This is from the latest promo email from 7dayshop. It's been suggested that I order one of the Wahing Mitts just to see/hear what I get:
Saturday 18th December, 2021
Friday 17th December, 2021
Duck or grouse?
Just had the advisory email for tonight's Aldi Click & Corrupt drive-by raid, and as usual there are some subs for items not in stock. Usually it's not an issue - we can live with 1x6 pints of milk instead of 2x4 pints...
But Chris, being a veggie, is up-in-arms over this:
And I have to say that I agree with her - there's a reason why people order veggie food, subbing with a meaty alternative is incredibly stupid and insensitive.
Clearly their product substitution algorithm has been coded by an amoeba.
That said, I like duck, so they'll not go to waste 🙂
Saturday 11th December, 2021
Go ahead, make my day
A question for all those unjustifiably-unmasked and/or unjustifiably-unvaccinated punks out there...
Those of us who care deeply for our health and for the health of those around us, but who have no Covid-resistance despite three jabs, are now having to take drastic measures way beyond having a couple of tiny needles and wearing a simple face-covering.
Two days ago my haematologist advised me to shield again, even though the powers-that-be haven't declared it to be their official policy... yet.
Feel free to whinge and whine all you like about your rights and about your jolly Christmas piss-up being "deferred" - I won't give a flying fuck, as I'll be stuck at home for the third consecutive Christmas.
If I absolutely must go anywhere where there's a risk, I have to wear an FFP3 mask. Here's mine:
To be fair it's a blessing in disguise. The good thing about this mask is that the incoming aerosol filtration is "not less than 99%" effective, so there's little chance of anyone's Covid-bugs getting in. The best thing about this mask is that it has a simple outgoing air valve with no filtration whatsoever, so if I do get infected there's a huge chance that I'll infect you if you're too close and unmasked.
So the next time you get too close and you fancy your chances, you've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?"
Thursday 9th December, 2021
Saturday 4th December, 2021
Amazanalysis
Amazon Subscribe & Save.
In theory, Amazon Subscribe & Save is a great idea - you and Amazon know in advance what's been ordered, you and Amazon agree a schedule of delivery dates (so you can plan to be available to receive deliveries), each order should arrive as one delivery (to save planets), and there are discounts (which may or may not save you some filthy lucre).
In practice, Amazon Subscribe & Save is a steaming pile of shit.
Leaving aside issues like price fluctuations (most items seem to become magically cheaper just after they've taken payment) and the fact that most orders are split into multiple deliveries, I decided to make a rough & ready chart, plotting items delivered against relative delivery days. They say that a picture's worth a thousand words... most of my thousand are expletives.
Number of items up the side, relative delivery days across the top. If you can't understand that, you should go back to school on Monday.
The chart above includes all ordered S&S items for 2020 and 2021. Ordered items are supposed to be delivered on 4th March, 4th June, 4th September, or 4th December.
Of a total of 68 items ordered, 5 never arrived and only 4 arrived on the agreed selected date. To put it another way, only 5.9% of items were delivered on the agreed selected date, so it's a certainty that someone here needs to be available to receive items for at least six consecutive days every three months.
It's not as if the advisory emails are any use either - yesterday morning I received six emails informing me that all outstanding items would arrive today (Saturday), but those emails were bullshit - all of the outstanding items arrived yesterday (Friday) afternoon. Go figure.
And then there's the packaging... Amazon are trying to do their bit by reusing boxes, but for [insert your preferred deity's name here]'s sake, they could at least try to tape up the sides of the reused boxes. This was today's yesterday's first delivery (three packages):
Yes, this is how it was left on our yard. It's a disgrace.
Like I said, it's a steaming pile of shit.
Friday 19th November, 2021
House of Games
Highbrow
This morning I got the result of yesterday's Covid PCR test which was done because our household had been in prolonged close contact with someone who later tested positive.
My result was negative. Later, the others reported negative results.
Lowbrow
This afternoon I got the result of LRI Hambleton's SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection test (the test that counts my Covid antibody copies which should be created in response to three doses of vaccine). Obviously, the higher the count, the greater the response, and the more robust the resistance.
My count?
Zero. Zilch. Nada. Jack. Sweet fuck all.
We're expecting turbulence so buckle-up, it's likely to get a bit rough.
