The new transplants are having a tough day.
Well, a semblance of winter showed up yesterday. 8-10″ in one short storm is pretty good for this neck of the woods. And this is the first decent snow of the year. Driving around, it appears many people are unfamiliar with the driving conditions. Oh well. Anyways, how about some links!
Continuing to soften us up for the big reveal?
Hey honey, I’ve got a massive migraine. Want to fuck?
“We got to figure out how to make it hover without killing people.”
I am absolutely convinced that suicide was not involved.
That’s some serious shade.
Mood music for today.
If only we could make our car not kill people! WTF?
Btw, I talked to guy who got his bumper cover roasted by Leno’s jet bike. Apparently he would creep forward to get some distance between him and the car behind him, because he knew it’d melt bumpers. This guy kept scooting forward to get a better look. When he got home, his bumper cover was torched.
This bike.
I want one.
Was it worth it?
Guessing not. Dude tells the story every chance he gets, though, so there’s that.
Power is out here on account of the ice storm. I think it is fun but the lady disagrees. I told her to have another glass of wine and take a nap so the power would be back on. It is not. Got my propane heater and several oil lamps running (those things actually throw off some good heat…). Anyway, my multi-pronged approach to such a scenario is paying off. I even recharged her phone with my solar power bank. I just need the outage to not last long enough that I lose my frozen meat. That would be a total disaster.
Good luck. That would be horrible.
Can you just put the meat outside in the, uh, ice storm?
I’m very disappointed this didn’t veer toward a letter to Penthouse.
When Franklin goes to doge heaven, I was thinking about adopting a Rottweiler as my next pooch. I wanted a gentle doofus dog that looks really scary.
I just realized that in Christmas Vacation, Randy Quaid had a Rotty on his RV. So now I have to get a Rottweiler. And I have to name it Snots.
I recommend getting one with a little bit of Mississippi leghound in him. Remember it’s best to just let him finish.
Rotties are gentle doofus dogs that will also tear the face off of anyone even considering on threatening you.
“Pentagon admits it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes & findings may ‘change our lives forever,’ expert says”
I’m not saying it was aliens…
Whelp, I’m calling the visit to the gun show a win. As expected, prices were high. No real deals that appealed to me.
We really went for the gf to find an upper. She found one she’s very happy with. Win.
I came home with a couple more mags and a couple ammo cans.
I did fondle a CZ P10c. Passed on it.
That’s the way I view auctions. If I walk away with very little or nothing, it’s probably a good thing.
I find gun shows to be a massively frustrating experience. But if your girl got an AR upper that she likes, yeah, that’s a win.
What didn’t you like about the P10c?
It did nothing for me. And at $579, I wasn’t gonna buy it just because. I have plenty of polymer 9s already.
I find gun shows to be a massively frustrating experience.
Yeah, I get that. I’ve bought a few guns at gun shows and I’ve found that it doesn’t really behoove me to buy nor browse around. Although, I’ve used the gun show loophole more than once, so I can’t complain too hard. Gunbroker is generally better for both targeted purchases as well as browsing.
I find gun shows to be a disappointing experience because there are rarely good deals to be had, and most of the accessories for sale are cheap junk.
No, I don’t want to look at the 7th table in a row with cheap Chinese junk scopes. I want to look at Nightforce or Trijicon or the like, and I want to find a deal, not whatever MSRP is.
Hell, when Doublestar released their 1911 tactical pistol they (as in Doublestar, which is a local manufacturer) were at the local gun show. They were selling their 1911 for $1450.
I went to Buds Gun Shop the next morning and bought one for $950.
As far as guns, there are few things I can get at a show that I can’t get for at least a good a price at Bud’s.
Hey honey, I’ve got a massive migraine. Want to fuck?
I knew it!
“Elon Musk is serious about making Tesla Roadster ‘hover’ with rocket technology”
They already tend to spontaneously combust. So, by all means, add rocket fuel to that equation.
Only if you do all the work
Is there another way?
*applause*
I thinks that’s an acceptable alternative for most guys.
