ChickenLadyLovesLife

The Rocketeer (1991)

As much as I love good animation, nothing can possibly replace 1991 Jennifer Connely.

I used to work for Cisco as a programmer, and when I got laid off by them I found out that my mom thought I had been working for Sysco the whole time. She had never understood why I was working for a food services company, although I expect they employ a large number of programmers too.

Did working for Cisco suck? I can't say as I never did a lick of actual work for them. They acquired my original company and then we all sat around for a fucking year doing nothing until they laid most of us off. Weirdly, everybody who got laid off was childless -- the only people from my original company who were kept on had one or more children. I don't know what to make of that.

My only regret is not saying that my work macbook had been stolen. That's what all of my coworkers did and they all ended up with free macbooks.

As someone who has actually physically built houses (i.e. nailing walls together, putting up the siding, hanging and mudding sheetrock, installing doors and windows etc.) this mindset pisses me off more than anything. "Management" does stuff like buying already-built houses, trucking them to our site and placing them on foundations, discovering the houses were built in the 1960s with 2x3s instead of 2x4s and thus needed to be torn down to the floors because they're no longer up to code, necessitating us rebuilding the houses entirely from the floors up, and then discovering the houses were placed two feet too close to the property line so we have to literally chop two feet off of them and rebuild the walls.

True fucking story. And I forgot to mention that the floors were 3/4 rotten so we had to rebuild most of them, too.

My weed dealer a few years ago got all paranoid and made his buyers start contacting him with WhatsApp. "It's encrypted and completely secure!" Lol sure. It's weird that the only other person who has ever made me use it was my realtor.

A reasonable solution has always been the "medicare for all" concept: just lower the eligibility age by a couple of years every year. Going from 65 to 0 would have taken just over thirty years, and if this had been implemented in the '90s when it was first suggested we'd have universal healthcare by now. Hilary Clinton was lauded for pushing for universal healthcare when her husband was president, but apparently she wanted instant universal healthcare and fought the "medicare for all" contingent. I don't think she was as responsible for bad shit as is often made out, but it's pretty clear that she didn't help in this case.

Asking people if they're planning to have kids is like asking an unemployed person if they've found a job yet.

I'm not sure if a king cake would have been appropriate here. Fortunately they're shitty cakes in addition to being a dental hazard.

bonus for wool.

Good lord, man! Scratchy as hell.

I love it when guests are this comfortable because it means I don't have to tend to them and interact with them 24 hours a day.

"Could you bring me an old sock, please?"

All of my local grocery stores offer sushi, and all of the signs say the same thing: "sushi under new management" and the signs never change. You're not going to trick me like that, colluding grocery store chains.

"I'm Hatin' It!"