GlibFit 4.0 – Taking Inventory

by | Aug 21, 2022 | GlibFit | 192 comments

I have noticed in the comments a number of people listing their would have, should have, could haves when it comes to working out. There is always a reason not to work out. I’m not here to beat up on you. I’m here to get you to address what’s stopping you from doing something for yourself.

The place to start, is with David Goggins’ first challenge. I know some of you feel Goggins is too harsh. *Waves to Tulip.* I agree that’s true at times. But for this challenge, Goggins is tasking you with being honest with yourself about yourself. It’s all in service of doing better for yourself.

Goggins’ first challenge (from his book) is this:

Challenge #1 – What are the current factors limiting your growth and success? Break out your journal and write them all out in minute detail. Don’t be bland with this assignment. I showed you every piece of my dirty laundry. You will use your story, this list of excuses, these very good reasons why you shouldn’t amount to a damn thing, to fuel your ultimate success. For some, it may mean logging onto social media, posting a picture, and writing out a few lines about yourself. If that’s you, use the hashtags #badhand #canthurtme

I don’t advocate posting this sort of thing on social media but to each their own. I do advocate finding a quite time and place and doing the exercise. This is between you and yourself. Be completely honest. Really root through your memories and feelings. What is limiting you? Age? Injury? Current weight? Bad past experience? Lack of athleticism? Whatever your answer or answers are write them down. Don’t share them in the comments. This is for you. You need to know your real reasons.

That’s enough introspection for today. Friday night I got to see Steel Panther live. Jeebus H. Koresh that was a good time and just what the doctor ordered. There is a kind of magic being with a couple of hundred people who get the joke and enthusiastically do the call and response with the band. [Editor’s Note: a photo essay article on the concert is forthcoming.]

This week’s music.

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Chafed

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192 Comments

  1. Fourscore

    Thanks Chafed.

    I’ve been dogging it a little, finally this past week decided I needed to get back on board. I’ve been walking a little faster, a little farther every other day. On the in between days pushing on an almost totally resisting bar that keeps saying “You can do it, just one more” Sometimes I win, sometimes the bar wins. I know I have too motivate myself, even if the work load isn’t too heavy.

    Too many funerals, not enough time.

    • Chafed

      Good for you Fourscore. You are out there doing something.

  2. robodruid

    Taking care of animals and farm-lite stuff takes way more time than i ever thought it would…….

    A question for the male supplement types. For those who take DHEA how much do you take?

    • UnCivilServant

      I can’t answer that question.

      Did you get enough rain to help the sheepies without damaging the concrete?

      • robodruid

        Its spitting now…
        We were forecast for 1.5 inches. We might get 0.5 inches.
        Its frustrating as i see storm lines pass to the south of us and the north of us. I joke with a coworker who lives a mile away from me that we live on a cursed Indian burial ground.
        75Deg F is nice.

      • UnCivilServant

        Cursed Indians needed to be buried somewhere. Maybe the ghosts would like jobs?

      • robodruid

        Besides helping Twigs and Legs escape? I hope not.

      • Gender Traitor

        Are those a couple of Houdini sheep?

      • robodruid

        I have been told sheep fences need to be water tight.
        I have a weak spot that i need to batten down with either a T post , clips of wire…. Hard to tell.
        And the ground has been to hard to drive a post in anyway. (reason #45 why i need more rain)

        They wander around, poke into my garage looking for chicken kibble. (which is toxic to them), or alfalfa cubes or wheat seeds.
        Then go to the front yard and nibble on bedding plants.
        Or the garden area.

        And will eat grass.

        When I find them, I shake my Shepard crook, bang on the ground with it, and they will go to the gate where i open the gate. and in they go.

      • Gender Traitor

        Legs pictured. Possibly NSFHSFFAM*

        *Not Suitable for High School Future Farmers of America Meeting

      • Fourscore

        I have a 6 feet high chain link fence around my garden, the fence guy tried to convince me that 8 feet is better for keeping the deer out. So far no problems, except wood chucks can dig under and birds can fly over. While deer can learn to jump 6 feet high as a rule they don’t have any reason to learn to do that. Mice are always a problem in a garden, too.

        Chain link are sheep proof too, I betcha

        I was looking at garden owls on line yesterday, I think a couple of them would help keep the crows/ravens out.

