It’s been an exceptionally busy week, with me running like a rat.
I went for a follow-up for my hernia surgery. So, while I like Baylor, it’s always a treat to try and get there on time when you have a dozen of the befuddled trying to navigate an otherwise well marked, and well designed, parking garage.
Add to that, an awful lot of really old people go to doctors in those buildings, and are in no hurry to get where they are going. Matter of fact, they physically can’t be. So, I get stuck tapping my foot whilst I wait.
I sat in the office for a half hour while it filled up. Finally, I was called in. The good doctor posted right away, looked my scar over, and said looks good. We passed a few sentences of dialog, and out the door he went. And so did I. Maybe five minutes spent.
Wonder what I paid for that.
Speaking of befuddled, driving around here is always a challenge. But it’s more so when the others on the road flat out do not know how to drive. I’m not talking about right of ways, and rules of the road. I’m talking about the mechanics of simply driving the speed limit, at least, and being able to turn your car. Clearly, these people shouldn’t have been issued a license.
Maybe they weren’t.
But watching one of them absolutely fumble a simple left turn, I came upon an observation about Tesla and Prius owners. Although many are normal, these two car owners tend to not being able to drive proficiently at all. It’s because they aren’t into cars. That’s why they buy them. The Tesla owners that “Are” into cars, tend to drive like lunatics. Fine. Great. You have ludicrous mode. Hope your suspension holds out on these crappy roads in Dallas.
Everybody likes the idea of being in charge, in theory. The problem is that not everyone is capable of successfully being in charge. This is why it is so important to be careful what you wish for. Because you just might get it.
Vox Day
Although this isn’t what the post was about, I’ve found that those that wanted a promotion, or wanted to be the boss are horrible bosses. And that was before diversity hires had been invented. I guess it’s all fun and games until you have to do leader stuff.
This went Viral. Gen-Z just figuring out that they’ll have to work 9-5 to pay for their lifestyle all their life! Ok. This has to be trolling. No way someone is that stupid. No way they didn’t see their parents working. If it is true, then we are well and truly doomed. I have a tip for her; Sucker some dude into marrying you, stay home and have children. Us guys don’t get that option.
People over here have no idea how important that ancient history stuff is to them…in Iraq, they often referred to themselves as “Babylonians” no joke. The Iranians still talk about the Persians, and how they’d conquered the majority of the known world ‘back in the day.’
Big Country
Yeah, no shit. Russians and Chinese are the same way. Far as I know we’ve never bothered to understand the cultures before we start meddling, start shit, then run in and tack up a rainbow flag. We have almost no sense of our own history, much less any cultures that are millennia old.
The difference being that old truck will probably fire up and run after 50 years in a field. Seen absolutely rusted field finds turn into running machines on the Restored youtube channel.
Denniger gets screwed while trying to be a customer. I’m vendor loyal as can be. But he’s right. I get shafted and I never go back. I haven’t darkened the door of a TGIF in decades. I still won’t eat at Chipotle any more. There are all sorts of products and stores I no longer use, and will never. It’s written into my DNA now, the thought to go there never entering my mind.
Speaking of screwed, the body work on my car sucks after being repaired. I’ll write something about it. All I can say is – Check your work, dammit.
The house sale here is warming up. The Chicas came by to clean. Won’t get into why that was a shitshow (more so than the one it’s tied to). Let’s say I enjoy interacting with Herself as much as I’d like to have my scrotum scrubbed with brillo. Didn’t put the photographer appointment on my calendar, so I forgot it. Thought it was two hours later. The real appointment collided with a call with my boss. One that was already moved twice. So, the place wasn’t in the shape I wanted it to be in when she posted. I don’t want to hear a thing about it.
That said, manual forms give me the hives. I had to fill out a sellers disclosure 3-4 times. Kept making mistakes. It WOULD help if they put the buyer and seller initials on the footer in the same position on each page.
Inspected By Pat 