Always good to see another Ham’er out here.  

It’s a ball breaking job. All the masons that I know have bad backs, and their hands feel like they are embedded with 80 grit sandpaper. Also, I believe its not really a trade where you typically would go to school for (like plumbing/electrical) so you have to work as a laborer with low pay and be taught as an…

And finally, if you’re wearing gloves, dispose of them safely. In the garbage can, please.

Elect lawmakers who don’t have their heads stuck up their asses... 

I didn’t say that this was unavoidable, because it wasn’t.  I’m just saying that we can’t go back in time and fix it.  We have to deal with it the way that it is now.  

While I don’t really agree with basically anything the current administration has done in response to this disaster, I can only imagine if the Mercy & Comfort were still docked in their home ports, that people would be clamoring “WHY DIDN’T WE USE THE RESOURCES!?!”

Thanks GEICO, my renewal was 8 days before this window you chose.  What are the chances I don’t get a retroactive credit after the current 6 month period... 

By reading facebook, I can tell you what MANY people are NOT doing at the supermarkets...

2 things.

So, it’s really sad that someone died, and it’s also sad that she asked Alexa for help to no avail, but unless I’m wrong, Amazon does not advertise Alexa devices as a medical alert system in any way.

You’re in Ala-Fuckin-Bama... You killed a Good Old Boy.... There’s NO WAY you’re getting a ventilator...

Coloring books, which enjoyed a huge reconnaissance a few years ago before dying off again, are poised to take one last victory lap as the perfect stress reliever for quarantine life.

5 y/o soft skill development: winnowing down the time that it takes him from a cold start, to get my 6 y/o to scream out for a parent. (currently at around 30-45 seconds). 

Popemobile?

The app recently accidentally exposed the personal information of over 44 million users due to misconfigured Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud severs (via Threat Post).

I feel like we’ve exited the “one team, one dream” phase of the pandemic, and we’ve reached the “calling the cops to report people who are not following social distancing guidelines” phase.

Makes you wonder why you’d want people in leadership positions who understand the concept of “public service” rather than people who likely haven’t done anything for anyone other than themselves in their whole life.  

The problem we’re having is keeping the kids under control. They’re a little too young to regulate themselves at all, and with being cooped up, they are just building this reservoir of GO!

Signing up for a 4-7(!) year financial commitment while we’re at the very beginning of what will likely be a long period of economic uncertainty doesn’t seem like the best choice, despite whatever the incentives are.

I’ve been seeing a lot of these messages on FB and Twitter about the WIC thing. Honestly, I’m not sure why the program can’t significantly but temporarily ease the restrictions on what can be bought via WIC at this time.