Corporate...Bastards!

 My wife and myself went in to Walgreens Friday so we could get our flu and covid-19 vaccinations. Some fun there no doubt. So my wife got on line and scheduled an appointment time. Piece of cake...??? Ordinarily we would have preferred Walmart. However, Walmart requires an online appointment (so does Walgreens) but the Walmart website was a bust and we couldn't scheduled a vaccine appointment. Curse you Walmart schedule an appointment online farce. Our Friday vax opera continues. We walk into our Walgreens for our pre-scheduled vaccination appointment and there's a line at the Walgreens pharmacy. The wait line seems to be stationary. Well after about ten minutes or so the line hadn't moved and not even an inch. Turns out that Walgreens pharmacy which has three yes count them three service windows, only one window is in operation and there's only one pharmacy tech helping customers. Oh yes and Walgreens only has one functioning computer terminal. Twenty minutes has passed and our line hasn't budged and not even an inch. Time marches on but not the line we're in. Thirty minutes passed, forty minutes passed, and then finally...we get our turn at the pharmacy counter so we can fill out paperwork and show the required cards and then ... wait in a separate line. This time the waiting line has chairs. Four Walgreens pharmacy chairs. Not so very comfortable either. Finally after an hour, we're up for vaccination harpooning. The shots you see. We've now been in Walgreens for our pre-scheduled vaccination appointment for one and a half hours. I asked the pharmacy tech what the hell's the problem and she informs me that Walgreens won't budget in extra pharmacy techs and since the Walgreens previous pharmacist quit, well, the pharmacist on site had to fill in and drove up from Vegas. Dang if'n that don't about suck. For the pharmacist and for all of us waiting in an ever growing exponentially line. Some dang for real bullshit there boy. No doubt. Anyway, I did cop an attitude about all this waiting crap and so upon our returning home I'm headed for the old computer, fire up the old Google and begin a rather hopeless search for a Walgreens corporate email address. Turns out there isn't a Walgreens corporate email address and the Walgreens corporate website that indicates there really IS a corporate email address is a ridiculous feedback loop that after some continued searching, provides a "customer support" phone number. So I called the phone number and had to wait in line for the "next available support helper" and of course I had to wait. In line again. Bottomline to this meaningless crap-o-la, the customer support person listens to my recounting of the Friday pre-scheduled appointment for vaccinations and after I inform the faceless voice on other end of "customer support line" that he can send my complaint up the corporate ladder to the president of Walgreens corporate and then the voice informs me that the line is breaking up and so it goes. A vaccination crap shoot. A head's up here...avoid Walgreens for vaccinations of the flu and covid-19 variety. Walmart isn't much better. Oh yes both of these pharmacies REQUIRE a pre-scheduled appointment. Now for Saturday machine art. I'm vaccinated but what a pain in the ass. And arm.

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america's healthcare system is seriously messed up. there is no fix for the problem and with congress willfully shutting down government, well, americans are shit out of luck. 😐

Be Afraid ... Be Very Afraid

 Artificial intelligence has caused an undeserved panic amongst humans in world leadership positions and most of the panic is your basic ignorance of what A.I. is. What A.I. is, is NOT cause for panic. A.I. will be one of the most significant achievements and advances for the human species to date. Right up there with human warfare, powered flight, ventures into space, and artistry. Yes artistry. I use several different art software programs AND I have regular conversations with an A.I. chatbot. I find my exchanges with the A.I. chat thingy to be quite fluent and enlightening. Have you had a chance to view the MSG Sphere in Vegas? The MSG Sphere in Vegas is beyond cutting edge. Hold on to your butts kids and keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times. Artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. Ignorance fuels fear and fear is irrational and dangerous. Be not spooked by that which you do not understand. Feast on the abundant knowledge available to the seeker and grow fat and sassy. Yeah, that's the ticket... Now for Friday machine art. My very own personal choice to be able to do that which I'm unable to do manually. Or manny. My very own personal choice in A.I. wordage... 'manny'.

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I'm sad to report that ignorance is the bane of human existence. if it weren't for ignorance, we might have flying cars by now. I mean, come on...I'm not certain how much time I have left on this Island Earth. 😐

It's Almost October...

