The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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On the other hand, had you born as a greenland shark, you would be in your teens
...the original Battlestar Galactica series used decimal time.
As to adverts, along with the ones for cars and "swill beer" (which often tend to be rather numerous during sporting event broadcasts) the prescription drug ones are by far the most annoying as they usually are the longest ones. Is it any wonder prescription and even some over the counter drugs are so expensive when you realise the production values employed in these adverts. .
Saturday Night lLve did a parody back in the 80s on this theme featuring a fictitious oil company
Well, better SAE than Whitworth....
Anyone rember Swatch Beat Time?
"The Swatch Internet time (or .beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998. Instead of hours and minutes, it divides the day up into 1000 parts called “.beats”. Each beat lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. Decimal fractions of a beat are used to add centibeats for more precision."
If I had to choose between a 24-hour marathon of Jake from State Farm and a single Geico commercial, I wouldn't hesitate to choose Jake.
How about the Geico caveman?... Caveman vs Jake?... I forgot what the caveman looked like, so now all I'm picturing is Captain Caveman vs Jake... Totally unfair fight though because Cavey's club was magic or something... it made him fly and was like a wooden inspector gadget/ Swiss army club... unless the idea was cavemen were actually far more technologically advanced than the late seventies disco based society...
And on his birthday he might be overheard saying "Oh joy, 200 more years of swimming in ice cold water eating raw fish".
Lego pieces are more fun to leave on the floor than playing cards. Or did I mean more dangerous?
my clock says 20:58! No I mean 20:59. Why does it keep changing? It seems it is a new time every minute!
also I don't live in New York, but they have the same time as Raliegh.
I do have a battery powered polesaw. And even a battery powered lawnmower and edge trimmer. It's all Greenworks because I just buy whatever Costco sells. This is also how I buy shoes. My Fitness tracker says I walked 10.09 miles/23,022 steps today and it's because of that darn lawnmower. It was also about 90 degrees out there. I remained in a long sleeved shirt and, at this point, yogurt pants because I am more concerned about bugs than some type of heat-related death or whatever. The huge man who lives next to me did a lot of the edge trimming, and I like that because I hate doing that. I don't hate mowing the lawn. It's just the lawn is huge and it takes me like two hours and maybe three batteries. By the time it was done, I had to reapply the yogurt. One time, the huge man mowed the whole back yard with his riding mower and he thought I might have a problem with that. As if I would have a problem with that... I didn't have a problem with that. What I really need is a huge man, or any man, or any woman, to do all of this for me every week.
Long ago, I did use a power tool with a cord. I guess its called a hedge trimmer. It looks like a chainsaw but less intimidating. I had been commissioned by my aunt and her husband to trim their alien looking tree because they didn't have a huge man and child labor is cheap and who cares if I'm standing on a ladder with a hedge trimmer because it's not like it's a chainsaw or something. But I didn't yank the cord out of the outlet. I managed to cut through the cord.
Right now I'm back inside our tiny house with our huge backyard and there's yogurt everywhere and I feel alright.
I used to have a clock that would tell me the time. But all the other others I've had were mute, and woud just show me the time.
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Apparently qlink wireless has hotspot options now? I didn't like qlink as it didn't have hotspot. I rather use my iPad to browse the internet than my iPhone!
Noooooo... Andy is gone from my Alerts and Messages...
Also the one in the jar escaped too...
Now Andy will slip into obscurity with other mostly forgotten DAZ references like "Inflatable Pony", "DAZ Soon" and "Toast".
Well, nothing bizarre lasts forever.
...I had one which had a direct a link with the Caesium clock at the Naval Observatory Never had an excuse to be late for work.
...well, unless maybe the bus broke down (which did actually happen on the way home one afternoon) or something like that..
Buses tend to be late or early but sometimes they are on time, amazing!
Recently, I went to cvs by bus then to Walmart by bus. I called the bus phone line to see if the bus was coming soon (as in less than half an hour) and they said in about ten minutes. Ten minutes later, the bus hasn't shown up. I called the bus phone line once more and waited to talk to a real person. As soon as I got a person, I looked towards the street and saw the bus I wanted.
..healthier than lighting up a cigarette.to get the bus to show up.
Or make an appointment for a ride pick-up at a specific time, but while waiting you realize you need an emergency #2 toilet break, and the ride shows up 12 minutes early at the moment things are working their way out.
