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  • The Danger of the “Backfire” Nap

    Did you ever take a nap, but you slept just a little too long, and instead of feeling fresh and energized, now you feel all groggy and slow?

    Yup, that is what happened to me this afternoon.

    I can pinpoint that it was between 1:30pm to 2:04pm was when the “backfire” nap occurred. I had just finished lunch, and was sitting on the couch with the intention of watching MST3k on PlutoTV. Just a few minutes, nothing long, as I still had things to do. I didn’t even make it one minute into the show…

    I have been running around the apartment, trying to get all of my tasks and chores done before I have to go and meet the kid after school, but I feel like I’m being held down with weights on my shoes. I even took a shower, thinking that would wake me up… Alas, to no avail…

    I’ve got four minutes left before I have to go, and this is what today’s blog will be. A slight rant on the fact that I guess I needed more sleep than I got last night.

  • Dental Insurance

    I’m looking for a new dentist for my kid today, and it is taking way longer than I thought.

    For the record, dental insurance is a scam.

    I say this because we have dental insurance, but did you know that our insurance company has dentists that are “in-network” but they won’t pay benefits to them.

    So, according to our plan; there are dentist that are covered (none of them are taking new patients) or there are “in-network” dentists that aren’t fully covered (we will have to pay 75%-90% of the bill) and then out-of-network which we pay for.

    What are we paying for again?

  • Jury Duty Day

    Doing my civic duty.

    More later…

  • Gawd, It’s Hot

    Today is the first day of Summer on NYC. Did you know that?

    Yeah, it’s Summer.

    Lucky for me and my little family, we got our A/C’s cleaned and in the windows last weekend, and we were prepared for this event. Not to brag, but I’m going to brag. It’s nice a relatively cool in my apartment.

    In other news; I sure am sweating a lot when I go outside.

  • ODDS and ENDS (I’m in a Hurry Edition): North Bergen, Painting, and Taxes

    ODDS and ENDS (I’m in a Hurry Edition): North Bergen, Painting, and Taxes

    (I’m going to make time stop…)

    Young man holding air conditioner blocked by robots denying installation
    (Here’s the weekly AI created image.)

    First of all, the China bots seem to have gone away, but they have been replaced by what I can only assure is another data scrubber out of North Bergen, New Jersey. I say this because someone/something in that town is hitting up my blog close to twenty times a day is not more. Now, I do think my writing is amazing, and I should have millions of followers, but in the real world of reality, we all know both of those things aren’t true, and as such there is no reason for one person in North Bergen to go about and read this blog that many times a day for the past month. Now, if you happen to be a real person, then by all means, please leave a comment, and let me know what you find so interesting. If this is an AI bot scrubbing for information, please, there are other, better sites out there, and your mother was a Hoover because she blows!

    Part of the reason I’m in a hurry today is that I gotta get a jump on all of my errands, because I need to start painting window sills and get air conditioners in the windows. Come the start of next we, NYC is about to have three f not four days of Summer (Temps in the 80’s) and we’re going to need those a/c’s.

    And the wife is doing our taxes this weekend, which also means that she’s going to be in a bad mood. Not because our taxes are particularly difficult. No, it’s more a matter of no one wants to do this chore. That’s it.