Let it Goat, Let it Goat! (December 2020 scapegoat blame thread)
13My how the time flies. It’s December, again. At least that means we’re in the home stretch of our struggle to survive 2020. @JayBird’s watch has come to an end so before we put out this dumpster fire we need to find someone special to carry us home. And if not someone special, someone willing. And if not someone willing, @PocketBrain. Squeezing out a narrow victory in final hours seems to be the story of 2020 so I guess you’ll fit right in.
That’s it guys, pull out your winter goats and get ready for the storm, 2021 is up next and until then you’ve got @PocketBrain to do the heavy lifting when it’s time to air your grievances.
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Better 12 hours late than never. You can blame @PocketBrain for the lateness of this post. I do.
@ExtraMedium Bout dang time. @PocketBrain you earned it
@ExtraMedium Thanks for the timeliness; now I can take the plastic bag off my head that was helping me to hold my breath all day.
/giphy thanks pocket brain
@kerryzero Psych! I’m already wearing mask and goggles to address the unwashed masses. Nice try.
@PocketBrain
WHAT YOU SAY!?!?
Somebody set me up the bomb.
@PocketBrain
/youtube all your base
@PocketBrain @RiotDemon
Yeah. Exactly. And life sux. Or so I hear.
You wanna protect yourself, you gotta stick around. To make sure someone else goes under that bus, instead of you.
/youtube don’t have to live like a refugee
@f00l @PocketBrain @RiotDemon
For great justice!
Blame x2: The porch sign I made for my sister didn’t turn out like I’d hoped, and I don’t have time to redo it.
Unblame: At least the boards are pretty.
@msklzannie Ridiculous, it looks great; get new glasses; perhaps blame your optometrist, as it’s more appropriate.
@msklzannie @PocketBrain Le Lie, EV
@caffeineguy @msklzannie f’n French… LEARN THE LANGUAGE!!!
@msklzannie that looks insanely good!
@msklzannie I’ll whisper my address.
New Daily Rant.
Society. I always blame society.
@cfg83
You forgot to blame your upbringing.
You don’t want your parents to feel left out, do you?
Blame - TV said this morning the hospital (our level 1 one) has 31 patients that need hospital beds and there aren’t any. And this is even before the fall out from Thanksgiving has hit. Who knows what they are going to do then. They are using pre and post op rooms and the ER again to house people who are waiting for beds. They said they need 50 more nurses to cover the work load. Who knows what they will do with people who need emergency care and/or admission for accidents, heart attacks, etc. All non-emergency surgeries are cancelled yet again. Wear masks, wear them correctly and socially distance.
@Kidsandliz Get some inflatable air beds and set up your own CoViD Convalescent Bed and Breakfast. Boom. Problem solved.
Also, in all seriousness, mask and distance and quarantine in every way possible. Our health care system is not up to the scale of this onslaught, and these heroic workers are beginning to wear thin. God bless them and God help anybody who is infected.
@PocketBrain HA HA HA in 525sf for a B&B. That should be “interesting”. Some of my doctors, including my primary care one, has gotten covid. Fortunately none of them has died. Hopefully they got workman’s comp. I did read that applications to med school are up though - lets hope they are up in nursing schools too. Has to be really tough right now to have those kinds of jobs. Really hard.
@Kidsandliz My doctor retired and I asked her for a recommendation. She said everyone she would have recommended had either retired or closed their practices.
@ThunderChicken If they had the financial means to close their practice or retire prior to when they were planning to - I don’t blame them for not wanting the added risk. Of course it makes it hard for everyone who was using them. Perhaps/hopefully some will reopen their practice once this pandemic is under control.
Blame. Public Christmas carols. Some store was playing "Jingle Bell rock "outside and now it is stuck in my head. You reindeer of a goat
@CaptAmehrican Your problem: you don’t realize that Jingle Bell Rock truly rocks. Come over to the dark side, Luke. We have sugar cookies.
@CaptAmehrican @PocketBrain This is a bad take. I blame you for even jokingly suggesting it’s a good song. What’s next? Will you start claiming that Last Christmas is a good song?? When will it end???
