2spoopy5goat - October 2019 Scapegoat Blame
14As we bid adieu to summer and the reign of @JnkL, let us welcome the newest victim to the order of the scapegoat: @aetris.
Yikes. That’s a event more terrifying than a close up of a goat’s eyeball.
Not that one…
Something’s off about that, too… weird.
Anyway, it looks like our new goat, @aetris, beat me to posting. So I blame them for that as well as this post being 10 hours later than expected.
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I am the wind blowing through your hair
Good luck goat
@aetris
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AccurateFaithfulAurochs-mobile.mp4
Unblame: OMG OMG OMG I just scored tickets to the Blues home opener!!! I WILL get to see that beautiful Stanley Cup banner get raised to the rafters!
/giphy ecstatic
@tinamarie1974 -
@aetris @tinamarie1974 it’s kind of disappointing to start a blame thread with an unblame, but I got nothing to balance it… Dang, @aetris, you’re starting on the plus side.
@aetris @ybmuG I know bit it is a serious unblame!!
@aetris @tinamarie1974 yes, you definitely should not have held back on it. Huge congratulations! It’s just disappointing that it’s now T+20 hours and counting without a single blame… in fact I have another unblame but I’m holding back because I don’t want the goat to go up +2!
@aetris @ybmuG well here, does this help?!?!
Blame: I was forced to pay $175/each for my seats, which are three rows from the roof. Tickets are hella pricey
@aetris @tinamarie1974
/image world in balance
@tinamarie1974 OMG that is unbelievably expensive!!! Hope you find it worth it and have enough fun you don’t regret spending that kind of money.
@Kidsandliz Thanks. Considering I have waited 45 years to see this happen, it will be worth it! I am just really mad tickets are so expensive. I was lucky to find the ones I did, as most are going for between $200 and $1,100.
I decided it was a splurge I needed to allow. This is the first banner and who knows when it will happen again.
@tinamarie1974 $1100??? In what universe is that sane? (rhetorical question). I guess you really did get a bargain then.
@Kidsandliz oh I completely agree. Like I said prices are crazy. There is no way I would pay so much just to be there.
@Kidsandliz so worth it. WOW!
@Kidsandliz @ybmug @therealjrn @jnkl @chienfou ok I decided to be nice and share my pic. The Blues just posted it online. Enjoy!!
http://fan.photo/blues #stlblues
@chienfou @JnKL @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG HaHA
@chienfou @JnKL @Kidsandliz @therealjrn @ybmuG you can actually zoom in to the seat level, it is really cool. I found myself pretty quickly
@JnKL @Kidsandliz @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG meh’s version of where’s Waldo… aka TM74
@chienfou @JnKL @Kidsandliz @therealjrn @ybmuG YYEESSSSS
@tinamarie1974 Now we need to you tag yourself so we" can find you “pretty quickly”. You had said you were three rows from the top (or something close to that) and no one had tagged themselves that high in the nose bleed section the last I had looked.
@Kidsandliz nope I am not tagging myself. But I am there, in my deep v t-shirt
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 3 hours and counting…still looking…going blind…
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG well she just gave a hint. And we know she is short. And wears spike heel boots… And that she is in the nose bleed section - maybe 3 rows from the top? That should limit it a bit
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 yeah, well, just a joke. I wasn’t really looking; that would be creepy.
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Not to mention there would be a zillion people in the top couple of rows and a ton of them women. Narrows it a bit. Not. (grin)
@tinamarie1974 is this some sort of new ice dancing group or really large curling team?
@sicc574 uuuummmmm
Blame. Where is the love for Soctoberfest?
All dressed up and nobody to do 24oz arm curls with.
@mike808 @aetris I dunno. I kind of want those.
@aetris @mehcuda67 @mike808 the cat or the socks?
@ybmuG Why not both?
/giphy cat and socks
BLAME: So today I get an email from my business insurance carrier naming the 5 worst places to start a business. So not only am I in the 48th worst business tax climate, but one of the worst for the weather impacts (Rochester specifically mentioned)… Well, isn’t that special.
@ybmuG I like Rochester. Got my BA from U of R. And played the carillon there. You can at least go listen to some nice carillon concerts (although I’d imagine not all are good as some of the students likely are just learning how to play). And there is good sailing both on the river and the lake. The snow was kind of a PITA but at least they know how to deal with it there, unlike here where the entire place shuts down even if only 3 flakes fall from the sky.
@ybmuG -
@Kidsandliz oh, I really do like Rochester, just riffing on a goat blame from an email that says it’s a bad place to start a business. We’re not going anywhere.
@Kidsandliz @ybmuG Rochester an awesome city wish i live there again instead of Cuse
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
I’m sensing a common theme.
/giphy cat gifs
@aetris
/giphy not a cat gif
on a slightly different note
@Kidsandliz
/image cat flat earth
Blame: Because I was up too late last night. I finally fell asleep VERY late (early in the am). My throat is EXTREMELY sore and I am exhausted. Phuf.
/giphy exhausted
@tinamarie1974 I’m not touching that one with a ten foot pole…
@sicc574 what?
@sicc574 @tinamarie1974 Was it hard to swallow?
@sicc574 @therealjrn oh haha! It really was for like two days!! But you guys have dirty minds, my throat was sore from cheering/screaming!!
@sicc574 @tinamarie1974 What? Nobody said anything dirty. What do you mean?
@sicc574 @therealjrn sure, sure
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 good stuff!
@sicc574 @therealjrn @tinamarie1974
Somebody should sell a bunch of Ricola cough drops for cheap.
@mike808 @sicc574 @therealjrn
@mike808 @sicc574 @tinamarie1974 I bought big on the Ricolas. They have juice inside.
@mike808 @sicc574 @therealjrn not a fan of the Ricola or their commercials
Blames: 1. I have to have a root canal done on Monday. 2. In the meantime I get to deal with the painful tooth/nerve which often shoots pain down my neck and up into a near migraine. 3. I also probably won’t get to donate blood today because I’m on antibiotics for the abscessed tooth.
@msklzannie ouch
blame: i have to drop my car at the dealer monday and leave it there.
unblame: this dealer has free rentals (even for non-warranty work) and one is available.
blame: my fridge handle broke.
unblame: my apt never switched electrical service to my name, so the last month was on them.
blame: i still can’t find my favorite pepper grinder.
unblame: while searching for it, i found something i thought was lost when i moved - a souvenir coin my son and i made during a trip to st louis.
blame: the universe is being too fucking wishy-washy
Yesterday was my birthday. I hoped my mother would invite me over for supper. Instead she invited me over to assemble her new computer desk and her sewing table. Not even an offer for a snack.
/giphy cry me a river
@ruouttaurmind
Ouch.
/giphy Hey Mom! Snack!
@ruouttaurmind aaawwww I am sorry! I’d make you dinner if you lived closer!!
/giphy Happy Birthday
Happy 21st Birthday!
If I didn’t wish you that already.
@ruouttaurmind
Hope you at least got to celebrate with someone.
@ruouttaurmind That sounds like a nice birthday! Helping the woman who gave birth to you!
