Look, until You People start providing content again, you’re going to hear a lot more about my boring life. Get used to it or get writing.
I made and canned vegetable broth today. It’s a pity that the wide mouth pint canning jars I prefer take up more room in the canner than the slimmer, slightly taller regular pint jars. Twenty of the smaller diameter jars fit in the canner at once, but only sixteen of the wide mouth fit. (YMMV based on canner size etc.)
Obviously this is a shot of previous canning products meant only to illustrate pint jar variation. Today’s batch is still cooling.
(What are those pink spots, you ask? Simply the reflection of the plant lights from my hydroponic lettuce operation. <–not a euphemism)
I wish I had been able to find a source for large quantities of canning tomatoes. Ah well, such is my life.
Did any of you do anything interesting today?
And, of course, welcome to your Monday Night Open Post!
I dealt with shit. Literally.
Not interesting.
Would you like an article on how people who roam around in their RV’s and flush the “flushable” wipes are assholes that plug up a poorly designed ageing RV dumps? How about first thing this morning I had to dig shit covered “flushable” wipes out of a sewer line because people are assholes and I was not smart enough to stay in school. On reflection, I guess I am the dumb asshole.
Well, *I* didn’t want to say it.
It is nice to come to common ground with others in these trying times.
No, it’s supposed to be, “It’s nice to find common ground in the unprecedented New Normal that is Trump’s America!”
2 words: Incinerating toilet.
Flamethrower toilet. Got it.
If so, you may very well.
Still working….so no.
Not interesting.
Harsh.
Only because if he told us the interesting bits, he’d be fired. Or worse.
True.
It’s like having Rambo as your buddy.
I got an oil change and had a nail pulled out of one of my tires so that I can drive to Minnesota this weekend.
And I finished digging a trench, installing tile, and installing a drainage basin in my back yard.
Possibly interesting, depending on the causative factor and size of said drainage basin.
It is boring.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/NDS-12-in-dia-Catch-Basin/50373214
I have installed two drainage tiles to take water away from the house. So two of these basins are installed next to the house. These connect to drainage tile that run 50 ft for one and 75 ft for the other down hill away from the house. The same basins are installed at the downhill end of the tile, except holes are drilled into the bottom of the basins so that water can drain into a bed of gravel under the basin. In the spring when the ground is saturated, the excess water flows up out of the down hill basin and flows downhill across the lawn where it can’t hurt the house.
The rest of the week will be spent pulling up sod, putting down landscaping fabric, and spreading out gravel around the two raised planting beds that were build a year ago.
Now see? That’s interesting!
pulled out of one of my tires so that I can drive to Minnesota
I’d recommend putting the nail back.
*drops gloves*
The nice tech at the dealer replaced it with a plug and a patch.
I will try and get an article written. Honest.
Skeptical. That you will write an article and that you are honest about it. 😉
Now that just hurts.
Pounded out about a thousand words before work, now at work slaving and toiling and laboring.
Apples and grapes are the hot thing in the moment.
Mmmmm apples and grapes!
I miss Concord grapes. And Northern Spy apples.
Since you are here, do you mind yet another fiction submission?
Moon drop and Cotton candy grapes are the super sweet varieties right now. Swet Tango , Honey crisp, and Fuji apples are on sale.
I am not in charge of the site. I just push the buttons (!) and manipulate the levers that make it run. However, I am sure TPTB would like more fiction.
So, thank you!
Yeah, we’ve been short on fiction ever since reality decided to conform to SugarFree’s writing.
*sigh* I’ll dig in my hard drive amd see what I’ve got.
I could do a serial driven by Glib suggestions.
Bold. Very bold.
*eagerly awaits Sins and Tentacle Abilities serial*
Well, Lancelot, Galahad, and I, wait until nightfall. Then, we leap out of the rabbit, taking the French completely by surprise…
Alrighty. I’ll screw up my resolve and submit. The story needs one final rewrite/edit.
“…Cotton candy grapes…”
*Cringes*
Too cloyingly sweet
Now Honeycrisp, on the other hand, are perfect.
I’ve seen more marital disputes over Cotton candy grapes than anything else.
Husband: Five dollars a pound for a godd*m grape!?!?
Wife: We’re not just buying one bag, we’re buying two bags.
Husband: That’s fifteen &$##+-&_$#@ dollars!
Wife: Make it three bags…
I planted 2 H’crisp this spring, in a few years you can help me harvest, on shares. Kinnath is going to get us straightened out about apples this week end. He’s the man. In case I’m busy, takes notes for me.
I am so sad we can’t make it to HH. Mr Mojeaux heard “bees” and that was a hard nope, and I don’t want to come without him.
I got bit about 4-5 times yesterday as we were moving the bees, they’re gone now but always a few strays. The yellow jackets will show up and try to steal a little honey as we’re working. I don’t like those at all. The honey bees are not too serious unless one is allergic.
Sadly, he’s allergic. Wasps are worse.
The last time a wasp stung me, it was on my arm and I just smashed that fucker.
Sting me? Die.
Cider made from Honey crisp apples is ambrosia.
I played some Minions on my phone.
Not interesting.
I also made some bacon. ?
I miss bacon. *sigh* But I’ve mostly been missing it for about 12 years now, so.
I have an article that I have started about three times. I will finish it. Eventually.
Consider yourself grounded! You may not go to Minnesota until you finish and submit it.
(Never worked on WebDom either.)
Not going to happen.
Maybe when I get back.
I stared at my wife’s tits.
I feel a banning in the offing. Soon.
Whose tits would you rather have me stare at? I mean, I’m a guy, I’m gonna stare at tits.
You know what we need here at Glibs? An ignore list.
OK, ignore me while I’m staring at your tits.
Uh, pics?
Here?
I guess I’m just in a banning mood today.
Nice tits, but no.
Loading…?
Where are the tits?
You wanted pics of OMWC staring at tits, and that’s the best I could find.
I figured you’d realize it’s from this.
She knows exactly what she’s doing!
Banning > tetanus from rusty can lids
I think you bleed enough from can lid castration to clean out the tetanus, so no worries.
An ignore list. </em
It's like I don't even exist. I give the gift of mute but nobody even bothers to mute Brochetta.
In seriousness, fuck Mozilla. I'm having to schlep around this site like a plebe because they murdered their extension support on mobile.
I know.
I’m nearly always on mobile these days.
I just got the old Firefox back! It remains to be seen whether it’ll stick, but assuming that the Google app store doesnt force the update on me despite turning the auto update feature off, I rolled back to version 68 (APKmirror for the win)
Still, fuck Mozilla for making me do that.
I don’t mute anybody. I’m perfectly capable of ignoring whoever.
