Chapter 7 of The Slight Edge is entitled Two Life Paths.
In this chapter, Olson discusses the path of a person who uses The Slight Edge and one who doesn’t. Olson opens by quoting The Road Not Taken. Barf.
I can’t tell if Olson felt a need to repeat concepts he has already presented for emphasis or if he was padding the book. By Olson’s reckoning, about 5% of people apply the principles in the book. This, he believes, is because many people are stuck wrestling with their past. His advice for getting on the right path:
One of the quickest and most direct routes to getting yourself up and onto the success curve is to get out of the past. Review the past, but only for the purpose of making a better plan. Review it, understand and take responsibility for the errors you’ve made, and use it as a tool to do differently in the future.
Olson takes a deep, and in my opinion unnecessary dive, into evaluating many different aspects of life. He has encouraged this earlier in the book so I’m skipping past it here.
Olson then gives us a good piece of advice if you are feeling stuck or having trouble making progress in an area. Make a small, positive change in another area. Feeling success in another area will reenergize you and give you the confidence to attain your chosen goal.
LA reimposing a senseless mask mandate inspired this week’s music.
The hardest mile is the first, the easiest one is the last.
Got out and got about 14 miles in today. Exercise for the past week has been moving furniture (that counts, right?). All of the heavy stuff has now been put in the new place chosen by the girlfriend, and felt pads have been stuck to the legs of all of it.
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Oh, and no one asked, but this is the living room now. The flooring install is almost complete. Just need the installers to come back out and put in three transition pieces.
I ate a piece of celery.
I would not recommend trying that at home.
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Celery should be used in mirepoix to make delicious food. One problem with the last year of lockdowns was that the girlfriend couldn’t travel as she used to. So I didn’t get my weekends of making spicy food that I love, and she won’t eat.
“low-carb” diets can leave one lacking in fiber, which leads to all sorts of problems.
Celery + homemade ranch dip (extra garlic) is a staple snack food for me.
Celery & salsa are staples.
Reminds me, I gotta go roast some asparagus and peppers.
Celery can also be stuffed with peanut butter or soft, spreadable cheese. I’ve found that eating the latter two on celery is considered more socially acceptable than eating them straight out of their respective containers, so there you go – win win!
“soft, spreadable cheese”
This girl gets it.
There’s also the squirtable kind.
I still can’t get over the fact that you can buy pressurized squirt cans of Cheez-Whiz in the ‘States.
Do you need us to ship some over to you?
“cheez” ?
I doubt they can legally call it cheese.
This sounds easier than it really is.
It becomes easier over Time, memories fade………..
Ya, no kidding. My brain lives in the past.
Agreed. Some wounds are deep, and still hurt even after they’ve scabbed over and supposedly healed up . . .
True, however life needs to be lived now, not yestreday,
I catch myself ruminating over this or that quite often. I chant, “Stop ruminating, stop ruminating” until I can redirect to thinking about something productive. What helps is remembering, “We are each the villain in someone else’s story.” It reminds me that nobody is just good or bad, and some things are just misunderstandings never talked through.
They never heal up Hayek, you just learn to live with them. This is why I generally give grouchy fucks the benefit of doubt. You never know what people are carrying around with them…death of a child, bad divorce, maybe they just found out they have cancer…you just never know.
I am making a conscious effort to do this.
One time I was at Hobby Lobby and the lady cutting my fabric was just unpleasant. For whatever reason, instead of saying something to her or her manager, I was moved to say, “Are you okay?” She said, “I’m in a lot of pain.” Hips or back, I don’t remember, but for once in my life I kept my displeasure to myself and am glad I did.
There’s a similar thing amongst distance riders. You never know what mile someone’s on unless you ask.
That guy you’re mocking internally because they’re only doing 15 MPH, they could be on mile 95, while you’re on mile 1.
For some reason that made me think of this.
“The trouble with getting old is not remembering what happened but remembering things that did not happen.” – Sam Clemens
You only understand this when you get old.
“Youth is wasted on the young”
-something I heard once
Are you my father?
I always follow with “money is wasted on the old”.
Last week I got a few days in of 1+1+1 so I am up to 13 ea. of pushups, squats, and ab rolls. I know that is not the intent and you should do it every day but I am consistently inconsistent. I do them after 20 mins of stretching and I really feel it the days I don’t do it. I am coming around to stretching is the key to health and fat fucks can’t stretch.
so don’t be a fat fuck.
I am not sure if he wants an update and DGAF because I am doing it anyway but deadhead finished his race. Almost 44 hours on the trail to complete 100.5 miles in not very nice places in the highlands of western CO. The guy is an inspiration. Good job deadhead!
Almost 44 hours on the trail to complete 100.5 miles . . .
Great googly-moogly!
Wow! That’s impressive.
Keep stretching. Thanks for the deadhead update. Been thinking about him since yesterday.
I’ve known two people who finished Western States. One was a coworker who went through five pairs of shoes and lost all his toenails. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Western States, Hardrock & others. Bonus context in the lower left.
It’s kinda hot out there. The kind of day where, if you lay a wrench down in the sun it gets almost too hot to pick up. I’m drinking a lime infused fizzy water I got yesterday at the store. not bad.
I did, however, perform a magic trick with the hole saw (I learned it from that goofball Canuckistani on youtube). If you want to make a big hole bigger, you can use a piece of tubing the size of the old hole inside the new bigger hole saw as the pilot. Shim to fit. As soon as I go get some shiny new nuts and bolts I can put the new 2 1/4″ tongue jack on my trailer, where formerly there was a 2″ hole.
Yee haw. What next?
Nice idea! thanks, really, that solves an ongoing problem I run into when up sizing conduit,
I started to mow grass this morning but goddamn, it was a sauna out there by 8am. The steering wheel on the tractor was like a branding iron. I will give it another try tomorrow. I can’t wait too long. With all of the alternating sun, rain and heat the grass is growing like mad.
I’m currently relaxing and giving my back a rest. Coating some clothes and shoes in Permethrin, getting my Fuck You TickS! going.
I treat everything outside and let it thoroghly dry before bring the clothes inside, so Sophie is fine.
Mine is getting shaggy, but the intermittent rain yesterday, plus the beer I drank, plus I worked last night, coupled with Jugsy shipping out again in the morning….Ill do it tomorrow. Maybe Tuesday.
I finally bestirred myself to do the whacking – in front where Lawn Care OCD Neighbor can see, and in back (especially around the raised garden beds) until the battery crapped out. I rewarded myself by eating a homemade Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal cookie from yesterday’s farmers’ market. I only bought it to support the Girl Scout troop selling them.
The oatmeal makes it healthy, right?
Nope. But I’m sure it was still good.
