“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”
–David Goggins
“I can only encourage everyone how important exercise is, it’s a lifelong contract. Maybe not a panacea for everyone but the best time to exercise is before you need it.”
–Fourscore (with a hat tip to Tundra for the suggestion)
“Chafed, thanks for Slight Edge. Far more my style than Goggins.”
-Tulip
Tulip raised a good point that I hadn’t thought about. Namely, presentation style matters regardless of the merits. I am big Goggins fan. I think he is nuts and that nuttiness is helping to define the outer boundaries of our own abilities. Needless to say, he pushes like a motherf*cker for each of us to find our current limit and push past it. He is coarse, brusque, and harsh. I often need a dose of this. I also understand where, because of his style, this isn’t going to do someone any good.
So, back to The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. It presents a different mentality toward making progress. The book is not specifically about fitness. It’s about a mindset that benefits you in every area of life you choose to apply it.
The philosophy behind The Slight Edge is revealed in the foreword. Every attitude or action is easy to do or easy not to do. Simple disciplines applied consistently over time yield tremendous results. It requires a modicum of responsibility and/or discipline. Of course, what you choose to do must align with your values.
Those same attitudes and actions are easy not to do. Not doing something is often the comfortable choice now but becomes uncomfortable later. See Fourscore’s quote above. Blaming someone or something else is easy and relieves us of responsibility. Simple neglect serves the same purpose. When you take the long view, the results from choosing easy not to do are terrible if not detrimental.
Olson tells three stories in the foreword to illustrate his point. My favorite is about the water hyacinth. The nutshell version, is the water hyacinth sends out runners that become “daughter plants” allowing it to double in size. If you saw a single water hyacinth in a pond you wouldn’t even notice it. Two weeks later it would cover about a square foot. On the twentieth day it would be about the size of a mattress. On the thirtieth day, it will cover the entire surface of the pond.
Ponder that my acolytes. Ask yourself, how much of the physical work you do isn’t immediately noticeable even though it is building toward your terrific result? How many times in the past you noticed only a tiny improvement and then suddenly you realize just how much you have accomplished?
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I think the CDC’s utter incoherence has received a well deserved beating in both articles and comments. My one hope from the shit show that has been our country’s response to the coronavirus is a good chunk of the population devalues experts while continuing to appreciate expertise. If anything will stop the Great Reset, this will. A man can dream can’t he?
Weekly cuteness that I’ll bet draws a mixed reaction.
Ask yourself, how much of the physical work you do isn’t immediately noticeable even though it is building toward your terrific result? – most of it is not building to a terrific result. just better than not doing it
“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”
or to drunk to go on
Good song, Chafed. Good band. Nice guitars all around.
Drove to Portland and back on Thursday. Saw probably 30 dead raccoons along the 5. It was gross.
Ran alot this week. Tried to eat low carb/keto. Smashed a burger on Friday, though. And fries.
This is what makes you a better person than The Hyperbole.
Yeah, we had full on burgers yesterday with DEG, but skipped the fries.
I didnt understand the arrow response in the last thread.
His avatar has two thumbs up.
Pointing to the approval of my avatar.
Woosh…got it now.
Two thumbs up.
I liked the extreme channel switching at around 2:13 or so. Almost gave me whiplash.
My mixed reaction to cuteness
And I didn’t know Rush had a Scottish tribute band.
Never change The Hyperbole. I have never heard Budgie described as prog rock but have at it.
Maybe it’s the fact that the bassist looks and sounds like Geddy, granted it’s early rush, “Working Man” or “Fly By Night” stuff, but I stand by the comparison. They even do a tempo change slow break at about the 3 minute mark.
That said, It appears to be form ’73 so maybe Rush is just a Budgie cover band.
That raccoon reacted exactly the same way I would have to that lady scratching my back.
I need to:
1) Establish and stick to a healthy wake/sleep cycle.
2) Eat more healthily, which means not having so many sweet snacks around and/or ignoring the ones my husband keeps on buying.
3) Figure out some sort of exercise that I can do even when my joints are in intense pain, and actually do it.
On number 3, possibly swimming will work. The community pool will open after Memorial Day.
On number 2, cutting out the snacks is all I need to do. I already cook fairly healthy well-balanced meals and eat normal sized portions.
On number 1, I have no frigging idea.
I have been practicing impeccable sleep hygiene ever since I got a puppy.
As someone that still isnt used to working overnights, you have my empathy & sympathy over #1.
Swimming is awesome! It’s rough on my hideously expensive hair, I know, but I swear it’s at least as good for my mental health as for my physical health. I just do backstroke laps for my allotted 45 minutes at the Y. Would you be able to do laps at the community pool, or is it mainly an undivided “free-for-all” pool?
For snacking, I’ve tried to keep plain almonds around in small, single-serving packs I can get at CVS. Mostly helps keep me away from the junkier munchies in the all-too-close-by break room.
Healthy wake/sleep cycle? Yeah, I got nuthin’ either.
What the shit? It logged me out in mid-comment.
The pool is divided with about half set aside in lanes for lap swimmers and half for free-for-all.
I have healthy snack items for me (fruit and unsalted cashews are my faves) but then the spousal unit buys ice cream and hubcap sized apple pies from Costco. I just have to ignore them.
Have you talked with your spouse about not undercutting your goals by leaving temptation around?
My wife loves jellybellys a bit too much, so I bought her a big container of them from Costco, and a teeny container that I transfer about twenty or thirty jellybellys at a time when she runs out every few days.
The big container is hidden on a top shelf she can’t see or reach.
She gets her treats, but uses restraint because the supply at hand is limited.
I’ve used that same reasoning to explain to the girlfriend why I don’t buy chips and other salty snacks in the house.
A bag is a serving size, right?
“ Have you talked with your spouse about not _____?”
Hahahahaha. Good one.
Our marriage partnership is best characterized as asymmetric warfare. No holds barred for him, and minimizing chances of conflict for me.
Keeps me on my toes and well-trained to handle just about anything and anybody at work.
HS = Israel
HS hubby = Hamas
Chafed isn’t wrong…
Not sure what my Iron Dome analogy would be…
Probably a cynical sense of humor 🙂
Deja Vu?
And I feel like I’ve been here before.
If I ever had been here before I would probably know just what to do.
Don’t you?
That is one non-Glibfit trash panda.
When your ass is five times wider than your head, you might want to think about a lifestyle change.
Trash panda don’t care. He gets his scritches anyway and doesn’t know what body shaming is.
I knew a guy who had a pet raccoon whose favorite treat was twinkies. Not a svelte beast, but happy.
I had a customer who said he once had one. He claimed to have tricked him by giving him sugar cubes. The raccoon would rinse them in the water bowl and they’d disappear. Raccoon would look around all confused.
The sugar cube thing is a popular prank.
People are dicks. It’s a raccoon doing what raccoons do. Fun fact: the german word for raccoon means “wash bear.”
