I have decided to winter here in Manistee again, my plans are on hold for now. I am ready for another season including the Winter disc league. Lizard that I may be, winter is a challenge I accept. Now maybe I can see what MI has to offer, hehe.
View from my van
Resolved it were, to be obscure,
amidst the shredded grey,
as wind shakes my very van,
I look on in wonderment, and smile,
the days are short by design, and everything dies,
but for the season,
left to endure, as it was and is,
the storm is upon me,
again,
rain turns to ice and hail, pelting my face,
as I laugh, snapping away,
evil waves and mighty north winds,
yet I stand my ground,
barely
darkness fills today and the morrow,
what shadows cast are long,
and deep violet,
as cascades of necrotic colour awaits,
in the coming dark time,
the day yet exists, and thriving,
I shall use it,
searching for beauty in the barren,
collecting another vision,
living another dream,
as we begin the long night,
again
Pretty trees.
Hey Yusef. I like this.
Thanks
colour
Brit spelling. Nice!
I like it.
Boo.
Otherwise it was a good one, better than your usual Yusef, you’re improving.
“grey” instead of “gray” is also Brit.
“Necrotic colour” is my favorite part. And I agree with DEG, the British spelling is nice.
I loved that line, thanks!
Just because it’s weird
If he had any horse sense he’d get a paternity test.
the days are short by design
That’s a good line.
OT: Swiss, Swedish, what’s the difference?
Depends, are we talking blondes or booze?
Or cheese?
Or meatballs?
I’m not surprised that there isn’t any starting bid.
Regarding the Atlantic piece on giving “amnesty” to the people who instituted the horrendous lockdown and masking policies, local news today had Exhibit #5924524358276 of how they wouldn’t dream of giving us wrongthinkers amnesty:
Cohoes woman accused of using forged COVID vaccine card for job requirement
They’d happily imprison every dissident while demanding your forgiveness.
Oh it was right there in that Atlantic bit about the amnesty being very one-way, and without the slightest admission of having done anything wrong other than maybe, well, being a bit too enthusiastic.
Pound sand.
Pretty much every comment I have seen on it comes down to; you need to admit wrong first, and then we can talk amnesty.
But there is still waaaaaaay too much anger for any “forgiveness” to be given.
My mom died alone in a hospital room. They’ll be lucky if I don’t…
Let’s just say amnesty is not something I will be granting. Ever.
I just read that fucking cunt’s Atlantic piece. If this is how they are going to “admit fault”…I don’t know. I don’t know.
Sorry man. The past three years have been a shit show.
Thanks, Lack. They certainly have. And without accountability, it’ll happen again. Sooner than later.
They can all get fucked by a rusty chainsaw.
Jesus, still a thing? And something the cops will get you for? Glad I left NY.
Presumably a health-care worker, heroes to zeroes etc.
Disgusting.
Yeah, a health care worker.
Obviously, one can tell who read the article. 😉
I DID read the article and “presenting a forged COVID vaccination card to an Albany healthcare facility to meet a job requirement” wasn’t exactly the model of clarity.
Exactly, could just as easily be a clerical worker who was still required to follow some policy.
Good stuff Yusef.
Lovely, Yusef.
searching for beauty in the barren,
Not easy.
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
https://archive.ph/zZoyM/0978ec79120fc27e24404bb238c5b502b00d5c57.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/JF4Jn/5214325768ada84eac26ce957f99bc1ff98ab98b.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/7d47l/723e32c15e9afc9fd2ed026d2336f46110ec969a.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/hXqiD/0da862ece9e646bdf9a22b6a0f5d4afcf0a06b5b.webp
NSFW.
You’d have to have a Groucho Marx fetish to tolerate those eyebrows.
And a dislike for bunnies.
Thanks
I’m sending you some snow next week, Yusef. Forecast (subject to change) for about 10 inches, Get a pair of snow shoes and take a hike. Glad to hear you are in with the cold crowd, now I don’t feel quite so stupid.
Got a call from the lady the looks after our bees in the off season. A bear visited last night, she said a lot of damage, I’ll go tomorrow and see what I can reassemble. The bees were not happy today, she said.
The fall has been so nice the bears are still out and about apparently.
Heard on the news/weather earlier this evening that we’re not expecting anything average or below until middle of the month.
Cold weather makes the bucks horny.
Good luck hunting this weekend, Fourscore.
Same with you, Nick. Stop by if you get a chance. Week end weather should be OK, then rain and snow next week scheduled.
I recently was gifted a smoker. Last weekend I made honey glazed smoked salmon. The honey stole the show!
Did you get the show back?
It was sticky business, but I did.
Hey, I like smoked salmon, I usually cop any leftover at HH time and hide it.
