Philly cheesesteak restaurant re-opens with heavily armed security personnel
A Philly cheesesteak restaurant has reopened for business and now has security personnel armed with rifles since violent crime has disrupted the harmony in the City of Brotherly Love. The eatery joins a local gas station that also employs rifle-toting guards to ensure customer safety.
Jim’s West Steaks & Hoagies in West Philadelphia is open for business. Video from the grand reopening on Sunday shows customers lining up to order sandwiches under the watchful eye of heavily armed security guards.
A local reporter said, “The original Jim’s Steaks in West Philadelphia is making a comeback. … The additional security measure is part of the restaurant’s new identity, all to match the new reality.”
One of the restaurant co-owner’s, Cortez Johnson, talked about the city that has seen a surge in murders, many that have taken place near the business, reported WPVI-TV.
“The violence has spiked,” Johnson said. “You want people to feel safe and be safe. So when they come out and eat, they don’t have to worry about no type of harm.”
The heavily armed security personnel are posted outside the eatery during business hours from Thursday to Sunday each week, according to the news outlet.
No protection provided via the taxes he is still forced to pay. Hopefully that money is being used for something important, like fisting videos for third graders.
Yes, that’s them; no, it’s not a photoshop.
So, I’ve been on a bit of a bear kick, literature-wise. It began with a gift of werebear romance novels from a friend, the best of which was easily Bear in a Bakery by Liz Paffel (2021.) After an attack by racoons, bakery owner Allie Rowe can only be saved by studly werebear Dax.
And I finally read that Canadian masterpiece of bear and woman romance, Bear by Marian Engel (1976.) Called “The Most Controversial Canadian Novel,” it was a steamy treat. A librarian called into the wilderness to inventory the literary estate of a secretive Colonel find passion in the large paws and snuffling snout of a bear he keeps as a pet.
And, finally, the comic romp that is Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen (2008.)
[content warning: a person is rather slowly eaten by a bear]
The Help a Bear is Eating me reminds me of the old Worst Case Survival guide books.
I guess now we know Baldur’s Gate 3’s original intended audience.
I had a copy of it. What I remember is how to survive quicksand.
Made me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL7D42ZSzQ
When I was young, my parents had the album on vinyl. I thought it was high comedy, indeed.
I still say “Oh heck…”
Warlords and gang warfare would seem nigh. We’re shooting straight past banana republic into shithole, it seems.
I visited Sri Lanka in 1986. Got off the plane and saw soldiers and cops everywhere with rifles and shotguns at the airport. I thought “what kind of f-ed up craphole is this?” Now we have the same scene at sandwich shops and gas stations.
When I was in Russia there were restaurants that had a metal detector at the door and a place for you to check your gun. We’re getting there.
I don’t go into Philly as a general rule of thumb.
Can someone get him cancelled for dressing up as a Rebel soldier now? 😉
He’s the ‘Tucky part of Pennsyltucky.
Lump is much better dressed than the average ragbag Reb who invaded Penna. in ’63.
Fetterlump is proof that the people of Pennsylvania should lose their voting rights.
HEY!
At least he did say gun rights.
We (not us) are treating a senator like he is a mentally disabled child. We have to be near the end of an empire.
😵💫
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
And shooty.
so anyway, I started blastin’
A librarian called into the wilderness to inventory the literary estate of a secretive Colonel find passion in the large paws and snuffling snout of a bear he keeps as a pet.
Based on the real life of SugarFree?
That would require someone opening a portal to Eldritch Abominations before SF showed up to “find passion”.
I’m not much for the were- literature, especially after an unfortunate incident with a were-cephalopod romance.
Aquaman is the lamest superhero. Fight me.
Batman fires Aquaman from the Justice League.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn-WnLBqhz0
🐬🍆💦
My husband says, “Not according to all those women who like that whats-his-face.” “Jason Momoa. Soooooo not my type. Not that I have a type.”
Puts up his dukes….
Zan makes Arthur look like a badass
“Form of…
WONDER WOMAN’S BATH WATER!”
No one is going to fight you on that one.
But Cypher has entered the room.
The Deep coughs quietly in the background.
Not wrong.
Imma let you in on a little secret.
Superhero = lame. I mean, seriously. adults wearing capes? and masks? Lame.
1) NO CAPES!
2) Sorry — my favorite (cape-less) can manipulate matter at the sub-atomic level. That pushes him (them? depends on the incarnation) way the hell out of “lame” territory, my good man!
