Chapter 5 of The Slight Edge is entitled “The Quantum Leap Myth.” I no longer buy into this myth but for far too long, I did.
Some day …
Some day, when my ship comes in…
Some day, when I have the money…
Some day, when I have the time…
Some day, when I have the skill, the confidence…
There is no some day. There is only today. When tomorrow comes, it will only be another day; so will the next day. They all will. There is never anything but today.
And some more shocking news: your ship’s not coming in – it’s already here. Docked and waiting. You already have the money. You already have the time. You already have the skill, the confidence. You already have everything you need to achieve everything you want. You just can’t see it.
That vaporized my excuses. Why can’t you see it? “Because you are looking in the wrong place. You’re looking for the breakthrough, the quantum leap. You’re looking for the winning lottery ticket in a game that isn’t a lottery.”
I have a minor quibble with Olson in that I think a reasonable, honest person can truthfully assess they need more of something in order to succeed. I have no doubt his rejoinder would be to use The Slight Edge Principles to get what you need. And he would be right. Need more skills? Then acquire them bit by bit. Need more time? Then bit my bit rearrange your life to get that time. Need more money? Then bit by bit save it, find partners, or invest. So, he is right. The time is now. Your success will come in small, even microscopic, steps. There is no quantum leap to success.
The implications for fitness are obvious. If you want or need more endurance, then work up to it bit by bit. You won’t go from walking mile to running a marathon by magic. If you need to lose weight, it can be done bit by bit. Or bite by bite. You aren’t going to drop 40 pounds overnight.
This week’s music is the only sensible choice given my musical proclivities. I know there are a million good choices for July 4th. This song, and the video, is every bit of shameless excess that makes America great. *I am not crying. It’s dusty in here.*
If you want something and are unwilling to do what it takes to get it, then you don’t actually want it.
I’m talking to the firsting Bro, here. Hover over the button or go home.
Harsh.
But fair.
I like the Bro, but he invites this the way he approaches firsting.
Is he he into fisting as well? It’s close. As far as letters go.
The implications for fitness are obvious. If you want or need more endurance, then work up to it bit by bit. You won’t go from walking mile to running a marathon by magic. If you need to lose weight, it can be done bit by bit. Or bite by bite. You aren’t going to drop 40 pounds overnight.
Yes.
And… I fell off the wagon a bit with weight loss. 264 lbs at 26.3% bodyfat. I have made it to the gym though, so at least I have that going for me.
I head on vacation later this week.
Music choice is good.
This is what was so very helpful to me about “Ozy’s program.” Start with 1, of whatever, increase by 1 a day.
Now I’m old, decrepit, and appallingly out of shape, so I allowed myself ‘plateau’ stages, where I held at a given level until I could do it without major struggle or pain, then started incrementing up to the next plateau. The effects have been significant and I’m incredibly grateful that I started and have stuck with it.
Steady increments, plateaus as needed, and *make it routine*. So simple. So effective.
*make it routine*. So simple. So effective
The key right there.
Seconded
Yeah, I’ve lost some ground with weight loss, but I was on vacation last weekend so that was expected. Not too much damage done, and will get back on track Tuesday.
OT, we have a situation where people are protesting a spa for letting a dude flash a bunch of women because he calls himself “trans.” The leftists are literally physically attacking the protesters. Meanwhile, we have a recall election where the most famous contender for governor is calling himself, ” trans.” Why is nobody asking him/her/it for a statement? Seems like a no brainer to me.
You already know the answer.
He could potentially have a good take on it even… but who knows.
Brooks and Dunn weigh in on the nature of America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1iI-DaJNw
And so does Neil Diamond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSLRbm8L9E
Whenever I visit my parents I see my grandfather’s certificate of entry from Ellis Island. Whenever I see my kid’s spouses I see some of our newest citizens. Happy birthday to the ideals of our country.
Happy birthday to the ideals of our country.
Amen.
Freedom’s just another word for the sand that slips between our fingers.
wait isn’t this a teensy bit early? Usually drops at 22
Look, this is ‘Murica and we don’t need no furriner telling us when or when not to drop articles, on Independence Day no less!
See, SP is away and left this for me to do, so of course I’m likely to fuck it up.
Isn’t that what every husband does? Screw things up so badly you will never be asked to do it again.
That actually works? Not still get “asked” but also reminded of the screwup?
You have to invent new ways of screwing things up. And then stick to them as a part of your dogma.
“Do you even understand how dishwashers work? This has to be two loads, and cramming it into one load makes sure it won’t get clean.”
“*sigh* I’ll do it myself”
+1 “you are not allowed to fold my clothes”
I worked that one in both former marriages.
So that’s the girlfriend’s strategy!
Towels. I apparently fold towels wrong and I pretend I cannot learn her way cause the military drilled into me how to fold em.
Yep. There is a reason I am not allowed to do the wife’s laundry.
But I have to go after her and reload the dishwasher. Every. Time.
OBE, the carnitas discussion yesterday with Athena has me craving carnitas, so carnitas it is for the fourth. The recipe you linked looked great, so Independence Carnitas shall be brined, grilled for a bit over lump charcoal then slow roasted.
Dammit! Went to spray iron on the grass and I’m all out. I know I had one or two jugs around somewhere but they seem to be hiding.
weirdest euphemism yet!
I assume iron = blood and he is performing some kind of pagan ritual.
It’s my offering to the moss gods.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1411434737403666432
Enthusiasm.
On Hannity, Trump said he made up his mind about running again , but didn’t say if he would. I think he should stick to the kingmaker role.
At this time, of course lots could change in 4 years, and probably will all be for the worst, I’d say DeSantis is at the front of the pack. I can’t even think of anyone else who would be close. Of course you have the loser pack with Pence and all of the other anti-bad orange man. That will go worse than it did for them in the last campaign, they’ll be right around cackling heels up status of popularity.
You know, though… the dems are going to have 4 years to attempt to up their cheating game. And we’ll see that practiced in 2022. They’ll pick a few key states they believe can help them retain their majority in Congress and they’ll cheat their fucking pants off. I’d say it will be a total circus that will not leave any doubt this time that they cheated, and they’ll probably get away with it. By 2024 we’ll officially be a banana republic where no one around the globe will actually believe we have fair elections.
Anyone will win in ’24. The two possibles for team blue are Biden and Kamala. The dems are going full tilt boogie, because they sorta know they aren’t going to get the same cheating scheme they had last time. It’s their one chance to burn as much of it down as they can. Problem is, the obviousness of how much it sucks compared to just 6 months ago. Team blue, right now, is a lot like Al Queda right after 9-11. They hit too hard and too fast so now their days are numbered. CRT, the border, the sabotage of the economy and the blatant political persecution of Trump are undeniably pissing off the electorate. They have a very small chance of not getting hammered hard in both ’22 and ’24.
I’m pinning some hope on Arizona dropping some truth bombs. If not, I’m very suspect anything will change for the better.
One domino has to fall to start something good.
At least the supremes upheld the voting law rewind to pre 2020 half assed security levels. If they’d have knocked that down, I’d be even more skeptical than you.
Biden won’t make it to 24.
I was running on empty last week, burnt out on work/life/everything, so I slacked a bit on my workouts, stretching and diet. Only got in four days of 1+1+1so I am up to eight. Still in the easy mode so all good. I have four hours a day in on boat construction so far this weekend so that has made me feel good. The shop reeks of epoxy atm so I figure it is time to get my BBQ on.
“ burnt out on work/life/everything”
Hang in there, baby. You cool.
It’s hot outside. Kinda makes me not want to go to the parts store.
You guys and your fixation on weight.
how do your pants fit?
Just bought some new ones, so I’ve got that going for me.
Pants?!
It’s summertime, and my cargo shorts fit fine.
this guy gets it
+1 Sean
Shut up, it’s a holiday!
Where we’re going, we don’t need pants.
I’m not putting pants back on until the shooting starts. I don’t share the same philosophy with General Butt Naked.