It will be until they realize that she has to orgasm for the anti-headache stuff to kick in.
What? You mean the work doesn’t end when I cum? Man! What a drag.
Happy that I don’t have migraines…
Man! What a drag. and a rub and a swirl and a shimmy or two.
It’s Saturday, that means the now standard Zoom/Happy Hour/Article brainstorming will be kicked off at 20:00 Eastern.
“White House declines to say whether Israel is an ‘important’ ally”
Something something Trump something something Nazi.
Something something Trump something something Nazi.
He definitely unravelled the carefully crafted American-Israeli relationship of the Obama years.
Anyone remember “Israel has a friend in Joe Biden”?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I haven’t left home since Wednesday. Just not feeling the need.
Maybe when the temp goes positive.. (supposed to get into the 20s on Monday, I think.
Hey we’re getting into the 20s on Monday too! *looks at globe, locates central Texas* Shit!
*looks at pictures of wrinkled tin foil*
AH HA! Knew it!
Don’t take the “A” train
Two people were fatally stabbed at opposite ends of the A train overnight, and cops are probing whether the terrifying bloodbath is the work of a single attacker.
The first victim, an apparently homeless man, was discovered at 11:20 p.m. Friday at Mott Avenue and Beach 22nd Street Station in Queens, with multiple stab wounds in the neck and torso, according to cops, who said the unidentified man was declared dead at the scene.
About two hours later, a woman with multiple stab wounds was found at the A train station at West 207 Street and Broadway in Inwood, cops said.
The 44-year-old woman was taken to New York Presbyterian-Allen Hospital, where she was declared dead, according to authorities.
——-
Maurice Moore, 33, said the subways are simply not safe at night anymore.
“The police should be here more often. When I go home late, there’s no cops here,” he said. “Between the hours of 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon you see them, but you don’t see them after that.”
WTF?
I hope the victims were at least wearing masks.
I hope the victims at least knew how not to SF links.
“Mitch McConnell launches all-out attack on Trump AFTER voting to clear him: GOP leader says ex-president could be sued or prosecuted and was solely responsible for MAGA riot – but trial was unconstitutional”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9257859/Mitch-McConnell-claims-Trump-solely-responsible-MAGA-riot-voting-clear-him.html
“Furious Nancy Pelosi crashes press conference to tear into Mitch McConnell, rage at ‘cowardly’ Republican senators for voting to acquit Trump – and shut down censure as a ‘slap on the face of the Constitution'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9257989/Nancy-Pelosi-crashes-press-conference-rage-cowardly-Republicans-voting-acquit-Trump.html
OFFS!!
Go fuck yourself Turtle. Join the rest of the traitors like Mittens.
That’s traitors against this country, not Trump. Trump can fuck himself too, but he didn’t do anything criminal that day.
but he didn’t do anything criminal that day.
Orange. Man. Bad.
By all means, take him to a real court. Good luck with that.
Censure was OK when it was Bill Clinton’s nuts in the fire.
It’s a shame that Brayden Smith “Jeopardy” champ died so young. As a former “Cato” intern, who wanted to go to law school, there’s an outside chance that he may have been one of the good guys.
“Continuing to soften us up for the big reveal?”
LOL Fucking capital L. Is that you, Brennan, you braindead retard?
Just had a trio of Old Fashioneds and a spinalis (ribeye cap) steak.
Now, I’m taking the missus off to see the dancing ladies.
This was a shitty week for me, but the end of it is turning out aces.
“A” train link, maybe
Is it a downtown train?
That better not be Rod Stewart.
Dude, give me a little credit.
How about Credit in Heaven?
Sorry, I mistook you for Ted’s.
I’m living rent-free in everybody’s heads.
Yeah… but that means you’ve got Trump as a roommate.
/preps a series pitch based on the idea – “It’s like the Odd Couple mashed up with Herman’s Head!”
Ted’s you’re in my heart and in my soul
Even Hyperbole needs passion
Dammit should have linked to this
A different cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1MTT4NofE
Jesus fucking tap dancing Christ!