I don’t understand why we get the presents when it was Mom who did all the work.
@therealjrn I really wasn’t expecting to be showered with gifts, but I was kinda hoping the woman who gave birth to me, and whom I’ve spent every spare second for over six months now, and nearly every dime to me name getting her moved and set up in a delightful little house, would possibly take that opportunity to express a wee gesture of appreciation for me efforts. But she’s me mum and still I love her all the same.
@aetris
Thank you! As fate will have it, I’m actually celebrating me 21st birthday. Well the anniversary of it anyway.
@f00l Not even a scrap!
@tinamarie1974 Thank you! If I lived closer I would have been thrilled to oblige.
@kidsandliz I spent the evening with a couple of gorgeous girls who showered me with their affections. My puppies!
@Kidsandliz @ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974
/giphy birthday puppies!
@f00l @Kidsandliz @ruouttaurmind that is stinkin cute!!
@ruouttaurmind I am sorry that your mom didn’t do much, if anything, to celebrate your birthday. Especially with how much you have helped her recently one would have thought she’d take advantage of the opportunity to show you just how much she appreciated it and do something thoughtful on your birthday. I know that can hurt, regardless of how much you love someone.
@Kidsandliz @ruouttaurmind
Maybe after mom has fully settled in and adjusted to her new life and the new scene, she’ll be more compassionate and aware of aIl the time and energy you put into making her comfortable and at home.
And I hope she’ll show it.
Hope you and the puppies had a “happy”, in spite of that day’s hunger and frustration.
/giphy “have a happy”
I’ve not blamed anybody for anything lately. I am having a fudging, poopy butt day though so, have some blame @JnkL.
@tnhillbillygal Aww, but s/he isn’t the scapegoat any more :frowny_face:
@aetris votes for the party you don’t like.
@therealjrn See, crap day! Take that @aetris
@tnhillbillygal I’m ok with a little blame. Hoping tomorrow is a better day!
Thanks, @JnKL , but I’ll take this one.
/giphy “placeholder blame”
(I’ll get back to you on this)
Later, dude.
Blame - typos on the exchange sign up post.
UNblame - @narfcake who has been fixing them for me (thanks!)
There just has to be blame for this abomination:
@mike808
@mike808 @tinamarie1974 Ew! The scapegoat needs to come in here right away.
@aetris is the person who keeps telling local news stations that someone will hand out drugs to children on Halloween.
BLAME! Beautiful weather yesterday whilst I worked.
Miserable cold rainy weather on my weekend off!
Unblame, because this is 20 feet behind me!!
@tinamarie1974 wouldn’t the top of that make a great mixing bowl for bread!
@JnKL @tinamarie1974 Is that trophy sterling silver? You should have asked if you could borrow it, telling them you’d bring it back with the fruits of your labor stored in the bowl.
.
PS how’d you get so close to it?
@JnKL Bread? I think there are too many grooves. Now, I would not mind having a nice big beer or maybe champagne out the top! Maybe even moms homemade spaghetti, but I don’t think I would mix bread lol.
@JnKL @Kidsandliz The Fox Sports Midwest booth was two rows behind my seat. They happened to have it there for the pre-game show.
And in answer to your question:
@JnKL @Kidsandliz off to the Blues 5k for charity. Fingers crossed the cup makes an appearance!!
/giphy fingers crossed
@JnKL @Kidsandliz
@tinamarie1974 so are your finger prints on that now too? I see the official person carrying it is wearing white gloves,
@Kidsandliz yeah the keeper of the cup wears white glove, a tradition that only started in the 90’s when Commissioner Bettman took over the league.
Yeah, they have had my prints a few times, likely dead skin cells as well. I have touched, hugged and kissed it at one time or another. Hum…that sounds like a good date
The goat has some explaining to do …
(One of my earliest Woot purchases, BTW.)
/giphy “save the date” blame
On what special date during the month of Oct 2019 does the scapegoat wish to be blamed?
@f00l Unlike some of our more recent goats, I believe the current scapegoat will be available every day that ends in “Y” this month.
@aetris votes for the party you don’t like.
@aetris @mediocrebot He does???
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
@f00l I think the goat needs to be blamed for sure on Oct 12th since that was considered Columbus day for over a century and now isn’t.
@f00l @Kidsandliz I think we should blame the goat at least once EVERY day!!!
@f00l @Kidsandliz Given that the guy didn’t discover America at all, the bigger question should be why was it celebrated at all for so many years.
@narfcake Well yes that it true. And of course there are the other aspects of history with respect to the people already living here when the Norse showed up, what, something like 2000 years ago even though that didn’t result in the take over of North America and parts of South America like when the Europeans showed up… As a kid though I really liked that my birthday was a “holiday” - that was the angle I was thinking about when I posted that although I didn’t mention that in that post.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake
Well, then I think the goat deserves some unblame for your birthday on October 12.
No need to drag Columbus into an otherwise fine day to celebrate.
Can somebody explain to me what “2spoopy5goat” is supposed to be saying? I confess to a lack of sufficient leetness to suss that out.
@therealjrn - I was thinking it was supposed to be “to spookify goat” but someone took a “p” that wasn’t a “k”?
@aetris @therealjrn
/giphy 2spooky4me
@therealjrn
/giphy spoopy
@aetris @therealjrn
UNBLAME. Finally got rid of the ants. At least I think. Haven’t seen any in several days.
DOUBLE BLAME: the gecko, or whatever the heck it was, is no longer a nightly visitor (I am presuming it ate the ants, borax isn’t supposed to hurt geckos, so left when the food supply left) to my window and the cats miss it. They got several hours of entertainment each night with it on the outside window sill, the glass, up the bricks. The first night it was gone (no thunk thunk with cat paws hitting the window over and over) one was on the cat tree top shelf, one on the second shelf and one on the inside windowsill staring out the window for at least an hour before they bagged it. Sad for them.
Things I learned this weekend:
One motivated man with decent mechanical skills and a full assortment of tools can assemble a Sauder Harbor View Computer Desk With Hutch in no fewer than 11 hours. ELEVEN HOURS!
Sauder’s Twist-lock system is total garbage.
Sauder’s “fully illustrated instruction guide” is nearly as difficult to follow as walking down Lombard Street BLINDFOLDED.
Dewalt’s 20V MAX Lithium Ion Compact Drill/Driver has a LED work light in precisely the ideal location for my fingers to constantly block the light, rendering it useless.
If I never assemble another piece of prefab furniture again for the rest of my life, it’ll be at least a week too soon.
Seriously, do yourself a favor and NEVER, EVER buy a piece of Sauder’s crap-in-the-box disguised as furniture. $330 plus tax for that thing, and I would have felt ripped off at half that price. I’ve assembled 9 pieces of prefab furniture in the last couple weekends from various manufacturers. This was the only piece from Sauder, and it is far and away the poorest quality item of the lot. Yet it was the most costly. Every other piece was 100% real wood while this expensive computer desk is 100% particleboard. Sauder sucks.
Ok, rant culminated.
@ruouttaurmind so only 11 hours?
