Time to put the decorations out. All I have to do is find where I put the box last year... I really should write my future self clues when I pack them away.
Also, Mrs. Miasma has hidden all the Halloween candy and when I ask about it she responds with "Keep it secret, keep it safe" and giggles.
I'll probably find both the candy and decorations sometime in November.
Joking aside, the "baby boomers" you are insulting as not knowing anything about computers were also the people who invented the internet.
The oldest boomers born in 1946 had careers from about 1966 to 1998. Youngest, born 1964, from 1984 to 2016.
Aol started in 1985
Netscape in 1994
Geocities in 1994
I have made my family promise to hold an intervention for me if I buy one more #tool as it's likely a replica of one I already bought for a single, specialized project and we all know I'm going to hire someone younger anyway.
Well, the imaginary rodeo clowns that were dancing the Fandango on my kidneys and lower back finally left town for another rodeo today. I'm feeble and rickety but I'm grateful to be back vertical.
Probably not going to get two vaccines on the same day ever again. I'm too old to take many more of these kind of ass-kickings. Plus, it's just not good for my pride.
Shit. I've written before about how COVID vaccines/boosters kicked my ass every time I got one. It felt like I was assaulted by rodeo clowns every time I got one.
Well the real rodeo clowns showed up last night and the ass-kicking was both real and energetic.
Please get your vaccines and boosters and stay on top of it - I don't even want to imagine just how bad this would be if I hadn't, and wear a mask. It's important.
Don't travel through four states in one day if that also includes driving through Chicago and Gary Indiana during rush hour. Your sanity and inner peace is worth more than that.
Also we learned:
EVERY hour is rush hour in Chicago.
EVERY road is currently "under repair" and restricted to one lane in Chicago.
I know I'm not always the most observant about these things but at what point in our friendships did we transition from talking about our hobbies and passions to our organ health and upcoming medical tests?
Moving two time zones to the right does NOT agree with my normal sleep pattern. Either that or I'm allergic to Notre Dame university (we're staying at a boutique hotel across the street from the campus.)
Dear #OldPeopleOfMastodon
My niece thinks I refuse to download every trendy app because I'm a troglodyte afraid of new things. Truth be told, I'm just against anything that requires access to my contacts, photos and bank files to let me say "Hi" to anyone.
How does one nicely tell a loved one to fvck off about this?
Near radio silence on certain hashtags, such as #BlackMastodon, #BlackFriday, BlackJoy. Even the superlovely #OldPeopleOfMastodon and #BackyardNature, for example. Where are they? Not only hashtags -- just friendly people who reached out in some way to make "social media" social. (Will try to fix this thread as I seem to have totally botched it)
You know that feeling 30 seconds after you wake up from a good sleep? Where you lie there with no kinks or weird knots, not hot or cold, nothing aches and for a couple of minutes your body is completely relaxed?
Talking with my best friend this morning about a recent medical condition that hit him.
I made the comment that it's pretty clear our warranties have expired. He responded that his body's check engine light was on and it was throwing error codes.
As you get older you'll find that some mornings you're just going to wake up pissed-off at the world. And damn it to hell in a rusty red wagon, that's okay.
Today is my wedding anniversary. 9/1/91 (We did that so I only had to remember two numbers.)
I told Mrs. Miasma I wished we could take a digital photo of us as we are now, and send it back through time to the "us" that got married 32 years ago.
Mrs. Miasma said she believes her younger self would've thought "Well, it either went really well or really badly."
Mrs. Miasma baked some healthy-oat-bread-loaf kind of thingy this morning. She claims it's tasty but I think she had to cut it with a Sawzall so that's a committed "No Thank-you, from me."
Mrs Miasma and himself are off to try the "5th best restaurant in Sheridan" for breakfast this morning. 5th best in a town this small may be a pretty low bar... 🤔
I would like to point out that the Häagen-Dazs strawberry ice cream that used to be in our freezer was consumed before midnight and therefore NOT subject to any of my New Year's resolutions.
Also, there wasn't that much left in the container and I'd like an exemption waiver for the cinnamon roll I'm about to eat.