@CaptAmehrican @Weboh
Best. Christmas. Song. Evar.
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@CaptAmehrican @PocketBrain @Weboh
Blame! The alarm service which verified that I cancelled in October (Docusign) charged me again. Their customer service asked why I didn’t return the form to them, and I took pleasure in sending them their own .PDF yet again. They’ve promised to refund and cancel my account. I’ve asked for Email verification. Fuss and bother, Goat!
@OldCatLady I just switched to Simplisafe. I have to install stuff today. Crap.
@OldCatLady Your fault. You should just leave your house open and let people come in and take your stuff. After a month of this, throw away everything else, as it has no value. Good, clean living. Simple is best!
@OldCatLady @PocketBrain Actually the leftover stuff would be great for the Holiday Mehrican Exchange.
New Daily Rant 03.
Seriously, guys, I need more blame. Don’t worry that I’m pushing back; I’m a cantankerous goat so it’s going to happen. And you have to think, “What will he say next?” So bring on the blame!!!
@PocketBrain Yeah, the best part of the goat thread is the goat’s response. With inactive goats, I don’t even bother reading the thread because what’s the point of reading a bunch of random sad happenings like someone’s dog dying or someone’s mom getting cancer?
That being said, I have been following this thread.
/giphy good goat
New Daily Rant 04.
Blame. My brother and I work in the deli at a grocery store, and we have both gotten the same Karen at the sub line.
We make sub sandwiches, on sub bread. Like Subway’s footlong. The first time I got her, she said she wanted Italian bread. So I pulled out the loaf of white sub bread that 99.999% of customers want when they say Italian bread. She said that’s not what she wanted, and after a few minutes of me trying to get to her to tell me what she did want, I figured out she wanted it on loaf bread–like, regular sandwich bread. Which is fine; we do have some on hand we use to make Reuben sandwiches. She complained about that, too. I told her that’s the only loaf bread we have, and she thought I was lying to her (she’s still holding up the line). Eventually, her daughter walks up with regular loaf bread from the bread aisle. We are not allowed to use this bread, because it’s $4 a loaf and she’ll use four slices, tops. No other customer has ever asked for that type of bread, so we’ll throw out the other 16ish slices.
Of course, you probably know where this is going. She continues to hold up the line and asks to see the manager, who repeats what I told her but quickly caves. I make her stupid sandwich—wrongly, according to her—so I have to make it twice (not reusing any of the ingredients from last time, of course).
Later, my brother gets the same lady, who does the same thing–although this time drags him to the bread aisle and makes him get it himself. At least this time it’s late at night so there’s not a line. I’m stocking shelves nearby.
After my brother has finished making her sandwich, she walks over to me and tells me that that terrible employee did a terrible job making her sandwich and I need get someone competent to make it (I found out that her complaint was my brother took too long fitting it in the sub wrapper that is designed for SUB sandwiches, and not her snowflake special). She left without thanking anybody, of course, and we lost money that day, too.
I think it’s adorable that she didn’t recognize me as the employee that did a terrible job making her sandwich the last time—nor did she recognize me as being the brother of that “terrible employee.” We aren’t twins, but a lot of other people say we look just alike. I guess she wasn’t looking at us; she was just looking at the sandwich to make sure it was perfect. I don’t understand why she didn’t just make her own sandwich if she’s that picky. We sell all of the ingredients separately (and we wouldn’t waste her precious time doing it “wrong” that way, either).
I don’t know why stores let people like this get away with doing that. Why does management bend over backwards to keep a customer that loses them money? Every time she comes in, we lose money. Why do we want to make her happy so that she keeps coming in? We all know the answer. It’s @pocketbrain’s secret plot to put my grocery chain out of business. What do you have against grocery stores??!?!
@Weboh …and it looks like that’s Daily Rant 05 for you, free of charge. I deserve an unblame. Unless the people riot and say that’s not as good as one of yours, in which case you get an extra blame for inspiring me, and another one on top of that for not making me be as good as you, and another one for good measure since you were saying you weren’t getting enough blames.
