At this rate, it doesn’t take long to lose it all….that’s f’r sure!
GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
How can I say how baroquely I have had it, had it, HAD IT with life in the fu*king 21st century?!???
* How do I hate the electronic detritus?
* How do I hate spending day after day after day without seeing another live human face?
* How do I hate wrestling with hardware — of all varieties?
* How do I hate wrestling with software — of all varieties?
* How do I hate struggling with chores that used to be done routinely by workmen?
* How do I hate having the car’s mechanical work done by some chain-store operation, instead of at the defunct small-town-style Chuck’s Garage, with the trusted, reliable, and faithfully HONEST Chuck in charge?
Gerardo (Yard Dude) and his guys trimmed the effing palm trees that some idiot prior homeowner planted around the effing pool.
Every time they do that, they dump equipment-busting detritus into the drink. It takes a good hour to fish it all out and vacuum the leaves and grit off the bottom of the effing pool. In 110-degree heat. The result: I’m not only at the end of my rope just now, I’m far, far beyond it.
That is literal truth. Just now I’m sitting in the family room, sweat rolling off my face and soaking into my shirt, YELLING at the goddam computer because my fingers will NOT hit the keys and all I want do is MAKE IT GODDAMN STOP!!!!!!!!!
arrrrrrrhhhhhggggg
I need to run down to the Sprouts and pick up something to eat. But honestly…I’m afraid I’ll kill somebody (possibly myself included) if I get in the car and drive off down the road.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I ask you. What kind of MORON plants PALM TREES around a flicking swimming pool?
An Arizona gringo moron (probably imported from Ohio), that’s what kind.
Mr. & Mrs. WonderAccountant had their accursed poolside palm trees cut down. No doubt…uh oh. ….Ohhhh shee-ut. Has the accursed pool pump cut out? Hold the phone…
*****
Nope. It’s still running.
Why does it look, from here, like it’s stopped dead?
Optical illusion, apparently.
If only all of life in the desert were an optical illusion…..