One more (just seeing if I can push TH over the edge): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjjqikcO5eA
I thin KI may b eh aving a a aa aa strrok e e ..
You know, I was just listening to the Jeff Beck Group. Then got to thinking I liked Faces. Where/how did Rod Stewart go so wrong?
He didn’t go wrong. He chose a path to massive money.
And he’s got the toy trains to prove it.
/jealous
Or a downbound train?
Should have taken the morning train.
Or a Morningtown Ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RkC6MYT2E
Ya, this seems like a great idea.
Can’t have enough Czar’s.
Sort of ironic that today’s commies are creating Czars.
My God, the graft is going to be epic.
I always wonder about the mechanics of something like that. Did Congress appropriate money for this new office? Did the approve a budget?
My guess is the answer is no.
So how does Yellen start this up? Where does she get the money? We all know she didn’t can a bunch of other positions in her department to free up cap space
Almost anything is possible, thanks to the GOP losing the Senate.
They should at least get up on the soapbox and make some noise about it.
Make the Dems own it.
Do you even GOP, bro?
Mayor de Blasio recently waved off NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea’s public concerns of a recent spate of subway attacks, which included a straphanger shoved onto the tracks.
“We had an incredible and total disruption in 2020. Our entire lives were turned upside down, a global pandemic, a perfect storm – and we are in the process of overcoming that,” de Blasio said earlier this month as he tried to explain away a doubling in subway murders.
Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, blamed City Hall, not cops.
“All reports indicate that the victims were homeless, another failure by the mayor and those in charge of helping the homeless,” he said. “The transit system is not a homeless shelter and the police department’s role in helping has been diminished to say the least.”
Set blamethrowers on full!
O RLY
Twin Cities say “Huh?”
New tub in trailer with all new plumbing. Getting the hang of this. After a few days if leaks do not appear, new flooring in next weekend.
Also picked up another generator since our overpowered one has gotten us noise complaints. This one is an invertor genny with enough for our power needs.
After flooring, new A/C setup will be going in. The portable A/C just cannot keep up with demand.
Camp trailer?
When your car is blocks and your house is on wheels……
No its a mobile dog grooming trailer
It’s okay to have your mind made up in advance, but only if you agree with me
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Saturday chastised what he called “spineless” lawmakers who are unwilling to seriously weigh the allegations against Donald Trump due to their “abject fear” of the former president.
Brown criticized Republican colleagues who he characterized as having approached Trump’s impeachment trial with a closed mind despite the “damage he’s done to his country.”
We all know he’s guilty. Why won’t you give him the thumbs down so we can have him impaled?
The ones who seem to fear Trump are the Dems. This whole farce seems to be an attempt to keep him from being able to run again in 2024.
I’m sure the usual GOP establishment also don’t want Trump to come back either, but I don’t think they fear him.
Dems clearly fear him. It took everything they had to fortify the election. They may not be able to repeat in 4 years when (theoretically) Covid won’t be in play, and the makeup of social media will likely be very different.
They know he’ll draw votes. Metric shitloads of them.
I doubt Trump will run in 4 years but I can see him blessing a protégé.
I agree.
Ivanka?
Don Jr.
Wife and I will both vote for him.
He can just rattle the cage every once in a while and the Dems will go crazy. He is in a great position to have a lot of cheap fun, keeping the Dems on the defensive.
He’s gotta find an outlet first. I’m sure he’ll be handsome paid by someone.
Exactly what was the damage?
The piles of bodies left behind from The Battle of Twitter.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1360723084437766144
Even when it is supposed to be over, it isn’t over
By “God herself”, he must mean that crazy Chinese chick?
“God herself”
How to tell when somebody is an atheist pretending to be a Christian for 500, Alex.
https://twitter.com/masked_bastard/status/1360559347307274246
OK, which one of you did this?
My form is better.
However, that is fucking awesome!
“My form is better.”
I’m thinking those weren’t his first two beers.
LOL!
I’m thinking you are correct.