@Weboh That was a way better rant than any of @PocketBrain’s weak sauce.
@Weboh
(Slow clap)… Masterful. Quite the touching tribute.
And, @mike808, if I need to hear from you, I’ll rattle your cage again and toss you some kibble.
Want.
@mike808
Someone pointed out that wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing underpants with your Wang (for those who have them) hanging out. I’d love to see some prankster pull this off on video. Sidle up to the unmasker, who somehow has to touch every package of hamburger in the entire grocery store, with Jr swinging.
@sammydog01
Hey. Hey. HEYYYY!!
New Daily Rant 05.
Unblame. I just got my first weighed throw. OMG it is a-meh-zing!!!
Blame. No link to Daily Rant 06.
@mike808
TBF, I did get it out a little late.
Weather report: AREAS OF SLUSH MAY ACCUMULATE
@sammydog01 That? That’s an opportunity. Get some sno-cone syrup and make slushies.
@PocketBrain Asphalt flavored. Yum.
@sammydog01
The Industry term is “black licorice.”
Oh yeah… New Daily Rant 06.
@PocketBrain I meant Daily Rant 07. Mods?
Blame: @ironcheftoni provided a recipe for butterfingers that I have to make delaying Christmas cookie prep
@j2 you won’t regret it when yiu do!
@j2
Solution: make Butterfinger Christmas cookies. Boom! Two-in-one!
@PocketBrain Unblame: made them and they’re frigging delicious
My bathtub faucet was dripping. And now it’s not. I hope I didn’t mess anything up.
@sammydog01 It’s designed to do that to flush out the rust and river silt.
I shared a Christmas mehmory in a New Daily Rant 08.
I ordered Shashmallows from Target because @Targaryen made me. Two bags of candy cane and two bags of peppermint chocolate chip.
I got an email that they only had 1 bag of candy cane in stock. BASTARDS! (It’s fine, turns out they are good but not nearly as good as Peeps.)
I picked them up and this was in the bag:
Inside was a 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips and a set of recipes.
So the question is, did they feel bad about cancelling my smashmallows and throw that in to appease me? Or was it a random gift? Or did I callously steal chocolate chips from some other customer who is crying right this minute?
@sammydog01 They felt bad about running out and did that to appease you.
In other news, I got two of candy cane when I ordered only one and threw the extra bag away.
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ICYDK: New Daily Rant 09.
Blame.
@mike808 Actually don’t the rules say that goats don’t bear the blame for wars and disasters? World leaders, on the other hand…
@mike808 this is why we WEAR A FREAKIN’ MASK IN PUBLIC!!
@mike808 @PocketBrain It really is shocking how numb people seem to have become to it all. And then there are the deniers, of course. But sometimes I’m reminded of lemmings.
For Fuck’s Sake, people!
Yesterday, the United States eclipsed a daily record with 3,054 deaths due to COVID-19.
Pearl Harbor just got pushed off the list of “Top 8 Deadliest Days in American History” above.
Source: @COVID19Tracking
@mike808 This is the goat thread, home of entertaining first world problems. Are you seriously blaming @PocketBrain for the death of hundred of thousands of people? Take it elsewhere.
@sammydog01
Please stay out of the deep end of the gene pool.
Are you seriously saying you don’t care about 250,000+ dead Americans enough to speak up about it, and are trying to shame me for doing so? Fuck you.
@mike808 Did you not learn to read in elementary school? I’m telling you to not post it in this thread. That’s not what this thread is for. Go hit the add topic button- it’s fucking gigantic.
But apparently you’re so fucking important you can do whatever you want. And I’m sure someone stopped by the goat thread and said, oh shit, I had no idea covid was a real thing. You must have saved a ton of lives by shitting on one of the few pleasant places on this website.
Fuck you.
@mike808 @sammydog01
Alright alright, break it up. Move along.
Also yeah, fire up a “Holy shit, it’s Covid-19” thread, because I’m totally dodging this one.
