In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

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And to not my surprise, the french fry I had dropped in is gone, and the avocado they placed in has been nibbled on, and the trap didn't get tripped. It's possible it's the squirrel around here, but probably not. I'm claiming it's the mice. I texted the son, and said "let's just do a pest control company, it's easier and more certain".

We'll see.
 
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"90 to 70 is good enough. 45 is too damn slow."
Yeah, I can see that. If someone's doing 45 on a highway I'd be annoyed, too.
<re-reads>...in Florida.
Oh. 90 to 70 mph. 45 mph.

Wait...90 miles per hour? mph, mph....what is that in Terran Consistent units....? Oh. Oh...! Oh, my god and goddess....that's a normal speed for Florida...? And 45mph is too slow? What, did the old Car Wars RPG start out as Tales from the Florida Interstate or something?
90 is fairly usual if you've gotta get somewhere, most people cruise at 80 and then you get terrorists tourists who putter around at 70 or below. There's always the occasional idiot with the massively overloaded truck who thinks its safe to run the center lane at 55 too. Plus the confused Canadians who forget which ring on the speed o meter to read and start trying to do the wrong 45 and wonder why we're all so fucking pissed at them.
 
And to not my surprise, the french fry I had dropped in is gone, and the avocado they placed in has been nibbled on, and the trap didn't get tripped. It's possible it's the squirrel around here, but probably not. I'm claiming it's the mice. I texted the son, and said "let's just do a pest control company, it's easier and more certain".

We'll see.
<sigh> "How much?"

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90 is fairly usual if you've gotta get somewhere, most people cruise at 80 and then you get terrorists tourists who putter around at 70 or below. There's always the occasional idiot with the massively overloaded truck who thinks its safe to run the center lane at 55 too. Plus the confused Canadians who forget which ring on the speed o meter to read and start trying to do the wrong 45 and wonder why we're all so fucking pissed at them.
In our defense it's probably not that we forget what ring to read, by then we're just terrified in general by the fact that we're already trying to do 80mph in a 70 zone and people, for the last four days, have still been roaring up behind us, flashing their lights and readying the ram plate to run us into the Atlantic when we're already in the far right lane and we don't understand why. At least, my first and only trip to Montana was like that. Including running us into the Atlantic and yes running us into it from Montana, that's how aggressive some of the drivers were.
 

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In our defense it's probably not that we forget what ring to read, by then we're just terrified in general by the fact that we're already trying to do 80mph in a 70 zone and people, for the last four days, have still been roaring up behind us, flashing their lights and readying the ram plate to run us into the Atlantic when we're already in the far right lane and we don't understand why. At least, my first and only trip to Montana was like that. Including running us into the Atlantic and yes running us into it from Montana, that's how aggressive some of the drivers were.
In some cities the right lane is a passing lane too (not officially mind you)

Why? No clue
 

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Frig, first rib failure. Opted to use a smoker box on the grill as a bird setup a nest under my smoker area.

And I missed that I had St Louis cut and not baby back. So I didn't check them as often, but it appears all of the fat rendered out of two racks. One was completely burnt and only had about an oz of edible meat. The other was about 50% burnt.

Luckily my wife's piece in the middle was about 80% perfect as it doesn't seem all of the fat rendered.
 

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If it's any consolation, my first thought when I read "rib failure" was "Oh no, crombie somehow broke his rib; that's gotta hurt!"

Not that having a cooking failure isn't also quite annoying, so you have my sympathies. Just different from what was originally planned. :biggreen:
 

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In some cities the right lane is a passing lane too (not officially mind you)

Why? No clue
So I'm guilty of this, sometimes. Interstate limit around here (once you get out of the city) is 70. If I'm on a leisure trip and traffic is mostly light, I'll set cruise to 72-74 and hang out in the right hand lane, shifting over for trucks and entrance ramps, as needed. I'll regularly pass people in the lane left of me, who often give me a shitty look, but I firmly believe if you're getting passed on the right (by regular traffic, not the speed racer assholes) you have no one to blame but yourself.
 

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So I'm guilty of this, sometimes. Interstate limit around here (once you get out of the city) is 70. If I'm on a leisure trip and traffic is mostly light, I'll set cruise to 72-74 and hang out in the right hand lane, shifting over for trucks and entrance ramps, as needed. I'll regularly pass people in the lane left of me, who often give me a shitty look, but I firmly believe if you're getting passed on the right (by regular traffic, not the speed racer assholes) you have no one to blame but yourself.
In many states this is the law - if you're not passing, stay right. That's what the "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs are for or "Left Lane for Passing" signs. Granted - yesterday somebody passed me on the right shoulder doing 60 in a 50, wasn't even a lane.
 

