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I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
Showing posts with label Kongos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kongos. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Compost this

Thursday morning.  Yippee.  Tomorrow is my hump day.  Next week I only work 32 hours, but the following 2 weeks I'm scheduled for 40 each.  Shit.
I just finished another 45 minute cardio session... and feel good.  I always listen to music, in fact I have a playlist consisting of Sam Hall (Yeah, he's country, but only one song) as warm-up...


followed by Steve Grand, Kongos, Fall Out Boy, and Imagine Dragons.  I had bought the new Mumford and Sons album hoping there might be something good on it.  Wrong, the thing is terrible.  Every song starts off the same way (except one).  Their last album Wilder Minds was decent - it's one of the things I listen to while cycling.  But the new one?  Delta?  Sounds a lot like they're congratulating themselves on being so profound.  They're not.  I gave it a bad review.
I saw that the Veteran's Administration underpaid a lot of veteran's education benefits.  They say it was a glitch.  Under the Idiot Jerk in the White House, the VA has been sorely tested.  At one point, remember, he actually had tried to put the White House physician in charge... until people found out he was a legalized drug dealer.  Is it any wonder the military is not too fond of him.  He criticized the Navy Seal Command for killing Bin Laden.  Does he really think that plays well with the Navy.  Does he comments like this earns him their respect.  He is anybody but the Commander in Chief.
Finally, I bought a small compost box, or bin, or what you want to call it.  Deliver is on Saturday.  Some assembly required.  I looked at quite a number of models and watched a number of videos before making my final selection.  One of the videos was hysterical as hell, at least I thought so. It was made a woman who was really pleased with her composter.  At one point she took off the lid and took a video of what was inside:  dinner scraps, egg shells, shredded paper (?) and a lot of cigarette butts, in fact, it looked like that was where she dumped her ashtrays.  Someone should have told her cigarette butts do not make for great compost.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

$2.32 + Kongos = good

The $2.32 is the total amount of money I have left in my First National account - all other funds have been moved to my new Member's First account.  This is the price of bad customer service.  I'm off on Wednesday so sometime in the late morning I'll saunter into the First National and say "where there used to be thousands, now there is $2.32... and I want it now."  And I'll do it pleasantly.  Yelling at them isn't going to change their bad customer relations, more people like me, withdrawing all of their funds will.  Teaching lessons is good.  More people need to take action.  Too many piss and moan and don't do anything; nothing gets changed that way.
On the bright side, I just watched the Kongos new video.  They get big heads.  I like the group.  Very rarely do I listen to the music which was popular when I was younger.  I tell people "I've already lived through that stuff once, I don't need to live through it a second time, or a third time."  This means I don't listen to 'oldies,' at least not on a regular basis.  In fact, the only time I do is when I'm at the store.  Most people don't like new stuff because... well, it's different than what they're used to hearing.  Anyway, here's their new song "Take it from Me."


Their new album comes out on 6/10.