An out of stater might believe this is an average Texas car.
Great stuff last week!
One time when I was working on on a car, a friend secretly sprayed WD-40 on my hamburger. Hilarity! Followed by a Benny Hill chase.
Tools! I saw several mentions of multitools, primarily Leathermans. I have a collection spanning back to the very first one. Never got rid of any. I currently have a Leatherman Signal, with the saw blade replaced by a file and the plastic whistle and such replaced by bit holders from ShapeWays. I always carry, as things always need to be fixed. Last car fix was a loose nut holding down the luggage rack on the Mighty Canyonero.
Considering one of us just got an RV – How about a general discussion on mobile living? One of my favorite close-by parks for campers or RV’ers is Jellystone Park. Are those everywhere? Where would you park an RV?
Post Away!
Where would you park an RV?
At a storage lot if I had one.
If you had a storage lot, you could make a lot of money.
Jellystone looks nicer than the RV parks in my area.
What do you call a Norwegian prostitute?
A Fjord escort.
Speaking of cars, just reread Christine. Now I want a Plymouth Fury.
Have a Fury.
Have another.
And be thankful I linked to a Fury, not a Furry.
Small favors
I have a short in the Kia, I’m close to tracking it down, maybe
It’s been a while since it broke down. What was it doing?
My Kia never broke down, it’s a Kia.
I keep blowing a fuse marked for the KEY SW 1, which leads to my secondary fuse block, which send me back under the hood. Tomorrow I shal unbolt the engine fuse block and find me some bad wiring, if all goes well
Seems my gremlins left my radar and headed your way.
Rats ate the wires in my car. Horrible mess underhood. It took four times before all the damage was fixed.
My XP as well, not with Kia, worse, an Austen Healey
Rodents (probably squirrels) got into my Boxster last year. Took over a month and over nine grand to fix.
Thank God for comprehensive coverage.
Yikes! $9K in wiring?
You have to have the labor to find all the shorts as well, and sometimes run a new harness entirely which can necessitate a near complete disassembly of the vehicle. It’s awful. I hate rats.
Yikes!
This is why I miss cars like my ’73 Chevelle. A trained monkey could have rewired that thing.
Lol.
My Triumph had three fuses.
In one of my millions of careers, I worked for an auto electrician. And one thing I learned is that dealers won’t bother to find an electical short, they will replace the harness immediately, and it is usually under warranty. A good auto electrician is going to cost you in labor to find the shot, but then it is usually a quick fix. Not surprised at all about 9k for a Porsche harness.
I have a car covered for the last 25 years, I haven’t even looked underneath, I’m the only owner, actually my wife is, I gave it to her for Xmas 1984, it’s an ’85 Mazda 626.
I’m a little afraid to look, the upholstery may be gone and car full of acorns. Has a 100K miles, collector plates. I drove it into a garage and covered it up, insured but not driven.
I have a buddy who works at a Chrysler dealership that sends me pics of some of the more interesting jobs he comes across. He was tasked with replacing a harness in a newer Dodge Journey. I couldn’t have told you what that car was from the picture he sent it was so dismantled.
Tundra: “LOL
My Triumph had three fuses”
Pshaw. Over engineering! Healeys came with two – a 50 amp and a 35 amp.
Mine now has like 14.
McLain State Park
My dream RV would something entirely self-contained that you could park anywhere. They are often called expedition vehicles, and they are very expensive.
https://www.globalxvehicles.com/patagonia.html
Cool AF. But wow…$700k base price. Yikes.
You can spend over a million. In Europe people often build them on Unimogs which I think are around $500K just for a cut-away. That company used to build them until the U.S. made them illegal to import.
Does it come in a tracked version?
Tracked?
I loved driving these
Well, no, they are street legal.
Damn, I could almost buy a house for that. Well, I mean last year, at least a tiny house.
Those look like some DHS/NAZI vehicles.
I’d like a Showhauler Overland
https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2019-Show+Hauler-23+SL-B-5021127864
So a Freightliner 4X4 conversion? Gorgeous living space, but 36′ is huge.
You could go a lot cheaper by buying and reworking a military surplus vehicle?
Oh noes, another post about nothing. This is very dangerous just letting people way whatever they want to, without even any timeouts.
You mean everyone will start talking about COVID laws prior to the 30 minute mark?
