or my house is possessed.
that was weird. did the electricians come and not hear it so they just left?
it actually happened again in the wall by the stove and the only way i could get it to stop was to turn the breaker off. when the electrician came we turned it back on and no noise! he said he can’t diagnose without hearing it or tearing the wall open so call him when/if it happens again.
it is my policy to be gentle with ghosts in my house, and aggressive with electrical problems.
at least the 6th week in a row our food and yard waste wasn’t collected. i got into it a little bit with jermaine on the phone just now. while listening the world’s most depressing hold music, i considered the possibility of asking him if it he was okay with me getting sweary for a minute.
our outflow goes under our sitting room and water pressure isnt always enough and.... stuff.... gets stuck under our floor and it smells like..... stuff.... for a while
oh dear.
i renewed my home warranty today because i have now been domesticated one year!
the free, biweekly local newspaper has stopped coming to me. did i offend the paper boy?
mayb it was an introductory offer?
nope. small town paper is free for everyone all the time! (you get what you pay for, including gumshoe reporter who likes to look for scandal in fine arts commission meetings, lol)
a bad little bush turkey has moved into our street and keeps digging up people’s plants with it’s long toes and about once a day it crosses our yard and comes right up to the sliding door and peers into our living room and does an expressionless little throat gobble and then wanders off again. it’s quite skinny and short so you can’t easily see it when it’s behind a plant. i hope it stays, i love it, but the fusspots with the dead plants want it to clear off.
how wonderfully disgraceful
i hope it doesn’t dig up your ficus
my ficus is in heaven, it was here for a good time not for a long time
quality over quantity
r.i.p. ficus, we never knew you
male ficus
alas that mrs mac is no longer available
to proffer me citizenship in the wake of this domestic outrage
just remembered i can get irish citizenship hi
all talk imo
which tbf is part of the test applied
how are we all doing?
this hurts.
i feel ok because i was feeling so bad to begin with. tired of reading ppl’s thinkpieces though. more tired of the democratic party than i ever thought possible. feeling very blamey and partially self-satisfied but also scared for everyone. glad i never got a job in the federal govt. that is all.
had an encounter with someone who was being trolly and said can’t wait to defund planned parenthood so i will be making a donation in their name after payday
I donated yesterday :)
trying to figure out whether i can continue being friends with someone i’ve known half my life and has been very generous with me but supports fascism run by ‘an idiot’ because HRC is ‘the greatest criminal in world history’
dude is a very wealthy white man living in san francisco. and i don’t think i can do it. not simply because i disagree, but because i’ve lost all respect for him
yeah.
i’m really concerned about having to ever see a few relatives again, but i am also worried because they will suffer more than me if these promises are fulfilled. what do you do with that?
imo the political is always personal and your political beliefs are most certainly a reflection of who you are as a person. not to say that being a lefty automatically makes you a good person, but all right-wing policies seem to spring from hatred of some sort, from negativity and oppression of one or more groups.
trump is so clearly and transparently awful, insincere and corrupt, that if someone is claiming hillary is worse, then i know they’re really just bigoted and emails/benghazi/clinton foundation stuff is just a convenient cover for that.
no one needs to be around toxic people, and people on the right are straight-up poison.
ACLU, SPLC, Gay City Health Project, Campaign Zero, Planned Parenthood
now for the hard part: actually DO something, aside from sending twitter threads to my sisters
yes.
outraged by ilx outage
something small but vigorous is doing some loud scuttling in the roof directly above our bed, and it’s an unnerving outrage. i will not be investigating at all due to the awfulness of the possible local candidates.
Oh I can sympathize but thankfully from past and not present experience
it’s ant season at my house. my counters are clean. they’re marching to god knows where and carrying shit back still. this morning i was trying to dump some leftovers from the fridge and accidentally dropped them on the ground. i cleaned up as well as i could but when i came home the floor was like this
i had this a couple years ago and it was outrageous but also really impressive (and horrifying) — there was a single line of them coming in the window at the other end of the apartment, traversing the length of it in straight lines, and climbing up a wall to a bottle of honey in the cupboard
we’re contracted for quarterly (supposedly eco) spraying because of the outrageousness of the sugar ants. the guy said they come in looking for water (but apparently they stay for the crumbs). he also said they’re called sugar ants because they smell sweet if you squash them, which he then demonstrated by squashing one and smelling it, then holding it out for me to smell, to which i was like HELL NO I AM NOT SMELLING YOUR FRESHLY DEAD ANT JESUS CHRIST DUDE MOVE YOUR HAND AWAY FROM MY FACE.
anyway, they still come in occasionally but not like they used to.
i can’t tell you the story of the pizza in zanzibar because it is so horrifying that neither jërgins nor i have ever once mentioned it since it happened.
now is the time of year i cross my fingers and hope no bats appear in my house. ts: ants vs bats
the pizza in zanzibar is good code for unspeakable things
things are much improved after i found a bait they would actually eat. 99% gone.
my furnace stopped working on a friday night.
almost march, no worries
upper midwest outrages chronicle: we’re not safe til may
a disgraceful reminder we can’t spell furnace without an fu
i am outraged that, while in-person classes at my university have been suspended through the end of the month, offices will remain open. so, those of us who are in higher-risk age brackets will continue to throw ourselves out into the great world of disease every day, while the people in the less-at-risk age brackets can stay home and away from potential contact at every turn.
the announcement of the above arrived first thing this morning, followed shortly by an announcement that a staff person working in a building up the street has tested presumptive-positive, their building has been closed, and all people who’ve been in contact with them should self-isolate for 14 days. but yay, let’s all the rest of us keep going to germ land all the time.
i feel strongly that there’s a domestic connection to my outrage, but i’m too outraged to quite get at it.
