Pull my finger for August (monthly mini rants)

The BBQ Pit
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Sorry, Covid sucks. I’m out of the mandatory quarantine period and my symptoms are much better but not totally gone. Today I’m dealing with massive sinus pain and pressure.

Though to be honest, I get that frequently anyway, so I’m not even 100% sure it’s a Covid symptom and not just my usual sinus crap.

It’s no fun. I’m just glad it’s not “severe”. Being fully vaccinated and boosted helps. (I’m not old enough for the second booster yet, they’re still saying it’s for those 50+ or otherwise vulnerable, luckily I’m not.)

42

Kelloggs Apple Jacks Nickelodeon Slime.
New cereal.
:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

43

Enough of you people laughing at “Florida Man”.

Florida is a progressive state.

It now features Florida Woman.

44

She had an orange cat on her lap!:smile:

45

Apparently it’s a thing, but despite its name it seems to just be regular Apple Jacks but it changes the milk green, just like chocolate cereal turning it brown.

46

A friend who is in the know (and whom has never lied to me) has just related to me that HBOMax has new leadership. It’s from the Ignorant Hick Discovery Channel.

It has decided to stop ALL scripted content items. All. All the TCM tid-bits, all of the Oscar Winning movies… everything with a script that isn’t a current production( like ‘West World’).
Evidently, country-boy ‘Eb’ is now firing every one and cancelling every thing ( even a 90 Million Dollar DC movie that was fully complete and in the can ).

Instead, they want to bring over to HBOMax all of the Reality Schlock of The Discover channel: Dick Dynasty, the search for the grail, Gold Mine searches for the Feeble-Minded and Gullible, Angry Drunk Bar Abuse ( with Jon Tapper as the angry drunk), The Stupidest Catch, Vice Choad Truckers, Tow trucks on Parade, Phony Plane Repo, and maybe… Cheaters!?

These are all (phony) reality content is ‘in’. All scripted content is gone … who knows who will end up with the rights. The new DC movie? $90 million already spent, fully edited, in the can and ready to project? Cancelled. You’ll never see it. You might see Yokels Fishing, but not that. From what I hear, Pink Slips are flying around farther and wider than in “Desk Set” (1957).

HBOMax new mantra is… if you want to see it? Go see it in a theatre. COVID? What’s that? MonkeyPox? Doesn’t that come in a barrel? Stupidity? Isn’t that a deer that Ted Nugent mowed down with a howitzer and cooked in a reality program?

<yuck!> <yuck!> <yuck!> < gooch! >< gooch! >< gooch! >

“Say, Boss Hogg, that Country Programmin’ will sure Learn these Younguns’…!”

<yuck!> <yuck!> <yuck!> < gooch! >< gooch! >< gooch! >

"Say, now… when’s that next Reality Bible Show on? Ah’s just Loves when those preachers wriggle their hands and dance around…! < gooch! >< gooch! >< gooch! >

47

Cafe Society is down the hall, Bub.

48

I’m sorry… but I was really, really, Really pissed. And Cafe Society is very prim and proper.

… but you’re right …

49

No worries. I was just yanking your chain. It seems really stupid to me, too.

50

Oh, no. If that’s true, that’s shitty news.

… that being said, this was a superb rant. The quoted bits are both gems.

51

I hope that’s not paywalled.

52

They really should have canceled Deadliest Catch after Captain Phil died. Some scripted bits had started to show up during his last season, but it got really bad when they brought in that young guy and his endless problems with women. And speaking as someone who had been enjoying HBOMax…excellent rant.

I came in here to pit the absolute shitass of a cousin who decided that the funeral of another cousin would be a good place to publicly confront my mother for not attending the funerals of his parents many, many years ago. She wasn’t made aware of his mother’s death until months after the fact – she was no longer living in the area, it was pre-internet, and people who were still in the area weren’t great about staying in touch. His father died just a few months after my father; at that point, Mom wasn’t in a position to drop everything and traipse across the boonies of Halifax County by herself (I was in college, and couldn’t have attended either). Mom and I can’t figure out what exactly set Cousin Shitass off today, and neither can other relatives. Dude needs a fucking hobby if this is the kind of crap that occupies his thoughts.

53

Grief does fucked-up things to people, that’s all I can say.

54

They did something to his ceiling yesterday. Last night it started leaking. They arent answering the emergency line. Saw the maintenence man todayy, even though they only work mon-thurs. He went and did something. Now its leaking again.

55

I am a careless, dozy moron. I completed some carefully itemized grocery shopping today. With a super hot weekend coming up, one important item on my list was a big jug of a really tasty natural lemonade I had discovered. Which I got.

Or thought I did. When I got home, I noticed the label looked different. It’s not lemonade! It’s fucking lime-ade, and it tastes like shit. I might venture out again tomorrow but it’s going to be 90 and busy, but if I can get the lemonade I wanted, this crap goes down the sink. Who the hell drinks sweetened lime juice?

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Somewhat of an anti-rant I suppose… For the first time in days, I do not have a constant cough/tickle/sore throat. For the last few days I haven’t had more than 4 hours of sleep in a night as I wake myself with spasmodic coughing, desperately trying to stop and finally get some damn sleep. This is the 8th day since I tested positive for Covid and almost all of my symptoms are gone except that one, which was really getting worrisome.

Last night, yet again at 2 AM giving up on trying to sleep, I decided to just freaking look it up online. And found that it’s really common to have a nagging cough after Covid. The CDC even had a page about it, and some advice. In most cases, as long as you just have the cough, what’s happening is that your system is trying to flush the virus out (dead or not) and this can cause post-nasal drip which irritates you and keeps you coughing. I’d already been doing most of what they suggested (lozenges, nasal sprays) but not two things. One was to get water and sip it slowly, the other is to sleep with my head elevated.

Holy shit, after that I actually slept. I still got barely any sleep last night because I’d already been up for hours by the time I tried it, but I did not get interrupted. And I have hardly any cough today. There is still the occasional cough, but it’s not happening all day. For fuck’s sake, why didn’t I look this up days ago? :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

57

If I lived near you, I’d take that off your hands. I love lime anything.

58

Never mind, I am now content. I ventured out to the nearby local supermarket just down the street, and not only did they have my favourite lemonade, they also had it in extra-large gallon jugs. I have not, in fact, thrown away the lime-ade. Now that I’ve calmed down, I think it might go well with vodka and/or gin. I just don’t find it blissfully thirst-quenching like that lovely lemonade.

59

Why does shit always break on Fridays? Or at least seems to. This afternoon I noticed that a glass of milk didn’t seem as cold as normal. I didn’t think a lot about it until later when I took a drink from the water bottle I keep in the fridge. It was just cool. I put a thermometer in there and it showed 64 degrees. Fuck. I checked the temp in the freezer but it’s fine. But, of course, it was too late to call anyone. I’ve eaten stuff from the refrigerator all day but so far I feel ok. I put the lunchmeat in the freezer but I may throw it out anyway. I did eat a big salad for dinner since I figured the veggies should be still be fine at that point. And I threw a bunch of cherries outside for the neighborhood raccoons. But by now everything in there is lost.

I may try to get someone out tomorrow. I don’t know how doable that is. I’ve never tried to get something fixed on the weekend but I really hate to wait until Monday. Damn.

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You should be able to keep the temperature cold enough for now with blocks of ice or wrapped dry ice.