Goat you... forget about me (March 2025 scapegoat blame thread)
11March is well established as the sneakiest of months. It’s here before you know it and gone before you’re ready to move on, not unlike our goats. @Wollyhop had the shortest month, but I enjoyed my weekend just enough to extend that to a standard length. I’m sure the bonus time was worth the trouble, and I’ve passed those savings on to the next victim, @ItalianScallion who seems very excited to support your frustration…or dodge it as others have in the past. I’m telling you, March is sneaky like that.
Here’s to surviving the first quarter of 2025…if we do. Good luck and goat speed, @ItalianScallion.
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With all due reluctance, I have no option but to graciously accept this dubious… selection. And to think, a mere six months ago, I wasn’t even here and now I have been chosen to sink–I mean, rise–to the occasion and in a month with the most possible number of days.
Since the only mask I have to protect myself is the one from my radiation treatments which wasn’t supposed to protect me anyway, I am donning it. Let the blame begin!
I thought I’d add this…
/showme a goat wearing a radiation treatment head mask
@mediocrebot Uhhhh… no, but interesting.
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot /showme goat with radiometer at 3-mile island
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot Hmm that didn’t work
/showme goats in hazmat suits with Geiger counters
@mediocrebot Oh that’s what I was looking for. If you see them in your yard, it’s Baahd,
@pmarin Goats with hands and fingers? It might already be too late…
Why do you allow a quite warm weekend, then Allow Monday to go back to the Icebox!
Like from 68-70 to 35-45!
@mycya4me Although I am the (a) goat, I should be able to control the weather. Prediction is not necessary, therefore. I can only blame myself for this shortcoming. Baaaa! Bleat!
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me I had the same burden going into early Winter; some complained about the cold but others had heat and bugs. Now you get the Spring season, some still too cold, and others getting garden weeds and bugs. there’s just no pleasing people everywhere all at once.
On good days you’ll say “It’s good to be the King”.
But only that 1 or 2 days out of the month. The rest will suck just like for the rest of us.
@mycya4me @pmarin On good days I’ll say “It’s baad to be the Goat”. On baad days I’ll say “It’s baad to be the Goat”.
@ItalianScallion But you are the goat, you get the Blame for Everything, That is what was told to me when I was the Goat! So Yes we can blame you for the Weather!
UNBLAME:
I got my first kill in DBD yesterday via Pyramid Head. I have gotten much better at the game now.
Probably since it is @ItalianScallion as the new goat.
I’ll find SOMETHING to blame you for, though. Just you wait…
@Wollyhop Well, you did snatch defeat from the jaws of victory last month by bumping me to this month as the goat…
@ItalianScallion
Goat Emeritus here, I had no idea what was even goating on and next thing I found out I was goat. I think it was goatober or goatember. Good goat months. Hard to make a goat pun out of March, sorry, not my fault. All blame goes to you now.
@pmarin Maaach! Bleat!
(with a Boston accent)
@ItalianScallion @pmarin a Boston, Ma accent, do they even speak English up there? Yes I have been there on a job and it’s wondering if they did speak English or let me rephrase American English.
@mycya4me It’s interesting that you mention American English specifically. The Boston accent, of course, has its roots in the early British colonists’ mode of speaking and, I’ve read, is the closest accent to the way 18th century British English was spoken. Back when I used to speak with a Boston accent (actually more of a Rhode Island accent), my British friends would compliment me on my accent!
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me
After I had lived and worked there [in the suburbs of Boston] for the better part of a year, when I returned home to Upstate NY, I was often accused of being [or pretending at being] from Beantown, at least temporarily.
It I am or maybe used to be, quite susceptible to being influenced by the dialects of people I speak with.
A similar thing happened after I went to Kentucky for my freshman year of college- except people said that I had developed somewhat of a southern drawl, at least temporarily.
I say used to be, because it didn’t seem to happen when as an alleged adult, I moved to Pennsylvania for PA school, but that may have been because my classmates were from diverse other places including Toronto, CA; Detroit, MI; NYC; and a number of various locations in PA.
@ItalianScallion I am from the South, I had problems understanding people, Plus Driving in Boston is a Nightmare, I prefer driving in Washington, DC Rush hour in the Rain than Boston. BTW I have also driven in Philly too!
@mycya4me The difficulty in understanding runs the opposite way for me. Strong Southern accents are sometimes tough for me to understand.