I’ve got a steel cut oatmeal cookie recipe that has been well received. The funny part is that there’s only a couple of spoonfuls of oatmeal in the cookies.
“couple of spoonfuls of oatmeal”
Sometimes you just get lucky
Do you have to parcook the oats?
Nope.
Here’s the base recipe.
that goofball Canuckistani on youtube
Which one? There’s dozens that match that description.
So, my car accident in May did do a wee bit of damage on the old bod, so I’ve been in physical therapy for the last 4 weeks. I am demonstrably stronger and my aches and pains have magically gone away. I don’t do “much” there, but what I do do really takes it out of me. Some things are becoming automatic, though. *gives transverse abs the side-eye*
Physical therapists are well-paid sadists.
I can confirm this.
But she’s so NICE about it.
Its because she enjoys it. Duh.
That’s how they’ve sucked the Spousal Unit in.
Mine were nice too. I looked forward to being told what to do by nice ladies.
There’s usually a surcharge for that.
I would have paid extra for the leg massages if necessary.
I called them “The Tormenters”
2X in the morning, 2X in the afternoon
I’m am so grateful that they wouldn’t take any of my excuses
Almost 44 hours on the trail to complete 100.5 miles . . .
At some point, you might as well turn and make a stand. You can’t keep running away forever.
“We are each the villain in someone else’s story.”
I prefer to think of myself as the comic relief.
I’m a few rungs below that. Just above the village idiot.
I didn’t get my back bike until Wednesday so I only got in three rides (8,10,12) this week, I did do some pullups pushups and sit-ups on days I didn’t ride. The best workout I got this week was installing my new bike rack in to my extremely rusty trailer hitch, a twenty minute project that turned in two plus hours, seemingly involving half the tools in my shop including the table saw and a floor jack, also I started raining about half way through, and my garage floods in heavy rains so I did the last bit laying in a cold river of water. Good times.
Glad to hear you’re riding. I hope you enjoy it.
I would rather run, but that’s a no go. In my youth I really liked riding, I would do organized rides and everything. I asked for a Centurion Ironman Dave Smith signature 12 speed instead of a beat up used car for my 16th birthday. I don’t know what changed but it seems more tedious know, maybe as I get back into riding shape I’ll enjoy it more again.
Are you doing loops, out and backs, or are you doing destination rides? I’ve found having a goal (brewery, restaurant, etc.) helps keep me motivated if I need it.
Right now just loops out and back on the old railway converted to bike trail. If I can come up with some routes using less busy side roads I might try that, I’m not as daring as I once was and riding on roads with lots of speeding cars doesn’t appeal to me anymore.
Yeah. I did one ride (only ~20 miles out) that dealt with rolling hills on two lanes roads with 45 MPH speed limits. Nope. Not doing that route ever again. I’d rather bike a main drag with 4 lanes then that.
Also we only have the one trail close by so other than the bit farther I go each ride it’s the same old scenery every time.
Copious PB Blaster and an overnight soak
If that and beating it doesn’t work, turn to oxy-acetylene
Beating it always works for me, but I’m not as old as some of the Glibs.
I’m used to you guys talking about “beating it,” but this talk of oxy-acetylene has me worried… 🙁
You’re not alone.
Choke it like you’re Ezekiel Elliot!
/too soon ?
Richard Sherman thinks he waves hi. ?♂️
“Make a small, positive change in another area. Feeling success in another area will reenergize you and give you the confidence to attain your chosen goal.”
Over the years I have had some trouble with PTSD, Shell Shock, whatever you want to call it, I had enough self awareness to realize that the feelings of dread and anxiety were due to that so I ignored them and did exactly that. That is behind me, not in front of me. With every little accomplishment in whatever endeavor the feelings of doom and nightmares would diminish and eventually disappear. Unfortunately, as Hayek pointed out above, they never really leave completely. Night before last I woke up around midnight with a terrible feeling of dread. I thought, what the hell? What is this about? Oh. This again. I got up, ate some ice cream, watched some TV and it went away. Realizing that sometimes your feelings arent the best metric for gauging reality can be very handy.
/psst Suthn, Hayek hasn’t posted on this thread.
OK, I am drunk. KK.
You now identify as Drunk KK?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
True true. I like her resting drunk face.
Unfortunately, as Hayek pointed out above, they never really leave completely.
That was Mojeaux, I believe . . .
Shit, did I get it wrong again. I need another drink.
That was BEAM who noted that.
Anyway, it took me a long time to recognize a panic attack for what it was. I went immediately to “heart attack” and then, “asthma.” Once it was proven beyond a shadow that my ticker is right and tight, and I definitely don’t have asthma, I had to accede that it was indeed a panic attack. Once I knew and accepted what I was feeling, I could cope with it and move on.
I finally got back to the Y twice this week, but since it’s been some time since I attended the “Butts & Guts” class, I opted for the exercise machine room. Started to get back into the swing of exercising on a recumbent-ish exercise bike for most of the time, plus some time on one of those NuStep cross-trainer thingies – not sure which model the Y has, but I like it.
I LOVE THOSE THINGS!!! My PT has me start out on that. I’m supposed to do 5 minutes while she gets rid of the patient before me, but I willingly go longer. It’s because I can lean back and relax while I do it.
Inorite???!? Confession: I shortened up the arm things all the way and ignored them while I pushed the foot pedals and scrolled through PM Lynx or read in my Nook!
Heh. I did that Thursday on my second set.
While I was out for a ride today, I passed someone using a recumbent on the trail. The people who own those have some dedication (or a truck that they fit into), since they don’t fit into traditional racks for transport.
TV just played a back to back to back commercial set about getting vaxxed. Blah blah blah.
They all ended with “This was paid for by Pennsylvania tax payer dollars.”
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I see those on YouTube as well. I’m glad our budget has plenty of dollars for such propaganda.
How long before this whole charade is exposed as being a bigger lie than anthropogenic global warming?
You can be so cute sometimes, Suthen.
Well, it pretty much is to anyone who actually pays attention and thinks. But, like the climate
changeemergency thing, it has enough political momentum to be invincible in terms of it’s iron grip on policy.NPR had something interesting about fitness today:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/16/1016931725/study-of-hunter-gatherer-lifestyle-shows-why-crash-weight-loss-programs-dont-wor
gist: metabolism adjusts to keep calorie expenditure in a narrow range; this what makes weight loss so hard
The article mentions the habits of the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania. They get about 60% of their calories from tubers and honey, so not exactly “paleo”. The do not grow crops or raise livestock.
I was 150 pounds when I got to Tanzania in 2007 and 129 pounds when I got back in 2009. I only walked for about an hour a day, and I ate whatever I could get my hands on.