/giphy huzzah
@ruouttaurmind Perhaps you should have had your mom do it for you.
In related news, the Crosley Cherry Kitchen Cart With Stainless Steel Top from Home Depot was probably the highest quality piece and the best bargain at $194. 100% real wood, this sucker tips the scales at just about 75 lbs. Fit and finish is excellent, and the price seems fair for a decent quality item which will probably last for many years.
@Barney
Not to worry, she was supervising nearly every step of the process.
@tinamarie1974 I went into it thinking “oh, sure, three hours and I’m onto the next project.” Ha!
@Barney @ruouttaurmind so years ago my employer did a partnership with Sauder where my company would hire folks to assemble and then preform white glove delivery on purchases.
We quoted based upon the suggested assembly time (ie your 3 hrs) wanna guess how much money we lost? Apparently that time is based upon the Sauder quality dept. Folks who assemble/test daily. Of course they can assemble furniture from hell in three hours!!
Terrible, terrible business decision…
@ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974
I spent a WEEKEND putting together two Sauder computer hutch desks, one for my mom and one for me. I said so many cuss words that weekend and shocked my poor mom with my, prior to this, hidden vocabulary.
@Barney @ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974
@aetris Aww…
@tinamarie1974 Hopefully nobody was sacked over that one? Whoever created the pricing strategy might have been well served by actually assembling the product prior to finalising the price sheet.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Barney
But once the cat was out of the box…
@ruouttaurmind luckily the VP negotiated that one, so nope everyone kept their jobs.
We did end up getting a desk and one of those two drawer long file cabinets delivered to test assemble after we hemorrhaged. We did renegote, but never ended up in the black. We just dropped the business after a while.
And yeah, I was part of the team that had to but the shit together in a timed environment. It was a terrible few days!
@Barney @ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974 then it was perfect. For any home project, you always multiply your time estimate by 4 and your cost estimate by 3 and divide your satisfaction estimate by 5. Then you’re probably in the ballpark.
@ybmuG Aye, you speak a fair bit of truth.
Ok, that’s kinda creepy, @mediocrebot.
Creepy clown! Stop it, @mediocrebot! No creepy clowns!
@mediocrebot - Well-played.
@ruouttaurmind I have ONCE purchased one of those nightmare things (Sauder), and it really should have been simple, since it was shelving with doors. After finally getting it put together (two days that I will never get back), I used it for a few weeks, until I saw a perfectly good six-foot high shelf, with doors, from the 1950s.
I bought it, brought it home, and it became background (which is as it should be).
What became of the Sauder crap? I put it in the driveway, and took a sledge hammer to it, until it all easily fit in the trash. Yes, indeed, I did yell “Revenge!” at the top of my lungs. I love my sledge hammer.
I’m not sure what exactly the idiot bot is reacting to in my few paragraphs, but it is beginning to annoy me.
@Shrdlu probably “n1ghtm@r3”. Hopefully I avoided it…
@Shrdlu I’m definitely regretting not springing for something a bit more solid. I let my mother pick it out and I think she was suckered in by the hutch. But hopefully she’ll get decent service from it before it self-destructs into a pile of sawdust.
@ruouttaurmind Just be sure she knows not to spill any liquid on it and then let it sit as then, as I am sure you know, it swells. I have a very old Bose bass speaker where the back was made of particle board and when the rug got wet due to the foundation problem leaks, the bottom of that got wet too and swelled (first I knew it was fake wood - did not expect that).
@Kidsandliz Ya, she keeps wanting to wipe it down with Old English trying to breathe some life into the finish. I have to convince her the finish isn’t really wood at all and if she wipes it down with oil it’s likely to pucker.
I’m pretty sure she’ll do it anyway sometime today while I’m busy at work and can’t check up on her.
@Kidsandliz @ruouttaurmind
Definitely don’t let your mother pucker your wood.
@Kidsandliz @mike808 @ruouttaurmind That’s quite disturbing Mike…
@Kidsandliz @mike808 @ruouttaurmind I mean I am pretty open minded, but WOW!!! Can’t unsee that thought
@Shrdlu
I would dearly have wished this had been filmed, with identity concealed, for the world to see.
Or just for me to see.
Taking Appropriate Revenge on products known to be awful, perhaps products that are deliberately awful, is a fine and wonderful activity.
Or an animated version, with appropriate narrative and dialogue tracks, might be even better.
Oh well. Some wonderful moments are only “for the moment”.
/giphy furniture sledgehammer
I’m getting such strange results with the new swipe feature on the iOS keyboard.
“perhaps” first came out as “Pegasus”
And “awful” first came out as “seagull”.
Perhaps I should have left all “as is”.
/giphy Pegasus Seagull
@mike808
@f00l
@mike808 @ruouttaurmind
/giphy “that’s a Bitch much"
Wouldn’t you say?
Blame because I have conf calls tomorrow from 5am - 11 am back to back with NO breaks. Maybe I need to play conf call bingo!?!?!?!?
Blame? I currently have over $400 worth of Halloween stuff in my car that I paid around $100 for.
I don’t have a problem… Right?
@RiotDemon no issues, sounds completely normal. We don’t need to talk about my pumpkin budget every October!!!
/giphy nothing to see here
@tinamarie1974 Halloween time is really the only time of year that I go all out on myself. Since I finally own a home I feel the need to decorate, especially when I get good deals.
@RiotDemon i completely understand, it is my favorite holiday! Enjoy yourself and decorate to your hearts content.
@RiotDemon Nope no problem. Your only problem would have been if you bought the stuff for $400.
/giphy carry on
@RiotDemon Where did you buy a car for $100?
@therealjrn there was this back alley…
@aetris look at all the money I saved!
@RiotDemon - pounds and pounds of it!
@RiotDemon Don’t we get to see what you bought?
@sammydog01 once I drag it out of my car, lol
Blame! We live in the beautiful forested area and are moving into a “High Fire Risk” weather pattern tonight (high temp, high winds, low humidity) and Pacific Gas & Electric is instituting it’s new “Public Safety Power Shutoff” program, which means they are possibly shutting off our electricity for 24-48 hours staring at 3am so that none of their decrepit power line equipment starts a major wildfire like it did last year and the year before and the year before and …
Extended Blame! Because of the way their power grid is set up, thousands of accounts NOT in the fire risk zone will also lose power because they are on common lines with the risk area. Up to 60,000 people in the Bay Area alone may be affected, and the shut-off with shut down schools, businesses, all traffic lights (!!!), etc.
Further Blame! They are finally admitting that after the power off period, they will not just turn everything back on, but have to inspect the wires and equipment in the shutoff area to be sure there is no damage so it is safe to restore power. So the power will be off for another 2-4 days afterwards, maybe up to 7 days total.
And More Blame! I will need to drive at least 5 miles, maybe more, to get cell service to check emails, voice messages, and click the Meh button (I’m up to 160 after the last tragic miss)
Silver Lining Pollyanna Blame-ish Thing! This is probably good practice for THE earthquake
Unblame! I got one of those sweet new Honda 2200i generators, and the hardware store had it mis-priced on its scanner system so I got it for $100 off. And I’ve got 10,000 gallons of water in the tanks on gravity feed, a full propane tank, and plenty of wine so I’ll be fine.
