Right On Time

Brandi Carlile was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live last week. Never heard of her. Wouldn't know Brandi Carlile from Brandy Alexander.

Turns out she's a songwriter, and she sang one of her creations, something called Right On Time. I liked the sound of it. It was hard for me to understand the lyrics (understanding the lyrics has 2 parts: First, the sound has to be translated to words in my brain (hard part #1), and then the words have to make some sense in my brain (hard part #2, but could be made easier by the songwriter) at the time, but what I did pick up sounded interesting. Later, I found the lyrics online:

Come back now, even if you call me out
You might be angry now, of course you are
I'm scared to, didn't mean to take it out on you
I know I always do, you're the strongest person in the room

Turn back time, help me to rewind and we can
Find ourselves again

It's not too late
Either way, I lose you in these silent days
It wasn't right
But it was right on time

Don't look down, I can feel it when your heart starts pounding
It's beyond your control, you know it is
It's getting to the point where I can't carry on
I never held my breath for quite this long
And I don't take it back, I did what I had to do

It's not too late
Either way, I lose you in these silent days
It wasn't right
But it was right on time

It's not too late
Either way, I lose you in these silent days
It wasn't right
But it was right on time

Brandi, you have to make that shit easier to understand if you want me to understand. Take a cue from Jimmy Buffett. You don't need a secret decoder ring to understand the Margaritaville lyrics. Or the Why Don't We Get Drunk lyrics. Or the You Call It Jogging lyrics. Or Little Miss Magic. Or Volcano. Or Come Monday. Or Coconut Telegraph.

Help me rewind so we can find each other again? It's not too late. But either way I lose you. Right on time. I did what I had to do. It wasn't right. Of course you're angry. But it was right on time.

I got this much:  She did what she had to do, it wasn't right, she made her lover angry.

What the fuck was right on time?

FF

 

In the old days, and not-so-olden days, toothpaste tubes were made out of some kind of metal, probably coated with some kind of plastic. Toothpaste tubes have changed. Now they have a small-print warning: 

This is not your grandfather’s toothpaste, Sweetie.

Now they are made from some kind of plastic that doesn’t stay where you put it. Forget rolling up the tube from the bottom to keep the front part primed and let you use every milliliter of the gunk. The new one just unfolds itself and laughs at you. “Hey, Frugal Freddie, the world has changed. This is not your grandfather’s toothpaste. Go to amazon and buy some more!”

 

L r R?

 If, hypothetically, one were to pull the stopper out of the tequila bottle with his/her left hand, then pour some into a glass using the right hand, then proceed to drink tequila using the left hand, would that hypothetical person be _________.

a. left-handed

b. right-handed

c. ambidextrous

d. gay

I've Tried Them All

 This menu, on the wall at a Discount Smoke Shop in Winchester, MO, shows 312 vape flavors.

But that's not all. Dude behind the counter told me that he could blend any 2 or 3 flavors if I couldn't pick just one.

Only in America.

Next on my list is Pumpkin Pie w/Whipped Cream, mixed with Rocky Road and Root Beer Float. My lungs love sweets.

Births and Deaths

 According to this website: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths

Worldwide births are at around 140 million per year.

Worldwide deaths are at around 60 million per year.

So it takes very little imagination to imagine that the world population is growing by 80 million per year.

As a side issue, there is this: COVID deaths are running around 3 million per year. Which is a pretty small (about 5%) percentage of overall deaths. Surprisingly small, for me anyway.

Jesus Fucking Christ

This photo appeared in The Atlantic's Photos of the Week. 

The "my god is better than your god" mindset just boggles me.

Medical Costs

 I am going to explain why medical costs are outrageous.

Four stitches in my hand. Went to my orthopedic surgeon's office to have them removed 17 days after carpal tunnel surgery (see my May 21, 2021 blog entry). 

Medical assistant Kim carefully disinfected the area with iodine(?) and alcohol. Then she took these tools (see photo) out of their sterile packaging and used them for 90 seconds. She said they don't re-use the tools, so she gave them to me.

Does that explain why costs are high?