More Random Thoughts, the Death of a Saguaro, Get Free Cocktail

by | Mar 14, 2022 | Cocktails, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Society | 161 comments

We lost this massive saguaro at the Casa Dean last month.  It ripped down half of the tree when it fell, and I don’t know how the wall it fell on survived.  The landscaper who came to remove it said there were a lot of them down across town.  Apparently, they took up a lot of water during last year’s near-record monsoon, became top-heavy, and couldn’t take the high winds we got when a front came through.

 

 

As a metaphor for a prosperous society not being able to withstand adversity, I found this to be depressingly on point.

About the only thing I have to say about Ukraine is, wow, has the Russian military ever underperformed.  I am confident that nearly everything I see is propaganda to some degree, but the basic facts seem to be that the Ukrainians haven’t lost yet, and are taking a bite out of the Russians.  “Russian military not the juggernaut everyone thought” strikes me as a good thing.  I can only hope that bumbling into a war with Russia is beyond the incompetence of even our unthinkably inept rulers.  Because, among other things, I’m pretty sure “American military not the juggernaut everyone thought” would be one of the takeaways.

COVID is over.  And not just, its almost completely disappeared from the news because it became a liability for the political side of the DemOp Complex.  We are down to less than 20% of the COVID patients we had just two months ago (and less than 10% of our all-time peak), and dropping.  The Omicron variant is pretty much what competent virologists predicted early on – eventually, viruses evolve to be less virulent and more infectious.  They were, naturally, ignored as inconvenient to the Narrative, and have been proven right.  Just like the people behind the Great Barrington Declaration.  In a healthy society, the policy-makers and opinion-shapers who have been proven wrong and inflicted such great costs would face consequences.  We, however, do not live in a healthy society.

There are many candidates for the root cause of our problems (and indeed, there are probably many root causes), but the one I keep coming back to is immunity from consequence.  Our soi-disant elites in government, academia, the Narrative machine of media and Big Tech, are (for now at least) immune from the consequences of their actions.  It is natural to want to avoid paying the piper, so maybe the real root cause can be found by asking, how this came to be?  How did we little people allow Our Masters to become immune from consequence?

The Great Divide between the urban/collectivist hive mind of the laptop class and their followers on the one hand, and the old-fashioned normies on the other, shows no signs of narrowing.  The sneering by laptoppers driving Teslas at people getting hammered by gas prices is just the latest, most obnoxious example.  The two incompatible worldviews continue to grind against each other, and I simply don’t see a resolution.  A non-catastrophic split into multiple nations or even some kind of tolerable semi-autonomy doesn’t seem to be in the cards, at all.  I find myself increasingly wondering whether its possible to “withdraw in place” from the ongoing conflict, or whether a physical relocation to a more rural community or to another country is the smart play.

This is just damage control, of course.  We seem firmly set on a course that will lead to currency, economic, and societal collapse, and when the US goes down, everybody will do down with it.  For the first time in years, I found myself pricing gold and silver coins (following my time-tested technique of buying high).  When my bonus shows up, some of it may go into the stash of “deep insurance” specie.  Maybe “junk silver”, but holy mackerel that stuff carries a premium.

For the moment, I’m not making much in the way of long-term plans – I’ll be working through the end of the year, and tend to think that making a big change shortly after retiring is generally not smart.  These are not normal times, though, so that rule of thumb may not apply.  We’ll see.  This is looking like ant time to me, not grasshopper time.  Winter is coming.  We’ll be lucky if its not the Burning Times that are coming.

 

 

Cocktail time comes every day at Casa Dean!  This is a Tiki(ish?) recipe that I got from the Wall Street Journal.  It has a couple of specialty ingredients, which I usually steer away from, but I ponied up and gave it a go anyway.  It’s a “freezer cocktail” that you mix in advance and stick in the freezer for at least a few hours.  They had several variations; some served over rocks and some not, because they are already Zero degrees Americanheit when served.  Can recommend.

