shaving incident last week that was so bad she ended up calling 911 (and summoning me home from work too). She nicked one of the many varicose veins on her leg (that her doctor insists aren’t a big deal), and proceeded to turn the upstairs into a crime scene. The ambulance arrived quickly, and they were able to stop the bleeding…it was just a tiny nick, after all. She says she’s going to use an electric razor from now on.
Is Mom on “blood thinners”? Those can turn something a kid or young adult would shrug off almost unnoticed into a hemorrhagic crisis.
I am on blood thinning medication and have had a couple small cuts that made my kitchen sink look like I was butchering a pig.
I have purchased some items designed to stop bleeding and they work well. One is called Bleed Stop which is a first aid powder that can be ordered online or perhaps purchased at a local pharmacy.
Could be worse. Could be a Lean Six Sigma-in event.
The Hell? Their upgrade costs you thousands? Call your state regulator & lodge a complaint. I bet there are lots of people who can’t afford that (not don’t want to pay, but can’t)
Do you know of some regulation in any state which requires utilities to build out to wherever you happen to live? At your request but entirely at their own expense?
There certainly have been various historical efforts to subsidize extending modern infrastructure to the hinterlands. Such as Rural Electrification Act - Wikipedia.
I recall reading of some half-hearted efforts in some states as to internet access. But nothing comprehensive.