this is exactly the kind of thing my employer does. typically it is weather-related and classes are canceled for students, 95% of whom live on campus. meanwhile offices remain open and staff, who have to drive in, are told to report. indeed an outrage. (of the domestic capitalism sort?)
i am in a more fortunate place now, but i am reminded that k-12 i had exactly two school days cancelled for weather. one was because the boilers had failed; the other was because the buses couldn’t climb the hill due to ice
despite the latter, we still had basketball practice
my hr department now says that we can’t work remotely, despite the fact that all students have been told they have to leave campus by sunday at 3 pm. outraged is too mild a term for how i feel right now.
we are supposed to work from home when possible and have new technology to do so but i don’t believe i will be able to do it, mentally. still have to go to the jail and i have bail reviews all week.
in the domestic outrages vein i had one packet of yogurt culture left in the fridge and went to all the trouble of heating the milk, etc. last night. incubated in the instant pot and woke up at 5 when it went off to move it to the fridge. i tasted it this morning and the culture must have been dead because it just tasted like cooked milk.
my new thermostat (see previous furnace outrage) does not seem to work properly, but only malfunctions like 1/5 of the time, which doesn’t seem dire enough to risk inviting a technician into my home.
speaking on both mrs mac and laundry in the other thread, she left what appears to have been several thousand euro worth of loo roll in her jeans when putting them in the basket the last day and was outrageously obvious about not thinking it was *that* big a deal when it destroyed the 40 degree dark wash
she says it served me right for throwing the teabags in the bin from across the kitchen and always splashing the wall (the walls are her job) but it’s clearly not comparable imco
the main light fixture in my kitchen isn’t working. whether this is due to dumb wiring on the part of the previous owners, or bad wiring choices on the part of the current owner who is currently isolated in the house is yet to be determined
probably the latter
E
came home this evening
E
feel for my amp
E
oh you know bout that man
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wait my amps not there
A
came home this evenin
A
oh just feelin for my amp
E
E
B
my amps in the closet now
A
until this is all over
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oh you know this is not open for discussion
E (quietly, because you have no amp)
part of my closet system fell off the wall.
the mosquitos have arrived in minnesota.
mosquito season in minnesota, pretty much the yearly apocalypse
unicorn shower curtain girl has taken over a redecoration of the garden shed for teenage hosting purposes she will not iirc be lisa franking that shit to the maxxx tho
a missed opportunity imo
the hot water heater died today so now i get to have that replaced.
jesus, rains/pours. sorry for all of this, tehersa.
<3
because this year has not been special enough, my sewer line is now backed up. (luckily caught before my basement totally flooded). 🥴
sorry t, the whole world is like a backed up sewer line but that doesn’t make a domestic outrage not outrageous.
ugh, so sorry about that. I have had one small backup and one that was... less small. I should be clearing tree roots out of my sewer line every year or two, this was (I think?) year three and was going to have it done in the spring except it wasn’t a good time
crossing my fingers the toilet water doesn’t swell from the floor
our new neighbour, who has a shaved head and bold tattoos and rides a harley, used his leaf blower six times yesterday and then again this morning. wtf. what a fusspot. it’s the worst sound in the world. also he just started it up again right now while i was mid-complaint.
i will totally kick his ass
yay, i’ll chew gum and rizzo cheer you on
we have had murraya growing in our yard for years but never learned how to spell it.
Mar dhea ye have id say
furnace broken. part unavailable until ????
this happened to me last month. i got a new furnace a year ago. the control board died and you could not buy another compatible board anywhere. under normal circumstances it would be available and cost like $100. i had to buy another furnace.
!!!! harbl, i am so sorry!
my furnace is like 30 years old so i got a home warranty. they just called and think they will be able to come with the part tomorrow afternoon. that will be such a relief as my thermostat read 39° this morning.
thankful for my sunny porch, as is the dog.
sorry to hear about the furnace woes. I hope things are up and running now!
toasty once more ^_^
yay!
never in my life have i gone to a neighbour’s house for a nice afternoon visit and then when they weren’t looking sneaked upstairs and peed on their hallway carpet, but that’s exactly what the little dog from next door just did and then she had the cheek to seem glum and bored during the cleanup
she loves you deeply, sort of a “you break it, you buy it” mentality
cheekiness is on a spectrum with godliness
you are speaking estela’s language
i love cheeky rotten little animals, all of them
need to make an office jarbl! add your pro tips here.
i have given up on jarbls and now use a sticky window thing to keep the fruit flies at bay. it is kind of gross and leaves glue on the window but it works for any type of fly.
also, after years of having an annual unannounced House Fly Week where tens of house flies appear out of nowhere, this year i had like 5 house flies total? not sure why; it is a mystery
5 all summer, i mean. house fly week was canceled.
there have been so damn many flies this year! and multiple varieties that i’ve never had invade my house before
i can’t turn the gas stove on in this apartment. i know how to, it is functioning, jergins can do it, i have turned gas stoves on in other places, but i just can’t make it stay lit. i even watched a fucking youtube video on how to turn on a gas stove. so if i want to cook anything, i have to get jergins to turn on the stove. if he isn’t home, i am not cooking.
i am outraged to the point of resignation.
this is dreadful behaviour from your gas stove, i am outraged too
hope jergins is not lording his gas power over you
so to speak
happy jarbl season to all who celebrate
i have switched to those disgusting clear window stickers because i want to have 0 houseflies. they are gross but they do catch a lot of fruit flies.
i have switched to those disgusting clear window stickers
pls explain?
STRONG VISCOSITY
gotta have the best viscosity
nothing but the strongest, best viscosity for my friend harbl
a pigeon came into our house. all three of us were a bit shaken.