Things were fine until the app update

 Kind of sums up the state of technology these days.

Have a prepaid smartphone.  Pay as you go.  No contract.  Save money that way.  App used to be user-friendly and at least functional.  You saw your balance right away.  After the update always trouble logging in.  So I have a general plan with great talk and text and a service end date.  I now opt for a monthly plan with unlimited talk text and data and a generous allowance for a hotspot.  The unlimited plan is supposed to take priority for the time being but the AI (?) reversed it.  Texted with Support and got a human name but I think they shifted me over into ai territory.  Message said they applied an update to my settings and data and tethering should work but doesn't.  Yada yada.  Boring personal stuff but things always seem better before the upgrades.

On the newsfront I read Trump has some other check up his ass.  $500 for about 1 million Americans see if you qualify.  Didn't bother to read.  Actually nobody ever qualifies for these Trump promises as these checks never seem to come out of the man's ass.  Also reading Elon Musk says money may not matter in the future.  Easy for him to say.

Yonkers wants to get paid

 Was telling my sister the last time I mailed in my Yonkers property tax I verified through my banking app the check cleared in literally three days which I thought was pretty amazing but she did me one better.  She studiously follows her money matters and knows precisely when her payments clear.  A kind of financial ocd.  So she was telling me some time back she got one of those red-light traffic camera summonses in the mail.  She dutifully mailed in her check and it cleared in TWO days!  Not that the cams are a revenue enhancer mind you but they do cash your checks extremely fast go figure.  I've had contractors take their time with my payments.  Yonkers seems in a bit of a hurry.  What do they have some guy sitting at a desk and as soon as your check arrives he puts on his coat and says "I got this?"

Checks coming out of Trump's ass.  There was that DOGE check never got.  Some kind of tariff rebate check but that went to some corporations I believe and not the citizens and now the 5K check if we corrupt the midterms.  Trump keeps dicking us around.  Could've did some home renovations or paid off some high-interest credit cards and watch my credit score go way down.  The Orange Man - bullshit artist. 

Between Yonkers and Trump I can't get ahead.  I'd settle for a gas rebate check at this point.  30 bucks a week?

War criminals speaking at the UN

 What else is going on?

Customer Support - AI/Robot, Human or Hybrid???

 Was having some technical internet issues with my phone carrier.  I think they confused my plans or rather they confused me or maybe they changed a plan or two in the dead of night who knows.  Never really did read all the fine print.  So you go to Tech or Support.  Sometimes you get a name of a human to greet you but that human keeps repeating generic responses.  Maybe that's the way they're trained or maybe the ai thing has a nickname dunno.  The automated system or self-service that comes first is a kind of fortress or buffer designed to weed out those users with problems or issues that could presumably be solved rather easily without bothering a real live human agent who maybe is due for a break or lunch or maybe somebody called out.  Some of the fixes never seem to work but the system keeps repeating them anyway.  If it does reach the point where you are forced to chat with an actual human agent some have more knowledge than others.  What you need at that point is a real techno-nerd who enjoys this kind of stuff. You have enough stress in your life let's add some new levels of stress.  Actually you don't have time for this you have other things on your plate and it's all so mind-numbing you feel like a zombie at the end.

Makes ya wanna go off the grid and live in a cave no?

I'm not a hip smoker I'm just a regular smoker

 I have a main cigar store I go to but decided to try a few smoke shops.  Despite the name they generally don't carry cigars or pipe tobacco.  You go in the place and it's usually empty and some foreign guy sitting way at the end.  You ask for pipe tobacco and he acts confused.  He looks around and hands you what looks like a pouch of pipe tobacco but it's actually shag for cigarettes.  The storefront should change its name to The Hookah and Vaporizer Place or something like that and so you politely walk out.  Usually there's a cannabis place in the area.  Googled the hookah and it sounds too complicated for my taste to even set up after a hard day at work.  Also vaguely dangerous like you could burn the house down or have a Richard Pryor like accident.  Cat might knock it over.  ALL I want is a couple of Romeo and Julietas or Perdomos maybe and something nice to light up my pipe.  It's kind of a strange place like you expect to see Kash Patel and a goat in the back room.  I hear Cuba is in the dark.

I'm trying to forget about Trump. 

Still kicking ass

 Mitch McConnell back in session.

Kash Patel and the farmer in the dell

 Now perverts can join the FBI.  Well some perverts anyway.  FBI Director Kash Patel explains before the Senate Judiciary Committee why bestiality is no longer a disqualifier from being hired there.  BTW old theory about how Sasquatch started.

Does the FBI have a zoo?