I went to a “Paint Night” event with the (god)kid last night. It was her birthday and they were painting tarot cards, and she wanted to do it. I don’t paint, or do art. And it was her birthday. So we went painting.
I’d never been to a paint night before and expected like… instruction?
The lead witch “Belinda” plopped 2 pages of a Powerpoint printout in front of us. It had a bunch of typos. She explained the origins of tarot and how the first widely-distributed, standardized deck was developed.
She gave each of us a card and asked us what stood out on ours. I looked at both sides, identified one side as more interesting; that must have been the “card”. Thankfully, my partner nudged me to show me I was looking at the back of my card before I was called upon. It seemed that my callout of what stood out was wrong - I was supposed to be looking at the big sword or the crown, not the outstretched hand.
Then, she dropped a few baskets of Sharpies and paint pens in front of us and we each got 2 cardboard blank cards. And she left.
… How do I make a tarot card? Turns out I was supposed to write the name of the card on it. Didn’t know, didn’t leave space for it. Thankfully my spouse and kid helped me out, because I had no idea where to begin.
In a way I’m glad I gave such an event a chance. No need to do again.
Flight home left relatively on time but is scheduled to arrive an hour and twenty minutes late due to flight path against the headwinds. Both my sons have early morning plans, so they are not amused, either.
I bought some No Name Naturally Imperfect white button mushrooms because I wanted to make some mushroom stock and for cooking. Wow, these ******erz had to work their way UP to imperfect: mushy, grey, nasty, etc.
The small print on the label says “Freshness and quality … in all shapes and sizes.” Never again.
What a frustrating time. Months go by, every time I reset my computer, the screen resolution goes wonky. Repeated reboots, and sometimes it self corrects. Screwing around with drivers, etc, can’t get any fix.
Today I tried a new cable. Works first time. Damn.
We got a new BBQ restaurant in town, it’s a KC outfit and people rave about them. They are really busy, I’ve been wanting to reserve a table. But every time I go to the website it crashes, same thing when my wife has tried.
I was trying to pop out a freshly baked loaf of bread from a glass baking pan when the teeny tiny silicon glovelet slipped and my right index finger touched the pan!! It hurtied!! Wah.
A Manischewitz cake mix box proclaims “There’s bupkis like it!”. If the sole selling point for your product is “it’s not like goat shit!” then you need to rethink your marketing strategy.
