Another Bleating Heart (March 2026 Scapegoat Blame Thread)
8And time Marches on. The shortest month has come and gone. Seems like just last week we were still in February and @cbilyak was taking the blame for everything. Maybe because it’s true, but we can’t dwell on that. @cbilyak is free, and that means we move on to a new sacrificial lamb goat. Lucky for us, @craigthom exists.
Forward, March.
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Me?
Sorry, I’m busy with making sure yesterday’s pleasant temperature doesn’t happen again soon.
@craigthom I’d really appreciate some unpleasant COLD temperatures here, along with some snow or at least rain! There was a grass fire burning unnervingly close by yesterday. I don’t want to have to blame you for a fire raging through town.
@craigthom @Kyeh For real- wtf are you doing making it be so warm and dry in CO right now?!
@Kyeh @Pony first you guys complain about the cold and snow. Now it’s the warm and dry. Make up your mind.
@craigthom @Pony Oh, I’m not complaining about cold & snow. That’s the people out east, and even some of the southerners. But not me!
@craigthom @Kyeh @Pony
The weather is just fucking broke. Two weeks ago insane storms in the Midwest. Last weekend downpours. Then 67 on Sunday. Then more rain. Then snow. Week of below freezing.
60 yesterday. 69 today.
This is beyond the power of the goat
@Kyeh @Pony @unksol I haven’t started my garden seedlings yet, so cold weather will continue for a few more weeks
@craigthom @Kyeh @Pony @unksol
But it is within the power of the goat to accept the blame even if the goat can’t change it…
@craigthom best wishes for your month!!
@cbilyak @craigthom
Best blames for your month!! There. Fixed it for you.
@cbilyak
Are you in port or did you pop for the Wi-Fi package?
@chienfou was in Port that day then back at sea yesterday in Port today, back at Sea tomorrow. It’s a rough life.
@cbilyak
Thanks for taking one for the team! Have fun
Froward, indeed. Towards fro!
And the typo got fixed. Rats.
@werehatrack I don’t see a typo.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@therealjrn @werehatrack
As in “to and fro” maybe.
@Kyeh @therealjrn @werehatrack
It’s been edited.
@chienfou @therealjrn @werehatrack I know; I just thought it was interesting that “fro” became a part of it.
@chienfou @Kyeh @werehatrack
I don’t see any edit…
@therealjrn
Just under the picture in the lead. Where it says forward, March now. It did say froward March…
@chienfou Are you sure? I don’t see any erasure marks…
@therealjrn
Time to update your monitor to the new whiteout capable model.
@chienfou @therealjrn
Allegedly developed for on-campus use at Texas A&M in College Station.
@craigthom I really want to blame you for something today, but I can’t think of a specific bad thing. Soooooooo, I blame YOU for not having anything to blame you about.
I am confident that something will go wrong very soon, and it will be your fault.
In the meantime, you should be ashamed of yourself!
Welcome. As a not-dead-yet goat you’re in a unique position for the next few weeks
Going to blame you for the fact that the house inspector that came to look at Mom’s (vacant) house for a potential buyer left every damn light on while I was gone all last week. Idiot.
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@chienfou he was helping the house look lived in
@craigthom
Not very well though… Maybe he has a side gig with the power company locally.
Okay, this is the perfect level of blame for an involuntary scapegoat: there’s this fly that’s been buzzing around in my house for 4 days now & I’ve just missed getting it multiple times.
Grrr!
@Kyeh
Maybe you could reach out to one of your meh neighbors and borrow a tarantula for a few days!
@chienfou @Kyeh Do you want to borrow my electric tennis racquet I got 2 of them from meh!
@chienfou @therealjrn
A tarantula would be fun, but I think I will get this damn thing eventually. I probably should buy one of those electric tennis rackets next time. There was one time I had a LOT of flies (shudder) because of a rat that had gotten into my basement & died, and stank to high heaven! I found instructions online for a homemade fly trap made from a big pop bottle. It was gross but it worked really well.
(And I finally found the mummified rat in a corner of the basement beneath a pallet.)
@chienfou @Kyeh
I hope meh sells these some day.
A Bug-A-Salt gun!
https://www.bugasalt.com
@chienfou @Kyeh @therealjrn My husband bought one of those bug-a-salt rifles years ago- I had to forbid him from using it in the house. He was a little too trigger happy- there were grains of salt everywhere.
