It was super cool again.
Simplicity and Frugality
I plan to post about my efforts toward voluntary simplicity, frugality, and debt free living. Much of this is grounded in environmentalism, politics, and social justice.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
I SAW THE COMET!!!! !!!
It was super cool.
I was out driving at dusk, which I hate because...deer.
But I'd been helping with a chicken butchering day at a friend's place and that was when we were done enough to leave I had heard there would be a comet but since I didn't see the northern lights (living in a ravine with trees either side and falling asleep EARLY work against me).
SO I'm driving home and look west and THERE IT IS!!!! It looks like a COMET in a cartoon about comets. The big tail and everything. There wasn't anywhere safe to pull over so instead I was unsafely staring at the sky instead of the dusky deer ridden dark road.
To celebrate, my car wouldn't start this morning. I might have a battery drain issue, a super old battery, or both. Or...stuff I can't even imagine because I have no idea how cars work. I tried jumping it with the tiny jumpstart battery thing....nope. That had worked before so I guess I will get a new battery and see if that works. If not, I will jump it with the pickup...or use that AAA for a tow.
I drove the truck Friday, didn't drive Saturday, and drove the truck Sunday. So the car had sat several days. It did jump with the little jump starter thingy when I was parked at the airport 2 weeks so...probably battery???? (see above...I don't know how cars work).
Sunday, September 8, 2024
STOP OFFERING TO MICROWAVE MY F#*CKING PASTRIES!!!
Do you people NOT know how pastry works? The fat, starch and water have to stay in balance. Also the sugar. If you "heat it up" for me YOU RUIN IT!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Am I the only one who hates that? If I wanted a cardboard togo box full of grease dripping out the bottom of an overly frosted, now molten lava frosted, icky chewy ruined cinnamon roll I would have ordered that. Today it was a carrot cake muffin. Who the hell heats up a muffin? NO. LEAVE IT!
It still wasn't worth the price. Oh well. Some day I will learn my lesson.
As long as I'm ranting, also, stop putting spray foam on my goddamn pie. I ordered it COLD AND NAKED (like my men....heh heh). Just a slice of pie on a plate. Thanks for not adding that freezer burnt off brand icemilk you call "a la mode" style, but also can-o-spray-creme is unwelcome.
Ok...done.
Monday, July 1, 2024
Better Than I Thought
So, I had to take the "new" car in for oil already because I drive A LOT!
Anyway, it only needs one rear strut, sway bar bushings (both of which can wait) and a drive belt (the thing that makes the power steering etc work). That last one I think is important so I booked it. Parts AND labor estimated at 150$. That is a cheap repair so yep. Doing that.
Part of the joy of an old Honda is the cheap repairs.
Then, I went ahead and checked regional craigslist for Elements with similar mileage. Turns out, I pad about the going rate for an element with 100k or fewer miles. Good! It's over bluebook but bluebook is moot with the current market.
So, I didn't overpay as much as I thought. Just paid more than I wanted to for "a car".
That said, I get a HUGE kick out of driving it. It's like being a keystone cop or in a classic looney toons. Zippy but also a tad tippy.
Monday, June 17, 2024
This Made Me LOL
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
A (slightly) NEWER CAR!!
So, Juanita, my CRV, had to go to a farm. REALLY. Not like that dog a governor shot. Actually to a farm. Here is photographic proof:
She's quite happy there even with her wonky fender from an unfortunate encounter with a deer. Less fortunate for the deer really....Friday, April 5, 2024
That's It...No More Food Delivery For Me
So apparently food delivery undermines restaurants, food trucks, etc.
Warning...Potty talks in the vid.
https://youtu.be/aFsfJYWpqII?si=cxiT0_nxIFPegsbb
DAMMIT!!
Ugh. If I'm going to support good real food I need to let food delivery go. I never use it myself because a) I am cheap, B) I live 11 miles from any sort of food cookery-servery 3) I don't use a smart phone or have wifi at home. I partake if others use an app. Now I have to think about that.
DAMMIT! I want the restaurants to get the money and the farmers and so on. I don't want big-app losing money until they undermine the food industry. Ugh.