Category Archives: Rants
Withdrawal symptoms
I am experiencing withdrawal. Really! I am ashamed to say but listening to the ineptness, deliberate mind manipulation, exaggerated emotion and rhetoric of donald trump gave me an adrenaline rush. Despite my total loathing of this man, disdain for his approach to life, abhorrence of his misappropriation of Norman Vincent Peale’s concept of positive thinking within the framework of a loving deity, his unwillingness to be wrong, and my disgust for his lack of respect and his self aggrandizing (an attitude shared by many middle aged white men with money), I am left with a void. A vacuum.
How sad to have fallen victim to his theatrics. My bad, I should have been more careful, more alert. Shame too, on consumers of social media (both for and against trump) for feeding his hunger for attention. I refuse to participate.
I am not surprised that others feel this way as well, as in this great post from the Atlantic.
WHO WAS MISSING?
I got my covid shot (first one) two days ago, and I was overcome with admiration for those many many many individuals who were working in a parking garage, taking tabs on who comes in who goes out, asking about health and concerns, getting papers signed, directing the flow of traffic, entering and checking data, making follow up appointments, giving shots, standing by for the first 20 minutes post vaccination. WHO WERE THEY? young women and young men. WHO WAS MISSING? middle aged white men. Just an observation.
BTW I was vaccinated to protect YOU, you, the people I dont even know and have nothing in common with. And I am grateful to all the young people who were committed to YOUR health.
UC Health, thank you!
Amerithon challenge
Getting pretty tired (real world tired)… i wonder if i will make it the next 2800 virtual miles (fake world).. LOL. The tiring part is that so much advertising is fake, so much news is fake, so many opinions that are only reflections of a personal reality are biased. It is difficult to sort physical reality from my own reality. Case in point… estimate from LivingComfort for repairs vs replacement of a gas boiler. I see four numbers in a row (parts and labor) 888.00 for an expansion tank, 888.00 for a boiler refill drain thing, and 888.00 for a back flow preventer and 888.00 for an air scoop. Give me a break. If i had 9 items in a dataset, and four of them were 888.00 i would immediately say… check for errors and copy pastes. This is fake.
Same sentiment, 6000 years separated
“Be still and know that I am god”
“Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy”
This is the real Santa
This is the real santa
WHO knew??
Earth911 newsletter states “Did you know that dryer sheets work by coating your clothes with perfumed animal fat?”
CorelDRAW 19 – dont buy it
CorelDRAW has become a ridiculously infected scam of advertising and deliberate bugging of people who have sadly purchased this version. I have read plenty of complaints about the corruption of a really good product which I have used since its inception with version 3. What a sorry comment on the new management. The popups are not only annoying, but I cant stop them, and they cause gliches in the the program which require shutdown of the program to resolve. A very sad commentary. I guess i have to find an open source or other program as a substitute. Shame on you CorelDRAW.
SARS Cov 2 aka COVID 19 jokes pg 6
Corona virus Covid 19 SARS Cov2 model to hang on the Christmas tree.
Yep…. coronavirus globe glass and polymer clay ornaments that are made to be accurate representations of the surface look of the corona virus. Just for fun and remembering the headaches of this particular pandemic. Order from the website here.