Well, actually, no. The Latin name for the raccoon, Procyon lotor, translates to “before-dog washer.” The word “raccoon” probably comes from the Algonquin arahkun, an abbreviation of sorts of arahkunem, meaning (more or less) “he scratches with his hands.”
Closest the names comes to that in any European language is the Norwegian vaskebjørn, meaning “wash-bear.” That’s not surprising since raccoons are only native to North America, but have been widely introduced in various parts of Europe and Asia where they succeed at making themselves a damned nuisance.
Sorry, I misread your initial comment. Actually yes; the German word for raccoon is indeed Waschbär. I was thinking of the etymology of the word “raccoon,” which of course isn’t German.
I was misinformed.
I want my money back. Damned dirty lying Krauts.
Actually you weren’t misinformed. I was misreading. Color me embarrassed.
Am I damned and dirty or not.
*confused*
So I guess that’s where the Japanese got the word for raccoon – アライグマ – which translates to “wash bear”
They don’t call it “filthy degenerate foreign tanuki?”
Chonky.
Maybe that’s why Demi Lovato changed her pronouns to they and them? Excessive thicc-ness to point of counting as more than one person.
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/azDj2
Indeed.
IMO it’s possible for a woman to be much too low on body fat. Muscle is sexy, but visible six pack abs? Nah.
I’m pretty sure a significant minority, and possibly a majority, of men feel that way.
One of the sexiest bodys on a woman I dated was a black woman with a huge booty, which when I got to squeeze it was rock hard.
Counterpoint: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMDIWp0Bp8
You just made prolefeed’s point for him , hey ladies eat a sammich for Christ’s sake!
Peak physical condition is not unattractive.
It is when she might put my eye out with her shoulder bone.
A minority of three (you, Tres, and I)
I concur, need something a least a bit squishy.
I disagree but that’s what makes life interesting. There is someone for everyone.
I’m on the same train. Wife asked me once whether I’d be attracted to her if she looked like [insert picture of some ripped fitness model]. Nope. Not at all. Wanna drop a few pounds and add some tone in your arms? Fine. Wanna get cut? Fine, but that’s not sexy.
I personally know some bodybuilders – male and female – and I can promise you this: the lower the body fat, the less likely you will want to be anywhere near them.
Abs are overrated.
Something I believe is important is to establish a weight you are comfortable with, one that allows you the mobility you desire, the clothes you believe you look good in and fits your life style. Your ‘normal weight’ Then allow an extra 5 lbs. When you see you are approaching that weight it’s time to start the change to lose those extra lbs.
If you wait until 6 lbs you have established your new normal at a plus 5. Some people seem to stay skinny, others not so. Some have a more muscular build, some not so.
But each of us has a preferred weight and there is only way to maintain that (barring extraordinary circumstances such as illness/disease/accident.) Generally, as we get older the body shape changes, the weight not necessarily so.
If losing 5 lbs is hard try 20-30-40. It’s all calories in/calories expended.
Fourscore, that is wisdom.
My plan is to hit the current goal weight (about 10 pounds to go), then hold that for a month (allowing a +/- 5 variance). If I can manage that, then aim to drop another 10 (while keeping an eye on the body fat percentage). Hence the next goal, final goal would be for me to be back to 160, but I’m not sure if that’s really feasible now that I have some musculature.
Yes. If I hit 210, I know I have to change my behavior or else 220 quickly follows.
190 is my limit and I am over. I usually like 180 or 175ish. I need to drop this weight.
New low weight this week (although only half a pound), on the other hand average weight for the week dropped by ~2 lbs. I’ll call that a win.
Tried a new bike route today, during which I hit a hill of shame (seriously? I left turn from a stop to a 5%+ grade hill?). Managed to still get in between 25-30 miles today. First place I stopped was one I figured would have ditched the masks immediately, they still required masks. Second place I stopped has a sign up “Masks no longer required”.
On the last leg home, I got to see an elderly woman try to run a scam against a younger couple. Younger couple started making a right turn at the light while it was red. Elderly woman starts across when they’re a quarter of the way through the turn when the light turns green, and runs her electric wheelchair into the rear panel of the van they were driving. Elderly woman refused all offers of a call of an ambulance, police, or transportation home. However, she said she was hurt and couldn’t move her leg.
The young drivers asked for an address, and offered to help her into her house, and they were going to be calling their parents (who will probably advise a lawyer), and they’ve got my number in case anything comes up.
Week 1 of getting back to it has been going well. I’ve biked 10 miles every day and have been watching my diet. Need to sustain momentum through this next week.
Back O’ the envelope. 550K/330M covid deaths/population = 0.19 % deaths. That’s sort of the official figures. Anyway, we just wasted 330M American years over a nothing burger, not to mention the individual human costs.
Someone is responsible. There isn’t enough lamp posts and rope available but it truly is a crime against humanity. Round up a posse!
There’s no way the 550k number is inflated, right? After screeching the world’s economy to a stop because of “unknowns,” there really isn’t any reason to maximize the damage the huge “threat” to humanity they stopped caused, right?
Well it’s a good thing we had our Dear Leaders and Health Commissars to make us stay home and wear masks or IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE!!!
Just like Climate Change. If we hadn’t mandated making new cars so lightweight that they crumple like paper in a collision, the earth would have been on fire by now. Thank goodness Algore was there to save us from ManBearPig.
Of course the figure is wrong. Death from, death with. Two totally different things with the same outcome and probably a lot of unknowns.
My niece, 62, died a few days ago, pneumonia, autopsy showed she had advanced lung cancer. 40 plus years of smoking will do that. At least it wasn’t the covid, she was just lucky ’cause that’s a killer. No surprises there.
Sorry to hear about your niece.
Oh, that’s too bad. I’m sorry.
Yep my dad died with, not of. The stage 4 cancer in his throat that he lied about killed him. Doesn’t matter to my brother though, he gladly counts our father as a casualty of Trump and Covid.
Guess I am skipping T-giving this year.
There were no surprises with my niece, only a matter of time. Suicide takes many forms.
Her surviving mother is 91.
Sorry, Fourscore.
Blaming someone or something else is easy and relieves us of responsibility.
That’s usually my go to.
The devil made me do it!
Someone is responsible. There isn’t enough lamp posts and rope available but it truly is a crime against humanity. Round up a posse!
The most surprising/disappointing thing about this whole thing is how obsequiously credulous so many people I used to respect have been.
Believe that senile quack Foochy? Don’t expect me to give a shit you think about anything, ever again.
A year ago I tried to explain the math to my oldest friend, a college math prof. He cited possibilities, “If there is the slightest possible chance”. He missed last year’s Honey Harvest because we weren’t wearing masks. A lost year, a year with out the Pope, Tundra, Leap and all the other friends. Last week another friend pointed out the number of dead, I pointed out the the population.
In my age bracket (40’s), I’ve lost more friends to suicide this past year then Covid.
Ditto. It’s been a bad few years for people’s mental health.
I solve this by not having any friends
Right there with you! But it does make boardgame night rather boring. On the plus side, I’m batting 1.000 on wins!