I do get both perspectives on this; it is important enough to bring up, but maybe a little too real/bad to bring in here. Just be sure to blame me for missing your chance at an IRK, because I did do that.
@sammydog01
I don’t give a rat’s ass about what you’re telling me (or anyone else) to do or not do.
But apparently, you’re so fucking important you think you can.
I’m sorry you feel that calling you out on your pride in your insensitivity to the deaths and suffering of so many hurt your feelings, Snowflake.
@mike808
Might want to rephrase that since the daily average number of deaths in the US is over 7500 normally…
I blame me for getting New Daily Rant 10 in late.
@PocketBrain
Unblame. For Great Justice!
Blame. They are poisoning rats at the animal shelter. The poison isn’t supposed to affect the cats or dogs. A 8ish month old kitten died last night and another one almost did but the vet saved it. Poisoned, but not yet dead, rats got in their cage and the kittens played with them and partly ate one. It was so sad.
Unblame today is a vacation day for no reason except use it or lose it vacation days. So I am lying in bed watching madelorian not working.
@CaptAmehrican Same here. Also getting my burn on in Night City. CD Projekt delivered a winner. GOTY, no question.
Unblame. My brother is coming to visit tomorrow.
This thread needs some to lighten up. Too heavy.
/youtube why is everything heavy doc brown
@RiotDemon Gonna watch The Nightmare Before Christmas together? With hot cocoa? Can I come?
@sammydog01 I’ll be at work most of the day while he’s getting a tattoo. Then we will eat dinner together tonight and breakfast tomorrow. Probably watch some action movie.
I have some cocoa mix!
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 What’s his new tat?
@OldCatLady @sammydog01 he’s getting a giant cover-up done. Gonna be a big pirate themed thing.
Unblame: mangos and avocados are both on sale at aldi 39 cents each. I just bought a ton of each.
@CaptAmehrican Blame: now I have to fight holiday traffic to go to Aldi.
@CaptAmehrican @sammydog01
Use your Mario Kart skills! And a red tortoise shell.
@CaptAmehrican @sammydog01 As I always say, around every silver lining is a friggin’cloud.
@CaptAmehrican Blame! They’re $.49 in Florida!
@CaptAmehrican @OldCatLady that’s the “me” tax.
Unblame. Someone gave me around 80-100 pounds of sweet potatoes. I have managed to give most of them away to people who need food. Just about one 1.5 cubic foot box left to give. Too bad I have only had sweet potatoes twice in a way that I liked the taste. And the most recent time I suspect they came out of a number 10 can.
@Kidsandliz I know you’re not keen on cooking, but I like this Japanese style recipe:
https://www.food.com/recipe/japanese-soy-glazed-sweet-potato-366785 (You can use sherry or other sweet wine instead of mirin, and skip the nori and sesame seeds.)
Also they’re pretty good in a blended soup - I did that with my Thanksgiving sweet potato puree (no marshmallows.)
@Kidsandliz They’re so healthy!
https://world-food-and-wine.com/worldly/sweet-potatoes-are-the-perfect-food
@Kidsandliz You can cook them just like a baked potato in the microwave. Sprinkle butter and salt for simple healthy nourishment.
@Kyeh @mike808 They are so stringy!! The only 2 times I liked them they were smooth and sweet. And no, not marshmallow sweet.
@Kidsandliz If they’re stringy, they are/were too dried out to start with. Might be a reason they were being dumped by the former owners.
@mike808 Haven’t eaten any of these so no clue what their status is.
@Kidsandliz @mike808 Yeah, they shouldn’t be stringy. But if you make them into soup you can get around that; I use an immersible blender to make it all smooth.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh
Maybe there’s a recipe you can mix in 10 or 60 pounds of pasta with…
@Kidsandliz Wow. Were you the recipient of a SweetpotatoDrop?
@Kyeh @mike808 Sweet potato spaghetti? I don’t think so
Gee I do know a few people on here who have a bit of excess pasta though.
