I should write a post

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’m not going to. I feel like a cartoon character who had a safe dropped on her head.

I’m told it’s normal when defeating an infection this bad, but it’s still a load of… everything.

For the record:


Draw One In The Dark

Gentleman Takes A Chance

and

Noah’s Boy are 99c each.

New round of sales staring Friday.

And I’m going to go and do something mindless or something. I’m not sleepy, just feeling like crud.

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        2. Recalls an all-nighter brought on by a half-liter Steinkrug filled with very strong Darjeeling tea. One of the test operators called with a problem around 10PM, and I quite surprised her by driving up to the plant (some 20 miles) and fixing it. I wasn’t going to get any sleep, so might as well…

          I don’t do that any more.

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  8. I bought Christmas in the Stars, and have liked the two stories I have read.

    There – a tiny bump to the wallet and a tiny stroke to the writer’s confidence. Please use these to tell your body things Must Get Better.

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  10. Since the Supervisor is On Break …

    I’m reading a quite long piece (another Instapundit link) on ‘debanking’, which attempts to give a bank’s view on the practice.

    https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/

    Now, this is not at all my area. And I’m not finished with it (supposedly in the 2-hour range, though generally I read faster than that). But I enjoy his writing, and he has enough connection to the non-banking reader that he expresses astonishment over facts at the same places I have been thinking astonishment.

    If you have an hour or so, and some interest, you may find this piece informative.

    And if this is your area, you could also drop some criticisms here. This isn’t bafflegab, he does try to be clear and mostly jargon-free, but I don’t have the background to assess the accuracy.

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    2. I got all the way through. Though I did skim a few sections. Acronyms tend to make me cringe and my eyes cross. My take away? Thank GOD all of the banking, and a few other financial, institutions I submitted my resume to over my 30+ career round filed them.

      Closest I came to that was my last job. Cost Accounting Management for governmental entities. *Customized for Washington, Oregon, and California, state counties and cities, and PNW federal tribal, entities. I’d get how does *this* work and why? Answer “*This* works like”, and verbally diagram the code. “Why?” Answer was “Programmer here. Can tell you how, what the formula is, where the numbers populating the formula being aksed about come from otherwise, ask your manager or my boss as to ‘Why'”.

      Had a lot more fun with “What’s sales tax?” when that topic came up. For some reason most newer callers couldn’t put together “Sales Tax and Oregon”. Surprise how many do not know that Oregon does not have a sales tax. Not like they were calling from the midwest or east coast.

      (* Not that the software couldn’t be customized for any goverenmental agencies. Just all the clients happened to be on the west coast. Software already configured for estimated overhead (CA/OR) VS actual (WA). Fiscal (Jun/May), Actual (Callendar), or Federal (Oct/Sept) year. Not to mention some counties (I swear), in particular one or two, “If county comminsoner sneezes wrong …” Don’t know how much they’ve expanded in the last 8 years.)

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    3. Mostly correct, especially on the risks of crypto and the schemes of tech-bros, but he dances around the politically motivated debanking that mostly affected conservatives.

      Funny how HSBC never debanked the drug lords until the government forced them to quit facilitating their business.

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  13. The safe didn’t fall on my head, but…

    I discovered (the hard way, as usual) that the Chinese restaurant I use on my medical excursions is no longer safe. Apparently wheat flour is getting substituted for more expensive thickeners, and that leads to TMI results for me. Sigh. It’s not an allergy, but gluten intolerance with sensitivity turned up to 11.

    I’ll have to turn brown bagging up a notch, with incoming groceries for a stay. Oh well. I can cook well enough.

    Slightly carbonated water and yogurt for dinner tonight. Crossing my fingers at that.

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      1. $SPOUSE is quite allergic to wheat, so she avoids places where a lot of it is present. (Like the bread aisle where peanut butter is always located.

        I’m “just” intolerant, but the critical dose is now quite small. We bake our bread, and with help from the Bette Hagman cookbooks, we can make whatever we need. (She has a really good yeast pizza recipe, though we prefer the one from the first edition.)

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            1. Finding things to eat is oddly not nearly as much of a problem as dealing with work when I have to keep explaining no, I can’t have anything at a company lunch, no not even a snack, it’s too risky….

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              1. What’s turned into my response in such situations: “I have serious problems with foods that try to kill me.” It gets the point across.

                Am I known for subtle responses? Not that I can tell. :)

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      3. Read one allergy detection service dog account where the handler was confronted by a gatekeeper. Small service dog (as if size stops noses from working), so unfortunately not unusual. Handler related how they finally created cards with the appropriate questions legal to ask with the answers. Not only that one task was allergy alert, but that if said allergy was in use in the food, and handler ate something contaminated, it was not IF, but there WOULD be emergency crews summoned. In this case the allergy was soy sauce. Yes, there are gluten allergy detection dogs trained too.

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  17. We’ll both be rebels, then. I should sleep… But that ain’t gonna happen soon. I have to be at work in (mumblety) hours. Sometimes it’s just not a good idea at that specific moment and place in time-space, even if it is generally a good notion, broadly speaking.

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  18. I’ve been looking at the Fox election results page from time to time as they continue ‘counting votes’ 37 days after the election.

    Trump’s vote total has DROPPED by almost 31,000 since yesterday — from 77, 268,739 to 77,237,942. They’re ‘counting’ negative votes for Trump! I call fuckery! Larry coordinate!

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    1. Even Fox News (along with every other outlet I’ve ever heard) never, ever mentions “election fraud”–or “stolen election”, or any other equivalent phrase–without preceding it with the phrase “false claims of”.

      They never fail to jab us with that editorial booster shot.

      Not that that habit abuses anyone’s BS alarm, or could ever be heard as Protesting Too Much, or erodes anyone’s confidence in Elections or Journalism or anything, oh my, no! Quite the opposite: every time they do that, it makes me that much more certain that everything’s on the up-and-up, yessiree Bob.

      I love Big Brother!

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      1. The lawsuit to consolidate control under the goodson failed, so the Leftykin are about to get complete control of Fox, so its a gonner.

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        1. Was Fox News ever anything more than the pressure-relief Controlled Opposition? Even during the Obamatime, when most news sites still had (barely moderated) Disqus comment threads–remember those?–there was a consensus ‘mongst the commentariat that the Lefties controlled the mainstream news outlets “except for Fox!”

          I got a YUGE spike of downvotes–remember those?–by asking a pro-Fox thread why they thought the news industry would leave half the audience un-propagandized, and half the money just lying on the table.

          “The Devil sends errors in pairs.”

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          1. FNC was never right-wing, it was centrist-leaning-right at the best of times. For most of its history it’s been centrist-leaning-left, but the other outlets moved so far left it just seems right-wing in comparison.

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    2. Update: Looks like Trump got his 30,000+ votes back. Total is 77,269,243 — for now. Who knows what will happen in the middle of the night, though?

      Still not as blatant as 2020. Right there on CNN, live for all to see, Trump suddenly lost 20,000 votes and Biden gained the exact same number. The video was posted online until it just disappeared. From everywhere, at the same time. How strange.

      How do all these ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories’ keep coming true?

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    3. Update update: Trump’s vote total has reverted to 77,237,942. It’s like they can’t make up their minds that once a vote is counted, it’s counted. No take-backs!

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