They might even say that Fauci is a political hack, which is very dangerous. Are we going to ban those people? I hope y’all have on your masks. You did hear that you can now get Covid over the web, right? The new webtrojan variant. I mean the 3 differerent variants, webtrojan A, webtrojan B… Oh no! I just was watching CNN, there is a new one! I’m putting on another mask on top of my 5!
No, Abortion, and you can’t stop them, it sucks for writers
My wife may have learned a lesson today. I warned her on many occasions not to let our son use her phone. Today he factory reset her phone.
Oy!
Shit, I was beaten half unconscious in my childhood for way less offense than that.
At least he didn’t find the bondage photos
Those are on Plex running on a NAS.
There is a large network of Moose lodges throughout the US that have cheap or free RV parking and hookups
A bonus is that when you stay there you are instantly plugged into the Moose human network, and Moose members tend to be pro-freedom decent folk. And there is the nearby Moose Lodge itself with a full bar etc.
It’s easy to join a Moose lodge; no elaborate cultish rituals like some Elks lodges do.
There are lots of RV parks in Pahrump, and we often meet couples who are meandering their way across the US, having sold their primary homes and choosing to spend their retirement traveling.
That sounds great.
http://www.preferredrv.com/
This is a local favorite. Not a Moose lodge though.
I frequent Venture Out in Florida. Someday I may buy a lot there.
https://ventureoutatpcb.com/
There are website you can go to or apps you can use which can help you find cheap or free places to stay if you want.
The family of my first serious* girlfriend were Moose Lodge members. I went to several of their functions on dates. I always kind of liked the Moose: they seemed more blue-collar and less pretentious than the Elks.
*Like almost married her
So, this carpetbagger Vance is going to win becuase Trump endorsed him. Damn, people in Ohio are still just as dumb as I remember.
But does JD Vance drive an import? And would he have a recommendation for an RV park?
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know what an RV park is.
*shrug* If I were an Ohioist I would judge him on his current views vis-a-vis the opponents. Apparently he’s from Ohio so I suppose he at least has some familiarity with the place.
He sure as fuck doesn’t have any familiarity with the Appalachian part of it like he claims. Dude is fake. I don’t even know how much more strongly I can express this than I already have.
Fair enough. I’m not paying the slightest attention to any candidates of either party in NY because why would I waste my time plus I quit voting anyway.
No one in NYC votes.
Unfortunately, the public sector class votes – bigly.
It is a bigly sector in NY.
Yeah, especially after Delazyo got done inflating the fuck out of it.
I vote for less public sector.
I will consider voting again only after they get rid of ballot harvesting.
Oh you’ll vote again. You may not be around to see it, but you’ll vote again.
I would definitely vote for him. As the fantasy author who built the famous spell system Dungeons and Dragons utilized, I feel he has the right tools for government.
I’ve always been a fan of Unimog and HEMTT conversions.
UNImog’s are teh awesome. On the list of “if I ever won the lottery.”
But I would want a stripped down military version.
I love Unimog conversions. Unfortunately, you can’t get new Unimogs is the U.S. because the government banned vehicles that don’t require ULSD. Which makes no sense.
If it is made before 1975 it should be no problem to import, or has that changed?
Well, those aren’t new. So you can import an old one that has worse emissions, but not a new one that has better emissions, because of the environment.
Ah, missed that part. But, I love old shit, so that’s were my brain goes.
You should check out Mogfest.
Just 25 years prior to import. Now titling and registering if you live in a state where the DMV makes up their own rules outside of the law and conspires with other state DMVs to create extralegal policies…
Boyd’s campground in Key West is also great.
https://www.boydscampground.com/
I’d probably know one for you, RJ, except I don’t have an RV. Maybe I can sell that idea to the wife since actually buying a house that is not on wheels is no longe affordabe for non-billiionaires. She loves to travel, I have an idea!
Check eBay for used trailers and big RVs. I love to look.
I’m moving pretty soon so I need something to live in, and it looks like something not on wheels is out of the question. Inless it is a tent from Walmart.
South Carolina had houses in the $250,000 range that looked quite nice. Depends on what you are looking for.
SC, and WV is where I was looking. There are no houses anywhere in the USA right now that are worth anyway near the asking price. Unless you want to find yourself drowing underwater when this bursts and it sure the fuck is going to. Experts say no… the experts who told us inflation is impossible in the USA? The experts who said 2 weeks to flatten the curve? LOL.