@stolicat
/giphy tragic miss
@stolicat - HOLY CRAP!!!
But here’s a cat pic:
@aetris a cat pic can fix anything
Update: shut off scheduled for noon tomorrow.
@stolicat I just heard about this. I can’t imagine how this is acceptable. What is the temperature like there?
@RiotDemon in worst parts of hazard zone, it’ll be in the high 80s - 90s, winds gusting 45+ mph, humidity in teens, dropping to single digit by Thursday.
PG&E is currently in bankruptcy due to the massive claims (over $1B) they are being held responsible for from previous fires, so in a sense, this is their only option. Pretty sucky one, seeing how it’s mostly their negligence in upkeep and maintenance that got them into this, but kind of where we are for right now …
@stolicat at least the humidity is low? Yikes. Glad you have a generator and water supply.
@stolicat Well that sucks to have to be without power for so long. I can’t imagine what the traffic backups will be in San Francisco with lights out. OMG that will be a disaster too. Glad you have a way to keep some lights on, your fridge working and water. But what a PITA!!
@Kidsandliz Luckily, SF proper will not be affected - they have their own power grid and their own utility district. But the East Bay cities (Berkeley, Oakland, Livermore and others) where many more people live are going to be a mess.
@RiotDemon It’s scary when it gets that dry - if you’re out the grasslands you almost don’t want to talk too loud for fear of starting something burning …
@aetris @stolicat Oh, you found footage of the PG&E sign language spokesperson!
@therealjrn - Er, my gif or mediocrebot’s?
@aetris The one with the sign language.
Blame because I locked myself out of the house this morning. My neighbor that has the extra key was gone so I had to break into my own house
@aetris aawwww so cute!! I was actually concerned my NEW neighbor (have not met) would see me breaking in and call the cops. Thank god that did not happen
/giphy relief
@aetris @tinamarie1974 At our old house we were having an alarm system installed and I forgot the guy was coming over and hadn’t left him a key so he had to crawl in though one of the porch windows. I’m sure that looked great from the street. Also glad no one called the cops, although I was kind of annoyed that they didn’t…
@ybmuG - That’s why you need an alarm system.
@tinamarie1974 Put a key in a ziplock (double bag if you want) and then bury it in the yard (not in a usual place like under a rock or something, rather somewhere far less likely but that you will be able to find again without digging up the entire back yard) . I had a key at the corner of the fence with a small amount of dirt over it. Never had to use it but it was there if I needed it.
/image dog holes all over backyard
@aetris @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG breaking into your own house is kind of fun (because you know you won’t get in trouble for it), until you realize how easy it is to break into your house …
@mediocrebot -
@aetris @stolicat @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
And nobody saying a darned thing or calling the cops about it is equally disconcerting.
Then again, do you do the same for your neighbors?
@aetris @stolicat @ybmuG that is what I found so disconcerting!
@aetris @mike808 @stolicat @ybmuG actually I do! I generally call them first to make sure if the situation is legit. If they were to say no, I would call the cops for them.
Continued Blame: PG&E originally scheduled the great power shut off in our area for 3am Wednesday, then it was going to be 9am, then noon, then 4pm, then 8pm. By 10 pm everyone’s sitting around with their flashlights in their hands but the power stays on. PG&E website had crashed hours earlier so no real specific update info available, we figure maybe it’s not going to happen, proceed to get ready for bed. 10:35pm we get an alert text saying our power will go out at 8pm (2.5 hours ago), 5 minutes later our utility Thanos finally snaps his fingers and here we go, it’s campout time.
Unblame: cell service appears to be operational, so I can keep up my meh face clicks. And I had plenty of time to set up and test out the new generator.
Yesterday I took my unlimited Regal pass to the movies and asked for a ticket to see Rambo. The guy said “Welcome back Sammydog- one ticket for Downton Abbey”. NOOOOO! I look like a Downton Abbey fan? Actually I went to see it last week but was still kind of offended. (Rambo was better.)
@sammydog01 You entered “Brown-eyed Girl”? If this is correct, press 1.
Blame Update: fire alert over, weather pattern has moved south and creating havoc in In San Fernando valley outside of LA, but still no power at our place. Hopefully will be back on today, a lot of the surrounding areas have power restored now.
Unblame for @oldcatlady and @tinamarie1974
One of them has a lot of cats in there, there is a goat in one. But of course I posted these for “reasons” for them. And no, I didn’t go looking for them, one of them came across my facebook feed as an advertisement. Money from buying these calendars goes to charity.
@Kidsandliz @oldcatlady
@tinamarie1974 - sorry you are having some tough times. Maybe immigrate to Australia?
@Kidsandliz oh my gosh those kittens are so cute. Especially the ginger and white ones.
@Kidsandliz I do have an open ended job offer in the land down under…
@tinamarie1974 well then, with all those firemen to visit - of course wearing your low cut V neck shirt and spike heel boots… take the job
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
Cool off, y’all.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
Is that you, @OldCatLady?
@mediocrebot -
Unblame. I am sitting outside actually enjoying the weather. It’s 80 and breezy.
If it was two degrees colder, it would be perfect, but I’ll take it.
@aetris
/giphy can relate
So I have been accumulating blames since Wednesday. Here goes
Blame because:
Unblame:
OMG
I bought a huge bean bag chair for my daughter’s dorm room from Amazon Warehouse and fell in love with it. So I bought a second one which was promptly taken by my son. My third one just arrived.
The first two were heavily discounted and it looked like the only problem was a trashed box. Score! The third one is another matter.
Hmmm, the box is about half the size.
Is it the smaller one? Nope, IT HAS ALMOST NO BEANS IN IT! WHY WOULD THEY SHIP A BEAN BAG CHAIR WITH ALMOST NO BEANS IN IT?
It’s also beat up and filthy but no holes. I feel sorry for it- it’s such a cheerful yellow but has obviously had a difficult life at the Amazon Warehouse. (As did some poor employee that had to clean up a ton of staticky beans.)
The have replacement beans available. Does anyone know if Amazon negotiates? Would they maybe cut me a deal on extra filling? Or do I have to send poor little perky yellow chair back to that evil place?
@sammydog01 They might give you a $5 off (GC) towards purchasing the extra beads. They probably cant comp you the extra beads because of different sellers (unless the extra beads are also a warehouse deal and are likely the beads that fell out of yours, just now sold separately).
See what Amazon did, there? Doubled the income from shipping charges.
As a shareholder (like many of your pension/401k/mutual funds are), I approve (as do you though your investments). Bonus points for creating delivery gig economy jobs with no real worker liabilities on the balance sheet.
@sammydog01 It’s worth a shot. I might try an email with pictures first instead of calling. I have no real reason to say email except that I have received widely varied telephone cs from them.
@sammydog01 @therealjrn I’ve heard of the $5GC being approved in chat, but recently they’ve cut way back or outright banned the CS reps from offering it.