  3. Sean

    Got to the range just after 3. Pistol range was posted closed until 4:30. 😒

    As I’m turning around, class was ending early. 😀

    Had the whole pistol range to ourselves. 👍

  4. LCDR_Fish

    Pretty good week at the gym this week. Did find an alternate leg press machine so I can try not sticking my feet above my head – not sure why I didn’t recognize the machine sooner…hopefully won’t be as lightheaded. This month has been weird, and I’ll definitely bring it up to my PT and doctor when I have my physical in a couple weeks.

    Also had an appt with the owner of the gym/trainer to start working on dead lifts and add some other core exercises. Not bad, but I think I’ll focus on some squats and kettlebell swings to get my hip motion down more before I try and start lifting seriously. Need to get that hip motion vice all in the knees down….

    • Tundra

      Respectfully, I would just go ahead and start lifting. I still do a couple warm up sets with just the bar (squats).

      Keep it light, but really work on form/technique. Don’t wait – lift!

      • LCDR_Fish

        I will see. Hard to do on my own even with the mirror set up – since I keep bending in the wrong places.

      • Tundra

        The videos at Starting Strength will help. The people in the forum will help you if you are comfortable sharing your videos.

        Get after it!

  5. LCDR_Fish

    Haven’t had time to read everything today but a quick search didn’t appear to bring it up.

    Anyone see this yet?

    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article264660354.html#wgt=trending

    They knew that the state had persuaded the Vietnamese automaker VinFast to build a massive factory in their corner of Chatham County. They knew the roads around the site would be changing; some had even seen surveyors or the wooden stakes they left behind.

    But only in the last week did residents of Moncure and Merry Oaks see what the N.C. Department of Transportation plans to do in their communities.

    More than 250 showed up to a meeting in Pittsboro on Tuesday to see large maps of the network of roads and highway interchanges NCDOT says are needed to improve access to the 2,150-acre site. Another 80 tuned in to a virtual meeting Thursday.

    They studied the maps to see where the right of way for the new roads, shown in bright green, overlapped with their homes and land. Altogether, NCDOT estimates it will need to take 27 homes and five businesses and move Merry Oaks Baptist Church.

    “They’re going to mess up a good home place,” said Lena Stone, who stands to lose four houses — hers and three rental properties where NCDOT plans to widen Pea Ridge Road. Stone has lived there since 1973, and the property has long been a family gathering place, said her daughter, Rhonda Mitchell.

    Like many who came to the Chatham County Agricultural and Conference Center on Tuesday, Mitchell said she had only learned of NCDOT’s plans a few days earlier.

    “I was in shock. I cried all weekend,” she said. “It’s just going to change the whole community.”

    Dhillon Singh Hardip learned about Tuesday’s meeting from a flyer someone posted in his Sky Mart convenience store at Exit 84 from U.S. 1. The maps show Hardip will lose all 20 of the gas pumps he installed in 2008. There’s room on the lot for new pumps, but it will mean demolishing and rebuilding the store.

    “I have to redo everything,” he said. “Totally everything. 100%.”

    …..

    It often takes many years for NCDOT to plan big highway projects like this. But the timeline here is set by VinFast and the state’s desire to see it begin producing electric SUVs at the plant in 2024.

    Chatham County and the state offered the company $1.25 billion in tax and other incentives to locate here, including about $250 million for road and rail improvements in and around the site.

    NCDOT started its planning in March and quickly completed the surveys and environmental studies reflected in the preliminary plans it published for the first time late last week, said Colin Mellor, an environmental policy adviser for the department.

    “We’re not looking to surprise anybody,” Mellor said. “But it’s happening quickly because we’re on a tight schedule.”

    NCDOT plans to begin buying right-of-way in September for the first phase. That includes relocating, widening and extending New Elam Church Road to the VinFast property and building a new interchange to replace existing Exit 84 at old U.S. 1. NCDOT hopes to start construction early next year.

    Absolutely insane.

    • Fourscore

      Isn’t requirements for Eminent Domain, i.e. hearings, with the prerequisite law suits? I went through a road widening brouhaha, the township started pushing down trees on my property, I threatened a law suit. A few years later they came back hat in hand and asked if I’d voluntarily give up the necessary property. I told them to Eminent Domain my butt. So far there’s has been no attempt except the grader squeezes as much as possible out of the existing road.

