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Last night I went to try and clean out my sister's driveway. There was more snow on the way, but my sister is a funeral director and they do removals on coroner calls. She was on call last night, so we had to make it at least navigable. When she drove me home, we saw a truck coming up to the intersection, so we stopped on the yield. Behind the truck was a tow line and some idiot being pulled on a snowboard.
My sister's comment (with disgust): "I hope I don't get that coroner's call."
Once more a stupid human has proven to me that the Cthulhu cults have the right of it.
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The only use for Spotify I have, is listening to Gorbacz's and his friend's podcast about constitutional law in Poland and EU.
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Fantasy Monster: Kingkiller Mice.
Lol, I used to tell Hermione the story of Popiel and the mice as a bedtime story when she was little.
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Last night I went to try and clean out my sister's driveway. There was more snow on the way, but my sister is a funeral director and they do removals on coroner calls. She was on call last night, so we had to make it at least navigable. When she drove me home, we saw a truck coming up to the intersection, so we stopped on the yield. Behind the truck was a tow line and some idiot being pulled on a snowboard.
My sister's comment (with disgust): "I hope I don't get that coroner's call."
Once more a stupid human has proven to me that the Cthulhu cults have the right of it.
Every time I start to think that Canada is a magical land, like the U.S. but cleaner, saner, and more polite, I remember that Bob and Doug Mackenzie wouldn't be so popular if they were anomalous.
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Every time I start to think that Canada is a magical land, like the U.S. but cleaner, saner, and more polite, I remember that Bob and Doug Mackenzie wouldn't be so popular if they were anomalous.Last night I went to try and clean out my sister's driveway. There was more snow on the way, but my sister is a funeral director and they do removals on coroner calls. She was on call last night, so we had to make it at least navigable. When she drove me home, we saw a truck coming up to the intersection, so we stopped on the yield. Behind the truck was a tow line and some idiot being pulled on a snowboard.
My sister's comment (with disgust): "I hope I don't get that coroner's call."
Once more a stupid human has proven to me that the Cthulhu cults have the right of it.
No doubt about it, eh?
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Blame Canada!
Oh, wait... Wrong song.
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Every time I start to think that Canada is a magical land, like the U.S. but cleaner, saner, and more polite, I remember that Bob and Doug Mackenzie wouldn't be so popular if they were anomalous.Last night I went to try and clean out my sister's driveway. There was more snow on the way, but my sister is a funeral director and they do removals on coroner calls. She was on call last night, so we had to make it at least navigable. When she drove me home, we saw a truck coming up to the intersection, so we stopped on the yield. Behind the truck was a tow line and some idiot being pulled on a snowboard.
My sister's comment (with disgust): "I hope I don't get that coroner's call."
Once more a stupid human has proven to me that the Cthulhu cults have the right of it.
When I was a little kid, the babysitter's family would pull me on a toboggan behind the lawnmower. I was about 7 when I graduated to being pulled by a pickup truck.
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The only use for Spotify I have, is listening to Gorbacz's and his friend's podcast about constitutional law in Poland and EU.Aw man, what a waste of time!
I could go on and on about all the ways in which Texas and Poland are similarly fracked, but I can't, because politics and flaming bikes.
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Well, we have an appointment that was set a few weeks ago for this coming wednesday to get new winter tires as we desperately need them and it was the first day we knew for a fact that the family paychecks would line up to let us just pay for them.
Lo' and behold, Tuesday evening a two to three-day snowstorm is predicted to begin that will last through two hole days and dump anywhere between 6 and 24 inches of snowfall on us depending on how fickle mother nature wants to be. Good thing we only live a half mile from the tire center we are going to but honestly if most of the precipitation in the first 12 hours is freezing rain like they believe it will be I'm not sure we will be able to get the car out of the apartment complex unless the plows are out in force all evening.
The US Postal Service has WW working from 7-5, six days a week. They're calling it "voluntary scheduled overtime".
He's gonna be exhausted and he's going to miss a lot of weekend time with the kids, but at least we can go back to paying his mom rent and not worrying about whether the grocery money will stretch to the end of the month.
Also, hopefully within a couple of months, we'll be caught up and ready for me to look at finally trading in my old Honda on something with less than 191,000 miles on it. A couple of weeks ago it started doing a weird shimmying thing on the freeway, and it's handling strangely. WW says the power steering may be going. It's got practically bald tires, the rain gets in through the rotten door seals and it smells bad, the speakers are blown, it's got no windshield washer fluid reservoir any more, there are permanent crayon stains melted into the upholstery, and it leaks oil, but it still gets 32-33 miles to the gallon.
I'm gonna miss that car.
i second what gran said concerning worn tires. having survived a *very* tumultuous single-vehicle accident involving tires gone bad, i can verify that shimmies and roadway catastrophes are not outside the realm of possibility when tires need replacing.
i urge you to check up on that, LM. :)
Sorry I have been so quiet. I have been doing a loooooooooot of WFH training to prepare for the new job. I am heading into the office regularly for the first time on Wednesday, we are going to be WFH on Mondays and Tuesdays and in the office on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Am excited.
I want to go to pomme frite to celebrate, but I have made many many dietary changes in light of the diabeeeeeeeeeeeeetus. While I have had the occasional less than healthy snack, I am primarily vegetarian now, and have good sized breakfasts with mostly salad lunches and a pretty healthy dinner. I plan to go to my doctor soon to follow up on the initial diagnosis.
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On the matter of tires *going*...