Relevant
LOL!
“Robin, didn’t we park the car right here?”
Funny — but he’s dead wrong about Batman. He worked in the projects parts of Gotham a *lot* (especially in the Denny O’Neil era). And while I’d say the Batmobile typically could take care of itself… there was the really fucking stupid way Jason Todd was introduced…..
“Aquaman…patrol the coast.”
Brie Larson Captain Marvel is the worst. Invincible, all powerful and whose only weakness is her not fully not realizing how awesome she is.
Batwoman is runner up.
Isn’t that every female superhero now?
AtomEve is kinda cool, and Starllighter seems ok.
The Bear in a Bakery cover makes it look more like she’s the were-bear and all.
*cough* Tonio *cough*
Surprisingly, no.
But now I’m fascinated by this niche subgenre.
Our team shared that Philly article. We’re going there for a tournament in April, and some of us were looking forward to an authentic cheesesteak. One guy DGAF, he’s going to get that sandwich anyway.
Pat’s or Geno’s
That’s the question.
They’re hockey players. I’m sure they can eat two sandwiches.
Yes we intend to try them both.
Wawa’s.
Those are in South Philly, right? Bit less shooty than West Philly.
There are rifle ranges a bit less shooty than West Philly.
I love it when I guess the song from the blurb. And what a great song/video.
But those books – aren’t you afraid they might warp your brain?
Did you forget who you’re addressing?
I know, right?
Has it ever occurred to you guys that he may be the only normal one here?
“Normal” is a setting on a dryer.
“Normal” is perpendicular to the plane.
A teachers’ school?
I’m the benchmark for normal.
More like skidmark.
that’s them
Them who?
The Fetterlump and Mrs. The Lump.
Femelump.
Wrong link above for the bear book.
There’s some funny reviews for it. One reviewer’s closing line made me chuckle sensibly…
Awesome.
security personnel armed with rifles
Trench guns or GTFO
After an attack by racoons, bakery owner Allie Rowe can only be saved by studly werebear Dax.
/scratches head
/walks away
Right?! Dax is such a weird name.
Jadzia would like a word.
Tough for her to do, being dead and all.
Ezri can show up to kick MikeS’s butt, though.
Ezri was adorable.
Unrecognizable to me at first after Cube.
Lemuel always made my eye twitch.
I hope some senators take advantage of the new dress code to go full on with the Hunger Games Capital District wardrobe. Sinema is halfway there already.
I’d start wearing zoot suits.
Why aren’t you wearing them now?
He’s worried about causing a riot.
Dashiki for me.
aluminum foil
If you wear the zoot suit, you gotta speak jive, all rest, daddy-o?
Edit: all reet, daddy-o.
I fail.
Love me some zoot suits.
God, I hope someone comes in with a suction cup dildo on their forehead.
Fetterlump backtracked and in his charming sarcastic way, said he’d “save democracy” by wearing a suit. CWAA
I did an eviction a couple weeks back on a hoarder of gay porn. Seriously there was cock literally to the ceilings in the form of posters, calendars, magazines, porn VHS and sundry items. Also plenty of meth pipes. The gay agent that was with me said “I’ve never seen anything like this much gay porn, geez I don’t even own a picture book of naked dudes.” The artistic highlight was a painting of a dude getting fucked by a (male) lion. We had to go back two days later as porn meth dude broke back in by completely taking out the front door and was on a meth binge. I told the agent when he called the cops to say he was going to make a citizen’s arrest. They don’t like the competition. Two squad cars showed up with 3 minutes.
I was JUST reading a Reddit post on a hoarder eviction. Sadly, gay porn and meth pipes weren’t part of the hoard.
A fair percentage of the evictions I have done are hoarder ones. They kinda go hand in hand.
But that one was for nonpayment?
This particular one was not a tenant. I believe he inherited it and then took out money on it and didn’t pay it back.
Dude watched way too much Lion King in his formative years, I suppose.
Gay porn meth dudes would be a hell of a band name.
They can open for Corrupt fascist goat fucking weasel dicked totalitarian asshole Stalin wannabes.
This exchange, and callback, are a non-trivial part of why I love this site
Here you go. I unfortunately did not get a pic of the lion fucking painting. The upper level had a lot more porn but I was there with the agent so didn’t want to bust out the camera for videos.
https://imgur.com/a/tNQ0fIP
Nice try, KSue. I almost fell for it.
