Be warned:
“Orange and Black is a registered trademark of the Black abd Decker Corporation”
Now you know.
Off the Left Field Wall
I hate allergies. A sneeze-cough while eating some delicious red beans and rice seasoned with freshly chopped habanero pepper. You got it. Habanero pepper bits caught in sinuses. *sigh* Grateful fir ready-mixed, lightly-pressurized nasal wash. *heh*
(BTW, the pressurized air-fryer/instapot did a great job with all elements of the red “beans and rice”–from caramelizing onions, to sauteeing the “polish” sausage, to bringing it all together on a “stew” setting–rice previously cooked, and I used canned red beans).
Blurb for “That’ll Leave a Mark”
“That’ll Leave a Mark”–the gripping tale of a proofreader who lapsed into a comma, overcome by excessive punctuation.
“Pro” Tip
If you live in a jurisdiction where “one party” recording rules apply, whenever interacting with any “authority figure,” record the interaction. If the interaction is with a LEO, record it no matter what (1st Amendment and due process protections should apply, at least according to some recent federal court decisions). Just in case, ya know.
Oh, and having one’s own dash cam? Great idea. I got lucky once, about 30 years ago, and had a judge who was very familiar with a particular stop sign (it was in his neighborhood and he stopped at it all the time) and KNEW the LEO could NOT have seen what he testified he saw.
Sometimes, it’s the little things, ya know?
*smh* at an otherwise quite competent writer who committed two wrongs in a recent work: consistently misusing “surly” when meaning “surEly” and failing to hire a competent proofreader (or editor). Apart from that consistent error, this particular piece is actually pretty good. Still. . . it’s little things like this that irk–sometimes more than major gaffs.
Am I becoming my mother?
Oh [explains self], I called one of the cats by another cat’s name today. *shrugs* I figured out which name was which eventually.
Sometimes, I Can be a Wee Tad Snotty
Yeh, I know; hard to believe, right?
Writer actually spelled out “fixed base operator” and it gave me a #gagamaggot moment. “FBO. Anyone who doesn’t know what that means can look it up!”
*heh*
“Dr Muerte’s Panacea for Pain”
Picked up some kind of contact rash in the last day or so. Despite observing pretty good hygiene with handwashing, etc. (including having worn nitrile gloves), I seem to have spread it to. . . rather uncomfy areas. So, tried an astringent product from FAK to alleviate itching. It works, but kinda like after stubbing one’s toe and asking “Dr. Muerte” for pain relief, getting a punch in the nose. I don’t really notice the itching now that everything is BURNING.
*heh*
“Pain is just weakness leaving the body” (and other convenient lies. 😉 ).
Brigandage
n. “the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. It is practiced by a brigand, a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery.” See IRS, et al.
More “News” in category: “Inventions for the Lazy, Stupid, and Incompetent”
Special lil pot holders to fit over the handles of pans, because using an ordinary pot holder is tooooo haaarrrd!
As a special invention for stupid, incompetent, and lazy people, it’s right on up there with special lil tools for cracking eggs and special-deshul tools to prevent “onion tears.”
These kinds of things are for people who were voted off the short bus for being too stupid.