I was going to comment on your glorious mute feature that I have never used because why. Thia site is such that even the assholes here are worth reading or at least not that painful. It all still works for me. Firefox on macOS 10.15.05
My son had a come-to-Jesus meeeting with a juvenile officer, so that was fun. /s
Sorry.
Actually it was quite good and helpful. I’m hoping we turn a corner here. ?
Better than being accelerated off the hood of a Highway Patrol Car.
???
Good!
Well, interesting doesn’t always mean fun.
I am currently considering waxing my upper lip.
Neither interesting nor fun.
True.
Underage cops? They’ll give a badge to anyone these days.
(Sorry)
Inorite?!
Shhheeeeittt…hope you get some good changes
No, it’s all good. It won’t be smooth sailing but I feel things are on the upswing.
I’m glad to hear that
It’s a pity that the wide mouth pint canning jars I prefer take up more room in the canner than the slimmer, slightly taller regular pint jars.
These euphemisms.
I received a part I needed for a plumbing repair. Should be simple so I’ll just take about ten minutes away from work to finish the repair. Heh. There went the afternoon. I still need to finish this document.
How many trips to the hardware store?
Only one. A trip to Home Depot.
I went maskless.
No one said anything to me about my lack of a mask.
I got a few odd looks. Though those odd looks could have been because I was a little disheveled. The job was a bit dirty.
Is it at least an interesting document?
It’s a ransom note. Cutting out all those letters is so time consuming.
I wonder if he uses rubber cement or goes with white school paste?
Just do it in Comic Sans, the recipient will know you’re serious.
No. It’s for work.
Also, I am on an orange chicken kick and my local HyVee serves up some scrumpdillyicious stuff.
I went to work. I worked, for at least a little while.
I bought some spiffy red dot sights for some guns.
I made an appointment to have my truck serviced tomorrow.
I cooked a steak with garlic rosemary roasted potatoes.
I drank an Old Fashioned. I may drink another.
I commented on Glibs more than I usually do. Other than that, I just kinda pissed the day away.
“I bought some spiffy red dot sights for some guns.”
I was pondering this for my 22A pistol. I’m leaning towards a Fastfire 3.
Thoughts?
I’m just barely dipping my toe into red dots on pistols. I have really good eyesight for my age, so it’s never been a real priority. But, I decided on a pair of Holosun HS507C-V2 sights for my upcoming red dot pistol class. I like the circle dot reticle for pistols, and Holosun has a good reputation for reliability.
I went with lasers instead of red dots.
I am far-sighted which is exacerbated by being old. I cannot see the sights on my pistols if I am not wearing glasses.
But twenty feet out there, I can see a nice sharp green dot without glasses just fine.
If you’ve never tried a pistol MRDS, you might see if you can borrow one to try out. Not saying they’d necessarily work in your case, but if you can see the dot, you’d probably find it more useful than a laser.
I shoot just fine with iron sights out to 25 yards — when I am wearing glasses.
Without glasses, the nice bright fiber optic front sight is pretty much gone.
Don’t get older, both front and rear grow a beard.
Whatever you end up with, if it’s for a pistol, get the largest dot size possible.
Parts of that were interesting. And sound delicious.
I did to the FFL this morning and pick up the Spring 911 (9mm) that a friendly Glib shipped to me.
So that was a bright spot in the day.
I cannot type today
Leg day.
*falls over*
*checks phone*
11,349 steps today.
17,302.
Nice!
I started alternating weeks of low rep high weight and high reps low weight. So far I’m enjoying breaking up the monotony. I can’t claim any gains yet because I’m only 1 month into the new program.
I’m on the ‘minimal effective dose’ plan.
Higher weight, lower reps, no worries!
I have a friend that keeps his lifting sessions to under 30 minutes. He is in good shape, but he is also 10 years younger than me so..,who is to say.
I’m becoming that way, too.
Except I’m probably 20 years older than you!
But still decades younger than OMWC and Fourscore!
I came to around 5am went and found my van ( it was at the third place I looked) drove home loaded up my tools, masklessly bought a coffee then went to work, installed some tile for a backsplash, checked out the job-site that the security guy had to allegedly chase off some kids from (no damage) and quit early, took a nap, painted some Crokinole boards, tried to start some fights on Glibertarian.com, ate a 16 oz. pork chop, and typed this.
Reminds me I need to get to the butcher
That’s a manly pork chop.
So slept in. Did little and billed 8 hours. Got it.
I have a daily rate plus expenses like Jim Rockford or Johnny Dollar, I don’t understand “billing for 8 Hours”
Daily rate is same as billing for 8 hours same as downtown.
I’m way more expensive than “downtown”
I’ve got to find a stone company to do the countertop for my bar. I want to do a back splash too. The duel zone beverage fridge is installed and fully stocked, so I’ve got that going for me.
Interesting-ish.
Broke the news to my boss that using this plugin that we fought tooth and nail to just get installed on a test site will require additional development to get it to work with the custom WordPress theme we’re using.
Got a good 25 minutes of sun.
Got the trash to the dumpster because I missed curb side pickup.
A week from today I will be having a cocktail somewhere in Rapid City.
Fuck yeah!
I’ve been looking at houses there. You should too!
Already been on Zillow…thems DC prices! I mean, houses in the actual Black Hills, not in the flat parts. Like Rochford or thereabouts.
Lead.
Lots of land for sale around there. I would consider building
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/22790-S-Rochford-Rd-Hill-City-SD-57745/246207028_zpid/
Cute little house (on the inside), 5 acres
I’d visit.
Just sayin’.
Second home? That road looks one of the not maintained in certain seasons kind of roads.
720 square feet. No, just no.
Shortly after my trip to SD I shall have some content for you.
Woohoo!
How did your boss take it?
One of TPTB asked me if we could do a custom thing for the site, and I just simply said no. It was easy!
He didn’t immediately call me, so I guess he’s not too panicked. I keep thinking about Moj talking about “good, fast, cheap” for some reason.
I inherited this clunky POS…who knows why people do these things? I don’t think WP is right for gubmint use. It’s meant to be flexible and the way we operate is…not.
“Good, fast, cheap—pick any two.”
I used to have a good fast cheap sign over my desk when I worked for someone else. I still tell assorted clients that.
I would agree about WP. It’s barely the right platform for Glibs.
I’m honestly surprised WP can handle us but what’s out there that’s better? Not a rhetorical question. I really don’t know.
I absolutely love WP, but it does not work for the processes at my agency. State Dept does a much better job with it.
Drupal is what we use for our main website. It works for govt use, I guess.
Yeah, Drupal is good.
But for here, really a php forum would be better in many respects. I’ve thought about plugging one in, but there has been some… resistance.
I’m currently playing around with splitting the database. See? What an interesting life!
phpBB 4 lyfe!