My wife sent me this meme this morning
But if you aren’t going off-road, and want to spend a couple three million dollars, head to Miami, Oklahoma and have Newell build you a custom rig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lujYlK9kaAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pfQ4sJQtM
Pronounced “Myamuh.”
I don’t think I would ever buy an RV as they are really expensive on the petrol and hard to park. I wouldn’t mind one of these things on a full size pickup though. They aren’t insanely expensive either.
https://fourwheelcampers.com/
We called those camper shells when I was a kid. Everyone had one.
We had one. I recall riding in the back on trips.
Me too.
I would buy a camper van, and throw a bicycle on the back for close in work and exercise. Trying to park an RV with a car strapped to the back is no bueno.
Something like this:
https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/rvs/d/portland-1998-american-cruiser-class/7477886141.html
The way things are going, I think there will be a new economy totally made up of houses on wheels as the Middle class is soon to cease to exist in the USA and the femnants will be sort of like a migratory class temporarily living in these mobile park communities. That will be the former middle class. The former lower class will of course be in homeless tent cities in blue shitholes. Welcome to the new USSA. If I could write, I’d write a book.
If you could write you’d be a plagiarist. Always Sunny done done it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521349/
LOL, I’ll check that one out. I watched a bunch of Sunny in Philly, that is come classic shit, I laughed a lot.
Sidebar was something like “Ten most anticipated DC and Marvel movies!!”
For the love of all that is holy please stop.
I can’t wait for that show to end so I can buy the box-set.
I love the show but needs to end it does. Same for superhero movies.
I have been listening too their podcast when I driver around, dudes seem cool, down to earth, and they realize how lucky they made it.
They’ve got a podcast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1o-iY70QZQ
Gracias
Yeah, that’s also a good setup. I like the pickup option with that pop up as it is easy to get it on and off, and you can overland if you have a 4WD.
I had a blast staying in a KOA in Sheridan WY ast summer. Great town,great company, but my god 100deg each day was rough on the motorcycle.
Had a chance to experience the Big Horn Mountains.
The campground was clean and had a lot of facilities.
As for parking RV’s, Home Depot used to let RVers park there in the corner. This was unofficial, of course, but common knowledge among the RVer set. These days? What with the homeless problems, I don’t know. Just throwing that out there.
Wal-Mart still allows it, at least they did last year when we couldn’t find a campground on Memorial Day weekend.
Most do along with Sam’s Club. Bass Pro Shops is another one
Depends on the location. The closest one now has no overnight RV/camping signs in their lot.
Our retirement plan was to buy a motorhome and tour the US. Then COVID hit.
OK, now we can travel again but Biden doubled the price of gas. Makes our gas stops not $100 but $200. We’re still traveling to Michigan in a couple of weeks but future plans are on hold, at this time.
Hey BH, you still thinking of going down to Baja sometime soon?
Probably not in the immediate future.
I tried to talk the Mrs. into a Mexico trip. I was pushing for the west coast but she still wouldn’t have it; fears of the banditos. Baja would be great but, again, convincing the wife is going to be an uphill struggle.
My intention:
Enter somewhere other than the “border towns”.
Migrate down the coast.
Take the ferry from Matzalan to Cabo.
Drive up the peninsula to the US.
Couldn’t talk her into it. I even suggested that I’d do it alone but she was adamant.
You could tell her that your buddy on Glibs says it is totally safe to do! I’d actually be more scared to take a road trip in a lot of the US than the Baja peninsula. Personally though I’d take the Jeep and stay in sweet ass houses and hotels and take day trips out to great remote beaches rather than the RV thing down there. .
Gave up on the RV plan but I’m still optimistic that I can talk her into the road trip in the Jeep.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Traveling is freedom. It’s not a specifically enumerated right in the bill if rights, but to me it’s a fundamental right to explore and even pull up stakes and totally move to find greener pastures.
RJ!
I think the Jellystone RV parks are all over. Pretty sure I saw a couple in SD.
There is a Leatherman in my backpack and my truck. Probably the most useful tool after fire.
I’m starting to get a hankering for a trailer. I might rent a couple times and see if it’s a fit.
I am thinking the same. I have done tent camping in all kinds of weather. And yiu know what? i want a damn bathroom and an air conditioned bedroom. That’s luxury on the road. It doesn’t have to be big. Just be better than digging a hole in the ground for my shoulder while I sleep on my side.
?
I’ve done my share of sleeping on the ground.
Yep. And I’m married to a beautiful woman who just shakes her head and laughs when I suggest camping!