And you are so right about driving in Boston. It’s absolutely a nightmare especially when you get into the heart of the city. I much preferred taking my Vespa when I had to go there. The only place with worse drivers is Rhode Island (and I can say that because I was raised in R.I.).
@PhysAssist Back in the 80s, I used to go to England every now and then for a week or so for business. I’d already pretty much dropped my Boston/R.I. accent by then, but I too found myself adopting Britishisms and a bit of the their accent that took a little while to go away when I got home.
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me Neither Boston nor NYC nor Chicago was able to scare me.
I learned to drive in Miami. Driving in Manhattan was fun.
@ItalianScallion When I was up in Boston, well the personal GPS was not available, So I had to use paper maps to go to 10 different locations. You see I had to go to Kinko stores, Map the layout of the store, its Computers, Copiers, ect. Install a new server & a single training Computer for the staff to learn the new system they were about to get. You see FedEx bought Kinko’s.
BTW this was in mid July, It was a dry heat around 90f, people were complaining that it was so very Hot. I was enjoying it with the very low humidity, being from the South we are used to the humidity being high, 70-90+%. Not getting a bath by walking out the door.
Plus this was about a year before one of the celling panels in one of the tunnels of the “Big Dig” dropped on a car. The car did not stand a chance! it was flat, the driver did not make it!
BTW driving in Philly was easy (yes the same Job as above)
@mycya4me Dry heat in a Boston summer. You got lucky. It’s almost always heat with humidity!
We had a recent incident of concrete (4x5 ft) falling from a tunnel ceiling, by the way, this time in the Prudential Tunnel on Feb. 21st. Fortunately no one was hurt and there was only minor vehicle damage.
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me I found driving in Palermo to be the most challenging I have faced. Cars with vespas darting in and out. If you dont move fast enough they go around you or cut you off. I swear I even saw someone drive on the sidewalk. Morning rush hour was just insane.
@mycya4me @tinamarie1974 Yep. I’ve been a passenger in Palermo. It doesn’t surprise me that you saw someone driving on the sidewalk and Vespa drivers take many more risks in Italy than they do here. Naples is the worst city I’ve ever seen for driving, though. A favorite thing there is that the second a light turns green, drivers as far back as ten cars lay on the horn until they’re able to move! Che casino!
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me yes, yes!!! And I recall being the first car at the light and because I didnt INSTANTLY slam the gas, cars perpendicular to me just took advantage (while horns blared behind me) such pressure
/giphy under pressure
@ItalianScallion @tinamarie1974 I did a Holy Land tour back in the 1990’s I remember how they drive. We were on a tour bus.
@pmarin Well march to a different drummer would punner (to rhyme with drummer)…
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me
The disorganized and often dead-end roads in Beantown were bad enough, but the drivers- OMG, they were/are so aggressive and [as my philosophy professor used to say was a damning trait] acting totally arbitrarily and whimsically [and not in a fun way] in their actions.
The only things they did really predictably were to cut you off and after dashing out to get in front of you, to drive slowly in front of you, holding up traffic.
Speaking of which, no where else in the US, have I seen cars stop on the highway- middle of the road-randomly for no discernable reason whatsoever.
My driving style has since mellowed, but when I first came home, my partner [now ex-SWMBO] was terrified to ride with me because I had learned to drive in the offensively defensive Boston style.
Also, I was there before the Big Dig, and the highway bridges and tunnels were hellacious to navigate.
We went back for a conference after the BD had been completed, and it was so much easier to get around and figure out where we needed to go to get to where we needed to be.
@mycya4me @PhysAssist Yep, I agree with your characterization of Boston drivers, except that I have never seen one stop in the middle of a highway.
BTW, only out-of-towners say Beantown.
@ItalianScallion @PhysAssist I was in a rental car, with out of state plates. I was going down a Ramp to the larger road, They passed me on the Ramp. I was NOT going slow!
As I have said I would rather tackle Washington Metro Belt way during Rush hour, Raining than Boston!
@ItalianScallion @mycya4me
Then I apparently used it correctly.
Rest up buddy… DST is just down the pike and the
bitchingwailing and gnashing of teeth that comes with it will be upon you soon enough.@chienfou I am gearing up to be less than pleased w spring forward
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 Our pets (dog and 2 cats) start pestering around sunrise. So I will welcome the extra hour of morning sleep awarded by DST (for a few weeks, anyway).
@chienfou @tinamarie1974
Same- I am enjoying seeing the sun in the AMs, however, I also like having sunlight while working outside at home ‘after work’, so I’m a bit conflicted.