My mouse cursor took a stroll by and I was like, “Wait, WTF?!? NO.”
You weirdos almost always suck me in with a great setup. Worse than a fucking Gawker headline.
“And I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen it with MY OWN EYES-”
LOL
Not this time, Satan!
Going back to at least 1984 LOL.
The fire extinguisher is a nice touch – surprised it wasn’t used yet.
I read a short story in college about a man and a (female) bear which would probably be a good addition to the anthology. Unfortunately, I can’t remember who wrote it. It was somebody I read a lot of. The bear story was definitely not indicative of his other work. It definitely belonged in the “What the fuck did I just read?” bin.
Did the site go down?
I got a database error from 1 to about 1:15, then had to re-login later. Haven’t seen any other issues.
I assume the squirrels were initially driven mad by SF’s content until he broke their wills and the succumbed to his domination is all.
I hear the Canadians are working on a sequel to theirs. The librarian has to go further north to the Arctic to help research climate change (of course). And since LGBTQ2+I is all the rage — her step-brother tags along… the poor bear must now fight the love in its heart for both of them.
Bi-Polar Bear.
Does Bi-Polar Bear have purple hair?
Does they dare?
“Thousands of people gathered in cities across Canada on Wednesday for competing protests, yelling and chanting at each other about the way schools teach sexuality and gender identity and how teachers refer to transgender youth.
Separated by lines of police officers, the protests and counter-protests are linked to school policies, including in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan(opens in a new tab), that require young people to get parental consent before teachers can use their preferred first names and pronouns.
Posters created by a group called “1MillionMarch4Children” say rally participants are standing together against what they call “gender ideology” in the nation’s schools. Protesters said Wednesday that children are being exposed to inappropriate content about sexuality and gender identity, and they support the policies requiring parental consent.”
TW: autoplay
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cross-country-rallies-against-gender-ideology-in-schools-met-with-counter-protests-1.6569373
Lauren Southern recently did a live stream from Vancouver.
I am guessing the Twink of the North will come down on them like he did the truckers. Not my circus, not my monkey but Jeebus I hate that guy.
And I found this on the twitters today
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1704306407753806087
Looks like a metric shit ton of kids walking out over boys being allowed in the girls room.
Good!
Seriously. Illegal alien issues and rampant crime, but hey why not. Paywall.
New York City Loses Contentious Bid for Cricket Stadium to Long Island
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/nyregion/cricket-stadium-bronx-long-island.html
“Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump aide, has accused Rudy Giuliani of groping her on January 6 in a shocking new memoir.
The 27-year-old, who was a star witness at the January 6 Committee hearings, alleges 79-year-old Giuliani put his hand ‘under my blazer, then my skirt’ and was like a ‘wolf closing in on his prey’.
The former New York Mayor ‘fingered the fabric’ and said, ‘I’m loving this leather jacket on you’, she claims in the explosive book.
Hutchinson then describes feeling ‘his frozen fingers trail up my thigh’.
Giuliani dismissed the accusation as a ‘disgusting lie’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12541273/Ex-Trump-aide-Cassidy-Hutchinson-27-claims-Rudy-Giuliani-79-groped-her.html
INSUREKKTION!
Going after a woman? I thought he was the closet gay guy in hotel rooms with younger men. Make up your mind. It has gotten to the point where my default position on accusations like this is ‘bullshit’ unless I see iron clad evidence for a believable story.
Lump is much better dressed than the average ragbag Reb who invaded Penna. in ’63.
When did it go out of fashion for women to slap guys who got fresh with them?
Oh, fuck right off.
OK. I’m ready to believe that the pilot went nuts or the plane was hacked.
Bad weather? In an 80 million dollar plane?
Seems legit as a jackalope
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@4597040/historic
Got nothing on the X-15 Cruise Basselope.
Thank you for that.
Seconded. That’s glorious.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/f-35-pilot-ejected-over-south-carolina-due-to-bad-weather/
Who knows?
Maybe the sun was in his eyes.
Maybe, he was in the pool!
Fuck off.
In high demand then sell them for more to cover cost overruns? Lol who am I to kid
Eject cause of the weather or the pilot lost track of the plane in the clouds after he ejected…cause now that I read that, it sounds like the latter.