I like the forum style better, but I might be a minority opinion here.
Well, I was going to say phpBB but didn’t want my ears boxed.
I run a BB with phpBB.
I used to be the admin of a huge, sprawling BB, and it’s much easier in many ways. But I don’t own Glibs, so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJKY59NX8o
Somebody told leadership that COTS is the way to go. (Like 20 years ago)
They then ignore what that means.
I means making your processes fit the tool, which can save you gobs of money if your processes can flex to fit an existing product.
In practice, though, the government can’t flex and then wants to spend money to ‘fix’ the tool and make it do something it won’t or can’t.
A billion dollars later, PeopleSoft is still a piece of crap and we’re using DBs built in the Eighties.
As long as it’s not WordFence.
“Look, until You People start providing content again”
Sheesh, I’m working on it. This one requires a LOT more research than the previous one.
Check out the Professor over here researching shit. Wing it!
Right? Be like me! Just ramble on a bit and we’ll put it up.
Research is for the weak, I always say.
I broke out the pumpkin spice and mulled cider candles. Smells fabulous in here. Won’t be making breakfast pumpkin pies for a while, though. Mother Nature has to commit to being cool to cold.
YAY!! I have some cedar & apple ready to go when it’s just right.
Yankee Candle use to make one called “Fireside”. I wish they still had it. Smokey & piney & a bit of sandalwood.
So there’s a brand of wax cubes at Walmart called something fir so it smells like pine. I LOVE that but it’s never in stock from about now until January. Now that XX works at Walmart, I have her snag asmany as she can, so I’m all set for post Tday holiday-appropriate fragrance.
My wife has a blue berry waffle candle she is in love with.
Put off my whole morning at work waiting for AF1 to leave Vegas airspace. Wasn’t too bad, but meant I sat around for 3 hours in the morning.
Discovered that bored controllers will try as many commands on the automation systems as they can at 2am when they have no traffic to handle.
So nothing interesting really.
Go on…
Few years back we had a controller create a 60nm ring out of concentric circles then use a supervisor command to send it to another controller. The result was an overlay that nearly blanked the other controller’s screen to the point he couldn’t see his targets.
….needless to say even the union didn’t protect him from that stunt.
Yikessssss
My halftime report is that I can’t remember what I did today, so I’m pretty sure it wasn’t interesting.
Also, offensive pass interference is gay. Not gay two like guys having sex, but more gay than Top Gun if it were a musical.
So, gayer than two guys having sex, right?
Exactly.
Drove around, inhaled enough smoke to take a couple weeks off the lifespan, sent some emails, and came home early to restore a tripped breaker for the wife.
Yeah, the wife and I both feel like we have a two-pack a day habit right now.
It’s not too bad at home right now. Actually see blueish sky straight up for the first time in a week. Weekend was just awful. I taped extra air filters to a portable fan to scrub the air inside as much as possible because the regular air purifier wasn’t able to keep up.
We have friends near Sisters and are planning to see them in October?
Will we?
Don’t see why you wouldn’t at this point. No nearby fires to there. Well, no nearby as in a threat to the town. Closest ones are burning north and to the west a ways away.
Major fires maps
https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/information/firemap.aspx
Using closeish fire to pin the map, which has a better mapping of fire extent.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7049/
Thanks! Are you on the east side, too?
Nope. East side, but of the coast range not Cascades. Where it’s green and lush(*).
*except for summers
Yeah, I have the AC going on fan mode just to keep air circulating through the filters. Which will get replaced as soon as this whole shebang is done.
What area are you in? We are in Linn/Benton, wife works for big orange.
Your wife works for Trump?
She works for the one and only, true OSU.
QFT.
(Unless there’s a switch to revert it to OAC)
South of you. We’re on the valley side of west Lane.
Big Orange made me chuckle. Years ago, there used to be a restaurant called Big O downtown. Across from Safeway, when that was the only one in town.
I watched paranormal activity for the first time last night and the power went out right at the end of the movie. I had to finish watching this morning and it kind of killed the creepy vibe.
You know, for a bunch of basically interesting people, you/we sure all lead exceptionally boring lives.
At least today.
Drama bad. Boring good.
Oh, drama is terrible, but interesting doesn’t mean the same thing as dramatic.
My Etsy shop looks to have been a wise investment of time. Also, people are buying my cross stitch patterns, so I am having a smidge of passive income.
I’m working on a cross stitch of Patrick Mahomes for Mr Mojeaux.
I got an ebook formatting request from someone in Arabic. I had to turn it down because though I format books in other languages (even Chinese!), I don’t do them in right-to-left languages.
I think all that’s interesting, but other people don’t.
I think it’s interesting.
yletulosba
Well, it was Monday…
Mondays
Now doing Ted’S’s job?
Mondays.
Monday Morning
Monday x2
It’s Monday. Cash me on the weekend!
I drove at triple digit speeds, ate supremely hot food, and fondled much firearms today. That’s boring?
* mind blown *
Did you say all that up above?
Boring is under-rated.
Notice I didn’t even try?
Hey, I did interesting stuff today! Two forensic reports, wrote a presentation on the basics of the chemistry we do at work, a quality meeting, and reviewed expense reports.
I mean, seriously, how can my heart take this never-ending excitement?
Slow down, that’s what tomorrows are for.
Some of us led exciting lives in a previous one. Sometimes boring as fuck rocks. You know. The boring nights as a paramedic were the best nights. I am sure you would get the same answer from some of the vets around here. Boring and paying the bills is good enough when you reach a certain age.
I guess I should mention my boring current life is just fine with me.
Exactly!
Not that I fall into your category. I am just at the easiest, yet often shittiest, job I have ever had and I hate it. There are other factors at play but the non exciting factor does have it’s moments when put in perspective. I will take shitty “flushable wipes” over drowned people, IED’s and jungle bush living any day.
I stroked my actuators (yes, I have more than one, 8 actually, thanks for asking, Yes two of them are 60 inches of stroke, and yes THAT one is called Big Girtha, it will push or pull with 33,000 lbs of force) and then pinned them to my whiffle trees. I just need to calibrate my stringpots tomorrow morning and I am ready for a wing static test.
Also tomorrow, I will be dropping a nose landing gear. I just need to adjust the carriage weight and set up the high speed camera for it to be ready.
Two major tests in one day! Not my record, but not shabby either.
I cannot wait until the Eye of Sauron shifts to some other poor sap who is behind schedule.
Interesting!
Go on…
Well, you see, every time I disconnect or reconnect the hydraulic hoses from my actuators, a little bit of air gets in the line. To get the air out, the actuator must be stroked from fully retracted to fully extended (full stroke) at least three times (more if I’m feeling frisky). Air is compressible, whereas hydraulic fluid is not (OK, Ok it is only slightly compressible). This drives that air bubble through the hoses to the pump which can vent it properly.