Bib overalls, baby. They always fit good.
how do your pants fit?
Since I have five penises, “like a glove”.
I did not lose any weight this week. My appetite has come back full force. And my willingness to stand at the stove has improved.
I made it around the block on the new knee several times. I also resumed my normal 3 store grocery shopping trip. I refused to get a handicap parking permit, so was forced to walk further. I have also ditched both the walker and the cane.
I got to 108 degrees knee bending at physical therapy (with Brad the PT cranking the knee back and giving me tears). They say 115-120 degrees is the goal. That would mean being able to go up and down stairs normally instead of one step at a time. I’m keen to get this knee to full mobility so I can get the other knee replaced yet this year.
I’m going to go in to work this week, starting half days and working up to full. I’m thinking about flouting the dress code and wearing shorts. The scar on the front of my knee is still tender.
It’s good your knee is improving.
Good luck with the PT. Patience, and strength.
Good to hear you’re on the mend.
Seconded
Third.
Well, I just got out of bed and grabbed a cup of coffee. So you can guess how yesterday evening went… Gee look, it’s time for a beer.
Damn. Respect. That is some champion sleeping in there.
I didn’t hit the hay until 4:30am…
My head hurts just thinking about that.
Off to crew on a sailboat for a day of offshore racing. It should be fun since the Trades are blowing very strongly. It will be interesting to see what weird bruises will show up tomorrow.
Oh yeah, the skipper brews his own beers and is not shy about sharing with the crew.
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Rail meat!
“That vaporized my excuses”
To some extent my fitness lifestyle was about finding and dismantling my excuse factories. This was (and is) tricky because many of them are disguised.
For example, IMO, “the gym” itself is a huge excuse factory for many because the three pillars of fitness are diet, exercise and sleep. Two of those don’t require a gym in the least and even the middle one can be done w/o a gym. OTOH, if you have a gym membership it’s easy to use that as an excuse (hours of operation, covid rules, business, time it takes to get there and back, etc.). Once you have an excuse, you can ignore the other two pillars since you’re focused on the middle.
I try to: do more of what takes me in the direction I want to go, do less of what pulls me in the opposite direction and seek out fun and relaxing things that are neutral. I also try not to kid myself about which of the three categories various activities fall into.
That’s good advice.
Toxic individualism takes another victim
A Missouri woman who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she was afraid of its side effects died in hospital last month after contracting the Delta variant, her mother told local news outlets.
Tricia Jones, a 45-year-old mother of two from Kansas City, died on June 9 after a month in hospital on a ventilator.
Her mother, Deborah Carmichael, told local media that Jones was concerned about the vaccine after hearing “a lot of horror stories.”
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Missouri is one of the five states with the lowest vaccination rates in the US. Health experts there are racing to get people vaccinated as the Delta variant is taking hold.
Anecdotal sob story is sad. Don’t think for yourself. Do as you’re told.
Saint Foochy knows best.
How obese was Tricia?
You’re so insensitive.
And perspicacious.
You’re so polysyllabic.
Hawt!
Positively sesquipedalian, I am.
::fans self frantically::
If you use too many, they become sillyables.
Photographs suggest she was a big girl.
My shocked face. I’ve misplaced it yet again.
I was thinking the same thing. Nearly all excess death in people under 60, who get Covid 19, is due to obesity.
Ugh, get your disgusting british english out of this country. ‘in hospital’ *spits*
Wut?
“…in THE hospital” is the ‘Murican way to say it.
You only have one?
Man, now I understand why so many people think U.S. healthcare is expensive.
Missourians cannot be convinced to get the jab. Something something show me something something…
I’m about to have the fine folk at Boardwalk Pizzeria enact their labor for our dinner meal. I managed to get a mosquito bite right behind my ear. Also, the expected rain looks like it will miss us so we might get to see some pyrotechnic action.
Don’t know what we’re going to do for an evening meal today. We don’t usually eat much for dinner on Sunday after our usual raspberry waffle and turkey sausage patties brunch. I’m supposed to eat the last of the leftover pulled pork (from last Sunday) at some point, and we also have a commercial package of pulled chicken from Sam’s – plus a ridiculous amount of three kinds of leftover BBQ sauce (“original,” mustard-style, and hickory.)
And the aforementioned strawberry rhubarb pie.
I decided I’m not going to the brewpub tonight. I’m going to get stuff done in hopes of having less to do tomorrow.
I got off the couch to mix up some keto biscuits and tossed them in the oven. Yay me.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/TlkWVVmtQVWVUD0_3zO3rw.mgLlPCWUJMkohmZk2ogze2
Looks promising.
Just finished 25 miles on the bike and dropped about 4 lbs of water. It’s a bit warm out there.
Things that piss me off part eleventy.
People who say “the government has the right…”
Me, I don’t care anyway.
Getting ready to go out to Simi for the fireworks display. Lets hope it goes well, this time. This was what happened in 2013. It doesn’t really convey how intense the final blast was. It kicked up dust throughout the whole park. My kid woke up, after sleeping through the normal fireworks.
I’ve totally slacked off on my fitness routine for the last week plus. Could’ve gone to the Y just about any time while I was off work but didn’t. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get on the treadmill once since my vacation started on June 24th. I DID get a bit of a workout yesterday lugging my ridiculous conga & percussion rig around at a short benefit gig, plus essentially standing on one leg and working a kick drum pedal with the other for the better part of an hour. Amazingly, I don’t think I’ve lost much ground weight-wise, but I also haven’t lost any more. About ten pounds shy of my (possibly unrealistic?) goal.
I’ll try to get back into my regular diet and exercise regimen…Tuesday. I’ll get a salad at the ballpark for our next minor league game.
Canadians make country music?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvcESX4SAE
You never heard of Stompin’ Tom Connors up there in NewfieLand?
Shouldn’t Twink of the North ban that? It must offend his feminism.
Decent trucker music, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI_bW0Nwwc
That was decent. ?
Maclean & Maclean give a nice overview. – https://youtu.be/pN3e7eNQD58
I will not stand for this appropriation!
You can sit for it instead; we Canucks aren’t sticklers for ceremony.
Sha Nay Nay weeps. Stupid dumb fucking Mutt Lange.
DA BLACK FOLK NO LONGER ALLOWED TO VOTE IN GEORGIA!
We have to have an absurdly stupid electorate for anyone to believe any of these lies. I mean they don’t even try. They just scream racism about everything and make no attempt to even build a case.
Black folk can no longer vote!
Why?
Jim Crow!
Most people don’t bother to double check anything. They want to have a source they can readily accept. they’ve been told that the sources they can trust are CNN, NBC, ABC, etc. If they say it, most people will believe it. This whole thing is spinning (pun) out of control, because TMITE is now fully aware of this. They have big tech on their side. We have not seen the edge of what people are willing to swallow yet. I’m hoping that we get there quick, now that they are so super blatant about it, but I’ve been told I’m way too optimistic before.
It’s not only that the sheep believe what they do, but they want to. It’s impossible to convince someone of something against what they want to believe. Even if you show them direct irrefutable proof that what they believe is a lie, they will not let themselves be convinced. Self confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. Also, thinking is hard and most people don’t want to do it.
Public education did the job the proglodytes intended it to do. The dumbing down of America is finally here. They are now right on the doorstep of the Bolshevik revolution they’ve dreamed of for 100 years. Paradise is almost at hand.
They’re using the Big Lie theory – the notion that most people are used to small lies and on the alert for that. But audaciously over the top lies repeated over and over by lots of outlets FEEL true, since otherwise you would have to have the epiphany that all these organizations that you thought were good and virtuous truthseekers are in fact lying scumbags manipulating you, and those bad people you reviled are right.
???
Sad but true.
