Ouch.

I’m so sorry, I lol’d. One of our cats howls us awake anywhere between 4:30-8am, every fucking morning, if it’s any consolation.

Note #1: I named my dl folder Tarantino-bag-of-dicks

Note #2: Jackie brown dvd is niiiice.

1. Grindhouse planet terror isn’t directly Tarantino but I liked it enough to mention it here (deathproof is meh comparitively imo)
2. Jackie brown
3. Kill bill 1 & 2
4. Pulp fiction
5. Hateful 8
6. Once upon a time in Hollywood
7. Django
8. Inglorious bastards
9. Reservoir dogs
10. Death proof

For context, kill bill came out when I was in high school and I kinda loved the obnoxious jugular squirt he become known for +badass boss lady cast. Jackie brown is just that fucking good.

My boss checks in on me occasionally with directness, and did so the other day:

“viva, how’s it going?”
“I want to fight Bill Gates.”

This is understood to mean, “windows is fucked. My computer is fucked. All of this massive, utterly brutal buttfucking inconvenience could have been avoided at some point, and now isn’t, because [our company] bought so hard into Microsoft’s “business solutions” that there’s no turning back, and because of the nuances of the problems you’ve asked me to solve, I am facing said brutal buttfucking inconvenience, and I’m mad about it.”

I think I love you. I feel like this would be exactly what would happen if I were in your situation.

We’re renting a house, because, well, reasons. We are looking, and it would be our first home, but the market and availability is bonkers here.

The tankless heater was manufactured before the house was even built and the gas lines are not large enough to accommodate to scale. If the bath’s running, pressure is shot. You’ll only get reasonably hot water one faucet/utility at a time. If you’re in the shower and another tap is called, you’re fucked. It’s horrendous.

Landlord got a quote about it (squirrel fan when we moved in screamed to hell so they called in service) and they’d have to run larger pipes when the time comes to replace it with new tankless.

The furnace did have a humidistat but the lines are gross and it’s some kind of broken. They recommended not replacing till the whole furnace goes too. Fun times right?

The list goes on but it’s not my circus, so i restrain myself to small tasks. At least our neighbors are cool. HOA blows though.

Tell me more!

I mean, it could be… refreshing

My vote wasn’t sharp enough.

I’ll bring a brick next time?

I drive an 01 Forester. All these huge truck headlights shine straight into my rearview mirror. Kinda sucks. I will say, fog lights are a game changer. I’d love a better bulb, but I don’t want to daze the townspeople like they do me, lol.

Fascinatingly enough, Samsung’s text from image produced this:

G00 000 000

Dear

Thank you for your letter

5 Park Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6NS 6.9.22

I am so glad you are interested in stick insects. Iam too and, when I was your age I also kept some. They are indeed fascinating.

There are at least two thousand five hundred different species world-wide. Most come from the tropics and only a few species ever reach this country. Scientifically speaking they belong to a group called the Phasmatoidea which contains two main groups - the leaf insects and the stick insects. Stick insects really do look exactly like thin green sticks and are almost impossible to spot in the wild - unless they move. They don’t, in fact, move much during the day but quite a lot during the night. The kind that is usually brought over here are nearly females and lay eggs that are fertile without having being fertilised by the male. The eggs look exactly like their droppings and sometimes people who keep them don’t know this and throw them away when they are cleaning out their cages.

The one of which you sent me a photograph, however is not, however a stick insect. It’s a leaf insect. There are many many different species of these as well, They vary in the food they prefer and many eat other kinds of leaves than the hawthorn and bramble which you say yours prefer. Many of them are even more like leaves than yours are, with outgrowths on their legs that look exactly like leaves. Wicle

J bor

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That POUCH!!!

I LOVE THIS

Dude every other freakin car out here is a subaru so it’s funny to me that they don’t sell like hotcakes elsewhere

I was about to be all like Wtf where’s Subaru but then I found their estimated units sold for 2024, womp womp lol

FUCK THAT. ditch them both. Chosen family wins.

I fucking hate SharePoint. Excel performance is A G O N Y. pros: cloud backup & comments Cons: slow. As. Shit.

<3

Doge is my worst one tbh, but since it was $5 it’s more of an entertainment scenario

I grew up in a progressive city in a gerrymandered-to-hell swing state. Cheeto’s first win promptly sent me into a tailspin there. I’ve moved a handful since but now find myself in MT 80 miles from the border, you know, just in case.

Red up here is different than red down there. There it was like rubbing salt in the wound, here it’s quite obviously because there aren’t enough people to know any different.

I’m nonbinary and have been laid off in Florida about it, so I no longer disclose that information professionally. It’s not the most pleasant, but hey, hiding in plain sight is a really good way to see what’s coming down the pike.

GO KITTY GO!!!