 

Get Free

6 oz. bourbon or rye (inevitably, I used home barrel-aged rye)

6 oz. aged rum (they recommend El Dorado 15 year Demerara rum, which sounds way too good and expensive for a mixed drink; I went with Ron Alegro Anejo)

2 oz. Luxardo maraschino liqueur

1 oz. passionfruit liqueur (they recommend Giffards, which was not available, so I got Chinola)

3 dashes Bittermans Elemakule Tiki bitters

Garnish with grapefruit twist

 

Pour everything in a jar, quick shake, stick in the freezer.  Should be fully chilled after 3 hours.  Serve over rocks in an old-fashioned glass.  You’ll need to give it another shake before you serve.

Damn good.  I drank way too much of the first batch in one sitting – this is a strong cocktail (note that there are no ingredients that don’t have alcohol).  That little bit of passionfruit liqueur is just right to give it some tropical fruit flavor without being White-Girl sweet.  I will be looking around for other cocktails I can use it in – its looking like this year’s cocktail experiments are going to be Tiki (ish).  Also, the freezer cocktail thing should work a treat for Manhattans, Negronis, etc. – just scale up your recipe.

Be of good cheer, my friends.  Storms always pass.

 

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161 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    [Doom and gloom] … Be of good cheer, my friends. Storms always pass.

    Whiplash, anyone?

    Good article, though. Sorry about your cactus.

  2. Raven Nation

    “but the one I keep coming back to is immunity from consequence.”

    Good point. In the olden times (say before the 1970s) if you were in leadership and got caught doing something wrong or being a hypocrite, at the least you’d be expected to resign. And there’d be some sense of shame. Like this guy (yeah, it’s an extreme example but, still): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Profumo

    Nowadays, people like Newson, Pelosi, et al just tell the peasants to fuck off.

    • Tundra

      R. Budd Dwyer

      • Raven Nation

        Harsh. But I’ll allow it.

        The thing with Profumo that’s not mentioned on his wiki page is that he started out at Toynbee Hall cleaning toilets.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        “Thank you.”

    • hayeksplosives

      Did it start with Bill Clinton? Everyone knew he was corrupt and somewhat predatory toward women (to what extent, opinions vary), but nothing happened to him.

      It wasn’t even that long after Gary Hart had to drop out of the presidential race for having an affair.

      Maybe it started with Ted Kennedy, although the media didn’t really dig very deep on that one so few people knew how culpable he was.

    • Grumbletarian

      The buck stops somewhere else, bub!

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    Jeez, i already ran away to the sticks and prepping hardcore, what else do you ask for? work at Burger King?

    • Ownbestenemy

      How’s working for the King?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Easy money for me, hell they put me in drive through 3 hours into my 1st shift,
        pretty fun for me,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I just drink the coffee thanks, I’m not a big fan of the food there,never was.

      • rhywun

        I loved Whoppers in HS, way more the McD’s which I didn’t visit for decades.

        The quality went way down in recent decades IMHO. I loved their chicken finger things recently. “Recently” meaning within the last 15 years or so.

      • MikeS

        As far as junk food goes, Whoppers are pretty good. And while I haven’t had one for a while, I loved their sausage/egg/cheese croissant years ago.

      • rhywun

        There’s something about the fake “flame” flavor they inject into the meat that’s off-putting. Either it changed, or I changed, because I can’t eat the damn things any more.

  4. Animal

    RC Dean, your random thoughts are worth more than most folks’ considered opinions. Sorry to hear about the cactus.

    • juris imprudent

      Seconded.

      It’s almost like the Keyser Soze line about the Devil’s greatest trick, in this case, how the ruling class convinced everyone it was immune from consequences.

    • R C Dean

      You’re too kind.

  5. pistoffnick the refusnik

    Chinola passionfruit liqueur

    How do you tell if it is shit or not?

    • Ted S.

      Fuck you, that’s how?

  6. MikeS

    Speaking of booze; My brother and cousin went together and got me this for my 50th bday. As luck would have it, the gift from a coworker’s husband was one of these . They paired together very, very nicely.

    I can highly recommend both.

  7. pistoffnick the refusnik

    COVID is over.