@Kyeh @Pony @therealjrn
Same outcome for my BIL… sis wasn’t too happy
@chienfou @Kyeh @therealjrn don’t fly traps smell like something died?
@chienfou @craigthom @therealjrn
I put it in the basement, so I didn’t have to smell it.
Unblame, I hope? Not trying to jinx it, but tomorrow morning I’m scheduled to get the surgery that was preempted ingloriously by my Election Day Kidney Stone Adventure of 2025. Unless the Universe finds yet another way for things to go wrong, I’ll be in the OR by 8AM and out to Recovery around Noon. The surgeon is keeping me there overnight, and I should be sprung to head home early Friday afternoon. If the procedure accomplishes its three main goals, I’ll be relieved of a constant irritation that has limited my mobility and certain choices and activities for over a year now.
Updates will happen once I become certain of the progress made.
@werehatrack Sending good vibes and a little prayer for the successful outcome!
🛏
Checked in, all systems go. Just waiting for them to hook up all the stuff.
Maybe something will go right this time.
@werehatrack I talked to your surgery staff last night. I had them put in a speaker dock as a surprise. Enjoy!
Surgery happened. They’re keeping me at least overnight.
Oh major blame! Just when we got my mom with dementia to the point where she was tolerating the senior living community we moved her to last year. I get a call from her early this morning. She was very confused and told me water was everywhere. It rained last night and I first thought she had left the balcony door open. But she handed the phone to her neighbor. The water heater line broke in the apartment above her! Being in the middle of the building, her unit took the brunt of the damage. Kitchen and living room is flooded. They are going to move her to a temporary unit across the hall for at least a month while repairs get done. She’s staying with me tonight.
Prayers requested to deity of your choice. For me that we don’t kill each other.
@ironcheftoni Oh, NO!
@ironcheftoni that’s terrible!
@ironcheftoni
Ugh…
Hope it’s going better than expected, it’s already got to be so tough. 
Sending love and prayers your way, for both of you! 
@Lynnerizer it’s getting a little better. She gets confused about her temporary apartment. I did take her over to the old one and she remembered the accident. The community director knows that it’s high priority to get bsck to her old place.
The best thing I have to report is that I’m going to Vegas one week from today for a MahJongg tournament. Home Health and my petsitter will be visiting her but for three of the four days I’m gone, my hands off sister will be visiting! She gets to be welcomed to my world. It will at least save me a lot in petsitter fees while she is there.
@ironcheftoni
I’ve been playing on my phone and I really like it! Good luck and have fun! 
Hopefully your mom will back in her apartment soon and without causing too much of a set back.
That MahJongg tournament sounds like a fun time! And probably a much needed rest!
I’d always been the caretaker in our family. My sister is more of a business woman and workaholic with late nights at the office and no time for much of anything else.
Thankfully she’s seeing things differently these days and putting family first! 
It was really strange when she stepped up and took over when I became unable to physically do it anymore. I think it’s interesting how much people don’t know what they’re capable of until they really need to do it. 
Maybe taking care of your pets is just the beginning of things to come from your sister. One can always hope, right… 
Blame-can’t mention his name because he never lies, but he keep saying drug prices are going to go down-my order of Ozempic for my type 2 diabetes this year and last.
Shipped on Thursday, March 5, 2026 with FEDEX
Ozempic pen 1mg dose
$632.98
84-day supply
Placed on March 27, 2025
Shipment 1 of 1 Delivered
Ozempic pen 1mg dose
$126.00
84-day supply
@Felton10 I refuse to take the blame for what that liar does, but I will continue to blame the people who have him the opportunity.
@craigthom So in 2026 I will be paying 9 times what I paid in 2025, over $ 2,000 total for one medication. Do I want to pay it no, can I afford to pay it-yes, but many won’t and I’m assuming that most of the them are living paycheck to paycheck and voted for you know who and can’t afford it and will stop taking the medication with predictable results. You reap what you sew.
@Felton10
So grateful to have good insurance…
I was just looking at it and now I’ll have to double check. 
Now I’m interested in how much our prescriptions differ in cost, I assume because of location…
UGH, my memory…
@Lynnerizer I have good Medicare Part B RX insurance or at least I thought I did. Pay over $ 100 a month for it and didn’t call to check prices at the beginning of this year enrollment period since the drug prices were so low last year. My bad.
@Felton10
Yeah I didn’t check into my plan this year either and I was a bit surprised to see co-pays for my Rx’s. I got kinda spoiled not having them for almost 10 years.