@ThunderChicken Yeah with an imaginary coupon for “free”.
Actually I know someone who knows someone who grows things for the restaurant business and instead of dumping their crop that had few buyers at the volume they usually sold (due to the shutdowns) they were dumping it on food pantries, friends of friends… So I was just a small cog in this new “distribution channel”.
@Kidsandliz my wife and I are big fans of sweet potatoes. This is our current favorite recipe:
https://www.tastemade.com/shows/linear-struggle-meals/sweet-on-you/recipes/baked-sweet-potato-skins
Oh, ah, and I got in a New Daily Rant 11 at a more reasonable hour today.
I’m addicted to a stupid golf blitz game. I should blame @jaybird but it’s not his fault anymore. It’s yours @pocketbrain .
@kykazaa I told you only the first one was free!
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@PocketBrain Can I just show my sign?
@PocketBrain
I think I’ll be OK. I’ve been through the corporate PEBKAC awareness training.
Can we blame the goat for that guy from WSJ being almost as big of an ass as you know who?
@Cerridwyn
Well, I did pee in his corn flakes.
You might want to explore the bottom of the well in my New Daily Rant 13.
Unblame.
Went to another escape room with friends. We were successful, but not with a ton of time left. It was super stressful, but it added to the fun.
@RiotDemon
Hmmm… you weren’t supposed to actually be able to escape. I must check my design. Perhaps add sharks with frickin’ lasers on their heads next time.
Another unblame. Got some hooks added to the side of my house so I could add more icicle lights. Got those hung up just now.
I think I stepped on a Lego in the New Daily Rant 14.
Unblame: My Poo-Pourri order has been shipped.
Blame: It’s via Pitney Bowes.
@ThunderChicken It would have been shipped faster if you $#!+ didn’t stink.
@PocketBrain But that’s the whole point of getting it!
Blame snow is forecast for tomorrow
@CaptAmehrican At least you aren’t out on the water? I’ve canoed in an aluminum canoe in the snow. That is a mixed experience. Not much fun to wake up to your paddles frozen to the bottom of the canoe and frozen solid, what used to be just wet, shoes (advice is to sit on them to thaw them, don’t put them on your feet and hope they will thaw - learned that the hard way… better yet sleep with them in the foot of your sleeping bag and sleep with your clothes - some of which might be wet - under you). Cool (all pun intended) to do that since it is so pretty though despite the “issues”.
@CaptAmehrican Aw, but snow is fun!
@PocketBrain not.as an adult who is not on vacation
@CaptAmehrican I don’t do adulting so good.
Blame? Unblame? The outpatient surgery that has been scheduled and rescheduled repeatedly since last March due to the pandemic might actually happen Thursday. I had presumed it would be cancelled yet again due to covid, overfull hospitals (locally at one hospital daily 20-30 patients beyond capacity) and shipping ICU patients out of state since not one ICU bed is open in the state. Also late last week the governor’s office ordered all hospitals to cancel all but emergency surgeries, including out patient surgeries starting tomorrow. I got a message this morning that mine isn’t being canceled. Not sure if they are defying the order with outpatient surgeries (those are money makers for them and their budget is in tatters) or I’ll get a call today or tomorrow it is cancelled - surgeon insists won’t be. Not sure if that is a blame or unblame.
@Kidsandliz My sister had a surgery this morning and it went well. I wish you good luck with this.
@PocketBrain Thanks. I am glad your sister’s surgery went well.
@Kidsandliz good luck either way!
@Kidsandliz What @tinamarie1974 and @PocketBrain said.
@Kidsandliz @PocketBrain @ThunderChicken @tinamarie1974
@chienfou @PocketBrain @ThunderChicken @tinamarie1974 Thanks all for the good wishes! Surprisingly, despite everything, they haven’t cancelled it. I guess count my blessings? I’d better not get covid while there.
@chienfou @PocketBrain @ThunderChicken @tinamarie1974 And they are running more than a hour and a half behind. Sigh. Finally asked for my stuff to pull out my phone so I can distract myself.
