The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Meanwhile on Mars.,,
Nice one, TJohn!
Dana
Just drink it cold. It will be 98.6F in a few minutes. Ta-da.
..indeed nice.
Weather in Raleigh! But I'm not telling you which Raleigh!
Non-complaint: Be careful what you wish for. One might get an embarassment of riches. After three years of Covid and its subsequent live musical desert around here, I wished for a live-music filled summer and now it's too much, even at just Chautauqua..
I can afford only one, (possibly two) evenings. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
6/29 Opening night -- Beethoven: Lenore Overture #3; Elgar: Enigma Variations
; Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance March
7/6 Stravinsky: The Firebird
7/11 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
7/18 Bruchner: 4th Symphony
7/20 Mozart: Symphony #31; Haydn: Symphony #82
7/27 Tchaikovsky: 1st Piano Concerto
; <pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk
>
7/31 Gavrylyuk piano recital:
Chopin: Fantasy in Fm 
; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exibition(piano solo)
8/3 Copeland: Appalacian Spring
8/6 Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf
; Rossini: William Tell Overture.
8/10 Smetana: The Moldau
; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
; and Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappriccio Espanol 
8/15 Final night: -- Wagner: Overture toTanhauser
; Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony 
And those are only the sympnonies in the Amphitheater.
Chautauqua Institution has an opera house, multiple theaters and various pavilions to accomodate operas, plays, pop singers, and lecturers, Chautauqua also has restaurants, elegant housing, swimming & boating in a 19th century, small town, lake vacation atmosphere. Check it out. https://www.chq.org/
Do they still call it The Moldau rather than Vltava?
I raleigh wish you would.
Maybe you could just get a seasons ticjket ?
The 10 week season ticket for Chautauqua Institution is $2,973.00
And that just gives you access to the grounds and the Amphitheater events. Other theaters and performances can have additional charges. And of course in my case, transportation is a problem.
UBER $35 + tip each way if you can get an UBER at 11:00PM at Chautauqua 20 miles outside the city.
And lodging, on grounds, is 1 to 2 thousand dollars per week. Often requiring reservations a year in advance. Kind'a like Disney World. 
I can handle the $50 Amphitheater evening event ticket price(includes grounds access), and the round-trip UBER charges once (possibly twice) during the summer, and even include a decent restaurant meal, or a hamburger fries and an ice cream sundae, along with the free quiet walk among the Victorian/Edwardian architecture and quaint town narrow brick streets. But a long term stay at Chautauqua is for the wealthy.
Complaint: I feel like I probably complained about this before, but this is super annoying and bears repeated complaints...
Multilingual instructions that aren't properly separated...
Example...
1). Remove cover with carefully tall screws and take cautious to turn with screwdriver each to tighten.
Gira paraguas con gran felicidad muchas veces con fuerza auspiciosa.
Le grand flamant rose peut tourner avec beaucoup de force dans les tournevis de baignoire.
Un cerchio per un roditore con un cappello sarà sempre stretto e pieno.
Zufällige Wörter wie Schraubenzieher Huhn Socken Schnorchel Geschirrspüler.
I'm grateful to have English in the instructions, just maybe separate the damn languages into different sections so my brain doesn't explode as I transition into another language which I can only partially read, but don't realize I've transitioned into and suddenly my brain thinks it forgot how to read altogether, so it fakes not being illiterate so it isn't embarrassed in front of the rest of the organs and so it just kind of wings it and screws up the whole thing.
It's seriously mentally painful to read something like that.
LOL I hit each line with Google translate and am pissing myself with laughter
I'm doing the same even without Google
that French! - Flamingos and bathtubs, (and I didn't use google translate for that.. used to be fluently bilingual.. being raised in Quebec will do that..)
all it really needs to be complete is "un troupeau de hérissons sur un radeau dans la piscine"
Even without being able to read Spanish, French or Italian, the fact that the three sentences look entirely unrelated to each other is a huge red flag.
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
The flamingos come out of the dishwasher surprisingly clean.
..+1. The italian one almost sounds like words of wisdom, sort of.