Luckily they’re not too bad and I can afford them. Seems like I’m constantly telling my guy that when he starts complaining. So many people can’t afford it and end up going without! 
@craigthom You just had to ruin the eclipse for a lot of us using your cloudbuster …
Thankfully, I knew what you were up to and slept through it.
I blame @craigthom for the Los Angeles traffic. Johnnie’s Pastrami ain’t gonna eat itself!
@cfg83 if you’re stuck in traffic then you’re part of the problem.
@craigthom That’s it, now you asked for it.
/showme anthropomorphized goat stuck in traffic jam yelling “I blame society!” at cop named “craigthom”.
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I blame the scapegoat for being behind on my recovery.
On the other hand, I really enjoy the peaceful slow life of blaming my expanding waistline on hobbling (though I can actually walk again, no one has to know that).
@pakopako All the better for committing the perfect crime!
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BLAME!
This one has layers.
While I was in the hospital this week, a missive from my credit union arrived in the mail. It stated that my credit card would expire at the end of the month. The letter was dated Feb 28, implying that the card would expire either that very day or on March 31, while the card itself had an expiry imprint of 04/2026. This seemed very odd.
The letter went on to say that due to inactivity, the card would not be reissued. This seemed exceptionally odd, as that particular card is the one I use most.
It also advised that if I had any questions regarding the non-reissue of the card, I should call [unfamiliar phone number redacted]. This phone number matched nothing that I had on file for my credit union, and also did not match the number on the back of the card.
At that point, my Phish Alarm was going off at a fairly high level. Accordingly, I called the main customer service number for the credit union, and after an overly long Discussion with the Artificial Idiot voice system, I was finally tossed into the twelve-minute(estimated) queue for an Agent. When the system finally delivered me to said Agent, she looked at what was visible to her and said that I should call the CS number on the back of the card. I then asked if the phone number in the letter was actually one of theirs, and she was able to confirm that it was. So I called it.
The next Artificial Idiot voice system was slightly easier to convince to toss me to an Agent, and after a relatively brief wait, the Agent determined that there was nothing visible from that end which showed any problem, and advised me to call a different (known to me) CS number to see what the problem was. So I did.
After treaty negotiations with another Artificial Idiot voice system, I got to another Credit Card CS Agent who was able to discover that the flag which was causing all of the issues was “bad address”. (This is from nominally the same entity that sent me the letter which was successfully delivered to said Bad Address.) But from their side of the system, they couldn’t fix it, I needed to talk to the Main CS side. Yet another phone call.
The Artificial Idiots apparently had decided that I needed to get Extra Helpful Hints instead of an Agent, so the treaty negotiations took even longer before I finally got redirected to somebody who could actually look at and fix whatever was wrong. Fortunately, I go an Agent who was smart enough to know that even the slightest mismatch in spelling or spacing of the parts of an address would generate an error at times, and she spotted the fact that in the main part of my account, my address suffix was spelled out as “Lane”, while on the Credit Card side, it had the standard USPS abbreviation “LN”. Changing this was a nontrivial task For Security Reasons, but [UNBLAME!] she got it fixed.
Oy.
@werehatrack So who the hell actually likes those damned phone systems? No customer I’ve ever talked to! Yet somehow businesses have been sold on the idea that these are great for customer relations. To me, it’s a great reason to look for another company, but options for that are dwindling.
If they’d give me a human to start with, it’d save me time and free up their damned telephone queue. Their limited menu options rarely match what I’m calling for.
Please, everyone, I’m looking for new Board members for my AIAIAI (Anti-Irritating Artificial Intligence Annihilation Institute).
@phendrick @werehatrack
The people who write fewer paychecks to increase their own bonus size.
@phendrick @werehatrack if they have you a human in the first place they’d have to pay that human, and they’d have to field more calls, because fewer people would hang up in frustration.
@craigthom @phendrick @werehatrack for future reference, these systems are programmed to detect voice inflection and even cursing. Call the AI a stupid bitch, can sometimes get you to the agent queue faster.
@craigthom @phendrick @werehatrack
Huh. I used to like to use gethuman.com but they’ve changed it up into an app rather than just a list of phone numbers…stupid bitches.
@craigthom @phendrick @therealjrn @werehatrack I also found out at experian, it’s impossible to get to a human. I did find a switchboard operator number but they only send you back to the robot. My late dad’s information was involved in a hospital data breach. Hospital sends me the info to lock his information. I know it’s out there since I get credit card offers in his name. Send everything they want to all three credit agencies, including death certificate. Experian writes back. They want to talk to him before they can talk to me.
good luck with that, I wish I could talk to him too.