@Kidsandliz
Hope you are out of recovery and all is well. Keep us posted.
@chienfou Just got home. Things went well. Fortunately doesn’t hurt. Yet anyway (numbing stuff hasn’t worn off yet). Hopefully when it starts to hurt it won’t be too painful. At least I had to foresight to buy the pain meds yesterday afternoon. I forgot to by a microwave dinner so cereal for me (I’ll live, no biggie, I’ve done that before without surgery as an excuse LOL).
What I couldn’t believe is that a number of the nurses/staff in the recovery room were not wearing masks or had them under their nose or under their chin and one had it hanging off of one ear. WTF? When I woke up I didn’t have mine on either (they told me they’d put it back on me in the OR and instead they had it hanging off the IV pole). Considering they didn’t test me for covid prior to the surgery that was really stupid on their part. I hope the heck none of them have asymptomatic covid and thus exposed me. And those folks should know better. Especially in a hospital that has run out of beds due to covid and has 20-30 overflow patients. Sigh.
@Kidsandliz
locally we are doing rapid tests on all our admits and o/p surgery/endoscopy/colonoscopy pts. We are a small community hospital, and locally have a pretty low incidence rate, but still…
@chienfou I was told they’d test me and then they didn’t. Of course they also didn’t send any pre-op info, yesterday gave me 3 different times to show up, the number to call (listed in mychart) was disconnected, and they sprung on me yesterday afternoon that someone had to stay the entire time rather than what I had been told multiple times (eg that someone could drop me off and pick me up; at the scene of the crime they were letting people leave and come back so she left but I sure wish they had had their shit together).
They didn’t do any pre-op blood work, take a preop chest x-ray or do a preop EKG. And this is a major university hospital. I was appalled. Of course it is a race to the bottom in medical care in this state and two contiguous ones so why am I not surprised. Sigh.
@Kidsandliz
Hey… I resemble that remark…
Alabama… state motto: Thank God for Mississippi
@Kidsandliz
my favorite things to quote to those I work with are: 1) If it wasn’t for bad communication we wouldn’t have any at all.
and
2) They (admin, other depts, etc) must think I’m a mushroom. They keep me in the dark and feed me bullshit…
@chienfou
LOL. For medical care the race to the bottom is between MS, AR and LA. I’ve had medical care in 2 or the 3. No thanks. AL should probably expand their motto (
).
There are some good medical people here but many of the good folks bail after a year or two (I regularly lose my providers that way - sucks, especially if their sub specialty isn’t replaced). Of course being underfunded, crappy pay, lack of promised support for their research, etc. all contributes to them bailing.
I have also lived/worked in states with really good health care. And in foreign countries with universal health care that is really good: Canada, The Netherlands, and Germany were great. The UK had some issues (both in England and in Scotland).
@chienfou (communication or rather lack there of) - that sounds about right unfortunately.
I just went on a random rant in today’s New Daily Rant 15.
It’s been a tough week. Lay off me.
Nawww, bring it on!
BLAME - just at the end of our move I got a case of shingles. Anyone have any roofing they need done?
@ybmuG
well THAT sux!. Shingles can be really debilitating… Hope you recover well.
@chienfou thanks. I mostly feel like I got beat up with a baseball bat. I’m just glad the move is over. 2 weeks in; ? to go…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ybmuG
you do know that STRESS is a trigger… right??
@chienfou stress? What stress?
Yeah, you’re not the first to suggest a link…
It really was pretty stressful. Even though we were able to start moving a couple weeks ahead, inertia is a hard thing to overcome. The last load was literally pulling out of the driveway as I was locking the door for the last time, and I turned around and the new owners were walking in from the side road.
@ybmuG
Inertia…yeah, that’s why i still live in the house we bought in 1988…
@ybmuG If you just got them, rather than 2 weeks ago (hard to tell from your post) ASAP, if you haven’t already done so, get the antiviral. You have something like 3 days to start it to try to shorten the course and decrease the odds of long term fall out. Having had the shingles pain for a bit more than 6 mo, I wish I hadn’t missed that window (they thought it was a port problem, a weekend was in the way of determining that wasn’t the issue and then it was too late). Hope the course of yours is short and not too agonizing. Oh - also I was told to get the shinglex vaccination even though I have had shingles as you can get it repeatedly.
