Look Out

Ranting here today.

Blogger - I wrote an entire post with photos of my day at the beach on Friday. It wouldn't stop going backwards and deleting everything I wrote or the images I posted. I tried hitting the revert arrows. Nope. I got out of it and came back and it moved so fast it was unbelievable. I tried a slew of things but nothing stopped it. Earlier in the day I had no reading list so this has to be blogger. My reading list said I had no blogs. What the shit is going on now? I never did get back my email notifications even though all things are done correctly. I was so upset that I just gave up. I lost it all and I'll do it again for tomorrow's post. But boy it was pissing me off. I had to walk away from the computer for a couple of days.

Queen - I am an American. I could give a rat's ass about a monarchy that is so out of touch with reality. Yes, it's sad after 96 years of living free is over. I'm sure she was a nice woman. But c'mon. They can do this without the U.S.A. nonstop coverage. I mean a nibble or two but days and weeks and hours of this crap?

Didn't we make sure in this country to leave that BS behind us? 

I am tired of it being on tv 24/7. I don't wish to watch a car carrying a casket for miles. (She's probably not even in it) What is the point of this? Do people of the UK still find this nonsense valid and useful? Do they really think giving them billions is the right thing to do for shaking hands and attending dinners? Rhetorical since thousands stood in line for days so they could look at a wooden box, bow and cry. I saw that David Beckham stood in line for 13 hrs to pay his respects. What a glorious waste of time. Do something philanthropic perhaps David with your time and money in her honor? You know to help others? 

Oh, I could go on but I won't.

Heat - it's official I am friggin sick of 96-degree temps. I mean to tell you summer here is too long. I moved here last year in October so I never had summer here. But I have now and boy oh boy it goes on forever. I will love this come January, but right now it's the longest summer of my life and I am done with it. We are to have 2 days of what they are calling cold, in the high 70s, later this week and then back to the mid to high 90s. Argh! 

Streaming -

They claim to be streaming services but they are regular channels when they only drop an episode a week. We have decided to let each show run through its season and then watch it all at once like a movie and how it should be on a STREAMING service. But Mr. Shife if reading this now, I am happy to have found out how the "prick" as he is called died. I hope they get away with it.😁 

Lowes/Men- 

I went to lowes alone to buy some wood I needed to do a wainscoting number in my living room. The way I was treated I am surprised they let me enter without a man on my arm. I want to put up a batten and board-style wainscotting in my living room. I am doing this, not Rick. I thought I'd start on this small wall and see how I fair. I asked Rick if he'd cut the wood to size for me if I gave him my measurements. I hate using a saw because I am clumsy and I really like my fingers. 

Standing in the wood aisle I see what I want but it's 1" too thick. 

I wanted a 1x3 and all I could find were 1x4s. 

So an employee walked down the aisle and I asked him if he had any 1x3s. He laughed and said sure we do right where you're standing. I said it says 1x3 on the placard but if you measure these they are all 1x4, I looked through them all. 

He again laughed and said in the most condescending tone, "did you actually measure them?" 

I pulled out my key chain with my tape rule on it and said, "yes"  

He looked up and down the aisle past me and around me and I'm thinking, what the hell are you looking for an escape route? 

He then asked me if my husband was around? No, why? 

Are you doing this yourself? Yes. Maybe you should call your husband because he may really want 1x4s. Now I am fuming!!! I calmly tell this ass that I am doing this myself and I need two 1x4s for the header and baseboard but 1x3 for the vertical boards. I would prefer those primed but if you only have the raw I'll take that and prime myself. 

He laughed and then the shithead walked away leaving me standing there in the aisle.  One of these days I am going to go off on one of these guys. Of course, should I ever do it I'll just be a bitch to him, and then he will still be an ass and have learned nothing because he only sees my gender. 

I went to customer service to see if they had them in stock. They did but in the back. I said, that's fine I can wait for them to get them and I tell her how many I need. She tells me there wasn't anyone available to get them for me. Gee, you didn't even ask anyone. Okay then.  I left frustrated as hell. So much for customer service. I did not feel like driving across town to Home Depot because it was late so this week I'll try it again at a different store. What the hell is wrong with men anyway? 

I know, rhetorical. 

Can I do this? I honestly don't know. But I know what I needed and I wanted to try. Rick was busy with his orders so I figured I could surely go buy the wood to get started all by myself even if I am just a little ole woman.