I like to hum this Billy Squire tune while doing the deed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFwvY9A1zAs
The Nose Landing Gear test is just pure violence. Raise the thing to a certain height, spin the nose wheel using “The Spinning Wheel of Death” to a certain RPM, then free fall drop it, and record the carnage on the high speed Data Acquisition and the High Speed Video.
The Nose Landing Gear test is just pure violence.
A couple I know met at LM in Fort Worth in the gear department. They told great tales of such test. Two engineers made it 25ish years **gross**
Fuck, yeah.
Will we still see you Sunday?
Yes, come hell or high water!
I need peppers and rasperries
Need any rhubarb plants? I need to break up some if anyone wants some roots.
Whiffle tree? Now you are making shit up.
No that is what it is called.
Imagine the thing that harnesses a team of two horse to a heavy log. That is a whiffle tree. Only we do it in reverse and we change the lever arms to achieve a certain load on one side and a certain load on the other.
SP, I gave away at least 20 gallons of ripe Romas. Over 20 of cukes.Mrs F made tomato sauce ’til the freezer was full and warned me about bringing anymore in the house. 60 quarts of pickles. Garden is over, now it is busy time making the garage presentable for the Honey Harvest on Sunday. Trying to be Aunt Polly so I don’t end up on some Glib list. Someone will show up with white gloves…
I hope you left some peppers for us.
I do have a goodly amount, the lady of the house (who is no slouch when it comes to scovilles) said the jalapenos were too warm for her and gave up her mother lode, plus some skinny ones that she only picked out a few, so yeah, lots to share.
You’re killing me.
I would normally do between 3 and 6 bushels of tomatoes every year, but not really something that’s easy and economical to do out here.
nothing to do at work whatsoever: didn’t size, design, or sell anything, so I updated a procedure and left early
whereupon a condenser pump ended up in my inbox, so I have a Tuesday
I’m scoring baseball, four days behind and struggling to keep from over-running my cloud lease with the cable swindlers
first specs, trifocals, showed up in the mail; optometrist is an old friend, and he done me good
“nothing to do at work whatsoever…”
LUXURY! I have more work than I can reasonably handle.
My schedule is packed out summer 2023.
trifocals
has a slide-rule and not afraid to use it
I just watched Gun Jesus looking over a Lee-Metford Mk I.
Last week I caught his range review of the three main Thompson SMG’s – M1921, M1928, and M1A1. Something few people ever get the chance to do. I found it interesting that he conceded the M1921 to be the best regardless of its higher rate of fire – which he admits he didn’t expect.
Put up a 4′ LED shop light up in my wife’s sewing area. For thanks I got a sigh and a “Finally.”
In her defense the light has been in its box leaning against the wall for about six months.
You’re a good hubby.
You’re golden for 6 more months now.
Starting six months ago.
Trashy, you mourn our lack of appreciation of the mute button, but I for one am eternally grateful for the gift of the permalink.
You’re welcome ?
I’m just kidding about the mute thing. I built it mainly to show myself that I could, and fully expected that the use would be sporadic, if any.
I admit to using it on occasion. When somebody is repeatedly being a dick or won’t shut the hell up about that annoying thing, I’ll mute them for a few days so that I don’t post anything anti-social.
Probably better than my method which is to go away for a few days when I find myself being snippy. Lately I have been doing that a lot and I am not sure what percentage is attributable to my mood (which has been getting fouler and fouler as this nightmare of a year drags on) and what is attributable to other people posting annoying things. Probably mostly on my side. Going on a diet and exercise regime when already furious at current events was necessary but has not reduced my stress level. 🙂
Interesting.
I found that doing a physical challenge chilled me the hell out.
That and giving up TV…
The workouts probably have helped, being hungry and not getting to snack, and not eating what I want has not helped, and knowing that I ‘have to” do the workouts does not help.
Yep. I get that.
Setting an objective that is both challenging and outside of this clusterfuck is important.
minnetundra AT geemail if I can help.
Or just fucking mute me 😉
I appreciate it. I think the biggest irritation is that I am discovering that after 50 the wieght comes off slower, the workout gains are throttled back, and the various aches and strains are more frequent and worse.
Dude.
I’m a 53 year old sort-of hockey player. The creaks when I get out of bed sound like a fleet of ships at anchor!
Pathetic.
Attitude and acceptance are so fucking important. I know I’ll never be as fast or as big as I was.
So what? My goal is to crush those fuckers 10 years my junior. And be able to keep up with my kids.
Simple goals are the best goals.
Oh I know, it’s just a math question for me though, because I have a lot left to lose. I have lost just under 50 lbs so far, but my weekly loss has declined to about a pound and a half which is fine, except I have 94 more lobs to lose and my motivation to take it a day at a time is waning. Don’t mind me, I am just grumbly. It is my own fault for letting myslef go so badly.
Good for you! That’s 1/3 of your goal already hit out of the park.
Walked a mile and half, read about 1/2 of “The Killer Angels,” checked out a new interactive map for the 1777 Battle of Brandywine, listened to the local sports talkers start up another Eagles quarterback controversy, watched the Phillies season go further down the toilet, and killed several hundred lantern flies.
Recently found out my 6th Great Grandfather was KIA at Brandywine, he was in the Pennsylvania militia.
Interesting!
Must have been really unfortunate as Penna. Militia was largely held out of the battle and were among the first to retreat.
Partly interesting.
Did a bunch of key changes for apartments that have been vacated due to the shutdowns, replaced an electric strike on an entry gate, and could not for the life of me pick my way into the apartment of a locked out woman (sometimes I’m James Bond and sometimes not) so I had to drill out the cylinder. That took 45 seconds but isn’t as impressive. Came home to find out our freezer is not working (but the fridge is). Now at the playground round the corner that finally opened up a couple weeks back watching the kids play before dinner.
orange sky ?
First day of fairly normal non smoky skies in a couple weeks here. Thank god.
My Monday was daddy’s day off. I get out and do my usual project maintenance stuff – answer e-mail, crawl through the government bidding system to write up a status report on the outstanding bids we are working on, investigate a couple opportunities (dead ends this time) a team member asked about…
Then I got to spend some time on my shotgun design and made a little progress. Two more features decided.
Mechanical design is fun for me in that you know you have the most optimal design when a feature you spent a lot of time coming up with seems to be obvious in retrospect. It sure as Hell isn’t obvious at the beginning but it looks that way when it is done. The key and underlying design objective in this shotgun is to come up with a design which is as easy to manufacture as possible for the system I have envisioned; a high-capacity, ultimately compact, semi-auto shotgun. Minimal complex shapes (other than the polycarb stock/housing), minimal number of parts, as much complexity squeezed out as possible. I want to be able to present this to a company for manufacturing and have as few change requests as possible. We’ll see.
