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Street Work - Day 149 

5 minutes before the alarm went off, the noise started. It was earlier than normal. I'm not sure if I'd rather hear the road equipment or the guys tearing each other a new one. As I set up for work, the air horn started. By this point, these 'coincidences' stopped annoying me - I just shook my head. I think one of the behemoths was in reverse for a while- it kept blasting out BEEP BEEP - BEEP BEEP, which translated, means GET UP, YOU DOLT. This repeated for about 10 minutes. I prefer the less abusive warnings of my alarm, which doesn't really speak to me at all, unless you don't count my sad wail at having to get up now. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! If I could hook their machines up to the coffee machine, I'd have it made. It's only a matter of time til the Great Hammering Device starts. If I have a lot of meetings, somebody's roof will need repairing too.

Wife's internal children rushed to the window, because this is like Christmas for them. They're fascinated by Truck Ballet. They're telling me what the guys are doing and how they are doing it. This is a very different experience than mine...

HER: Well, first they have to rip up the street. They use a truck with a curved arm that dumps into a dumptruck. It's 3 long and 2 short when the truck is full. Did you know they have to call a towtruck if someone didn't move their car?

ME: God, I wish that would get quiet. 

HER: they were talking... one makes $50 an hour and the other guy $120

ME: God, I wish that would get quiet. 

Today I identify as  tapioca pudding

There have been many really talented and funny people who just can't get good roles, like Chevy Chase, Jack Black, and Wayne Brady.

A former eBay security official who pleaded guilty for his role in a cyberstalking conspiracy has asked for leniency in sentencing while blaming his actions in part on a "drinking culture" at eBay that contributed to his alcoholism.

They forced it down my throat! They were responsible for me mailing a bloody pig mask....

Meanwhile, job applications went up 150% at eBay.

• Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke
• in 1990

Covid: China rejects WHO plan for second phase of virus origin probe

Says that checking if the virus is man-made and escaped from their lab is racist 

• The jungle-trekking Covid vaccinators helping to protect remote Indian villages.
• it may just be me, but if you have to build bridges and cross hazardous trails to vaccinate remote villages, perhaps you can leave them alone, because they're obviously not coming in contact with the Flying AIDS. They're more in danger from the people saving them.

this year alone Huawei has spent $1.24m schmoozing US officials – more than double the $470,000 spent over the whole of 2020. If the current level of activity continues, this year's spending is almost on course to match the $2.99m Huawei spent in 2019.

Never mind the tech that phones home to China - just throw more money at Congress....

UPDATES

• game changer is only getting worse
• ...EVer has let go a bit
• caramel has yet to lose its salt
• that's what I'm talkin bout has jumped the shark, but nobody told it
• future ban: crazy (that's crazy stupid)

Flying AIDS news 

Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

Communication around masks is still terrible

Covid vaccine: Eight-week gap seen as sweet spot for Pfizer jab antibodies

We. Have. No. Idea.

• A Faceyspaces group dedicated to gardening in western New York state is celebrating a victory over the company's algorithms after having been repeatedly threatened with censure and deletion due to use of the word "hoe".
• Democratic bill would suspend Section 230 protections when social networks boost anti-vax conspiracies

One of these is egregiously illegal and immoral. Guess which.

About the car..... 

Our car remains at the collision place, where they're working on it.

We are still driving the rental.

This satisfactory situation could not be allowed to continue.

Rental place calls and says we should give them $1500 so we'd be paid up.

Errr.... no. In no way should that add up to $1500.

Rental Guy tells me that's true, but the insurance stopped paying for the rental two weeks ago.

Two weeks ago?

Wasn't anybody going to clue me in on this?

Was it some sort of secret and I didn't have a Need to Know?

I called Insurance. She explained to me that we have $1,000 for rental and we were past it. 

That part didn't seem to be Need to Know.

So I mentioned that we'd just be starting on the $1,000 if it didn't take them three weeks to get the car to the collision center.

We have never had a problem with our insurance. 

In this matter, they didn't so much drop the ball as slice a chunk out of it and put it up somebody's nose.

more misadventures as they occur.....

just remember... this could be you. We do it so you don't have to.