Well, the friend is out of the pokey, a whole bunch of other friends have raised money to hire help for his yard work, and the local lady’s freezer is stocked well enough to hold them over till payday - I really needed to clean out my freezer too! 40 pounds of meat plus veggies and other stuff, and my freezer is still full! So? It’s a good day.
The horses are another story…
What’s cheval, in this context? I know it’s French for “horse,” but can’t find the meaning you intend.
She’s suggesting that the unwanted horses could be slaughtered for meat, thus solving both the problem of the overpopulated horses AND the woman with the empty freezer.
Ah - fair enough. But she’s right - the horses aren’t healthy enough to slaughter for consumption, probably. According to studies conducted by two universities plus the park service and the wildlife service, these poor animals are, in general, in poor body condition, due to parasitic infections, varying levels of malnutrition, mosquito-borne illnesses, etc. (And, if the general public is this “het up” over the notion of simply relocating the herd? They certainly would overreact to slaughtering the horses for food! Of course, no one seems to have a problem with the annual public hunts for feral hogs on the island…)
You, however, have put mine right back. 
Fucking viruses! DS was home from daycare for a whole week due to some viral crap. Fortunately I can somewhat work from home but trying to work while watching a 16 month old is a joke. This morning things were going to be back to normal until I checked on DD and discovered that now she has a fever. Fuckity fuck fuck. At least I can just leave her lying I the couch and get done work done.
Also, fuck living hundreds of miles from any family that might help.
Ditto. On yer, Lacunae Matata!
Baracus, that sucks mucusly. Stick 'em outside and pretend they’re those horses. Then somehow, in a lovely way, you’ll end up with a freezer full of food.
Five lanes of freeway on the way in to work this morning. Suddenly we stop dead for no apparent reason. Four vehicles ahead of me I see a door open and this moron step out of the car and into traffic. :smack::smack::smack:
This is the 4th lane. The only lane to the left is the HOV lane.
Turns out it was a minor fender bender. But instead of both parties (who were both Somali) pulling off the side of the road, MORONS step out of their vehicles in the middle of 60mph traffic and start walking around looking at the damage. The driver of the lead car walked halfway into the HOV lane, not looking where he was going, but back at the car. Almost got taken out doing it. If that had happened, I would have sworn in court that it was entirely his fault.
Please do not commit suicide in front of me.
What is up with this trend I noticed recently:
The picture accompanying an article online will have a small clear photo in between two frames of the same photo, but blurry. It’s even worse when it’s a video - the video plays in the middle of two blurry videos?
It’s annoying as hell.
It will continue until the morons who take vertical video knock it off. Producers do that to avoid having to black box 2/3 of a picture. The only solution I can think of would come down to the phone OS makers disabling vertical ability, in order to force people to make that extraordinary effort it apparently takes, to turn their phone that exhausting 90 degrees.
Just watched (and have not yet finished) Divorce Corp
It made my soul ache. I was overcome with bitterness at the rampant corruption of the system, the horrible people who make their living at it, and the god-awful behavior of people against those they claim to have loved.
The next person who tries to tell me what a wonderful institution marriage is is gonna get punched. What the fuck is wrong with these…humans?
I was divorced 7 years ago. We were as amicable as we could possibly be, because we still loved each other and didn’t want the other to hurt.
But then, neither of us had any real money or property.
You’ll also see this if the video is an old (Pre-HDTV) video clip in 4:3 format so they don’t have to stretch the image to make it fill the screen.
This may be a little long. If so, I’ll try to do a TL;DR version at the end.
I belong to Nextdoor.com for my neighborhood. Recently I posted a request for ideas having to do with the fact that the owners of the house next door want to double the square footage (by bringing some current remodeling work up to code and by extending the house by 16’ in the back). They’re having a pre-application meeting this Saturday. I expressed concern in my Nextdoor post because currently the house is illegally renting as a kind of group home, with individuals (college students, other young adults) renting individual rooms and sharing kitchens and baths. This violates zoning, besides adding a lot of cars and noise to the street, which is zoned for single-family residences. Also note that this is San Francisco and the houses are zero-lot-line construction (25’ lots, and the houses are 25’ wide, so they touch on both sides).
