I ordered some custom hair products. Spent $108 on shampoo, moisturizing spray, and vitamin supplements. It came today. And what i thought was moisturizer, turned out to by dry shampoo..... I cant even use it. Dry shampoo is useless on my hair.... My kind of hair doesnt get oily. So i'm not happy i didnt get money's worth....
Saw -40 once many years ago during a ski week at Jay Peak in northern Vermont. Negative 40 is ... chilly. When the temperatures rose to -20 in the middle of the week people were shucking clothing like it was July in Acapulco.
We lost one of our cats last night; a 16 year old named Ass Hole. He was actually scheduled for a trip to the Vet today, because he’s been a little lethargic the past couple days, spent a lot of time hiding, and just generally not being Ass Hole.
Once, when I lived in the Middle East, it went down to 5C (around 40F). Everybody was in multiple layers and shivering.
In this part of England, "salad" means lettuce and tomato. Occasionally, you might get onions thrown in (but that's gourmet salad). The concept of "different types of salad" has not penetrated here. EDIT: Wrong thread. This should have been in "things that annoy me but shouldn't". Then again, I am not happy about it.
Just found a mail from someone in my trash mail. She asked me if I wanted to go on some concerts with her, now it's too late, the concerts are over, but we can probably go on something in the future. Damn junk folder putting my social life in the trash!
Days in the life of a total moron: Bought a new, larger TV. As with all new TVs, the sound sucked, so I bought an inexpensive sound bar. Hooked up the new soundbar and enjoyed much better audio, but it insisted on reading aloud everything on the screen. Researched the product and fiddled with it, to no avail. Left a snotty review on Amazon. Got fed up and bought a similar soundbar from a different manufacturer. Removed old soundbar and put it in the Goodwill box, so some poor person could deal with the annoyance. Hooked up the new soundbar, maddening voice was STILL THERE. Did the thinking I should have done in the first place, and realized I had accidentally turned on the screen reader on the TV.
OK, here's my "not-happy" thing. My outside faucet was leaking pretty good around the faucet whenever I used it, so I finally went to the internet to find out the problem. [A sentence I never would have understood, much less said, in the previous century]. First suggestion: the anti-siphon thingy had a bad plunger. So I took that apart and replaced it, an $8 fix. Yay. But there was still some water leaking out, not nearly so much and I found there is often a secondary source, water coming out beneath the handle because of a bad O-ring or washer. A simple $17 fix, except . . . . the new O-ring made no difference so I'd have to replace the washer, which requires turning off the water to the faucet and pulling out a long rod and replacing the washer and re-inserting it. I tried to turn off the water to the faucet and found that the dedicated shutoff valve doesn't work; it turns but the water keeps going through. I could turn off the water at the main valve, but if I did that, and then screwed up the faucet fix, I'd have a real plumbing problem -- I wouldn't be able to turn the water back on anywhere in the house until a plumber made a quick and expensive visit. There's no longer much water leaking around the faucet, so I can live with that, I suppose. Except that because I used part of the kit, I can't return it, so I'm out $17. Until and unless I pay a plumber to replace the shut-off valve.
One time I accidentally turned on the "narrated closed captions" or whatever it's called. Thought I had found the most avant-garde zombie movie ever as a pleasant female voice told me: "A man, wearing dirty clothes, appears on the screen. He is holding a machete, and blood drips from it. In the distance, a group of people shuffle towards him..."
You're in good company: ". . . I alone am drifting, not knowing where I am. . . . Everyone else is busy, but I alone am aimless and depressed. I am different. I am nourished by the great mother." Lao Tsu, The Tao Te Ching, Ch. 20
City I live in, population 28,389 - 0 marijuana dispensaries. Nearest town (55 miles away) where THC is available (legally), population 8,841 - 6 dispensaries.
Well, I'm fairly certain I got some form of COVID. Tired as all hell. Reason of my certainty is that household people also got it with positive tests. I don't really care about the cold. What's irritating to me is I have to reschedule and delegate all my customer calls that I have scheduled this week, and that's no small number. Huge irritation. And now I have no excuse for not constructing these system test jigs that I've need to do for a while. Blegh. Microelectronic soldering is not my favorite afternoon activity.
My sympathy. A jack rabbit once committed suicide by dashing between the wheels of my motorcycle. A flying piece of bunny clanked me a good one in the knee cap but I managed to keep the rubber side down.
They had to cut open my leg today. . . . Fortunately, it was my prosthetic leg. They were adjusting the ankle. Unfortunately, it took them 3 hours to fix it up again, and I was left stuck in a chair, unable to move and twiddling my thumbs.
I think I'd carve my own. You could make several, for different occasions. A Sunday go-to-meetin' leg, a general purpose leg, maybe an ass-kicking leg.