Do you need me to suggest some harder solo games? 🙂
Nah. Tic-tac-toe is good, and quite easy to win when you are playing against an idiot.
Wait a sec…
Personally, I’m pretty hard during my solo games.
A hard opponent to beat?
Nah. It was actually good last night to catch up with a bunch of guys I haven’t hung out with in 20-some years. Some have gotten sober, others have kids, some are divorced, some are married again, and we’re all realizing we’re “old” now.
Conversations ranged from reminiscing, Bastiat, the singularity, cocktails, breweries, teenage transgenderism (one guy’s niece [15] is now a nephew, and doctor shopped until they could get hormone blockers), mocking spin class, bands, eating BBQ, and watching fire.
I’m considered a conspiracy theorist at work because I’m the only one not vaxxed. The odds of the vax harming me are higher than the odds of the ‘vid doing any damage. However small.
I know the feeling. Only one of my siblings that is not. Probably one of the handful at work that is not.
I followed the diamond princess cruise wuhanvirus outbreak. Im not citing exact numbers but theyre close. 3,000 crew and guests on board. 30% infected. 14 died. The rest were not infected. The japanese govt tested everyone.
Why the commie media ignored this example of what to expect was because the low infection rate for close quarters and recirc air told us this virus was not more dangerous than influenza.
That was jan 2020.
Have some glib fit water sports.
Somewhat reminiscent of leaf cutter ants.
It looks cool when their boards rise way up out of the water!
I don’t remember exactly when the hydrofoil boards got into the kitesurfing game, (10-15 years ago?) but ya they are cool. The Wing just showed up recently, like in the past few years. Probably around before that but I never came across them.
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. I was prepared to be shocked, shocked, I tell you, on a family friendly board.
If it was Q, then I would have been shocked. WS knows we are family friendly. ?
I am not clicking on that.
It’s kind of cool actually. I’ve never seen that before.
Plugging away with my workouts, trying to gradually increase the resistance. But, one of the things I lost recently was my walks, as I stopped need to go on them due to my dog passing away. So, I am re(re)introducing bicycling. It helps with both my endurance and cardio. As I am sure everyone knows.
Anyway, I mentioned before that a friend introduced me to Goggins, and I took away the whole bit you quote about when to stop. But, I tried to watch/read/experience him, and much like Tulip, not for me. I am just not an outspoken, outgoing type, which I am guessing is a huge part of his appeal. I also used to have a boss, whom I greatly liked, whose aspiration was to be a motivational speaker. I never understood that. So, thanks for the Olson. That sounds a lot more my speed, and with my disease, I need some mental boosts to keep going.
On the music front, I have been listening to All Them Witches lately. Good deep sludge. A far cry from my usual post punt and neo-soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3DPTzieFo
I’m also not interested in testing my limits. I exercise because it makes me feel better (mentally and physically), it improves my sleep (hence mental/physical improvement) and lets me do things I want to do -like run on the beach. Exercise means I can climb stairs when the elevator is out at the dentist without puffing. I can walk all day site seeing. I can haul bags of mulch around and bend and weed. That’s why I exercise. So when I read something about pushing limits, I get turned off. That’s not my goal at all.
My competitive streak kicks in when I’m riding (to the detriment of my knees and feet from time to time).
Thankfully, I’m also aware enough to realize that I’m never going to beat someone in shape and 20 years younger then me.
I totally get it zwak. I hope you do read The Slight Edge. It is one of the best motivational/attitude books I’ve read.
Hi Big Chafed, Thanks for another edition and greetings from NOCal. Beautiful hiking weather…but it’s tick season here.
G-fit update: Sleep was very good. Food was very proteinii and lower carb. Hike mileage was up to 39 miles. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; Did a couple times. Weight level at 173.
Goals: Met goal weight range max (175-170). Still not dead from Covid…
I noticed my left knee has been sore lately. Maybe it is from the additional hiking or the golf. I guess these aches and pains are part of getting old…but sometimes we over-exert and a combination of changes cause injury. It’s always a good reminder, if you are starting out with a new exercise to not go too extreme. If you are injured it is better to rest and rehabilitate than to “push through” and make it worse, which will require more aggressive therapy and rest, which is demotivating.
My wife completed 2/24hr fasts (Mon&Thurs) this week.. she lost 12# in a month fasting and reached her goal range (137-132). She likes doing the shorter fasts because it allows for more eating/drinking flexibility for the weekend.
De todos modos, ¡tenga una gran semana y sáltese una comida o tres!
Yesterday I beat the old people by running all over a mountain faster than they did. Today I rode my bike.
Whee!
Someone might have already mentioned it..but an ultra marathon in China had bad weather and some 20 people died. I thought you were pretty tough but these Chinese have taken it to another level…
In 2014, the race that I did yesterday was besieged by an unexpected white-out short-lived blizzard. The race officials prematurely terminated the race because not only were the runners at risk, but the volunteers at the aid stations were going hypothermic. A few people went to the hospital, but there was no loss of life. That incident spurred several changes to the race, including the possibility of mandatory gear. That possibility was actually invoked (for the first time?) yesterday.
By and large, runners don’t want to be burdened by the weight and bulk of emergency gear, but in the mountains, weather can be surprisingly unpredictable. My heart goes out to the ultrarunners, family, support staff and search and rescue people who just went through a life-changing (if not terminating) situation.
Excellent!
Past two weeks I’ve been doing daily stationary bike rides (30 minutes a day/6 days a week) and doing a kettlebell workout 3x a week. The kettlebell is mainly upper body with squats and calf raises thrown in for core stability workouts (squat down, do a kettlebell halo, then stand back up. Wash, rinse, repeat). Definitely starting to see some definition coming back into my legs and upper body. And it’s done my mental well being wonders too. Happy to report that I’m back down below 270 again.
It’s pretty funny – I went to the suit measuring this weekend, and when I was talking with the owner (who was the one taking the measurements) he was assessing me and said that he didn’t understand why I had problems with fit. THEN he got the tape measure out. Measured my chest. Looked at the tape, looked at me. Measured again. “Huh.” Then did the waist and butt. “Wow.” He asked how much I weighed, and I told him around 275. He was shocked, and told me that I was very lucky – I carry the weight very deceptively and he would have guessed closer to 250. Told me that it was no wonder I’d never had any luck buying suits off the rack – there would be no way the trousers would have fit properly for the coat size I wear.
21″ neck
52″ chest
45″ belly
38″ hips/butt
The funny thing – even when I’m in peak shape, I don’t get that much smaller. When I was in college, I did a semester abroad in London, and I lived on the top floor of the building I was in, so it was up and down 5 flights of stairs multiple times a day. Came back from that trip at 12% body fat (friend was studying physiology, and got me into the hydrostatic weighing pool). Even then I had a 48″ chest and a 40″ belly, but MUCH bigger legs than I have now. Guess all the muscle I had back then just moved north and turned to fat.
Good work. Glad to hear it’s making you happy with yourself.