The Scamp factory is only 50 miles from my house. Park in my yard for free and I’ll take you fishing.
OT, who hasn’t seen any Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin?
Me. But now that you bring them to my attention, I might watch The Wrecking Crew tonight.
Cool. That movie is freaking good. There was a whole series of them, spoofy spy films. I am most likely going to add it to the list.
Have you seen the spy spoofs starring Weng Weng? He played a dashing martial arts master and covert operative in Agent 00, For Y’ur Height Only, and The Impossible Kid.
https://youtu.be/9OxB-jq5XLY
I have seen The Impossible Kid. I need to hunt down the others!
Please do. They were great fun.
*raises hand*
Total camp. Dino smirking at the camera, lots of T&A without any actual nudity. I freaking loved those movies.
I’ve read a bunch of the books, but now I need to see the movies!
There were a lot of books of that genre published around that time. I can’t pull up the names but generally a tough guy who was fast with a gun and didn’t mind slapping a dame around. I used to do long, boring shifts and could often read one or two of them per night.
I don’t know if the Conan books were from that era but that is when I encountered them.
Now that I think about it, I must have read close to 1000 pulp novels during that period.
The Destroyer books started around then
In Like Flint is another series that is really great. He communicates with dolphins and practices some crazy judo.
Loved those movies as a kid
Yes! They were all cashing in on the James Bond craze.
oh yes! I remember my dad had piles of MATT BOLAN “The Executioner” books. (Mack? maybe it was Mack) Definitely pulp Bond knock offs.
99% sure it’s Mack. I think I read a few of them in my youth.
The biggest thing I recall from those movies is a scene where the title character attacks a guy in an army uniform, then claims the guy was a fake. Asked how he knew it was “Because he was wearing a [I forget the country] campaign medal” and that there was no such medal. I immediately went “Then how did you recognize it as that, jackass?”
I was already not a fan of the movies by the time that scene came around.
Conan is from the ’20s, he was a buddy/pen pal with Lovecraft.
Conan is from the 1930s, but otherwise correct.
Wait… Howard shot himself in 1936? He wrote all those stories in four years? I feel lazy.
He started in the ’20s. Late 20’s, but still…
I sometimes daydream about selling everything, downsizing to a two person RV and disappearing.
But then I remember I have three kids who need to eat.
Downsizing has been pretty fucking liberating. Not an RV, but I’m still digging it.
I’m in the business of owning things and I’m kind of burnt out on it. Simplicity has its attraction.
I do that with small sail boats. Just drifting, day drinking, meeting “river folk” at their bars.
I want that…wife said no. A man can dream I guess.
I told my wife I was going to build one (I am pretty handy) and all she would say was “you’re going to drown. The boat will leak and you will drown.”
I went to a batcher party on the California Delta once, just a bunch of dudes in a house boat cruising around, day drinking, BBQing, and going to Delta People bars. Man it was awesome. But I really wanted to eat salad after that.
“Life doesn’t begin at 40. Life begins when the kids move out and the dog dies.”
Advice from a Grumpy Old Man: “Downsize to a two-person RV and disappear.”
Youngest is finishing sophomore year and dog is 12. Two more years to go I guess.
RVs are a everywhere in Pahrump. I’d say about 1 in 4 of my immediate neighbors have one, nice new looking ones. My property has a big space semi-adjacent to the garage behind the backyard gate that almost certainly was meant to have an RV parked there.
I’m not sure it would be the thing for me; I think if I ever become a big road tripper I’d still like to stay in a hotel/motel when I get where I am going.
Renting one is not out of the question though. It’s been fun to meet the “traveler” couples, and the parks out here are really nice with pools and other amenities. Two of the local RV favorites are at wineries! And you can’t beat the views.
My in-laws (what’s the difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.) Are snow birds. They drive an RV down from MN to the TX Rio Grand Valley for about 6 months a year. After going airborne in the RV 2 years ago during a poorly negotiated lane change, they finally decided to buy a Park Model and will just drive a car down and live in the RV resort in the Park Model.
I had to look up “park model”. Kinda cute,
After we moved from Minnesota to California in 2018, I decided to unburden myself from several collections (rock& mineral, non-precious foreign coins, dolls, antique radios etc). Just–no. I felt physically lighter from donating and selling and giving it away through Next Door and personal connections.
Not going to be a hoarder. Books are my one stumbling block at this time.