A typical day:
breakfast: banana with peanut butter, andazi (kind of like a donut), bagia (fried ball of lentil paste with spinach), tea with milk
lunch: ugali (stiff corn flour porridge) or rice with beans
dinner: rice and beans with chapati (tortilla) or fried cassava with fish
supper: 2 or 3 pints of beer
On weekends, I’d go into Moshi, the nearest big town, and get a burger and fries or some Indian food.
I got down to 158 pounds to get into the Army. I was 207 pounds the day I decided to join in January 2015. This morning I was 193 pounds. I was down to 170 pounds in December before I got lured into the psychiatric ward. After that, I stopped caring about my weight.
Enjoying some Campfire Amplifier by Dogfish Brewing. It’s a milk stout with chocolate and other s’more flavors.
My new job will keep me active. The main thing will be keep my booze intake down.
The Campfire Amplifier is quite tasty.
After reading the third to the last paragraph, I feel like I may have missed something over the past couple months.
#metoo
This past December, a dozen people lied to my face to trap me in a psychiatric ward in an Army hospital where I spent 3 days on suicide watch. Then I was declared insane and given a general discharge.
A civilian psychologist who evaluated me a few days after I got out gave me the near opposite of a normal score. She wrote on the form:
cognition: impaired
perception: impaired
behavior: abnormal
impulsivity: abnormal
risk to self: moderate
risk to others: high
I showed that assessment to a psychiatrist later and he said it had no legal or medical significance. To paraphrase the Big Lebowski, he said “that’s just like her opinion, man”.
Who was paying the civilian psych?
Dept of the Army, I guess.
The psychiatrist who took my side was an Army officer. After meeting him, I now understand why people will pay so much money for a good psychiatrist.
That 1st night in psych ward was awful. They took away everything I came in with and the clothes they gave me looked like a POW uniform.
So I go to my room/cell which I called the Epstein Suite as it was designed to be suicide-proof. And the whole night, all I could think about was: I have no way of contacting the outside world and no idea of how long I’m going to be here.
How terrifying! Do you think the Army was just trying to get rid of you? Given what I’ve heard about the “in-woke-trination” now going on in the US military, you may have gotten out not a moment too soon.
My unit had a very high suicide rate (10x higher than the Army as a whole) , so I understand and forgive their actions somewhat.
The Army was not going to work out for me long-term, but I did want to finish the time I signed up for. I like to keep my promises.
Oh well. I got just about everything I wanted and got out alive with no injuries. Some guys join and get an early grave.
Very sorry to hear that. Glad to read that it sounds like you’ve rolled with it, and have found something that you enjoy.
Not my first rodeo and I’m not made of glass. I like to think my meltdown will improve conditions in my old unit.
My company commander recommended an honorable discharge, which gives me solace. It won’t matter for welding anyway. But it seemed like a unnecessary kick in the nuts.
“Thanks for not killing yourself; here’s your general discharge.”
That and after I repeatedly denied being suicidal, they put my on suicide watch anyway.
That’s terrible. Why did they do this?
My squad leader was a useless, malingering, sociopath and when I complained to the higher-ups about it, I guess they got scared.
I have a way with words.
Ah. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Maybe you shouldn’t have showed her your derp collection?
This is compilation of Everyday Feminism headlines. Do you see?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77_aQLBENQ
Well, now I know what the tattoo on the back of The Monarch is parodying.
Welcome back derp. Glad the green machine didn’t kill ya. I was about 165 when I went to S Sudan in 2006. Came back about 155 (?) Giardia is a hellava weight loss program. We need more intestinal parasites around these parts.
I got Giardia 2x in Tanzania. The medicine for it has a very metallic taste.
You mean “German East Africa,” yes?
Tanganyika
“German East Africa”
A fan of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, I see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Lettow-Vorbeck
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During the 1960s, Charles Miller asked the nephew of a Schutztruppe officer, “I understand that von Lettow told Hitler to go fuck himself.” The nephew responded, “That’s right, except that I don’t think he put it that politely.”
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I saw the improvised cannons his guys made at the museum in Dar es Salaam.
Tanzania is a combo of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika means sail in the wilderness and is a reference to the great lakes of East Africa. Zanzibar comes from the Persian words for land of black people (zanj-i-bar).
That link about crash diets is mostly complete bullshit. The amount by which the metabolism adjusts to less food is, like, double digit calories daily at most. It’s a blip. Thermodynamics can’t be cheated that easily.
True. There’s a reason why POWs, etc get skinny. But as soon as they can eat what they want, their weight goes back to what it was.
It’s hard to out-exercise a bad diet. I managed it for a few years.
old saying: you get strong at the gym and lose weight at the table.
You can’t outrun your fork.
Well… deadhead can, but he’s broken in the head.
Chafed!
Make a small, positive change in another area. Feeling success in another area will reenergize you and give you the confidence to attain your chosen goal.
Does leaving your home of 53 years count?
Old Aerosmith is the best Aerosmith.
“Does leaving your home of 53 years count?” It did for me, that life is gone, no sense rehashing it, move on and up!
*Checks with judges* Yes!
Dream On is one of the alltime great songs that has been unfortunately overplayed.
Nothing from Aerosmith phase 2 is worth remembering, but I still do.
“St John” and “Hangman Jury” from Permanent Vacation are almost enough to look past “Rag Doll” ,”Elevator”, and “Angel”…Almost.
Feel so restless, I am,
Beat my head against a pole
Try to knock some sense,
Down in my bones.
And even though they don’t show,
The scars aren’t so old
And when they go,
They let you know
You can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
Don’t try, don’t try
https://youtu.be/P0_2aWbOmJc
I stopped lifting weights almost two months ago because of massive work and then travel and then more work. Need to stop the excuses and get back under the bar this week.
In healthy eating news a buddy of mine gave me a king salmon he caught on Friday cause he still had a bunch from the week before that he hadn’t eaten yet. I gave him some of the yellowfin tuna I caught in Mexico that I had smoked. We grubbed garlic butter filets last night and then I used all the small pieces I scraped off the backbone when filleting it up to make sushi rolls for lunch today. So frigging good. I almost like raw salmon better than cooked salmon.
https://imgur.com/gallery/yVkCOr5
In healthy eating news a buddy of mine gave me a king salmon he caught on Friday
Now that is a friend!
Indeed. He is getting another piece of tuna when I defrost one of my vacuum packed pieces.
Weekly cuteness is a winner!
Have a sick burn:
Ouch! ?
The 13th amendment made it illegal to own someone like that.
While I share the commenters feelings, I think we (defined broadly) do ourselves a disservice by responding this way to people who have had their political beliefs shaken to the core and may be changing. It reminds of the treatment of reluctant Trump voters by the left. Throwing mud at someone who is persuadable is not going to win hearts and minds.