I will definitely be bringing some next year. (I hope Nick doesn’t get pissed)
Offset, pellet, electric, old gym locker?
Pellet. A Camp Chef. Burgers are amazing. I don’t ever want a boring old fried burger again. And the salmon was amazeballs.
In today’s
BBQoutdoor meat cooking world (do you want pedants, because that is how you get pedants) regular old burgers and brats may as well be salad, and I’m good with that. When it’s your turn to cook for game day you best be marinating something, at the least. Fucker brought lamb chops a few weeks, salt and pepper and threw them on the grill ( and over cooked most of them), no sides no nothing. Bullshit.My salmon (mostly because of poor timing) took two days prep and five hours smoking. First a brine soak, then a rest to develop at pellicle. I’ll do better next time, but even done right you’d be hard pressed to do it in 24 hours.
IT’s early days in my meat smoking career, but I’m thinking I’m gonna focus on fish. A. I like it. 2. It’s not what everyone else is doing. I’ll definitely do beef/pork/chicken/whatever, but I really want to get good at smoking fish.
Wait wait wait wait wait.
No beans? No potato salad?! No macaroni salad?!! No cole slaw?!!! No cheesy corn?!!!!
OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Without more details, I’ll tentatively side with Lamb Chop. I would assume sides would be provided by the host if I’m bringing the meat*.
*not a euphemism.
Hoover’s on Manor Road in Austin cooks their hamburgers in their smoker. Amazeballs confirmed.
I got to choose a service award at work. I picked a Weber charcoal smoker. That should show up soon. Just in time for winter in Iowa.
Have you checked Weber’s website to see if they have a “blanket” for it? I have one for mine; my son-in-law used it year-round in MSP.
Not yet. Just ordered it yesterday. So, no idea what else I need to get yet.
I believe Swiss’s employers probably financed this.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/how-swissploitation-splatter-comedy-mad-heidi-hopes-to-take-a-bloody-axe-to-distribution-models/ar-AA13F6AJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=0d016b15324f419094322cd216215314
Dear Lord, make that available for free streaming as soon as possible.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on.
Youtube is now suggesting videos of nude yoga and other assorted nudity videos completely out of the blue.
This must be Elon’s fault.
Careful. Next thing you know you’ll be breaking in to Pelosi’s house.
While i did look slightly and did see some spicy stuff on youtube. I did not get “recommendations”.
No women’s polevaulting?
Woo! Lets go Astros!
*bangs trash can lid
*Hands out pine tar*
Also, I just got home and got on the zoomie if you want to stop in.
I want to, but I’d better get to bed. I have to be on the road by 6:30
Things are going swimmingly up here,
We just opened our new 18 hole course and got new signage for the home course. With three courses now, Manistee is on the map yippee!🥏
That’s great, Yusef. Article in the works?
That’s awesome. You are an inspiration, Yusef.
Of interest to DEG and, perhaps, others – local news came on after the baseball and is showing Maggie Hassan trailing her challenger, Dan Bolduc, albeit by only 1%.
Don Bolduc is too much of a warmonger for me to vote for him, but despite that, I like that he will probably show Hassan the door.
Winter is here. Snow on the ground, light snow during the drive today. Not much of a fall this year.
Another night in a hotel and the missus, though she said it was ok, is clearly not.
I am willing to dontate 8/month for the official Glib twatter account to be check marked for the funsies of it.
Ha!
Needs the family friendly seal on it too.
Good poem, Yusef. The cold is one thing, but the darkness is the worst.
This poem is reminiscent of Ancient Greek poems, which often used seasonal changes as metaphors for the transitory nature of life.
But they also often pointed out that life is cyclical.
Spring will come, the sun will rise.
‘Sup Glibs?
Good morning Glibnation. How did Brandon’s panic attack go last night? I didn’t pay attention and haven’t read the reviews.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/disgusting-biden-holds-live-speech-national-tv-smear-republicans-midterm-elections/
Okay.
They need better writers, sounded like a fifth grader trying to pad out his weird count.
No one won the Powerball.
Curious that we can instantly know who did not win on the night of
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/teen-girl-with-special-needs-brutally-beaten-in-class-by-male-student-at-a-granada-hills-school/
Our society is fucked.
We will do everything in our power … to provide counseling after your child is harmed.
They’re afraid of getting fired and sued into bankruptcy by an ambulance chasing sleazeball. I can recall a couple of hallway fights back in my highschool days where a teacher jumped in and then had to slug it out with a student but that was considered a risk of the job. Those days are unfortunately over.
I did the same thing when I was doing my student teaching. I saved the little guy from a whoopin’ but he sort of threatened me, “I’ll get you” . He was in one of my classes but not a problem. I saw him months later at a convenience store and we were on good terms.