Speaking of housing alternatives, today’s Stossel video makes my blood boil. This should be all over the news, as opposed to the Depp/Heard debacle.
We say “taxation is theft” but this is a whole new level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCMel8Z_Z8
I saw that tonight, 8.41$ and they took his house,
Evil Fuckers
This seems like a no-brainer for aspiring politicians to bring to light and paint themselves as champions of the “little guy.”
Who is in the right and who is in the wrong is entirely evident, not even close.
How do they square this with protecting “squatter’s rights” and slow rolling non-paying renter evictions???
FYTW is how they do it, if the insanity doesn’t stop now, we are truly done as a nation,
On a better note, Shipped!
Serious answer, people with homes have property so they must be bad. The homeless and squatters don’t so they must be good.
There are so many stories that should be all over the news right now, it’s impossible to keep track.
This video just reinforced something my dad once said – never trust a white man in a bow tie.
Orville Redenbacher never lied to me.
That struck me too! Both of the pencil-necked be tie wearing bureaucrats trying to justify the confiscation of property wore booties and appealed to “fairness”.
In “real life” they’d be beaten up and left in a ditch for their crimes.
Quick fun, Freedomtoons,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz45hUJx3YA
This should leave a mark,
The problem of enforcing black American English in schools | Thomas Sowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87JozL0tKhY
My dream camper is an Aliner. Friends of ours who are full-time musicians and tour for a lot of the year had one but sold it for a different style small trailer. (I don’t think they kept the latter, and they may regret selling the Aliner.) I wanted to buy theirs when they put it up for sale, but TT wouldn’t let me. ?
Exterior shower. Nope.
It’s cool, but I agree. Indoor shower and pooper is a must for me.
It can be done. ?
Not an ALiner, but it will do.
Road tripping to Virginia Beach next week. Any restaurant recommendations beyond the Rudee Inlet ones?
I got a lady interested in me on one of the dating sites. We message for an hour and a half. I message her my cell number through the site. Then my phone refuses to send or receive texts. FML!
rebooted, force-stoppped the text app, cant get it to send or receive.
It may be God giving you a little help.
Just sayin’.
But I dig her!
Can’t text anybody else either.
Easy, digging her is a sign, beware Internet women!
Dammit I fucked that up!
Tundra is not wrong
Excellent song! And I would agree looking at one of the ladies I dated in high school.
Still. We message for an hour and a half and my phone decides to stop texting after that?
Yeah, that’s gonna be inexplicable once you get up and communicating again.
Just txt her later that you were driving and then she’ll know you’re a keeper.
Careful PON. My neighbor just got taken for a bundle of money on one of those sites.
The other site is running an article on SCOTUS confirming the leak. They laughably suggest that there is an equal chance that the leaker was a conservative clerk outraged because the final opinion may look very different than the leaked version.
I am already fucking sick and tired of the outraged, uninformed soundbites filling up my FB feed. Like I haven’t heard, “My body, my choice!” a gazillion times in my life. Oh, except for during maskapalooza.
I want to reach through the monitor and slap them upside the head just for being a cliche.
It would be fun to put together a full, comprehensive list of when in the eyes of progressives it isn’t your body, your choice.
I’d read that.
TLDR:
“My body, my choice” when it’s something they want to do.
“Your body, my choice” when it’s something they want you to do.
“My body, my choice!”
This might be the most libertarian saying ever. If I own my body (and I think I should) I get to decide what I put into it and what I take out of it.
On its face, but it’s got way too much baggage to be of use to anybody not pro-abortion.
I am in the viability camp. If a baby can survive outside the womb, the cut-off should be before that.
Assisted or not? My wife was premature and would not have survived without a NICU.
Premature survival rates have changed wildly over the decades.
I am torn on the subject of assisted or not, but I will err on the side of assisted.
Generally, I am not for heroic measures pretty much anywhere at any time of life, especially if quality of life is at stake.
My wife had her diaphragmatic hernia repaired as an infant. She runs marathons now.
My nephew had open-heart surgery in his first week of life. He’s a teen who wrestles, plays lacrosse and football.
What qualifies as “heroic measures”?
I would like to be able to say something short that encapsulates what I mean, but I can’t. It would probably just be a long bullet-point list of scenarios I’ve run across in my transcription career and/or things my family wouldn’t want done and have been very vocal about.
I’m sympathetic to your position, truly.