I agree. It may be cathartic to bite them but it is counterproductive.
I try to be a welcoming person. I’ll admit that it’s kind of hard not to point out hypocrisy to people.
I don’t read comments on other sites as a rule, so ?♂️.
I vacuumed out the wife’s car and walked the dog. And for anyone planning on visiting Michigan’s upper peninsula today you’ll have to avoid the Mackinac Bridge.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/07/18/mackinac-bridge-closes-emergency-incident/8008612002/
Yikes! The apparent reason, if this news source can be trusted. 🙁
Yikes is right.
Windows down, blasting the The Gap Band?
All clear. Nothing found and the bridge is back open.
What a relief! We made the trek up to the UP a couple of years ago and loved it. Spent a very pleasant evening in St. Ignace (pron. “Snigness,” as I understand it.) Stumbled across a “songwriters-in-the-round” concert in a park right on the lake and bought all the artists’ CDs, which included this delightful ditty, which should appeal to a great many Glibs. 🙂
I’m going to check out a Ural Patrol rig tomorrow. It’s a little less money, but not as generally valuable as the Harley rig. It does, however have two wheel drive in the back. I’m watching movies of people off roading with them. It looks fun. Maybe having a commie bike will help me prepare for our future.
Maybe having a commie bike will help me prepare for our future.
Maybe, but unless you are apparatchik you still won’t be able to get parts when it breaks.
Everybody Hurts.
REM song covered by the extremely talented Marc Martel.
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, hold on….
https://youtu.be/7eIiKYsMJDw
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, you should probably avoid listening to R.E.M.
Legit LOL.???
blackjack wins the internet this day.
Yet “The End of the World As We Know It” is strangely uplifting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
I had a roommate for a summer internship who did nothing but play REM. I still want to hurl when I hear that voice, even now, decades later.
When I need a pick-me-up
I love Tilda Swinton. She’s so weird and hilarious.
Don’t know why it posted there. But oh well. I still like Tilda Swinton.
Which one? There’s dozens that match that description.
This goofball Canuckistani
I’m going to check out a Ural Patrol rig tomorrow.
That’s the BMW knockoff, right? There’s a guy in town who has one. It looks kind of fun. Get some wind in your kid’s face.
Yeah. They’re Russian-ish. They say they’re fragile and unreliable, but I have old Harley’s so I’m used to that. Might be cool to take it trail riding in 2wd. There’s guys fording 2 foot deep streams with them. I bet I can keep one running without any problems. They hold like almost no oil. 2.5 quarts in the motor and literally 4.5 ounces in the rear drive. I guess that’s why they want it changed so often. Might have to buy a deep pan.
Jangly powerpop. https://youtu.be/y9vnIghFrUU
Jangly old British indie pop with weird accents, weird haircuts, and sweaters https://youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ
Love that Sundays song ?
Hey Swiss or Animal, did one of you guys build this?
No, but now I wish I’d thought of it first.
In concert news, I’ve learned it’s the Slacker’s 30th anniversary this year. They’re doing a tour in fall, and at least here in Ohio, they’re touring with fucking Mustard Plug.
The Slackers are one of the few bands that I’ve never seen a fight break out in the pit. It’s one of the best good feeling shows ever. Even if the girlfriend’s not interested, I’m going to this show.
They played a free show an hour south of here in June.
Mustard plug will be opening for the Pietasrers at a local club in October.
The Slackers or Mustard Plug?
I’ve been going to Slackers shows for their entire 30 year history. I have a poster hanging on the wall that was signed by all of the current members from a couple years back. Mustard Plug dealt with me and a friend always screaming for Mr. Happy during live shows.
Fuck, we were teenagers and didn’t know the way of the set list back then.
Slackers played a free show in June.
I saw Vic doing his solo show at a shithole punk bar (they had a chicken wire cage around the stage for fucks sake), and it was a great night. Of course, the bar was only charging $6 for a bomber of Arrogant Bastard, and handed me the full bottle uncapped. Maybe that’s why there was a chicken wire cage around the stage…
Wow,
I’m surprised that a dirty punk bar would have Arrogant Bastard.
As was I!
There’s a reason I ordered it. Of course, I was within walking distance of the bar. There’s a tradition here of the punk bars having a solid beer selection. Back in the mid-90’s, I could routinely get Corsendonk Abbey Pale for $4/bottle at the Grog Shop, and the Beachland has a respectable beer selection for a regular bar.
Sorry it’s Sargent Scagnetti. Not Mustard Plug.
I’ll be seeing mustard plug at Supernova.
Is it Ska Punk? If it isn’t Ska Punk and not too far away I’ll g… Oh never mind it’s ska punk.
The Slackers aren’t. But if you don’t like reggae and early ska, you will not like the Slackers.
Ever been forced listen to Bob Marley’s greatest hits on repeat for eight hours straight? It was like the Ludovico Treatment but the only drug I got was second hand reefer smoke.
Giant fat bear at Brooks Falls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7mD2X8Yhak
from the comments
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2. “Is this bear injured? It seems to walk strangely.”
This bear is a dominant adult male. He can walk normally, but his stiff-legged gait is purposeful. He’s “cowboy walking” (no joke, that’s what it’s called) to display his size and dominance. While he cowboy walks, he’s also urinating on the ground to mark his presence in the area. He rubs his back on the tree for the same reason. His gait, the cowboy walk, is intended to show other bears that he is dominant.
3. “Are you making fun of the bear’s fatness?”
Definitely not. in fact, his fatness is a mark of success. Brown bears need fat to survive and the most successful bears, those who have eaten the most food, are seasonally obese. This bear uses his fat reserves to survive winter hibernation when he does not eat, drink, urinate, defecate. In late spring, before salmon have arrived, he still relies on his fat reserves to fuel his pursuit of female bears during the mating season. Fat bears are successful bears. They must eat a year’s worth of food in six months or less to survive. The title of the video highlights on aspect of this bear’s success in a tough world.
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[rubs chin thoughtfully, remembers current weight]
[begins cowboy walking and pissing on everything]
“Are you making fun of the bear’s fatness?”
I’m sure the bear is mortally offended.
Ok, my navy response article looks to be a 3 parter so far – ill try and post it the weekend of the 25th – so that ed.s can put it up that week – evenings preferably so I have some response opportunities.
After this, thinking that I might be able to do a semi-regular response/explained article for some military stuff if there’s interest in that. We’ll see how this one goes over first.
People from LA should shut the fuck up.
Amen.
I got nothing to say.
Trailer tongue jack is now fully installated. Much better.
Almost beer time.
Wait – don’t tell me… Trailer Tongue Jack was your nickname in college, wasn’t it?
Apparently I have a rotator cuff injury.
