Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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I've partially solved my grocery problem. I now get almost all my canned goods via Amazon. I carefully scan their catalog and if priced reasonably I'll buy a flat of 12 cans of each of what I use (peas, carrots, green & wax beans, beets, mandarin oranges, pears, peaches, spinach, etc.) And since I already pay for Amazon Prime free shipping, it sometimes ends-up cheaper than in my local small-town the store. An added bonus is that I often get DelMonte or Libby products which are head and shoulders, quality wise, above the local store-brand products. I only use one or two cans (3 or 4 servings per can) of veggies or fruits a week, so when I'm all stocked up it lasts well over 6 months, and I have a variety to choose from.
And yes, I supplement with bread, meats, pasta, fresh fruits and veggies & salad bought locally, but I get a warm fuzzy feeling looking at a fully stocked larder. Especially in the winter.
And best of all it's delivered right to my door so, I don't have to carry all those heavy cans back from the store or make extra trips to get everything. I'm no spring chicken anymore.
I buy big 8 pound loaves of boneless ham and chop it into eight 1-pound chunks, drop them into freezer bags and pop them in the freezer for later slicing, or chunking for breakfast, sandwiches or casseroles.
I buy (exclusively) chicken breasts for sauteing & slicing for sandwiches, chicken & rice, snacks & entree'. I don't like bones, guts, wings or dark meat.
I get about two pounds of hamburg, then divide and freeze it into three freezer bags for subsequent use as patties, or casserole base.
I still have to deal with heavy, big cartons (2 qt.) of milk but I always carefully examine the expiration date and pick one that will last at least two weeks, which is about the rate I use it.
Not having to carry large numbers of metal cans in a fragile bag, is a relief.
At Christmas time remind me to give a big tip to the postman.
It does seem to be going in that direction, doesn't it?
Dana
I don't get those cartons. something not good about them. I never did trust them. I get the Hood 1% in the gallon jugs. Their jugs block light, which degrades vitamin D. But, I always turn it upside down for a few seconds, to be sure it doesn't leak. I've had one that had a drip and I didn't worry about it...until I got home and used some, and it was already sour.
Never again!
Also, my rule is that the date on milk is only good until it's opened...then all bets are off, use it or lose it.
Dana
....yeah the 502/504 thisn is getting really old and annoying.
If you find yourself with a yearning to get on a unicycle and play bagpipes with flames comeing from the drones, it's all over.
I still have a pretty good sense of smell so if it seems iffy, I toss in a canary like in the coal mines as a final indicator. If the canary doesn't make it, I figure the milk is past it.
Yeah, it's a good thing canaries are so small. And once you smoosh down those feathers, they pop right in that little spout. Just remember to push them in head first, they complain bitterly if you try it tail first.
Mmmm... canary milk.
A glowing review I found on a Youtube video I was watching:
F*****g squirrels...
The friggin' squirrels have hundreds of trees around my property to make their crappy nests in and yet one or two jerk squirrels always have to chose the one closest to my patio.
I wouldn't give a poop if they were actually good at nest building like most birds are, but most, if not all squirrels suck at nest building...
Especially "display" nests... I don't know if that's the correct term, but those are the huge flimsy piles of leaves up in trees that male squirrels make to entice stupid female squirrels... it's sort of like a 79' Camaro that's half primered and four other colors... it should be a red flag to the female squirrels, but yet we keep having more squirrels.
I dont know if you've ever seen one, but the goal is to make something about the size of one of those wicker saucer chairs, but for that they gather up two small trees worth of branches and leaves which they randomly pile onto random branches until some of it stops falling, eventually they get something the size of a garbage can lid that stays and then that falls too because they suck at nest building, but they can't stop so they keep doing it until they get a sizable pile that falls two days later and they start again... 90% of what these tree rats use falls to the ground... a few days ago I picked up about 20 cubic yards of leaves from the area around the base of one of the trees.
I keep removing the nests and they keep coming back... they don't even use the damn things, I'm pretty sure it's just some kind of display thing like how some animals collect shiny things or buy Ferraris... Real nests that they actually live in are usually built in hollow branches or dead tree trunks.