      • Plinker762

        We don’t have time for that shit. The future of the planet is at stake and only electric cars will save it.

    • Fourscore

      Always, Cui Bono?

    • Grumbletarian

      Thanks, Kelo.>

      • LCDR_Fish

        Literally never heard of Vinfast until this article – certainly never see them referenced on Fox Business or the other discussions on upcoming electric cars…and they expect to have US-standard cars on the road by ’24….

      • Chafed

        Vietnam is well known for its auto industry. I don’t see anything that could go wrong.

      • Fourscore

        They had tech advice from the Cubans

    • Rat on a train

      Like many who came to the Chatham County Agricultural and Conference Center on Tuesday, Mitchell said she had only learned of NCDOT’s plans a few days earlier.
      All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now

    • Gustave Lytton

      NCDOT started its planning in March and quickly completed the surveys and environmental studies reflected in the preliminary plans it published for the first time late last week, said Colin Mellor, an environmental policy adviser for the department.

      “We’re not looking to surprise anybody,”

      Bullshit. That’s why you waited 5 months, after the enviro studies were complete, to unveil the “preliminary” plans. Public comments are a sham process where agencies largely ignore them and do what they want to do. This only ends when parasites like Mellor and other government employees who don’t give a fuck because they’re just following orders start decorating lampposts.

      Why does a state dot need an environmental policy advisor anyhow?

    • rhywun

      That kind of graft would make Kathy Hochul blush. Yikes.

  6. Tundra

    Chafed!

    Excellent timing. I’m actually doing a seminar this week on this very thing.

    I think deep down most of us know exactly why we aren’t as successful as we could be. It’s a painful fucking process, though. More fun to blame it on external forces!

    Lousy lifting week this week. Lousy sleeping week this week. Lousy food week this week.

    Funny how those all go together, isn’t it? The good news is that motherfucker is in the rear view.

    The concert sounds like a riot! I can’t wait to read the review!

    Have a great week GlibFitters!

    • Chafed

      Are you giving the seminar or attending it? The people want details!

      • Tundra

        Attending. I’ve been a bitch lately and it’s time to kick it in the ass.

    • rhywun

      The concert sounds like a riot! I can’t wait to read the review!

      #ditto

      Looks like a hoot

  7. Mojeaux

    The truth? Pure 100% unadulterated laziness.

    • Sean

      I’m keeping my couch from floating away.

      • Gender Traitor

        If only you’d pay the past-due gravity bill, that sort of thing wouldn’t be an issue.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fundimental forces should be Free!

        *holds protest sign while drifting against the ceiling*

    • Chafed

      I can’t handle the truth.

  8. Mustang

    “Don’t share them in the comments.”

    Oh, okay then.

    I didn’t do nearly as well with GlibFit as I should have this week. I know exactly why and I can’t blame anyone except the asshole in the mirror. I will do better this week though because I’m still seeing and feeling improvement already and want to keep at it.

    • Chafed

      👍

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m reminded of that insane Australian woman arguing for a moratorium on hiring men by claiming “Who’s to say the best man for the job isn’t a woman.” I kept hoping someone would just blunty go “You’re the one saying that. The best candidate doesn’t need the competition excluded ahead of time.”

  9. Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

    I have been released by the Doc to stretch and exercise, which I have been kinda chafing at the waiting for. And mixing this with gradual increases in walking is a good thing, and not a moment too soon. I have also been spending time in the garage/shed wrestling with the small but heavy shaper I bought last weekend, And this is taking all of my strength, but I also need to get back on the bathroom remodel I put off due to back issues ramping up. Still, have to be careful, so as not to put myself back where I was pre-surgery. One thing they stress is that now the nerve is not impinged, I will be tempted to push myself, but I need to remember that the disc is half as thick now.

    Oh, to be 25-30 once again.

  10. EvilSheldon

    Thunderstorms create rainbows. I just got a call from the NY State Championship match director – I won the raffle for the Bedell Custom Glock. 🙂

    • UnCivilServant

      Congrats.

      Just remember to avoid Glock Foot.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s called a Plaxico where I’m from.

    • Tundra

      Lol. Congrats!