@chienfou @macromeh @tinamarie1974 hint: the cats can’t read the clocks…yet. just wait for the Apple Catwatch; it will change everything!
@ItalianScallion Some goats have had quite a good time with it!
https://meh.com/forum/topics/calendar-of-the-scapegoat
@Kyeh
I actually enjoyed my stint. Of course the alternative was thinking about all the CoViD surrounding me at work…
@Kyeh Yes I sure did when I was the GOAT! A lot of fun! But I was glad when the month was over & I could pass the Blame to the next goat!
@chienfou @Kyeh @mycya4me
I would say it’s one of the weirdest fun traditions that makes no sense. Like needing to click a button every day for no reason other than to increment a counter without missing a day. All from a site focused on selling overstock, obsolete, or semi-defective merchandise.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @pmarin
Is that a thing?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@chienfou @Kyeh @mycya4me @pmarin Right there with you buddy:
@chienfou @Kyeh @pmarin So do I, very rarely do I buy anything!
BLAME
Our corrections officers are out on their 3rd week of [illegal and unsanctioned- by their union] strike!
[@Wallyhop was to blame until the past weekend.]
This means that Attica [and all other NYS prisons]] are being manned [and womanned] by National Guards-people, parole officers, and OSI [Office of Special Investigations] personnel in their absence.
They’re all very nice, professional, and helpful, as much as they can be, but they are not corrections officers, so for reasons of safety for all, the I/I [incarcerated individuals- their self-chosen nomenclature- in lieu of prisoner, convict, and other much less flattering identifiers] have been almost completely locked down in their individual cells except for a brief time out 1 at a time in each block for showers, telephone privileges, and/or emergent/urgent medical interventions.
So their stress levels [and concomitant health complaints of often questionable veracity] have been increasing…
Albany has been, and is currently, meeting with the leaders of the striking CO’s, but although they went through a negotiation including supposed binding arbitration last week, only a small contingent of the most-senior [and thus closest to retirement, and with the most to lose] officers [about 80 out of 400+] have been returning to work this week.
So
BLAME!
@PhysAssist Yow that sounds bad. National Guardsmen/women end up in some of the most difficult situations. In several states they have been helping with severe flooding and fires and now thrust into the middle of a firestorm of a political kind.
@PhysAssist Blame indeed, and rightly so. That situation sucks for the I/Is and for those substituting for the guards. Update: oh wait, the blame is on me. I accept it for no other reason than to take if off the hands of all involved with the hope it is one less obstacle to them coming to an agreement.
@ItalianScallion
Thanks-it’s getting better.
Over the back 1/2 of last week and the past 2 days, a lot, though not all of the CO’s returned to work.
A large part of the Guard contingent remains on duty as well, but we’re still a long way from back to normal.
@ItalianScallion I blame you for Linux running so slow on my Raspberry Pi. It has nothing to do with me running DietPi 9.11using XFCE on a Raspberry Pi 1B with 256mb of ram.
@yakkoTDI I must, by tradition, accept the blame. Would you like me to send you one of my RPi Zeros that I’m not using to solve your problem? I’m serious. I have more of them than I know what to do with.
@ItalianScallion No thanks. It might get lost in my pile of Zero 2Ws.
Here’s something that drives me nuts (it probably bothers me more than it should) but WHY do people refer to hoods/miscreants/crazed lunatics as “gentlemen”? They almost never talk about ordinary blokes they encounter as “gentlemen.” I just saw this on Nextdoor:
@Kyeh and what would they say if it was a woman
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 In Congress, they’ve used “gentlewoman” and sometimes “gentlelady” which seem quite archaic to me as does “gentleman” in contexts like you cite, Kyeh.
I snicker especially when law enforcement uses “gentleman” or “individual” instead of the simple and straightforward “person.” It’s seems to me that the speaker is trying to put forth an image of intelligence, authority, and/or higher class by using words that they presumably think aren’t used in common speech and therefore demonstrate those elevated qualities.
@ItalianScallion @tinamarie1974 Yeah; “lady” does get misused the same way but it’s used more commonly for any woman, whereas “gentleman” sounds so formal. People say “the lady who rang up my groceries” or whatever but not “the gentleman who bagged them.”
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974
I have been entirely unsurprised by what I’ve heard used in such circumstances, both to the subjects’ faces and then as muttered addendums when they thought they were out of earshot. The former are vile; the latter are much worse.