So this time when I went up the tree to remove the nest, I sprayed the branches with a tree rat repellent that I've found mildly effective... only problem is it's a new bottle and either I bought the wrong one or they changed the formula because it smells like monster pee... real monster... not those fun loving Disney monsters who make friends with little children, I'm talking German fairy tale monsters that eat the children's faces because they didn't wash behind their ears... I honestly don't know what's wrong with Germans, my mom used to read me german fairy tales which she'd translate into English because I was really bad at languages apparently, that or she didn't really want me to learn German so she could have a language she could curse at me in that sounded scary... but most German fairy tales are designed to terrify children, I don't think there are even lessons to be learned, it's just for the fun of traumatizing kids... I do get it though, I convinced my kids there was a cave troll in the basement... he was very good at restoring order quickly.
But anyway... I doused the branches with monster pee and that's when the wind shifted and now I smell like monster pee instead of regular pee.
F*****g squirrels.
But "Monsters are so EEn-ter-resting".
One autumn, not too many decades ago, I was camping in the woods with about 200 gay leathermen. Hot, hunky, horny, imposing, gruff looking guys, all decked out in their leathers, gathered waiting for the evening meal in the kitchen/dining pavilion. To pass the time we stood around drinking beer or cocktails and chatted about things that interest gay leathermen (someday I'll write a book) but behind me I heard something very different but very familiar. I turn around to see the biggest, meanest looking, unshaven biker, reciting word for word, and with appropriate inflections and accent, the speech that Buggs Bunny gives in that clip. Before he was finished, everybody in the pavilion had stopped talking and were taking in the performance, then clapped at the end. Gay people are so dangerous!
...speaking of annoyances, for some reason when I got home tonight and started to open unread emails, Gmail kept popping up a notice asking me if I wanted to continue receiving emails from the various sources that sent them (like the ones from Ati for Daz Deals). This didn't happen earlier today before I left. I know I didn't change any settings or even open the settings routine at all today.
Wondering if there is some kind of auto update that loaded when I opened up my inbox after I got back. My system was shut down while I was gone.
I got that for Renderosity today so guess it's a Gmail update
...hate it when they don't warn you ahead of time. Makes me worry that something slipped through my firewall.
There should be a big warning via pop up or email a few days beforehand saying "Warning, Lark's Vom-"...err... I mean "new update effective on [date]".
These developers would make very bad sysops were they around in the old days. Then again, nobody documents their code or uses proper programming style anymore either.
Oy oy, has been a while since I posted <cries> seeing a dwindling number of regulars I used to know from 'back when which is a shame, did a quick read over the past events since my last visit and I'm terribly sorry about the unfortunate events folks like Sfariah and Gordig - as well as folk's friends or family members - are going through. :'(
Aaah... I've not really been up to much that'd interest most folks I imagine, but did finally get some zBrush work done.
The first one on the list is a slightly older iteration of the model but I don't have anything other than that second one to show; I should have saved more screenshots x) Could always grab more right now but since I'm in the process of re-doing some things I'm not sure if there's really any point.
Hi, Rezca! I'm still here. Don't have a lot to say, so I don't say it often.
Dana
Complaint: Recently my (Google Chrome) browser (on more than one computer) has been futzing-up. It behaves like it goes ahead and displays the page before everything has been downloaded and clicked into place on the page. I get skeleton pages with pictures missing and incompletely fleshed out structures.
Not just at the DAZ site either. However, it's easy to fix, just click the reload button, and Bob's your uncle, the balloon goes up, and the other shoe drops.
I know that site pages used to be designed so that they don't start displaying the data until the imbedded "now draw" command (usually at the end) is read by the browser after all the page contents have been downloaded. But that was back when the world was sane.
Is that no longer the case? So, why does my browser start displaying before all is ready?
I'm wondering if it has something to do with these sites like ClodFlare. A lot of sites are using those things now. I forget what they're called.
Dana
Hey Rezca! How are you? I am doing better.
I have no butter! I have no butter! I have macaroni and cheese but no butter!
I have no butter!
I have no butter!
I have macaroni and cheese but no butter!
My body does shudder!
My mind is a flutter!
How could I be out of butter?
I have macaroni and cheese.
I have lots of peas.
So someone tell me please...
How could I be out of butter?
Like a ship without a rudder,
I'm lost without my butter.
I'm down on my knees.
So hear my pleas.
With my macaroni and cheese...
I need lots of butter.
I do not mutter...
I did not stutter...
Give me lot and lots of butter!