    • Sean

      Sweet! Congrats.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Now you can play at GSSF matches too.

    • Not Adahn

      Woot!

      That’s more than the match fee, ammo, gas, lodging and meals!

      • R.J.

        No problem there. Gun won! Congratulations!

      • UnCivilServant

        Okay free gun is better than no gun unless gun explodes in hand.

      • R.J.

        Agreed

      • R.J.

        When I build the blunderbuss will you come shoot with me?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not as the first test shooter.

      • Sean

        I ran my g19 gen 2 bone dry today testing out the new night sights. It didn’t miss a beat.

      • Not Adahn

        There is irony in getting a gun with the state of NY engraved on it.

        When/if I buy myself upgraded NROI jerseys I’m DEEPLY conflicted about having the NY flag put on the sleeve.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’d suggest the ‘No Step On Snek’ flag. It’s a World Shot in-joke.

        I’m actually a little conflicted about keeping the prize gun. I may have Jay auction it off and donate the proceeds to the NYSFA.

      • Not Adahn

        I think the current DNROI is not happy mixing NROI gear and humor. I was thinking about having the OK flag put on the sleeve since I was born and raised there, but then again, it might signal an official affiliation. I’ll just ask Troy about it in October.

      • Sean

        I retract my congrats. Ewww.

      • Not Adahn

        I am not a fan of laser engraved polymer, but still it’s a G17.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a circle, you can mill that out and put anything in its place.

    • Sean

      “Stuart wrote that the incident saw a female firefighter kicked in her genitalia by one of the perpetrators, and slapped in separate attacks by other homeless citizens.”

      Cunt punted. 😯

    • Tundra

      So is lead.

    • Fourscore

      Just turn around with the high pressure fire hose, puts out any problem ‘fires’

    • rhywun

      Remember, the most progressive thing you can do for the mentally ill is ignore them.

  11. robc

    Daily Quordle 209
    5️⃣7️⃣
    3️⃣6️⃣

  12. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

    Turns out getting vertigo really interferes with exercising. And cooking. And sleeping. And eating. And watering the plants. And, well . . . everything.

    Farg.

    • R.J.

      Have you seen a doctor yet? I got relief with ear tubes

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yep. Invasive stuff seems premature. Taking betahistine, which I do *not* like during the day. Gonna just take it before bed for now.

      • R.J.

        Ok. Ear tubes is not bad. Adults can do it with minor anesthesia. I tell you, it is good. I hope for your recovery.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Thanks, mang.

        Feeling much better after a few days, but I still feel “off,” if that makes any sense; I awaken and my head feels like an inflated balloon, and in the afternoons it feels like I’ve been drinking, though I haven’t had any booze since the initial attack. I don’t trust myself driving or doing stuff that requires any precision or focus. Snarking online seems to be the only thing I can do right now.

        At least I’m finally sleeping reasonably well again.

  13. grrizzly

    Instead of working out, we installed ourselves a chandelier in the dining room. It took only a week from the time of purchase but almost three years since the stained glass from the old one was removed for safety reasons and we had just bare light bulbs.

    • R.J.

      Nice. See what I did, below

    • Fourscore

      I have some fluorescent tubes that need changing at the cabin. I’ll wait ’til my tall son shows up next week.

      Safety first

    • Chafed

      I’m a little disappointed. I thought that was going to turn into a sex story.

  14. R.J.

    I spent the whole day prepping and painting the bedroom. Up and down on ladders, all that. Now I am having a charcuterie tray, bourbon, and a cigar. No carbs. Fairly glib fit.

    • hayeksplosives

      We did our anniversary (15th) dinner last night, so no thoughts were given to healthy food choices. Had a wonderful bottle of Nevada Ridge Zinfandel (my personal fave of all the wines here), and outstanding food, too. We ordered dessert to go: two bread puddings (the chef is Cajun) with little containers of bourbon sauce on the side.

      We’re going to heat them up and eat ‘em tonight.

      GlibFit? I dunno. We have burned a lot of calories this weekend though…

      • Chafed

        HS gets it.

      • R.J.

        That’s nice. I’m trying to do better over here myself. Slowly improving. The wife and I had a hard time of it since we now both work at home. We are working on recognizing each other’s goals.