I can’t even feign being shocked about this, having been privy to all such utterances in the past due to my (incorrectly) perceived group membership. Some things are going to take decades to get reduced; I am not sure that our cultural norms will ever allow them to be eliminated. The automatic assumption of the unquestionable rightness of male supremacy is a major foundation of the attitudes fully embedded in the very langauge itself.
This does not mean that we should surrender to it.
@Kyeh @werehatrack that was my point. Just with less words…
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
Ummm… I think you missed the entire point of the post. The question she posited was concerning the use of the term gentleman, not the comments made by said gentleman according to the post on next door.
@chienfou @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
Dude seems to be often used as a non-gendered reference these days.
@Kyeh @macromeh @tinamarie1974
I believe the term gentleman in this case was used in a hyperbolic, sarcastic way since a “true” gentleman would not be an asshole to a random stranger as indicated by the poster on nextdoor.
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
Similarly to what they do in Congress, saying “gentle-whatever” when what they really mean is ignorant asshole or some such…
@chienfou @macromeh @tinamarie1974 @physassist I think you’re giving them too much credit. I hear police interviews on the news all the time where they call depraved attackers “gentlemen” in a completely straight-faced earnest way. I think a lot of people just believe it’s a more proper way to speak.
@Kyeh @macromeh @PhysAssist @tinamarie1974
Probably right… Though it wasn’t that long ago that local cops used the term ‘citizen’ in a similar fashion. Don’t think that’s acceptable PC anymore…
@chienfou @Kyeh @macromeh @PhysAssist I was wondering about that. Not knowing how someone identifies, can an officer get in trouble for assuming gentleman or lady?
Not sure if this is a blame or unblame for the GOAT, but at least an honorable mention, because no doubt our esteemed bleater had something to do with the boobs in the marketing dept responsible for this:
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/03/10/mlb-releases-new-overlap-collection-the-tetas-rangers-hat-was-immediately-pulled-down-for-obvious-reasons/f
@phendrick corrected link (no ending “f”, but editing window expired):
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/03/10/mlb-releases-new-overlap-collection-the-tetas-rangers-hat-was-immediately-pulled-down-for-obvious-reasons/
And the hat is only $50 (with tax); who wouldn’t want one?
@phendrick
thanks for fixing the link… I was confused there for a minute!
@phendrick
I bet they could sell a lot of them, really!
And now I know what an “asshat” looks like. I’ve always thought that was a stupid term but now it makes sense!
@Kyeh @phendrick and yet, they seem to still be selling the AS HOS?
@Kyeh @ybmuG
After the sign stealing allegations a few years ago, i think that sentiment has been accepted into the vernacular, so no longer controversial.
Secret comment (top secret).
@farhatkabir secret response
@Ahmadba @farhatkabir Super Secret Secret Squirrel.
@Ahmadba @farhatkabir @yakkoTDI Secretly you need to blame or unblame the not so secret @ItalianScallion
@Ahmadba @farhatkabir @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI My reason is a secret.
@Ahmadba @farhatkabir @ItalianScallion @yakkoTDI
/showme a goat with a really big secret
@mediocrebot Hmm is that to fool us into thinking the goat has no secrets?
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot Whether or not the goat has a secret might be… a secret.
@mediocrebot That goat has a secret. This one has warm jammies
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@phendrick Is it just me that saw only the HTML code <img src=“”/>s in your comment?
@ItalianScallion can’t testify to the “just you” part, but apparently others can see the pic OK. Shows up for me fine.
[right click on img place holder and select open in other tab, maybe?]
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BLAME: This Meh-rathon is definitely meh. I’m always good for an IRK, but not this time with the $50 price even considering the buying rebate, since I haven’t seen a single item I’m even remotely interested in buying to get the rebate.
Oh wait… who did I just blame?
@ItalianScallion Well, I’ll give you an unblame, because I’m trying not to buy stuff and so far it’s been going well for me!
“Beware the Ides of March!” I said to myself upon rising this morning, “for you have gone merely half the distance along the righteous path of monthly Goatness. Like Lemmiwinks you have much left to discover along your journey and unlike Lemmiwinks you still have much blame to accept.” And so begins the second half of my noble tenure…
@ItalianScallion
Ig noble tenure- FIFY…
https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/
Bump
@Kyeh The last person to blame me for something was… me. Could this mean…
@ItalianScallion I bumped it because I thought you needed more blame to earn your goat badge.
Blame, woke up Tue night and my heart was beating through my chest. Laid there really still the rest of the night focusing on my breath, so I was exhausted all day yesterday.
