TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

[moose eater]

I hate getting a new phone. Invariably within an hour of ownership, I always want to smash it into little plastic bits and bitch slap every designer of every app.

I find skeet shooting works well.

I'm still trying to get my computer monitor to at least let me feel a tiny bit of success from my efforts toward forcing compliance and submission by causing it to tremble when I point a handgun at it, but.... nothing. Stone cold bastard that it is. It has no feelings for my frustration whatsoever, apparently.

 

[tobedetermined]

When I worked, I was tethered to one but I never used it when driving. In fact, I was known amongst my colleagues as a luddite because I seldom even answered the damn thing. Text or email me please. I don't need to attempt a fractured cell phone conversations when one or the other or both parties could not hear or understand what the other was saying due to drops or the dreaded underwater effect. 3G 4G and now 5G . . . and they are still only semi-reliable devices . . .

 

[moose eater]

When I worked, I was tethered to one but I never used it when driving. In fact, I was known amongst my colleagues as a luddite because I seldom even answered the damn thing. Text or email me please. I don't need to attempt a fractured cell phone conversations when one or the other or both parties could not hear or understand what the other was saying due to drops or the dreaded underwater effect. 3G 4G and now 5G . . . and they are still only semi-reliable devices . . .

Coordinated the sale of a set of used tires to a Russian fellow this AM in town, using cell phones after I got on the road. Snowstorm that delivered almost 6" by the time I was near to the meet-up. NOAA had said 4" to 6" by tomorrow night. By the time I left the driveway we were already close to 5", and that was before noon today.

My hearing is toasted; helicopters, machineguns, rock concerts, Harley Davidsons, chainsaws, tractors, headphones, etc., and the previous, long ago adolescent and young adult view of life that said I was 10' tall and bulletproof and that headsets for hearing protection were for pussies..... Well, my hearing is FUCKED.

So there were a couple exchanges on the phones that I had ZERO idea what he was saying, especially with motor and highway sounds and his rather thick accent.

Nonetheless we pulled off the meet-up successfully, and in that the power had gone out at the house no fewer than 4 times by the time I left for town, and was still out upon my departure, I took a bit of the cash from the tires and went into the grocery store we met at and scored some sushi and a roasted chicken, among other things.

My friend in the Yukon Territory refers to his cell phone as his 'leash'.

 

[moose eater]

We've been getting (often heavy) snow all day now, and now the weather report says we're supposed to get an addition 1" or so this afternoon, and up to another 4 inches tonight.

I think there's already what's gaining on a foot out there now.

As stated earlier, the power's been on and off for more or less brief periods throughout the day, though on now for a good while.

Ther temperatures are supposed to drop abruptly, making it down to near -25 F. on Friday and Saturday night, and I hate running my snowblower in the colder weather, for the sake of the snowblower. And I have to be on the road again on Sunday, immediately after this 2-day storm ought to be over with.

So I'm going to engage in my bit of masochism for the night, and head out in some layered wool gear with a headlamp, despite it still snowing, head to the barn to replace a screw in the snowblower's chute control shaft, and then try to complete my work before the snow buries the driveway and turn-arounds and parking aeras while I'm still trying to clear the thing. Probably most of a couple hours' worth at this point.

I need sherpas. I'll check on Amazon for them when I come back inside to thaw a bit.

 

[Ca++]

Damn that's cold. Who will deliver the sherpas?

I just pulled a tooth.