So… completely off topic, but I’ve now learned that Ray Bradbury Theater is available for free streaming on IMDB. I figure this may be of interest to both old people and sci-fi fans.
Thanks Neph! Vegas is open and people generally DGAFF. Hope your Viva is still on
It is. Flights and hotel are booked for this year (in September), and we’ve booked rooms for next year (April, including my birthday).
??? We didnt buy a package and if there are day tickets available we will go, otherwise will have to meet up for some Ass Juice at the Double Down
One of the people I hadn’t talked to in a while that I hung out with last night is also a Tiki drink aficionado, He had never made it to Frankie’s through multiple Vegas trips.
The girlfriend will probably recoil in horror at the thought of the Ass Juice, which really makes me want to have someone buy it for her.
“It’s rude to turn down a drink someone purchased for you.”.
Unless, of course, the drink has been roofied….
Fair, but if the bartender is handing you a roofied drink, you’re in more trouble then you can expect.
Expect, or remember ( unless the bartender is wealthy and famous, of course!)
I can oblige. Hopefully we dont have horrendous winds in Sept.
Is the first episode the crowd? ‘Cause, that one is awesome.
If only there was a link that one could follow to find the episodes. 🙂
First one is Marionettes, Inc. Third one from the first season is the Crowd.
Personally, I’m a huge fan of the Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl. I’ll also admit to owning the full run already on DVD (as well as the original Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, and several other anthology series).
How is KK doing? I know she drops in zooms every now and then. Still planning her big adventure in a tin can?
She’s good. She’s taking a break, but does zoom.
? good
Good to know.
Heard you two were going to Gourmeltz yesterday. Did I miss an update post?
Everybody and his brother was out on the trails this morning. During my one-hour walk with the dog, ran across three groups of bikers, and got stuck behind a lady walking two dogs, which was a bit of a pain since I was walking faster than her.
You couldn’t go around her? Serious question.
These are single-track mountain biking trails in the woods, so while you can go around, doing it while you’ve got one dog and the other person has two dogs off-leash can be a bit tough. And there are some places where the trails are right on the side of the hill, so it’s even more difficult there. Normally when the bikers approach the dog and I step off to the side and let them go by.
As it turned out, I caught up with the lady just as I was about to turn onto another trail, and when she asked me which way I was going, she decided to keep going on the trail we were already on.
Got it. That makes sense. I had no idea your trails were so narrow and, in some places, treacherous.
Self-identified libertarian artists catch CGP Grey’s attention.
Sharks!
But seriously, bureaucrats are the greatest enemy. They keep pointing us commies, but that is misdirection.
commie sharks…pew … pew… peh…peww …pew. youtube champion.
I guess the libertarians are gonna need a bigger boat.
https://twitter.com/NicoleArbour/status/1396554232120152069
I feel for our Canadian friends. Shits outa hand up there.
The ones who are Glibs? Sure. The rest? Reap what you sowed.
Went to the local Kroger for the wife today. Unmasked. I estimate 60% masked wandering about. No one looked at me twice. I had an issue at self checkout so I had to interact with a young cutie. Nothing was said about masks. The maskless parade was led by women. Yay! Mom says, “Fuck off!”
Completely agree. WTF is wrong with Canada. This is French level capitulation.
49 holes, 6.5 miles of hill climbing, drinking beer and having fun! Glibfit for a Sunday!
Yusef! Awesome! Raises a can of…checks…Big Dogs Brown Ale
We played Old guys V. Young guys, and Brent and I tied them punks! they got off our lawn!
3 perfect drives, all within 3 feet of on another,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FhxtTFqXUuMHG5n97
2 errant tree shots, Blake and I landed pretty close for horribad shots,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2pM6TZdCgXLZHMvP6
Sounds like an awesome time.
A bit humid, but Hella great courses!
HEY! That’s my irl first name and I know for sure there’s only a scant few others, basically anywhere.
Like you, He’s a good dude,
Chafed!
I get Tulip’s point. I read Goggins’ book and found him to be a motivating shithead. All elite athletes are fucking head cases.
Which is why I often find people here much more motivating. I was thinking about Fourscore on Friday at hockey when our oldest dude – 73 – came back to play. He keeps himself strong and fit, so while his skating was rusty, he was a beast. So important to never stop moving.
The weekly cuteness was indeed. Not sure about the raccoon, but the young lady was definitely cute.
Kick some ass this week, Glibfitters!
Budgie is
Lol. Budgie is pretty goddamn solid!
Tundra FTW!
Never stop moving,
DGED
TFW you realize the mechanical problem on Judi’s car is something that you can manage, have done before and even bought specialized tools for twenty+ years ago. Then you cotton to the fact that she took the truck for a camping excursion and you cant buy the parts until Tuesday.
So you’re saying you enjoy the single life.
I read that in Cathy Newman’s voice and arched a Peterson eyebrow.
They still let you go camping in Canuckistan with the Covid restrictions?
I think they are being “non-compliant”. Eldest step-daughter is pretty libertarianish. Probably because she works for the Gubmint.
Nothing made me more skeptical of the government than being employed by one.
If the people who run my work ran everything? Fucking scary!
She does it for the pay. Accountant by day, hobby Farmer by proxy. Who knew that she was so damned smart? It took most of my wits trying to control her teenaged antics. Bested me.
Do you like sushi? Zombies? Comedy? Karate? Tits? Then watch “Dead Sushi”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sushi
Just finished it. It was pretty entertaining.
All elite athletes are fucking head cases.
Which is why those Michael Phelps “Seek professional help for your monomania” ads pissed me off.
Some asshole would happily have “therapied” him right out of all those gold medals.
“Stay away from the pool for a while. Go to a friend’s house and eat cheetos and play video games. It will be good for you.”
Dunno about head cases. PGA Champ Phil Mickelson seems pretty well grounded.
PDGA champion Paul McBeth is pretty well grounded, hot Wife, 10million a year deal with Discraft, and and others,
and he’s 30,
That was awesome to watch! Loved the crowd absolutely converging on Phil and the walk down the 18th!
I said ‘athletes’.
Oh, are you the guy who found golf so easy he had 18 holes in one?
Yep. I’m not the most goal-oriented person in the world, but I see the value in goal orientation. If you want something, go get it. You’ll only regret stopping short.
“You’ll only regret stopping short”
This is why I play DG, I’m getting good, and they have old guy divisions! but more importantly, it’s a long term goal, and very results oriented as it were,
And I play Every. Day.
That’s awesome. Go for the result you want, and maybe want more than you *think* you can achieve right now. It’s the only way you’ll know what you can get.
My Club kids crush me, they better, 21-30 or so, but they make me much better, so I can hold my own now,
it’s pretty cool,
MANISTEE! DGC
I have always believed that if you hang out with people who are smarter, or more skilled, or better, than you, you can only get better. Being the best only makes you complacent.
Or rather, thinking you’re the best only makes you complacent.
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the the wrong room,
yep. If you can’t see the sucker at the table, you’re it.
