It'll Be On The Wane Before You Know It

Thought I'd already posted this when I went w/ "Another Waxing Crescent".

St. Nick on a Stick ('Tis the season!) so effing busy yesterday & today (Mostly dealing w/ bullshit, of course.) that I couldn't post anything beyond juvenile to adolescent anger & 'phone-'em-in insults directed at the King of Shit, not that anything here will be read or remembered.

What a world of idiocy; had to charge a new cheap-o printer at Target. The Hewlett-Packard brain trust has decided that a USB cable was simply too passé & the only way to shove the software into the printer's little plastic brain is Wi-Fi. 2.4G Wi-Fi. This involves going to the Spectrum site, where they are ready for this & have a button one may press which sets the WiFi to 2.4 for 30 mins. Also had to download something called HP Smart.

As we're for hard copies & hard-wiring here (No spurious emissions!) had to disconnect the ethernet & turn on the devil-box Wi-Fi. Didn't take much over an hr. Possibly because it took a while for genius here to conclude he'd have to activate the devil-box WiFi, & then to realize the ethernet had to be physically disconnected as well. Now let's see how much of a pain it is to return to hard-wiring, & to see if the printer will work w/ USB, as promised.

Have printed & copied, was going to scan something but there's no "scan" button. The included "manual" is a "Reference Guide", four pages each in three languages explaining what the buttons are. It did advise to turn on the devil-box Wi-Fi & disconnect the Ethernet cable when setting it up, but I didn't get to that part (Fine print.) and it wasn't mentioned at all in the setup videos I watched. Nothing about scanning in it, either.

Fuck me you bastards!! Have avoided establishing an HP account through the entire set-up process, but now:

Create an account to scan with your printer using HP Smart

Scan documents from any HP multifunction printer using the HP Smart app. HP Smart optimizes the image and allows you to quickly save or send.

I fucking surrender! To hell w/ the rent, going out to get a gun steal a car & make the sidewalks red w/ blood buy some heroin tomorrow!

Daily Affirmation

A pleasant image hides the grim & ugly truth about you & everybody like you.

I affirm that you all suck, I hate you, so please die!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ah-Ha!!

I was right. Aircraft, what a concept! Now I sit & wait, 'though I had plans to leave the bunker.Again, wise up, Yankee Dabbler. Go w/ the cheaper rates, at least cross-country. To quote myself:

Additional confuzzlement: The ebay seller who went Ground Advantage charged $5.10 for shipping, but the USPS website claims the minimum GA charge is $7.20. The corporate entity, however, charged $15.97 for Priority Mail. I can't imagine the second package is more than a few oz. heavier than the first one. Stop dabbling & figure it out, Yankee Dabbler!!

Another Waxing Crescent

Dazed & Confuzzled

Don't give us that Xmas bee ess, we all know what's going on when jazzbos are "waitin' for the man w/ the bag".

If both these shipments arrrived at the PHILADELPHIA PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER on the same date, why will one allegedly arrive two days later, USPS?Especially confuzzling as 17318 was sent Ground Advantage, which promises 2-5 day delivery & apparently replaces First Class Mail, & arrived at the RDC nine hrs. later than 90256, which went Priority Mail, a 2-3 day promise. Which means that even counting only business days, it should be here by Weds., not Thurs.

Going to continue w/ the asumption that at least the Ground Advantage one will still be placed on a 'plane, as I hoped earlier. Patience being a virtue, we'll see what promises are made tomorrow. All I'm saying is the Priority Mail item better be on the same 'plane to the LOS ANGELES CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER as the other one.

Additional confuzzlement: The ebay seller who went Ground Advantage charged $5.10 for shipping, but the USPS website claims the minimum GA charge is $7.20. The corporate entity, however, charged $15.97 for Priority Mail. I can't imagine the second package is more than a few oz. heavier than the first one. Stop dabbling & figure it out, Yankee Dabbler!!

Friday Photo

What a great Thanksgiving!! No human contact at all. Total consumption: Two bananas, gluttonous fucking pigs! Could have had half an English muffin but decided that, like virtually all activity, it simply wasn't worth the effort. And plenty of tea & iced coffee to keep me awake, because you brain-dead cretins & your world of shit & pain bore me numb!!

