A Monday Peeve

Note the indefinite article. Some/most Mondays there will be no peeves; some Mondays may not even have a post at all. I may peeve on a Thursday, who knows. It's a wild world here on my blogspot, with no rules or schedules. My life generally is pretty routine and scheduled, and I still work full-time, so I don't want to feel obligated to a schedule for hobbies. Sometimes I start pressuring myself with painting and crafts, and then I start hating them. I don't want to have to work on my yarn pillow while I watch TV. Sometimes I do, but other times I just stare at the screen like a brainless vegetable. I'm not going to be mad at myself for not painting as much as I wanted to this weekend ~ it's super hot, and I'm just not in the mood. I read that to build a blog audience, the blogger should stick to a set schedule and themes, but I say to hell with that. I am happy with the readers who actually want to be here and accept that I'm gonna write about whatever whimsical idea falls into my brainpan. Thanks guys.

Anyway, my peeve is about LinkedIn. I know some of you retired folks dgaf, but I feel I need to have a small presence there, at least for the next several years anyway. I don't spend much time on the site because it's a godawful mess. It's impossible to read the feed with all the sponsored posts, stupid ads, posts out of order, and gross political shit polluting the place, worse than Facebook, and that's saying a lot. Then there are the recruiters who email you at random with completely inappropriate jobs ~ they obviously don't even glance at your profile. I have tweaked my settings to avoid alerts/updates, so that helps a little, but it's still no fun to visit. I was on briefly yesterday, trying to find someone, but that was impossible as he has a relatively common name. (No, I wasn't stalking an ex, lol.) I have since emailed him, telling him he should connect with me if he wants to, because I give up. That's it. Peeve over.

Wait! I have a second peeve. It's like a second breakfast with fewer calories. Hey, it's a holiday, so I can peeve as much as I want to, pffft. Why does it seem lately that drivers with paper plates (meaning their vehicle is new and the permanent plate hasn't arrived yet) drive more dangerously/aggressively than people with older cars? It's so weird! You would think that drivers with a brand new expensive shiny car would be more cautious, but nope. Doesn't look that way from here. It also could be confirmation bias, which for a long time I thought I had regarding BMWs, until there was actually a study showing that BMW drivers really are the rudest. We need a study on people driving new vehicles vs older ones (just did a quick google, didn't see one). Science, baby. I'm all for it, and I'm ready to change my opinions based upon actual data, unlike some folks, but until the definitive study comes out, I shall keep peeving about new car drivers. I don't peeve about BMW drivers much these days because many of them seem to have shifted to Teslas, and the roads here in SoCal are stuffed with Teslas and not so many bimmers. While Elon Musk is of course horrible and disgusting, I don't find Tesla drivers to be that bad, on the whole. Dunno what happened there as they are the same people. Maybe it's literally the BMW and not the person. Shrugs.

It's hot af here and will be all week. Yesterday was gross at the park with the family (we were all a bit cranky), and I had to have a fan blowing on me all night even with the AC. Today I'm going to a concert outdoors, which will be sweltering, so I probably won't dance. I'll just sit in my chair like a sweaty lump and drink ice water. I'm not peeving about the weather! I wouldn't live anywhere else. Plus, I don't have a migraine! The beginning of September is usually the worst for me regarding migraines, so I'm surprised that I haven't had to take meds for a couple days. My blood pressure was in the green zone this morning (113/79), which shocked me. I don't think the good BP and the lack of migraines are related, but I don't actually know that. I mean, I used to have low BP and plenty of migraines in my 30s, so whatever, man. 

Someone mentioned that he was getting a "dangerous" warning when he visited this site. Anyone else? I visited in signed-out mode and didn't see a warning. I also have my settings redirect to https, so that should help. Maybe it's just me personally. I'm the danger.

"I am the one who knocks." ~ Walter White in Breaking Bad