I think Turley is reading the political tea leaves correctly. I suspect the political geniuses in the Biden White House don’t understand they are overplaying their hand. I’m certain Congresscritters facing reelection in 2 years know to back away from at least some of this.
https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2021/07/04/they-saw-the-polling-third-ranking-democrat-in-the-house-openly-embraces-a-photo-id-requirement-for-voting/
The amazing thing about this. In Brazil, which I don’t think is even considered a 1st world country, last time I recall, a BRIC county? Anyway, they require a photo ID and they will check that it’s legit. And mail-in ballots are not allowed.
So here, in this 1st world country, THE first would country, democrats want to pass a national law so that you never have to show ID and mail-in ballots are just a free for all.
How the fuck better can you say banana republic?
..and this is what will ‘force’ Biden to pack the court- it was the only way to save democracy.
Ding ding, and we have a winner!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5EYN-u6NTiQ
Appropriate song for today.
Appreciate the sentiment, if not the actual music.
Here’s my pick. It don’t hurt my ears as much, either.
A fine tune.
Y’all toxic masculinity is frightening.
But if you like you some Skynyrd, this right here is the shit. Steve Fucking Gaines.
T for Texas
Huge Steve Gaines fan. Take a listen to this one.
Yeah, me too. I saw him in 76 or 77 in Cincy. We didn’t know who he was. One of my friends says ‘who the fuck is that?’ And a guy standing right in front of us says ‘That’s Cassie Gaines brother’, and we were like ‘whoa’, and I was immediately a huge fan. They did that song ‘You got that right’, one of my favs, and it was before the Street Survivor album was out.
Dude got hired into one of the hottest bands around, got his songs included on the next album and all based on one of the back up singers recommendation. One of the coolest rock to riches stories ever.
Gaines is what really put them over the top. I mean Rossington and Collins were both great guitarists, but Gaines was clearly the best of the 3. One of the best, if not the best guitarist/song writer, entertainers I have ever seen on a stage. Not many in his league. Tommy Shaw of Styx, besides that, I’m drawing a blank here.
Have you ever watched that story of how he got to play a song with Skynyrd because Cassie convinced them, and the rest is history? Unfortunately, the flight crew were a bunch of morons.
That’s great.
I’m a go with this for the 4th.
Born Free
Solid.
Relevant
I saw Mettallica, Korn, powerman 5000, some other band I can’t even remember and Kid Rock back in ’98. Mettallica was the most polished, Kid rock was easily the most entertaining and the rest of them sucked ass.
1991, Day On The Green – Metallica, Queensrÿche, Soundgarden, and Faith No More at the Oakland Coliseum. We sweet-talked Top into a couple of weekend passes, drove a couple hours North and had an amazing weekend.
I’m jealous.
Kinsaw Powerman in 2001. They put on a good show by then.
Metallica in 04? Right after bassist swaps. Not so good.
I saw Metallica on the Speed of Sound tour, they were a bunch of assholes.
Pet owners seek to delay demolition of Florida condo tower
“If there were people in there, they would have found a way,” Miro told the Herald of officials overseeing the rescue effort. “But they don’t think animals are as valuable.”
I love animals too, but animals aren’t people.
More to the point, my pup (whom I love, love, LOVE) is not worth my asking some recovery team to risk their lives to try and save (although I might try something stupid myself, but that’s my choice and my neck on the line, so . . . ).
Yup. I’ve two cats that I love too. But if somebody got seriously hurt or worse trying to recover them it’s not worth it.
I am not qualified to decide what risks other people should take, nor are they qualified to decide what risks I should take.
Meaning I’m not going to ask them to do so.
Yet people are animals.
You brute. / insert broad, salacious wink here
And some are more equal than others.
Leave me out of this.
People are nuts.
We’ve certainly been reminded of that in a myriad of ways in the last decade.
And yet nuts aren’t people.
Huh.
Well, under the labor theory of value, most people have put in more labor raising their pets than they have an SAR member.
I get the loss. I’m a pet owner. But at this point, what are the odds anyone, human or beast, is still alive?
Zero.
I’d rather not recover my pet at all than a dusty squished fraction of it.
^^^That.
“But they don’t think animals are as valuable.”
Correct. And?
Anti-glib fit:
This week it was too hot to take Lily to the dog park, so overnight instead of sleeping she got into my bottom-shelf cookbooks and shredded them. On the pile was an intact recipe for Chess Pie, which I took a a sign and made tonight.
Apparently pie pans were bigger back when this was written, because although the recipe said “makes one pie,” it nearly overfilled two of the modern 9″ type.
Apparently pie pans were bigger back when this was written, because although the recipe said “makes one pie,” it nearly overfilled two of the modern 9″ type.
Euphemisms? Phrasing?
Ah, so it’ll show up in the 2025 edition of The Joy of Cooking with a recipe heading that says “Makes one ENORMOUS fucking pie” or somesuch.
I tried to make it, but my hip went OH FUCK! so I hobbled home frome the beach, didn’t even make BBQ, Happy Fourth!
Tried and succeeded in making it
Also succeeded in making it
no, more like I don’t get to enjoy the fourth with my new friends, and it sucks,
/Old Man Bad!
Sorry.
just because you have insurance doesn’t mean you just walk into a Doctors office,
Maybe your new girlfriend can help make it feel better m
She’s in UP right now, but thanks for asking,
/Collect them all!
WTF do you mean?
I am solo this weekend and have overwhelming amounts of excellent produce. So it’s unlikely that this will be a good day for my weight.
These words make no sense to me.
You’ve never had my cooking.
Back in the day, Spud and I had a reputation as a cooking team that could make lettuce unhealthy.
Sounds like my kind of vegetarianism.
So a veggie okonomiyaki is calling you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki
It’s like Japanese soul food loved by everybody, but I’m not a fan despite liking almost of the ingredients in the variations.
Not in my top 10, either. The Korean version has a bit more punch to it, and when I have a flat top at my disposal (hopefully soon), I’m going to work out something in that genre more to my liking.
I’d love to have a flat top. I keep thinking about just getting a piece of steel for the barbecue.
Okonomiyaki. Is that Japanese for ‘fart your ass off’?
お好み焼き
お – O – polite embellishment
好み -konomi – liking, taste, choice
焼き- yaki – cooked
Essentially means “cooked how you’d like”.
I’m guessing this a name for a very regional dish. As in everyone makes it different. Cool.
I was just joking because of the cabbage.
I figured as much, but figured I’d be a smartass back.
Yes, it’s very regional and everyone has their idea of what is “best”. Some prefer crispier and some prefer more fluffy for example.
That fancy sliced ratatouille recipe is calling you.
Coincidentally, I’m looking at a sheet pan of thin eggplant slices, well salted and draining.
I’ll do the whole deal when SP gets back. It looked terrific and do-able.
Canuckistani country
It’s 40 below and I ain’t got a truck. *and if I did it wouldn’t start*
My favorite Canuck Country song.
Well dadblammit, My chickens did not thaw in time for the smoker. I guess we will have to settle for the St. Louis ribs tonight.
Thanks to those who gave me insight into my brisket smoking. I got it going the new electric smoker. Everything else is going on the Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/_RXczhZwQSSwNfMPTVOYPw.5Q22TiSlFPBW3O59jY6f1U
3.5 lbs of cow. God bless America!
At the pace we are going, that will be $4000 by 2022. But just think about how much better raw kale and grasshoppers are for you. You dear leaders have your best interest at heart and so they have to save you, from you and farting planet killing bovines.
I’ve got two more strips and a tri-tip to do tomorrow. I spent a bit much this weekend.
I have 6 big fat Ribeyes. Wife thawed out 2 of them for today and is tenderizing them before I throw them on the barbie.
I’ve noticed that companies seem to value the Project Management Professional certification program. I’m gonna buy the training and take the test. $550 but I think it might be worth it.
There are a couple of other professional areas I am going to study, bit by bit. I feel better already just having made the decision. I will slight edge the hell out of it rather than be intimidated by how much there is to go.
I’ve contemplated that one before as a low hanging fruit cert.
Keep it going, you have time to make it worthwhile, and if you find that sweet gig, Bail!