What gives me pause is that the surgeries that saved my wife and nephew weren’t heroic, they were routine. But at some point those surgeries were a heroic undertaking.
Yes and that line will keep moving. It’s part of what makes the entire discussion vexing. If you are not a pro or con absolutist it gets really gray really fast.
I’ll jump in and say that “heroic measures” is determined by a combination of how much potential life one has to live and what the potential quality that life is if the measure is successful. If it has the potential to give a baby a full, functioning life then do it. If it has the potential to prolong an enfeebled 90-y.o. a couple more months, then don’t bother. Where to draw the line in between is of course up for debate.
I wore a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ wrist band on my spa vacation last year.
OMG Rangers/Penguins… wrap it up.
That’s exactly what I was expecting.
*flipping channels*
Woman’s Rugby Sevens, you say?
Alright alright alright. Glib fit.
I’m not sure what that is but I’ll bet Q won’t post their pictures.
I completely forgot this bizarre stuff,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXn5xfNprn0
Come see the Glib Doggos again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcPu5p2uxg
One of the things that intrigued me when I lived in continental Europe was that many people, especially the young, thought it was crazy that Americans who knew their baby was going to be born with Down Syndrome didn’t choose to abort.
It was staggering to hear their justifications of why it was in the best interests of the fetus (!!!) to kill it rather than being born
I babysat and chauffeured a boy with Downs when I was 16. Then I became friends with a very high functioning Downs girl who is now 25 and living on her own. She’s probably mosaic.
I’ve also known kids with Downs who will almost certainly have to live out their lives in institutions.
What they all had in common was love, happiness, peace, generosity and humor.
The fact that Europeans think Americans are nuts for birthing and raising Downs kids is telling.
Curious as to why there would be such a large gap between Portugal and Spain.
That leaped out to me too! Wouldn’t have expected it.
I wonder how much is different reporting standards vs actual differences in beliefs and practices.
My cousin has a daughter who was born with Spina bifida. Was diagnosed in utero, and she chose not to abort despite much pressure to do so. The daughter is now in her late ’20s and is an inspiration.
Morning, Glibs.
Supposed to rain today. Not buckets, but high probability. I wonder if they poured the new sidewalk at work yet. They spent monday tearing out the concrete.
*waves*
Gotta go. Be back later, maybe in the afternoon.
Well, I’m at the office now. They have not poured the replacement sidewalk.
Good morning, U & Sean! Speaking of rain, we almost had a baseball game last night. The sky had cleared, and we were just waiting for the field to dry out when another brief but intense line of rain came through. It redrenched the field, and they called the game. ? Happily, all the tickets can be traded for other games – just not all together in a group.
And we did get some attractive after-effects. (A little closer, for the near-sighted among us.)
…and then, of course, the sky cleared beautifully right after the game was postponed.
That reminds me, monday morning, as I was getting in my car to go to work, I saw the first full-arch rainbow I’d seen in years.
Of course, it was at the start of the precipitation and over the overcast and dreary area I live in, so it was more an oddity than anything else.
Nice! If you’re going to start the week with an oddity, it’s nice if it’s at least a pretty oddity.
How was your pot roast yesterday?
It made decent roast beef sandwiches. Though I should have bought american cheese to go with it and bring back the full nostalgia bite.
Do they still make pimento cheese? As far as I recall, it was just American cheese with bits of pimento in it. THAT would really take me back!
They still make it, but I never had it as a child, and only rarely as an adult, so it has no nostaliga value for me.
Pimento and olive loaf and a trip down Memory Lane
I remember American cheese before the slices were individually wrapped. ?
Good morning, 4(20)!
Very nice!. Did you find the pot of gold?
*draws Shillelagh*
You’ll stay away from me Gold!
/Irish
Since when are shillelagh holstered?
I need to keep my hands free to actually do stuff rather than holding a stick all the time.
World’s tallest leprechaun?
Nah, I’m not that tall.
I did have to defeat a Mongol with Hansen’s disease for the gold the first time around. Turns out they were actually talking about Leper Khans.
::obligatory narrowed gaze::
LOL. That’s comedy gold, Jerry.
Sadly, no – just a small McDonald’s chocolate shake (first one I’d had in many years) on the way home.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Continuing to shake your cold, I hope?
Wait, their machine wasn’t broken?
Must be a different machine than for the ice cream. ?
Thanks, GT!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGlo9LzmOME
They repaved my street last night starting around 10pm, done before the rain all night started.