@craigthom @ironcheftoni @phendrick @therealjrn @werehatrack
That’s infuriating. Sometimes even when you get a person. They have to open a ticket to get an SE to figure out that stuff. Can we fix it immediately by manipulating the data. Normally yes
Then there’s a bunch of analysis behind the scenes if it’s a good company. We fixed the immediate issue for 1 person. Now we have a problem.
Should we “fix” this one account or every thing that looks like it? Then how do we prevent it. How did it get in the system this way. What can we do to prevent this.
Then there is a change somewhere. Maybe customer service. Maybe documentation. Maybe code. I don’t like the level of AI chat crap.
What I would hope that last agent did was open an incident that customer werehatrack received a bad notice.
They or an SE looked at the code. Went oh duh. Fixed it. Then ran query to check for anyone else who was/can be impacted. Depending on the impact. Send them a new letter admitting the mistake. Post a banner on their website. Tell all their CS how to handle it. Etc
Granted if it’s only a few people before you can fix it you might just have CS directly call them and explain the situation. Not everything warrants a public announcement. In this case I would find the matching issues that had been sent a letter. Send the list to the CS manager. And fix the code generating the letters.
Unfortunately it usually takes a number of complaints to get an incident moving cause priorities… Data fixes and CS advisories are quicker
@craigthom @ironcheftoni @phendrick @therealjrn @werehatrack
Also just. Obligatory
/image Xkcd shibboleet
@craigthom @ironcheftoni @therealjrn @unksol @werehatrack If only…
@craigthom @ironcheftoni @phendrick @therealjrn @werehatrack
Lol I’ve resigned to being able to buy hotspot on my phone. And scheduling an appointment. Which they will threaten to charge $150 plus repairs if it’s on my side.
I checked before I called. 10 times. I waited for you to acknowledge the outage for a day. Then I open a ticket. Then your system says it’s fixed. But it’s not. So I have to call back to get you to reopen it a day later. Then it magically goes away. You don’t tell me that and if I didn’t catch and Cancel appointment. You charge me.
It has never been me in 13 years with the same equipment I have owned the entire time. Try and charge me for your outage…
@craigthom @phendrick @therealjrn @unksol @werehatrack that has been my all time favorite
BLAME. Now I have to unpack all the boxes I had to pack to move. And either I am sick with something or all the fallen insulation that the landlord never cleaned up well (see photos in last month’s blame thread) is making me sick.
@Kidsandliz I’m not there and I can’t see how you’re reacting, but I’d expect that it’s a combination of stress, unknown-substance dust, Pollen Season I, and probably two or three more things. Let’s hope that none of them are persistent, and that the unpacking process is more akin to a treasure hunt than triage.
Take your time, take breaks often, and if you Just Need Somebody To Talk To, you’ve got my number.
@Kidsandliz if you keep putting it off, you’ll be packed for your next move.
@craigthom So true… although there are a few things I do need to find as I need them now.
@Kidsandliz
I must’ve missed this great news.
Congratulations on finding a new place, I know how you hated your last home.
@Kidsandliz Maybe I already told this story. Back in the wee old daze of the summer of 1985, I was an airplane janitor at Los Angeles Airport (LAX) for Delta Airlines. I did the night shift, so I slept in late. I had the sincere but STUPID idea to put mattress foam into my NORTH facing window. It was great because it was easy to cut and fit. This helped me to keep the room dark so I could sleep. The NORTH facing window was above the mattress. Maybe halfway through the summer I started coughing up orange mucus. … About a week later I realized that the foam was … ORANGE. Turns out the ambient light was enough to disintegrate the foam. Suffice it to say I threw out the foam and everything went back to normal.
Thankfully, I didn’t get a Darwin Award (yet).
@Lynnerizer This one has issue and a slumlord where as the other one had a high functioning sociopath bully as the manager.
I got out of there just in time though. Apparently they are installing, in each apartment, something that will control your heat/AC and can tell if you are not home to adjust the temp. It does this in real time so apparently no one will have the ability to control the temp themselves.
Considering that only one room of those two was even heated or A/C’ed with a motel style heater, this is going to be a real problem for most folks. Those heaters are really inaccurate in measuring the temp, not to mention it is either about 8 degrees colder in the winter in the bedroom or about 8 degrees hotter in the summer (heater/AC is in the living room).
