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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Confident ignorance

 A lady, slightly pissed about spelling, posed her food for a picture to make fun of
"pimiento" which google assumed was Pimento (pimento) ahh, THIS spellchecker is calling me out because I did not capitalize Pimiento correctly.



No snide remarks about "Palmetto" please, you should use reading glasses, but nvm.

To catch a criminal, some people sent a remote-controlled plane with a biggie bomb attached.
They claim they got the criminal, and sorry about the others who they also got.

This train of thought is not going well.....

I started out just wondering about zucchini squash, which is bland unless you add stuff to it.
What about little red things stuck to the middle of the squash-slices?

I had a relative who cooked it that way...it seems like a lot of work, and I have not consulted my stomach on Pimiento/pimentos (pimentoes)

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"Bones" (the show) is about a very abrasive woman who lacks tact and maybe self-esteem, self-something anyway.
It's better though than the other small forest of crime dramas, although making the same point, episode after episode, gets tiring and I'd rather blather on here. 
(What was I gonna say??
So I turn on the PC, and right away it insists that I use online backup.
OK, every few weeks a google headline states that several zillion identities were stolen from some biggie company.
The URL of a Google search is miles long usually and is problematic sometimes to duplicate here.
But basically, I don't trust it, I don't trust online backups (*local* backups are great)
And I don't trust Microsoft deciding that scanning my documents remotely to check for subversiveness / whatever is good for me.
Good for Someone, sure, just 
Not me.
The ravings of a curmudgeon, right?
Anyone guessing your 4 digit PIN (or watching you work from close by) has access to all your passwords, and your online backups, etc, so WHY should I back stuff up except to please an overly suspicious government or a hacker having fun?
A guy could totally back up to a pocket-sized SSD, or even a thumb drive.
I don't see the point of online clouds.
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I'm confidently ignorant why they are tearing up the asphalt at the abandoned bank, but a guy can hope that it's a KFC.
It's (maybe) in the contract, that if you build something people will come to, it shall have new asphalt.
For it is written, "Make asphalt great again"
"Prepare the way for the KFC" (Starbucks)
"Make straight at the abandoned bank next to the highway"
Although the bank, when it was a bank, already did that.
Yes, they tore off the lot and built another one in its place, and even though it looked a little ratty now, complete with a fully formed pothole, They usually fill in potholes, not tear up the road.
But let's (in total ignorance) consider, that the sewer and waterlines could really suck.
Or they'll demolish the bank completely to build:
A nail salon? 
A Tax consultant? 
A pet store? 
Another dental office
KFC (wishful thinking)
They got a little anxious that Starbucks was so far away, across the highway, so the Bank will soon be Starbucks, and I still don't know why it needs new asphalt, but who cares.
Nice asphalt



I'm not into anticlimactic blog entries, but I'll let this one stew a little longer.
In other news, thanx to Trump, Coffee prices will rise/are rising because he's mad at Brazil exercising their sovereign rights. How much IS a Starbucks cup-o-joe anyway?
Yeahbutt..thanks to covid, supply chains, the war, Biden,
Brazil,
it'll cost more soon
I've got several details to look up....a deadly driveway next to the property (deadly for me) will hopefully be replaced, although it doesn't exactly border the bank, it's just super-close to it (It's an "easement," I think)
I cross the easement and use the bank's "handicap access" route, except for now that the lot is closed to the public, I risk falling down and never getting up from that accursed driveway.
I doubt anyone would notice besides me and a couple neighborhood skateboarders.
I can't fix my own threshold, like I already wrote, so I doubt I could fix a driveway.

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