It’s just like that time Private Jessica Lynch single-handedly fought off dozens Iraqi troops after her convoy was ambushed. At least, that’s what the 5-sided mistake reported at first.
***
Though Lynch said in 2003 she felt the military had dramatized her rescue too much, for years she never outright blasted anyone for such accounts.
Then in 2007, the family of Army Ranger Patrick Tillman asked her to speak before Congress. The Army initially told Tillman’s family and the public that enemy fire had killed Tillman, when in fact he was killed by fellow Rangers.
Stories of “a little girl ‘Rambo’ from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting,” she testified, were not true. “I’m still confused as to why they chose to lie and try to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were legendary.”
***
I don’t like bad-mouthing the Army or the military, but I know from direct experience it has an honesty problem.
/Remembers writing citations for awards
Nope, that can’t be it.
Isn’t it good to know these are the fucking neurotic, bugfuck nuts retards developing the software for nuclear weapons systems?
There was this thing that began in the 70s called formal methods that supposedly could lead to bug-free software based on mathematical proofs.
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In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, analysis, and verification of software and hardware systems.[1] The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing appropriate mathematical analysis can contribute to the reliability and robustness of a design.[2]
Formal methods employ a variety of theoretical computer science fundamentals, including logic calculi, formal languages, automata theory, control theory, program semantics, type systems, and type theory.[3]
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It’s still a big deal with aviation software.
I’ve heard of it from its use in CPU design processes and critical network infrastructure hardware, and while I’m certainly not an expert, I think “[insert software] is never at fault.” is a colossal overstatement even for software that has been subjected to formal methods verification. I’m surprised his lawyers haven’t stuck a ball gag in his mouth.
Jesus. That’s insane.
Thanks?
This is all apparently related to a feud he started with Musk over Tesla’s self-driving cars when he was running for California’s senate seat, btw.
Like I said, fantastic look for the CEO of a defense contractor handling critical military infrastructure getting into Twitter pissing matches and accusing people asking legitimate questions about his product of being “Musk cultists.” This is the kind of shit that used to go on in academic circles and closed door meetings with weak-egoed defense execs, not sperged out over right in the public square. Social media was the biggest fucking mistake humanity ever made.
I never fell for it.
(Social media, that is.)
This is not my domain of expertise. But I have worked with the guys that develop operating systems for embedded systems to support safety critical systems.
Operating systems for embedded system are small and highly-tailored to perform one basic function. The code is small enough it can be verified and validated to very, very high levels of confidence. The applications that sit on top of the operating system can be huge and can be full of bugs. One of the purposes of the operating system is prevent those bugs from cascading through the system.
The operating system will continuously monitor its health to detect random hardware failures (including memory corruption) and ephemeral events such as lighting strikes and neutron single event upset.
Any change in the memory locations hosting the executable software will reset the system.
“Hacking” the system in the field is pretty much not possible (in my totally unqualified opinion). The only real way to get malware into the system is to build into the formal software release which would make it an inside job.
This guy says the OS is bullet proof. It’s probably pretty close.
Much more likely is a latent bug in an application resulting from a bad requirement or a bad design. And yes those can get into the field.
So, I would expect that a bug in an auto-ejection system is totally possible.
So I guess we can expect more of these to crash as the climate crisis worsens.
Crisis
A looming government shutdown could prevent the Federal Reserve from raising rates in November, but not for the reason you might think, according to Bank of America.
Not only would the shutdown potentially slow down the economy and make a rate hike the wrong move, but a long impasse would mean central bank policymakers have only limited access to inflation data, the investment bank noted. That’s because unfunded agencies such as the departments of Labor and Commerce wouldn’t be producing key data reports on price trends.
“If the shutdown lasts for a month or more, the Fed would essentially be flying blind at its November meeting, having learned very little about economic activity and price pressures since the September meeting,” Bank of America U.S. economist Aditya Bhave said in a note.
Oh, no. Where will we get our made up numbers?
Bad weather? In an 80 million dollar plane?
And my head goes immediately to the scene in Deal of the Century where the general yells, “Haven’t you idiots ever heard of rain?”
A man and his 17 ft long, 1,000 pound pet crocodile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFuff8t2sf8
Reptiles can be surprisingly intelligent and loving.
No, they cant. They dont have the wiring for social behavior. That dude is looking for whiskey in a bottle of wine. It might be largely trained…but one day as sure as I am sitting here…..