Psaki really sucks at her job.
Psucks at her job.
/not my joke
Uuummm…yeahhh…I’m going to have to circle back to you on that (she sounds like Bill Lumbergh)
+1 Lumbergh fucked her.
Well, her job ain’t easy. Making Biden seem smart and effective is an uphill battle, imma guess.
I’d let her suck other things.
Eewww…. no
I’d rather let Ric Grenell do it before her.
She’ll circle back to you. Like STEVE SMITH.
She’s just a circle back girl!
By the way, my powers back on.
Huzzah!
I admire your principles.
Psaki has the look and deportment of someone who is really, really bad at giving head.
I just got an order from Drizly. I’m pretty stocked up on beer, but I wanted to get my wife a good bottle of Champagne for the Valentines Day. So, I sat here watching this order in transit for like an hour. It typically takes that store about 15-20 minutes to deliver. So I went outside on the deck and nearly fell down because of the ice.
So I contacted the store and asked about it and they hadn’t heard anything from the driver. About 30 minutes later I got a phone call from the driver and he asked me if I could come down there. WTF? So, in my jammies, my typical work clothes now, I go down there. The guy could barely speak English, but I tried to tell him to NOT go down the hill to the East of us. Anyway, got my stuff and no one is dead, as far as I know, that’s good.
Wow! I had to cancel plans to pick up a metric asston of Girl Scout cookies.
We can’t get Drizly in the Old Dominion ?
What do you know. Looks like with the changes to delivery and to go drinks here, I can now.
Or I can just order from the couple of breweries that are doing self delivery now.
What do do when your state becomes more commie than MD? Get out of there!
How many of you are Drinking With an Angel?
Here the snow is gray
If I were an excitable guy
This would upset me to no end
Instead I beat on cans
I beat the blues
Where’s my angel?
Where’s my juice?
Where’s my angel?
Where’s my juice?
There’s a tipsy ghost
On the edge of my couch
There’s a tipsy ghost
On the edge of my couch
She’s an angel
She’s an angel!
I’ve got a fever
My couch is shaking
Where’s my angel?
OOOOHHHH!
I’m gonna go on the wagon
I’m gonna ride that wagon to heaven
I’ll just have one more for the road
There’s a tipsy ghost
On the edge of my couch
There’s a tipsy ghost
On the edge of my couch
She’s an angel
I’m gonna a ride that wagon to heaven
I’m gonna find my angel
She’s an angel
She’s an angel
She’s an angel
She’s an angel!
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
But how do you talk to one?
She’s going to be a devil tonight anyway
I got a sweet little one!
Nice. You People never disappoint.
Ask her.
Here’s for all the boomers.
And earlier folks.
This song sure references sight a lot, considering it’s by a blind guy!
Thinking about taping my wife to the ceiling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8MQiXhC12A&list=OLAK5uy_mGhy1j-l5l1KxjnSfGK_Tp0vAGsBWZmrg&index=3
Love it.
Official video.
It was a glorious time.
I’m 22 now
And I have a nice cock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBOuU8r_uw
Nice cock.
Thank God I have my Goggles On!
The birds are on fire
Out there, and I walk across the room
And pull back the shade
And they are out there now
Burning at 5:05 a.m. the darkness lifting
Like a horse, failing through sand now
I’ve got a blazer of whiskey left and enough stretchers to carry the dead now
But I can’t save the burning birds and they are telling me, yes they are telling me
Singing is fire
Singing is flame
Old trains move thought the desert
And the whores sleep with the job done now
Schoolboys dream of laborless love
Or whatever it is you call it this time of night
It’s 5:36 a.m. and I still got a little whiskey left
Yes I still got a little whiskey left
So, I still have a chance now
It’s really nothing new
Feeling so bad they used to call it the blues
But whatever it is you call it this time of night
I still got a little whiskey left
Yes I still got a little whiskey left
So, I still have a chance now
I still got a chance now
I still got a chance now
And I’m singing
Singing is fire
Singing is flame
Singing is fire
-Bukowski, maybe.