Happy Fourth HE!
Thank you! Same to you. I hope you get some relief from your hip pain.
This gal gets it.
Agreed on the PMP, thinking about that one myself- though not really what I want to do (management, of any type).
Good luck. Depends on what you like. I’m too disorganized for that. My boss is basically a project manager, but she has this big title with director in it. So that’s how you be a project manager but get more money I guess. Like I make a lot more being a senior software engineer than I did when I was a lowly programmer. Although it’s the exact same work.
She uses that MS Project software. I hate that thing. She’s always asking me ‘how long for this?’. And I say ‘as long as it takes, I dunno, few hours’. And she’s like ‘Mr. Hyperion, you have to give me numbers’. And then I just, you know, pulls something outa me arse. And that makes her happy for a while.
You just have to go to seminars and pick up on the latest buzzwords. I can’t even keep up with it. That last one was something about how we’re going to work in 2-3 week cycles. Where we decide what we’re going to get done and in 2 weeks, we release all of that into production. LOL, sure. They forgot to factor in clients on that one.
So there’s something to practice ‘How long will that take, give me an estimate!’.
But seriously, good luck, you can do it!
Project management pays so much because you have to herd engineering cats.
“Project management pays so much”
There’s a phrase I’ve never heard before. The PMs I’ve known would’ve done better asking customers “Would you like fries with that?” at the nearest McDonalds. The low remuneration must explain the shitty outcomes I’ve seen (and suffered because of).
You skimp on PMs you get a cascade failure.
Explains the project my poor, longsuffering Spousal Unit is working on for a regional telco. Yeeesh.
“you have to herd engineering cats”
And engineering cats are so much like the feline variety, it’s startling.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about analysts. You have to deal with those. We have some real winners! I do my own analysis, so I got spared from that one.
If you’re organized and can put up with lots of bullshit, you’ll be good. There will be one client that will drive you absolutely nuts, guaranteed. In my boss’s case, that would be mine, lucky me.
Haha, it is fun to mess with PM’s.
My favorite is when they tell me how much time it is going to take me to do my job. Pretty sure that isn’t how this works, it would make sense if they actually had any expertise, but no, let us just make the schedule before asking anyone doing the work how long it will take, or even if they’re free form other projects.
As for pay, PMs at my office get paid as much or more as the Engineers.
“My favorite is when they tell me how much time it is going to take me to do my job.”
That doesn’t happen with me. I can’t imagine … never mind.
Anyway, I’m sure she makes a little more than me, having the word director in your title, does that. Otherwise, I doubt it. I don’t think anyone in the development wing of IT makes more than engineers, except some managers and directors.
It’s very difficult to hire experienced devs. I’ve sat in on lots of interviews. They’re either fresh out of college with no clue or they want way more than what they want to pay. Hell, the last one they hired has zero experience, but that’s what they were able to get. No idea yet how that’s working out. And the fact they no longer hire people with green cards or any other visas has made it much harder. Half the devs working there now would not even be hired today.
I already do the work; been managing engineering projects and personnel for years without that being an official title.
I am wise in the ways of Microsoft Project, cost estimates for bid & proposal, tracking earned value, etc.
I just don’t have the certificate that seems to mean something to certain organizations.
I also have several current direct reports telling me that if they had to report to any other manager than me, they would have quit by now.
So I realize that if I jump ship it will have a ripple effect. But the corporate culture has turned very negative. Me no likely.
I see. I’d say go for it, then. Cost seems low, totally worth it.
Yeah, the new toxic woke culture of many corps suck. But to me, it’s mostly signaling. Sickening, but just signaling, which costs them nothing. I don’t think it will stop them from hiring we unwoke. If it does, they’ll soon wind up in hot water.
And she’s like ‘Mr. Hyperion, you have to give me numbers’. And then I just, you know, pulls something outa me arse. And that makes her happy for a while.
Gift her Tyranny of Metrics, she’ll either really appreciate it or she’ll fire you.
Best of luck, ’splosives!
Mad Minute with a M1869 Werder Rifle.
I really enjoyed this interview with a class 3/title 2 collector – https://youtu.be/j4W2mOtcPZY
He has quite the impressive collection.
I went to town with almost exactly enough money to buy four valve stems and a six pack of Coors Light.
Special bonus: the girl behind me in the grocery store with the fabulous light-up-a-room smile.
It’s good to see naked smiling faces. Masks are about nonexistent around here.
Chafed!
Yeah, most of us are finely tuned excuse generators. There are plenty of reasons why we aren’t where we want to be.
Your success will come in small, even microscopic, steps.
And this is why it’s so fucking hard.
Have a great week, Glibfitters! I’m stoked to read how many of you are taking those small steps.
Diamond Dave is always a good choice.
Tundra gets it!
I started on the treadmill a few days ago, first day was 1 MPH for 4 minutes, today I did 12 mins @ 1.5 and did a morning set and afternoon set. Did some upper body on the Weider Machine, 2 X morning and afternoon The walks today were .3 miles.
Starting slow and low. Can’t believe how much heavier things got in just a few weeks.
But you are back at it. So, good job Fourscore.
Hey Score, Way to get after it!!! Time is a bitch..and it is your bitch. Take it slow…but take it no matter. The next HH is your goal. Keep at it and eat your meat..how can you you have any pudding if you don’t eat you meat and YOU! Happy Four to you and yours……………………
Your musical proclivities aren’t the only ones you are revealing tonight. Them outfits though *rainbow flag*
Not in the 80s.
Everyone knows the 80’s was the gayest decade.
All those hair bands were gay?
Take a look at the comments for the video. I think you will appreciate them. My favorite:
DLR is awesome. He looks like a gay astronaut from an alternate time line but still rocks harder than anyone today.
Needs the first 100 seconds. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLWTrWgDTI
I debated whether to use that version.
Just watched two more solo DLR videos. No wonder I had a crush on him.
Never forget….
Vyvyan : [Taking out a book] Well, I’ve done my revision.
Mike : The Daily Mirror Book of Facts: Did You Know?
Neil : Do you think that’s where they get the questions from? The world’s record for stuffing marshmallows up one single nostril…
Vyvyan : Ehhh… 604, Toxteth O’Grady, USA.
Neil : Yeah, right! World’s stickiest bogey?
Vyvyan : Ha! Tried to fool me. That’s Toxteth again!
Rick : The World’s Stupidest Bottom-Burp: Vyvyan, Britain!
Neil : It says “Rick” here.
That’s the one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MumZJD97A
Looking forward to launching freedom into the air tonight. It’ll be a short show, but it should be loud and colorful. XX is even coming by. I miss her already, but don’t tell her that. It’s weird to look into her old bedroom and see it mostly empty.
Time to re-purpose that bedroom, mang!
XY is headed to the airport after a short (48 hour) visit. I miss him like crazy, but it’s so fucking gratifying to see them carve out their own lives.
Enjoy, my friend.
Class of ’55 had a reunion (meet up) Friday, 7 widow ladies, 5 couples. I towed my daughter and 1 grand daughter along, so they’ll know what to expect in 40-50 years. The 3 grand kids have their heads on straight, way better than their parents and Uncle. I’m grateful for that.
gratifying to see them carve out their own lives
Yes, I hope so. 🙂 She has a plan, and it’s good. I expect she’ll be making more than either of us while doing something she likes before she turns 28.
If she continues on to a doctorate in an actual medical field as planned, I’ll be so happy. I thought she just needed a Masters, but my wife says differently. We will see.
I do not like the circumstances because she had no reason to move out until she has to continue her education somewhere too far to commute to, like out of state. She could stay here and continue to save money, but she wants to try out her “training wheels” as my wife says. I don’t like that we can’t just pop over and say hi, but oh well.
Enjoy, my friend.
I’ll enjoy it more when it’s not so dusty around here.
Mine’s not out of the house yet, but she doesn’t seem to be as eager to go now that she can.