The new place has major foundation problems (ceiling fell across two rooms due to that and unfixed old damage due to a leaking roof - roof has been fixed) but I don’t plan to stay here more than a year so likely I’m more or less safe.
Well it turns out I was/am sick with pneumonia. Still recovering. I BLAME THE GOAT!
@Kidsandliz @craigthom Oh man, that’s terrible.
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@cfg83 @craigthom Thanks.
@Kidsandliz
SOMEBODY STOLE AN HOUR FROM ME LAST NIGHT!
It was gone this morning and I needed it.
I’m sure it was the goat, so Blame.
@phendrick You, too? This needs to be reported.
@phendrick @werehatrack HOLY CARP!! It was a crime spree. I am missing one too.
@phendrick @werehatrack @yakkoTDI A large, coordinated gang must have been involved with so many of us who have been robbed from all over the country!!!
Blame -
Blame for having a CT scan for my chronic kidney stones and getting a phone call before I even get back home saying that in addition to a half inch staghorn stone I have an ovarian growth that’s the size of a softball!
Unblame -
Unblame for having kidney stones and NEEDING a CT scan in the first place, otherwise the mass would’ve/could’ve grown to be the size of a elephant before it was found!
My gynecological oncologist is seeing me on the 25th, it’s the next time she’s in town. Prayers are welcomed and would be very much appreciated…
@Lynnerizer oh no!
@Lynnerizer This is terrible,
. I think we need a dedicated Kidney 
thread.
@Lynnerizer YIKES! The delay in seeing her I’d imagine is going to be so stressful!!!
@Kidsandliz - Yes I hate having to wait but it could be so much longer! Usually it takes a few months to book an appointment with her. At this point I’m just (trying to) counting my blessings. My guy is taking it harder than me, the poor guy, two minutes ago he just asked me to download the litterbox app to his phone and show him how to use it! I reassured him I’m not going anywhere and I don’t have to be sitting in front of it to get notifications. His wheels have been spinning since I found out. The ONLY reason I told him was so he wouldn’t be shocked when the Dr called me back.
Funny thing is HE’S the one waiting for a liver transplant! 
Some people are just born worry warts, thank goodness I’m not one of them! 
@cfg83 - you are 100% correct, we could use our own kidney stone thread!
Meh Stoners!
@cfg83 @Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer Oh NO! But as you said, it’s so good that they were doing the other scan & found it! I’ll be sending healing thoughts your way.
@cfg83 @Kidsandliz
Thanks so much @Kyeh, I almost reached out to you earlier. Yes, I can’t imagine if I hadn’t needed that scan.
@Lynnerizer My experience has been that if a tumor is found before it becomes symptomatic, there’s a very good chance that it’s benign and can be removed with no follow-on problems. I really hope it turns out that way for you. And I hope your stone can be zapped with ESWL so that you don’t have to deal with stents. (I hate stents. I have recent reasons to hate them. I hope you don’t have to deal with any.)
@werehatrack
I agree with you on the stents, last time they were 10 times more painful than the stones themselves! 
And when they put multiple stents in… well, I don’t need to tell YOU about that. 
Just thinking about them makes me okay with dealing with the kidney stone pain just a little longer. 
Like I mentioned they’ve been chronic for about 20 years and more recently (for about 10 years now) even with medication and the correct kidney stone diet I have STILL been needing surgical removal every one and a half to two years. 
I also found it helpful to be seen by 3 or 4 different urologists throughout the years due to me relocating and also going to the ER and just ending up needing emergency surgery. It’s interesting how each one does things a little different and what I’ve learned from them. 
Yeah I’m not able to do the the lithotripsy anymore, I’ve had it 15 plus years ago and it was never that helpful anyway, usually it just prolonged the inevitable surgery.
I’m trying to stay positive about the tumor. I have been having symptoms but it is what it is and I’ll deal with it as it comes. I’m so glad I’m not one to project and worry.
Thank you for your thoughts, I super appreciate your support! 
@cfg83 @Lynnerizer
I know. Seriously. I had two stuck last month annd ended up in the hospital over them. At the follow up apt they did an ultrasound and saw one I had presumed had finally moved (nope it is still stable) and a new one on the other side.
At the hospital I was at they definitely don’t give out dope for stoners though…
(liked your pun)
@cfg83 @Kidsandliz
Ugh…
kidney stones are no joke! What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger, right!? We’ve gotta have SUPER HUMAN STRENGTH by now! 
