Burn down the house and move? 
I’ve had those – much to your disparagement of Chrysler products, I think it was on old former Dodge Caravan. Not plastic screws, but plastic inserts to hold the screws. I was surprised that neither the newer Sebring nor the Camry had them. There are potential disadvantages to them, like much easier to strip the threads on the soft materials.
ETA: I still don’t know whether the LCD display on the Camry is multi-function – I’m very slow-moving at this sort of thing – I haven’t even tuned the radio to CBC Radio One yet. It was a revelation to me that the moon roof actually opens! But I do note that whenever I turn on the car, it displays “Welcome to the Camry” so whether or not it has multiple functions, at least it’s friendly!
Is THAT what the kids are calling it these days?!
When they catch their breath. :leer:
A friend of mine recommended a series of zombie books. He’s been talking this series up forever.
God damn those books sucked. I tried. Honestly should have quit at the first chapter of the first book but hoped the second would improve. No it didn’t.
I gave up when the special ops team did a HALO jump over Lake Michigan to ride the prevailing easterlies into the city. Umm, the wind in the central part of the US is prevailing westerlies. And why do you need a stealth entry into zombieland? Do you think they have anti-aircraft?? There was just no point to anything that happened.
Lost a bit of respect for my friend.
The UCDS* is getting overzealous. We’re already at our lease limit for cats (2), and a very cute kitten (about 4-6 months old, I think) has taken to stopping by for food and couch hangouts. He may be trying to claim us, but we do not have a vacancy at this time. 
Feisty little orange boy, and it’s funny watching him spitting and hissing at Buddy, who’s at least 3x his size. Buddy’s calm enough about it to have not smacked the little guy. Allie keeps giving Buddy looks like “now you know how I felt when YOU moved in”.
- UCDS = Universal Cat Distribution System, for those who don’t know
Last zombie books I read on a personal recommendation where mostly fine. Really just standard action adventure in a post-apocalyptic zombie setting. Until the end, when the zombies are defeated because Jesus comes back or some Christian bullshit. Maybe one of the characters turns out to be Jesus, I’m trying to forget it.
I really appreciate it when authors make an effort to get the details right, because so often getting it right doesn’t make any difference to the story, but getting it wrong just makes it all worse.
Of course some authors can go overboard, such as writing a over a million words about the London sewer system, or a great American classic that is mostly outdated information on cetalogy.
I’ve never read a vampire or zombie book (or seen a movie… other than the OG Night of the Living Dead) that I thought was worth the time.
My problem is that they just seem too simple, too easy, too amateur… I mean, when I think “Wait a minute, I could’ve written that!” I stop, and find a different genre.
eta: My last line made me think of how I’ve given up on Sword & Sorcery as well. After Tolkein, everything else wasn’t good enough.
Maybe all these criticisms are because I read an excellent classic first, and everything else falls short… I shall think on these things.
World War Z is at least interesting. It’s not a novel, but rather a collection of pieces of “found footage” type written media where you can piece together what happened as a worldwide zombie outbreak occurred. Each chapter is a different story of sorts that chronicles events around the globe. I enjoyed it because it requires some work on the part of the reader.
Why is every plastic rectangular take-out food container I’m given a slightly different size, so that whenever I need to grab an empty one there are 6 different lids that don’t quite fit and only 1 buried lid that does?
I really liked it, and it bears mentioning that the US military was so impressed by the realism of this book that the author (Max Brooks, son of Mel) became a frequent guest speaker at West Point and was treated like an expert on disaster response. (ETA: from wiki: “He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.”)
He also wrote a book about Minecraft.
It is far less vexing to dispose of all takeout containers and old cool whip tubs then buy just a few durable containers that all have matching lids.
Of course. It’s well-established that Jesus is the king of the zombies.
I’m really so fucking tired of products forcing themselves on me. This morning Microsoft shoved a giant news feed in my face when I booted my PC. I don’t want to see JD Vance’s stupid fucking face first thing in the morning. I don’t want every company to force me to use its shitty AI products, I don’t want their helpful improvements that exist solely to harvest my data, and while we’re at it, I Pit the enshittification of Substack, which used to be cool until it turned into an algorithmic hellscape. I Pit the erosion of consumer choice. Remember when it felt like you had control over what you bought? Now they think about how they can exploit you to the fullest while keeping you just on the edge of not quite pissed enough to quit their product.
And I’m tired of planned obsolescence. I don’t want to replace my toaster oven every three goddamn years.
I’m tired of corporate greed ravaging our oceans and energy and air. And propping up fascists because it’s good for business. I’m tired of feeling like shit every time I use a product because every major corporation is now comically evil.
Fuck I’m tired of it.
Then Rubbermaid should make replacement lids. 
My face itches! Wearing makeup for work Halloween costume contest, & keeping it on for another one this evening, which means I don’t want to mess it up & scratch my face at all, which, of course, makes it itch 50x more!
What is your costume? Do we get to see it?
A psycho killer clown.
Work rules were it had to be homemade, so a cow-orker did my makeup instead of using a
(Two-clicked for our clown haters) mask
Yeah, I do that, but these are nice rectangular shapes and I do a lot of bulk cooking & freezing, and they fit well in the freezer. Would be nice if they were standardized better.
It’s raining today and I really, really want to get the Camry into the garage, but alas, I cannot. There is a rusting Sebring in the way, naked and stripped of its license plates. I need to switch the cars around but there is junk in the Sebring that has to either be moved or thrown out. So much hassle, especially when it’s wet outside. The forecast for today: rain. For tonight: more rain.
Things may get better tomorrow. I don’t want to call the car donation people until everything is ready for them.
Is that why the makeup itches because you got someone who works regularly with cows? 
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