After that I spent the evening at an Irish pub with you guys on my laptop.
Interesting.
“high-capacity, ultimately compact, semi-auto shotgun”
*places order*
Imagine an FN P-90 – but a completely different and unique magazine – enlarged to 12 gauge. My biggest concern is whether the BATFE will declare it a Destructive Device.
Please, not that ugly.
I’m all in favor of the bullpup concept, but they sure seem to turn out . . . homely.
I’m not actually all that endeared of the bullpup layout. It’s just that when you are hanging 20 to 30 rounds of 12 gauge on a shotgun you don’t want to have that hanging off the front of the gun. The P-90 layout (not actually a standard bullpup) puts the magazine on top and well balanced.
I would like to donate all my money to your kickstarter page.
We brought Current Porch Cat into the garage this evening in preparation for his vet appointment bright and early tomorrow morning – thorough check-up, shots, and neutering. He’s happily curled up in a towel-lined box. By this time tomorrow, he’ll be in the house, promoted to Official Cat status.
Now that I know the protocol…
CONGRATS!
Thank you! So far, Current Cat seems as if he may take this development in stride. ::crosses fingers::
I’ve done that: Starting Dog and Second String
Second String is good to have around with you come back from a camping trip and Starting Dog has stroked out, limps out to greet you, wildly circles to one side three times, and crashes in the tulips.
In our case, I’m hoping that New Cat will latch onto Tom T as New Cat’s Special Human, because Current Cat has thoroughly glommed onto me.
Ummm….did Starting Dog ever make it out of the tulips?
Niña made it into a quiet spot under the fig next to her old tabby buddy Paco.
I try to live in the present, but I miss the pets gone by.
All sympathy. We lost our first cat last summer (’19) – sudden cardiac arrest, possibly due to a lifelong hear murmur. It wasn’t until this past January that Tom T was ready for another.
I slept the whole day catching up on the sleep I missed on my days off. My mom brought the RV while I was asleep so I can get it ready this week for next weekend. Now I’m getting ready to head out the door and go to work.
Things that made today a good today:
– I watched that video of the moron getting dumped off the CHP car in Sacramento several times. lolol
– I bought some flatware off ebay, and the seller unprompted refunded me some of the shipping charge since it can all go together.
– I found an itty-bitty baby tomato on my tomato plant , now that it’s not being fried by 100 degree temps anymore it looks like it might at least try to fruit after all.
I still owe an article about our trip to Colorado Springs. My excuse is that Mrs N and I are in California on another trip – the San Luis Obispo area. I’ll plan to write an article about this trip as well.
What did we do today? Well, today wasn’t about wine*. We visited Tin City Cider to taste some hard ciders. Then we went to Firestone Walker Brewing to try some beers. Then we went to downtown Paso Robles.
*Actually, we did open a bottle of zinfandel for dinner back at our Airbnb.
Sounds great!
I really like their Union Jack IPA.
Which Zin?
If you are still in the area visit the Paso Port company just outside of town. They have some really good ports, including one vinted for being consumed with a cigar.
Hey, I grew up in that town! The old man was a prof at the uni.
SLO or Paso?
SLO. It was pretty idyllic as a kid, but you hit your teens and it sucks.
What’s this kneeling in a circle thing?
It’s a game called cum on a cookie. It’s a hazing/repressed homoerotic thing jocks do.
I don’t see anything “repressed” about it.
Fair point. But the hockey players who lived across the hall from my my freshman year at Miami wanted to beat the hell out of me when I called it gay.
Dark Star
That was supposed to be an answer to Tundra.
And my favorite beer at Firestone was the Nitro Merlin milk stout. Very smooth with a nice coffee flavor.
Dark Star
Nice.
I thought that was going to be a link to the John Carpenter movie. I asked them the origin of the name and it didn’t have to do with any pop culture reference. Something about focusing on quality red wines (red = dark, award-winning = stars). They do make a good zin.
I learned how to disassemble my robo-vacuum. Cripple-cat (the one that got hit by a car just about a year ago) occasionally doesn’t use the litter box, and this time it happened before the robo-vac did its automatic daily cleaning. If I’m ever put in charge of Hell, cleaning cat poop out of a robo-vac will be a task reserved for only the most vile of people.
No more automatic cleaning routine for the robo-vac now. I’ll turn it on after I get home and check to make sure there’s nothing fecal for it to run over.
mowers work the same way? but you just hose them out?
You deserve something alcoholic tonight.
I have 3 articles in progress, but one is waiting on natural processes. the other two I haven’t finished because I’m lazy.
Last weekend had perfect conditions for an inter-island sail but the state lock down prohibited us from leaving Oahu. So we went for a sail yesterday and decided to through out the hook to swim and sup adult beverages by a sandbar offshore. When I tossed the anchor I disturbed a stingray and it swam off. That meant shuffling our feet in the sand to scare off any compatriots. When we were thigh deep on the sandbar a huge puffer fish was curious and was swimming around us until we chased it off. Then I got a heart workout. I was slowly swimming back to the boat when a big old sea turtle came up from under the boat and popped up less than two feet in front of me. After my heart slowed it was fun.
That second or two when a dark shape suddenly comes from under the boat right at you is an experience. Turtle is asshoe.
Dolphins can be scary until they surface and blow. Hard to tell a dolphins from a bull shark when all you see is a giant grey shape shooting by you.
That meant shuffling our feet in the sand to scare off any compatriots.
I have a scar on my foot as a reminder of when I didn’t properly shuffle my feet.
The most wildlife related white knuckle moment was a few years ago sailing back to Oahu from Molokai. I had the helm and noticed some gray whales a way off slightly to starboard. I held course and pointed them out to my friends and kept steering. About a minute late two whales jumped to both sides of the boat close enough to soak us. I just held the tiller and steered amongst the waves. A minute or so later they were well astern and moving along their way.
I guess they were bored and just wanted to say “hi” to us.
Correction: most white knuckle wildlife moment while sailing.
We had some friends who were in the middle of the Pacific on their way to the Marqeuses (?| when a whale decided to use their keel as a back scratcher. A bad few minutes.
Well, THAT qualifies as interesting.
Question: Who would rather have for your mayor?
Deblasio, Wheeler or Frey?
*choose from the menu, please
Wheeler. At least I’ll be able to burn his building and get away with it.
Frey. He’s gonna get lynched by his own constituents.
The fact that our asshole is in the same poll as Portland and NY pisses me off.
Fuck.
Sorry. Not trading you for our mayor.
Wheeler and not even close. He’s a standard wish washy Peter principle politician. Deblasio is a commie and Frey is young and hungry so will continue to look for some way to make his mark.
