Once upon a gridiron, in a land where the improbable was just another Tuesday, a peculiar man named OMWC found a golden ticket glistening on his doorstep. This wasn’t the Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory golden ticket, oh no. This was the NFL golden ticket, granting its bearer access to the… Browns game. (Why the Browns, nobody knows, but the universe has a strange sense of humour.)
Just as he was contemplating the alien artefact (the ticket, stay with me here), a shadow loomed over him. It was his gal, a woman with an air of invincibility. The woman we shall all know hence forth as Tomb Raider.
As unlikely of a pair this website has ever seen, Tomb Raider is a perplexing woman. She’s more than progressive enough to balance out OMWCs less than proggy positions. But she is as wiley as she is progressive. She is a woman who can’t be tied down. And OMWC would know. He tried! But she was all greased up and just wriggled out of the ropes. Like any tomb raider worthy of their moniker, escaping tight situations is a bit of a speciality.
While skilled in the art of escape, Tomb Raider is less than skilled in the art of football. She confided to OMWC last night that til this weekend she thought a quarterback was a refund policy, and the end zone was a mystical place guarded by ancient spirits.
But, as fate would have it, the stars had aligned, or misaligned depending on your perspective, and today they are off to a Browns game.
Will they be chanting incantations? Will they be in the stands doing an intricate dance that would make the ancients proud? Will they be named mascots of the match? It has yet to be seen.
In other news…I am coming into ownership of my father’s house. It’s a small place in the woods, more of a cabin really. 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom. But it sits on 4 acres of land, and 2 of them are already fenced in. The dogs are in LOVE. My Dad replaced the windows and the roof before he passed, but he didn’t get around to doing the ceilings which are heavily water damaged. Since the house has sat unoccupied for gone on a year now, the carpet is disgusting, and there’s a smell of mould in the air.
I did a water test yesterday as the well water has a yellow hue to it. All the water tests have come back OK. The well is on the high end of alkalinity, and the pH is slightly too low. But this is all done before I’ve put any filters or softeners on the line, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Happily, it doesn’t need to be shocked. Win!
I went up there today to start doing some work, and delightfully I learned the walls are salvageable. They’re lauan panelling, and my wicked step-mother filled in all the lines with joint compound and then applied wallpaper. Happily, it’s just peeling right off. A quick refinish on the walls in the main living area, and I should be good to go.
My other happy discovery today is that the kitchen cabinets are solid wood. None of this manufactured particle board crap. So, while they’re hideous, they’ll simply be getting a facelift.
Earlier this week I scored a killer deal on waterproof laminate flooring for as low as 78¢ per square foot. I have 1200 square feet of carpeting to replace, and Gods willing, I’ll be starting on that next weekend.
And now, for the links.
Bob Villa’s recommended drywall alternatives
How to replace a disposal splash guard
Apparently the iPhone 15 is overheating.
The propagandists are saying it’s a seller’s market. I’ve got some strong opinions about this, largely about how the mortgage rates right now swayed my decision to buy Dad’s place instead of the one I had my heart set on.
FTX customers are set to testify against SBF
No more upgrading your Windows if you’re still on 7
I have OMWCs dog and my dog right now. This is what they did Friday night. Every 20 minutes. I got zero sleep. I am a cranky webdom.
I do not know how its a sellers market.
The development that is trying to sell @ 40K/acre (5-7 AC parcels) hasnt sold one unit.
Neighbor 1/4 mile down the road. 10Ac house for 1.0 million has not moved at all.
Not sure it’s anyone’s market really. We were able to knock down 15k off the house we just bought. Trade off of course is the interest rate we have.
It’s not a sellers market. The last six lots in our housing development have been sitting there untouched — the builders aren’t going to start a spec house that won’t sell.
Its a little odd – in our neighborhood stuff keeps moving. An empty lot sold and a new house being built on a different one – another house the same model as mine a couple blocks away sold a few days after going on the market but a few others a little further down the road don’t seem to be moving – maybe due to a busier street (comparatively speaking), etc.
You are talking about property on a Res, aren’t you? That alone would be enough to keep me out even if they were selling for a penny on the dollar.
Why is that?
The law, as you know it, does not exist there.
It’s not a Browns game, it’s a Ravens game.
And actually, I’m going with Nephilium. Who I will mock mercilessly.
It’s a Browns game. We’ll be in the Dawg Pound.
