Category Archives: rambling

search results

An image from my financial institution’s “search results” page.

“Did you find what you were looking for?”

special t-shirts in which to go voting

I’m mail ordering a special t-shirt to wear to the next national election that will make me happy. It’s cryptic enough to where I should be able to get in OK.

It is shipping out of China but is not particularly to do with China.

I ordered a second shirt that is more direct, but I’ll save it for special occasions. 😁

restaurant reviews

You know you’ve seen it.

How to know when a customer is amping up a negative restaurant review for dramatic effect:

“All I did was mention to the manager that I usually get four chicken tenders instead of three with my biscuit. He called me a GD asshole, punched me, and then dragged me to the bathroom and held my head in the toilet. I almost drowned! I’m sorry, one star.” ⭐

take-out chinese food reviewers

The usual song of the one-star take-out Chinese restaurant reviewer is the word “undercooked.”

“My rice was undercooked and there was NO COMPENSATION! One star.”

Poor little Karen’s $4 chow mein was ruined. lol.

When traveling, I read a lot of restaurant reviews to decide where to go and I see this all the time.

famous olive garden salad

Wonder where this could be?

World’s greatest salad, and has been for decades.

I’m not having any today, but Olive Garden has a cheap sweet Italian wine called Confetti. Very refreshing. I could turn up the bottle and chug the whole thing without stopping.

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hillary and biden

I was joking around at work one day with a fairly right-wing Republican guy, and it got quite funny.

It got down to, if you had to choose between Hillary and Biden, which one would you prefer?

He said, “Hillary in a heartbeat over that thing we have now. At least when Hillary says something, I can understand what she’s talking about.”

I thought it was funny to hear him say it. I can see it.

yo voté

Cuando YO VOTÉ
(when I voted)

I should have been humming this Puerto Rican reggaeton…

De mi vida TE BOTÉ, yo te boté, yeh, yeh, mami

(I dumped you, I dumped you, yeah yeah mami)

~~

I’m struggling here to put a post together at all cost. I mean it rhymes a little (voté, boté), and I was rasslin’ with some anger management issues in the voting booth. 😂

It’s a stretch, even for my usual junk posting. In my head, anything can be linked together.

I’m not really that much into Puerto Rican reggaeton, but it was playing in the background when I was watching a very fun video one time.

masking

I was recently tasked with asking people to mask up at an event. I think it’s more than time for that to end, but I always put one on when asked.

I was treated like an ogre by someone just for being there. No “hello” or “long time no see,” just a painful deep breath and “Do we REALLY have to put on a mask. We were somewhere else earlier and didn’t have to wear one.”

They walked in without.

Coincidentally it was one of those who was a harpy at the start of Covid, griping at everyone who wasn’t immediately happy about masking or who wore them incorrectly.

When they decided it was time, it was time, I guess. I felt totally disrespected.

midnight at the oasis (song)

Midnight at the Oasis (1974) – Maria Muldaur

This used to play on the school bus every morning on the way to jr high. The driver had a boombox in the front of the bus. A radio was not an approved device on the bus. That made it more fun.

We were all 13 to 15 years old, and we all knew the song was about a hot desert love affair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_at_the_Oasis