Love the song Spud.
I guess I’ve been slip sliding away for about 45 years now.
Silicone Saturday is a dopamine shot of euphoria heaped upon big mounds of pleasure.
https://archive.li/4FE5E
Hey, y’all, muh name is a Mureen and I’m a fuh fuh fuh fucking retard.
Durrrr!!!
Hey, I, umm, I smoked some dangerous mar–eee-wanner, and now I have brain damage, durrrr!!!
Latest adventure in lockdown asininity: JC Penney closed up all their changing rooms, because of course they did. And it’s a reminder that I haven’t had a normal shopping experience in nearly a year, because the last time I went to buy jeans was just before lockdown theater began in earnest.
I’m glad I was out on the road, though, because a great wash of slushy snow started coming down all at once, plus a good deal of lightning. Never seen anything quite like it.
I live in NYC and I haven’t set foot on the subway in more than a year. A department store near me (Century 21) reopened in the summer for a couple months before announcing they’re going out of business – I walked over there for my last shopping experience that wasn’t groceries. Outside of shopping and a couple hospital adventures I haven’t talked to a human in person for over a year.
Adults can handle this shit but I can’t imagine what it’s doing to children.
The imposition rankles. And the idiotic pretense. And the unshakeable faith in masks and Fauci et al. Luckily I haven’t dealt with a mask Karen, probably because this is a violent town and you never know who’s going to grab a gun from his glovebox if you mouth off. As big a show as I put on donning the mask only as I enter and taking it off as I exit, I’m as compliant as everyone else while I’m indoors. But for the imposition and the idiocy, I’d probably really like the faceless anonymity and the silent treatment.
Adults can handle this shit
Probably less true than any of us would like to admit.
Wife: “I’m scared to go out in public with you because I can see you carry your rage in your body language and I’m just waiting for somebody to set you off. You’re the most patient person I know, but you need to find an outlet for your rage”
Yikes.
Lifting weights and BJJ have been taken away. Next on the list is strangling annoying shitheads.
I am trying to suppress the urge to just buy what ever thing pops into my head. The internet makes it too easy to get stuff dropped at my house.
I’m glad I’ve always been a cheapskate.
*glances over at newly-delivered set of bartending tools*
No comment.
Looking at my desk: two viking hand axes; one damascus dagger; one damascus kukri knife.
An acquaintance was an accomplished blacksmith in the past. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and is now disabled. He is clearing out his store of personal items and selling them for much needed cash.
So it’s for a good cause, which is why I needed all four items.
Yeah right.
Two guitars in two days. Yep. And, since the Christmas Present stroke, I can hardly play.
Narrator: He plays better than he lets on.
BJJ
Blowjob in jammies?
Sure.
They want to take stuff like that away because it’s what the Deplorable Class likes.
I was stunned to see a report on the local news the other day about the trouble pool halls have had still not being allowed to open up. Most looks at small businesses have been boutiques and the other sort if stuff that 20-something single women who aspire to be in the cosmopolitan upper-middle class like.
They don’t want trouble
I was expecting something from Roadhouse.
Feature not bug all the way around.
Keep in mind that the architects of this situation suffer no penalties for not following their own edicts. They also, by and large, have extreme contempt for the great unwashed and take pleasure in inflicting misery upon them. If some children have to develop psychological problems, depression and suicide as a result then that’s a bonus to them. The boot stomping on humanity’s face just knocked out a few teeth.
There’s something to be said for, “Living well is the best revenge.”
I dropped in on a friend today, to drop off some contraband while I was in the neighborhood. His wife instantly broke out the absinthe, then several bottles of wine and other goodies, and we all just spent the afternoon chatting and hanging out. It was really, really nice.
This whole impromptu-hanging-out thing is not normal behavior for any of us.
The people supporting lockdowns actively want the teen suicides and all the other pathologies the lockdowns have brought about.