    WhizKid CEO sent out a company-wide e-mail today saying masks are no longer required after Wednesday (I haven’t been wearing one for the last week anyway)… but they are adding a new section to the timesheet website where you have to upload your proof of vaccination.

    *blows dust off resume*

    • MikeS

      Get out of Duloot.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Elon is hiring, but I ain’t built for Texas summers.
        Gulfstream is hiring, but I ain’t built for Georgia summers.

        Oooh! Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut; John Deere in Dubuque, Iowa; a rocket company in Colorado…

        You might be right, MikeS., maybe I should get out of Duloot!

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I’ve been saying for awhile that the plague is NOT over, in many people’s heads.

      Sorry – hope you find a more sensible employer.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Consequences of not filling out that?

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Guess we’ll see when that time comes.

        I told my boss early on in the “pandemic”, if it comes to proof of vax, I’m out. That’s my line in the sand. So far they have only threatened it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *fist bump* A man needs a line

      • rhywun

        *elbow bump*

      • MikeS

        *dick bump*

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        I love you too Mike, but not in that way.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        soy boy! Are you wearing pahjahmahs?

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Just kidding, rhywun. You know I love you.

      • MikeS

        I got my first “Your comment is awaiting moderation.”

        hahahaha

      • rhywun

        Weird, I just got one too. But I see it.

      • hayeksplosives

        Me too!!

      • MikeS

        Yeah, I can see it where I replied, but apparently I’m the only one. Weird.

      • hayeksplosives

        We must be lepers…

  8. MikeS

    RC: is that DOUBLE FUCKING RAINBOW!!111!! picture out your back (or front) yard?

    • Ownbestenemy

      They aren’t leprechauns geesh

      • Ownbestenemy

        That is someone on some really good drugs and glad they had that experience

    • R C Dean

      Yes, it is. We get them periodically. That was taken from my driveway.

      • MikeS

        I was being facetious with the double rainbow comment…the rest of the view is what actually get’s my attention. Beautiful.

  9. Ownbestenemy

    What’s the thoughts on a Monday zoom? Too soon? Too needy?

    • The Hyperbole

      If it has topics and a moderator I’m there.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am thinking topic: *Hey stop it! Not your special person! and moderated by Greta

        *That one person you knew when you that was ‘slow’ and your group made friends genuinely and defended them vigorously when others made fun of them.

    • db

      maybe but a short one?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Chat for a bit

      • db

        too late bro

      • db

        Topic: Why is Hyperbole such a mean old jerk-face?

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Hyperbole is a more of a contrarian than a mean old jerk face.

        “Mean old jerk face” is kind of like your “O” face, but, well, you’re alone and old and mean to yourself…

      • Ownbestenemy

        dueling zooms…keep yours ill drop mine

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Consequences are for chumps.

    • Fourscore

      That explains the actions of some district attorneys around the country.

    • Don escaped Texas

      exactly, I’m afraid….very afraid

      immunity from consequence

      The thing about moral hazard is that the rest of us are the evergreen victims; it’s so much less that Mr Bad Guy got away with it and more that we will be more often victim of ever more Mr Bad Guys. Insert paragraph about the ravages of pragmatism here.

  11. Fourscore

    “American military not the juggernaut everyone thought”

    My guess is the next conflict will be conducted from the air. Now we’re actually seeing the horrors or war and it ain’t pretty. Everyone has a cell phone and we’re seeing real people suffering.

    We ignore Yemen, the ongoing conflicts in Africa and other places where people are killing each other.

    • Plinker762

      So Yemen needs cell towers?

      • Fourscore

        And solar stations to recharge the phones.

      • one true athena

        Starlink. That’s what it’s for.

        I remember an article awhile back about cell phones in Africa. Because old telephone infrastructure is prohibitively expensive, there wasn’t a lot of phone/telegraph lines laid during and (especially after) colonialism, which kept much of the continent dependent on radio (at best) and nothing, at worst. But cell towers are much cheaper to set up and basically everyone in a community with any money at all, could get a phone. So many areas skipped right over laying wire for something cheaper and easier. Of course, in an active war zone, towers are targeted so some sort of satellite connection is still better.

