Hi, friends!
Complaints post! It’s been a while!
It’s getting up to 95 degrees today and fucking 98 degrees tomorrow when mid September should be high 70s/low 80s. I’ve got shade cloth over my lettuce and spinach but my complaint is that my fall veggies are probably fucked from this heat.
I can’t listen to any more political ads!!!!  Fuck you Tiffany Smiley!  Fuck you all PACs of both parties!  We need a 30 day campaign law limits like civilized countries do!  I need a time machine to go back & kill some judges or at least go forward to the end of these fucking commercials.
I don’t have any issue living right across the river from Illinois EXCEPT that I get fucking political ads on TV for all the Missouri and the Illinois candidates and UGHGHGHHGHGHGHHGHGHGHHGHG.
I bet a few days of heat won’t kill them.
I just got a Chinese robocall. I think that’s one more sign the days of targeted lists are long gone, these people are probably rolling to the Mexican border soon and will be calling people in the Southernmost parts of Argentina and Chile in an hour or so.
You’ve just now gotten one? I’ve been getting them for years.
I lose track among all of the different languages. Maybe that’s part of the plan.
The next couple of of days are in the 90s but then dropping to the 70s. I hope that’s it for the high temps until next summer.
Yeah our completely unseasonable high tomorrow is 98 degrees but then Wednesday is 93 and then it drops to a more normal high of like 67 on Thursday. Can’t wait for that crisp fall day!!!!
I actually find Ikea’s instructions intuitive and enjoy building their furniture. I fucking hate their delivery service. I paid 50$ to have IKEA round up my order and ship it to me. Two of the eight items are not what I ordered and one is damaged. I contacted customer service and was informed that it’s on me to either return the stuff in person or pay for return shipping. So I duct taped the torn foam mattress and am just keeping the oversized storage box and alternative colored sheets.
If you want a pretty funny twisted take on IKEA, this book is pretty good:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrorst%C3%B6r
My library has a free ebook version on their website so yours may have that option if you don’t feel like giving Bezos another buck. Used book sites have a lot of copies too.
Oooh fun!
I second this recommendation, 100%. It is a horror story, but so darn funny. And as satire it nails it, from the cafe to the rooms to the item names.
The gym I go to has four giant TVs on a wall in front of all the cardio machines. I start my workout with a fast 10 minute walk before I go to the weights. Guess which fucking stupid right wing propaganda network is always on one of those fucking TVs, right in the middle?
I never understood how the news became the default channel for so many public TVs in gyms, doctors offices, airports, etc. Unless a blizzard is predicted for tomorrow or it’s a Queen’s funeral, who wouldn’t rather watch Gilligan’s Island or Wheel of Fortune?
Or even better, no TV at all?
Just put the fucking Weather Channel on if nothing else!
other end of the spectrum here
just stepped out in my boxers for my morning smoke and coffee and found a somewhat nippy 35f
im reasonably sure i can now cut glass with my nipples…..i am awake tho
after it being hot or at least warm here for what feels like forever that was a bit of a shock to my system
This is a VERY minor whine: I finally got a new laptop, as my patience wore out on my piece-of-shit-from-Day-1 Toshiba. Was able to score a deal on a Lenovo through a work program, and thus far it has been a very competent computer.
The complaint is having to port over ALL THE STUFF from the old one. Not just images and documents and music, but apps, browsers, security, Office, fucking everything under the sun. Ad blocker? OH HELL YES. And yes, I use the cloud, but obviously not for everything. Would be nice if my Western Digital external hard drive would stop cutting out during file transfers, you know?
I recognize that it is minor, and that soon I will be relatively happy that I did this, but right now it is sucking up my free time in the evenings to get this new machine right.
Shudders…my nightmare.
I MEAN IT’S CUTTING INTO MY DEADSPLINTER TIME, DAMMIT!