The reason for this rant is the sanctimonious prick who apparently didn’t read my OP but who wanted to make sure that I wasn’t objecting to the neighbors due to possible ethnic concerns, like his grandma does. His grandma? Just because I’m retired (and my photo is on my profile for all to see) doesn’t mean that I am in any way like his grandma.
The tone on Nextdoor is intended to be neighborly, so I wasn’t able to let him have it pit style. I only said “I am not your grandma” and “I hope my reasons pass your inspection.” But if I ever wanted to flame anyone on that site, this was the time.
TL;DR - I may be old but I’m not a bigot like your grandma, you sanctimonious prick!
What’s a pre-application meeting, and if that’s with the City, how will they not get in trouble when the inspector sees it’s not a single-family home? Just curious.
I’m on NextDoor and EveryBlock. The former is sparsely populated and little happens, sometimes no one posts for days besides the moderator. The latter is overrun by trolls and many socks of theirs. Any post I read is 30-50% suppressed comments because I have so many trolls blocked. It’s definitely a more active site, though, and can get interesting at times.
So, sneak out to the island some night, paint the horses pink, and glue some little tusks on 'em…
Also, what purplehorseshoe said.
Ugh, today a Facebook friend posted a thing saying that nothing is stopping you from just getting on a plane and traveling if you’d like to. Umm, money (or lack thereof) and job searching are pretty big things that are stopping me from doing things like that. (I actually called him out on it, and I’m hoping he won’t hate me for it.)
Some of my friends are young and naive, and come from wealthier families than mine, and have the time and money to do all the traveling they want.
I swear, people who have never had to worry about money can be kind of delusional sometimes.
Apparently a pre-application meeting happens before the permit application, to allow neighbors to express their concerns or something. I’ve never been to one before, and I don’t know if a city rep will be there, or how much influence us neighbors’ opinions count for. Time will tell.
Nextdoor is pretty active in my area. I never heard of EveryBlock, I’ll check it out.
The annoying rash on my back turned out to be shingles. Just fucking wonderful. Now I get to swallow gigantic blue horse pills (antivirals) in the hope that I made it to urgent care within the window for them to work. So far I’m just experiencing itching and mild pain, not the excruciating pain I’ve heard about. But still, screw you, chicken pox virus!
I take maintenance meds. Blood pressure, blood sugar, antidepressant. Last month the doctor’s office wouldn’t refill., and said I needed to come in for a physical. So I did. And they refilled my medicines- with NO REFILLS. So this month - hey look, I need to refill, but no refills? Ok, my pharmacy will request it. And wait. And request it again. And nothing. So I sent a message through the prescription refill online thing, and nothing. And I am now out of all of these maintenance medications that i am supposed to take every day, because I started the process “only” about 10 days ago or so (“please give us 24 hours to handle refill requests” or 240 hours. Depends on what we feel like doing)
So i called and spoke to this nasty receptionist, who told me that I needed to come in for a physical. ! No, I was there for that reason last month. No, she tells me, that was an “office visit.” Your physical was 13 months ago. No, that was a PHYSICAL. That was what i made the appointment as, and mentioned several times to the same stupid receptionist and doctor, and for that matter to the nurse who took my blood pressure. I said to everyone I saw that I was here for my PHYSICAL. OK, every last one said. Except someone decided that no, it was an office visit, and I am now supposed to come in for a physical. AGAIN. When I try to explain all of this to the dumb bitch, she tells me that i need to message the doctor if I disagree. through the online thing. She has been a pain in the ass before, arguing with me about stupid shit (including a misbilled procedure a few months ago and what day I had a particular test done - the doctor and I both stood there and said no, that was a different visit. So i can guess WHO put last month;s visit into the system wrong, and billed my insurance wrong as well.
Just fill my fucking blood pressure medicine before I burst something. Ill find a new doctor (hopefully) before I need it filled again.
Sorry if that didn’t make sense. I am pretty steamed right now.
Just wait until you get charged full ride for this appointment because it’s “too soon” for another physical, raventhief. Get your blood pressure meds refilled first!
I will add my own grumble that because my doctor coded one of my tests with my general list of diagnoses, instead of as preventative, I got charged a co-pay for my own physical this year. I called the billing office to complain about it, and they told me that was how the doctor coded it, sorry. I decided $25 wasn’t worth spending any more time on, so I just paid it, but it’s annoying.