  12. db

    My employer has a manufacturing facility in Arizona, near the Sonoran Desert. When I travel there I always make time to take a hike in a particular place. There is a hill I eventually want to reach the top of. I haven’t managed so far. Usually when I’m there it is in the cooler times of year that make hiking pleasurable, but that also implies earlier sunsets, so by the time I get out of the plant, I’m racing the sun to get there. It takes about 30 minutes to hike to the foot of the hill from the roadside parking. The highest up I’ve ever managed is about 2/3 of the way. The higher you get, the more cholla you encounter, lurking and plotting your demise.

    Sometimes when I know I won’t have enough time, I hike around the base of the hill. Near there was a exceptionally large and old Saguaro. The first time I saw it I was impressed that it had more arms than I had ever seen on one, and it was just *huge* overall. Late last year, I took the hike again, but couldn’t find my old friend. I remembered the general area where it was, but couldn’t find it. I suspect it succumbed to the same forces as RC’s cactus–it was located slightly above a wash so it was likely to have had plenty of (too much) water in the months before.

    • rhywun

      The higher you get, the more cholos you encounter, lurking and plotting your demise.

      Just cross to the other side of the valley; you’ll be okay.

    • dbleagle

      There is (was?) an absolute monster saguaro up a little nameless side canyon in the Santa Catalina Front Range that we found one time trying a shortcut coming down from a climb. Another great one is in McDonald Mtn Regional Park. It just has mass, height, many many arms, including arms coming from arms. I’ll have to ask my parents if it still around.

      Fuck around with a saguaro and somebody will get hurt. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-menace-to-the-west/. At least Phil was a Darwin Winner.

      https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2021/death-by-saguaro/ The event was memorialized in song.

      I remember the incident well. We partied for years every Feb 4th in honor of the cactus.

  13. Shpip

    Bloomberg: 46 percent of Americans say they overpay in taxes.

    Oddly enough, that’s about the same percentage of Americans who are net federal income taxpayers.

    The article, of course, is about those folks who over-withhold so they get a “refund” annually.

    • Fourscore

      I had to pay both fed and state but not enough to have a penalty or make quarterly payments.

    • Sean

      Typically I’ll owe. Then I make an IRA contribution, and I’ll get a “refund.” Magic.

  14. creech

    “In a healthy society, the policy-makers and opinion-shapers who have been proven wrong and inflicted such great costs would face consequences. We, however, do not live in a healthy society.”
    And Rachel Levine gets put on USA Today’s list of most influential and admired women. I’m sure we all know folks who told us, 2 years ago, “the Science is settled” regarding mandates, shutdowns, masks….who now parrot “Well, Science is always evolving as it learns more so we can’t be held responsible for acting, out of best intentions, when the scientific data was still incomplete.”

  15. Plinker762

    HE’s comment about Aberdeen reminded me of Umatilla. Driving by and looking at the storage igloos and plant always makes me think how nasty a leak or incident there would be. I always felt much more comfortable in the WSA full of nukes.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yeah the chemical weapons are probably one of the nastier ways to go, I’d reckon. Good that we are working on ways to destroy such weapons safely, but a little scary that we have some stored in labs for testing.

      No idea where biological weapons research is done, if at all. Used to be at Dugway (that’s specifically why it was founded), but if it’s still there they don’t advertise it.

  16. Tulip

    I bought a foot massager. IT IS AWESOME!

    • rhywun

      An ex bought me one of those foot bath thingies ages ago.

      I wish I still had it.

    • Festus

      “Foot massager”. Riiiight….

    • hayeksplosives

      Note the difference in the headline “in Rare Mistake” and the text “in a rare admission”.

      No bias in that headline, nosiree.

      • Shpip

        The way federal rules for evidence and criminal procedure are written, not securing a conviction is exceedingly rare. So much so that federal district courts are sometimes mistaken for those named after a particular marsupial. Which is why whenever a defendant walks out of court not in custody, observers say “Wallaby damned… one got away.”