I hobbled around a half closed shopping mall after my toddler half wearing a stupid fucking mask frustrated that a bunch of storms were closed presumably because of smoke.
Seriously I hate Jay Inslee.
Americans have become too weak to fix meddeling tyrants.
Work is done. I’ll be making a veal marsala tonight, parmesan asparagus and paired with a French Boudreaux. Whole Paycheck chocolate raspberry cake and port for dessert.
But for now it is a rum drink and some JB A1A and try to watch some NFL with the sound off.
Which wine?
Today? Apparently I jumpstarted the dreaded second wave. Although I am just over 40 so I don’t know that Angry Dad Doug considers me at fault.
Did you get a positive test? Of the people I know who have had one, one was a false positive, and the others were over it within days with minimal issues. I hope for a similarly positive outcome for you.
Had it, didn’t die. The joint pain was a killer for me and the shortness of breath is still there seven months later.
Let me add my hopes that it is either a false positive or that it passes quickly without discomfort. Godspeed.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
University Of Edinburgh Renames David Hume Tower After George Floyd
What the fucking fuck?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-edinburgh-renames-david-hume-tower-after-george-floyd
Sure why not. Not just anybody can get high and try to pass counterfeit bills and get killed by cops. Being a major player in the enlightenment? Who hasn’t done that?
What system of values makes a career criminal thug a hero because he got killed by a cop? What axioms is it based on?
Seems racist how they whitewash his history.
It seems pretty racist to make an armed home invader the face of a supposedly pro black movement.
Wow, check out the white supremacist here.
“Seems” racist the way the moon “seems” to be too big to put in my pocket.
Understatement is tremendously underrated.
It’s mass hysteria.
I’m eating lunch at a park next to a mental hospital. A lot of solo conversations going on.
They should give them cell phones (functional or not) so nobody would notice.
In the past 48 hours I have: canceled my 22 year old netflix subscription – partly over Cuties because I’m grossed out – but also because my ten year old daughter figured out the parental controls passcode on her ipad, proceeded to override it, registered several gmail accounts, and also sent some highly inappropriate cartoon images to some of her friends (silver lining, I didn’t find any hidden albums or naked pictures of her, at least). She’s on digital lockdown for at least the next few months while I figure out how I have failed as a parent, and deprogram her.
Ten year old girl? Wow. My 11 year old wouldn’t do that in a million years. She does find the word “fuck” awfully fun to use, though.
Yeah the 14 year old figured it out too, but as far as we’ve been able to tell so far, he hasn’t done more than try to stay up all night watching youtube. My youngest is a menace.
It’s tough,eh? You’ve got two so it’s harder. I spend so much time with my kid that I know what she’s doing all the time. I’m probably turning her into a freak.
Yeah, poor girl is stuck with high surveillance mode now. Before, we took a more trusting attitude, but now dad is supervising all of her computer use quite closely. It’s going to be fun times all around.
Jesus, is Netflix that old?
Yeah, I kinda marveled that I’d been paying for that long, too. Time flies.
The good ol’ DVD through the mail days. I was so bad at sending them back.
We just cancelled Netflix, too. Cuties pushed my wife over the edge, but it was on the chopping block before that from lack of use. It was the 4th most used streaming service.
Yeah, I’ve been watching Amazon Prime stuff and just started HULU. Might keep it and tell Netflix to get bent.
We realized it’d been months since we’d found something we felt like watching on Netflix (last thing was Glow) and I was a little embarrassed to find out I’d also been paying for a disc plan that we hadn’t used in easily a decade. I didn’t give them some big speech or even say why; I just went ahead and canceled and moved on.
I was a bit drunk when I canceled, so I wrote “Our values are not aligned, you filthy commies”
Nice. I would have, but I was drunk enough it probably would have come out as “All y’all pedos can fuck off.”
Glow was great.
Netflix has been around for 22 years?
I double-checked. I was a member from 1998, they started in 97. Time flies, man.
Wow.
“registered several gmail accounts”
Impressive.
Alright, SP. I’m torn.
I was going to post some fiction, but it’s something that is part of a much larger work that I really don’t want to post serially.
1 – I’m trying to do the “traditional” publishing route for this work before I go the route of self-publishing again;
2 – It ain’t finished by a long-shot
I wouldn’t mind posting a scene or two, but I would hate to leave the audience hanging. But eff it. I’ll put it in the queue shortly.
I went for my first run in some time this morning, now that temps are below searing. Did Day 4 of my GlibFit commitment. Got a really good haircut (I like it; most times the barbers don’t quite get it right. This guy did.)
Spent a little time working with a new client, working on some stuff for a current one, and trying to get more new ones.
Are you the Ozymandias I followed on Twitter yesterday?
Did you look on his tweets and despair?
Despair is a mindset I don’t indulge.
Not mighty enough?
You guys and your inside jokes are othering me.
Come inside
I love my despair.
Nah, he passed into the West and remained Ozymandias.
Not I, straffin-san. My twitter handle is “the abject lesson” but I twit almost not at all. Just have it so I can watch the shitshow.
Nothing wrong with a bit of a tease. I like reading samples on amazon before I buy the full book, too. Looking forward to reading it.
Scheduled! Thank you!
(We miss you and your lovely Mrs.)
Today I made pork vindaloo for dinner. Are a pear and a Fuji Apple from the yard.
Oh, yeah. Then I went to work. The govt just dropped a bunch of proposal opportunities, so my right hand man and I have to write 4 proposal technical volumes and ROM costs this week.
It’ll be greaaaaat.
Now watching pointless football.
“pork vindaloo”
That sounds like something you wouldn’t find in India.
Depends, India is a big place. Pork vindaloo specifically is very popular in Goa.
Huh, but probably not among all the Israelis on vacation.
My impression of Indian food was that they didn’t do pork because muslim, and didn’t do beef because hindu.
Well with Goa it’s due to the large Portuguese influence there. Hindus largely don’t eat pork much, since it has to be raised in specific ways to make it, well not kosher, but the hindi equivalent to kosher that I can’t remember the proper term for at the moment. Basically animals fed on garbage and scraps like most pigs are are verboten, but pigs raised without that and wild boar are perfectly fine. However, since wild boar are a challenge to hunt without modern firearms, pork was relegated mostly to to the highest classes as a rare delicacy, so you’ll be unlikely to find it on a menu outside of places like Goa that have a large European influence. It is becoming more popular though, so that may change in the coming years.
*reviews day*
Nope. Not interesting.
Physics question: How many minutes was Mayor Lightfoot in space without her helmet on?
Long enough.
Legit lol. I’m going to wake up laughing tomorrow morning because of this.
Wait—that’s not a helmet??