The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles
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Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles.Reptiles have been too often dismissed as dull animals with tiny brains and simple, “asocial” lives. In reality, reptiles engage in a remarkable diversity of complex social behavior. They can live in families; communicate with one another while still in the egg; and hunt, feed, migrate, court, mate, nest, and hatch in groups. In The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles, J. Sean Doody, Vladimir Dinets, and Gordon M. Burghardt—three of the world’s leading experts on reptiles—bring together a wave of new research with a synthesis of classic studies to produce the only authoritative look at the social behaviors of the most provocative animals on the planet. The book covers turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and the enigmatic tuatara. Enhanced with dozens of images, it takes readers through a myriad of social interactions, tendencies, and intimacies ranging from fierce territorial battles to delicate paternal care and from promiscuous pairings to monogamous partnerships. This unique text• explains why reptiles have been neglected as subjects of social behavior studies;• provides numerous examples across all major reptilian groups that overturn the false paradigm of “solitary” reptiles; • explores the sensory, genetic, physiological, life history, and other factors underlying social behavior in reptiles; •
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They’re scary, duh.
Want to see the secret life of reptiles? Go to the U.N.
Even son of the crocodile hunter who works with them every day doesn’t trust them.
You know what you get when you cross a bird with a lizard?
T. Rex.
And nothing else happened.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/rep-thomas-massie-accuses-ag-garland-of-lying-to-congress-about-jan-6/
“Yet you got the guy on video who’s saying, ‘Go into the Capitol.’ He’s directing people to the Capitol before the speeches,” Massie went on. “He’s at the site of the first breach. You’ve got all the goods on him. Ten videos, and it’s an indictment for a misdemeanor. The American public isn’t buying it.”
I saw some of that today. Garland is a first class weasel. Can’t answer with a straight answer on anything. And of course the Dems went on and on about how great a job he was doing. One even dismissed the political nonsense of the Republicans to talk about the most important issue of our time, abortion.
Does the American public even hear about it?
A facebook friend wrote “Merrick Garland……I salute you. I don’t know HOW you are keeping your cool as well as you are against the pervasive abuse you are enduring.”
Truth is we’re all deep in our respective bubbles.
Rumble tells UK to fuck off.
Good response.
Excellent.
“Ross — who appeared in several episodes of the long-running anthology’s ninth season in 2019 — went on Instagram Live Tuesday and told her followers that Roberts, 32, allegedly misgendered her on set.”
https://pagesix.com/2023/09/20/emma-roberts-apologizes-to-angelica-ross-for-alleged-transphobia/
https://pagesix.com/2023/09/20/emma-roberts-accused-of-being-transphobic-by-ahs-co-star-angelica-ross/
I didn’t even know she was trans.
Not that I can say it without being cancelled at work, but “Good. You can think whatever you want about yourself, but you don’t get to dictate what others think, asshole.”
It’s AHS. It could just be fake drama for publicity.
After High School?
Is it some kind of special?
Luckily, your luxurious first world HQ has air conditioning
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres issued a stark warning as he gathered world leaders for a high-level summit on the climate crisis: “Humanity has opened the gates to hell.”
“Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease,” he said in a speech to open the Climate Ambition Summit, happening alongside the UN General Assembly in New York.
“Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge,” he added, warning that if nothing changes we are heading “towards a dangerous and unstable world.”
Blah blah fucking blah. Shove your tin cup up your ass.
*Looks outside, shrugs.*
With enough nuclear power, electricity, and thus air-conditioning, would be essentially free.
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Too cheap to meter refers to a commodity so inexpensive that it is cheaper and less bureaucratic to simply provide it for a flat fee or even free and make a profit from associated services. Originally applied to nuclear power, the phrase is also used for services that can be provided at such low cost that the additional cost of itemized billing would outweigh the benefits.
…
The phrase was coined by Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, who, in a 1954 speech to the National Association of Science Writers, said:
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.[1][2]
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♫ There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow…shining at the end of every day!
So, I’ve been on a bit of a bear kick, literature-wise.
I read Clan of the Cave Bear many years ago, does that count as bear literature?
I had to read a Spanish translation of that for a college class. I wanted oso much to enjoy it, but it was a slog.
Oso = bear in Spanish
Everyone, boo this man.
We French should take your pun and make it ours.
Bearly.
Clan of the Care Bear probably would be more interesting.