        But in this case, the prosecutors were so thoroughly depantsed by defense counsel that they had no choice but to withdraw the charges — for now, anyway.

    • Grumbletarian

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a Capitol riots defendant and release him from jail, a rare admission in a court filing that the Justice Department had violated his legal right to a speedy trial.

      At the same time, however, prosecutors asked permission to refile the criminal charges again, saying that apart from the Oath Keeper militia members who are facing seditious conspiracy charges, the defendant is facing “the most serious offenses charged in relation to the attack on the Capitol.”

      “Sorry we violated your right to a speedy trial, we’ll drop the charges … and then just refile them. Problem solved!”

      • one true athena

        So this guy is supposedly one of the most “serious” offenses charged, but the DoJ couldn’t be bothered to indict him for a very vague “months” (you know the reporter knows exactly how long, but it’s left at ‘months’).

        Also 775 people charged? and the various ‘obstruction’ charges they’re trying to hang on this guy are the ‘most serious’?

        Fuck all these fascist scumbags.

  17. trshmnstr the terrible

    I find myself increasingly wondering whether its possible to “withdraw in place” from the ongoing conflict, or whether a physical relocation to a more rural community or to another country is the smart play.

    I’ve put a ton of thought to this, and my answer is that it’s highly dependent on your age, lifestyle, and ability to set boundaries to constrain the surrounding culture. As a devout Christian family with preschool aged children, we’re not going to be able to withdraw in place. Waaaaaaaaay too strong of a current for us to swim upstream against for the next 20 years. We’re bailing out to a rural community as soon as the housing market cools off. I could see how the analysis would change for older folks, people without kids (or with older kids), people whose worldview is a bit less targeted by the critical theory lunatics, etc., but for us, it’s withdrawal to a more family-centered lifestyle in a simpler and slower part of the country.

    • rhywun

      I’m not any of that and I totally wish you and yours the best. I know I have it relatively “easy” being childless and such, but I can picture being in your situation and fighting that stream.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup, and even the more mundane issues can make it a nightmare. A homestead isn’t a panacea by any stretch of the imagination.

    • Fourscore

      “in a simpler and slower part of the country.”

      That would be where I live but gone are the days when kids played Little League or even 4H softball. 4H is gone, just not enough farm kids, every kid has a cell phone, cable or Dish access. Computer classes have replaced Ag and Home Ec.

      My nearest neighbor had 4 kids, I never saw the kids riding bikes along the road, never saw them with a .22 rifle out shooting squirrels or chipmunks. Those kids all grew up, off to college. It’s a totally different world than the one some of us grew up in, where we’d swim in different lakes, these kids had an in ground swim pool.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Even since I was a kid in the early 90s, things have changed. I try as hard as I can to keep the girls away from the TV and out in the sun. We don’t have the best outdoor space, but they can go get dirty for a couple hours. Observing the neighborhood kids, it seems that they are forced out of the house for an hour a day by their caretakers, but that’s it.

        Growing up, my friends and I would disappear for hours to go dig a hole or ride our bikes or shoot the BB gun or whatever. We knew when to be home and we knew where we were and weren’t allowed to go. I don’t think that’s much of a thing anymore. Maybe for the teenagers, but even then, they all seem to gravitate to the elementary school where there are nooks and crannies for them to avoid prying eyes (or write the N-word in spray paint).

      • rhywun

        I was an 80s kid so “run out and play” was still a thing but I was also pathologically shy and introverted so most of my adventures were solo. Still loved them, and also loved hanging out in my bedroom reading or tinkering with code.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Healthy balance of enriching indoor AND outdoor activities? Unthinkable these days.

  18. straffinrun

    It’s interesting how some areas that are 80~90% one ethnicity and fighting for independence from a political entity that is dominated by another ethnicity are seen as good, while other times that is considered “treason!” East Timor or Sudan? Good, split them up. Donbass? Bad, and, no, choosing your own puppet from the Kremlin over our puppet in Kiev isn’t an option.