Has she figured out what moving out costs? That certainly has explained some of the reluctance of my nieces/nephews.
Not sure what she knows, thinks, or wants to do. I’m not sure SHE knows.
Her first adult act was to get tattoos. She’s probably not thinking past tomorrow.
Her first adult act was to get tattoos.
Oh, joy. I have an acquaintance who models for a living, and she’s in the midst of spending thousands and thousands of dollars on laser ablation to rid herself of the tattoos she got when she was younger (they really interfere with her nude modeling gigs, to the point where she’s lost some lucrative art nude commissions because the photographer/retoucher couldn’t properly remove the tats in post-production).
I’m very thankful for my fear of needles. It prevented me from getting quite a few tattoos that I would be more likely to be regretting at this point in my life.
I was never “cool” enough for tatts when all my friends started getting them, thank God.
Now I’m the cool one.
I was 30 years old before I even got my ears pierced for the first time, and though I have three holes in each lobe now, I won’t poke holes in cartilage. Needless to say, no ink for me ever.
I have a bunch of ear piercings but they’re probably all closed up by now. My “cool” friends are pierced all over. Yeah, no thanks.
I have one tattoo that nobody can see, and one hole in each earlobe, which are now closed. No matter what I do or how long I keep starters in them. The second I take them out, schwoop! they’re closed.
I never got my ears pierced.
I don’t have any “art” tattoos but I did get dark brown eyeliner tattooed on, both upper and lower lower lids.
Let me tell you, getting tattooed on the eyelids is not for the faint of heart.
rhywun:
I stand out amongst those in my subculture now. No piercings and no tats. Back in they day I just stood out for having long hair amongst the SHARPS.
I tried on a couple different subculture looks – I mostly just looked ridiculous.
::shudders:: I’m not even fond of applying regular eyeliner. Mascara and eye shadow are quite sufficient as far as I’m concerned, thankyouverymuch.
When they do the math, it gets scary. Just to be clear, we got her covered. At Mrs. T’s insistence of course. Training wheels.
Great I’ve got a fever. Not a high one, but a fever.
You need more cowbell.
Trying Tesla 3 More Cowbell for the first time
I did not know about that particular Easter egg.
Now I have to figure out an excuse to drive somewhere…
JFC, intentionally putting Easter eggs into cars… ?
…and heaven forbid you don’t find them all! So much for that new car smell!
He does? Can’t get more than this.
Seriously, though, get better UCS.
🙁 It sucks to be sick on a holiday/vacation.
That it does. Sorry to hear…
It’s the commie cooties.
It’s a toomah!
It’s the new commie cootie toomah that totally did not escape from a lab.
?
Sorry UCS.
Feel better.
You should have gotten vaccinated. .
Sorry. Get well soon.
Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you all.
And for some reason I predicted the response Tundra et al gave…
Well, did you try the cowbells?
No, I took some tylenol and took a nap.
I have to work tomorrow, so no fireworks, maybe a burger, but I will do some Sparklers for Wendy, she loved them.
You’re self employed?
No,but my scheduled workday is tomorrow, so double time, yes! and we lolly gag on holidays so fuck off Monday!
340$ worth of fucking off, Winning!
+340!
Ah, I see. I thought it was a national holiday. But good if they let you work for more pay if you want.
I’m showing up anyway, mat as well take the money, my girl likes money…
They ALL like money.
I have it, let’s spend it, all the things I want do up here she does too, so, Roadtrips! if We end up in a relationship so be it,
Love Your Money ? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yaZWCGs7tFw
Whatever happened?
Relevant
Also relevant
More relevant .
I don’t know about being fit anymore. Fatty up top there seems like he’s doing well.
So I just listened to Rose Tatoo by the Dropkick Murphies, pretty cool stuff,
One more fitting for the holiday.
Thank you,
/tears…
There are people who have tried to mosh to that live. They get stopped and calmed down quickly.
Man, we gota crappy cover band out here. They just did,”heard it from a friend” bass heavy because our location relative to the stage.
Heard it from another you’ve been messing around?
One of my “go to” karaoke songs. Probably put it in my acoustic guitar open mic set as well. Good tune.
Yeah, any REO isn’t going to sound good with a bass heavy mix. Try to get them to play some Black Sabbath.
Thicc?
https://twitter.com/MySoiledDepends/status/1411757870291423232
JFC! thanks for that, I guess…
GF, Weird like me, and she has cool baggage thank God,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/txJeFXCy5vrctj3T7
palate cleanser,
Works for me.
Happy trails, Bob!
WTF?
Not what I needed to see JFC!
? I thought it was hilarious.
*barf*
But somehow, not more barf than certain members of the Biden admin.
LOL
Right there with you. At least it wasn’t Demi Rose.
She’s nnnnaaaassty. And not good nasty.
Minnesota Fats brings back memories of a time when watching pool in tv was a thing.
I recall a slim Asian gal who killed it when ESPN showed pool tourneys,
I’m sure pool has been declared racist by now.
It’s trouble!!!
::continues watching The Music Man on TCM in the other window::
/blinks at GT
/calls a triple bank shot
/sips a cocktail
What?
With a capital “T”!
/Builds a cocktail and a monorail
Did I do that wrong?
No! your a racist for thinking black people can’t swim, pool? Racciiist!
I never said black people cannot swim. I only said that they admire the blonde hairs on my legs.
Stage IV ovarian cancer 🙁
https://poolplayers.com/jeanette-lee-the-black-widow-diagnosed-with-terminal-cancer/
Sad. Great trick shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgHadvGIxm4
Corner Pocket
I just mowed and edged the lawn. It is not a large lawn. Nonetheless, I have lost 2 pounds of moisture.
Shower, then start putting dinner together. Very American, it is a melting pot of Mexican, Italian, and Chinese. We don’t just appropriate cultures, we chop them up into bits and start doing DNA modifications.
“We don’t just appropriate cultures, we chop them up into bits and start doing DNA modifications.”
100% not woke. What’s the fine for that in AZ?
LOL
I was walking to the store today; looked down a side street. Flags on nearly every house and a bigger one flying OVER the street. In that rag’s home town and a neighborhood full of immigrants and old Italians and Chinese and some yuppies and etc.
They are out-of-touch with most of the residents of their own fucking town.
So, you living around them deplorables? Why haven’t you rented an apartment in a high rise in Manhattan yet? Pretty sure those are redneck free.
I did two years in Manhattan. Wasn’t really my cup of tea.
Come to West Virginia. OK, I’m not there yet, but looks inevitable.
Heh, probably not my cup of tea either.
But half the woke population of the swamp are already there. Surely you can find something you love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfzJ8UBr-c0
I mean it absolutely is a sign that you’re a normal American and not a leftist wacko.
Right wing extremist white supremacist confirmed.
The Times’ pathetic attempt to stir racial/sexual/class/whatever division would be pitiable if they weren’t the mouthpiece of the Elite and saying what’s on all of their minds.
flying the American flag from the back of a pickup truck
I wonder what they would say about someone that flies both the American flag and the Confederate flag from the back of a pick-up truck.
I’ve seen it more than a few times in Pennsylvania.
I find it incredible the NYT doesn’t have an older, senior editor who would call for a major rewrite.
The NYT would cease to exist without billionaire communist backers propping it up. The editors are trained monkeys that dance to whatever tune they’re instructed.
I take Carlos Slim to a grifter, not a communist.
That guy (the owner) died a few years back and his grandkid or whatever took it over. That is why there’s no difference between “news” and “opinion” any more.
In my tourist trap town, I have seen at least six pontoons flying Trump flags. Probably 40 flying only the American flag. When it comes to cars, I have seen 3 with flags and 0 with Trump stuff. (The biggest commonality amongst the car flaggers is that they also drive cars where you are supposed to be impressed by how loud they are).
The best side note about the Trump flags on pontoons is that at least two of them were on pontoons full of young men that included black guys. Probably captured and enslaved by the white supremacists who owned the pontoon.