  15. Not Adahn

    Ciara knows she’s hot. She pretends she doesn’t, but then artfully arranges her rack thusly:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42YuH1MjwT4

    How else can you make a 15 minute video on how to make a boulevardier?

    • R.J.

      Totally. She knows what’s “up.”

    • slumbrew

      By total coincidence, I had a boulevardier tonight (and a mezcal Negroni)

      Of course Ciara knows she’s hot – she’s a model. She is literally paid to be hot.

      She’s still fantastic.

      • Not Adahn

        And her presentation is a perfect example of shape > size.

        Seriously, it’s like ikebana, but for boobs.

    • MikeS

      Beautiful, smart, and a whisk(e)y drinker. I watched a few of her other drink making videos. Fun stuff.

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Started listening to Tom Luongo.

    Down the rabbit hole I go….

    • R.J.

      Listening to refrigerator hum ambient right now. No voices for me today. Doing jury duty tomorrow which is always entertaining.
      “Get that freak out of my jury pool!” Is what I normally hear.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Get in there and nullify something!

      • R.J.

        Indeed. HE COMMITTED NO CRIME AGAINST LIFE, LIBERTY OR PROPERTY! FREE THAT MAN!
        Generally the green veiny head and bulging eyes disqualify me first .
        * points to ‘avatar.’

      • rhywun

        I have a coworker on grand jury duty – who knew it was once a week for, apparently, months on end?!

        Dear God, please don’t let me get selected for that.

        But if I do, don’t let me try to fake a medical exemption like he tried to.

      • R.J.

        Gads, I hope not. Talk to humans all day about stupid laws? Fuck that.

      • Raven Nation

        Well, crap. Carlton was inside the Top 8 ALL SEASON including several weeks inside the top 4. Then they lost their last four games. This included losing last night to Collingwood by 1 point (the Magpies scored with less than two minutes left). Thus Carlton finished tied on 48 points with Footscray and missed out on going to the finals, for the first time in 9 years, by 0.6%.

        C’wood, of course, finished in the top 4. So the only thing left for me to cheer for is that Collingwood get crushed by Geelong in the first week then lose a heartbreaker in the second week. Sorry, not sorry.

      • Penguin

        I bet they’d love to replay their match against the Crows. Had they won there, it’d be a moot point. Or else get an aboriginal shaman to remove whatever curse has been placed on them at Adelaide Oval.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, that was the killer. All the others were maybes. Stupid thing is they played Melbourne to about a goal, C’wood to 1 point but got smoked by Adelaide.

        Ah well, still an improvement over last year.

      • rhywun

        Footscray, snort.

        I was waiting for your appearance.

        I forget the season was going on until a few weeks ago and this was the first chance I got to see Collingwood. I had no idea they were doing well. Wow, what a match!

        Ugh, next week is Geelong?

        Yeah, sorry not sorry, Carlton. Though TBF I’d rather see Carlton up there than Footscray and several others who made it.

      • Raven Nation

        “Footscray, snort.”

        There are 12 VFL teams. They include Footscray, Fitzroy, and South Melbourne. All games kick off on Saturday in Victoria at 2pm. The Grand Final is played on the last Saturday in September.

        Yeah, I didn’t see the game, but people are calling it the game of the year.

      • rhywun

        The ups and downs were unreal. Collingwood blew entire quarters. Until they didn’t.

  17. UnCivilServant

    I wonder how my new supervisor would react if I said “I’d like to work remote tomorrow – I have no clean pants.”

    The last part may not be true, I haven’t put the laundry away yet.

  18. LCDR_Fish

    New Muse. Guess I’d missed this track being listed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgyQufB1Yic

    New album is out Friday. Along with CoCa, it’s one of the two bands I’ve been buying hard copies of everything. That’s gonna change…gonna try and lean away from digital for the stuff I really like. Means re-buying some stuff, but a good time to start hitting up used cd places too.

    • rhywun

      Nothing wrong with digital as long as it’s DRM-free and backed up.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I back up my itunes to my HD…but in the long term, I think I’d rather have a CD as well for some items…although some are either out of stock now or never released to CD in the age of digital (wtf…)

      • rhywun

        I do worry about my Kindle content. Breaks my rules above but it’s so damn convenient, and the files are not particularly easy to rip.