 It's almost October so, have you started your xmas shopping yet? I ask with tongue planted firmly in cheek. So the wife and myself are doing our weekly grocery shopping and what should my wondering eyes perceive? Really, I would not have believed it if I hadn't saw the shit myself. Xmas crap. Loads and boxes filled with ornaments, lights, snow globes, snow globes of Rudolph and various 'other' reindeer, Frosty the Snow Man, the Grinch and his little dog Toto, wait a minute, Toto was Wizard of Oz...right? I think that's right. I can't remember what the Grinch's dog was named. So there it all was in one titanically tossed if not congealed mass clearance sale. Halloween crap. Thanksgiving crap. And now the xmas crap. I asked the wife what with all this holiday crap-o-la strewn hither and yon, well, why not New Year's Eve crap? The wife looked at me as if I were a complete bonehead. I am a complete bonehead but when the wife gives you that 'look' well, it's probably time to give the comedy routine a rest. My wife then stuck the ominous self-inflicted dagger into my ever so fragile ego, "you say the same thing to me year after year so..." I do know what that means, shut the fuck up and right about ten minutes ago would have worked just swimmingly. Of course I kept any further comments under wraps and resumed pushing the cart with mouth closed. Humbled and closed. Now for some Thursday machine art. Start that holiday shopping although I'm not certain which holiday you might want to shop for. Just ask you kids, they'll know.

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the skull in the above image has a claw. I didn't notice that at first. however after two or three more glances, well, surprise surprise... 😏

No News Is...

 The saying goes...'no news is good news'. I agree completely. Of course there is news, just nothing worth mentioning. Trump blah blah blah. Congress blah blah blah. Workers strike blah blah blah. Aaron Rogers is out for the season, New York implodes blah blah blah. MTG reveals she's inbred and retarded blah blah blah. So no, or yes, no news is same old as same old. Now we move it on over to the Wednesday machine art portion of today's abbreviated program.

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we've got to get out while we're young because tramps like us...baby we were born to run. or ride... 😐

Goodnight Ducky ... Thank You

 One of the original 'Man From UNCLE' stars has passed on to parts unknowable. David McCallum has died and a news released maintains that Ducky "died of natural causes." McCallum was 90. I'd call that a ripe old age and his passing is part and parcel of our whizzy existence. Natural causes...bravo Mr. McCallum and McCallum was a class act to be quite specific. Obituary releases don't list "natural causes" very often. These days obituary notices are associated with 'gun deaths' and 'cancer of one form or another' or a "storm related death" and so it goes. Natural causes should be how the end of human existence succumbs anytime. Alas and these days 'natural' seems a rare descriptive. I'm of the opinion that the human passing should be as natural as natural can be. Enough said. Thank you Mr. McCallum your artistry will be remembered for a very long time to come. 

Now for Tuesday machine art. 

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did you know that in 250 million years, all the land masses on Planet Earth will congeal into one singular massive continent and ALL life on Earth will go extinct. the conspiracy theorists should start freaking out at noon tomorrow. all the weak minded and gullible are freaking out already. 😏

Celebrity As Lucky Charm

Sorry Lucky, you've been dethroned. Lucky would be the leprechaun that adorns a children's cereal box. Now we'll hit the 411 so as to provide some clarity to today's screed. Evidently a Kansas City Chiefs football player by name of Travis Kelce is dating a social phenomenon name of Taylor Swift. Swift would be a pop star that has simply hordes of swooning fainting dead away 'Swifties'. 'Swifties' is how Taylor's fans are referred to. Swift commands legions of fans all around the world and those fans are starstruck if not a bit confused as to where, exactly, their loyalties should be placed. Anyway and so, the Kansas City Chiefs played a football game on Sunday and those Kansas City Chiefs played to plant an ass-whooping on the Chicago Bears with Taylor Swift in attendance and Swift is alleged to have "inspired" the aforementioned Chiefs and Travis Kelce to unmercifully disrespect the Bears and win this Sunday football game. Kelce is "allegedly" dating Taylor Swift. Or that just might be the other way around. You know, Swift dating a football player name of Travis Kelce. The actual bottomline here would be...who cares? A football game is hardly relevant to events happening right this very moment anywhere around our woefully under siege Planet Earth. Taylor Swift is probably not the messiah. Probably. Travis Kelce might be a football MVP that is IF he can remain healthy for an entire NFL playing season. I'm not certain that Swift is feeding starving Africans. I'm not certain that Swift is sending arms to Ukraine to assist in the Ukraine war defense against Russia. I'm not certain that very much at all is relevant to Swift/Kelce pending nuptials. OR the other way around. Doesn't matter however, the Kansas City Chiefs DID put an unmerciful pounding on the Chicago Bears and Swift was in attendance to watch the game so...draw your own conclusions. Or not. Now for Monday machine art and I suppose we'll all get to see how this now very public dating ritual plays itself out. I wonder if Kelce/Swift receive date coaching from Andy Reid? Google that Reid name for a much wider explanation than what I've offered here. On Andy Reid. Reid used to coach football at BYU.