@ybmuG I wouldn’t touch that with mah pokin’ stick.
@Kidsandliz yeah, started antiviral on day 3. Vaccination already “in the plan”. Definitely could be worse.
@PocketBrain uhhhh, thanks?
@ybmuG hopefully that will do the trick. Good luck!
Taking a break on my New Daily Rant 16.
It’s that time of the year when grocery stores move baking supplies from their standard shelves to random seasonal displays positioned all over the store and on endcaps. So now I have to scour the entire building to make sure they’re out of an essential cookie ingredient. Maybe I’ll just do chocolate chip. They’re good, right?
@sammydog01 they’re in the bins in the back, next to the door to the stock room and bathrooms.
@PocketBrain I checked there, dammit!
@sammydog01 Then we’re out. Sorry. Or ask the teen “grocery manager” if you can get him to look up from texting for a second.
Rebuilding the English language in New Daily Rant 17.
Unblame.
I just spent almost 5 hours on the phone with a friend and could of gladly kept talking.
I can go to sleep with a smile on my face.
@RiotDemon I got a phone call from a dear old friend during the weekly Skype with the core family. I gotta ring him back!
@PocketBrain it’s great, right?! I talked again with him for another 2.5 hours last night. It’s the most I’ve spent on the phone in forever.
Blame I keep waiting to be the featured Reel Snowmen in my towns art project/fundraiser for food Bank of painting snowman made of wire reels.
@CaptAmehrican fyi it is supposed to be the Snowmandelorian and Grogu
@CaptAmehrican I’ll send a reporter for the Daily Bugle by to take pictures.
Unblame because the pupp-o is starting to fall in line. Training is REALLY paying off.
Bonus unblame, we have discovered a hobby he really enjoys…FRISBEE!!! Working on getting him to actually catch the disc. He plays until he is exhausted and then passes out for a long nap!
Here he is snoozing in bed while I dry my hair
@tinamarie1974 Puppy!!!
@tinamarie1974
What a cutie!!
@Lynnerizer thanks. He is my sweet boy
Unblame no line at the post office for sending the meh exchange box
@CaptAmehrican I spiked the tires of everybody else in your area who was headed for the post office. You’re welcome!
Unblame - was at my daughter’s and gave the 2 year old her tricycle. From that second on she was uninterested in anybody or anything. She figured out how to tip it over so she could spin the front wheel and watch the marbles in there drop (ha! I don’t have to live with that racket - just revenge on my kid). She was thrilled and tried to drag it off to bed with her.
@Kidsandliz
The best Christmas gift is a noisy, annoying toy for someone else’s kid. One not in your neighborhood, ideally.
@Kidsandliz @PocketBrain like the electric guitar I got my niece?
@PocketBrain @tinamarie1974 Perfect although adding a drum set next year might be a nice idea and maybe a 1000 watt amp!
Of course these kinds of gifts are best when given to relatives that live far enough away that dumping said child and noisy gift at your house is a reasonably remote possibility. It also works best when you have no child living in your home so they can’t return the favor. And of course nieces and grand kids are perfect recipients especially if they love the gift. I mean - they love it so you were incredibly thoughtful. Right? Makes it harder for their parents to ban the gift. Muwhahaha
/image I’m not evil. Right?
@Kidsandliz @PocketBrain she got the amp with her guitar! Also due to covid we are not really doing more than driveway visits, sssooooo no drop offs in the near future.
Also, she was so excited I thought she was going to cry, priceless.
@PocketBrain @tinamarie1974 Then that is the best! Hopefully her parents won’t send you an edible present with poison in it
Unblame it is.now 2021 in Wuhan China!
@CaptAmehrican And it’s 2021 everywhere else.
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You’re welcome.
Last Dec. Rant.