Monthly Archives: November 2021

cereal cena

When I don’t feel up to regular dinner, just a cup of cereal will do, but it’s got to be big and it’s got to be a mixture.

Rice Krispies, Cheerios, Grape Nuts.

Squeeze of honey, fill it with soy.

médico

Doctor: do you need a refill on your pain med?

Me: yeah, could use one more.

Doctor: something lighter?

Me: no

Doctor: stronger??? 🤔

Me: whatcha got? 😀

Doctor: I’ll send in one more of the same.

Me: alright. 😐

sandwich

Hi-tech lunch. 🥪

lentes nuevos

New high-tech bifocals. 🤓

dog tag

I saw this, today. Nice, but there’s no need to keep one in that condition. You just tell the state it’s worn out and they print you another one.

ANY#DOGS

they’re just biscuits

The “detonator-tube” Pillsbury Southern Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits we had yesterday were so sugared up that each one was like having dessert.

I bought it for the fun of popping the tube. They used to scare me as a child. Boom!

Reminds me of eating at Zaxby’s. Everything sugared up, creamy, mayonnaisey, bread dyed a peculiar yellow to look “wheat.” Nasty. Little salads served on giant heavy plates with huge rims so you feel like you’re getting something.

Last summer while having to live off takeout while on the road for work, best drive-thru salad award from me went to Bojangles. Big salad, good price.

The funniest place I went last summer was Little Caesars 100% contactless pickup. Order and pay online. Go to your selected location. Punch in a code from e-mail. Bzzzt! A little hatch opened up and there was your pizza. Was kinda surreal and funny.

floppy copy

Rooting around the house over time, I find these here and there. Whenever I collect a few, I put them into a USB floppy disk drive (FDD) and try for a data copy. So far, not a single one has failed to read. They’re old, too. 💾

I copy them and archive. With the cost of storage lower than ever, might as well.

another meeting

I went to a social justice meeting one time just to have at the cookies.

mainstream malarkey

I went to a social justice meeting a few years ago. The facilitator’s ice breaker was to go around the room and say what your favorite source of news was.

The first four people all said the same: “Rachel Maddow! She’s so refreshing and I like her take on things.”

For me, at that point, the meeting was over.

retro me pic

“David in the den. Stereo behind me is a 1960’s era “Voice of Music” tube-type. It played records all the way from 16 2/3 to 78 RPM.”

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This pic is from a project I did years ago digitizing approximately 700 35mm Ektachrome slides that belonged to my father. It took days because I had to place each one on a lightbox one at a time and snap a pic with a digital camera hanging under a tripod.

The hardest part was pulling each slide out of the metal magazine holders and putting them back. It took tweezers and a mini screwdriver. Also, digital camera storage cards were expensive and not so big when I did the project, so I had to stop and offload the pics a lot.

When I finished, I uploaded all of them to an online album and notified my parents to have a look at what I viewed as a family treasure. Both of them had a similar reaction: “what do you want to look at those old things for?” My internal reaction was, “I’ve f*****g had it with y’all.”