You may have to put Karen on the chat to get them to do it.
@sammydog01 I would argue that you ordered the identical item but clearly did not receive that. I’d try for a return at their expense and replace it first. Then if that fails move on to them sending you the missing beans. You were nice you let child #2 swipe yours.
@sammydog01 just try being nice to the CS rep and if they do not have the authority to give you an acceptable solution, ask for their manager.
I recently had a next day delivery arrive after a WEEK, the manager comped the item. He tried to give me Amazon credit, but I pushed until he refunded my credit card.
Just be factual while being polite but firm. Good luck!
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 Also mention to them that you have purchased a gazillion items from them and that their whole company will collapse without your support.
I would be shocked if they didn’t give me a refund and return shipping. But they have a half chair of beans for $45. I’m not paying that much to make this one work but if they gave it to me for $20 we would probably both come out ahead. But I bet they don’t have that much leeway.
Amazon accepted the return immediately through the return form on their website. They had a red one for $28 more so I went for it. If there’s a problem with that one I’m done.
@sammydog01 Let me guess, the additional beans to fill yours would have cost, … $28?
That makes a whole, filled out yellow bean bag chair the same price as the red one, yes?
@mike808 As I said above $45 for half which probably isn’t as much as it should have come with. Plus it was beat to shit. As I also said.
@sammydog01 i got them to credit me on a warehouse deals 3d printer that arrived not as described. I quoted the cost for everything i would need to order from them to fix it and i seem to recall they were pretty amenable to giving me that or most of it. This was almost two years ago, though, and their policies may have changed.
But that was something i wanted to fix and there were no more of. In your case when there was something else to purchase i think the return was the right thing to do.
They also had some pretty nice looking big beanbag chairs at Sam’s club if you’re a member. They’re the well stuffed kind that have a seat and back formed into them. Big Joe maybe.
@djslack I guess I should have tried. Oh well. The price was too good to be true. I already filled out the return paperwork. If they had thrown in the cost of a refill it would have been an awesome deal.
I have seen other bean bag chairs but I fell in love with this one many years ago- they had them in the teen section at the library which made me think they were durable and easy to clean.
Don’t look at me like that- I had a kid with me.
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@sammydog01 one difference i picked up on between what you asked and my story that may matter if you need this in the future: i didn’t ask for a discount on what i needed to fix it, but a partial refund to keep the janky mess they sent me rather than have them have to take it back. I used the amount for the parts as justification for how much i wanted credited to me.
@djslack Next time I’ll give it a try but I would have been asking for $45 on a purchase of $80. I’ll be watching to see if it goes back up for sale. I bet it cost a lot to ship. I hope the other one I ordered isn’t the same story.
@djslack My new chair arrived and it’s perfect and undamaged! The retail box was damaged so they put a bigger box around it- the inner box has a tag that says new and the shipping label from the manufacturer to Amazon. Plus I have enough cardbord to build a small city.
@djslack @sammydog01
/giphy cardboard fort
BLAME!
Got caught up in a western novel last night and finished it a little after midnight. 0430 came really early this morn.
And BLAME!
Woke up to the house temp of 59*. Somethings not right with Mr Furnace in the basement!
@JnKL oh no on both counts!!!
@aetris no Santa yet! It’s not Christmas until December.
Blame blame blame blame…
For about the last three or four years I’ve had to resort to using reading glasses. Not too powerful, 1.0d, but strong enough that I’m pretty hopeless without them.
When I finally accepted a need for them, I found a style that I could tolerate, were comfortable, and worked well. Then I bough five or six pairs so I don’t have to hunt all over the house, car, office for glasses.
Well, nearly as I can tell, the lenses have been degrading over the last few years 'cause I’m having more and more trouble focusing on things that were not a challenge when they were new. Ya, that’s it, lens degradation.
I blame the goat for this previously unknown phenomenon. Elon Musk can put a human on Mars, but I can’t get reading glasses with non-degradable lenses?
Additional blame: The style I bought the first time, Foster Grant Alumineyes, have been discontinued. So I can’t just buy a more powerf… er, I mean a new pair with fresh lenses.
@ruouttaurmind If this bothers you so much you obviously never had your bra discontinued.
@ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 or your foundation that perfectly matches your skin tone
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 Fruit of the Loom did discontinue my underwear, so that’s go to be similar.
Worse than a favoured product being discontinued is when they change the design or formula. “New and improved” seldom is.
@ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 well, you could always go comando!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/giphy going comando
@ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974 Imagine requiring a pair of underwear that fits each of your man parts perfectly with no gaps, wrinkles, or bulging even if your man parts are not exactly symmetrical. That is what finding a new bra is like.
@ruouttaurmind You can get new lenses put in if you go the Rx route. I have been reusing my frames for a good 5 years now and was surprised to see they are still being manufactured.
@Kidsandliz Thanks, but that would require real money. I paid about $4 each for these on eBay. Much more affordable than a visit to the eye care professional, plus frames and lenses.
@ruouttaurmind see if something then on ebay has the same exact frame shape from that manufacturer (often they recycle shapes - my current glasses they have 6 different “lines” using the same exact shape and many colors within each line) and buy those with the “correct” lens in them. Then swap the lenses out.
@aetris cool cat chillin
BLAME - driving hundreds of miles in the driving rain in the dark. Hydroplaning on occasion. Stopping for the rest of the night in a rest area and the rain eventually caught up with me (the downpour woke me up). So rinse and repeat on the next bunch of hours driving (still in the dark for an hour or so of it).
Unblame - at least it wasn’t a billion degrees out like it has been for months. I actually had to use a light blanket while sleeping in my car. And the rain was needed since there is/was a burn ban throughout the area.
3rd eye goat eerily similar to reality
BLAME! Started shopping for my Mom’s groceries at HEB - she’s recovering from surgery and I am in town to help her out. You know how awful it is to shop in a grocery store in which you are unfamiliar? So I’m a quarter of the way through my trip and some A$$hole mistakes my cart for his and walks away with my stuff. I look high and low and where my cart was left there is a cart with 2 onions and a bag of jalapeno peppers. Really dude? You can’t tell the difference between a cart full of stuff and a cart with 2 fricking onions and some jalapenos? Needless to say I threw the onion and jalapenos on a display and BLAMED THE GOAT and started to add items to my cart again. Now when I look at my list I’ve got to figure out is it crossed off because I got it once or is it crossed out because I got it and the replacement. Much cursing of the GOAT. After making progress on re-shopping the items I had already shopped once, some Dude walks up to me with a package of fajita meat and my first cart and says “I think I took your cart by mistake” I met the GOAT in person! The GOAT apologized to me for taking my cart. Then I apologized to him for all the horrible names I had just called him. I even showed him where I had thrown his 2 onions and the bag of jalapenos and then asked the question of the day “GOAT how do 2 onions and a bag of jalapenos even closely resemble this cart full of food?” GOAT just said “bleat”
Of course when I got back to my 87 year old mother’s house she wanted to know “What took you so long?” I was held up by a GOAT don’t you know!
