The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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Everybody dance now!
Oops I'm wearing flip flops to church.
they are.
Hopefully this will go okay. I just applied at Petsmart.
Non-complaint: I've been re-watching the entire series of "Vera". And discovered that somehow, I'd missed all of season 8 and so far most of season 9.
Either that, or there are some big holes in my memory.
And similarly, I've been rewatching some of the "Poirot" series and have apparently missed several of those too.
I don't think it's holes in my memory, because I remember many epiodes of both series, but somehow, I either didn't watch them in order or the channel that I watched them on didn't carry the whole series at the time I watched them the first time.
But the advantage of a slipping memory is that even if I remember seeing an episode, I don't remember who done it, and I get to try to figure it out all over again. And despite having watched the Perry Mason series from 1957, back when they were new, and many times since then, there are still some episodes where I can play the game all over again.
Complaint: The problem with the Perry Mason series is that I watch them in bed and usually fall asleep during the commercial just before the final act and miss the reveal, then wake up just as Perry and Della, and Paul are congratulating themselves and heading off to dinner. It's uncanny how that happens almost every night.
Observation: Whenever Perry or Paul approach an open or unlocked door it always means that there's a body inside.
We have been discovering new episodes of Vera too, one over the weekend we're sure we've never seen before - quite an early one on the run-up to Vera's sidekick getting married.
In recent years (particularly around Covid) episodes have not been broadcast in the UK until a couple of years after they were broadcast in the US - which is a bit irritating. On the 2021 season we had 3 episodes broadcast and then it stopped, while I understand the US had all 6. And I'm not convinced all Vera episodes have been broadcast in the UK even now. I think there are a couple of 2022 episodes as yet not broadcast. Ahh well, gives some slight reason to look at the TV in the future, I suppose.
Regards,
Richard
Complaint: Too much organization: About 4 years ago I bought a nice cheese slicer, stainless steel, with an adjustable thickness roller. Wasn't cheap but I love it and it has served me faithfully for 4 years. Paying for quality is rewarding. It came with two or three replacement cutting wires pre-fitted with brass end clips for easy replacement. I stuck the replacement cutting wires in my kitchen's miscellaneous drawer(everybody has one) and there it sat for 3 and a half years being noticed every time I rummaged the drawer, until I got on an organizing binge and decided that they would be better in a more appropriate place. A place that I can no longer find now that the original 4 year old cutting wire has just broken.
I've been through every box and drawer that I can think of. I've even looked in boxes of household and computer tools. I've looked in the crack between the stove and the kitchen counter. I've looked under the refrigerator (horrors, what I saw down there)
I've looked in ziplock sandwich bags of bread twist ties kept for some imagined future use. I've looked under the kitsch on my kitsch & collectable shelves. I've looked on my pantry shelves.
Moral of story: Never move anything in the miscellaneous drawer to a "better" place.
Noncomplaint: March Madness (the real one) is in full swing and Duke is in the sweet 16.
Now that is the /real/ "tale as old as time." I've run into that so many times. Only now I also have the added fun that whatever it is, I might not actually own it anymore. Between the ex- taking a lot of stuff during the divorce (we had at least three bottle openers, and multiple cheese graters, for example, and he took all of them), and having to clean out the Smaug-llike hoard of pest-infested trash in the basement, a lot of things are just gone, and even 5+ years later I'm sometimes just realizing I don't have something. My eldest asked the other day if we had a polishing cloth for them to use for a piece of jewelry.
My thought process:
Yes! It's in the bathroom closet!
...no, wait, that's where I used to keep it. Is it still there?
... no. Okay, where else might I have put it?
... not in any of those places. Okay, have I actually physically seen it since we moved back in?
... no. Pretty sure I haven't.
Me: "Not currently, but i'll order one."
I ordered these shoes and they appear to be so small.
edit Forgot the image. Will try again later if it isn't uploaded now.
I bought these 2 cans of food for my mum.
Wait! I think I bought cat food. I don't think Oscar or Misty would mind getting canned cat food.
Um...I see three cans!
1, 2, 3. you are right I count 3 cans too.
Non-complaint: My new cheese slicer has arrived from Amazon. Yay, and of course it came with two replacement cutting wires with pre-fitted brass ends. So I put the extra cutting wires in the kitchen's "Miscellaneous Drawer" and filed the instructions on how to replace the wires in my file folder of "Appliance Manuals".
