The Vent and Rant Thread

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Oh, I’m SOOO glad to hear you are having some relief!! I’m excited for you! I hope it continues to improve!

I'm pretty sure that you're not the only one who's excited. The old geezer and the cat aren't walking around the house stiff-arming me, either. LOL.

Hitch

[CRussel]

Sigh. OK, a power outage here is hardly a rare thing in the winter. But four separate outages? In one afternoon/evening? One about 2 hours, the others in the 20-30 minute range. Just as I'm getting ready to fire up the generator, again, it starts back up. Grrr.

[Rumpelteazer]

Great to hear it's going a little bit better Hitch!

[ownedbycats]

For Valentine's Day, the radio station decided to play a few "romantic" songs... including the one written about Robert Plant's dead son. Oy...

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

For Valentine's Day, the radio station decided to play a few "romantic" songs... including the one written about Robert Plant's dead son. Oy...

Oh, dear....

Hitch

[poohbear_nc]

It's February - temps have been in the 60's and 70's F, sunny, breezy - so what's not to love?

Pixie cat is shedding ... a lot
Pollen counts are surging early => my first sinus headache in 2023 ...
I have the urge to do yard work ... but nothing has started growing back yet ...

[ApK]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

For Valentine's Day, the radio station decided to play a few "romantic" songs... including the one written about Robert Plant's dead son. Oy...

Originally Posted by Hitch

Oh, dear....

Hitch

Meh. I don't see anything in the lyrics that make it inappropriate, and listeners should not be expected to learn the backstory of a song's creation to enjoy it. I suspect if Plant DIDN'T want it open to people interpreting it as just a love song, he was fully capable of writing more explicit meaning into it.
Perhaps it was his intention that people would embrace it this way so it would be a more long-lasting and widely popular tribute.

You can appreciate the beauty of the Taj Mahal without knowing it's a mausoleum.

[Tarana]

It's February here. A couple of days above 32, even above 40. Now 17F. Snow coming next week again too. My Mom is majorly grouching about it and it isn't even here yet.

I'm getting annoyed about books in the middle of a series being pulled for unknown reasons. Books 1-6 are there, 9-15 are there, but 7 and 8 have been pulled. Happens at both Amazon ebooks and Audible audiobooks. Drives me nuts. Will they come back? This year? I can't buy ALL the books of a series at one time, but damn they should continue to be available so that I can eventually. Same publisher btw.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Tarana

It's February here. A couple of days above 32, even above 40. Now 17F. Snow coming next week again too. My Mom is majorly grouching about it and it isn't even here yet.

I'm getting annoyed about books in the middle of a series being pulled for unknown reasons. Books 1-6 are there, 9-15 are there, but 7 and 8 have been pulled. Happens at both Amazon ebooks and Audible audiobooks. Drives me nuts. Will they come back? This year? I can't buy ALL the books of a series at one time, but damn they should continue to be available so that I can eventually. Same publisher btw.

I feel both of your rants -- we've got winter coming back with a vengeance next week. And I hate when middle books in a series go out of print/availability. However, the one place worth looking is the library. If it's a series they have, their likely to still have it. You didn't say which author/series, but I know for some of mine, the library was the only source for a bit as the books transitioned from mainstream publisher to self/boutique publisher after the author reclaimed her rights.

[issybird]

Winter’s coming back here next week, also. Nights in the teens and days flirting with 30. I’ve enjoyed this temperate week and it’s one more on the march to spring, but it’s going to make next week harder to take. And the week after that, too.

[DiapDealer]

After a few cold days, our mild weather looks to extend on into March.

I'm not a violent person. But when I see people driving entirely too fast in residential areas, throwing a brick through a windshield tends to cross my mind.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

After a few cold days, our mild weather looks to extend on into March.

I have no clue what's happening here. Cold warm cold warm tornado warm.

I'm not a violent person. But when I see people driving entirely too fast in residential areas, throwing a brick through a windshield tends to cross my mind.

I hope your internal radar gun works well. I can't stand being angrily yelled at to slow down when I am distinctly under the speed limit. It's happened a few times recently.

[isarl]

Haven't heard from Hitch in a few days and hoping that this is an instance where no news is good news!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by ApK

I hope your internal radar gun works well. I can't stand being angrily yelled at to slow down when I am distinctly under the speed limit. It's happened a few times recently.

It works extremely well, thanks. Besides, anyone who doesn't recognize that there are conditions where the unposted speed limit of some residential areas is too fast (bushes, blind intersections, snow covered streets, dashing children, etc...) is not paying attention to their training. Plenty of people driving under the general unposted speed limit deserve to be angrily yelled at times. Better that than a dead child to feel guilty about the rest of their days.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

unposted speed limit of some residential areas is too fast (bushes, blind intersections, snow covered streets, dashing children, etc...) is not paying attention to their training. Plenty of people driving under the general unposted speed limit deserve to be angrily yelled at times. Better that than a dead child to feel guilty about the rest of their days.

In my cases:

Unposted speed limit -- Posted, 25mph in both recent cases.

bushes, blind intersections, snow covered streets -- certainly, posted speed limits are maximums when conditions permit, but nothing like that in my cases.

dashing children -- always watching for kids, ball, bikes, etc, of course but in the one recent case when a child was even remotely in the area, the parent should have been watching the child, not pretending to be a traffic cop yelling at slowly moving cars.

ApK