I even surprised myself with that pun, I’m usually not that witty!
Lol… 
@cfg83 @Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer
Over the years, as a nurse, you can’t imagine how often I’ve seen that scenario play out. Incidental findings were super common.
Blame!! Why did you let her do that?!
@yakkoTDI
@yakkoTDI I am guessing @craigthom was bribed …
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UNBLAME! For the first time in over a year, I have been able to wear jeans for more than an hour. This is one of the things that the surgery on March 5th was aimed at enabling, and it appears to have worked. I still have some recovery ahead, but I’m closer to all of the goals than I was previously.
@werehatrack
YAY FOR YOU!
Unblame - I found this remarkable musician online - I specifically thought of you, @Kidsandliz, because you like those wooden mechanical constructions and also keyboard instruments. Well, this isn’t exactly a keyboard, but so impressive!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9LlgBmVy_as
@Kyeh Yes that is pretty neat. What he has going there is more or less a panflute/pan pipe with automated air blown and a finger pad to activate which pipe the air goes through.
@Kidsandliz Apparently he’s a highly acclaimed accordionist & plays with orchestras and such. I’m certainly impressed!
BLAME. Last night, on the way home from a friend’s house, I got a frantic phone call telling me that a different close friend was in an ambulance on the way to the ER, unresponsive. It was a heart attack, there was a clot in a coronary artery, and as of this morning he still has not regained consciousness. I know that they did emergency surgery to deal with the clot and insert a stent, and that he was being moved to the ICU. No word since then. He was being administered CPR for 45 minutes before they got to the ER and got better support in train.
@werehatrack CPR for 45 minutes with a clot… I hope they make it. But man that’s a long time…
@unksol Yeah. Part of the delay was due to the traffic around the MedCenter area because of the Houston Rodeo. it’s probably going to be a few days before we know what the outcome is going to look like. And he and his wife just bought a house a couple of years ago. Fortunately, they have a strong friends-network to provide support. So far, the signs point to “will recover”, but we’re not sure how much or how fast.
@werehatrack well ive long held that sports are bad for you. Lol. I really hope he comes out ok. Or ya know there is a plan if the worst happens. Sounds like the community is ready. Hope you don’t have to hit that trigger
@werehatrack That is so awful! And so hard for everyone not to know if/to what extent he will recover. I am so sorry.
@Kidsandliz Things are improving, he’s responsive when they reduce the sedation, but he’ll be in the ICU for a while yet as the support equipment is possible to withdraw. He’ll be in the OR at least two more times before he gets moved out of ICU. At the moment, only close family can visit.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack
Any update?
@chienfou @Kidsandliz He’s still in ICU but off of the cardio and pulmonary support, so MUCH improved. I expect that it will be at least another week before they’re ready to discuss transition back to home, and probably at least another week before that happens. (I could be wrong.)
Blaming the March GOAT, whose watch this happened on. Not because of the theft, but because it happened in Europe, so we’re not likely to have a good KiKat deal here on Meh.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/nestle-kitkat-shipment-heist-stolen-europe/
Probably an inside job; check employees for chocolate smodges.
@phendrick Probably because of this guy …
UNBLAME! I got a chance to acquire the monster dual-battery Milwaukee weed whacker, and it arrived yesterday. It’s pretty much the top-rated one out of Project Farm’s test of a selected group.
I have decided that I shall call it Honey Badger. It is a beast, and it destroys any weed in its path as well as small shrubs like the despised lantana that might be regarded as attractive if it had a different growth habit and less of a tendency to come up as volunteer seedlings everywhere that I don’t want them.
Now, if I could just find an easy way to get rid of the wild blackberries in the front yard…
@werehatrack
Do you have access to a backpack nuc?
@macromeh I’d settle for an industrial x-ray inspection emitter, but those get watched much too closely.
@werehatrack Wait. What? Blackberries??? Why don’t you just eat them instead of killing them?
@Kidsandliz Because I would like to be able to walk out into my front yard barefoot and NOT end up with hundreds of puncture wounds on my feet, or walk out to the car wearing hose and not have them get laddered as I try to get into the car on the yard side of the driveway. Also, can’t weed the yard by hand without thick leather gloves (and even they may not suffice), can’t kneel down outside without taking damage, cant wear flats without socks because the goddamn runners will shred my ankles and the tops of my feet, etc. God forbid I should try to lay on the grass next to the car while fixing some minor thing. No, those blackberries must be eliminated With Prejudice.