I didn’t even get to make millions of dollars as a mediocre journeyman middle reliever.
Sigh.
Condolences.
#btdt
“Yeah well, I coulda made the bigs, but…”
fun Arabic trivia
The name Saddam (suh-DAWM not SOD-um) come from a verb that means to shake or shock.
Istidaam means a car crash. Saadmah means a detonator.
The name means someone so powerful that they shook the world with their footsteps. It’s the Arabic equivalent of naming your kid Max Power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVms6cT9nk
Shake, as in, thoroughly shake down the US “intelligence community”. Yeah. Case in point, Amy Zegart’s recent non-defense of recently departed un-intel spokesman Rumsfeld’s “unknown unknowns”. Never before have I heard such a carefully worded political explainer for “a tinpot despot totally fucking played us, even with the immense resources at our disposal”. Hoover is still crawling with swamp critters. Well, when I say “played”, I mean, “provided the flimsiest of excuses to grow the war machine exponentially”.
A few days before I got lured into the psych ward, I was in a training exercise where I played the role of a captured ISIS fighter. My motto is that in war, 2nd place is 1st coffin so I went full blast to make the junior interrogator work for it.
I was dismayed to see how little the interrogator and the guy running the event knew or cared to know about the people we’ve been at war with since I was in high school 20 years ago.
Even so, the interrogator asked for my contact info afterwards and said it was the best training he ever had.
It is fun to make friends.
I got asked once to be part of an internal audit for the place I worked for. I went full out and pulled out every single error/policy break I could find. I was then told that I wasn’t supposed to find any issues. “But… these are issues.”
“Don’t report them.”
I reported them… and was never asked to be a part of an internal audit for the place I used to work for again.
Shake some action https://youtu.be/gaN1L2KSvGg
Custom Yusef seasoned Wahlburgers con Queso, Curly fries and fresh baked Chocolate cookies! it’s what’s for dinner,
*stoned dirtbag guy meme face*
Like. Uh. How do you even cut a potato curly? Is there like a curly knife or just like a giant curly knife at the curly fry factory that can cut like one million potatoes at once? Dude. And the seasoning? You know if you seasoned a regular french fry like that it wouldn’t taste right. It’s the geometry, man. Totally helical, like DNA. Whoooa.
Either store bought or get a Spiralizer.
I appreciate your entirely sincere answer to my post.
ACAB! (all carbs are bastards)
Made by Marky Mark himself?
Or made FROM Marky Mark himself?
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/eknsR/1fe461058d663eb90178ad0b457f297acb950d1b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/3A2hz/4d430abf86f636361c6b0bacbc0623eab461c0dd.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/zukK5/be8f07b89d8d248ed45b31893bba2ebd4b5e57a5.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/JCdNF/55e1696156d75a31c23e1b8571f550780b346ce8.webp
NSFW.
The inclusion of “fur” in the name is a bad sign.
I can get behind that.
Damn girl. Some work went into that body.
For sure. A little tattoo removal and we’re all set.
Bomb threat: That would have to be a hell of a bomb to take that bridge down. I guess even the little fire poppers that we have seen over the last ten years are bad news to anyone close to them, but geez. Why would anyone do something like that?
A few years ago we had a complete nutcase that tried to blow up his wife with a car bomb. Thankfully he failed. The FBI showed up at his house and found the house, the truck, the barn and several tripwires around the place rigged with bombs. I was working in the woods that day. I kept hearing booms and shrugged it off thinking the gravel pit guys a few miles away were dynamiting the pits. Nope. Turns out the FBI was setting off the boogie traps. That guy was a menace and I am glad someone finally put a butterfly net over him and hauled him away.
Thankfully the brave persons of the Bureau saved us all from another WHITE SUPREMACIST*.
*well, it defaults to that, for reasons?
I am sure they sent the cadets out to do that job. I have to say, the wife was damned lucky that the bomb the loon put in her car was a dud. The ones that the coppers set off made one hell of a bang.
Yikes. Well I am certainly glad that you are yours are safe.
I know two people that make real bombs. One is a glib, the other my father. The glib makes bombs for the military and blew windows out 20 miles away from her test site.
I watched my father blast a mountain for for ore in Bolivia. From ten miles away I watched a rock fly off of the mountain and thump thump thump a bit away on a river bank. A few days later my brother and I went duck hunting along that river and I discovered up close that that rock was about 60 feet long and 40 feet tall. The ‘bit’ it had flown from the mountain was about 4 miles. That’s a bomb.
A pressure cooker full of black powder is just a firecracker.
A pressure cooker full of black powder is just a firecracker.
I’m sure the people killed at the Boston Marathon share your sentiments.
[…]
Every day seems to bring a new round of success, little achievements at this point are reasons for celebration.
A couple days ago I peed standing up, maybe a little on my shoes, but after 4 months of looking for a terlet every half hour I marked it down as a success. I just have to find a suitable tree when I’m outside and I’m good. Today I got some buckets in the lawn tractor trailer, filled them with water and watered the little apple trees in the garden, off and on the tractor several times. I forgot to use the walker and walked several steps before I realized what had happened.
I reminded myself that in the hospital I needed help getting my weak leg into bed, needed a nurse to help, now I just flop down, throw both legs into bed and close my eyes. We don’t know what we have until we lose things and getting them back is memorable. The next goal is to drive a little farther but because that involves others I’m still a little hesitant but the time is coming.
Hopefully next year I can convince the girlfriend that we should do the Honey Harvest.
This year we have a conflict due to an event we bought tickets to two years ago.
I put an asterisk on next year’s calendar, “Save some work for Neph et al”
I’ll sign up for kitchen work, your wife can yell at me for not cutting things correctly.
???
That’s excellent. Experience from family members has taught me that is absolutely not something to take for granted.
That sounds like good news to me Sir. I just spoke to three cousins that are 76, 80 and 83. This getting older business is more fun every day. I got to hear about prostates, hips and Parkinson’s. I try to call them a couple of times per month. With my RA I don’t know who is going first, them or me. If I go first I tell them I will find Uncle Jay because I know he will know where all of the good fishing holes are and save them a spot but “Dont get in a hurry. They will still be there when you get there.”
I told Mrs F that when the time comes to take me in the woods, sit me on a stump and tell me “Wait here”. I’ve heated with wood for the last 30 years but tomorrow I’m calling the gas company and tell them to bring me a bigger propane tank. I still have 3-4 years’ worth of firewood in the wood shed but there comes a time when one needs to face reality. The gas worked well this past spring.
I am of the same mind. I have spent my life, mostly, growing and tending trees. I love those trees. “Wait here” seems right.
My father told me when he goes to just put him in the woods he and his father spent tending. I cant disagree.