Today I read stuff and wrote replies to stuff.
Apparently my snark over the idea of man’s impact on the “geosphere” was appreciated- or at least tolerated.
However I like my suggestion that the only way our pitiful species will impact the geology of the planet is by supergluing the San Andreas rift zone shut.
I was going to suggest that we NOT do that, but you live in Hawaii, right? and I can understand your reluctance to take a hit from 1000 foot waves just so the rest of us can be Californialess.
Imagine how big Kilauea and the volcano still under the ocean to the south of the Big Island will get. The weight of Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Kilauea is enough that the Big Island sits in depression. I don’t think it’ll get to Olympus Mons big, but the volcanoes will get seriously big over time. Plus think of the earthquake when the Pacific Plate finally ruptures the glue interface with the North American Plate.
Dare we dream of a magnitude 20 event? The aftershocks would be more powerful than any documented earthquake and would go on for years. Think of the impacts of California west of the rift zone moving north by 100’s of feet in a few minutes. The tsunami’s released would scour the Indian and Pacific Ocean Basins for 10’s to100’s of miles inland and would kill people and destroy things on the east coast of North America after almost circling the globe.
And yet, and yet. By “geosphere” standards it would be nary a minor sniffle much less a sneeze.
Humans disrupt the geosphere, puuuhleez.
Thanks for that. My first real laugh of the day. 🙂
I’ve got Cascadia subduction zone for Christmas.
New meaning for “Free Cascadia”?
See? That not despair. It’s facing reality and smiling at it.
I took a nap
That’s pretty solid, right there, ‘Cisco.
How can one go wrong with that kind of power move?
^^^^ Not snark, btw. Naps are awesome.
My dog took one with me
Awwww
One of the dudes in the park is evaluating the aroma of whatever it is that he fished out of his pants.
Thread killer. Sorry. *Smells own finger, goes back to office*
As long as you weren’t smelling his.
Stop judging the salaryman.
I laughed.
That sounds a bit like my day. I was evaluating a case that involves a woman with an unusual form of demetia. She hoarded her feces.
That’s a load of shit!
Okay, Part 1 is in the queue. Part 2 is in draft, but ready to go.
I’ll wait until tomorrow and then submit the second one.
Thanks, Ozy!
When English is really your second language
I guess they don’t need more donations from alumni.
“The entire idea of the #whitehousesiege is to save democracy and avert a civil war if @realDonaldTrump
throws a #maga dog whistle tantrum. It is a call for peaceful protest and an open invitation to anyone who supports free and fair elections”
https://twitter.com/Adbusters/status/1302356163929858048
These are the people who started Occupy Wall Street.
It’s not so much what I did(nothing of note) but what I want to do. I feel…restrained. I hate that. For whatever reason, this tune is resonating with me right now:
https://youtu.be/uc_6nRP-jC0
Sloppy, drunken southernish/punkish rock(really can’t pigeonhole this band) has me wanting to howl at the moon, grab a pretty lass and make out with her on a bar’s pool table, get kicked out, then spend the rest of the evening raising hell just a step ahead of the cops…goddammit, I need a worthwhile visceral experience with another human being, it’s been too long.
And before I sign off, my favorite “dark bluegrass” tune so far this century:
https://youtu.be/S-znw35eCkg
I’ve submitted this before but It’s been a year or so since the last one so, tough titty. 😉
And now I want to do the ‘fish out of water hop’ in a crowded floor venue:
https://youtu.be/9qgFGqJz9yc
Heh…I’m a little drunk.
And now I’m reminiscing about my time as a rave kid twenty years ago when I spent most weekends CandyFlipping(high on acid and molly at the same time) while at, well, raves:
https://youtu.be/BwoaCKfqcxQ
A veritable child, you are.
I can live with your assessment as long as you find it mildly endearing. 😉
Speaking of old pre raver music, have some Filter and the Crystal Method:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuzQLpJWt4A
An hour and a half later and I’m still not sure if I should feel insulted…probably so.
No. It was a crack at how old *I* am by comparison.
It is 7 39. I did not do much today. Took my morning walk made coffee started a simulation.
By 0730 here, OMWC would have been up for at least 4 hours and at work for at least 2.
(And good morning, Pie!)
Got me a flu shot today!
And yes, when a covid vaccine becomes available, I’ll happily be first in line. Voluntarily, no need for it to be mandatory for me to get it.
/guy who’s immunocompromised due to cancer chemotherapy, and who is normally a front line ER doc. That should mean I would qualify to be an early recipient. Damn, I want to be able to get out there more again. You can all debate about a vaccine, and I support your right to your own opinion; I just know I want it.
In your position, I would also be lining up.
Still on the fence about a flu shot this year. Partially because I don’t want to deal with the BS at the places one must go to get one.
I got mine at, of all places, Rite Aid. Our hospital doesn’t even have a supply yet.
But they had plenty at the drug store. The pharmacist offered while I was picking up some prescriptions, and he injected me less than ten minutes later, and I left right after that. Pretty quick and BS free, I must say. YMMV.
Got mine at the pharmacy in a Safeway. And I don’t know if the pharmacist did it wrong or this year’s version is just like that, but my arm hurt like a mother the next day. Usually I don’t react much at all to the shot.
“immunocompromised due to cancer chemotherapy, and who is normally a front line ER doc“
What’s your hobby, BASE jumping?
Seriously, though, respect. That’s real commitment.
Meh, not so death-defying these days. They’ve got me reassigned to doing tele consults until the virus of the century blows over, “for my own good”.
So I’m mostly working from home, seeing patients while wearing a nice shirt and white coat, but gym shorts below the camera, which is what I assume a lot of people are currently doing some version of in their various careers.
I did talk them into letting me do some shifts in July, though, when we were short-staffed. Really made me feel useful again.
Oh, and thanks for the kind words, almost forgot, sorry!
Right on Doc, I’m glad you’re doing as well as you can in the shitshow that this year has become. Hope you will get to make it to your safari in Africa next year that you had missed.
Pimpin’ aint easy.
Now who wants to come aboard the…HHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
This? https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.mem8/video/6851973366828567814?source=h5_m
https://officialpsds.com/imageview/rk/4l/rk4l0l_large.png?1521316465
1. Someone on the Biden campaign has decided that masks are popular. All of his ads try and cram as many masked pictures of him in it as possible. I’m in the Trump camp that it makes him look like an emasculated cuck.
2. I caved and watched the Steelers tonight. Some habits are hard to break. I still won’t watch any of the rest of the league, but until Roehtlisberger retires I’m like a crack addict when it comes to the Steelers.
Also, the protests aside, I turned on the rest of the league with all the player safety bullshit. They fundamentally changed the game for the worse. It’s an over-officiated piece of shit product at this point. Has been for years. The woke bullshit is just the icing on the cake that makes providing them attention insufferable.