@tinamarie1974
Are you anxious about something? Or were you having a bad dream?
@tinamarie1974 If only this Goat were an empath, I could absorb the the stress of the last couple of months…
@Kyeh unsure. It was kind of scary but I seem to be fine.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 A couple of decades ago i had several extended hospital stays due to heart and lung infections (the causes of which were never reliably determined). Why i retired from full-time teaching. Entwined with all this was a serious arrhythmia that had been going on for a year or two but i had been ignoring due to general ignorance over such. And along came a PE (pulmonary embolism) which the cardiologist said could have killed me if in a slightly different location. Heart beat soon got (mostly) controlled through meds. Antibiotics through ivs took care of the infections.
During this time i learned to pay A LOT of attention to my heart rhythms. Also learned i could trigger an arrhythmia by thinking about such in the “right” way. Then logic convinced me that i should also be able to get myself OUT of an arrhythmia by “meditating” about that. Turned out to be true, though harder than causing one.
i mention this to you to emphasize that there is a much stronger connection between mind and body than most people realize. “Autonomous” CAN be over-ridden. Something (conscious or unconscious) in your mental state might have provoked this event for you. Anything been bothering you (maybe in the back of your mind)?
Have a good talk with yourself. Practice breathing and relaxing, just in case you might need it. Think of a problem, and then think of solving it. Go on to the next.
Wishing you good thoughts and good health!
BTW, i’m trained in science and math and generally don’t believe in malarkey. Convinced what i said above is not such. “Chinese” alternative medicine defies a lot of good explanation, but seems to get good results. E.g., acupuncture along meridian lines to release “chi”.
@Kyeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974
That’s got to have been scary! I’d suggest taking your blood pressure periodically to know where you run and then when/if you have another episode check it.
I agree about being able to calm yourself and/or your heart rate down with your mind and meditation. That stuff really works. I hope it was just anxiety for you and nothing more serious! Prayers and good thoughts for a calm steady heart rate!
UNBLAME: The insurance finally approved the PT that my surgeon had been unable to get them to allow. It took a visit to a different specialist, who requested it for a different reason. I start sessions next week. If it works, it will be a great relief.
You don’t want details, trust me on this.
Blame
Dammit… Weather last week was super nice so I went ahead and planted a bunch of veggies in the garden. Supposed to get down to about 38/39 night before last but thought I’d be okay. Actually got down to 33 and a bunch of the stuff got nipped by frost.
At least the beds are prepped so all I have to do is replant. Still… crap
@chienfou As a goat, I decided this was better than waiting until your veggies grew and then deciding to come over and graze on them.
/showme a goat eating a vegetable garden
@ItalianScallion
Thanks. That was very considerate of you…
Another BLAME
WELL… I’m on a roll with weather complaints.
I’ve spent the past several days clearing out and reorganizing my (wood) shop. I repurposed a bunch of old drawers into new cabinets, I made some new shelving, and generally tidied up the place. Weather forecast middle of last week said it was supposed to rain today. Over the last couple of days they pushed that back to Wednesday. Didn’t have time to finish yesterday so left a bunch of stuff out in the yard, then at the last minute took in the stuff that was really moisture critical like tools etc. Still had a bunch of things in cardboard boxes and bins of things that were stacked out in front of the shop. Got up this morning and was greeted by a wet cat. Damn it, it was raining. Went outside and pulled everything in that I didn’t want to get any damper than it already was. Don’t think anything will be damaged, but will have to dry s*** out for the next several days to be sure. This may prompt me to be a bit more merciless in the things I’m throwing away, but I really wanted to finish this job without having to deal with a bunch of wet crap.Sigh.
OTOH, the reason I didn’t finish was we went to see ZZ Top in concert at MPAC last night. Good show. Frank Beard wasn’t at the drum kit but still a great show by Elwood and Billy. Bummer that i forgot my ‘good’ camera
Sorry @chienfou. I was doing ok with controlling the weather after hacking the Jewish space lasers, but then MTG figured out what I was doing and changed her password. She should have known someone would have guessed “frazzledrip”.
@chienfou sorry about the wet stuff, that is frustrating.
Ok, so I am confused, how do thr guys from ZZ Top look so damn old when I know I havent aged
so confusing
@tinamarie1974
Absolutely! Must be the beards!!
(Billy and Frank are 6 yrs older than me. Elwood is about 7 younger than me.)
Billy Gibbons can still rock out on the guitar and Elwood pulled out the 17 string bass (even though he hates it!) That’s what he’s playing in the pic. Only played about 75 minutes, but still a fun night.