The people I know who support the lockdowns are bleeding heart liberals and safety nannies who truly believe they are helping humanity and saving lives. They don’t see the unintended consequences or, if they do, are utilitarians of the “well that’s too bad but greater good etc. etc.”. They think they are being compassionate, responsible and don’t believe in free will or letting you have a choice when it comes to the health and safety of the community. They would be aghast at being compared to boot stomping totalitarians. Their brand of thinking has sway in our culture and we libertarians are hard pressed to change their minds.
Something something, the approval of their own conscience?
This. To echo Creech’s point, thinking about the people who are gung ho that I know, they fall into two categories. 1) score keeping progs who would call me the devil for daring to question the approved line; and 2) the mushbrains who wouldn’t know a principle if it hit them in the face and accept the daily propaganda unquestioningly.
Calling the first group totalitarians would be a badge of honor to them. Calling the second group totalitarians would confuse them thoroughly.
I got a text message from a number I don’t know asking whether I’d like to sell my mom’s house. Absolutely yes, cash up front, you can take possession as soon as she signs it over. No refunds.
https://vimeo.com/18073828
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0afktL0ed3Y
That’s a jam. This is great too:
https://vimeo.com/14072345
Metric was a fun band. What became of them?
They didn’t make it to the moon.
I met them at a local radio station thing. Took a picture with them. It kind of looks like Emiily Haines is grabbing my ass.
Unfortunately, she wasn’t.
I just wanted to share something I noticed a few days ago. I was reading this article from CNN about a shooting in Minnesota.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/us/buffalo-minnesota-shooting/index.html
At the end of the article, there was this interesting paragraph:
Buffalo is about 40 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The city has a population of about 16,000 people, and the city’s residents are about 97.5% White with a median household income slightly above the state average, according to the US Census.
I’m still trying to figure out what the point of this is. Anyone have any ideas?
(Sorry for being late with this. I couldn’t get to the links on time earlier.)
Everything is about race. Everything.
I wouldn’t think they’d want to drill down on shootings by race, either perpetrator or victim, but I suppose if they’re only ever highlighting census data in areas predominated by whites, it makes sense.
Props to them for inserting “class” into it, too, I guess.
NYT’s hit piece on Slate Star Codex is out.
Scott Alexander’s response
I have no idea what this brou-ha-ha is about but this sentence made me chuckle:
Mr. Slate, meet the NYT.
Never was a fan of SSC, but the NYT are so damn scummy for doing that. “Hey, doxxing me will hurt a lot of my psychiatric patients”
“fine, instead we’ll hold off a few months and then dox you AND call you a racist”
TMITE
Seven kinds of awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OrXPEkFW9w&pbjreload=101&ab_channel=PuddlesPityParty
Tonight I’m peacocking. Who wants some? Dumb question. You all want some.
https://archive.li/gTfri/abcf10ddf351100e07b009f0086b0db865bf6c47.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/e7z9z/1e09452a350f7487c88066177391cce81fbc6f3b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/NPcVv/156dc51bb7d1d6fcb14d29310e36e2017886deb2.jpg
NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Tn5nN5udU&list=PLYMu7I1rsdOmdVSJKqQMB2s-U8348Zgel
Incubus kicks ass. Good music and lyrics. I seen a really good show on the S.C.I.E.N.C.E tour with them, Mr Bungle, and System of a Down.
The singer and a couple other guys in the band smoked a couple fatties with me and my friends in the balcony while System was playing. They were surprised by the quality of the weed. They asked us to come hang out with them after the show on their bus. It sounded like a fun idea, but after the show there was a huge group of kids hanging around the bus. Didn’t want anything to do with that. I was around 30 at the time, and I was one of the “old” guys at the show.
Good Lord
She may look retarded, but them titties any retarded.
Ugh I was just about to nod off when work called.
Oh yeah, I’m on call.
If you didn’t answer the phone, what if any repercussions would there have been?
It’s late. All of you go to bed
Are you the supervisor?
Jeez dad. It’s the weekend.