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*points to avatar*
Dang it. I keep forgetting to use *points to Sean’s avatar* as a response.
WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! Excellent work, O Wise One!
I’m glad to hear of your progress. I hope to get to HH and annoy you with annoying bee questions.
Matt Taibbi’S review of Robin DiAngelo’s Nice Racism. It’s rare to see a shellacking like this one.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/our-endless-dinner-with-robin-diangelo
Robin DiAngelo? A concentrated evil doth manifest itself in such a vexatious avatar.
That woman could be the most repulsive individual I have seen. I have seen some on par , but none worse. I would almost rather have Jeffery Dahmer over for dinner. He hurt fewer people.
Saw a bumper sticker today that I think I’m going to appropriate as my personal motto:
“You find it offensive. I find it funny. That’s why I’m happier than you.”
Well, that alongside “ILBTs”.
Related, Cuba. Cuba is the model we should strive to emulate,
It’s astonishing. These types shout “we are communists” from the rooftops and everyone just nods and smiles and submits. Dark times ahead if people don’t wake the fuck up.
“We treat everyone like shit.”
I’m still proofreading this treatise on the education in underdeveloped nations. Came across this little gem from 1968:
A mental passtime I engage in is wondering what I would do if I was born in an early time period. Of course, I (like many others) wouldn’t have survived in the middle ages.
Most lean towards sales or conman.
? I am so sorry you have to read that gibberish.
Actually, it’s not bad. I’m reconstructing tables and such things, which I find relaxing, but the voice is kind of engaging. Also, it’s easier for me to read than most academic bullshit, so I’m happy to be able to understand it. Also also, I’m about 2/3 finished, so there is light at the end of the tunnel.
What struck me about 2 pages ago was that the question: Yes, but what’s your GOAL? has yet to be asked or answered.
I mean, the treatise is that underdeveloped nations are poor because they are uneducated (oh, let me tell you how envious he is of our progressive Prussian educational system), so therefore, if more people were educated, the countries would not be poor. And also, it takes money to educate people. And also also, here’s X, Y, and Z obstacles we face in getting the money to get them educated. And also also also, the ones who are educated are liberal arts, law, and government majors who aren’t doing anything constructive and they’re out of work. And also also also also, they don’t stay in their communities and contribute there. And also also also also also, teaching is seen as a shit and socially undesirable profession, so what teachers they have are just shit.
But as my mother once asked me, “Why do you base your goals on decisions someone else has to make?” A government can plan and plot all it wants, but if the people won’t do what it wants them to, what’s a government to do?
*gets an email from my kid’s compulsory education center*
A standard question I ask people when designing a call flow with a terrible flaw in it is, “What would you do if you called into somewhere and this happened?”
It used to frighten me how many people never even considered that.
China has a couple answers for that.
Oh, here it is:
Education’s end goal is to produce people who can solve their communities’ problems.
Okay, I can dig it.
Oh, now we get to the meat of it: He wants the UN to take over the world and make everybody get along and be happy, and kill that whole nationalism bent humans have.
Lol. The author never spent a day working in the real world.
Paul Johnson, in Modern Times, observed that much of early decolonization was driven by indigenous elites rather than the average person.
Also, that the triple option is a superior offense.
Or maybe it is a common name.
“at least within the Indian context”
This might explain why do many Indian (dot) politicians in the US are so awful.
Well, I was thinking of our benighted BLM and Antifa mostly peaceful protestors. Those aren’t without a heavy population of educated and unemployed morons.
Now I’ve got a kid coming by to drive off in my Honda parts car. Sweet.
Hopefully it still has enough parts left fro him to drive it!
Once out of the driveway, that becomes his problem.
SPORTS DESK WITH LIMEY
Baseball would be more interesting if they didn’t use a new ball for EVERY %^&£ing pitch. I would like to advocate for dirty balls.
Speaking of baseball, if anyone is interested in Chief Wahoo gear, next Friday I’m going to be in the only place in the world where you can purchase legit Wahoo gear.
More lessons from cricket.
Baseball is background noise for drinking beer.
To be fair, so is soccer.
Cricket, even more so.
A few weeks ago, I spent 2 days with a cousin. He and his wife have 9 kids. That is the reason I did not stay for 3 days. Every waking moment, it was a marathon of feeding, scolding, and comforting. At one point, it became necessary to duct tape a diaper on a baby.
They asked me: so, do you still want to have kids?
I said yes, but not 9.
Kids for some reason like me.
I have no desire to spawn. My brain meat is broken enough for me, I don’t want to imagine raising a small version of me.
My daughter is me turned up to 11. I fear for the world.
My niece and I have had several discussions that would probably upset her mother. I stand by everything I said.
Only 9? They’re cheaper by the dozen and if you space it right, they start raising themselves.
In the words of the great philosopher Homer Simpson, kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate, and they practically raise themselves.
If I was forced to choose between 9 kids and 0 kids, I’d take 9.
One of my uncles has been a lawyer for 40 years. He said winning a big case is cool, making a lot of money is cool, but the only thing he did in his life that really mattered was raising his kids.
I never wanted them until I did and by that time it was too late. Grab that brass ring, if you are able because there is no going back to fix it.
For those unaware, Wellington Paranormal is finally airing in the US… on the CW.
If you like comedy horror, I recommend it.
I’d like to thank the good idiots at US Gypsum for putting a cheapo zipper closure on their bags. The kind a fine powder, like say drywall compound powder, could easily clog when pouring it out (and across the closure strip).
Your daily Iron Sheik
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1416915011751002117
So a week and a half ago I hit my target weight and held it for a few days. Then I went on a wine tasting bender with my old boss last weekend and an back above that weight. The good news is that the overall trend is down. It may be coincidental, but my weight really started trending down once I started eating yogurt every day. Maybe there’s something to the gut biome thing.
Any update from our LA folks about the re-introduction of the mask mandate today? I heard that many people stopped wearing masks indoors during the month of mask freedom in LA. But did it change today?
I can’t believe Cuomo and/or Deblasio haven’t jumped on that bandwagon yet.
I am also wondering, being in SF. Here, it went from a few months back with 80% wearing them outdoors here to a week ago maybe 10% doing so. The second I didn’t need to wear one in a store, I stopped. A week ago there were still maybe 70% wearing them in stores, that shot up to 85% or so this past weekend.
Outdoor mask theater is greater this summer than it was last summer here in NYC. Most shops are optional but almost nobody is taking the dare.
It is still stunning to me how many people bought into the wearing them outdoors bullshit. It just absolutely flies completely in the face of all common sense. In the winter and spring, I’d say over 90% here were wearing them outdoors, including walking around at night by themselves or my personal favorite, flying by on a motorized scooter blowing past stop signs with one. I really think that if people were told this week that it has been determined that COVID can be through the air anally and that underwear and pants aren’t enough to stop it, that there would be a run on butt plugs that week.
