Category: annoyances

  • That was expensive…

    That was expensive…

    A faithful pair of friends are on their way out, replaced with swanky new LG

  • Bloody hell, I am old

    Started this and abandoned. Not sure what the fuck I was trying to get on paper. Fuck, I am getting old.

  • Mailing lists

    Mailing lists

    The “get the fuck outta G-Suite” project continues, this time focusing on the unending list of email lists that spam me.

  • RC Cars – stripped screw redux

    Well, I think I figured out why I stripped that fucking button head screw. To facilitate the repair, I removed the steering post. It appears that instead of using thread locker (aka Locktite), the builder used cyanoacrylate adhesive. For the uninitiated that is super glue.

  • The high cost of illness

    Cold season has hit Chez Geoff, and his trip to the store to replenish the cold remedies is an eye opener…

  • White trash neighbors

    White trash neighbors

    Living in South San Jose is pretty great, for the most part. Great house, mostly great neighbors, and amazing weather are all positives. But the negatives come out twice a year. There are several rental properties in our neighborhood, and they are often rented by giant wads of fuck. Case in point: Last night, New…

  • Shingles Vaccine

    A couple of months ago, we lined up for our annual flu shot, and this year decided to get the shingles vaccine. Since both of us were from an era before the chicken pox vaccine, we both had it as children.

  • New Holiday Tradition – un-subbing from spam lists

    New Holiday Tradition – un-subbing from spam lists

    Ah, Black Friday is here. The time when my email blows up with all the companies and organizations I have ever interacted with by email send me notices of their “mad MAD deep discounts” for the “official” start of the holiday buying season. Yes, it is a veritable windfall of attention from the furthest reaches…

  • Things I don’t ‘get’ – Reality TV

    Things I don’t ‘get’ – Reality TV

    The stubby fingered Cheeto colored, ferret wearin’ shit-gibbon aside, one thing that I just don’t get is Reality TV. My understanding is that the genre, while there are earlier instances, really got a jumpstart during a writer’s strike in Hollywood. The network execs just started producing unscripted “reality” shows, and they took off. The formula…

  • Things I don’t ‘get’ – Daytime TV

    Things I don’t ‘get’ – Daytime TV

    Perhaps it’s my age, or my introversion, or … whatever, there are many things that I just don’t understand. Today, I will riff on television. being later-middle age, having grown up on a steady diet of television, I will admit to watching a reasonable amount of it. However, even with television being part of my…