Was on a trip to Gen Con about a decade or so ago, and while I don't drive, I take my job role as navigator/'shotgun' seriously when I'm on a trip.
So my buddy was driving, doing a hands-free business call (Yeah, even then) and not paying particular attention to the tractor trailer rig in the right hand lane. He was keeping distance, sure, but I saw something was not legit on the left rear tire.
Yelled out a warning, which did wonders for his business call but he took his foot off the gas and started to apply the brake JUST as the tire disintegrated.
If we'd maintained the same velocity, I would have eaten the shreds, as it was they landed about four car lengths in front of us.
So please, yes, get those checked out if you can.
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LM, like others have said, start with the tires. It's rarely the power steering at fault. If it's still there after tires it's going to be suspension issues, and that should be fairly obvious to whoever is changing out the tires. You can generally find bad suspension bushings and that kind of stuff just by wiggling the wheel when it's off the ground.
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Marvel Movie Timeline #11: Guardians of the Galaxy:
I managed to break my left index finger in my sleep overnight on Friday, so since I couldn't join the usual Sunday night online games, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy instead. I remembered it as being fairly ho-hum so I was sure I was going to offend CY by panning it, but y'know what? On second viewing it's one of the strongest entries so far: Good, interesting characters. Plot holes small enough to be spackled over. An excellent mix of comedy and action. I really, thoroughly enjoyed it, and it wasn't just the pain meds. Maybe it was GotG 2 that left me with such poor memories of the series (and that's up next). But GotG 1? I'd totally watch it again.
And our "must mess with the players" GM is at least wise enough to put up guard rails. Since my "mirror image" would be borderline CE with a penchant for cruelty and an absolute disregard for life, I was planning on causing a TPK and forcing the GM to retcon me away. But he put in a second player as a "mirror", so:
(1) When one party member fell through the portal and I recommended knocking her to negative HP so we could torture information out of her, he insisted that overworlders were extremely gullible and it would be better to befriend them and use them.
(2) When we realized the party had seen through our ruse and was betraying us, the tactical positioning was so terrible we couldn't do anything about it. (We would've come through the portal in neck-deep water with their fighter on the edge of the water just above us.)
I asked my compatriot, "Which is worse? Failure or death?"
He immediately responded, "Death," so we went ahead and failed.
Marvel Movie Timeline #11: Guardians of the Galaxy:
I managed to break my left index finger in my sleep overnight on Friday, so since I couldn't join the usual Sunday night online games, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy instead. I remembered it as being fairly ho-hum so I was sure I was going to offend CY by panning it, but y'know what? On second viewing it's one of the strongest entries so far: Good, interesting characters. Plot holes small enough to be spackled over. An excellent mix of comedy and action. I really, thoroughly enjoyed it, and it wasn't just the pain meds. Maybe it was GotG 2 that left me with such poor memories of the series (and that's up next). But GotG 1? I'd totally watch it again.
In fairness, it's more of sci-fi movie then marvel movie.
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From a local newspaper highlighting a new business and the owner's backstory:
"Then a job offer came along to work as a line cook at a restaurant. Ford figured "maybe sitting behind a desk all day was not me," and he took the cooking job, which paid more than a teacher's salary."
Can anyone tell me what's wrong in that paragraph?
From a local newspaper highlighting a new business and the owner's backstory:
"Then a job offer came along to work as a line cook at a restaurant. Ford figured "maybe sitting behind a desk all day was not me," and he took the cooking job, which paid more than a teacher's salary."
Can anyone tell me what's wrong in that paragraph?
That kitchen pay has gone up considerably since I got out twenty years ago.
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I enjoyed hearing that, in the 50s, the US Navy, having heard the phrase 'friend of Dorothy' as a euphemism for being gay, launched a massive in-depth investigation to find out who Sinister Dorothy was, and why she was making the sailors homosexual.
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I enjoyed hearing that, in the 50s, the US Navy, having heard the phrase 'friend of Dorothy' as a euphemism for being gay, launched a massive in-depth investigation to find out who Sinister Dorothy was, and why she was making the sailors homosexual.
Yeah. After all, you probably know what they say about military intelligence...
Sort of weird. My laptop, which I rarely turn on these days, starts slower and slower each time I do turn it on...
Have m$ messed up with Windows 8 updates?
That's actually fairly normal as laptops and OSes age.
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And now I've had a fingernail removed. And they didn't even offer to put in adamantine claws to replace it.
Apparently I had acute parinychia -- watch out! The picture is pretty gross, but mine was significantly worse. It required outpatient surgery.
Oh. Yeah. I've had the chronic version since around 5 years old.
Some of the people responsible for finding Dorothy were probably gay, and thus working to make sure she was never found.I enjoyed hearing that, in the 50s, the US Navy, having heard the phrase 'friend of Dorothy' as a euphemism for being gay, launched a massive in-depth investigation to find out who Sinister Dorothy was, and why she was making the sailors homosexual.Yeah. After all, you probably know what they say about military intelligence...
It's a CRONSPRIRACEY!!!!
<incoherent screaming noises>
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HEY EVERY 1
IT'S YOUR OLD PAL [NumberOneRatedSalesman1997]
BACK FROM THE [Deadline]
12000 NEW MESSAGES?? [Ain't nobody got time for that!]
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Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys.
I have been playing SO MUCH of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
I haven't been sucked into a game like this in YEARS.
I have wanted a Pokémon game like this for AGES.
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Apparently I had acute parinychia -- watch out! The picture is pretty gross, but mine was significantly worse. It required outpatient surgery.
I was JUST reading about this for work yesterday!!!