The tricked-out car set were out there doing donuts at whatever time it was they woke me up again.
Have you thought about taking up driver sniping? Or caltrops and spike strips? Or, relocating, since there’s not too many options left after that.
Every day.
It’s just as bad when I’m trying to work in my office (i.e. spare bedroom) and I have to scream into the headset to hear myself.
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Good morning, rhy!
I don’t get it. The Rockaways is festooned with speed bumps and speed cameras now; although there hasn’t been any drag racing since around 2011. Your neighborhood has these constant problems. Where are the revenue hungry tyrants of the NYPD when you need them?
We only have speed bumps on the side streets near the schools. None on the avenues and I doubt these guys are even breaking the speed limit anyway or if they are I doubt anyone is getting caught because people speed all the time so whatever cameras are out there aren’t doing anything to cut that. No, what they do is do something to their cars that causes the engine to roar and make repeated explosion noises that set off all the car alarms in the neighborhood.
“people speed all the time so whatever cameras are out there aren’t doing anything to cut that.”
How can that be? Didn’t they solve the traffic-related carnage by cutting the speed limit from 30 to 25 a little while back?
And IIRC traffic deaths are up. But my theory is that is down to an overall increase in asshole behavior over the last couple years.
…they’re hangin’ out in the donut shops… ::starts to whistle and walks away like…::
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Mornin’, reprobates.
HR sent an email to inform everyone that the offices will be closed in three weeks (we’ll be moving to new digs when they’re ready). So those of us who have been remote all this time, which is most of us, will need to pick up our personal belongings. If they are not picked up, they will be donated to a worthy recipient.
One of the prerequisites for doing so is uploading a signed document confirming that you’ve been vaccinated. Oops, how am I to pick up my stuff? I emailed HR with this question yesterday morning and am looking forward to a response, which has yet to arrive in my inbox. They must be very busy.
OFFS. Is this the first time they’re requiring the jab, or did you know it was coming?
Jab’s been required forever. I was sorta hoping that would be lifted before they moved the offices.
Mornin’ all y’all early risers,
Another nice day forecast, that makes 2 now this spring. Time to start working the garden, only to find the tiller, which hadn’t been started in 2 years is leaking gas. Looks like a gas line but I don’t bend so well these days to fix some things. Luckily the repair shop is close, I have a tiller, a snow blower and a lawn tractor that all need to see the fixit doctor. Try to get them on a trailer today and visit my soon-to-be-best-friend.
Mornin’, 4×20. It’s good to have what an old carpenter friend of mine called “friends in low places”. Happy gardening!
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Gah! Don’t talk about Kias and the ghostly electrics therein. In 2009 I was driving home from Victoria and about half-way back needed to stop for a whiz. The doors locked up on me. I had to MacGiver the left windshield wiper in order to jimmy the door open. There was an open beer in the cup holder. I hated that fucking car.
Locked put of your own vehicle with open beverages is no way to go through life, Son.
I was about to ask if it locked you out or in.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Grandma’s ghost but that car was spooky.
“Open the door, you infernal rust bucket!”
“I’m sorry, Festus, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Yikes! Apparently the wreck that has two interstate lanes blocked along my commute route – and has the highway closed completely coming the other direction – involved “shots fired.” ?
Might it be a good day to call out?
Nah – my boss is working from home today, which is almost a Virtual Vacation Day. Plus I’m expecting delivery of the keyboard tray that I hope will stop the recently-started daytime right shoulder pain (and some suspicious twinges just below my right wrist.)
Well, steer clear of the gunfight, and watch those ergonomics. You don’t want carpal tunnel or other repeditive stress injuries.
Gah! Sunday night I nearly got creamed by a cop running a red with lights and no siren. It’s an offset intersection so if you don’t look to the right you might get plowed into. One guess whose fault that would be. Cop must have been going about 80 mph.
I am a terrible person.
It’s nest building time, and a pair of robins is trying to build one on the light fixture behind the chair on my front porch. For three days now, I have been removing the twigs, dried grass, and tinsel, but they keep coming back. C’mon, guys, there’s a perfectly good holly bush right next to the porch. You’ve built there before. Stop looking at me with those twigs in your beak, I can’t take it!
Robins are dumb but they are friendly. We used to have one that would hop right up to your feet and sort of judge you.
They are singing right now.
*sigh*
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Finally fessed up to the client that I am done at the end of the month. Felt rather freeing.
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