transactional

I prefer “tit for tat”.

We’ve been getting tons of rain here, but we are still in an outdoor water ban.

Between 8-5, no lawn watering (except golf courses and businesses), no washing your car (except at a car wash), no watering your ornamental plants (except for farms and garden stores). No filling your pool (even a kiddie pool) or running through the sprinkler (except at the water park).

It’s not because of drought, but because one of our water sources is offline due to elevated PFAS, so they are blending water from other reservoirs, and those sources combined can’t make up the extra demand.

And also protecting businesses by making sure we can’t wash our own cars or lollygag through our own sprinklers. Gotta pay for that privilege.

We have to pay…for the privilege…of lollygagging through our sprinklers.

I get the lawn part. I hate lawns. But my yard is also a barren mud pit. I gotta put something down. Trying for mostly clover and other plants that don’t need a ton of water, but they still need to stay moist to germinate and start off, and that’s real tough to do if you can’t water it during the hottest parts of the day. I don’t really care what grows as long as it holds the dirt together and it’s comfortable to walk on barefoot.

In a different hemisphere than my ancestors, my surname translates to “Go Fuck Yourself”.

Found that out while working in a restaurant staffed by speakers of that language. Thought they were fucking with me but I googled it.

That’s a bit obtuse though. I prefer my angles to be 90°. That’s just right.

NGL I kinda want to look into OG Xbox emulation, been waxing nostalgia for Fable.

Considering how “fuck you in particular” lightning can be…maybe.

I’m waiting for the day that Gemini shittymorphs me.

Ceci n’est pas une tonalité

You never wondered about that person at the flea market selling Tide and baby formula?

There absolutely is a “black market”.

Windows having tar.gz support is great.

I have scripts for generating log bundles on user computers and sending to a share. tar.gz is great for compressing ~2.5GB text to send over VPN, and then I can open the .tar.gz direct from the network drive with minimal additional delay opening a 500MB text file inside.

ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Back up…dude with a 10th grade level understanding of biology and chemistry coming through with a question…

So carbon-based life forms can, under the right circumstances, decompose into long chains of hydrocarbons like Petroleum.

Does that mean silicon-based life forms under the right circumstances would break down into hydrosilicates like caulk?

You wouldn’t download a serial killer.

But you could download countless murder-mystery audiobooks and ebooks from Libby, so that’s a close second.

Well, more efficient packaging and shipping is a pretty good goal in general. Although what’s better is just…not having to ship pallets of paper around, it’s 20 fucking 24.

I don’t think “minimum wage worker gets penalized for something entirely outside their control and the workers innocent family suffers as a result” is that much of a stretch. Sadly.

Congratulations, you just made a huge mess for some barely-above- minimum wage worker to deal with.

They are going to have to take time to clean up all that glitter or they’ll get written up for keeping a sloppy workspace. But because it’s glitter and got everywhere, it’s gonna take a long time and they are going to miss their performance metrics. That’s a writeup.

Now they are on the chopping block and their kid is starving and wearing rags to school because you thought it’d send a message to mail them glitter, and literally nobody higher than the mailroom boss even knows that it happened. Good work.

My kids baseball (littlest league) got cancelled yesterday for rain.

All communication is done via group chat.

While I appreciate the message itself, I didn’t need a notification and a chime every time another parent sends a 👍.

Some are good boys that need a home. We adopted a dog of unknown breed, they had his mom (who looked like a black mouth cur), who came in from a kill shelter pregnant.

I still don’t know what breed he is, really don’t care to find out. But he has a lot of bully features. Big puffy chest. Blocky head. Strong jaw. Smart. Highly emotional.

And he’s a fucking marshmallow. An 80lb slobbery marshmallow.

I mean, you’re probably more likely to get bit by a Chihuahua than a pitbull.

But a pitbulls bite is a little bit worse.

We live in a society. We have laws. And order.