RAVE: Home network upgrade today. My ISP, Rogers, has had a ton of issues in the last day or so, with major internet outages. I've had a cell phone access point that I generally use when I'm travelling, but this morning I set it up as a secondary ISP source for my home network. I've been streaming the F1 race this morning (wtf Piastri!?!?) and have had 5 major dropouts in Internet service, but the failover has been almost immediate to the point that there was no interruption in the streaming media. It's been failing over and back just like it's supposed to. Maybe not a big deal, but it was a "hell yeah" moment for a Sunday morning.
Rave: With the exception of what the doctor described as one tiny polyp, my colon's clean. ( Space where gif of Cletus Klump farting at the dinner table would be if I could get it to work. ) Now I can go five years instead of three. Which is good, because it'll take five years to get the taste of that prep shit out of my mouth.
Rave: My son is a freshman at the big state university where we live and is a member of the marching band. Most of the band leaves Friday for Ireland to among other things, march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin. They are there for 5 days playing a couple concerts, the parade and sight seeing. Thrilled he gets this opportunity but at the same time anxious for him with all the stupidity going on in the world at the moment. This is part of his spring break and he ends his break spending some time with his girlfriends family (meeting them for the first time...that ought to be fun). My daughter decided to spend her spring break flying to upstate New York to babysit her 1.5 year old neice while the rest of her friends flew to Florida. I believe she made the better choice.
Rant: My basement flooded. It's going to take 10 days to get new flooring material so I've got two kids without bedrooms currently and the entire basement 'play' area is now covered in their bedroom shit. So, they have limited space to get out of my way at night. Rant: The day after my basement flooded my neighbors trampoline blew threw my fence, both the East and the West side. Unfortunately I've got a bag and a half of concrete on each of the poles and while I could get equipment in during the initial install there is absolutely no way to get it to where I need it for repairs. Rave: The two disasters gave me an excuse to get a big ass dumpster to clean things up and now I'm tearing through the house throwing away all sorts of shit that has needed to go for some time. I'm so overwhelmed with the amount of stuff we have accumulated and need to make room desperately.
Rant: Today has just been extra. I'm still furloughed, congress doesn't look to pass funding anytime soon. Additionally, I found out a family friend passed away and the federal position that my wife was hired to back in 2024 was officially rescinded today.
Rant: Our neighbor got her kids a dog a couple of years ago. And in the time since, I’ve had to talk to her about the damned thing barking non-stop when she ties it out in the yard. I’ve talked to her about it repeatedly, sometimes nicely and other times not so nicely. She’s done no obedience training, rarely walks it, and it’s a fucking herding dog of all things. As I’ve explained to her, you need to train and exercise that breed. They’re not a lazy person’s dog. Instead of doing any of that though, she locks the poor thing in the garage by itself. It’s out there barking all hours of the day, albeit quieter since it’s not in the yard. I leave for work at 5:30, I hear it. Get home from work, it’s out there barking. She’s home from work, kid out on the swing set, and the dog is still barking, still ignored. I’ve called animal control twice regarding that and her overall treatment of the animal. Her cousins wife called them as well. They’ve done absolutely nothing. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to have animals.
Silly trivial rant: I really hate when you want to buy something, so you look at a few options online, then all of a sudden the algorithm is feeding you more of those things. Great, right? WRONG! Because they somehow just get more and more expensive. And then all of a sudden a $2000 credenza seems almost reasonable in comparison to a $12000 credenza. FFS. The internet should know by now that I’m cheap as hell. See also the $600 baby snowsuit the robots kept trying to sell me a few months ago.
Rant: Mark Plier’s YouTube channel is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever seen and the fact that the twenty somethings that inhabit my home insist on watching it is beginning to drive me insane.
Rant: Funeral triple play this weekend. Two guys I graduated with and one guy I used to talk to at my bar on the regular. Age range 58-63. I wasn’t good friends with any of them, but man it’s been depressing.