@allergycheryl what a giant PITA!!! And he only brought you back one item??? Sheesh.
BLAME - Verizon (who bought yahoo) is more or less closing down yahoo groups with 12 days notice. All files, archives, photos, etc. will vanish. The groups will all become private so no one will be able to find them. All that will be left is using it as an email platform. I run 5 groups, one with 5600+ members and have been wasting my time trying to figure out what to do with them, the transition to io groups costs money if you want them to do it and move everything. If you try to do it yourself yahoo only lets you get your hands on 1000 members info to transfer… I am worried our email accounts will be next. Since they already own AOL and kept those emails hopefully not. FUCK Verizon.
Unblame, because EIGHT hours of restful sleep last night!!!
/giphy tranquil
I don’t know where that is bit I want to go RIGHT MEOW!!
@tinamarie1974 the stream reminds me of an incredibly beautiful piece of road on we passed through on the way from northern Idaho to northern Montana (Kallispell - about 30 miles south of Glacier National Park) for a kid soccer tournament. I had to pull over and take a photo. I hated the long distances we traveled for stupid kids’ soccer (games all over ID, eastern WA and OR along with western MT) but we traveled through some gorgeous portions of the country.
/Blame I misplaced the key to my new (to me) car.
/Unblame The trusty TrackR app helped me find it.
/Blame I was late getting an appointment…
/Unblame but only by a couple of minutes.
Unblame because the orthopedic doc FINALLY gave me a cortisone shot for my ankle! It is starting to feel some relief after 2 months!!
Also unblame because I saw a shooting star tonight. Yes I wished on it because I am like a kid with these types of things
/giphy wish on a star
@tinamarie1974 Unfortunately, the cortisone is only temporary. Is the pain trying to tell your brain that something is wrong with your ankle, and cortisone only masks the issue for a short while, but doesn’t cure or heal anything?
Condolences if it’s just from being old and living 40 years longer than our genes were programmed for over 40,000 years (or ~6,000, if you believe in an imaginary bearded white guy sky-friend who is rumored to occasionally grant wishes, but mostly ignores pain, suffering, and evil).
@tinamarie1974 Your ankle, you say…
Is it the legacy of a litter of ankle-biters?
Could be worse. You could be suffering from cankles.
@mike808 @tinamarie1974 - You definitely have to be careful with cortisone, I knew someone who mistook pain relief for cure and overworked the problem area, leading to bad complications later on. There are laws and likelihoods to the universe we live in, and while there are big benefits to faith (or we wouldn’t try for improvements in the first place), as the feller said, “trust in God, but tie up your camel.”
@aetris @mike808 no ankle biters here and given my age and place in life at the moment, I don’t see THAT happening!!
As far as the cortisone, your points are understood. I was/am suffering from bursitis and had been doing physical therapy for six weeks. It helped, but only provided 25-50% improvement. So that means my daily walks, extended shopping, honestly walking up and down my stairs, all went away or was significantly reduced.
The cortisone is reducing the inflammation, but I realize I need to continue the stretching.
TL:DR. I am getting old and did not properly stretch b4 working out. Caused super painful inflammation that required a bit of help to reduce!
@aetris @tinamarie1974
So, your Meh purchases from the keyboard are up to compensate, yes?
@aetris @mike808 actually, yes. Clearly I am weak!
Blame because I am short and bags of mulch are BIG and HEAVY!! But I finally got my last flowerbed mulched…just in time for winter!
@aetris no, no. I NEED a lawn man, not a lawn cat
@tinamarie1974 - You have to ask @mike808 for THOSE kind of pictures!
@aetris you are right. @mike808 is exceptionally good at finding them!!
@tinamarie1974 This. Right?
@Kidsandliz well THAT is a very SWEET picture
@Kidsandliz maybe THIS. What do you think @oldcatlady?
@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @tinamarie1974
Y’all need a lawn man who can handle powerful equipment.
@Kidsandliz @mike808 @OldCatLady yyeessss
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 What’s he mowing? That grass is short. Oh, I see…
@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady haha. I would let him mow anything he wants!
@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @tinamarie1974 That guy needs to put on some shoes. Pushing a gas mower while barefoot is a very bad idea.
@Kidsandliz @Limewater @OldCatLady you are right. Let me scold him
Blame? Unblame? I left the store with $336 worth of Halloween lights for $24.
I might have a problem.
@RiotDemon that is an amazing deal!!
@RiotDemon You do not have a problem. Spending only $24 on halloween lights is totally reasonable.
That you have a zillion of them might get you on the evening news. Thus I’d say both are an unblame. We need pics when you are done.
@mediocrebot you’re right. Not enough time before Halloween and then it will be gone.
@Kidsandliz I don’t even know if I’ll have time to put up all the lights this year. I couldn’t pass up this deal. I’m hoping this gives me enough lights to decorate my giant oak tree. I know exactly what my goal is… Just not enough time.
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon There’s always next year.
Blame! The A/C is broken. Today’s PT found new ways to hurt. I just got the high dose flu shot. It hurts, too. Podiatrist can’t see me till Fri re broken metatarsal. Woe! It feels really good to unload that…
@OldCatLady A full load for the scapegoat huh.
@aetris is the shadow on the moon at night. Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
@OldCatLady Well that is a pile of painful things that suck big time.
BLAME - took my 18 year old cat to the vet to get her thyroid test (she has had hyperthyroid for several years) as she is down to 6 pounds and eats a ton right now. As she ages she is less and less happy about this vet business. So she set her teeth on me hard enough to make small puncture wounds in the back of my hand near my wrist. Hit a tendon. Now 5 hours later I think it is starting to get infected. Swollen, hot… Hopefully by morning it will not hurt as much to move the two fingers involved and be a bit better. The other tooth mark on that hand is doing fine so I guess unblame for that.
@Kidsandliz Take antibiotics. Now.
@OldCatLady Just saw your post now. Have to wait a half hour for them to open but going to the doctor today to have it looked at. It’s currently about 2.5" x 1.5" so it didn’t expand all that much over night so maybe my immune system has it under control… but better safe than sorry since I don’t want any tendon damage from the infection.
@OldCatLady Well despite antibiotics the infected area is expanding. I guess I go back tomorrow.
@Kidsandliz @OldCat oh no. Good luck!
@oldcat @tinamarie1974 Yeah not real thrilled. Just took a pen and drew around the outside again. Covering most of the back of my hand at this point and down the wrist a bit. Hopefully by morning there will an improvement as the antibiotic has had more chance to do its thing.
@Kidsandliz @oldcat
/image fingers crossed
@oldcat @tinamarie1974 Well it is growing but not as fast. Hopefully a few more pills later and it will be going the other direction. Asked about that when I went back to get my tetnus shot. I was sure I had one within the last 5 years but couldn’t figure out where. BLAME!!
Unblame: Goat Cat has found the cats toys. Apparently it is necessary to take them to bed with her to guard them. LOL
BLAME Meh says my Speks Blocks Brackets and Beams has been delivered but it hasn’t. When I reached out to Meh I got an autoresponder that says they are on overload and too busy to respond right away.
