u/Joyce_Hatto

Rant incoming!

A few years ago I moved and joined a new parish.

It’s a small church, with rarely more than 15 people at a service.

At the peace, everyone in the parish gets up and gives everyone else the Peace. And then they ask how’s everything, how’s your dog, I saw your daughter yesterday and so forth

I realized I hate this. I’m not sure why. When I grew up we didn’t even shake anyone’s hand at the Peace. Now it’s a total confab. We’re almost at the end of the service - can’t this chatter wait?

Anyone else get annoyed? I know very well I’m an Old Grouch.

Yay, it’s on the website again.

https://www.wsj.com/news/types/variety-puzzle

I’ve read a number of Dickens’ novels -Bleak House twice, the glorious Pickwick Papers, Nicolas Nickleby, Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, for example.

I need some help with Little Doritt. Reading it seems like a grind. I’m about 35% of the way through, and it’s not working for me. The writing is unclear - I sometimes have to read the same paragraph three times.

I’m at that Do-I-Stay-or-Do-I-Go point. If I’m not enjoying it a third of the way in, will I enjoy it later?

Have any of you experienced high levels of ALT and AST in blood tests from the anti-inflammatory Diclofenac?

I’m showing ridiculously high levels, that I need to come down before I can get cleared for shoulder replacement surgery.

What are some of your favorite Suzyn Waldman cranky quotes?

I’ll start with two.

In Tampa, referring to the field, she called it “whatever passes for grass around here …”

In Chicago she said “Chicago-style pizza - ugh - who wants to eat pizza with a fork?”