Hangs Zoomy head in shame…
One foot ahead of the other downstairs. Jesus, Thursday scared the shit outta me…
Last week I was the only one lacking a Phd.
No, I don’t have a PhD.
I have a PHD
Isn’t that what Phelps did? or was that some other Olympian who was always in trouble for getting stoned with his boys?
Of all the humans I have met, I struggle to think of any one of them as “Homo superior.” But some of them have achieve extremely in their chosen fields. In my mind, what makes greatness is drive and persistence. Potential means a lot, but it can’t compensate for holding back. Imagine if you were a Soap Box Derby competitor and held the brake, just a little, because you were afraid of how fast you could go.
There are things I have done in my life to apply the brakes at times when I felt I didn’t know what was around the next corner, but in most cases, had I just let it all go, I’d have been further down the road I’m on by now. No matter how much you fear success, the odds of crashing might be low enough to justify the extra speed.
Brake early, accelerate out, carry your momentum, Life and Driving, same thing, never Sandbag, every shot counts, no mistakes,
Fuck. Yes.
The meek shall inherit the crumbs left behind by the bold.
I’ve eaten a lot of crumbs.
That’s the worst Rush remake song ever.
LOLOLOL!
That was a good one. Points to Tardis!
Indeed!
You mock me. I approve, Sir Festus.
“ass is five times wider than your head, ”
A buddy was lamenting something like this about Lilly the AT&T girl. Apparently they are hiding her gigantic ass behind tables and such? Why would such a hawt lady let herself go like that?
Olive oil and Pierogies.
Don’t talk shite about pierogies!
Never have and never will. I love them!
I’m somewhat spoiled. Not to mention that I can go to almost any church in the area on Fridays and buy all I want.
Red flag
Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led a review of the security failures leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said Sunday that if Capitol Police had a National Guard quick reaction force in place during the riots, the events that day “could have been totally different.”
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When asked by Dickerson how the events of Jan. 6 would have been different with a quick reaction force in place, Honoré said “it could have been totally different.”
“And as been pointed out, someone in commanding control where the Capitol Police Chief can go directly to the guard in an emergency situation is one of the recommendations we made, and get the National Guard to start moving,” he added.
We could have had a real banana republic bloodbath, if only we had the will. Dozens (hundreds!) of dead insurrectionists, instead of just one. That’ll show ’em we’re serious about DEMOCRACY!
We could have killed hundreds of unarmed people, instead of just one!
FAP.FAP.FAP.
Fuck off and die, murder proponent.
I’m so fucking pissed about this whole thing. That girl was no threat to anyone. Fucking murderous pig shot her for nothing. Asshole skates while cities burn for some BLM bullshit. Fuck all of these assholes. Every. fucking. one. of them.
Yes, what’s really needed is a Praetorian Guard. A permanent QRF funded out of the Guard, with no powers of arrest, limited force options, and unknown amount of training and experience. That’s the magic bullet that would have helped that day? Bull fucking shit. Piss on the other leg.
And I love how a mid level civilian federal employee would be authorized to call out the guard directly.
And fck Honore in general. He is a grandstanding ass who never has understood how to motivated Soldiers with anything but fear. I have never known him to be correct about anything.
I want to think I’m different, but I now I never can!
WOOT!
I’ve reached the end of the first draft of “Prince of the North Tower” – 128,018 words (Unedited).
Bravo! 😀
I have a postscript to add where Dug gives little updates to whatever happened to each of the characters, but the main narrative is done and closed.
After that comes editing.
Who does that for you?
First pass, I do.
Then I have to go out and find other people. Evan edited “Beyond the Edge of the Map”. but I’ve used three different freelancers over the years.
I’m genuinely happy for you, UCS!
I’ve been working on this book for five years.
Good to have it done.
It seems you’ve had a flurry of inspiration/energy recently. Congrats!
I needed to get something done and North Tower was furthest along. So I focused my efforts and basically ignored everything but writing.
Perseverance pays. Now collect your royalties. Good show, Young Man. Now start another one, idle minds…
Start? I’ve already started a number. People want me to finish “On Unknown Shores”, and some people would like the next Shadowbook.
Of course, I can always start more. I’m not bereft of inspiration yet.
Sweet! Congrats.
Thank you.
Between the lines of age?
Grats. The world is richer with more libertarians (even self non-professed) writing.
Err… it’s a story about noblemen warring over who gets to be in charge of a feudal holding.
Yeah, maybe this one works better. IDK it’s what I’m listening to right now.
Still listening to Powerwolf at the moment… It’s part of the soundtrack by which I composed the rest of the book.
whoa that’s a lot of words
If you want to see a lot of words, pick up one of Mojeaux’s doorstoppers. 🙂
UCS, I feel like I have read others of your works, did you write “The Last Days of Jericho?”
No.
If you click the link in my username you’ll see my amazon page.
OK, what’s a good starter, then?
Either “Shadowboy” or “Beyond the Edge of the Map”. They’re the entry point to two different settings.
OK, just bought “Beyond.” It was a tough choice, but I’m not really a superhero fiction kind, so I went nautical.
Hey, if it’s not your bag, I’m not about to try to force you.
Fair warning, they don’t get the ship until partway into the book. It starts out as a land caravan.
Me neither but it was a lot of fun. Read it.
I can heartily recommend “Beyond the Edge of the Map”, db. It is a good story.
I am amazed by the talent here.
What a ripoff, “land caravan.”
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FYI, haven’t started reading yet; my ipad’s in a different bvilding
One of the things I like about “The Incredibles” is that you didn’t have to be a superhero fan to get it and enjoy it. Once I finish “beyond” I’ll have a taste.
I do hope you enjoy the stories.
I aim to entertain.
Congratulations, man!
I’m looking forward to reading it.
I don’t have cover art yet, it needs editing and polishing. But it’s in the pipeline for publication since I finished the draft.
Best. Feeling. Ever.
Congrats!
Thanks.
Sheesh.
Sixty five characters survived “Prince of the North Tower”.
That’s not counting those who died, or those who were dead to begin with.
I don’t think I’ll get the postscript done tonight.
But that’s not really needed for the book.
Sell it as DLC? 🙂
Day 1 DLC is so uncouth.
Stretch goal.
Today has been mostly about getting my house fit…to be seen. We have a friend coming over for dinner tomorrow night, and nothing shames me into cleaning like the prospect of (non-sibling) company. Even Tranquility Base got thoroughly swept and tidied up, since weather permitting, we hope to be able to eat out there.
TIL my kitchen floor is yellow.
My kitchen floor is mottled brown. And that’s the intentional color of the tile from whoever had it put in.
That’s very convenient. Personally, I’m fond of the brown speckled Formica of our countertops that hide a multitude of
sinscoffee grounds.GT has a friend, I’m telling…
I’ve scheduled a contractor to come in and replace a bunch of carpeting with some very nice hardwood floors, I’m trying to convince the girlfriend this means we need to pick up and host a gathering after it’s installed.
Everywhere I look, I see more that needs to be cleaned. TT & I just tag-teamed Cometing all the schmutz off the lower kitchen cabinet doors.