I think that’s a double blame - first for lost package and second for Meh too busy to fix it
BLAME - so in 2016 I sold my lovely little 1988 sunrader RV to pay medical bills. I forgot to take the plate off (no expiration date antique car plate) and the new owners are still using it. I had asked for it to be sent back and they ignored me. So anyway today I got papers that I am being sued in court for a traffic accident about 1200 miles away that happened in late 2017. Guess they didn’t remove the plate. It will cost me $135 that I don’t have to file the paperwork proving I didn’t own it when he had the accident. SHIT SHIT SHIT. Oh wait FUCK FUCK FUCK.
Tomorrow I am going to the license plate place and having them list is as a stolen plate and put a note in there I haven’t owned it since 8/16. Picking up other proof from my insurance company and I have his insurance card listing it on his car insurance (I didn’t want to drive it without proof of insurance) as he asked me to drive it to a town 7 hours away so his brother could get it to him.
Then I am calling the clerk of court in NJ to figure out what to do.
hmm I guess the bot is ignoring fuck these days - calling @carl669 - you need to update your count.
@Kidsandliz yeah… it’s been fucking ignoring fuck for a couple three fucking weeks or so
@carl669 @Kidsandliz
/giphy pity fuck
Unblame (but still blame for the hours I have wasted on this) Well good in that the owner’s insurance company will get me taken off the suit and pay all the fees. Now let’s hope they do this in a timely manner. Still reporting the plate as stolen though in case the current owner still won’t take it off. It’s an antique car plate and has no expiration date so I am sure that is part of the motivation for not removing it. Saves him money. And then he doesn’t have to deal with CA smog stuff since it is plated elsewhere. Wish I could bill the current owner $100/hour for my time. Let’s see… that will be $1100, cash only. Yeah in my dreams LOL
Blame - damn goat can’t get this right …
Despite PG&E turning off the power to eveything except the HV transmission lines, equipment on said lines starts 10,000 acre wildfire in Sonoma County.
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Smoke-Kincade-Fire-air-quality-Bay-Area-forecast-14559437.php#photo-18493464
@stolicat
@stolicat Well that sucks big time. How close are you to that? A friend says they are turning power off again Saturday - well at least where she lives.
@Kidsandliz It’s well to the north but the smoke is predicted to be blanketing most of the Bay Area by tomorrow, and that in itself can be pretty debilitating, especially for anyone with respiratory issues.
Saturday’s wind and low humidity is supposed to be more substantial than this last one, and we may lose our power again. oh boy
@stolicat Hope you are still to the south of that. The morning news sounded horrific.
@Kidsandliz Yeah, it’s still well north of us, altho we can smell it now. It’s looking to be a bad one, and the winds haven’t even kicked in fully yet.
@stolicat saw this on the news last night and it looks just horrible. Please be safe and sending good luck your way
/giphy good luck
@aetris I don’t know where you found that cat one but it is cool!!
@stolicat I hope it stays north of you. Not good for those folks though.
Blame: Spent the day in the ER due to a massive migraine that I could not manage at home. Happy I am finally pain free!
/giphy exploding head
@tinamarie1974 Glad you are pain free but what a PITA to keep getting migraines.
@Kidsandliz thank you and my thoughts exactly! I wish they would stop.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Glad you are better - I had a neighbor who had them chronically, so I’m familiar with how debilitating they can be. We, and the neighbor to the other side of his house, would go into dark/quiet mode when it got bad to help him recover.
@Kidsandliz @stolicat that was so very sweet of you guys. I am sure your neighbor appreciated it!
@aetris aawwww I saw NOTHING so cute in the ER. Maybe they should implement kitten/puppy therapy lol!
@aetris @tinamarie1974 HA then they’d make more money due to allergic reactions LOL
@aetris @tinamarie1974
Migraines totally suck. I hope you find a way to take out your violent aggression on the ones that keep hanging around you.
@aetris @f00l thanks and is that what I should do, let out my frustrations?
@aetris @f00l @tinamarie1974 always yes. Why would you hold on to your frustrations?
The California fires… seeing the morning news… OMG - folks out there I hope you aren’t caught up in this.
Fires and fire threats and smoke power outages suck.
And tornados. And huge winter storms.
Sympathies to all.
Blame! Spear Phishing attack! Looked totally legit. Now changing passwords, callin CC companies, bank and whatnot. Grrr… I should know better!
@JnKL Could you give us some more details so I don’t do the same thing?
Tiring, repetitive blame - Sonoma fire now over 30,000 acres, 50,000 evacuated, smoke (cough) over entire bay area has turned the sunshine into a weird spooky orange color, AND “historic” winds (up to 85 mph across the ridges) starting tonight and through tomorrow, so they’re shutting off the power some time after 5 later today “for 48 hours or more”.
I’ll have to drive off somewhere later to try and find a cell signal to click my meh buttons - At least I got my meh exchange package off this morning …
@aetris aawwwww
Looks like you need some fresh blame here, so -
BLAME - Because of the power being shutoff from the wildfires I had to drive 8 miles down the hill to get cell service to click the meh button and post this!
Oh yeah, and also that now over 60,000 people have had to be evacuated from the north bay fires and more than two dozen smaller fires throughout the area have started up from the extreme low humidity and high winds …
@stolicat hope tour homestead is still safe!!
@aetris Toonces!
So, on the lighter side, BLAME: my dog is too literal
@ybmuG Aww, You’ve got one those Roombas that barks!
@therealjrn more like a black dust mop. And he’s Velcro to sticks, twigs, leaves… Would help if he wasn’t psycho about getting groomed. But he is a good dog.
@therealjrn @ybmuG and super cute! What is his name?
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 thanks! His name is Macallan. Figured naming a Scotty after a good single malt was appropriate.
@therealjrn @ybmuG Not just barks, he fertilizes too!
@mike808 @therealjrn true. And yet no one has gotten the joke. Is that another blame? Mehbe it was just too obscure.
@therealjrn @ybmuG
You gave it all you got.
@mike808 @therealjrn at 11:00 on a Sunday night while still recovering from a cold, yeah, that was about it. Have even less now…
@mike808 @ybmuG Yeah, I don’t get it. I see the balls, I see leaves and I think he is peeing on that bush…
I literally don’t get it.
@therealjrn @ybmuG
@mike808 @therealjrn it’s all about the name of the bush. Probably harder if you’re not from the northeast.
@mike808 @ybmuG I literally do not know the name of the bush…wait…you name your bushes up there? What’s that bush’s name? Curly?
@mike808 Yep! Just got YOUR joke! Told you I was slow tonight! Well done!
Just saw the TNG episode where they pulled Scotty out of the transporter pattern buffer after 75 years. A petty good episode.
@therealjrn no, it’s John
@mike808 also, we considered naming him Montgomery.
The dog. Not the bush.
@ybmuG
HAHAHAHA
@therealjrn @ybmuG
Mehrkin.
@therealjrn @mike808 OK, well, I’ll clear it up. The bush is a peony. I know, kind of anticlimactic, but I thought it was humorous. Been a long week…
@ybmuG I bet’ll kill 'em down at the garden club luncheon!
