Tales from the Park Side

 My dad started sending me message at 1237 last night.  He was completely off the rails because he was ringing his call button for a tylenol.  Then he called the owner of the company and said there was no one on duty.  There was someone on duty.  She was outside smoking a cigarette or something.  My dad then sends me all these messages how pissed he is and the facility isn't doing their job and the owner wasn't monitoring the call buttons and didn't come when we wanted his tylenol.

When the messages started coming I turned off my phone.  I'm not getting pulled into a temper tantrum about tylenol.  I wonder if they facility used their secret stash of medication for when he starts climbing the walls.  Like the time he accused a caregiver of throwing his mouse in the garbage.  Or the most recent time when he started acting like Mr Wilson from UP because he didn't remember the attendant came in to take his blood pressure.

Last time, I went over they and met with the staff for an hour.  I listen to them and talked to him.  Like all HR related BS, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.  

This time, I did not get involved.  I didn't return his call.  I didn't acknowledge his tantrum.  I didn't call the facility.  

If he can get out of bed and go into the kitchen wearing nothing but his underwear, why can't he do the same thing to go into the medicine cabinet and get himself a pain reliever??

Later in the day he sent me a message in facebook about the pastor from the childhood church on video taking communion and walking to his seat.  He called him a loser.  This usually gets a reaction out of me because i can't stand the guy.  He looks like a typical 80 plus year old elderly man.... he practically tripped going through the communion line and he was holding his wife's hand.  I wonder how bad her health is because she looks like a zombie every time i see her.  At any rate, I didn't respond to his outreach.

And again later in the day, he sent over a social media campaign the church is doing to attract new attendees.  A video of the organ and a video of a scene from the stained glass windows combined with a song and some biblical text.  I told him that was nice and asked who was doing it.  He didn't know.  He did share that the campaign was 10 years old.  The conversation didn't go any further.

I'm always there to advocate for his care and well being.  Being upset about a tylenol or the attendant smoking a cigarette?  SOmething bad could have happened.  Well.... it didn't.  

After the last melt down about the vital sign thing, it's not appropriate to gear up for battle.  Gotta pick wisely.  Especially knowing he is experiencing gaps in cognition.  Like when he can't operate his computer, hearing aids or phone.  Or when he can't count backwards from 20.  Or when he doesn't remember what he had for breakfast.  

When he was assessed for speech therapy, he told me he failed the cognitive assessment by one question and that it was no big deal.  That one question may have made him fail - but how many questions did he get wrong before the one question made his score a failure?  Like if there were 20 questions, a failing score could mean he got 8 wrong to bring his score down to 60.  So it wasn't one question that caused a failure on the assessment.  It was 9 questions causing a failure.  But... what do I know?

I don't know when I'll reach out to him again.  He has ANOTHER neurology appointment on the June 11.  I'll contact him and the facility for sure on the 10th.  Until then...  we'll see.  I'm not interested in dealing with escalation over pain killer or a chain smoking overnight attendant.  Not going to engage with mending strained relationships over trivialities.

5 years

 Based on my informal research it looks like the people excelling in their careers spend approximately 5 years in the same role or the same company.   They go on to bigger and better things.  

My experience has also shown that spending 20 years at the same company may as well be career suicide.

Loser. 

There’s no way

 There is no way all these Indians and Muslims popping up everywhere is organic.  There’s no way their New Driver please be patient stickers are organic.  There’s no way all these mosques and Indian businesses popping up all over the place are organic.  Now if it is organic.  It’s a broken immigration system with loop holes the Indians know how to exploit. 

Why don’t Muslims immigrate to other Muslim countries?  Why is every country they come from a shit hole?  Why do they degrade every country they come to?  Do they make anything better?  No.  They want to bring their Muslim bullshit wherever they go.  Their halal food.  Their mosques.  Their dress. Their culture.  Their religion. 