Whenever I see Roethlisberger’s face inside his helmet I think it’s Will Ferrell. Ben looks just like him when the rest of his head is covered up. I can’t stop thinking that’s who’s the QB after that.
The only game that I half watched the Niners got called for two roughing the passer calls on the QB that were so measly it was a joke. That helped move the entire game’s momentum. You’re right, it is a far sub par product, even without the woke bullshit.
I think you meant crack whore.
I never do the whoring. Never I employ the whores.
‘I’m like a crack addict ‘
No, just no.
Unless you’re willing to sell off all your earthly possessions, fuck over your friends and family, and commit property crimes for the Steelers, you don’t need them like a crack addict needs crack…I’ve seen it up close and personal, shady stuff.
Maybe your addiction is more akin to the dude who randomly feels the urge to have a smoke after drinking.
God, why am I so confrontational right now?…
Simmer down, TH…
TH are you having a tough night?
Honestly, I’m angry right now. Not at the gentle teasing from SP/TPTB, that’s expected. I’m well aware that they don’t respect my intelligence, nor should they. I’m a stupid, burned out fuck.
However, I do still hold a smidgen of principles. So,… to indulge in a tangent…Fuck Trump and his supporters here. I’m so goddamn sick of seeing the endless apologizing for his authoritarian behavior over the last few months from the commentariat here that it makes me want to puke. Yes, he’s less authoritarian than Biden and his handlers, so the fuck what?
You can for argue the lesser of two weevils all you want but if you hold even the slightest amount of intellectual honesty parsed from the past you damn well know that any executive orders issued by him will be weaponized by a future (D) president to punish those who stray from the orthodoxy of the powers that be. But here we stand, many here making excuses for his overreach just to “Own the Libs” in the short term.
News flash: If stopping the progressive left means forgoing constitutional principles via executive orders then the left has already won.
The republic is fucking dead.
Not arguing that your sentiment is wrong.
That being said, if you think we are going to get anything better than the lesser evil, you haven’t been paying attention to most of the US. Somewhere along the way, virtually everyone bought into the idea of having Big Mom and Big Dad Gubmint take care of us…or, others, or, things in general. I don’t know of anyone here who is comfortable with what comes after him–either this year, or, in 2024. Just staving them off, though, brings a measure of comfort, in spirit.
This is hurting my wrist, so…well, I don’t know. But I don’t know of anyone here who is over the moon about DJT.
The republic is fucking dead.
Yes it probably is. Now what?
My wrist says “Damn your conciseness!”
Trump may be the most libertarian president since Calvin Coolidge.
(Not a very high bar at all)
Avatar checks out.
What does it take to keep someone dangerous jailed in Portland?
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1305484463422414848
Having wrongthink?
It seems so.
Firebugs gonna firebug…I blame the judges.
This is beyond retarded
https://twitter.com/ryanjhaas/status/1305655322925649921?s=21
This idiot (who works for the local NPR/PBS affiliate) isn’t smacking his head because it’s downright stupid, but because he actually agrees it’s a possibility.
Because this is what wildland firefighters show up in.
Doesn’t look much like a looter vehicle, even with out of state plates.
Only the government professionals are
smart enoughhighly trained enoughmagically endowed with the ability to spot looters–not icky “civilians”.More fun with idiot journalists
https://youtu.be/yvO11Noo0Kk
“Not something you ever see on American streets!”
…except for the other forest fires, floods, or other disasters. You’d have to be born yesterday or living in a bubble not to have seen it. This happens just about every year.
Love the backslapping by the state NG spokescritter. ‘We got several crews certified in advance and it only took us five days to start deploying them.’ Cmon. That’s not much better than training from scratch.
https://m.soundcloud.com/furiosnails/lazy-rays
Music to start your day (or afternoon/evening).
Stick around for “Ten” too.
I did. Good stuff! Thanks!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gw6M8mmbhgI
??
Cool! You’ve linked to her stuff before, haven’t you?
Yes.
https://www.westernmassnews.com/bear-wakes-up-greenfield-man-sleeping-by-pool/video_95de5475-50a8-5b76-baef-6aed9d88d6a5.html
Wakey wakey.
That guy took it remarkably calmly.
It’s interesting how everyone’s first instinct now no matter what’s going on is to grab a phone and start filming. Get yourself out of possible harm’s way first for god’s sake.
Morning, Glibs.
Morning, UCS. WFH today?
Getting ready to take New Cat to the vet. I hope he still likes us when we pick him up later today…after what they’re going to do to him…
oh the kitty perfidity.
You’re doing wonderful things for my vocabulary.
I hate to say it, but it’s for his own good. If we’re going to have two male cats in the house, they both need to be “fixed” to have any hope of peaceful coexistence.
Get it over with. No sense in pussy-footing around.
I hope its not a CATastrophe.
Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Mornin’, Homey. : )
Mornin’ sunshine. My overnight schedule hasnt reset yet. Breakfast Beers!
And off we go to see how difficult it is to get him in the carrier.
Later.
*hours later, GT is treated for blood loss from forearm scratches.*
Try a CATamaran. Or tell him he’s going to CATalina…
*waves*
SP is right – we are boring.
I didn’t see any posts about chainsaw carving, anonymous group sex, smashing the patriarchy, gator wrestling, cock fighting, BASE jumping, or zorbing.
Just kidding.
Sounds dull.
The comment section was interesting. I was a zombie yesterday. Definitely not interesting.
Good morning, GT,Sean, UCS, and lurkers.
Mornin.
Did they find a cure for zombification? Or was it a voodoo zombie?
I remember liking The Serpent and the Rainbow. I wonder if it still holds up. I haven’t seen it in forever.
Me neither. I remember the part with be the spider though.
The spike through the scrotum scene never gets old! I actually kinda liked that movie, saw it in the theater.
Good morning, TARDy. I hope your vertigo is vertigone.
Mostly gone, thanks. Made it to work and took just one pill instead of two.
C-RAM over Baghdad.
Good Morning Starshine(s)! Getting back to the theme, today there were no bears yet but some dip-shit at work did manage to spike a five gallon jug of molasses on the loading dock with his forks and proceeded to keep driving over the ensuing mess for the remainder of his shift. That was my day/night. Now I’m having my post shi-pa-day beers and catching up on you lot.
Oh dear.
Molasses accidents are dangerous. Anyone hurt?
Heh! No, just my productivity. Thankfully it was more or less confined to the dock so the drones weren’t walking through and tracking it everywhere. That would have been a nightmare. Looks like we are going to freeze this morning.
Seriously, fuck that guy.
Krasner is a piece of shit.
True, true. But what was the basis for the federal charge? Paywalled on me.