Spent no money. Will not spend any today.

Non-NFL sporting event: Finished watching the November Sumo Tournament. How 'bout that Aonishiki, first Ukrainian to win the Emperor's Cup?NHK doesn't like to share its footage (Pearl Harbor, you rat bastards!!) but the action starts at (24:50) if you click.

Ungrateful Sky

It Was 57 Yrs. Ago Today

3 Nov. 1968.Guessing it's much the same show as I saw three+ wks. later at Seattle's Eagles Auditorium on this date in 1968. Opening act: Chicago Transit Authority. I think that was the show when Linda V. (last name redacted as she is still alive & has a Ph.D. & a career) & I first made out.

Wow. Memories. Now I'm really depressed.

Ten Yrs.

This reporter hasn't had any booze since Thanksgiving 2015, ten yrs. ago today. Not a big deal, as I wasn't boozing much at the time, having tapered off considerably from my yout'.Never got behind (or under) any wheels when plowed good. Don't miss it a bit, either. On the other hand, I had enough "points" for a US$40.00 discount on a $43.00 bag of boo.

Thanks For Nothing Again & Again: Eff "Food, Family & Friends"

Even if I had any appetite, eating makes me literally sick. I'm an orphaned only child, have no immediate family & doubt I'd enjoy any of my distant relatives. Not that I could afford to travel anywhere. Friends? Informant scum is more like it. Everything is lies & bullshit. Shove your pathetic petit bourgeois pretensions, worthless nobodies.

Financial Times

Buy Now Before Prices Increase!!

Purchased from the local gang of train robbers in '20 or '21, no doubt at list price.And the current list price. An increase of US$25.00 on a slightly under $50.00 item over four yrs. 12.5% annual inflation? Only difference is the pack is no longer #14 but #148-25, w/ corresponding change in the copyright date.
Was able to get them for $57.59.

And Down Goes The Sun

Xmas Is Over!

Meaning I finished all my shopping yesterday, w/ a month to go. Were Santa to stuff my stocking w/ another 100 or so bones worth of plastic Chinese crap I would have every possible structure I could want for (or that will fit on) the layout, 'cept for a larger quonset hut for Camp Swampy.Scam alert? Good price (MSRP is US$114.99) cheap shipping, but from "United States WAREHOUSE Brazil?" And no returns? Uh, no. Not to mention "import fees." Image at left is the item, but not the one from Brazil; note it's $19.85 shipping in the contiguous 48. Anyway, I got one for US$79.99, plus $5.10 shipping & $7.80 Calif. tax, which I'm happy & proud to pay. And the seller's in Jersey, sending it USPS; even at the cheapest rate the Postal Sevice is likely to put something from the wrong coast in a 'plane & have it here in civilization ASAP, as opposed to UPS & FedEx, which mean it when they call it ground service. Hey, it's almost amusing to track one's package across the country for days & days.

Another Reminder Of Why I Remain Angry After Sixty+ Yrs.!

If my parents weren't deservedly dead already, I'd have to kill them, not merely for throwing away my comic book collection when we moved to Seattle but for lying to me about it for months. Probably should've killed myself for believing the lying sacks of shit at all, & for not realizing right fucking then that no one can be trusted, ever: "Oh, they were lost in transit for a while ... they'll be here in a month or so ..."

Lying fucking scum, like the idiot squealer who called the police & sent me to psychiatric jail & like everyone the fuck else in this horrid world of shit & pain. No wonder I hate every one of you, even my goddam parents started fucking me, pretty much the day I was born!!Not saying that I had Action #1, or this one, but I did have Daredevil #1. You rotten, rotten bitch & the son thereof. After this kind of treatment, no jury would dare convict me of anything. Not that they'll take me alive, mind you!

Moon Over McDonald's Monday

Can't escape the oppression of the arches.

The Legend Of The Golden Arches

Under renovation; no flags. And because McDonald's obviously hates America,
or they wouldn't be killing you sad-ass sheep every damn day
w/ their saturated-fat Big Murder® death-burgers! Sue me, murdering pigs!!

Sat. Sizzler Shots

"Moonlight On Vermont"

Sepia Saturday

Hitchcockian.

Fatiguing Friday Photograph

Tedious Thursday Turkey III

As much for the alliteration as any other reason.