Complaint: While browsing my folder of "Appliance Manuals" I discovered the old manual and the original two 4-year old replacement wires. I KNEW that I'd put them in a "better" place.
(*Sigh*) So now I have two cheese slicers.
Non-complaint: I needed to go uptown to the drugstore to pick up a critically needed prescription. Insurance rules won't let the pharmacy refill the prescription earlier than two days before I run out. That leaves no time to have it mailed, especially on long weekends or holidays, so I have to pick it up in person. No big deal. I schedule a mini-adventure, take the 8:00AM bus to BurgerKing, have breakfast, walk one block to the drugstore to pick up the prescription, walk across the street to the grocery store, get two bags of groceries and take an Uber back to home. Yay, a morning out, feeling like a real person again.
Complaint: But I need to make an appointment a day in advance for the "Ancient Person's Bus"** to pick me up at my driveway and drop me off at the door of my destination. The bus dispatcher office closes at 4:45PM but I thought that it closed at 5:00. I called at 4:46 last night and missed 'em.
Non-complaint: But, this morning I got up early and got myself ready anyway. I called the bus dispatch office at 7:30AM and asked if there was any way to slip me into the schedule. Apparently, the office can change the driver's schedule and route remotely via some sort of app. So wheee..., I got my bus this morning. Mini-adventure successful. Mischief managed!
**Ancient Person's Bus: That's what I call the local county's "Chautauqua Area Rapid Transport Service (C.A.R.T.S)". I described it to somebody recently as: "A semi-scheduled, on-demand, bus service". Meh, for me it's an OK $2 ride to the city on a small white school bus, if you like that sort of thing. It isn't all ancient people, some people use it to get to work. The bus seats perhaps 16 people but rarely has more than 8. The route isn't always the same, depending on who scheduled service. The bus I ride comes from way out in the northern hinterlands of the county at 8:00AM, through a few tiny villages to me, then through a few more country stops and on into the city. Then buzzes around the city, on-demand within a semi-schedule, complementing the various regularly scheduled bus service routes within the city (same transport company, and uses the exact same type of buses). Then returns to the northern hinterlands at 3:00PM, which for the people who take it to work makes for a short day(basically 8:30 to 2:30). The "on-demand" part is pretty handy for city people who can't walk 10 blocks to the nearest regularly scheduled bus stop(no bus stops are labeled, you just have to know where they are, and there are no benches or shelter). And although I say 10 blocks, they're less dense than that. They cover a few residential areas, the medical areas, a couple shopping areas, the main street in the city, and the dying mall and franchise row on the west side of the city. Meh, it's better than nothing or robbing banks to take a taxi or Uber. At least the buses are wheelchair friendly for those who need it.
Non complaint pay day
Um, complaint I don't think the check will be big enough.
Complaint the checks didn't arrive on time today
non complaint: I can make baked potatoes like Wendy's, but cheaper for me.
...that needs to be an axiom carved in stone, as I've done that as well.
Of course when you a looking for something totally unrelated you will find them and often after you already purchased replacements.
..well both my teams are out. Marquette went out in the first round and Wisconsin the second so no longer interested.
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Ah "MIni Adventures".
I had one the other day that was anything but remotely enjoyable. It started when I walked to the Street Tram stop across from my building to see a notice on the reader board that signal issues wren impacting arrivals for ate least 15 min. The next tram (the one I was scheduled to be on) was showing 22 minutes before arrival (which kept showing for about 5 minutes) .Not wanting to stand there for "who knows how long", I walked over to the FX2 bus, our only BRT = "Bus Rapid Transit" line (which is anything but as it has to cross the busiest freight rail line in the city) which would get me close to where I needed to go with a bit of a walk.
When I got to the stop the times on the arrival board were all off. There were a couple supervisors there which made me feel something was amiss. As it turned out they said that that street construction on the south end of downtown was forcing detours for buses coming into town through that area. The supervisors assured me that outbound buses were not affected only the inbound ones
As a bus was arriving soon I decided to wait,. When it arrived it came in with "arrivals only" on the destination sign.(apparently this was an earlier run that was way off schedule).. I asked if I could get on as I wasn't going very far (just over to the other side of the river) as I knew the next one would likely be a "rolling sardine can" by the time it got out of the city centre, and the frover let me on. OK a couple minutes late fro my usual departure time but he bypassed all stops along the way letting the otjer bus a few minutes behind us deal with them.