Checks out.
The blacks are just there as galley slaves.
Insects today aren’t being put off by the Jungle Juice DEET. Gah.
https://archive.li/4xobD/731b7abbcc67c0e37b95a3b7ac181a462a47f472.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/zn1Es/429c295d28890bd3da71800a8fa31c02d2f2d870.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/DyFHe/ac3cb8c8b1120cac6b8e6380c469e61ce66faf65.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/uUExk/5ed5c1b07e5eeab018ec8e2ca15cdcf890a18c9c.webp
NSFW.
She also is nice and made it easy to find more of her.
Wowza!
That reminds me I need to mow the lawn.
Nice of her to make it easy to find more of her.
GlibFit!
Whatever they’re doing, they’re doing it right.
Glibs after dark before it gets dark!
Those are great photos Q. I’m just surprised you didn’t dazzle us with many beautiful women in a Stars and Stripes bikini.
OK… I have to apologize up front for my CWAA moment but IMO but if you are on vacation it is NO excuse for doing things that are not good for you. The point of vacation is to re-energize yourself and get in better shape..physically and mentally. It is not an excuse to go boozing, eating and not exercising…. Because that ain’t good for you, yours that depend or like you. I don’t want to wet-blanket things but the goal is survive and be like 4-Score because being there…matters. This is what this forum is about IMO. We should strive to persevere. Do better G-fitters!
//rant off..sorry,
a
And That’s The Truth
“NO excuse for doing things that are not good for you”
OK, slaver.
Fuck off, slaver.
Happy freedom day!
+1000
You’re independence costs.. If anything sleep well after the pyrotechnics
I think it’s a bit dry around here for pyrotechnics.
The (professional) fireworks barge off the coast is alleged to be worth the drive but not gonna do it today.
We just arrived at the local gold club to check out the live band. Unfortunately the lead singer is a quarter tone flat. Barf.
British people vacation:
– alcohol poisoning
– sunburn
– STDs
– arrested/fined
– food poisoning
– awful tattoo
– generic British fried foods
– talking to the natives as if they are retarded
– duty free alcohol and cigarette smuggling operation
– back to work fully refreshed and rejuvenated
In Spain, amirite?!
Quite often, yes!
Well, I’ve never been to Spain. But I kinda like the music. Say, the ladies are insane there, and they sure know how to use it!
*clicks castanets and stomps heels*
I’m currently wearing my flamboyant black skits. It is made with the literal 9 yards of black fabric and an embroidered bottom edge. Blouse is a red ruffley thing with open hanging sleeves.
All dressed up and nowhere to go. But having fun!
What’s a skit? I don’t understand this chick lingo.
About half of that sounds good.
I would do all of that. It’s a proper vacation!
Well, except the part about talking to the natives. I don’t want to talk to anyone, and I am the retard.
*removes half-cooked creamy mushroom sauce meatloaf from the oven and tosses it*
/accepts the smack down.
Lighten up Francis.
J/k…..I agree although I have been known to partake in the boozing, eating great food and [redacted] while on vacation. While I don’t consider a three day weekend a vacation I didn’t get in the bike rides I wanted but I did get a lot of work done on a long neglected project which has helped my mental state a bunch.
Fuck of Sloper…Ha! I haven’t had a vacation in 18 yrs.. Own’s company..never travels without computer. Hope the intermittent fasting is working for you…
Well that is what you get for being the boss! I’ve never traveled without a computer either. But then I only traveled for a job that required that I had a computer. Those days are over. Now I just shit post on a computer. Total fail on the fasting last week. 1 day of 15 hours. Last week sucked. I used to pride myself that nothing could faze me but stupid ignorant shit fazed me. I was fazed. I am feeling less fazed now.
I ain’t no Boss..I fail. I use this Glib edition to evaluate myself. I am sorry if I called you out. I know you get it..it just a matter of how we deal… best wishes and best hopes. Fasting will change your life!
::pours herself the last glass from a bottle of Sweet Mingo (conveniently enough, it’s reportedly Mingo’s birthday) and serves herself a peanut butter fudge brownie::
/makes a mint Tom Collins.
So… I’ve learned I’m a failure as a boyfriend recently. I found out that the girlfriend had never had an Amaretto Sour in her life. And she likes things that are sweet enough to terrify most people. I’ve had to make several today.
And no Mingus?
That’s fun! And one of my favorite sissy drinks is Amaretto & 7-Up or Sprite, but I don’t recall that I’ve ever had a Sour. If we get a chance to meet IRL, I’ll coax you to make me one. 🙂
I do need to drive down to the east side of Columbus at some point to pick up some sour ales that Brewdog has waiting for me. I could either stay in the Cowtown area, or head to Dayton for an evening.
The Amaretto and Coke (which I knew several women who drank them) just tasted like immediate diabetes to me.
You & Tom T can talk Pratchett to your heart’s content! He’s been bingeing for months now, I think we’ve bought up every Discworld mass market PB our local B&M B&N and used bookstore has had in stock. 😀
I don’t do cola, though I’m sure the lemon-lime sody pops are no better sugarwise.
/looks over the Pratchett first US editions and first UK editions he has
From the flavor profile side, Coke is sweet, Amaretto is sweet. Adding both of them together is just terribly sweet. Lemon/lime at least adds a sour component to the mix.
OK, I don’t normally contribute on the GlibFit stuff, but today I am.
I’m house sitting in my hometown and propelled myself around Detroit Lake. I say propelled because it was a combo platter of running and walking. Total distance is a bit over 10 miles.
Running around the lake was a big milestone when we were kids. If you thought you were an athlete you had to have run around the lake at least once. I think I did it at 14 the first time. I did it a few more times. The most memorable failure was when I was back from boot camp. I was 3/4 the way around when two of the sexiest girls from high school drove by, slammed on their brakes and came back to talk with me. For about 200 yards they drove alongside chatting before they asked if I wanted to jump in and we’d go have a drink. That ended that attempt right then and there*.
So I was pretty happy today to make it all the way around. Probably ran six miles and walked 4. Which is good considering how hot and windy it was.
* Nothing happened. I was too dumb to pick up on the signals one of them was giving me. I was still so intimidated by those two, that there was no way I thought I could actually have a chance.
You are always welcome your holiness. Come for the fitness talk. Stay for the snark.
So you didn’t finish twice?
Nice simple “I do what I want day, cause I am free” day dinner is BBQ chicken, fresh corn on the cob and a big ol pan of mac n cheese. BlackBerry cobbler for dessert. Go out near the casino later and watch them light up the sky.
The States may have its shittiness but I would not rather be anywhere else.
“I do what I want day”
You’re part of the problem. You’re helping kill our democracy. Democracy is collective good think.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vijXv9NJttI
Top five American guns.
If the 1894 Winchester and the Colt Single Action Army aren’t on the list, then he’s just wrong.
1873.
Well, that’s not nothing.
<— Heads off to start writing a Glibs article on the top five American guns
What criteria? Most influential? Most important? Most iconic? Most reliable?
Colt 1860
Winchester 1873
M2
1911
M1 Garrand
M16
Yeah that’s sis but I had to include the last one because they and their kin are everywhere anymore.
My Mossberg 590 has a sad.
My Glibfitbit day:
12,000 steps.
5.3miles
12 hours active,
31 floors
150+ zone minutes
6 shots of Irish WhiskeyNevermind this part.Technically speaking, I never even left the house.
We drove over to Palmer, up over Hatcher Pass, then up to Talkeetna, had a wondrous lunch up at the Sheep Creek Lodge, then home. I went for a walk, and alternated my walk with a stroll, then a ramble, and ended up with a saunter. Later I plan to do some gamboling, and I may even caper.
Capering might be a bridge too far. Is that even legal?
Man, I’m exhausted. Just waiting for my briskets to cool, so I can freeze them. People still exploding stuff all around. God Bless America. One more whiskey and then nighty-night.
Heh. Wife just walked by, “Don’t forget your meat.”
