Category Archives: rambling

the rubbers

At Greensboro Pride, Cone Health gave us some condoms, lube, and a drink koozie. They even offered PrEP.

What, am I 19 again? j/k

No, I’m not joking about condoms. Those things saved a lot of lives in the deadly 80’s, though I lost many of my friends anyway. PeEP did not exist then. If you got AIDS, you could be dead from within a few weeks to some months. A few made it for a few years.

Many places, especially the nightclubs, had fishbowls full of condoms all for free.

hey

Do I need to go over anything in the picture? lol

matching green

Dollar General 🎃

Matching green.

breakfast sub

Breakfast. I like that Subway is open early.

It’s a veggie. No Subway cat food like meats.

misshelving

lol. I’ve done that before. 🤫

Not too long ago, I left a package of oatmeal with the pineapples.

Then I used the self checkout and GTFO of there. The oatmeal would balance out the accusation of “working for the store.”

fast food wage

FYI,

There’s almost nothing to go on here, but I was overhearing an interview in Bojangles (fast food restaurant) this morning during breakfast. I don’t know if it’s counter, kitchen, lead, but starting rate mentioned was $11/hour, with a promise of, “maybe I can get you a little bit more depending on the manager.”

Whether this is normal or not, I don’t know.

magic 8 ball accuracy

Insanely high accuracy.

Still questioning it.

random reminisce. 1980’s.

I can look at old photos for long stretches of time and be quite content.

Subject and whether color or b&w don’t matter to me as much as the pics having some age on them.

A friend in Mexico City dropped me off at his grandmother’s decades ago while he did a few errands that had urgently come up.

The grandmother and I spent the day looking through boxes of her old photos. She described many of them and talked about many related things. What a great day, especially for building vocabulary in Spanish.

She broke out some wine and snacks, then said, “want to go to the patio for a smoke?” Heck yeah. She was fun.

My friend, who was only to be gone for an hour, returned some six hours later with profuse apologies.

No apologies! We had a good time.

Photography, like the telephone and air travel, I view as a miracle.

magic 8 ball

My Magic 8 Ball was delivered while I was away at work. 🎱

It’s a special limited edition. Extremely high accuracy.

I’m asking it questions now.

exceso sodio

Salty AF! Tastes quite good, though.