@chienfou @tinamarie1974
It’s that rockstar life, you know - all that hard partying and stuff - ages them prematurely.
@chienfou
ZZ Top puts on a great show, I only saw them twice back in the 80-90’s. I didn’t know they were still doing concerts, was it a big crowd?
@Lynnerizer
MPAC. Smallish (1800 seats) and very well attended (may have even been sold out)… Certainly weren’t any empty seats around where we were and we were up in the balcony. The floor looked very full as well.
@chienfou
The acoustics must have been AWE-SOME there!
@chienfou @Lynnerizer From summer to summer, 1970-73, i was stationed at Dyess AFB outside of Abilene Tx. Sometime in there, there was a concert at the high school that cost a few dollars to get in and featured several unknown bands (at least to me). One was ZZ Top. i noticed the drummer was smoking while at his kit and holding a funny looking “cigarette”. A definite no-no for that town, but nobody interfered.
@Lynnerizer
yes, there really isn’t a bad seat in the house… and they have alcohol available so …
@phendrick
That’s cool. How did they sound (if you remember).
They were the longest living band with unchanged members (for 51 yrs).
@chienfou @Lynnerizer Don’t really recall their sound, but think i thought better of them than the other acts. i had a really nice open-reel tape recorder then and was buying lots of pre-recorded tapes (e.g., Led Zeppelin, iron buttefly, Cream, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix on the rock side; Curtis Mayfield, the Temptations on the soul side) but didn’t bother to search for them (ZZ) at the stores.
[When at Biloxi i had actually recorded a couple of live dixieland performances by mics in small clubs, with permission, but later lost those tapes.]
@chienfou @phendrick
I never got into recording live shows. I’d prefer the concerts for the show itself, lights, pyrotechnics, and whatever other antic’s (extra, pre-show, parking lot activities) were happening, then buy the music on whatever was the best at the time, album, 8-track, cassettes, CD, etc…
@chienfou @phendrick
And who ever thought they’d be legal anywhere 50 years later… 
“Those funny cigarettes”, that’s funny!
Cheap concerts, great music with good friends… Weren’t those the good ole’ days, fun times!
BLAME BLAME BLAME BLAME BLAME!!!
Put together a basketball hoop tonight. Took 3 fucking hours as it didn’t come with instructions and then one of the bottom support pieces wasn’t bent like the other side was which was a pain to deal with that with limited tools since mine were all stolen. Dropped a washer which took ages to find. Doing it in too small a space (my apartment) made it even a bigger PITA as I had to be so careful not to let pieces hit things like the TV etc. It is finally together except for putting the top pole on the bottom pole but I have to wait to do that until I see how high it needs to be for the kids. This was supposed to be a christmas present (with a basketball for each of them of a different color to stop the fighting) but due to many circumstances the box has sat in my apt since two days prior to christmas (balls didn’t get here until after then due to “delays” as they took the scenic route to get here). Grands will be thrilled but this one better not be left in the turn around (they live at the end of the street) to be hit by the school bus like what killed the last one.
I guess unblame, sort of, since I am finally done and can go to bed on time so I won’t be tired tomorrow. But tomorrow morning I get to spend 4 hours unloading food bank trucks (and then pack boxes and unload 2 more Wed morning to hand out later Wed morning) and my back is already sore from doing the stupid basketball hoop. Unloading trucks is my “free gym workout”. Heaviest boxes run about 55 to 60 pounds so I get my weight training that way.
I’m trying to recover a laptop for work, in the process, I used my personal laptop as a template… and somehow I screwed up my partition tables.
Guess I’m fixing for two now.
@pakopako
Yikes. Hope it works out OK.
@pakopako The Goat says bleat! which translates in this case to “best wishes for a speedy recovery!”
Since there is not an official April Goat-blaming thread yet, I guess I have to whine here.
On Tuesday, I was selected for jury duty for a trial that starts today. It is a sexual abuse case. The only other time I have served on a jury was also a sexual abuse case and it was a soul-crushing experience. I don’t expect this time to be any better.
Fuck.
@macromeh Even though my term as Goat has technically ended, I accept the blame on behalf of all those who are willing to personally suffer in order to bring justice to the evil people who would commit such crimes. I send my strongest bleats of caring and best wishes to maintain good mental health in the face of such a daunting trial.
My goat is upside down! It’s Liberation Day for me! I’m cancelling all the tariffs! Huzzah!!!