I know it's almost offensive, but I just have to make this non-complaint to the world right now: That was a lovely, lovely afternoon fate let me have today. Went sailing in my (very, very modest) old boat right after work, with a teacher coming along, and he didn't despise my boat but liked it, and he didn't hate my sailing either. I'm so, soooo relieved, and I had such brilliant two hours on the water, with no tourists at all, and wind, and sun. So, what was it like Samwise said? 'There's something good in the world, master Frodo ...' Yep, there is. Especially before tourist season.
...not offensive at all.
I also had a nice afternoon even though it was 92° where I live. Shade, a breeze, and low humidity works wonders.
Non-complaints are a welcome balance.
Non-complaints: Weather here's been very agreeable. Dry, cool (65 - 82F) for many days. New grass seed is needing mowing. Periodic excitement as the pieces of yet another wind turbine makes its way through town. Big excitement on Memorial Day as the town again celebrated with it's annual parade. No noticeable Canadian smoke here, despite being so close to Canada. Laundry is done. Yay! Eyeball still healing.
A quick toddle to the local grocery store on Memorial Day, and another yesterday. All caught up on perishables again.
Complaint: My right eyeball is now about 3/5ths full of liquid and I'm beginning to regularly see the top half* of semi-focused scene that almost matches my left eye. However, the eye doesn't exactly track properly and I can't get the left & right images to merge properly (not even if I try), so I tend to get headaches if I go many hours without my eyepatch. I hope the muscles relax enough and my eye heals enough that I can eventually see stereoscopicly again.
*Note: The top half is seen clearly first because the liquid is at the bottom of the eyeball and the lensed image is upside down at the back of the eye. It's like I have anti-gravity water in my eyeball like something from Myst or Riven. Cool!
Edited to add: Finally steped outside to smell the roses, and caught a whiff of Canadian forest embers, so we can now all sing "Blame Canada".
Glad things are continuing to heal LG!
I'm low on iron. Supplements aren't doing the job. Thing is, I'm fine as far as I can tell. I'm going to have a c-scopy apparently even though there's no sign of bleeding.
But They can't rule it out according to Them. Sometimes I hate modern medicine.
Otherwise things are fine.
As they used to say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"
Dana
A neice of mine lives in upstate NY, Corinth, and they had a big thuderstorm with a bunch of hail yesterday!
Dana
...a bit hazy here on Northwest coast this morning as there are also wildfires popping up in Western Canada and regionally as well. Nothing as massive as in Eastern Canada (yet) but the fire season here is still "young".
I took a nap today.
On an island in Hawaii, a volcano is erupting from what I find out from the news.
Currently the air quality here is around 246 (very unhealthy for organisms with lungs)... Down from around 280 a couple of hours ago...
I feel like a smoked ham, everything smells like smoke to me, but it's probably because I was outside a lot today and my nostril hairs are smoked... it's a musty smoke too... not like regular brush or forest fires... its smells more like the burnt soil from a campfire... if that makes any sense.
I suppose 9.4 million acres (15x the 10 year average) of burnt trees makes for a lot of smoke...
I took some pix of the surreal yellow sky and the red dwarf star that's our new celestial companion, but image uploading is broken, so just imagine a dirty yellow-orange rectangle with a deep reddish-magenta circle in middle.
Funny thing about this all is the atmospheric conditions today were technically "Clear"... No clouds... the smoke on the other hand was a different thing I suppose.
This probably all could have been avoided if Canada hadn't reintroduced dragons into the wild again.
It's not the Canadian dragons. The Canadian dragon repopulation effort has specifically bred dragons without functioning lighters. They still belch methane but without throat stone igniters they're just really mean ugly cows.
Just don't be lighting a cigarette when being hissed at by a Canadian dragon.
Non-complaint: The groundhogs are back.
I'd thought that they'd abandoned their hole under the neighbor's old storage building visible through my kitchen window. But just now I spotted a small one darting around in the yard finding munchies. Maybe momma groundhog got a late start and is just now ready to show off her new brood.
My coffee is cold. It was hot earlier this morning!
Second Law of Thermodynamics - entropy always increases.
Just put it in the microwave and nuke it for 30 seconds or so. Wahla, like magic it will be hot again.