Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1457
New even shittier NC Bathroom bill, Derek Thompson lives around here apparently, Stuffy drama, Cutting Crew's other hits, UNAS Pro Time Machine update, pollen season is upon us
Good morning hello. How are you? I am tired, yes, 6:21 still sucks. But even worse, I am already twenty-six minutes behind schedule today. Jane’s class did all their prize work (whatever that means) and won a jammies-and-stuffy day, and Jane loves jammies-and-stuffy days, just goes absolutely ape shit over them. And she left her stuffy in the car, which I only realized once I was at the grocery store picking up cheese sticks cuz I am a dad. So I did the right thing and drove back to the school. Only owing to jane’s obsession with being one of the first kids in the school, even after driving to the grocery store, doing some grocery shopping, and driving back to the school, they were still dropping kids off.
(Still feels weird to called “stuffed animals” or “plushies” “stuffies” do not like it at all).
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So I parked in the parking lot and walked in and of course the school office was as unhelpful as usual. They really are the only mean people at this school. Once I got in there and got help (neither action an easy feat), I was condescendingly told that I can just leave the stuffy on a table out in the entryway and put a sticky on it for Jane. It was not explained how this would work. It was haughtily assumed that it would not get stolen, beautiful Aurora the plus kitty who came from Alaska would not get trafficked.
Now, it might be my kleptocratic upbringing, but this system strikes me as incredibly flawed. Where is the audit trail? Who will be transporting this stuffy to the proper classroom? Where is my tracking number and receipt? How do I know none of these kids won’t steal it? This whole system is positively anarcho-socialist and just. won’t. do. in today’s political environment. We need to pass a law and end it and sell the stuffy off to the highest bidder or some shit.
Speaking of stupid laws, North Carolina Republicans are introducing a more-stringent version of the bathroom bill that made our state a pariah. But now the bill’s even worse and will probably not even cause a ripple throughout the national country. Pat McRory, the asshole Republican governor who signed this busybody bill the first time, at the expense of his re-election, crowed that this time he did not expect national companies to say anything about it.
Think Tim Cook and Apple will stop work on their North Carolina campus this time? Hahahaha that dude is probably donating to half the senators that voted for this bill.
Presumably, our Democratic governor, who does not seem to be suffering from any sort of Newsome Derangement Syndrome at the moment, or Schumerian cowardice, will veto the bill. The Republicans are one vote shy of a super majority in both houses, so there is no guarantee they will override the veto. But of course we have no shortage of Schumerian chickenshits in the Democratic party these days, and there are quite possibly a few Democratic legislators who think this is a done issue and aren’t going to stick their neck out for it. This will be should be a giant battle. We will see.
On the local front I also discovered today, also from the Axios local newsletter, which is pretty good, that Derek Thompson, an internet “thinker,” whom I sometimes think is pretty smart and sometimes think is a centrist fascism enabler, lives in Chapel Hill. I do not know how I feel about this. What if I stand near him at a show at Cat’s Cradle and catch public intellectualism god is there any worse disease to catch.
(Don’t worry you can still be a centrist and ramble on about common sense and compromise and not be a fascism enabler. It is getting increasingly difficult but you can still do it I believe in you).
Running around quoting Carlotta Perez or David Graeber like some sort of serious person jesus.
Running around still posting shit (on Twitter! Come the fuck on) trying to make a buck off of a grand theory let me tell you about grand theories. The best place to finish up with a grand theory is when you dash it off in two sentences and never think about it again.
These fuckin people. Think pieces. Decondition yourself from Think pieces.
Sorry I’m swearing so much but my mom died so there is no one to stop me now. Except Sherry. Sherry I am sorry I am swearing so much.
We are listening this morning to my friend Nicholas’ spa playlist, I guess it is? Though he says it is also the playlist he listens to the most. I am into that. Spa life, got a massage table in my office, etc etc. Anyway, it is great and you should check it out.
They were playing Cutting Crew in the grocery store this morning, their second US top-ten single “I’ve Been in Love Before” and I was just walkin’ around singing along because, you know, memorized every word back in 1986. Not a one hit wonder, Cutting Crew. Two hits. Though don’t sleep on their failed 3rd single “One for the Mockingbird.” I mean, it did make the top 40 in the US, but only #38. Wikipedia is also telling me they had a top-10 on the US Adult Contemporary Chart (aka the sad chart) with a single from their second album I had no idea about that gonna have to check it out.
The pollen is out this morning, our cars were covered in it. Poor Emma on a lark decided to not park in the garage and now her car is covered. I mean, my truck was covered too, but I always park outside, and the pollen doesn’t bother me as much. But wow Emma hates the pollen season. Pray for her.
Finally, you will be happy to know that the “bad Mac” fails to perform a full Time Machine backup to the “okayish NAS,” but “good mac” successfully performs a full Time Machine backup to “bad NAS,” which means that neither of my UNAS Pros are defective. Now I need to figure out what it is about this cute little baby G4 Mini that doesn’t wan to do Time Machine backups. I am super not into this. Do I just reformat it? That seems a pain. Gah.
Ooo I can be lazy and just share Nicholas’ playlist today and not my own. Why not. It deserves it. It is some chilllllllllll.
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