Stopping a fight goes with the job, like a cop in a shooting.
Our school hired a 20 year old guy who was willing to keep the peace, but would have been thrown to the wolves if the lawyers came knocking.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Hey.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/javier-astros-phillies-world-series-game-four-no-hitter-nola/
Sportsball!
Reminds me of the days when I cared about baseball.
I stopped caring because it was too predictable: The Phillies lose. And lose badly.
Good Morning:
How bad must it be for the Dems? In Oklahoma they did not televise presidents speech at all.
Looking forward to bitching about all the RINO’s not doing anything worthwhile.
Beats paying $20 for a pack of paper plates.
Or $5.69 for a head of worn out looking lettuce in Podunkville
Mornin’ all. Off to the gym.
Good morning, DEG, Sean, ‘bodru, homey, Stinky, and RoaT!
I’ll be going to the Y after work for another water aerobics session! 😃🏊🏼♀️ In the meantime, I’ll probably be writing up the minutes of Tuesday’s quarterly financial meeting, including speculating on the implications of what my boss knew the Fed was going to do re: interest rates. 📈
Good Morning GT:
Any perspective how high rates are going to go?
Well, at that point in the Zoom meeting, which started earlier than I thought, I was trying to scarf down my lunch of Chinese bourbon chicken between bouts of scribbling notes, but I do recall that there’s been some kvetching from certain quarters that the Fed has raised rates too much too quickly, so…maybe they’ll raise ’em a little more in December, then knock off in ’23? Don’t quote me on that – I don’t have my notes nor my boss’s PowerPoint presentation in front of me.
One thing my boss usually presents is a “dot plot” showing where members of the Federal Open Market Committee think rates will be at various points in the future. If I can find that online for this week’s meeting, I’ll post a link.
This page from the Fed’s site doesn’t have that “dot plot” of committee members’ rate predictions, but it does have lots of tables listing their expectations (as of their September meeting) regarding a bunch of near-term economic stats.
Are these models as solid as climate models? Because climate models are the gold standard for predictive accuracy, it is known.
Well, the members of the FOMC may have insufficient renal calculi to toss on the table, thus limiting their ability to prognosticate correctly.
Morning.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
Lousy.
I’m tired, and I left my phone at the office when I left yesterday (I was in such a hurry I forgot to make sure I had everything)
I’m sorry! 😟 Is it worth going in to fetch it? (This is a WFH day, correct?)
Today is a remote day, I don’t want to leave to house, but I worry whether my family is trying to reach me.
Knowing you, you’d worry about that all day. Maybe try to get out either before or after the worst of the morning traffic, grab the phone, then pick yourself up a nice meal on the way back home?
There is a gap in my calendar just after noon. I was debating heading in then and running away. There should be at most one person in our area, since it’s thursday.
Sorry. I am so glad I am not going into the office these days.
Morning. Software build install day.
Good Luck?
Routine. Should be okay…should
Good morning, OBE! ::salutes:: Good luck, brave soldier!
“UK PM Sunak U-Turns On Decision To Skip COP27”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-pm-sunak-u-turns-decision-skip-cop27
Looks like y’all picked another winner there Britain. Honestly, if you’re a British conservative why even bother voting?
CoNsEnSuS!
British government is the driving everyone into the poorhouse we do together.
Mornin’, reprobates.
OBE, I hope the new build does the needful. Can’t have demolition derby over Sin City, that would be bad for business.
These are easy cause we have two redundant systems running in parallel.
Hey kids, whats shakin’?
It looks like 4X is sending me snow diguised as rain, otherwise another pretty day.
Lets go driving😎
The serious snow comes next week. I have to clean up the bee biz the bear left me. If he/she doesn’t take a seasonal nap I may have to do it again.
Get your *kit in the van, Yusef, a shovel, a tow chain, maybe a little sand (optional). Not for yourself but to help when the other guy/gal has a problem.
*Makes a note to self
Do I understand correctly that good old-fashioned kitty litter (not necessarily the “clumping” kind) may work as well as (or better than?) sand for traction purposes? Used to keep a big bag in the back of my old AMC Spirit hatchback – made pretty good ballast, too.
Yessir, I got my towstrap,
Shovel
Sand, and enough gear to live in Kia for 3 days if needed.
Among the various bits and bobs handed out at nats, I’ve got a 3.5″ MLok handguard (from Ergo) that I will never use for anything other than a paperweight or potentially a source of scrap aluminum. Anyone want it?
Only 3.5″?
Okay, we need a ruling here.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/02/professional-cornhole-world-rocked-by-baggate-cheating-scandal/
So, size matters in cornholing.
I have a good friend who quit playing disc golf because he was making too much money playing cornhole
How?
Twenty bucks a pop?
*snicker*