Waiting on the delivery guy. Beers to your doorstep and a magical card to pay for it. Ain’t life grand? Hell, I remember having to drive out to the radar base to get off-sales on a Sunday. Golf and Curling Club had very liberal ideas about liquor ordinances for some funny reason. Blue Laws suck hind tit.
Curling Club?
Golf in the summer, curl in the winter. Basically a Country Club for those that felt above the plebes. I worked there as a waiter for awhile when I was 18 or so. The Society Mavens were known for their clutch and grab offence. I’d come home with bruises on my butt.
They also tipped for shit because they felt that membership had its own privileges. The open bar tab after hours was pretty cool but I was sinking nearly half of my pay into it before I quit that gig. Food Service is crazy wild. That place was a bacchanalian inferno.
Stories please. Sounds like a hoot.
Wife got a bread machine. First loaf and not bad. It what bread used to be from the store before it got crapified (fuck you Franz).
Heh. We had one of those years ago but I couldn’t be arsed to correct her mistakes. Thems was the good old days…
I have a Zojurushi (sp) one from 1995 that can still crank out the bread. I love to put all the ingredients in (using honey instead of sugar, and adding 1/4 cup of red wheat berries) and set the timer, then awake in the morning to a perfect warm loaf.
More recently, I’ve been using the dough function to take most of the work out of making rolls or free form loaves.
I reckon machine brand makes a difference.
That’s what we have. Can’t wait to try the dough function so I can bake the bread in a proper Pullman pan.
Without the work. Already have and use the pan.
One of my favorite quotations is Julia Child saying “How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?”
We’ve had a bread machine forever. I like being able to be on control of what goes into my food.
One thing I figured out – adding a little gluten fixes most bread machine problems.
Maybe it was just because our machine is about 25 years old or because my whole wheat recipe didn’t work as prescribed. Either way, the gluten makes it come out good.
I tried a regular recipe but using whole wheat and it was awful, texture-wise.
I bet the added gluten, and a different recipe, would help.
In this evening’s edition of “What’s up with Splosives husband?” I successfully coaxed him out of bed and into the kitchen to help me clean it up, then got him to do something on the computer for me (place s Costco order), finally chat about some pleasantries and watch a little TV. 8 hours of being out of bed! Woot.
It helped that I’d been on the phone to my friend who’s coming to visit, so he heard my factual account of his inability to get out of bed and help me with any housework. I pretended I didn’t know he heard.
Anyway, I’m pretty convinced he was just in the habit of sleeping all day, and that that was the cause of his new hip pain. The fact that he’s hardly eaten has Aldo wasted his muscle mass do that everything is now a huge effort.
I know he’s vain enough to have convinced himself that losing weight was a perk because I saw where he’d tracked it on the calendar. I am hoping he will remember tomorrow that the reason everything hurts is that he’s forcing his body to digest healthy tissue. I did manage to get him to drink a meal shake.
If he reverts, I’m going to have to consider my options.
It sounds like depression. Possibly severe. I wish I knew what else to say – but he might need professional intervention.
He does need to start eating at least. Lack of nutrients plus one other medical issue (like a bad viral infection) could be the end.
I would consider sleeping all day and not eating to the point of losing so much muscle you find everyday tasks difficult pretty severe, whatever it may be.
Best of luck splosives, that’s a good long time to spend together with no issues. Little steps can lead to good habits, keep it up.
He’s always been the glass half empty guy, but this acute thing in the last few weeks is unprecedented in our 24 years.
He’d even recently found a compatible group of other musicians on bandmix and they had wanted y to o get together again soon, but he had to cancel due to a real illness (fever, etc. Flu-like, maybe even the Vid).
He hates the election results, hates Biden, hates the corruption that permeates the government. But I can’t imagine that being so very personal.
Maybe he’s back to hating California and assigning it to be the root of all his unhappiness, for which he resents me.
I dunno.
Thanks for letting me have a place to talk about it.
Sorry to hear that. That’s not an easy row to hoe.
Thanks. I have suggested he go to the doctor to see if he could use some Prozac or similar to balance his brain chemistry.
He’s 63 (I’m just a lass of <50) so his generation was trained to assign a stigma to mental illness.