And I still have more laundry to do.
I left the cabinets unscrubbed and did my laundry today.
It helped that I could leave it alone most of the time and focus on writing.
One more load into the dryer when the current one is done “touching up,” and one more into the washer with nothing that will have to be hung up when it’s dry.
So glad you’ve finished the draft of Prince. Can’t wait to read the rest.
I posted this before, but not sure how many people saw (or cared about) it. A great cover of the rhythm part of what is perhaps Van Halen’s Best Song.
I wish I could find a good cover video of the lead part. (I guess Edward van Halen’s lead and rhythm parts have a bit of overlap)
I like that song, but I think I like this one better, despite it being the wrong singer.
BTW, in 1981, my friend and I went to the Troubador to see a band. At the bar, we were trying to talk the tender into serving us (despite being 15 y/o) and we saw some chicks at the other end of the bar. We asked the bartender who they were and he said, “Man! That’s David Lee Roth!” Wearing lingerie and high assed hair sprayed hair and everything. Later… nevermind.
HA!
Later, we crashed a stolen car into a flower shop and my friend tried to steal a very large potted plant. I stole a bottle of high end champagne. I suddenly realized that was an inconvenient spot to leave off.
Did you at least get sushi and not pay?
No just drunk. It was funny, with my friend trying to drag a huge min-tree up Doheny Blvd. I kept telling him to leave it and he kept telling me it cost a hundred bucks. Finally, he gave up and left it. Doheny is a steep hill going north to Sunset.
Got a new pt to work on my shoulder. She did some interesting hands on techniques which greatly improved the pain, mobility and strength in under a week.
Still being careful until I feel 100%, couple weeks of vacation didn’t hurt either.
“… interesting hands on techniques…”
Go on…
Still no goddamn bar seating. And they still have the tables spaced out like a slowly failing restaurant trying to keep up the illusion of brisk commerce. I feel bad for the waitresses still having to keep up the mask pretense. On the other hand, most patrons aren’t bothering with it.
On the other other hand, a depressing number of pedestrians on the way here are wearing it.
At least 90% of people are still wearing them in stores here, but that’s been allowed for less than a week now.
It’s all compliance, all the time up here. We’ll see what happens when the sun starts asserting itself.
When the cool kids stop wearing them is when everyone else gets led into the chute. When I was 15 every kid wore Nike “All Courts” for about 6 months until they didn’t.
We’ve been through a summer already. At least here in Albuquerque, we queued up in lines outside stores usually as long as the storefront to do our sadly essential grocery shopping, in 90+ degrees, for months. I quit shopping before 9:00 at night because I didn’t want to deal with the fucking lines. (And for some reason, the curfew hours are still in force here.) I suspect people here will just comply forever.
That’s nuts.
Here in NYC there was only one market near me – the Middle Eastern one across the street – that pulled the “lines” thing – once for about a week a year ago, and once for about a week last month. At least in the first case I heard it was caused by complaining Karens.
The other two, larger supermarkets I use – never a line.
The only other lines I’ve seen were in front of a ‘rona testing joint and a “Arab Association” around the corner that the city tapped for handing out care packages. I wonder what became of that; it ended some time last year.
Yeah, we still have some of the mandates in place here. Masks, in particular. Supposed to end June 15th. We’ll see. At least the floor stickers that remind me of a board game are gone. Every time I stood on one, I expected to get a bucket of water dropped on my head.
There’s still scuffed up floor stickers meant to represent the direction aisles are meant to be traversed, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen them respected.
Unlike the one time I was asked to exit from the door I’d entered because it wasn’t the designated entrance, at 9:50, ten minutes to close, long after the lines had dissipated.
At least Kroger has stopped bleating over the PA about “the virus”.
Even the road condition marquees on the overpasses no longer run schoolmarmish cautions about keeping your mask on the for the good of the state. They’re back to running seatbelt cautions. Which convinces me even further that leftists are pivoting away from a political loser (endless covid fearmongering) in order to help shore up Biden’s flagging popularity, much as they’d like to continue enforcing petty authoritarian mandates against the proles. .
Wow. Lines?
Not to rub it in but Ive been shopping at Publix for over a year with no mask. Normal amount of shoppers inside and no lines outside.
There are some companies in Georgia that require masks, so I go to one that is mask free and pro science.
We didn’t have mandates until October.
I haven’t seen anyone take down their friendly “NO MASK NO SERVICE” signs yet. But as you say, it’s still early days.
To be honest, I don’t see them going away any time soon. I hope I’m wrong.
Out of the three bars I was in today. One still had a sign up saying masks were required for everyone (but the staff was looking forward to removing the dividers and the mask mandate), one had a sign up saying “Masks no longer required”, and the third had no signs up (Bartender and one patron was wearing a mask). On the bike ride today, I saw only a handful of people wearing masks in the parks.
Overall, it was a good day.
Sounds like a good door. 3 bars on a Sunday. Nice.
*day
First two I had biked up to. Two pints that were sub 5%, last one the girlfriend and I walked up to on the way to get frozen custard (but they sold a 9% DIPA for ~$5 a pint).
Oregon is still being retarded. Our vizier of health declared that unless a business checks the persons vaccination status they have to be masked. So, everyone is still masked, at least in my neck of the woods. But I am seeing less and less outside of the stores. I have been randomly going without and no one is really batting an eye.
Then again, I was talking to my barber, and he is sure people are going to lie to him about their status.
“ he is sure people are going to lie to him about their status.”
Well, yeah.
Governor Librarian is so sexy when she gets her tyrant on.
We have been traveling a lot this year so far. First up the Rocky Mountain states and now through the upper midwest. Nowhere, even here in the hell that is Whitmer’s Michigan have we found the face mask madness of New Mexico. It is now to the point that I don’t want to return home. WAG says that maybe 10% of people I encounter are masked and that includes clerks and waitstaff while on the road.
I’ll be so glad when this horseshit is over.
I realized over this weekend, the first we’ve had official imprimatur from our betters at the CDC to go without a mask, that nobody actually challenges anybody about the fucking masks. We could have, months ago, gone maskless, and likely would not have been confronted, because A) the staff haven’t got the authority to demand it, B) demanding it would likely involve calling police, C) Nobody here knows who has a pistol in his glove compartment, and D) some New Mexicans are lunatic enough to get that shitty about confrontations. Everyone here is stupidly compliant and also very polite about compliance.
“Stupidly compiant” and “polite about compliance” covers a large fraction of the US these days.
but the undercurrent is “fuck you,” at least out in the wastelands.
I just drank three of my perfect Margaritas.
I haven’t had so much fresh lime juice in a year.
Scurvy is a terrible, and completely treatable, disease!
I’m treating it like a boss.
#metoo
I won’t fail from the scurvy, probably rickets.
Mmmmargaritas.?
daaaaaamn
I just harvested my last Winter plant, my hands are still sticky, even after Oxyclean and Clorox, and my house stinks, more than usual,
/Ultra Dank…
I can’t partake no mo but I do love that raw smell.