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In many states this is the law - if you're not passing, stay right. That's what the "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs are for or "Left Lane for Passing" signs. Granted - yesterday somebody passed me on the right shoulder doing 60 in a 50, wasn't even a lane.
Yeah for sure. But there's also often a law against passing on the right. Or at least some amount of social taboo. And sorry, no. I'm not going to change 2 lanes to the left, then back 2 lanes to the right just because someone is scared of both the speed limit and the right lane.
 
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Sometime in the early 80s in Seattle, my mom was driving me south on I-5 (just before the Mercer exit, for those that know) - everybody was doing 45 mph, as the speed limit was 55, and with plenty of room between each car. That's how we did things in Seattle.

Just then, a red sports car with California license plates pulled into the exit lane probably doing 55 mph, zoomed ahead of all the traffic that was going 45 mph, and at the last second merged back with traffic and proceeded to continue to weave its way forward through the traffic until it was out of sight.

I liked to read the paper, including the letters to the editor section. I kid you not, there was not one, but TWO letters to the editor complaining about that red car and more generally how Californians were ruining our way of life.

These days, the speed limit is 60 in city, and everybody drives 70 with about enough room between cars for baby Jesus to fit.
 

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I have it on good authority that there was no room for baby Jesus.
I'm not sure if there's another origin for that quote, but I got the "room for baby Jesus" thing from learning to Blues dance, which is a VERY close dance. The good teachers always told us to tuck our groins back and "leave room for baby Jesus."
 

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If it's any consolation, my first thought when I read "rib failure" was "Oh no, crombie somehow broke his rib; that's gotta hurt!"

Not that having a cooking failure isn't also quite annoying, so you have my sympathies. Just different from what was originally planned. :biggreen:
It sucks because ribs have been my go to for smoking, and if I did them on my WSM they would have been fine. At least I didn't screw up pulled pork!
 

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Huh. That's...something. Most of the roads in Canada are speed capped at 55-60 mph (Well, I can't speak for Canada as I have yet to visit the Greater Toronto Area, only been to the uninhabited portion that is the rest of the country), with only sections of the TransCanada highway capped at 70 mph. Folks here do go 80-90 mph on the #1, but run the real risk of a speeding ticket from bored cops with nothing better to do in the empty hours between cities if they do.
Except Canada doesn't use mph.
 
OK, it's officially a TTPMO. I am now fucking over a fellow Arsian for a purchase simply because fucking T-Mobile can't get me a 2FA text in time for Paypal to time out. I_am_fucking_pissed. It's been ten minutes. I'm so sorry, man.
For the record, 28 minutes later I still haven't gotten that text.
 
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Hayfever. Thanks to an unusually long, wet, very cold spring (even by UK standards) followed by a brief outbreak of warm, sunny weather, literally every plant that flowers is trying to make up for lost time and my usually-reliable antihistamines aren't even touching it. Lost the whole of yesterday to it — continuous sneezing, nose running like a tap, eyes so itchy that I pretty much wanted to claw them out of my head. So that was everything I wanted to do yesterday ruined. Today, I'm not even risking leaving the house, so I'm also missing out on a beer-and-food meet-up with friends this afternoon.

Fuck hayfever, basically.
 
Hayfever. Thanks to an unusually long, wet, very cold spring (even by UK standards) followed by a brief outbreak of warm, sunny weather, literally every plant that flowers is trying to make up for lost time and my usually-reliable antihistamines aren't even touching it. Lost the whole of yesterday to it — continuous sneezing, nose running like a tap, eyes so itchy that I pretty much wanted to claw them out of my head. So that was everything I wanted to do yesterday ruined. Today, I'm not even risking leaving the house, so I'm also missing out on a beer-and-food meet-up with friends this afternoon.

Fuck hayfever, basically.
Yea, it's been tough recently hasn't it? Not helped by a chronic shortage in the necessary meds.

Luckily, it is now wet and cold again for the foreseeable.

I have lived in the UK my entire life and I detest the weather with a passion. Seriously, I fucking hate it!
 
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That damned song that always reminds me of some other song that I can never recall. From Beverly Hills Cop? Drive by The Cars?
Axel F from Beverly Hills Cop, by the legendary Harold Faltermayer. He also did the Top Gun Anthem and won two
Grammys for his work on those films.
 
I know to most Americans foreign units are just made up nonsense that have no meaning; in fact it is possible through crafty foreign wizardry to convert between their units and ours by multiplying by a constant.
For many years, most American units have been defined in SI units multiplied by a constant. An inch is exactly 2.54000000000000000(Etc) cm.

The US uses metric! It's just the worst method ever adopted.
 

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My fucking flush stopped working. Ok, no problem i'll just shut the water off, drain the tank and fix the fill valve. Sounds good right? Nope, i got to thinking, i'm no longer a homeowner, i'm a renter, sooo i call up the "after hours hot line" for maintenance, and of course i got a "please leave a message" on the recording, so i left one not expecting any call tonight or maybe even tomorrow see how it's a (Canadian) holiday, It's a good thing i can just fill the tank with water so the float comes up and does shut off the little trickle of water that does come out.