    There is no lack of boot lickers lining up to force people into political unions despite those people absolutely despising the arrangement.

    • hayeksplosives

      That is what is driving me crazy about the media (and social media) portrayal about this. Yes, Putin is evil and he is having his military target civilians. BUT that doesn’t mean that Zelensky is a hero, pure of heart! He’s corrupt, and yes there are lots of neo-Nazis hanging out in Ukraine.

      Not being a 100%.supporter of Ukraine doesn’t make me pro Putin or pro Russia.

      Ive never seen anything like the way this is being pushed on us: blue and yellow frames, Ukrainian flags everywhere. I tried to call an Uber and had to click past two screens trying to get me to donate “to Ukraine” before I could call the dang ride.

      • straffinrun

        Same on Twitter. Every time you log on there is a huge banner “Get the latest on Ukraine”. It’s full frontal propaganda 24/7.

      • one true athena

        I saw a car today with “Stop putin” and “go Ukraine” scrawled on the windows like a kid writing “Class of 22” on the car. They could have a personal connection, which I get that, but otherwise it’s kinda weirdly treating it like a team sport.

      • rhywun

        I watched Tucker tonight and say what you will but the left’s (i.e. the MSM’s) treatment of this stuff is downright unsettling.

        They are literally calling for treason against anyone who isn’t towing the official lion.

  19. hayeksplosives

    I tried withdrawing into a more rural area, an unincorporated census designated zone (Pahrump) but even it is growing at breakneck speed. People are filtering in from Las Vegas and crime is increasing as a result—they’re not sending their best.

    To top it off, the Bureau of Land Management made a lucrative deal where the Feds get money from a foreign owned company to build a huge solar farm, directly adjacent to the town, abutting an elementary school, where they will generate electricity and sell it to California. The building of the farm cracks open the protective desert “crust” and kicks up a bunch of dust. It’s been bad since they broke ground.

    They transported 100 endangered desert tortoises from the area to make room for the solar, but desert tortoises don’t do well with being moved from their home territory, and 90 of them have died.

    I don’t know how long this little paradise will last.

  20. R C Dean

    Oh, and yes, that’s our fire pit.

    • mikey

      I thought “cute maybe but a stock photo.” Now, I’m impressed

      • R C Dean

        Well, crap. That is an ad photo. It looks exactly like ours, the only noticeable difference is in the bed under the skulls. I had some pics of ours around here somewhere . . . .

      • dbleagle

        Hopefully you have an amusing story about how each of those skulls ended up there.

      • mikey

        Catalogue photo is fine. I want that fire pit.

  21. Ownbestenemy

    Feds admit breaking law with delay in case against alleged Jan. 6 rioter

    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/14/feds-admit-breaking-law-with-delay-in-case-against-alleged-jan-6-rioter-00017003

    “There was nothing intentional or nefarious about the delay. It was an isolated incident, unlikely to happen again, and the time frame —while undoubtedly regrettable — is nevertheless not significantly egregious to warrant dismissal with prejudice,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Rozzoni wrote.

    Well then, if the state is admitting that, then it shouldn’t matter if they say “I’m sorry” or “this is unusual”. You are done. The state violated their rules and didn’t follow the constitutuion. That is what the judge should have said.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Further…

      I have real concerns about Mr. Denney’s rights,” the judge warned.

      No you obviously don’t. At this point if you cared about his rights, you’d dismiss the charges.

  22. Brochettaward

    This is a First out with your cock out sort of night..

    • Shpip

      Some dude just tried that in a Miami Starbucks. Didn’t go well for him.

      • Brochettaward

        The sight of my penis can turn even the most straight of men into cock hungry monsters. It is even more powerful than my spectacularly beautiful anus. When it is unleashed it fuels desire that outweighs even the envy lesser men feel. The only negative experience I’ve had when revealing to the world is having to beat back those consumed by lust.

        It is the Firster’s penis.

    • groat scotum

      I hate jump cuts. Memorize more than a line at a time or infill superseding shots better, but the jump cut is just lazy and distracting.