Getting him to the doctor is going to be tough. I’ve been teasing him a bit by suggesting he talk to his doctor about this or that symptom, but when he says no, I say “Yeah, it’s probably just cancer. If you ignore it long enough, it will resolve itself.”
Since yesterday had the new symptom of hip pain, I added after urging him to set an appointment, “You’re right. It’s probably just the cancer spreading to your hip bone.”
I’m not above using hypochondria to get him in front of his doctor.
This BS about Covid being a reason for clinics to postpone “non urgent” medical issues could be a matter of life and death.
Lots of things are non-urgent until the second they become plenty damned urgent.
Sorry ‘Splosives. That’s a lot of baggage to manage. I hope it all works out for you and him.
Headaches are usually a boon to our marital relations. Nothing beats it for pain relief.
I have thought about getting amorous. If he isn’t interested, then I’ll know something is physically wrong with the guy.
Happy VD everyone. ?
There is nothing happy about venereal disease.
Herpes the Love Bug
One year, for Christmas, I gave someone (wire) strippers and the clap.
https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/clap.html
He seemed happy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qplBVqPhbBY
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Fuck senator McTurtleface.
Happy Donate to your corporate overlords or your spouse /kids get mad at you day!
No kids here.
sup’ ya’all
Yo
Buongiorno!
And a fine Cornholio to you too.
Need TP ?
Mornin’, homey! I feel like we’re just waiting for the other showshoe to drop.
Went over to Sam’s late yesterday morning to pick up one of Tom T’s prescriptions. Thought about getting some of our usual groceries there, but took one look at the checkout lines and decided we didn’t need anything THAT much.
Yeah, it was snowing on the way home this morning, but just flurries. Its like Jack Frost needs a fluffer.
Jugsy wants to go to Meijer later. I can only imagine it will be a mess like a Christmas Eve. I’d say the usual “GET MILK AND EGGS!” but here in the ‘hood the staples are grape pop and ramen.
Here the staples are gin and diet tonic.
And bacon.
opening a new bag of beans and running the grinder while it’s still early enough for NewWife to hear, ignore, roll over, and go back to sleep
I love the new bag slime, and I know I buy too much coffee for the economy; they would be 2% better if I could use it all up before it dries that little bit; but I love saving money in a the way that all desperate, small-town, nobody children do
Not enough snow in Aledo yet but it was almost there when I left for work this morning. Apparently the big dump is going to be around 3-5pm today, just in time for me to get home from work… i hope.
you read that?
I knew you were in TX, but until yesterday didn’t know it was MetroPlex. I shouldn’t write this down, but I miss the place: so so so many smart single chicks . . . doG smart women are so sexy
but settling down is good, and it’s a relief to know that I will never again over dinner hear: yeah, I’m training for a half marathon, I’m teaching my dog and cat get along, I don’t know why I left him, but, then again, I don’t know why I ever married him CHECK PLEASE !
You must be just a bit younger than I am. I did a bit of online dating but just barely missed all of that tinder crap. It’s nice to have such a plethora of choices for dinner dates for the the wife and I. Talking to some of the single people at work about their relationships is pretty painful. It’s one of those moments where you think back ‘was I that dumb 10 years ago?’ No. Culture has definitely changed and I don’t thinks it’s for the better.
There are far too many people out there who were told to do what they want and they did. They were told to pursue what ever they want and they did. They were told to not have children so they didn’t. Nobody ever told them to find someone who is happy and ask them why.
Now it’s veterinary visits, lattes, black out drunk tinder nights and loneliness all of the way down.
I’m certain I dodged a bullet. Don’t get me wrong, some of those things sound like a blast for a vacation, but as a lifestyle? They can have it.
I’m trying so hard to NOT make a course, insensitive, wholly inappropriate comment:
Local gym partners with organizations to offer boxing classes for children, adults with Down syndrome
Try.
Trying.
Oh, fuck it- “Weaponized Retard” would be a great band name.
*coarse
Of course.