        I don’t do file-based movies because it’s all DRM’ed AFAIK. (Hi, l0b0t!)

      • LCDR_Fish

        I could rip my DVDs if I wanted to…unless you’re talking about starting from digital..

      • rhywun

        No, I am not talking about starting from digital. At all. *waves to Feds*

        Yeah, I’ve ripped one or two DVDs but really have no reason to since I don’t like watching movies on my computer.

  19. R.J.

    Can’t sleep. STEVE SMITH will get me. What is everyone doing this time of night?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Watching Sister Street Fighter on Midnight Pulp.

    • Gender Traitor

      Laundry.

    • The Hyperbole

      The same thing we do every night, R.J.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Try not to take over the world?

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        The dishes?

      • R.J.

        Watching MeTV?

      • rhywun

        Worse. Buzzr.

        I should probably give up already and go to bed.

      • straffinrun

        I did the dishes. Of course I washed them when I finished.

      • R.J.

        Heyooo! Be sure to wear socks to avoid that nasty Monkeypox!

        Finished painting for now. Too humid to do touch up until tomorrow. Someone came and got all my old bedroom furniture already, so I an on the couch until new stuff gets here Friday.

      • Brochettaward

        Doing the dishes is a euphemism for giving handjobs, I believe.

      • The Hyperbole

        You’re saying that it’s another term for firsting?

      • Brochettaward

        Firsting is a sacred act synonymous with being The Bro. The Hyperbole is a name synonymous with sucking one’s own dick.

      • MikeS

        I’d never leave the house.

      • straffinrun

        Dishes is what I call your mom.

      • Chafed

        It’s nice you have pet names for one another.

    • Chafed

      Watching 30 Rock with daughter 2.

      • dbleagle

        Sun is still up here. Whiskey and reading later, swim in the pool now.

  20. Festus

    It’s well past due date but I need to remind OMWC that Molly Tuttle is as smooth as a baby dolphin. Can you imagine the fun to be had with a few drums of Jesse’s lube, a two hundred foot slip and slide and large reservoir at the bottom? Her backup band playing accompinament.

    • Festus

      I just got to see OMWC chasing and struggling out of that leisure suit before the apex of the slide. Wheeee!

  21. MikeS

    My Glibfit for today was 18 holes of disc golf. Approximately a 2 mile walk. Nothing crazy, but it’s something. The goal for the week is to get in 90+ holes of disc golf. Also some bike riding.

    • straffinrun

      Only 2? Seems short.

      • MikeS

        The total tee-to-basket length (9 hole) of this course is about 3000 feet.

  22. Gustave Lytton

    Next up, Bloody Muscle Body Builder…in Hell!

  23. Brochettaward

    I can feel the First growing inside of me. It’s hear beat a pulsating vibration that emanates throughout the entirety of my body at all times; a beat that will make the whole world dance to its rhythm. And it comes for the Glibertariat, First.

    • Brochettaward

      Firsting without an edit button is like walking a tightrope with no net. But with no risk, there is no reward.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sure it’s a not a tumah?

      • rhywun

        +1 Kuato

  24. Sean

    *Looks around*

    Mornin y’all.

    • hayeksplosives

      I am “on the record” for having attempted to bring a weapon onto a commercial aircraft because I had forgotten that my very badass Swiss Army knife was in my purse.

      The thing that made it a ‘weapon’ was that the blade was over three inches long (barely).

      The TSA had to call the Minneapolis police serving the airport. He looked the blade over, looked me over, and asked if it had been concealed. “Nope, just loose” said the flunky.

      Cop told me I was now on “The List” and to be more careful next time.

      Everyone involved knew it was a farce.

    • rhywun

      Well, at the rate that crooked DC judge is processing all these “misdemeanors”, that guy’s looking at what, a couple years in solitary?

    • rhywun

      Ew, economic activity is icky.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I can sympathize with not wanting to have a warehouse in your backyard but it’s going to be in somebody’s backyard. Those are the breaks.

      • UnCivilServant

        The one thing that disgusts me in rewatching TV series I grew up with was the number of episodes where the main characters regard stymieing economic growth as a good thing.

      • rhywun

        Metaphorical backyard. They could always purchase the land themselves. Maybe shoulda thought of that first.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If you try to stop them you’ll get in trouble, if the fuzz catches them they won’t be prosecuted. Why bother?