Don’t be a Science Denier. Wear the uniform.
But I don’t want to wear the butt-plug!
/Kramer
Wow. It’s the complete opposite here. For 12 months the share of masked people outdoors stayed at around 95%, including the last summer. Now it’s lower than 20%, maybe even less. They follow The Science.
The news is so relentlessly panicdoom I can understand the reaction here. Everybody knows another mandate is coming. “One last push to whip this thing! We’re in this together! yada yada yada”
I went to the liquor store to get some beer. The guy at the counter had his on, but he didn’t bitch at me for not having mine. One of the other customers had his down under his chin and the other had none. I suspect most people are just not wearing them. I didn’t go to any large chain stores. I bet they are uppity about it.
I’ve been to 711, Safeway, Lowe’s, and Starbucks maskless (as far as big national brands are concerned). Just went to my hair salon maskless for the first time last week.
I’ve also noticed a very sharp gender divide in who is wearing masks and who isn’t.
We got mandated again. Something, something, DELTA!!!!
Interestingly, in the lack here of any mandate to feed-bag (yet (again)), I’ve noticed that the small shops are the ones that refuse to update their signage. I respect their wishes. The big stores have all updated their signage and nobody bats an eye at the sight of my nose and mouth.
No first hand knowledge but the LA County Sheriff has publicly declared he will not enforce the mandate.
Then he used it to bitch about his precious resources and his inadequate funding.
You would think that after almost a year and a half that the mask brigade could at least put up some studies showing some type of effectiveness. If there are, then I haven’t seen them. Of course, there have been decades of studies showing little to no effect in non clinical settings for other respiratory ailments. The only study I’m aware of with the Vid was the Danish one that didn’t show any benefit. You’d think they could’ve at least pulled one out their ass, but then again I guess it’s enough for most people that the media and public health bureaucrats just keep parroting the mask mantra.
I think there’s a way to do it right and have some effect, but we ain’t nowhere close to that. That’s why the maskless regions are faring no worse than draconian shitholes like Cali.
Not to say it justifies mask mandates anyway, but you’d think there would be some guidance on how to do it right. Nope.
I don’t doubt that in a clinical setting, an N95 or better, properly fitted with clean hands, not constantly fiddled with, and then disposed of after a certain time could have some measurable benefit in regards to transmission. But that obviously is not at all what is happening with almost everyone wearing one in public.
And yes, Rhy, I guess so, but you would think with the numbers we keep hearing of how bad the media is presently considered, that there would be substantially more doubt in the mind of the public.
The whole point of controlling the media is you don’t have to do that.
https://archive.li/tJtMM/6eafdecc7cda488d32a8854eaaaf323fa9e3b361.jpg
I always like to see good trigger discipline.
What trigger?
Yoel & Mari are live. This is MUST SEE YOUTUBE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSlrfs6rEa0
Morons,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7_CxVwL_zU
So, I got my number of workouts in and upgraded my resistance bands. This is nice, as I think the heavier bands give a smoother workout, which is in my opinion a better workout.
Anyway, this was also a weekend of finishing projects and getting back on with others. I dragged the missions style Morris chair I just finished restoring and it met with the wife’s approval, and now I am back on the Hercules bicycle refurbish. It feels good to clear out some space in the shop.
Oooh, nice. If I may interrogate you a bit, what year was it built, out of what kind of wood, and what kind of finish did you put on it?
LOL Mexico’s soccer captain is live on mic in Dallas calling for the Mexican fans not to yell faggot-stuff at the opposing team like they do at every game.
Over/under on they do it even more?
5/4
I’ll probably pass out before the game is over but last time they played a few days ago, the game was stopped twice. I think the 3rd offense means the hurt players get to hide off stage where they can recover from the grievous wounds and the match continues the next day without the violence-committing persons in attendance.
Really wish I understood the lyrics.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KipperYou/status/1416572807744565250
See Y’allins on the flip side, peace!
Can you waddle? https://youtu.be/9g17qsBVAiU
My entire adult life I have been surrounded by machine sounds, motors and fans, Compressors, and various general noises, and it gets old. I thought playing loud guitars wrecked my hearing, but it turns out the machines got me, Tinnitus for days, and at work I drive to the South Campus for lunch to get away from the noise.Right now it is silent and calm at home, thank God,
It was saws that got me.
Shooting in Tucson. This is kinda nuts. https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/multiple-people-shot-including-ambulance-crew-in-tucson
Jeez.
Wait a minute. KGUN?? Really?
My Boyfriend’s Back https://youtu.be/tB-Z4Q7badE
Mickey’s Monkey https://youtu.be/UwlGn7uORYg
Great Big Kiss https://youtu.be/01YePzk29Mc
Lookin For A Kiss https://youtu.be/GvmvMFXWzc8
New channel from Mark Felton!
https://youtu.be/1dsT4FYH-4c
Da Doo Ron Ron https://youtu.be/L0dikX80Ed8
Out of my brain on the train, on the train. Whoo! Out of my brain! https://youtu.be/FlL-FFQZd2I
Not this cover??
https://youtu.be/l1nTfgUbW48
The greatest song ever written and recorded. https://youtu.be/iFQEsUjI0U8
This one’s pretty good too. https://youtu.be/sbyUjgN-5e0
All from Memphis, TN.
Very nice.
This is the ringtone for the missus
https://youtu.be/Zcvdc8yP4QA
Damn nice tune. I freaking love Stax soul.
And the title makes me chuckle too.
Go Go Gorilla https://youtu.be/cH2XYXywNOs
You Drive Me Ape https://youtu.be/wSMFPJ0y3fE
Punk rock https://youtu.be/m8ULZ1BLYn8
Punk rock https://youtu.be/dpFZ0ZbvMjQ
The British Invasion punched the USA rock n roll scene right in the dick. The Beach Boys countered with some brilliant pop https://youtu.be/pS94YK3pscs
And the Byrds. Jangliest of jangly. https://youtu.be/CHuAmsEGdGU
Wonderful World https://youtu.be/aYQFTbLKNcg
World Up My Ass https://youtu.be/lOtFjSr27ek
One of my favorites
https://youtu.be/H2di83WAOhU
And the in a bizarro world, they also released a City Pop song
https://youtu.be/ikwQvjRXWRo
That first one is a classic. That second one is wacky. I know the genre, but I just don’t get into it. JA in the AM plays alot of that stuff on WFMU. Friday mornings 6am to 9 am Pacific time. It’s ok. But sometimes just trends to smooth jazz.
