The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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They're returning to that now. Malls are going away (or are long gone) and now they're making strip malls. All in one building, but separate enrances, as if they were in different buildings. I don't understand it. Especially up here in New England. Why would people want to go out into the weather between stores when shopping? Pouring rain, freezing snow. It doesn't make sense to me. And the stores are all so much smaller, too. You could get clothing in one store, shoes in another, linens in another, calendars and odd gifts in another, and actually browse books and magazines in another. All in comfort. No getting wet, and bringing that into the next store. Modern times are a step backwards. It's like screens. For years, I worked on getting larger TVs to watch my shows and movies. Now, people are watching movies on their phones! Small details, that often add to the story, are impossible to see on a phone screen, no matter how high res it is. And people flock to the little speakers, being told they're stereo. Stereo, coming from a box (or capsule shaped thingy) that's no longer than 12 or 14 inches! To get stereo effect from that, you have to hold it up to your face! Forget hi-fi!
/rant
Dana
Not only was the weather a factor, parking was a bitch too. Trying to find an unoccupied parking meter along the street was easy for the first 100 people in the 6 block downtown area, but if you came late, you either circled the block for a half hour, or drove into the residential areas to park, or you pulled out a dollar to park in the one parking garage in town. A whole dollar, outrageous! Ah, memories.
No, but really, when the downtown of the city got all Xmas'd up, there would be colored lights wrapped around the streetlights, along the trafficlight wires, large garlands of lights strung between poles along the sidewalks, big lighted wreathes, fake 6 foot tall candles placed on the corners of the sidewalk. Xmas commercialism run amok.
Ah, the '50s.
You mean like this? My home town, a long time ago.
Wholesome seasonal films at cinema, I see.
I am getting new state ID soon for free.
There haven't been any new states in decades. Not since Hawaii.
Fingers crossed for DC and (if they want it) Puerto Rico.
Yep, that's the picture. The '50s & '60s were big on outdoor lights. In the summer my mother had rows of white petunias in the front yard and had me run several outdoor Christmas light strings under them to make them glow at night. Incandescent bulbs, each bulb was 7 or more watts, in strings of 20 or more.
Dana
There are several new states:
But none of these have a state flag, state bird, or state insect.
Complaint: Email spam getting a bit too personal.
Example subject line: "Belly Flush".
Me: But I just had a shower this morning, and l swear I flushed off my belly. Ever since I stopped crawling on my belly at about 2 years of age, it hardly ever gets dirty now, and besides that, how would you people know if I did a poor job anyhow?
Belly Flush. Some retailers need to stay in their lane. What's next? "Hey, Mr. Pixel, I noticed you have a little problem with mustard stains." Sigh, ya got me. I like an occasional Italian sausage in a bun with onions, peppers, glow-in-the-dark relish, and .. yes, mustard too.
I love how I hear someone I know has an ailment I've never heard of before, I look it up and suddenly I get a dozen emails about cures for it.
Get out of my head, internet!
Makes you wonder if you've been missing out on that Belly Flush thing, don't it?
I open an Incognito window when I want to search something like that. This is in Chrome, I don't know if FF has that feature, but probably.
Dana
I just have at it, Dana. And have some fun with it. Searches like "Spotted Liver Disease", "Striped big toe mange", "athletes foot behind my ears", or "what does it mean when my elbows grow hair" can make for some fun times, espeically if you're doing it on SOMEBODY ELSE'S computer...
just don't search fournier's gangrene
and if you do definitely don't look at images
I am going to take Wendy's advice and proceed on the basis that it is probably best to just assume she's right. Thanks Wendy!
Well being told don't I just had to ....... WOW !! Don't want it ....
Re: Fournier's gangrene: Didn't look at pictures, but did read about it. Ouch!
Non-complaint: Wheee... a mini-adventure.
But only half a mini-adventure because the dentist called me up last night and moved my appointment to next Tuesday. Not a problem in itself, but I had made arrangements to have the local ancient-person's bus pick me up this morning, and no-shows are penalized.
So, rather than try cancelling with short notice, I just decided to go on uptown anyway(cheap bus ride). Got to the drugstore, got to the proper grocery store and picked up items not available in my local grocery. Had breakfast at Burger King, and had a nice conversation with Uber driver on the way home. Next Tuesday will have to merge dentist and laundry into the same trip. I hope my dentist doesn't mind my dirty laundry cart sitting in his cloak room for an hour or so.
I was sluggish all afternoon but now I have some energy. It is getting close to bed time.
...here in Oregon its 45$ and an extra 30$ for the "Real ID " stamp No discount for seniors or disabled residents on SS either. Really ridiculous particularly as costs for everything else keep going up
Mine expired during the pandemic and offices back then were only handling driver licence applications and renewals for about a year, so I never got a new one.
So a couple of days ago, I used DAZ Studio for the first time in a while. And I noticed it started rendering significantly faster than before. I was using the ray tracer with a Genesis 8 character and an HDRI background. It seemed like it started rendering immediately, while in the past it would spend some time preparing data before the first image appeared. Maybe something actually got better. I shall assume it was IRAY that got better, and not DAZ Studio itself.
Non-complaint: Yay, I finally signed my new Will.
The 40 year old, previous Will had so many dead people, and other complications listed that it was just better to throw all that away and get a completely new Will listing only living people. Makes a little more sense.
Another thing checked off my bucket list. Although, I still want to get to a symphony at Carnegie Hall or the Lincoln Center in NYC, but that's an adventure for another day. Wheee...
Non-complaint; No more sub-zero (C) temperatures predicted and with the daylight getting up to 14 hours during the easter weekend, it's starting to look like the summer is coming this year too
I don't have a Will. Other than my daddy is a Will.
Non-complaint; Long easter weekend has arrived, four days of staying at home
(*Sigh*) I remember when that used to be exciting.
indeed.. here the river unfroze in the last day or so...
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