      Razorfist figured this out perfectly. He wears big reflective aviators so it doesn’t look like that he’s reading a script, even though he obviously is. And then he delivers his scripted lines well. No Humphry Appleby three hundred word monologues necessary, as impressive as that would be. Just a serviceable visual trick and good delivery.

    • Chafed

      The retort was pretty clever. I like how she mimicked all the gestures.

  23. Tres Cool

    A friend of mine just got back from a week in the Dominican Republic and brought me a bottle of this.

    It looks like booze infused with hamster bedding. Im very reluctant to try it.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Rum and twigs? A Bark cocktail?
      /Tall Cans!!
      /Covfefe!

  24. Tres Cool

    Regular cans, Ive been up all night, and Im about to eat a Calzone (sans bread) and a salad.

    HEY YUFUS!

    • Tres Cool

      Could it be any worse than when Roseanne did it?

      • Sean

        Watch and judge for yourself.

      • Tres Cool

        Nope. Ive got a nice beer buzz and Im not wrecking it with someone else’s poor singing in public.
        I can do that myself.

      • Festus

        “You’re no fun!” frumps ex.

    • Sean

      Nevermind. That website acts weird on my tablet.

      • Festus

        If that wasn’t Lucille then you are dead to me.

  25. Gender Traitor

    Good morning, Sean, homey, and Yu (if you’re not off to work yet)!

    Much too local news: I got this week’s payroll submitted, returned, and approved yesterday afternoon – much earlier than usual – despite a couple of supervisors’ best efforts to slow me down! ?

    It’s the little things that…are little.

    • robodruid

      Good Morning GT
      The little victories are still, victories.
      Be happy.

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, ‘bodru! How are you lambies? ??

      • Gender Traitor

        (Speaking of little things!)

      • robodruid

        The two are growing fast, they are nibbling on hay.
        I am trying to get the barn cleaned out so we can setup our milking stand.

        No idea if the other girl that is supposed to give birth is even pregnant. She has to be tackled to get to examine her udders.

        All of this is so new and interesting and exhausting.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Mornin’, GT, robo, Sean, Tres, Yufus.

      Last minute meeting with the boss today, I think It’s bonus day. If the news is good I’ll buy virtual drinks for all Glibs.

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, I certainly hope it’s good news – “last minute meeting with the boss” sounds kinda ominous, unless you know for sure that all is going well. ?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Oh, it’s pretty clear I am being put out to pasture. I am supporting our legacy system while all the cool kids are working on the spiffy new one. I’m OK with that for now, but I am working on my resume. I hear that 70 year old database developers are in great demand.

      • Festus

        Ah shit! We know when we’ve been retired. Sorry.

      • Festus

        Mornin’ Morning Glibs! One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces! Kidding, I’d never do something like that.

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, U! Did you get yesterday off? Or most of it, anyway?

    • Festus

      Jewish joyful oblivion sounds much more pleasant than an Irish wake.

      • Ghostpatzer

        It’s pretty wonderful actually. My first manager at my current employer is Orthodox, he slacked a picture of the festivities in 2018. He was dressed in an outfit that made him look like a cross between the Scarecrow and the Wicked Witch of the West. Pointy black hat and all.

      • Festus

        Lotsa big tiddies, too!

      • Festus

        If you think an Irish Wake is crazy, you should experience a French-Canadien one (or five). Gigantic families that all hold a grudge. Magic!

      • Festus

        Je me souviens, writ large. It is quite something after the Priest is gone.

      • Ghostpatzer

        The funeral of my Puerto Rican grandfather was epic. He had knocked up a woman my mother’s age when he was in his fifties, and proceeded to raise a second family with her. Both families were at the funeral, hilarity ensued.

      • Festus

        So long as you remain an attendee it is usually pretty entertaining. Those Catholics can get pretty het up.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Baptists, actually. And I got to sing a hymn Pop had written, good times.

      • Festus

        I wasn’t poking fun, just reporting. Sorry about your Dad.

    • Festus

      Sorry, My Dear, that tune makes the pressure build up behind my left eye for some reason.