@ybmuG Um…just asking…how much cold medicine did you take? You either need a little more or a little less…I can’t quite tell from here.
@therealjrn Had quite a bit over the last week or so. Like I said, been a long week. And this after a couple weeks of the flu.
Well, at least he’s not beating around the bush!
@therealjrn @ybmuG hope you feel better soon!
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 Thanks - finally! Sounds like you’ve had a rough week too! I think Thursday was when my wife had to use her rescue meds as well. Must be something in the air. Maybe it’s aliens…yeah, that’s it!
@therealjrn @ybmuG those damn aliens!
/giphy Blame
Awarded to the current Goat, @aetris, for voting for every nominee goat offered for Nov 2019 in the Goat Nomination topic.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/almost-time-to-roll-back-to-goat-time-november-2019-nominations
OTOH
/giphy un-blame
Since i felt inspired by this, and followed this voting pattern myself.
@f00l
/giphy vote early & vote often
@therealjrn
A voter gotta do what a voter gotta do.
/giphy gotta
BLAME - yesterday my car wouldn’t start. Worked fine the day before.
Unblame - fortunately it was just the battery and nothing else wrong.
BLAME - I wish this car had gauges and not just idiot lights. Then I could see what things are doing well before there are problems.
@Kidsandliz I miss gauges - you’d often get a sense of when something was developing before it reached critical, and what it was as opposed to the Check Engine light popping on.
@stolicat Yeah in my van I had for 25 years it had gauges and because of them I averted disaster more than once. Here I had zero warning as there was no way to see the that charging was not normal. Fortunately it died at my apartment rather than in some parking lot somewhere after hours to get it fixed/new battery put in.
BLAME: Cleaned the gutters for the 3rd time already and we’re nowhere near done!
Unblame: there are other reasons to like Fall
@ybmuG that is beautiful - even matches the brickwork in the bg. what plant is that?
@stolicat it’s a lilac. Not sure of the variety but the flowers are very dark purple
@Barney loves purple.
@Barney @mediocrebot thanks,
/image captain obvious
UNBLAME: After 68 hours, PG&E turned our power back on this evening!
BLAME: They also sent an alert that they will probably turn it off again tonight.
At least we’ll get a tank of hot water out of it, and pizza tonight!
/giphy cold shower
@stolicat Well that has to be getting old - not to mention losing food in the freezer and the PITA of no easy way to cook unless you have a gas or camping stove.
@Kidsandliz well, I must confess I have propane, so the stove top works, and a generator that’s been running steadily to keep the fridge on, but I ran out of hot water after one day and no heat, and it’s been in the 50s. So could be worse. Watching what’s going on to the north and what the fire victims are dealing with, I’m on a luxury camping trip.
So along with the stories of when I was a kid and had to walk 5 miles to school in the snow, I can now add having to drive 8 miles to get a cell signal.
#firstworldproblems
Unblame - I got an IRK
Blame: ESTIMATED DELIVERY Tuesday, November 26th - Monday, December 2nd
And yes you are still to blame as no new goat is anointed yet, not to mention in my time zone it wasn’t midnight yet when this happened
@Kidsandliz New goat isn’t until tonight. I wonder who it’s going to be?
@therealjrn Oops - I was tired when I wrote that. Gee I wonder too
@Kidsandliz @therealjrn yeah, gee, I wonder…
@therealjrn @ybmuG yeah probably too soon to tell (snicker).
@aetris Ummmm, no.
UNBLAME: went to ZZ Top concert and it was AWESOME. Opening act was very good. Note: They had 3 guitarists, lead singer, drummer, keyboardist, 2 backup singers.
ZZ Top came out and was like 10 times better. I don’t know how to describe that it wasn’t louder, but the room seemed to fill with more music from just the 3 of them. And they looked so at ease yet clearly choreographed. What a great show!
And was very amusing watching a few women toward the front who were likely my age (50s) jumping up and dancing like they were 20-something year old groupies trying to get the guys’ attention. 30 years ago that would be awesome. Not sure how the 70 yr old guys felt about it.
By the way, neither hubby nor I are big ZZ Top fans, nor do we generally go to concerts, but it seemed like a fun idea (plus concert was in the philharmonic hall so old-time theater w balconies and side boxes and seats <2500) so I bought tickets on a whim.
Bonus unblame: before the concert we tried out a restaurant we had not been to before, food was great and reasonably priced.
@mollama that sounds like a great time!
Unblame goats save Regan Library
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/468273-reagan-library-survives-wildfire-thousands-more-homes-threatened
Just running out the current lame-Goat’s administration with a final BLAME from me as today’s Meh-rathon is bad timing for me and I’ve already missed 2 IRKs. And my wife threw her back out. And my cold is still hanging on after 2 weeks. And it’s raining.
EDIT - make that THREE IRKs, the last one while I was typing this!
@ybmuG and because tomorrow you will have no one to blame but yourself!
@tinamarie1974 yeah I wonder who I can blame, I mean thank for that…
@ybmuG
@aetris So you’re saying I can blame Lady Gaga for my impending Goatdom? Hadn’t thought of that, but…
@ybmuG - Whatever works for you!
I blame the current goat, @aetris, that I just noticed the Meh-rathon.
And that I smashed my thumb.
@f00l how did you smash your thumb? (hope it isn’t too damaged).
@f00l oh no! Hope you are ok!!
@aetris oh my goodness! So stinkin cute!!
@aetris
@tinamarie1974
@kidsandliz
A big fat nother came in with lots of rain and sleep and wind. Most unwelcome
Wind slammed door on my hand. I was holding onto door. The wind gust just took it from me and used it as a weapon against me.
Thumb result: either not too damaged, or else replete w blood poisoning and I’m about to die or something.
So, all good.
@aetris @f00l @Kidsandliz
/giphy poor baby
@aetris @Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
My thumb appreciates your sympathy
I blame the Goat
IRKs are coming up at odd times. Which means I actually have to pay attention if I want one.
/giphy unfair
@aetris: I doubt they will offer another IRK tonite. So … likely i missed it this time.
Well then … UNBLAME!
I’m really better off without them.
Happy Trick-Or-Treating!
@f00l - Thank you! It’s been fun.
Blame. It was freezing cold and my niece picked wonder woman for is this year.
I am frozen in places I did not know existed!
@aetris oh that would have been lovely!!
31 UNBLAMES for a wonderful October Goat!
I have nothing to complain about, until tomorrow…
@therealjrn Oh boy…
@therealjrn - It has really been a lot of fun.
Enjoy, @ybmuG!
@aetris @therealjrn Cat-in-the-box was cool, but this one is perfect!
Thank you @aetris for a great month!
@tinamarie1974 Indeed, @aetris - October was definitely your month!
@tinamarie1974 @aetris
Don’t forget to get your key to the Emeritus Lounge from Tina later…I hear she hides it in interesting places.
@aetris @therealjrn This key?
Happy November everybody! I’m outta here.
Liked all the cat images and gifs. Nice job with that.