Look at mamdumi bringing prayer rigs into city hall.  Calls to prayer in time square.   They don’t like dogs. And they don’t like bacon.  How about I get a dog and name him bacon just to anger then?

I went to discount tire to have tires rotated and balanced.  There was some clown dressed like an Islamic cleric.  This pain in the ass was giving the sales person a hard time about the cost and getting a free tire that had 65000 miles on it. Listen asshole - the tire has been used its expected life span.  Shut the fuck up and pay the goddam bill or leave.  

It’s like friction is part of their culture  bargaining.  Haggling.  Whatever.   When I worked at the airline, theee people would rather argue then pay their extra bag fees either due to weight exceeded or too many pieces.  The only way to get them to shut up and go away was to throw down the gauntlet and be outright rude to them by our cultural standards.   Then they’d shake your hand.  Get out.  All these doctors, lawyers and skilled people.  Not even.  These people are cheap bastards.  

Stay in your own third world garbage dump.  We don’t you them accelerating our delicate into a third world shithole. 

Society

My wife and I made the trek to Schertz TX for a reservation required VIP Portillo's pre-grand opening event.  It was free and only cost 50 dollars in gas to get there and back.  Or something like that.  The food was exceptional as always.  It took 1.5 hours to get there and, strangely enough, 1.5 hours to get back.  

One the way I was AGAIN struck by how much I despise Austin.  It's like all metropolitan areas and the roads between them have been ran through like a cheap, torn up crack whore trying to fund for her next high..  My family moved here in 1975. Back then there were fewer than 300,000 people.  Now, there's over a million. 

The city I know has been stripped of any dignity and culture it once carried.  Everything is ruined.  The only pride remaining is the work of satan and his minions.  People are everywhere - I call them undesirables.  Traffic is congested.  All the time.  It was three lanes of bumper to bumper traffic.  Both ways.  The scenic landscape is a dystopian garbage dump.  Construction everywhere.  No open space.  

As we were coming up the interstate around 7th street I looked to the left.  Just disgusted by what it turned into.  Or, precisely what it has evolved into.  Pretentious eggheads.  Undesirable immigrants from the third world.  Part of me would rather be dead than live or work in that metropolitan cesspool.  Death is a better option than being there. It no longer feels like home.  It feels like a dystopian garbage dump you'd see in Pixar's Wall-E.  

How could we, the long time residents, let this happen.  It's like a giant pile of dog shit is now where Austin used to be.  My wife says I'm resistant to change.  Am I?  Or am I merely resistant to the enshittification of everything?  Ran through; like a prostitute's glory hole. Ruined.  Neither will never be the same.  Thanks for the memories.  Burn it to the ground.

Luce

 Maybe the Luce is positioned for the poor, Greta thunberg and China.  Maybe the Netherlands too. Maybe it will become their first mainstream, mass-produced car. After all, what do Tesla uograde to?  Is it an aspirational car?

Ferrari

 It looks like Ferrari has been hanging out with jaguar.  This! Is the 2027 Ferrari Luce.  Designed in partnership with former Apple executive, and former Shrek star Jony Iv'es design house.  

 

 

An all electric four door sedan with super car stats.  A Tesla plaid has super car stats.  It’s their first four door sedan.  Articles reference the need for Ferrari to have an electric car to offset their fleet’s carbon footprint and raise their fleet wide cafe MPG numbers.  Another fine example of government intervention making everything they touch better, including Ferrari.  The environment is obviously first concern for the psychological profile held by Ferrari's typical customer base - a bunch of techno brat frat boys. 

Here is a photo of Ferrari's hot new Radio Flyer inspired Luce:

 

Maybe this is a way to destroy grow their brand.  Another electric shitbox to compete with Lucid, Tesla and, i don't know, toyota: 

Here'a a jaguar prototype:

And a lucid air:

 Tesla's lineup:

 I don't know anyone appreciating the design aesthetics of an electric car compared to it's gasoline brethren.  These are utilitarian appliances.