    • rhywun

      Finally, a return to sanity.

      But yeah, Stinky raises good points.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They should write an article about playing Led Zeppelin albums backwards…moral panic bullshit.

    • hayeksplosives

      I saw that. Naturally I immediately wondered if he was a Star Wars stormtrooper.

    • EvilSheldon

      I drove right through there yesterday.

      Not only does the adult need more range time, he needs to stop walking around with his head up his ass, after dark. Two teenagers in dark clothing, approaching you on the street after 10pm? News flash, buddy – they don’t want a cigarette, or the time, or directions.

    • hayeksplosives

      Facebook is teh evils but it’s how I keep up with family and friends far away!!! The wonderful app “FB purity” helps make it palatable.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’m thinking of signing up to use their local service for selling stuff, whatever it’s called. Gotta unload a money pit aka a boat.

      • Gender Traitor

        I think that’s Facebook Marketplace.

        Good luck finding a sucker buyer for your boat.

      • Gender Traitor

        I need to find out more about this “FB purity” app. I, too, use FB to keep up with certain family and friends…and my nail polish strip pusher seller.

  25. hayeksplosives

    I gots to go away now and sleep for two more hours so I can face the day.

    Byeeeeee!

  26. UnCivilServant

    🙁 I wish the butcher shop would go back to using the more expensive butcher paper with the moisture barrier. Without it, I have to remember to throw everything I buy from there into plastic bags, else it dries out on the fridge before I can cook it. My 1.25lb breakfast steak was dried to the point it stuck to the paper and the exterior felt like glue. Hopefully it cooks okay.

    • Not Adahn

      Pellicle formation gives a better crust and smoke adhesion.

      • UnCivilServant

        And paper glued to the outside of the steak doesn’t cook well.

        Besides, there’s no smoke in my house to adhere.

      • Not Adahn

        You didn’t say it was glued to the steak, just that it stuck. Which says nothing about the difficulty of removal.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why is everyone deliberately ignoring the actual problem? If I wanted to do that, I would do so intentionally. After a mere weekend in the fridge both steak and paper were ripping as I tried to separate them – something that didn’t used to happen because there had been a moisture barrier in the paper they’d previously used. Had I bought more than just a steak last time I was there, I’d have other meats that react even less well to being dried out by the fridge.

      • Sean

        #crankypants

      • Not Adahn

        It’s because he doesn’t drink coffee. I on the other hand have had 40oz and am stupidly happy to be at work.

      • UnCivilServant

        And you can’t ‘dry brine’. Brine is by definition a mix of salt and water.

      • Not Adahn

        AKshually, the brine forms from water natively present in the meat.

      • UnCivilServant

        Then it’s not dry, now is it?

  27. Gender Traitor

    Good morning, U, HS, Stinky, Sean, and rhy!

    First order of business at work today is either to send out an e-mail to all employees and directors instructing them to electronically sign a Conflict of Interest disclosure form (and to read the corresponding policy) OR to go through Round One of open enrollment to make sure THIS round doesn’t include our medical, dental, vision, or Health Savings Account enrollment (all of which aren’t supposed to happen until later.) Either way, both of these events ensure that confusion will reign and that *I* will get emails and/or phone calls and get peppered with questions. 🙄

      • Gender Traitor

        Hi there! 🙂 How’s your steak looking so far? Or have you started it yet?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s done cooking. It looks like it came through the process okay.

        I’m glad because these steaks are pricey.

      • Gender Traitor

        👍🏼🥩

        (Yours may not be quite so rare.)

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s what it looked like before it was cooked.

    • rhywun

      Mornin’. Why am I up?

      • Gender Traitor

        Ooh! Ooh! I think I know this one! ::takes deep breath:: Because you have to work?

      • rhywun

        Nailed it in one.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::fist pump::

    • KK of the Lesser Glibertarians

      Guten morgen! Hope your emailing goes smoothly!

      I was up at 5:30. That’s what I get for going to bed at 9 (and napping a good chunk of the afternoon yesterday)

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, KK! I try very hard NOT to take naps on Sunday afternoons so I don’t stay awake too late Sunday night. Thus I didn’t take a nap yesterday…but still stayed up too late.