Everything seemed normal until we were about to cross the Willamette River. Instead of staying on the street the route normally followed, he turned left and began to weave though local streets (with one of those "bendy" buses) We came to the bridge entrance and instead of turning on to it, headed on past. He then proceded to give us the "25¢ tour" of the south waterfront area weaving through more back streets until finding his way to another bridge just to the south. In all it took an extra 25 minutes (instead of the usual 10 or so) before we startted to cross the river. When I looked up at the time I should have already been at my destination just as we were beginnign to cross on the other bridge . I saw no evidence of roadwork anywhere in the area that would have required such a "circuitous" detour.. Any such work in that area would also jhave interfered with the LRT tram that goes over the first bridge.
Basically, had I just waitd for the 22 min for the street tram, I would have likely made it to my destination earlier without having to walk an extra 8 blocks.or endure a 25 min long sightseeing tour of Portland's backstreets.
Oh and remember that railway crossing I mentioned? When we got there the crossing gates went down as we approached. Fortunately it was just for an LRT tram that parallels the freight tracks so it was only about a minute wait instead of 20 or 30.
Still waiting for an explanation from the transit system of why the seemingly unnecessary detour..
Indeed a "mini adventure from hell".
I've come to the conclusion that buying a replacement is the most sure-fire way to shake the originals loose from whatever wormhole swallowed them.
Non-complaint: I just had breakfast.
Complaint: Sleepless night.
Complaint:
I wish mandolin manufacturers (of the vegetable slicing variety) would design something with a simple thumbwheel so that you have full control over the thickness of the slices. Been looking for months now, and after just having returned from the weekly shop, I still haven't found anything. All I want is to slice a block of mature cheddar so that it's just the right thickness for my Cheese Whizz (sliced cheese and sliced tomato on toast). Unfortunately, the manufacturers tend to give preset thicknesses, none of which are suitable. I want my slices of cheese thick enough to enjoy them, but not so thick that it uses-up the cheese in half the time necessary, and causes the very edge of the toast to burn before the cheese has melted!
However:
During my time in Home Bargains today, I did spot two rather interesting drinks that were going cheap. Love the name and the witty terms used on the can. It's hard to ignore a brand like "Liquid Death", with flavours such as "Mango Chainsaw" and "Severed Lime", both of which are designed to "Murder Your Thirst".
They were on offer too (you get four tall cans for just a quid) so I thought to hell with being sensible, live dangerously and go for it!
Haven't tried them yet (I'm saving them for a movie tonight), but out of curiosity, I just looked them up since I've never heard of the brand before. Apparently they actually have roots in Death Metal music, so I'm half expecting some raven-haired goddess in leather and chains to appear out of nowhere, the moment I pop one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Death
Will my paycheck be ready for me at work?
Only The Shadow knows.
Chronic or just sporadic?
I had two weeks of completely sleepless nights last October, right before I had my heart attack. I was a zombie during the day! Couldn't even take a nap sitting in my recliner. It was my heart arteries clogging up and disrupting my heart & lung oxygen level. I'd finally drop off to sleep then 5 minutes later wake up gasping for breath.
I had a truly broken heart.
Six doctors, three ambulance rides, a week in the hospital, two surgeries, and $5000 after insurance later, I'm still here to say, "don't ignore it". And then I had to deal with 6 new ($$$) prescriptions, and 4 months of bloody noses from blood thinner complications. But it takes the goggles off and one can clearly see that the light at the end of the tunnel is indeed a train. Priorities change.
The mandolin in the drawer here has wing-nuts - unfortunately last time I wanted to use it, to make potato Dauphinoise, they were rusted solid and I had to use the slot on the grater which is a) completely non-adjustable (well, I suppose a hammer could do it) and b) even more perilous for the fingers than a mandolin.
Taking a little break to rest my knee. I need a new shot to the knee. Eek! Not looking forward to it.
There is a store out here that is called "The Store". They have blocks of cheese and a slicer. One can actually tell them how thick to slice the cheese.
...I've tried them and they are great . At first sight it looks like it may be another one of those energy drinks, but it isn't, Instead I like to call it "seltzer water with attitude". I particularly love the aforementioned Mango Chainsaw and their Convicted Melon. They also have a line of ice tea beverages as well.(Green Guillotine is my favourite)
The one at my parents' house is made so the rolling part is on a separate part that you can adjust and then tighten down with a little knob-screw... however, I'm suspecting they got it in the early 70's when they got married, and it might be a hand-me-down from my grandmother, which would make it older than that. So at one point they made them, anyway...
I always hated washing the thing, so I just use a knife.