Coke has stopped delivering reliably to the local store, and the shelves are slowly running dry of their products. No more 700ml bottles. A few lingering 2L's of various strange things nobody wants, like vanilla, lemon, decaf. I got one of the last flats of non-weird cans. And now Pepsi's giving them the finger, too. No idea why they won't deliver, as they're certainly moving product.
I ate a kind of late breakfast today before I remembered that I am going to lunch today with a friend. I have about 40 minutes now to try to become hungry, but I'm not optimistic.
If you can't eat until it hurts when you inhale too deeply and you're burping a little up when you move too much, can you even call yourself an American?
I wanted a banana this morning and I checked 3 different kitchens
I'm totally imagining you knocking on your neighbors' doors and barging in yelling behind you "Just checking your kitchen!" They stand dumbfounded by the open door and here you yell from the kitchen "Why are there no bananas? I guess I'll eat this pear." Then you come back in the afternoon, after they dutifully went to the store and bought some bananas, and you are yelling "What's with all the bananas?!"
You know, depending on how the far-right fucks do with their increasing power in the US and Europe, "first-world problems" might not end up being so trivial.
My mom made me take the jar of pickles that was leftover from the Thanksgiving relish tray. It fell over and the juice all seeped out into my car on the day I bought it. Fortunately it stayed mostly in the bag or car mat, which has been rinsed and doused in Febreze and should be good to go tomorrow.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
So it wasn't so tough to find the first 2 volumes of Sandman in those old-fashioned places that you walk into to buy books. But I was stuck with online orders for the rest, p. much - I ordered 3 through 6, then found a used copy of 7 at another bookstore.
Everything has arrived -- EXCEPT volume 3. So I can't start any of it. Or can I? Any of y'all nerds remember if one of 'em is more self-contained & can be read out of order?
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
So it wasn't so tough to find the first 2 volumes of Sandman in those old-fashioned places that you walk into to buy books. But I was stuck with online orders for the rest, p. much - I ordered 3 through 6, then found a used copy of 7 at another bookstore.
Everything has arrived -- EXCEPT volume 3. So I can't start any of it. Or can I? Any of y'all nerds remember if one of 'em is more self-contained & can be read out of order?
Ironically, volume #3 (Dream Country) is the one that contains independent stories separate from the main story. Feel free to read the rest right now.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
For the first time in years I have had Christmas day to myself to waste as I please and I decided I wanted to treat myself to a steak at my local kebab place. Takeout, of course.
They aren't open today.
What is the POINT of having foreigners come in and run establishments if thy won't even be open at Christmas? Also the Chinese place is closed, but I expected that, they don't even do Sundays.
After catching cooties in all shapes, sizes, and forms from the relatives. Two consecutive rounds of cootie enduced yuck. One cold version and one that turned me into a fountain. I hate the version where you hold a trash can while sitting on the toilet because you can't figure out which is the priority.
One cool thing that happened was a wind storm came up and knocked out power on Christmas day. Being we were at a farm, they brought out all the oil lamps and we had an Ol' Timey christmas around the candle light, with no heat, and no running water. The only thing they did have was battery backup for the internet. So everyone's internet still worked on their phones; even though you can't get any signal out there to use the phone as a phone.
It was sort of like a star trek episode where we got stranded in a cave on a primative planet, started a fire for heat and light, and then whipped out the advanced technology to figure something out.
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Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.
I'm out of Bourbon, I don't want to go to the store, and they don't deliver.
Any other time, I could probably make it through the weekend on my wife's girlly drinks, but we have both sides of the family coming to town for a party; so it's sort of an emergency. Getting the two sides together is like mixing oil and water, then pouring gasoline on it, and covering it with dynamite, while hoping nobody lights a match.
I guess I'll go to the stupid store. But why don't they deliver?
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Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.
we have this amazing machine that grinds and brews to order fresh expresso, coffee, macchiato, cappuccino, americano, also decaf options + hot water for tea, cold milk, hot milk for hot chocolate, cold water and sparking water all from the same spout and you order your beverage via an iPad!!
So I had to get my picture taken for the new badges at work, which are supposed to replace the keys to get in the building.
There was a queue, because when you type your last name into the badger software screen, each letter of your name took like a whole 25-30 seconds to appear in the window thing. First I had to stand in line for half an hour to get in the conference room where the camera is set up, then it took a whole nother 5 minutes for the man just to take a 1 second photograph.
Bloody hell!
It will be so much nicer here now, though, since the overlords of education will know the exact second when I enter the building each day...
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Fortunately it stayed mostly in the bag or car mat, which has been rinsed and doused in Febreze and should be good to go tomorrow.
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Two consecutive rounds of cootie enduced yuck. One cold version and one that turned me into a fountain. I hate the version where you hold a trash can while sitting on the toilet because you can't figure out which is the priority.
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