Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1553
In a rush today so I didn't even do bolding. Green Magnet School. Xymox. Body Shop. Pain doctor. Paying subs.
Good morning good morning hello hi my finger hurts Jane school good etc etc.
It is friday and I am going to go to the Neck Doctor today. They won’t let me get my lovely barrage of 50 neck shots filled with muscle relaxers until I meet with them again I don’t know what the problem is this seems like a country more than willing to pump people full of drugs at the drop of a hat these days why do I need this “consultation.” Also my doctor, whom I love, foisted me off on a nurse so I am bitter. Am I not enough for you?
No one cares about my special neck problems.
Went to Walmart yesterday, a lovely playing-hooky outing with my wife, mid-day. Chomps has basically abandoned its turkey lineup and I am very sad, no other turkey meat stick will do they all taste like sausages or some shit. My wife informed me I should not buy ice cream because she is disturbed by the way I can eat an entire pint in one sitting before it even thaws, as if this is some sort of abnormal behavior, come on, admit it, we’ve all been there. Also a pint of ice cream seems so decadent but think about it melted: it’s just a pint of chocolate milk. That’s not so decadent! A pint of Guiness: not decadent. It seems like so much ice cream in solid form but if you think of it as just having a pint? Not bad!
Both Walmart and Lowes have hidden the little cardboard stand where they sell grape vines and potato starts and I am very confused because this is totally fall potato planting season and I can’t find seed potatoes everywhere and I have never actually gotten around to watching a YouTube video about planting grocery store potatoes, though I assume you can do it: you can pretty much plant every other piece of organic produce at the grocery story and it will grow. Oh also I watched a great video recently of a dude growing tomatoes from a Whopper that was pretty solid.
I wonder why he chose a Whopper instead of a Big Mac. Seems like there was an SEO lapse there. Though this guy did not feel the need to make that Youtube thumbnail where he is making a doe-eyed, empty-shell-of-a-person face that is all the rage these days.
I would love to watch a video of someone doing a photo shoot to make those stupid-ass YouTube thumbnails.
What else can I tell you about Walmart. Our cart seemed great at first and then did a bait-and-switch and turned squeaky and thumpy and boy I had forgotten how much Emma hates carts like those. They did not have any good new records or Blu Rays. Their Zevia selection is decent in terms of varieties but they have halved their shelf space so that is stressful. I sold my zevia stock to pay my property tax. It was down like 80% since the IPO. It was very sad. I hope that company survives. I wonder what its market cap is now. $200 million?? That is crazy. Someone lend me $200 million I will buy the shit out of Zevia Inc. and turn it around. Those people need to go deep on influencer marketing and educating people about stevia and countering the perceptions that it has a bitter aftertaste. And go on the attack against Poppi and Ollipop. Too much sugar in both of those!
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We are listening today to my awesome original Canadian pressing of the Xymox classic album Twist of Shadows. Best Xymox album, fight me. I mean I love the early goth stuff sure but their etherial 90’s synthpop? This shit is the bomb. Every song a banger. Been listening to this album so much lately.
Yesterday we also stopped by the body shop and started the process of getting an estimate to get my truck fixed. Recall I have been driving around with out a drivers-side passenger door handle for like two months now. Well, we were gone for a month of it but whatever. They were so nice there! When we pulled up there was a curmudgeonly old southern dude — exactly the type of person I expected to be working at a body shop in the deep south. And I thought he was gonna help us but instead we got this super nice pregnant Latina lady and she knew so much and was just great and I love that place now. I mean, this whole thing is gonna cost a fortune, I am super sad about it. But at least I like the place that’s gonna fix it.
You know what? I gotta make this short because I gotta write checks to our electirican and grader over at the storage site and bring em to em this morning before my doctor’s appointment because everyone wants to get paid on payday and there are like ten surly dudes out on side who will, I don’t know, beat me up or rebel or something if they don’t get paid. Though maybe not because our subs tell us we pay quicker than everyone, but they also constantly tell us they need the money right away for payday and I’m like… soooo… do you just not get paid on your other jobs? Or are you bullshitting me and I am the only contractor that falls for it? Been at this job like three years now and I am still no closer to resolving this mystery.
And I don’t have a playlist for you today but instead I am going to give you a Youtube link to this classic Boston rock recording that is still not on Spotify that Ronen and I literally talked about for a half an hour at Man Ray last month. I saw these guys probably 10 times live in the era of this album, Blood Music. And I loved them and this song so much. Ronen told me some gossip about the band, explaining their mysterious disappearance a bit. Though I did just discover they’re on Bandcamp, so that is good. Here’s Windshield on Bandcamp if you prefer that.
Have a lovely weekend I know I will because it is going to be THREE DAYS OF CHORES and I am so excited.
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