(Just come in to vent, no offense meant) It's been generations for Daz males and the selection for dress uniforms is still so limited. Thank goodness Protozoon and that fabulous Whtie Tie exist (and the fact it's a pc+ item) or I will lose faith in Daz completely.
Complaint: Dearth of male uniforms & accutrements +1
Non-complaint: This morning I noticed two (2) baby groundhogs in the yard next door
. No momma seen yet.
'Nother non-complaint: My right eyeball is finally producing a nicely in-focus image for that portion of the eye filled with fluid, i.e. top 2/3 of image, this morning. The focused part of the image is actually brighter and clearer than the "normal" image from the other eye. And the entire field of vision is functional.
There may be a silver lining to this cloud after all.
Perhaps I'll go abuse my left eyeball and then get my surgeon to "fix" that one too. 
No, I don't think so, there are many risks.
And having to live with a half empty eyeball for 3 months isn't fun. And I haven't seen all the bills for the surgery yet.
A Realization: You know you spend too much time on YouTube when you walk outside to take the garbage out and notice a strange vehicle/machine pass by on the road and it had a big sign painted on it that would have given a hint as to what the machine/vehicle was used for, but you didn't read it fast enough, and you mentally reach for the FireStick to press the rewind 10 seconds button.
An Observation: My wonky eyeball, now being about 3/5 or 2/3 full of liquid, is now high enough that the surface of the liquid is above the pupil and lets incoming light enter the liquid but it internally reflects off the top surface of the liquid. And the top surface is always jiggling. Either by head movements or even pulsing blood vessels. So, the internal reflections get smeared into vertical streaks, like lights of a distant city over a rippley lake.
Fortunately, only the bright lights are noticeable and I can ignore most of this effect. However, I notice today as the liquid rises, that this phenomenon is somewhat worse than it was yesterday, but I suspect that as the liquid rises higher, the reflections will eventually go away.
I'm sure this phenomenon was happening earlier, but when the liquid was below the pupil and the light traveled through air instead of liquid, the image was so far out of focus that the surface reflections were lost in the unfocused image.
The Wonky Wonky Eyeball by L. Gryphon
Apple iBall, comes with VR and AR features
"One man's Inside View of Modern Eye Surgery" or "An Internal View of The Symptoms, Physics and Repair of Semi-Hydrated Biological Optical Devices" on sale at your local Defunct Boundary book store.
Apparently password based on My Dream Cake is different than a password based on My Cake. I was trying to login and wondering why it wasn't working. Found out I forgot that it included the word dream. Not telling you where it is for or my username.
I think I need to go through my password lists to cull the old and inaccurate passwords. I don't need passwords from defunct sites.
...seems to be a common topic here.
Watch out, they tend to grow up to become amateur meteorologists all with the last name of "Phil". This year's one ended up miscalculating the forecast which was not six, but eleven more weeks of winter here in the northwest.
Seems things are improving well pose surgery, but agreed, not good to mess with the left eye.
Yeah, there's times I wish I had a rewind or reboot button. I wonder if that vehicle had something to do with those wind turbines they're putting up in the area.
Phil isn't their surname; they are Phil, from Punxsutawney.
The first time I was in Spokane, I was surprised by what a city it was. It probably shouldn't have been so shocking, but growing up in the Puget Sound, I'm used to thinking of Eastern Washington as being mostly just cows and racism.
It is an inexplicably good feeling to know one of those internet people you may never meet, but oddly care about, has an improving eyeball.
...the one time I was in Spokane was because a fifend of min had a brother who was stationed at Fairchild AFB. We went were there for Armed Forces Day, flying there in his father's 1964 Cessna 210. The reason I was bale to attend was I was a guest of the family.
As part of the airshow there was one of the early "public" appearances of the SR-71 Blackbird. Unlike at civilian airshows in later years there was no 15 ft cordon with armed guards around the aircraft, I was able to walk right up to it. touch the skin, peer into the engine nozzles and look into the cockpit. At the end of the show its crew did an impressive flight demo before heading back down to Beale AFB l where it was based.
My friend's brother was reassigned to there a couple months later to be a mechanic on the cold war spy plane.
Yeah, serious envy.