Wacky
https://youtu.be/3llxy2Ocb78
The Clash doing Booker T
https://youtu.be/5-Lj9yzct3U
Johnny Thunders doing Booker T
https://youtu.be/Ju3NO3Xtomo
Here’s a weird one. https://youtu.be/3V8VvEzuQ6Y
There’s an echo of Stax r&b in there, but then it goes a little forward. Young’s guitar solo is the future of music. Maybe 20 years in the future. Groundbreaking.
https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/britney-spears-calls-out-those-who-didnt-lend-a-hand-when-she-was-drowning/article_82daebe9-c272-5945-81ac-15561d67ec0a.html
#FreeBritney
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/07/tornado-tore-nearly-8-mile-path-through-nj-county-weather-service-confirms.html
Even God hates NJ.
Reasonably pleasant here for a change.
The ac is already running this morning. ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMmFrxAVR0
Otters are adorable. News at 11.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! ???
Mr. Ilium told me how to find emojis on my laptop.
Little did he know he’d created a monster.
Good morning, Sean ::glances below:: and Yu and U!
Two hypodermics followed by happiness?
It was supposed to be otters. Looked more like ’em until I hit “Post.” 🙁
Maybe it’s tranquilizer darts for them.
One thing I like about Edge is it doesn’t support emoji fonts. Instead they come out as images and I can enlarge them to 2em so I here see the nice detailed otters. Why they are launching themselves to the northwest I can’t answer.
Trying to find the Northwest Passage? We’ll call them Lewis & Clark! 😀
Mornin’
Guess I’ll skip ? this morning. Seems like an abundant supply already. ?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/two-fully-vaccinated-texas-democrat-lawmakers-test-positive-covid-19-since-fleeing-dc-5-cases-total/
Are they clever enough to have made this up? Or are they that fucking lame?
Either that way, it seems like bad optics.
Vaccinate or DIE?
The choice is yours.
-The news
I’m already going to die, why take a Vaccine?
Covfefe Glibbbies!
🙁 My weight appears to be stabilizing about 10 lb lower than the start of july.
I’m done with the pain pills from the surgery.
My morale isn’t that great, but I can manage that.
Well, that sounds great except for the morale. 🙁
Anything we can do to help lift it?
Not really. I’m just feeling horribly unproductive. I don’t like not getting anything done, regardless of how good a reason I had.
Can you do laundry without having to go to a laundromat? Laundry is my favorite way to feel productive without having to expend a lot of physical or mental energy. If your clothes are all clean, there’s always sheets and towels.
Cleaning of any kind, if not too physically strenuous, might work. And your mind might even wander into creative thoughts…? If not, at least your house is a little tidier.
::looks around at own home:: I need to have guests over again soon to inspire me to clean. I was doing so well… 🙁
I can do laundry at home, but I only own so many clothes.
Bit of a busy day in store for me. Two new hires scheduled to start, and I don’t set them up in the payroll system until they actually show up. Then as soon as all the supervisors approve their folks’ timesheets, I’ll process a payroll for which I’ll add, for everyone except senior management, a semi-annual incentive because the organization achieved three out of our four goals for the half-year! 🙂
And then there’s the usual Monday Mountain of Mail. Plus all the quarter-end returned mail I haven’t processed yet. 🙁
Good luck.
Thanks! A bit of that couldn’t hurt, especially with the mail. Maybe since it’s now the second half of the month, it won’t be so bad…
Ugh our half-yearly reviews are coming up this week. I thought once a year was bad enough.
My boss hates giving evaluations even once a year. Luckily, we no longer have an internal HR harpy to nag the supervisors to get them done.
Good luck with yours! How well do you get along with your supervisor? Have you even met him or her in person?
Fine. I’ve known him for at least 10 or 12 years.
Ozzy Man Reviews Snake vs Mice (guy puts snake in the wall and mice come running out):
https://youtu.be/VeOZgz_FzYw
They look like rats actually but whatever.
Yeah, that snake didn’t eat any of the rats. It never would’ve been able to get back out the hole with the bulge it would’ve had in its gut.
Good morning, Stinky!
Morning, people are pointing out in the comments that it was staged, the guy’s friend was on the other side of the wall feeding the rats through. I swear, if you can’t trust random clips on the internet what can you trust?
Well, the rats were a bit docile and slow. If scared, they would have scurried faster and inside the wall instead of through the hole. Plus, getting the snake to return is not that probable.
Yeah, those are rats. Waaay too big to be mice.
For your mouse problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHxIVol_bsk
Unless of course, a “mouse gun” is something you use to arm mice with, in which case never mind.
I thought it was a gun that fired mice.
Pew pew pew.Squeak squeak squeak.
😀
At least it no longer hurts to laugh.
ZARDOZ sighting in Japan. Cleansing to follow.
https://nypost.com/video/giant-floating-head-looms-over-parkgoers-in-bizarre-video/
That first shot from a distance looks like something from a Terry Gilliam animation.
Good morning, ‘patzy! 😉
Mornin, GT! Great music lynx from you and EG, made my morning.
I think that was actually GL…? 🙂 But if it’s music you want, it’s been DAYS since I posted a link to my favorite audio antidepressant!
Makes you move your feet, love it! Here’s a little something from a master of Latin percussion…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTg-qfGFGWk
Jesus. Poor Derpy! I wanted to hear news but not that sort of tidings. Everything has fallen to shit, hasn’t it? Mornin’ Glibs.
Good morning, Fes! Even if everything else has fallen to shit, we still have each other!
suh fam
whats goody
Good morning, homey! Ready to tackle that mowing before it gets too hot & humid?
It was a long night and it needs done.
Hope springs eternal, I suppose.
Inside you there are two wolves. One is fat. The other is also fat. You are fat.
On vacation this week, sitting outside the hotel with coffee and smoke. Strike up a conversation with another old dude. Turns out his Ford pick up broke down last night as he was returning home to upstate NY from Atlantic City, he’s here waiting to hear from the dealership. “You got a loaner?” “Nope, tow truck driver dropped me off. Even took my luggage upstairs.”
Amazing how normal people will step up to help. Contrast with “official” types.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/the-pegasus-project/
Got some sprints in on Saturday, which I hadn’t done for a while. My quads feel blasted – I miss that feeling.
Also, the past month or so I’ve been busy with various home improvement projects in the garage, so I’ve been lifting kettlebells out there while I work instead of lifting in the house. I finished up those projects, so now I can lift inside with my heavy barbell set. I did one of my upper body workouts (bench press, bent rows, diamond push-ups) and had major DOMS the next day.
I’ve lost some bodyfat recently (probably due to eating lighter and drinking less) so I’m pretty happy with how “cut” I’m starting to look. I still want to get my chest and pecs just a wee bit larger.