Usually you can use your Fiskars for a few plants before cleaning them when trimming, mine were wiped out halfway through one plant, that’s Dank as Fuck,
Yeah, I get tested every so often. THC would not be a good look. Sticking with beer for the time being.
I was told our Company runs on THC, I agree, we don’t drug test, wonder why?
/Rural Michigan
Wow it’s early for tomatoes
The bigger buds, and another pile of popcorn, indoor grow, not very tall,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TfMnkWskZkFhgoo67
Dang. That’s about a 1/4 oz dried. Nice work.
OK, let’s check the good old Daily Mail…
Wild TikTok party…no, they should get off my lawn…Biden drops student-loan forgiveness from budget…there’s a surprise…weirdness in Belarus with a President who’s hard to spell…mmm-hmmm…record-breaking heat wave to hit southeast…OK…Rand Paul won’t get vaccinated…he’s a Senator, not a doctor!…Canadian rescues woman from subway-station attack in NY (he’s with the CBC, it says)…interesting…Prince Harry…nope…Fauci open to the covid lab theory…yay…
Wait, here’s a man-bites-dog story – Notre Dame tries to kiss the ass of the woke religion and meets some backlash which actually seems effective. They’ll go back to kissing ass tomorrow. After all, Biden is a “devout Catholic.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9610201/Joe-Bidens-administration-skip-University-Notre-Dame-commencement-abortion-row.html
They aborted his speech. Shortly after conception.
Some people met with some doctors and some decisions were made.
“Thou shall not be Sniffy!” was the fourteenth Commandment, followed by the fifteenth, “Thou shall not abuse hugs to cop a side-boob caress”. Those tablets got left on the trail because Moses had a pebble in his shoe or got tired or some shit.
(well, a CBC employee, nationality not specified)
The Belarus thing is crazy – they scrambled an armed MIG 29 to force the Ryanair plane to land in Minsk (fake bomb threat) all so that they could arrest an opposition journalist. Journalist and companion and “4 other russians” were the only ones not on the plane when it took off again.
Another reason to despise Donald “the American government does questionable shit, too” Trump. Yeah, maybe don’t make your political adversaries’ job (by which I mean journalists, not necessarily Dems, BIIRM) easier for them.
Too local but this is delightfully derpy.
Dude, you’re a Democrat. You’re supposed to be prepared for this sort of stupidity.
LOLOL yeah, OK.
What’s a Jay-Z?
Jay Adams? I’m old too.
He skated for Z-flex.
More entertaining. That’s for sure.
But damn, the oldness sucks.
I hated him, personally, he was a Dick, Stacy was cool,
/Badland Boys!
@ blackjack
BTW, Imma take the kid up to the Mt. Baldy pipeline next weekend. I’ve never skated it, but it’s been a thing since I first rode. I’ll try and get some pics.
When you are 3/4s up and blow out onto the vert, let me know, the drop is something else,
He was, and he ended up in prison for it. Tony was a punk too.
Good luck with Baldy, it’s still epic, 45 years later,
Yup. Looking forward to it. I hope the kid can snap a pic of me past vertical. I’d really like to pop out of the pipe onto the flat wall. We’ll see.
the farther out you land, the tighter the transition, it gets dicey,
Don’t Forget the Skatepark! my Buddy Steve Alba designed it like the OG park from the 70’s,
but way better, worth the trip, in Upland, close by where you are going,
I remember Steve Alba. Saw him skate at Skatercross once. I just remember he was short and he shredded.
A billionaire no-talent hack?
“Jay Z is a successful entrepreneur, and he got successful without any help from me. I commend this all-American self-reliance. As Mayor, I won’t be helping people who don’t need my help, I’ll focus on the marginalized communities who *do* need my help with a hand up, not a hand out.”
This is offered to him free of copyright.
+1 Michael Bolton
LOL if I ever run for office as a Democrat and find myself having to black it up, I’ll name Geto Boys as my favorite rap act.
I’ll embrace my geekdom and go MC Frontalot.
Back up in your ass with the resurrection
“LOL if I ever run for office as a Democrat and find myself having to black it up, I’ll name Geto Boys as my favorite rap act.”
As a Democrat? OK (though I think it would be considered old-guy music by now).
But as an alternative to the Dems? Any black voter open to leaving the Dems would be resistant to extreme condescending pandering – which can be obtained in bucketloads by staying with the Dems. School choice, law and order – including locking up bent cops – and other concerns which people voice in *genuine* listening sessions – I suppose that would be the way to go, but I’m no political consultant.
Narrator: Rhywun has no intention of running for office as a Democrat, or any other party, but especially as a Democrat.
Hahahahah
The Indian dude from Office Space is the gay dude from Bad Santa who is not gay, buddy.
Wheeeee youtube rabbit hole
He was also in Pi, which I don’t really care to revisit, but that’s a weird credit to have.
As a libertarian, if anyone asked me to name my favorite rapper, I would just say Eric July.
Lol. I wish Eric July would edit his recordings after he thinks aloud a while. He has some good ideas and interesting ways of expressing them but sometimes he wanders about a while too long before he finds the point he wants to deliver.
A kick in the pants. Needed it, Chafed.
You’re welcome.
I need a sunday zoom. Brain’s bursting with ideas that will wash ashore on Monday’s sands
Just take a Soma, and you will be fine,
/Hits Weed pipe
Opiate of the masses; I won’t partake
Drug of choice, YMMV
We all do us!
That’s kinda gross, I think South Park did it..
It’s not gay, it’s masturbation!
Work comes too early on Monday morning for me.
No kidding.
“Brain’s bursting with ideas that will wash ashore on Monday’s sands”
Reminds me of one of my favorite poets, Thomas Gray – you know, the guy who got fired by Hallmark Cards.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
A broken will’s wreck’d on the shoal
A shattered keel’s undone
A disattached barnacle’s goal
To surf the waves in the wild sun
Jay-Z?
db with a lot-of-beer
Hey, not bad!
Got my morning 15km bike commute in and am having some coffee and watching 4 year olds butterfly hunting in the park. Have a good week, glibs.
https://ibb.co/K5pN8Pn
10km walks home from the bar (!), peddling 15km to work the next morning.
Now I’ve got the Reading Rainbow song in my head.
You think it’s a game?
“Reading Rainbow 6” is a disappointing google search.
Reading Rainbow Six Siege?
I’m thinking Rogue Spear but that’s what I cut my teeth on with that series.
Went into Ghost Recon, then maybe five or so years? later tried out Vegas, and the tone was an upsetting departure.
That^ was excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kppx4bzfAaE OMG did I miss this?
I’m off to work, kids. Ive already been told tonight is going to be a bitch.
I’ll leave you with this.
I’m baking Cookies, Tomorrow is just another workday, glad I’m alive to enjoy it, and Disc Golf!
Carpe Discum!
I did jack shit today. Just sat on my ass with my foot elevated trying to get the swelling to go down. Two broken toes are screwing up my initiative.