If anyone is interested, I’ll host a 4th of july zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdeyrqjorHdTWmUHl8KjZhGsyvyaQDgRh
Starts now
Fed wants our names and what not. Nice try fed.
Shit man… if you’re that worried about it I’ll remove you from the list.
I know you are not the fed.
Yeah, it wants us to register names and emails and whatnot.
Tulip, I logged in (forgot I had a sign-in already) but it’s not finding the meeting.
Tulip is drunk.
not yet
Try this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87025341170?pwd=Y1d4TFJOWHoxYVRFREw1cFMwVmUwQT09
I love thunderstorms. A squall just rolled through here and dropped the temperature by about thirty degrees.
The ground was so dry there are hardly even any puddles.
Have fun at the rodeo, everybody!
We just get the humidity ugh
*checks weather*
103F 12% humidity.
Double digits. It is humid today.
/clears throat
Fuck off sloper!
That’s not even close to humid!
Does it count when your windows are probably closed?
At least the temp is a pleasant 71 here. All my windows are wide open – love it. I hate to close them. I crack them even in winter but when it’s too hot I have to close them. 🙁
We had that a few weeks ago. The day after the first thunderstorm the second rolled through and things were flooding. It happens. (shrug)
Wife make potato salad, I grilled hot dogs. No alky-hall yet because we’re going out to watch fireworks later.
Tomorrow the cable/hipster community broadband company comes out to turn up fiber service. Got the media cabinet in the garage ready, redid their ductwork, and put in another outlet as part of the garage renno.
Oh, and rehung the No Trespassing sign on the driveway because the wire rusted out.
Can’t watch fireworks drunk?
Driving to them. I don’t need a DUI, more than I’d like a drink.
Holy shit: this guy on stage here is literally the worst person paid to sing I have ever heard.
He’s an equal opportunity butcher, from Skynard, to Prince, to REM.
I need those Bose hearing aids.
The backing vocalist it trying to salvage it but how do you harmonize with a cat being tortured in a vise?
If you can pull up TCM “live” on whatever device you have with you, you could watch/listen to 1776. That’s what I’m doing in another window in my browser. ::continues musical theater binge du jour. Even if it’s not your thing, it has to be better than the torture you’re currently enduring.
I do love that goofball movie. Saw it in high school history, oddly enough.
I loved the guy who played Adams.
It also led me to read all about Abigail and John Adams fantastic romance and letters.
I believe this is the dual bio of them I read a few years back. A good ‘un, as I recall.
Back in the Before Times, two cousins of mine and I went on the town during a trip of mine to PA.
We stopped at a brewery’s taproom in northern Bucks County.
There was a guy with an acoustic guitar butchering every song he played.
We went outside to their firepits in the patio area to get away from that guy. It being late January, it was still cold.
Eventually we went back inside. The Guy With Acoustic Guitar was still butchering every song he played.
I feel your pain.
I should add… the brewery was not The Proper Brewing Company, which is a great place that defied Wolf’s Christmas 2020 shutdown of bars and restaurants. If any of you find yourselves in that part of Pennsylvania, I recommend a trip to The Proper Brewing Company.
Not exactly the cartoon I was looking for but a similar sentiment.
“Holy shit: this guy on stage here is literally the worst person paid to sing I have ever heard.”
Heh, that’s funny. We just had that exact same type conversation in the Hyperion household tonight.
That person needs to move to Brazil, so he can get the participation trophy.
Seriously, at least on TV, in Brazil, you can be the worst fucking musician/vocalist on the planet and everyone will sing along and cheer. No matter what.
That fucking drives me crazy. Fuck that shit, if you suck at something, do something else for the good of us all.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. *takes step, busts ankle*
一歩が踏み出せる。
Good morning to you sir. I just finished talking to my friend on your side of the world. My Japanese teacher is taking this brief moment where Japan is OK to go to thanks to the State Department pretending there is no COVID issues there because of the Olympics.
She hasn’t been home in almost two years to visit family. Japan is going to make her quarantine for two weeks. BUT she’s allowed to go to convenience stores and can eat in restaurants by herself. Bonus – she’s fully vaccinated, but that matters for not.
Morning. Lots of silly rules like that. You can drink with a friend at the bar until 7pm or you can drink at the bar by yourself until 8pm. Evidently, sitting at the bar next to a stranger is safer than sitting at the bar next to your friend.
I find it hysterical that NYC restaurants are now fully open at 100%, but I’ve got to wear a mask in the station and on the train.
That’s on Uncle Joe.
Though I am 100% sure that when/if Joe drops that rule, that the MTA will require the feed-bags in perpetuity.
I know it unfortunately.
I’m hoping NJTransit doesn’t follow suit.
How COVID spreads.
https://ibb.co/PTqnwp9
LOL oh dear God Löw what are you up to now. That guy is notorious for being a shamelessly disgusting pig.
Everything is blowing up! Huzzah!
Fireworks, burgers, brats, chicken, dogs, wine and beer and my costumed son did Patrick Henry’s speech from memory. Nice 4th!
Those damn deplorables.
Fauci changes tune again, says vaccinated should wear masks in parts of US
“says vaccinated should wear masks in parts of US”
The South? Appalachia? I’m sure it’s not political.
What the fucking fuck? This makes no sense. Per the CDC, and Fauci when it suits him, masks are to protect other people. That POS has go to go. The damage he has done to legitimate public health is enormous.
He’s not going. He works for the CCP, just like Biden.
I think the CCP is (marginally) more competent. I think the arrogant prick just enjoys the limelight.
Limelight
*yawn*
That guy is still alive?
Someone go change his Depends.
Man, I got stung by a bee. It landed on my left hand, so swiped itawaywith my right hand and it tagged me on my pinky. Didn’t hurt much, but as time wears on, it’s kinda throbbing.
Stinger still embedded? If it’s a honey bee the pain shouldn’t last that long. Wasp?
I fucking hate wasps, and the sting really hurts. Yellow Jackets too, the sting doesn’t hurt as much and they’re not quite as aggressive, but it still hurts for a while.
Honeybees? Meh, I’ve never been stung by one, they’re pretty passive.
The worst I’ve seen is those big black hornets. I stepped on a nest of them that had fallen down from a tree once and went running with them swarming me. I ripped off my shirt and managed to only get stung in the back like 6 times. Every sting feels like you’re been stuck with a red hot poker.
I’m not allergic, so I was OK. If my wife gets stung by one of those little yellow jackets, she swells all up in the region of the sting.
Honeybees? Meh, I’ve never been stung by one, they’re pretty passive.
Honeybees leave the stinger in you to continue pumping venom, so the trick is to get the stinger out ASAP. Get it out quickly and it’s not bad. Leave it in for a couple minutes and you’re in for some unpleasant times.
They seem completely docile to me. Like those big fat wood bees. Never been stung by one. But, good information, thanks.
There are two strains. European and African. European are very docile. I’ve only been stung by them when I accidentally crushed them and once when I was mowing around a hive.
African are much more aggressive. I’ve gotten nailed by one 100 yards away from a swarm just for the offense of looking too much like a bear. Some of that was bad luck, but some goes to temperament.
Never saw a killer bee. I have seen a murder hornet, a couple of times. I went inside and hoped it would go away, fuck that shit, they’re huge. I would have went out and took it on if I’d had at least a badminton racket or some hornet spray. I have both on my deck at all times now.
When I was a kid, we were fearless. We’d shoot them with pellet guns and hunt their nests down and burn them. I mean hornets.
First time I saw a murder hornet was about 3 years ago. Totally freaked me out because my wife is allergic to bee stings.
Yeah, the stinger stayed in for maybe 30seconds. I was surprised to find it. It still really didn’t hurt until the venom had some time to work. It only stung me because I swiped it of my other hand.
