My Livejournal Archive
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This stuff doesn’t even surprise me anymore, but it’s still funny in a way. So for two months, I’ve been getting bills from McLaren Greater Lansing to pay an $80 copay on a lab test that hasn’t been performed. I…
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I have always prided myself on being pretty libertarian in my beliefs, but a single experience calling CVS Caremark (our prescription drug insurance) has made me decide to lobby with the Leftists to get the entire industry out of business.…
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Every time I get one of these “your edit helped,” emails from Google, I just think, “I did free work and helped make Google $62 billion last year.” This is why, for the most part, I stick to editing on…
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After dealing with some health anxiety and fear around death and dying, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be conscious, living, or what even “real” is in the world. Sometime ago, I read a theory that…
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There are a lot of (rightful) criticisms about billionaire entrepreneurs, but I’m forever grateful to people like Bezos and the people who work for them who make our lives significantly better. Amazon gave me (a working class tech-guy) an affordable,…
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Remember that photo from the #tripledemic where I was barely clean and happy to be breathing better? Out of curiosity, I ran it through an AI photo editor that I’ve been playing with. The prompt was something like, “attractive brunette…
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Saw a Ford Edge behind me while I was driving, and it made me sad. Current Mood: 🙁sad
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Meijer had this “Limited Edition Ginger Beer” that I was intrigued enough to try. I thought it would be like Ginger Ale (which my family LOVES), but it’s got quite a bite to it. It was not good on its…
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The worst part of driving through the I-496 Project is seeing that the city could have functioned with 2 miles of minority neighborhoods still intact with some well-timed streetlights and a few multi-lane, one-way arteries. Progressive government incompetence destroyed this…
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Welcome to America, home of complete medical dysfunction! In this country, your access to life saving medicines is always contingent on having access to a medical doctor. Don’t know if you noticed, but those are in very short supply right…