Rant: My 19 year old failed his road test. Looking at the reasons given, a bad parallel park job would have still been a pass if he’d listened to me about what NOT to do. It’s like he should have listened to Dad or something.
Rave: Our theater show scheduled for a week from today was canceled due to changes in the CDC guidelines and Delta variant concerns by the theaters board. HOWEVER, I just got word last night their CEO and a local bar ( one of my favorite places to play ever ) put their heads together and will have us there. So now I am pulling out all the stops to promote it in just one week's time. Rave: Amid everything else I have going on, I wanted to get two chapters written this week for my next book. I just finished the second a few minutes ago. It's been a struggle, but I did it.
RANT: My daughter is 8, i was not ready for this. My wife's friend swore he got his daughter and my daughter making out yesterday, my wife caught our daughter kissing her other friend on the cheek today. She is 8 i didn't think i had to worry about this so soon. edit: couldn't careless if she is gay. just didn't think i would have to deal with the hormones this early.
RANT: More tenant issues. Just found out from the code and zoning dept that their line of work is not permitted at that address and any fines/citations would be my responsibility to pay as the property owner. RAVE? Work has been SLAMMED so working a ton of hours which is good for the wallet but bad for my body as I don't have the energy for the gym. RAVE: Going to Napa this weekend to gorge myself on wine and smoked meats.
Rant: My wife has an annual Summer picnic. Nothing too big, immediate family, some friends, 15-20 people usually, tops. This year she wanted to do it and despite my disagreement, and pointing out the shitty timing, she invites the whole damn family, both sides. I have a gig tonight and another out of town Saturday night. I get to come home Sunday morning to 50 people coming in mere hours after I arrive. My cousin texts me the other night, says my uncle told him they'd be here Sunday and could they come too? Which put me in a spot, as I purposely didn't invite all my cousins. But just the same I said "sure, whatever." An older cousin who I DID invite texts me today. Can she bring her sister? I told her no. And I'm sure I'll have to say no to someone else again before the day comes and goes. I've got too much shit going on over the coming week. And mentally, I'm trying to cope with sending our first born off to college in one week. And now I have to host the entire fucking family as well, which I didn't want to do to begin with.
Rant: There was a big company that bought a couple of local veterinary clinics. And the service has went to absolute shit. Our dog has allergies and 1 to 2 times a year she needs to go in for her and injection to help. Well she started to chew herself again, so my wife called monday for an appointment. They said thursday, wife said she is bleeding, they said well she isn't dieing so still thursday. I called a Vet 4 hours away, they said unfortunately they don't have an appointments until thursday because they have seen in influx of people out of town. She went today. And she told the Vet hey the dog has allergies just look at the chart and give her the same injection. The Vet didn't listen just gave her a shot to temp stop the itch. So me and the wife talked and we aren't getting another dog after this one unless things drastically change.
Rant: My mom, as a child, broke her ankle badly. For most of her adult life, it's been prone to random swelling. In the last several years, though, it's become a mobility issue. In particular, it's almost untenable these last 12 months. She can barely walk from the car to a store; she can't cut her lawn; she is in constant pain and it is both unstable AND hurts with the slightest touch. Not sleeping, either. Her GP finally referred her to an osteo surgeon. First, he referred her to a guy in a small-ish town about an hour away. We never have any reason to go to this town. Second, this guy is ranked 4 of 6 osteo doctors in that town. No one was more surprised than me that there was even one guy in a small town specializing in this kind of thing, and now we're dealing with someone in the bottom quarter of a very small pond. Who knows, maybe this guy is stellar but plenty of people on ratemds.com took the time to post that he wasn't. Oh, and the wait to see this dude is months. Oh, how I wish we had some say in our healthcare. It's not possible to call directly one of the top-ranked guys in London (who would presumably have admitting privileges to the big hospitals there, to say nothing of the fact that we drive to London once every few weeks at least). So she called her GP, because the pain is that bad, who could see her, "In a few weeks." She was able to get into his clinic and visit the NP today, and now we have to play politics and see if the GP's office will consent to switching the referral. JESUS CHRIST. It's hard to watch your parents age and lose their autonomy; I've received quite an education in the last two years from virtually every hospital in my surrounding area. I wish the citizens had more control of the health care they received.
Rant/Rave: My wife and I found a house that we really like, and my dude at the bank says we can make it work. Now, I have to go look at it, and try and keep myself from getting too excited, because it'll probably be pending by the time we're done looking at it, if not before.
Rave: Got a job offer that will get me back on track to actually progressing my career rather than middling around for another 2-3 years in my current structure. Rant: First new real job in over a decade and I've gotta do the whole salary negotiation dance and I'm waaay out of practice.
RANT: Some asshole "cloned" our checks and wrote himself a check for $5322.00. We'll get the money back but we need new checks, new cards, all the auto-pays need to be re-set up etc Edit - They tried to cash another check for $4950.00
Rave: Last Sunday I was hiking part of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with a friend. At the top of a mountain along the Delaware River we ran into a guy we both went to high school with. Someone I haven’t seen in 36 years. All of us live about 30-40 miles of where we ran into each other so it wasn’t like we saw him at the grocery store. It was pretty cool, and it was great talking to him. Small world indeed.
RANT: I HATE CHAINSAWS. I REALLY FUCKING DO. I can NEVER get them to run right. 1) They either won't start; 2) will start for three seconds, then die; 3) start, and not run unless at full throttle; 4) start and run perfectly, then die for no reason and not start again for the rest of the day. This rant has been a long time coming. I'd estimate that for every minute of use I get out of a chainsaw, I spend two minutes yanking on the cord, cussing, and hoping it starts. YES, I HAVE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. YES, I HAVE HAD OTHER PEOPLE INSTRUCT ME ON HOW TO START VARIOUS CHAINSAWS. None of it works with me. If it's got a pull-cord, I hate it.
+1 Really, the only experience I have with one is the relic from the 80's my uncle has at his hunting camp. He'd get that damn thing started, shut it off, rinse/repeat 3 or 4 times and it would start like a champ. But if you got away from the camp, it would be a complete PITA RAVE: 10 day vacation in Alaska was wonderful. We basically hopped around the Kenai Peninsula (Soldotna, Seldovia, Homer, Seward, and started and ended in Anchorage). Just that tiny bit of the state is beautiful. I need my company to expand their service footprint to that area ASAP! Super-mega RANT: Looks like I picked up a souvenir that I didn't want from that trip. Took a Covid test this morning, waiting on the results now.
Rant: really fucked up my back. Again for the hundredth time. Can't take the better meds due to breastfeeding. Going to hit all the conservative measures hard and hope for the best. Glad this happened at the weekend. I cannot lift the bebe or bend and hubs is covering duties. Fuck!
Damn it: Picked up rapid tests from Sam's... we're both positive. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. eta: Picked up the rapid tests via contactless grocery pickup, didn't go in the store. Still waiting on results from test we took from Walgreens.