So, one of my friends said the other day ‘I want to try LSD’. So I said ‘OK, where do you suppose you’re getting this LSD?’. So he says ‘Well, there’s this dude in our neighborhood’ and I said ‘Stop. So you’re going to eat some shit this guy who you don’t even know tells you is LSD?’. So he says ‘I can get it, will you do it with me?’. I said ‘Fuck no, I’m not taking some shit a guy you don’t even know says is LSD. Even if I wanted to do that, I wouldn’t. What the fuck is wrong with you?’.
Seriously, first you believe everything CNN tells you, now you’re going to ingest some poison someone tells you is LSD?
21-year-old me says, “Sure, why not?”
Yeah. I ingested all sorts of shit back then I had no idea what it was. Because I was immortal and all that. I’m a little more finicky these days.
Yeah. I ingested all sorts of shit back then I had no idea what it was. Because I was immortal and all that. I’m a little more finicky these days.
Actually, 40-year-old me said, “Sure, why not?” too.
I’m kind of out of that phase now.
I wasn’t even like that at 40. LSD? You got documentation from that lab it came from? No? Fuck off.
Now, I still don’t have sense enough to not drink too much beer, but at least I know what’s in it.
Freedom.
https://archive.li/vyfqO/e916e28f0bb7c45fcb01ff2eb4616054d8405ebb.jpg
Liberty.
https://archive.li/2CGIE/c4526d469c659bda717fa1d9058fe72f9c46795d.jpg
Not patriotic but DAMN
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4 HM.
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Lol. I haven’t seen HM around for quite awhile. I hope he returns.
You do love me!
The official fireworks are over. Doggo did good. Now the question is when will the unsanctioned fireworks start and end.
hahah they never end. People find fireworks into August around here, somehow.
Same here. I really meant tonight.
He’s gay.
https://www.thesun.ie/dear-deidre/6766441/boyfriend-annoyed-refuse-anal-sex/
Book of Eli is tonight’s entertainment.
Hubby is asleep in his recliner; cat’s on the chair with me.
All is right in my tiny fraction of the world.
Nice
Man, that is a powerful movie. Whether you’re a believer or not.
When Eli takes Solara’s hands to say grace before they eat, and then Solara does the same with her mother the next morning…wow.
A violent and brutal movie. But a great one.
I love Gary Oldman but he is a diabolical SOB in this flick.
In “it was fun a couple of hours ago” news, some asshole is still launching fireworks outside my window. So much for sleep.
Have you considered returning fire?
Simi had a decent show tonight. At least as far as fireworks. Not the best one out there, but acceptable. Got stung by a bee, but it only really hurt for about a half an hour. The vendors sucked real bad, but it was free and with free parking. Huge turn out, not much smaller than past years. It’s like being in a red state, going to Simi. Lots of Trump gear and American flags. I saw a teen aged girl with a tee shirt that read, ” I support freedom of speech” Talked to a lot of normal people. Then, on the way home there was massive illegal fireworks literally everywhere. Like, enough to blow up a fleet of lapd bomb squad trucks. Felt just like the 4th of July.
Those fireworks still going strong here in the south bay area. We went up on the peninsula to look out over the basin, pretty much north toward downtown and east toward Long Beach and it is LIT. Sounds like a (somewhat incompetent) drum line competition out there, lol
Back from fireworks. They did meet their “largest show in festival’s history” promise. Very nice. Ended up leaving shortly before the end because thought that was the finale. Loads of private launched illegal fireworks. The swarms of Officers can eat a bowl of dicks.
Good night, my peeps.
Good morning all. I am sorry I missed the bee conversation last night.
Mornin’
Hello Glibs, I survived, but only because I went to bed early, hope y’allins have all your fingers still,
I can still count to 20! Huzzah!
suh fam
yo whats goody
A skeleton crew and double time, easy day at Mycopia, sup tres?
Left work early to come home and deal with a crisis in Jugsy’s fam.
Luckily, I saved Emergency Tall Cans.
Always have some ETCs handy, good work prepper,
Uh oh! Everything OK or at least under control? 🙁
Mornin’ Traitors! Judi’s wing is not quite broken but she’ll need to wear a brace on her wrist for awhile. Her forearm looks like Popeye’s. Now she and the girls are talking about saving the trip next week by hiring a chopper to take them to the top and then camping. They seem to think the hike down will be easier. They could not be more wrong. She’s acting so very brave about this but I know she just really wants to go and doesn’t want to disappoint the girls. It will cost them $200 each to get up there the cheating way but I don’t care about the money. What if she falls again? This is above the tree line terrain. Eh, you only live once and this is a special 60th Birthday trip. I’ll just keep my fool mouth shut.
This is what I mean – https://youtu.be/bXM9Ht5AY8Q?t=277
Nice, Mt. Cinnamon Bun looks like a lot of fun.
Scenic but I doubt my tired old knees could take it.
I really wish you’d quit typing Broken Wing. I have that stupid song stuck in my head.
Best to Judy tho’- from someone thats broken a LOT of bones.
A different sort of Wings
You monster. Bette @ this hour? Jugsy heard the 1st couple bars and said, “really, Tres?”
Better WINGS.
Fun fact- I used to work with a guy that was into the ‘swinger scene’ with his spouse. I used to sing “got to get you into my wife”.
Some people want to fill the world with silly hate songs, and what’s wrong with that?
More seriously, I figured everybody would expect Paul McCartney and Wings, so I went with something different.
Will these wings do instead?
Tres wants a tune about “Bingo-Wings”.
More of the same – https://youtu.be/skRqrA1YbwA?t=591
Very happy to hear it’s not as bad as feared.
This^
Thanks guys. Judging by the photo sent last night I thought for sure she’d busted her radius. If she falls on it again it will snap like a twig, ask me how I know…
That photo up top… Show us your Coke bottle Fatty!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gOatjfENic
Music for Tres. ?
Now You are the monster!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hjC6NJvJEjU
That’s the ticket! *spits the other stuff into the handy bucket*
good lord
Good lordosis!
Relevant
#ThickThighsSaveLives
By the time I was done with her, she’d need to be buried in a Y-shaped casket.
Real talk.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/07/05/2-men-dead-2-teens-injured-west-philadelphia-shooting-60th-street/
“Shot in the buttocks.”. ?
Hopefully just salt-shot.
The passive tense was used multiple times. My ire was raised.
I see what was done by you.
Mentioned before but glib-fit is going backwards. Lost 5 lbs during the heat wave. Need to get back up.
Eat more steak.
Always.
Morning, Sean.
*waves*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u33g0vlGaPM
I love music videos telling a story. Good tune too.
It’s an alright tune but why is that lesbian abducting a child? 😉
Glib-Fit tune! https://youtu.be/OOgd9hitEAE
Hey Festus! Happy Monday to you and yours.
To you as well!
https://www.fox9.com/news/marion-ross-of-happy-days-honored-with-bronze-statue-minnesota-hometown
Cool! She must be older than God!
Almost seven years younger than Betty White.
So Lucifer, then…
Aw, that’s nice. Prettier statue than that hideous thing they just unveiled for Diana Spencer, too.
I’ve driven through Albert Lea many a time em route along I-35 to Oklahoma. 14 hours. Albert Lea was an important mental milestone, coming and going.
They should have had a topless, bulimic Diana purging into a toilet bowl.
See, this is why you aren’t gonna win that public “art” contract.
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NuKitteh is a total love bug. He always sleeps in the hooman bed with us. Always curls up in contact with some portion of body, whether snuggled behind knees, draped over ankles, or leaning up against a back or an arm.
I assign it to his being a social boy and wanting to hand out. But maybe he just wants to know ASAP if one of us gets up out of bed…
He’s just signaling how happy he is. He’s a good kitteh!
We had to banish the kittehs from the bedroom at night because they disrupted Tom T’s sleep. The little black one would lie on his ankles, and the big one would just stretch out to take up the entire bed. Now they’re right outside the door waiting for whoever gets up first in the morning (usually me.) And the little black one usually insists on hopping up on my lap while I’m on the toilet. 🙁