I would be so pissed off! probably try to walk and do more damage,
Nooooo!
In the words of my favorite old technician, “No good can come from it.”
Ignore that shit! It won’t even come back to haunt you, until you’re like… in your fifties. Probably won’t even live that long anyway.
Fix ter toes, yo!
Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster https://youtu.be/dIV1EAruGiM
Smells familiar. I did a couple of loads of laundry and contemplated my Friday wipe-out on the Tree of Whoa. Double-shift tomorrow. Great fun!
Sitting-on-your-ass-time is handloading-time.
I’m looking at my half torn off middle toe nail thinking…this isnt so bad.
Hope your foot feels better soon
When TF did Abita make Purple Haze a not-twist-off?
/ouch
First reading: “Purple Haze” = song by Jimi Hendrix. Sentence does not work.
Second reading: “Purple Haze” = particular strains of LSD-25 and marijuana. Sentence does not work.
Third reading (light switches on): He’s talking about a brand of beer that has turned away from a twist-off bottle cap. Sentence finally makes sense.
for reference: beer is my referent, in general.
They were always pop tops I thought?
Guess my callusses have gotten weak
Would today’s audiences have <a href="https://youtu.be/-cNwf-lifIw?t=2417" patience for this? Why? Why not?
seriously? https://youtu.be/-cNwf-lifIw?t=2417
Extra fun! This is my birthday song from a fellow Canuckistani! https://youtu.be/CCZ68H6UHPs
And, so, at last, I saw that there was a spark of good–in Ringo.
…
Man, Ringo got fucked.
Ringooooo!
Why’s it your birthday song?
Happy birthday!
You misunderstand. Ringo was the #1 song in the land the day I was born.
I didn’t write a #1 song until I was 3
Strangely enough, Lorne Green never had another #1 hit after Ringo.
But damn, he got to #1 with that during Beatlemania and the prime of The Supremes. Quite an accomplishment.
Oh, well, print out my post and open it on your actual birthday. With my compliments!
The real Adama. It’s hard to hear his voice and not think the intro to BSG.
Impossible. That’s not Rush or Triumph.
No Max Webster? Cries a little inside…
In regards to what hip hop act you need to say you like to get elected.
No answer will be good enough so don’t bother.
Go with Clutch for president.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=petDzxPB_bo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuphcpY5a5A
Better with video.
I am not cool. But I will accept the nomination.
Jimmy Hendrix on the 20$ bill and Bill Hicks on the Fiver.
I’ll allow it, but early 1980s Neil Peart gets the ten spot.
A Canadian?
US. $10 was worth something then
Otherwise I would have insisted on the $50
When you accidentally meet another undercover Fed online.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ramuneflavor/status/1396172924428505092
I once saw a truck driving along I79 in West (by god) Virginia with lettering on the top of the windshield:
CLEAN MUD PUSSY
I’ve a fucking pimple on my cheek. I haven’t had a pimple since I was a fucking teen.
Whatever you do, don’t pop it. Let it get all puss filled and gross.
Endorsed.
Wait 2 days then squeeze it onto a Cheez-IT. Eat while chanting “My Lord APOPHIS CHOOZE ME.”
Nice avatar, BTW.
Yeah, I like it. Came to me in a dream, you see.
A fucking teen trying his best to fuck other teens.
https://youtu.be/dF0a8ssdaDU
Heh. I used to wear shirts like that.
My back is doing that wibbly-wobbly thing again. I probably need to go practice some yoga. With the Gilfs. Make me feel spry once more.
Three quarter moon. Sigh. Aunt flow will be visiting the big site.
When my husband took ill in January, I put a TV in the bedroom for the first time in my life, since he was bed-bound for so long.
Now that fucking thing is the bane of my existence.
I hope those Bose hearing aids are noise canceling.
Hello Glibs, another workweek begins, yip…eeee
*grumbles incoherently*
?
Seconded
Work? I did that last week.
Every week, forever….
/kicks self in ass,
My week will be “virtual vacation week” because my boss is off! 😀 Still, gotta get payroll posted today. At least for once payroll week didn’t fall during the week of the Monday holiday, leaving me to get it done in a blind panic on Tuesday.
My last week of WFH.
I think I’ll be extra-lazy this week.
Need I encourage you to drink one for us?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhCd1W2V0Q
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https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/05/with-so-many-first-time-boat-owners-on-the-water-memorial-day-weekend-could-be-hazardous.html
Valid concern. Also, be careful on the roads, it’s (likely) gonna be a shit show of drunk drivers this year. After all the shut downs, I’m guessing it’s gonna be ugly.
I live in yet another tourist town, and it has already begun, we have traffic, here, it’s terrible, and adds an extra 3 minutes to my commute…….
and people drown up here a lot,
So far so good this morning along my commute route, but that includes a construction zone with the barriers that turn the lanes into pinball chutes. I hate those things. I fear traffic may get worse as the week goes on. 🙁
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ih94oEBqPw
Kitteh fakes injury.
That’s pretty cute – and completely plausible, given what I know of cats! 🙂
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/515m-mega-millions-jackpot-pennsylvania
I hope it was one of our PA glibs!
Im sitting in my van listening to a classical music station, from Cali, KUSC LA 91.5
I love the 21st c.
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning, U. Just replied to your latest e.
I saw, but I’m still waking up, so I’m not done thinking it over.
No rush. As I always say, waking up is overrated.
Good Mornin’ to all,
Good to see you again and start another day of sitting, watching covid and the border situation become marginalized and fade away while the beady eyed prez scopes out new solutions to old problems. More money, yeah, that’s the solution to the homeless, the druggies, the marginalized, the lazy, oops, not the lazy, just those unwilling to work for the prevailing wage.
As long as they can print the money. Hyperinflation is an elegant solution to the equity “problem” when we can all be equally broke and miserable.
Good morning, 4(20) and Stinky! Time for me to go get ready to go to work, like the chump that I am.
“ ‘I Didn’t Stop to Think About It’ – Whitmer ‘Apologizes’ After Getting Caught Violating Her Own Covid Orders at Lansing Dive Bar This Weekend”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/didnt-stop-think-whitmer-apologizes-getting-caught-violating-covid-orders-lansing-dive-bar-weekend/
HOW many strikes does this lady get? She’s on at least number six already.
I was hoping she really was in a “dive” bar, looks like a college place.
Catering to divers?
Winos, old prostitutes, grifters, barflys, lots of borderline mental cases, etc, etc…
You want her to come to Glibs?
She’s worse than that sneaky cat faking an injury.
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/05/23/high-steaks-for-u-s-agriculture-bidens-climate-goals-collide-with-the-reality-of-the-meat-industry-n1449069
“Raise the hackles” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
who would resent any interference by the government into trying to control their diet.
**Looks at food pyramid, farm subsidies, sugar protectionism**
Yeah, not seeing it.
Right? That ship sailed decades ago.
Please Joe, please! Don’t just touch that third rail, grab it with both hands!
Joe in action
suh’ fam ?
whats goody ?