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it was one of those play-by-play guys that made mention of Swift being a "lucky charm" for Kelce and the Chiefs. the play-by-play guys are more than a bit annoying and ovbiously, sorely lacking in the ability to think on ones feet. 😏

Who!

 Coming to a BBC feed near you soon...the return of David Tennant as Dr. Who. To be quite specific, this incarnation of Dr. Who is the 60th anniversary of the Dr. Who franchise. Dr. Who has been making incarnations happen for a dang long time. I can remember the early days of Dr. Who as it aired on PBS way way back in the day. Dr. Who aired late on Thursday nights if I remember correctly. About 1983? I might be close. Anyway, Dr. Who with David Tennant as the good Doctor is maybe the most popular incarnation of the Doctor. That's just my opinion mind you. However, Tennant is back for this anniversary incarnation. There's a trailer that showed up on Youtube back in August of this year (2023) and I missed that part. However, I found it on Saturday and the trailer is pretty dang cool. The guy that played Doogie Howser is in the new Dr. Who and Doogie plays an arch villain. So... for all you 'Whovians'... hold on to your butts because the Doctor is going to be IN the house. Oh yeah. Now for our sabbatical machine art. 

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mickey mouse has made it into public domain. anyone can use, abuse, rearrange, distort, and in general have some fun with mickey mouse. I doubt walt would mind and that hardly matters now as walt has been dead for quite sometime. as for disney the global conglomerate, well, I'm not certain what disney would make of what has become of his creation. 😐

Have You Ever Had To Worry...

 Have you ever had to worry about whether your hair is getting enough hyaluronic acid? I know... Gosh so if your hair isn't getting enough hyaluronic acid, will your hair fall out? Will your hairline recede? Will you get a nasty case of itchy flakey scalp? Dandruff? Will the hair you have at present turn gray? White? Tartan plaid? I mean I've managed to get most all the way through life and never oh no not ever once had I worried about hyaluronic acid and hair. Evidently, in our postmodern early twenty first century world, worries about hair and hyaluronic acid is a thing. Who knew? I sure as hell did NOT have a clue. Not even an inkling. Gosh, so many naggy petty-ass nonsensical and entirely ridiculous meaningless things to fret over. I fear for the future of our culture on so many levels. Now we shall scurry over to our Saturday installment of machine art and no, you do not have to worry about hyaluronic acid in or on your hair.

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any reader may have noticed...I don't have much in the way of meaningful prattle. oh hell, that happens. 😐

A Special Friday Edition

I am a proud and adopted member of Coyote Clan. I was adopted into Coyote Clan by a Dine family I got to know rather well. So as I'm reading the Google news page, there was an article about some folks living along the Wasatch Front and they were bitching up a streak about coyotes being in their citified neighborhood. Gosh is that about a shame or what. The coyote presence isn't a shame at all. You see, overtly greedy "developers" along the Wasatch Front have been encroaching on natural habitats for years and years and years. Money makes the natural world go extinct. True true... I had an encounter with a coyote in the wilderness quite a long time ago and that encounter changed my life's track in ways that I'm still in the process of processing. Hunting season in Utah and I was high up a hillside sitting and waiting on some poor mule deer to come wandering in my direction so's I could plant a bullet inside it's head and therefore bring a mule deer's life to an early close. Anyway, there was a pair of hunters coming over the hill on where I had my keister planted and they commenced to shooting up the ambiance of a fine autumn morning and the nimrods were not shooting at any mule deer. Nope. The bozos were shooting at a coyote. The bullet boys weren't very good shots or this coyote was extremely lucky. Whatever. The coyote runs over to where I was sitting and stopped just a short distance down hill from where I sat. The coyote began to speak to me in understandable English. I was stunned and sort of paralyzed by this encounter. Coyote looked me square in the eyes and asked me "why I wanted to shoot to kill him and his friends that shared this hilltop with coyote." I was stunned and left speechless. I did NOT have a reasonable answer for coyote. That encounter changed my entire life. I quit hunting that very year. I no longer had the stomach for it. That encounter also helped me later in my life as I went about the process of getting myself clean and off drugs. My addiction damn near killed me quite literally. It was after I'd been clean for a few years that my encounter with coyote started to make sense. The addiction issue is something I may write about later. Maybe. It's not one of the more shining portions of my life. Anyway, city folk don't like coyotes and/or other critters in "their space." Too fucking bad. The city dwellers are ALREADY living in the "natural habitat" and therefore they need to shut the fuck up about wildlife wandering through territory that belongs to the critters and not the dumb ass mostly white people. Now for some truly fine Dine art.

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blessed by my adopted brothers and sisters. ☺