[care bear stare]
Name that snek
https://ibb.co/WKwJ5Lv
(I don’t mean, like, “George”. I mean “ID that snek”)
Love him and squeeze him and —
Oh, wait.
It’s a coral snake. Red touch yellow kills a fellow.
Though the red bands are very hard to see.
I don’t see a speck of red on that snake.
Micurus catamayansis is my guess. It is found in the Catamayo Valley of Ecuador.
There are several species of coral snakes and even within a species, there is variation in the coloring.
https://www.reddit.com/r/snakes/comments/xjiye9/please_stop_using_the_rhyme_for_coral_snakes/
In the South Carolina piedmont?
It probably escaped from the zoo.
Nevermind, it’s an Eastern King snake.
http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/lamget.htm
I’m with Brooks below, doesn’t look viperish. Maybe a water snake?
https://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nersip.htm
I’m thinking young rat snek
You’re correct. The patterning is a little off for a grey morph corn snake, and the “keyhole” pattern on top of a corn snake’s head is wrong. It’s possible that it’s a juvenile Eastern rat snake (sometimes called a yellow rat snake), but given your location and the critter’s looks I’d go with one of the grey rat snake subspecies.
Even the adults are harmless to humans and pets (pet rodents excepted).
I think it was a juvey Eastern. It was only 12″ at moat, maybe 10″. And skinny, like maybe 1/2″ diameter
*most
Eastern King Snake, grew up with them. Good to have around
Immune to rattlesnake venom, as I recall.
Philly girl is fuckin’ smokin’. Damn. Bunk, already been, but adding a face.
Group and one-on-one therapy went really well. I was in a bubbly, excited mood. I am much recovered, in many ways, and it’s bilateral terrific news since I saw her several weeks ago. I also kinda-sorta-pretty much got every look-and-feel that my (same-ish age) therapist will be having sensual thoughts about me later this eve. Body language and mainly eyes and smiles. Evan notices. Glad good news continues. (Not w her. I’ve got weird enough mental romantic chess going on in my head to add another.)
Femur follow up is on Oct. 4 to get my work release. It quite nicely fits in with where I’ll realistically be by then. Good soonish box to keep filling. (I already checked the damn box! I have it! It’s just empty, lying there after I got paid.)
I’m rather liking this part of the journey. A couple more weeks with a crutch is a good way to externally keep in a lower gear. Vis a vis the process, the drive being internal quite helps.
Dude. Stop. You seem to be trading one feel-good substance for another, and now your therapist has eyes for you? I highly doubt that. Concentrate on straightening yourself out without the shrooms, MJ, alcohol, and fantasies of pretty therapists.
She was the professional version bubbly and giggly as well. I was feeling positive and ya see what ya want or whatever. None of that has any effect on our session, our professional relationship, or anything else. Perhaps ‘she thinks I’m interesting’ is as far as I would go. I am that in general over here and I suppose everywhere.
Meh. Look for the smiley faces in headlights. Just a bit of punctuation to brighten a day. Fun to always see the bright, positive side of things. That goes for everyday stuff as well as things when one really is feeling down.
Life is fun.
Hypomania?
Having fantasies of pretty women sounds perfectly normal.
Thank you. And it wasn’t even that.
What Mojeaux said.
Right here.
Agreed.
*quizzical face* Finding fun little things is how I DO straighten myself out. I love the clarity of thought and sharpness I have now. That’s why this process is internal and not people waving their finger at me to do something.
See also the mushroom thing. I’ve done them ~40 times running on nearly 20 years. I have made it a bit of a thing before big life changes. Going to Korea for the first time (and most thereafter), starting new jobs, other countries and life changes, etc. I bought them months ago, mostly in advance for this trip. The rest was for microdose trials. I’ve had these sitting in a bag w booze, w/o, it just isn’t that type of drug. It just ain’t. I fucking never want to trip right after I go on one. Hella valuable and spectacular experiences, but just like therapy sessions, much to process before you dive into another one.
Set and setting are primary. My mindset is all in line with the inward focus on where I was and how I got here, to this point of rebirth. Friday happens to be the fourth anniversary of The Incident, so moons align for that deep conversation with myself. I have everything I need in my habitat, including my food run, to ensure I won’t need to travel. I’ve moved my sleeping quarters so I don’t have to use stairs.