- Mortimer Fishmocker, The Buttermaker's Handbook of Awful Butter Related Songs and Poetry, 1867
Or, "Yes, she has no butter. She has no butter today."
Non-complaint: I stepped out onto the porch for a moment, in the dark, and the property is sprinkled with lightning bugs. In the air, in the bushes, in the trees, in the grass. They're probably thick down by the creek across the road but there's too much light down there. Wheee... bugs.
I haven't seen a display like this for decades.
...I make my cheezy Mac from scratch rather than use a box with a packet of orange chemical powder. But then, that's just me.
I actually use the technique the Italians use for proper Fettuccini Alfredo .Comes out nice and light.
...nice.
....damn this effin forum software. Once again what I wrote was deleted. Happened earlier this afternoon when I tried to post a PM.
Wanted to say that I loved seeing fireflies in summer in the back yard but when I went to post it was deleted.
Daz, fix your bloody software.
Thanks. I neglected to mention that during all of this, we were also moving into a much worse house than the one we were living in. I did what I could, but between being generally weak and fatigued, my heart also gave me a lot of grief whenever I tried to be active, either as a result of whatever the hell is going on with me right now, or just because I'm old and fat. My wife also just got sick, so it's been a wonderful time all around.
Sorry to hear that! I hope things get better soon!
Dana
Tell me about it.
Non-complaint: Ooh, ooh, excitement! So, I'm sitting here reading browsing Amazon catalog for rechargeable AAA batteries and I hear a weird screech/slide/thump. Not being a usual thing I hear, my mind snapped to it and led me outside, where I meet my neighbor in the other apartment walking down the driveway asking "What was that?". I being old and unsteady on the rocky driveway let him continue down to the end to peek around the neighboring building(an abandoned ice cream shop). About that time I look up and see a cloud of smoke/dust rising over the old restaurant. Neighbor reports that a pickup truck and a car were off on either side of the road. Ten minutes later the cops & firemen assemble en-masse. Not wishing to miss out on the excitement I rushed (as fast as I could toddle) to my upstairs window where I had a grandstand seat looking over the roof of the shop.
Tiring of watching from a distance I grabbed my cane and braved the rocks in the driveway to go get a closer view of the damage. Meh..., car had a dented rear fender, and was teetering over a 6-foot ditch. the pickup truck was on the far side of the road but I saw no obvious damage. Everybody was walking around OK.
This was almost as exciting as the day some lady's car decided that my streetside mailbox needed to be relocated, as I was watching.
But not nearly as exciting as the day my neighbor in the other half of the house, created a stand-off situation with a dozen police cars and probably half the county police force swarming outside my door.
Factoid: That abandoned ice cream shop is famous nationwide but nobody but us local town folk know it. That ice cream shop was "The Whirl-In" a privately owned, walk-up, soft-serve ice cream, hot dog, hamburg & milkshake type of place.
It used to be a booming buslness in the '60s, but died when the Interstate bypassed the town, and especially after the owners, the Wilsons, died. The artist that drew the "Marmaduke" newspaper cartoon (a mischievous Great Dane dog) was from the neighboring city and knew the Wilsons. So, when Marmaduke dragged his owner to the ice cream shop it sometimes was identified as the "Whirl-In". I remember seeing the comics back when I was a kid, but I've not yet found a copy of it. I thought for sure I'd find it in the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY (our local "big" city), There were lots of Anderson's Marmaduke newpaper comics, but what I was looking for wasn't on display and I haven't gone back to dig into their off-display archives.
Speaking of the National Comedy Center. It's almost time for the Lucy Festival again.
Also nearly time for the "Gerry Rodeo"
and the "Ellington Town Picnic"(oops, looks like their ain't no Ellington Town Picnic, again this year.
The absence of the Ellington Town Picnic again, is worrying. Yeah, it has always been a cheap little gathering of 4 or 5 food vendor carts, A talent contest, a bouncy castle, a chainsaw log cutting contest, a pile of sawdust (from the contest) used to bury a few coins in to let the young'uns search for the coins, ladies selling homemade pies & cookies, etc. but it's been a fixture in this area for well over a hundred years.
And the Gerry Rodeo has been around all my life. I remember my great uncle taking me to the rodeo when I was about 6 or 7. Yeah, more than a few years ago.
The pavilion at Ellington Town Picnic.