I wonder how many people are going to be forced by Ferrari dealerships to buy an all new Luce before they can acquire what they really want:

 

 

Ferrari tried something for contemporary times in 1980 - the Mondial 8:
 

An epic flop making just over 200 horsepower and a 0-60 time of 12.3 minutes.  The Luce may be faster with an estimated 1035 horsepower and a sub 3 second 0-60 sprint but it's just as ugly.  Luce will share the same fate as a Mondial. 

Like what's the point of Ferrari?  Prancing horse leadership needs to grow some hair on their balls and give a solid FYOU to the government like Ram is doing starting in 2027 with the new RumbleBee - and yeah, it's got a HEMI:

 Stelantis boss man Tim Kuniskis is giving the government the middle finger.  Hybrid and electric technology isn't going to save Stelantis.  Cars men want to buy and drive will save Stelantis.  

If big tech can build their energy and fossil fuel/water consuming data centers there's no need for any of us to be complaint with the one government mantra of environmental stewardship towards electrification.  WE WILL NOT COMPLY. They are enviroterrorists.

Occupy my time

 I've decided to create a hobbby/business/media company while I explore my auto repair shop as a way to explore social media combined with something I enjoy.  Very little risk involved.  I am going to make short videos sampling ice cream flavors!  Literally.  The plan is to buy flavors of ice cream and show the packaging.  Open it, scoop it in a bowl and let it soften a little bit.  Then take a video as I sample the first scoop.  Then I will rate the flavor on a scale of 1-10.  And provide a brief review and synopsis of the flavor combined with my thoughts.  Just short little videos....  walking through the grocery looking at ice cream and zoning in on a flavor and then opening the freezer door and grabbing it to buy...  then getting home and showing the container and talking about the flavor and reading the ingredients.  Then I'll scoop some into an "ice cream" dish and eat it after it softens.  Think about it.  Give a score and share my thoughts on the flavor.  A 1950's waiter outfit with a head piece, a red and white striped vest and a bowtie is 20 bucks from amazon or the halloween superstore.  Just to make it fun and interesting

 If Dave Portnoy can do this shtick with pizza, I can do it with ice cream.  There's plenty of flavors in the grocery store.  I mean an entire aisle in the freezer section filled with different brands and flavors.  And then there's local ice cream shops where I can do little pop-ins and talk about a new flavor or something.  Then I can explore ice cream shops AND do it as I travel - reviewing ice cream everywhere I go.  

 Turn it into a little boutique media company.  All I need is a cell phone, a microphone, a computer and an internet connection.  I figure I can turn this into a business venture and then write off the ice cream I buy, my cell phone and my computer as business expenses as I grow my audience. 

And you know what? Move forward 6 hours.  I talked to my son about helping me shoot a video.  His response was, "Why am I being roped into this?"  Really?  He wanted nothing to do with it and thought it was stupid.  I then shared my idea with my wife.  "You're not doing social media."  "I won't do any such thing."  "I'm not going to the store to make a video."  

My entire family must think I'm a worthless piece of shit. Everyone thought it was stupid.  No one wanted to help or play along with it.  Not even try it.  Fine.  I'll use a selfie stick and a tripod.

I'm disgusted with the situation.  A 5-9 dollar package of icecream or a scoop from an ice cream shop.  No other cost but time, a bit of gas, negligible wear and tear on the car and probably 10 minutes of video, an hour of editing and creating a free website, facebook page and free youtube channel.  Like what the hell?!?  A practically free, interesting and entertaining way to learn some skills.  Either I'm misunderstood, stupid or both.

Remember this next time any of them want me to do something that I think is stupid or I don't want to do. Figure it out.  Do it yourself.  I'm not helping. 

 I hate certain aspects of my life.  I'm angry.  Sad.  Disappointed. And disgusted.  

My ideas maybe quirky but I don't think they're stupid.  Why does my family?!?!