The theme is pretty much “Don’t hustle, ev.” Good to think things over and through. This is a shamanistic way to approach that internal conversation. It’s a Big Event thing. Time to process everything before you take that next step, for me, fulling going into a full-time life in America for the first time after internally focusing on a healthier life, with stability and structure that promotes the present and leads towards brighter futures.
The focus on that newfound upward direction, with structured and stable steps, is pretty much what we all want. Or to take the time to truly enjoy it if ya got it. We drive different roads to get there in our uniquely kooky little cars our brains drive.
I’m surprised that your family has left you alone for several days.
Today is their first day away. They were insistent upon my finding contact and come-check-on-ev folk with my outpatient, which I did.
They are in touch and there will be random check-ins with them. I am not concerned. Will be a fun break to talk to someone, therapy or not. I’m not concerned. If you don’t lie ya never have to remember. And I’m not doing anything that needs hiding, other than federal weed laws, natch.
“ID that snek”
I think evil sheldon is the herpetologist. Fortunately, the head looks oval and not triangular.
Having a nice little thunderstorm here. Not much rain, but noisy. now here comes the rain.
Stay safe; watch out for falling F-35s
I lol’d.
Schedule change
Lisa Brankin, chair of Ford UK — which has committed to making the U.K. its European electric vehicle component manufacturing hub — said the 2030 target was a “vital catalyst to accelerate Ford into a cleaner future.”
“Our business needs three things from the UK government: ambition, commitment and consistency. A relaxation of 2030 would undermine all three,” Brankin said.
“We need the policy focus trained on bolstering the EV market in the short term and supporting consumers while headwinds are strong: infrastructure remains immature, tariffs loom and cost-of-living is high.”
Without the government holding a gun to their heads, people won’t buy this crap.
Don’t need help identifying this KC 135 Stratotanker just to the south of me at 4000 feet
https://ibb.co/yR4qLqb
I was driving along and a big fat plane took off from the small airport and I swear that fucker was just hanging in the air going nowhere. I know it was an optical illusion based on the relative speeds it and I were traveling, but still creepy as fuck.
I’ve seen a bunch of videos with that illusion but never saw it in person
Wish I had dash cam.
The C-5 Galaxy is like that. The thing is so huge that it looks like it is just hanging in the air.
Our house in the Azores was aside the flight path. I watched scores of them on the way to the Middle East for Operation Nickelgrass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nickel_Grass
Compare and contrast
*sigh*
Oh, Biden. Is there no limit to your buffoonery?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqRVwB7qeUI
He almost knocks over the Brazilian flag, then, while the Brazilian president is speaking in English, Biden struggles to set-up the translator ear-piece gizmo.
He also made the sign of the cross at the PM of Israel.
ROOKE: Deion Sanders Epitomizes The Revival America Needs Right Now In Young Men OPINION
I’m kind of intrigued with this. And apparently I’m not alone since the money to hire the guy was donated by supporters.
This one’s for Swiss.
Please, thank you, excuse me, yes sir/ma’am, good morning, etc…
All words I have heard there days in a row. Good people still exist in this country.
“Bless your heart”? 😉
If you haven’t seen Dave Portnoy dismantle a WaPo reporter who was writing a hit piece on him and trying to scare off his event sponsors, you should.
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1704574353415823411
He makes a good frozen pizza.
Totino’s party pizzas or GTFO.
They don’t make any with pineapple.
Yeah…I’m gonna GTFO. Floor sweepings on cardboard is not pizza.
It’s worth listening to. If that woman isn’t a psychopath, I’m going to be very surprised.
Her letter was sent with malice, and he should sue. People should start suing when newspapers are stupid enough to pronounce them racist.
The way she dances around his questions is remarkable. She absolutely refuses to be pinned down on what is obvious, she intended to get his sponsor to drop him and then she would use that fact to question him about why his sponsors are dropping him.
And she would have not carried any personal risk while ruining careers and business relationships. It is purely destruction for her benefit. She should have been a politician.
Politician = Psychopath. And what she did was worthy of a lawsuit.
Definitely psycho.
Sue the cunt.
Philly is just catching up with the rest of the world. When Mrs. Prole and I were in Rime a while ago, we learned to rate the importance of one of the ubiquitous cathedrals by how heavily armed it was guarded. A Three Machine Gun Basilica was a moderately famous one. You’d really want to check out a Seven Gun Cathedral – guaranteed to be gorgeous inside.