I will refrain from the Dawg Pound tradition of bringing in airplane bottles of liquor to drink when the Browns get a touchdown. I wouldn’t want you celebrating with the enemies 🙂
The eternal, misplaced optimism of Browns fans is really kind of touching.
Hope spring eternally, even in Fall.
Here we go Brownies, here we go!
The country remix version…
Of course OMWC is taking you someplace with a lot of Brownies…. Girl Scouts are getting on in years…
Good morning, WebDom, ‘bodru, OBE, prole, Old Man, and Mr. Ilium!
WebDom, congrats and good luck with the cabin in the woods! Sounds like my dream house…except for the water damage, of course.
OBE, glad you made it to this neck of the woods in time for what seems to me to be an unseasonably warm and pleasant early autumn!
And, of course, go Browns! 😉
Always be careful of basements when you’re at the Cabin in the Woods.
Of course! Everyone should know that by now.
You could always do the Peckerwood Wiggle
That is not much of a euphemism.
You just need to be prepared.
Sometimes, nothing would prepare you for the madness hidden there.
Ma cabane au Canada 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23nrq5RBMnk
Hopefully it’ll be pulled together by the next time y’all are out this way. It’s a great place for a little shindig around a bonfire.
😃👍
Web Dom, stained hardwood plywood worked our great in my new garage. However, there are code restrictions on flammable wall covering materials in living spaces in a lot of places.
Ooh. Thanks for the tip. I’ll check with the codes.
Random note…used to use photo bucket but are there any recommended anonymous free sites for uploading pics? I see some folks here with amazon(?) links? May just post some stuff to my Twitter and link but thinking more about general use alternatives.
UCS – do you post your miniature projects on IG or anything like that?
I don’t post a lot of pics but Imgur works ok for me
Imgbb
Second imgbb; I like that you can set things to expire.
That’s what I use…when I can remember the damn name of it.
I’ve been using Deviantart because Ihad an account there since ages of yore.
I don’t recommend it.
Govt shutdown is always a mixed bag for me. OTOH I’m a contractor and our contract is fully funded regardless so I get paid – and I want govt to cut spending, etc. OTOH I work with a lot of active duty folks and I know what it’s like being on deployment and not getting paid and wondering how you’ll handle autobilling while you’re stuck on a ship with minimal connectivity. Also still waiting to hear about annual billets I applied for months ago that still haven’t had funding released due to delays – so not certain what kind of timeline they’ll have once they open. At least my next reserve order block is currently covered in this window.
On Tuesday I accidentally excelled at giving the company board of directors a tour of the new capacitor bank we are building and how it works, what we are hoping to get out of it, and what the path forward looks like.
So now I am on the hook to meet with various Congresscritters over the next month. No good deed…Anyway, I got an email from company leadership that those meetings won’t happen if there’s a govt shutdown.
I haz a disappoint…😂🤣👌
Barring stupid fire alarm stories that makes Congress look less mature than a clique of 8 year old girls, it looks like they decided to fund themselves some more again.
Unless you meant you haz a disappoint that you’ll have to meet with the Congresscritters. 😉
I was looking forward to some time without hearing from the one annoying government employee I have to deal with.
I always got a kick out of Carson when a bit was bombing. Watching him react was hilarious.
Watching the Euros kick USA butt in the Ryder Cup. Maybe some better player selection next year as the bury the LIV / PGA beef.
Holy cow. It’s 45 degrees outside and I have one jacket at work and one at bestie’s hotel. Guess it will be a chilly one for me this morning!!
Winter is coming. There are things I need to do. How long can I put them off?
It’ll be 80 hear today. Fall seems to be visiting other places first.
In Tucson, you put off things you need to do outside until the winter.
Aren’t they going to put Feinstein’s wizened cadaver in display in the Capitol?
It seems that the only people celebrating her life, albeit insincere celebration, are other pols. Regular folks all seem to be celebrating her death.
Have I pointed out before that everyone gets a chance to make the world a better place? She finally got hers.
Only if they figure out how to pin her death on Orange.
The laundromat on Sunday morning is a happening place.
Sunday is laundry day. It is known.
I cheated by doing most of the clothes yesterday, but I’ll fulfill my duty by doing non-clothes loads today.
I haven’t done the laundromat in a long time, but the wife goes in for surgery tomorrow and all the bedding has to be clean.
Ah, yes! Always safest to do the big bulky comforter/quilt in the extra large washer.
Hope all goes as well as possible with her surgery and she has a quick comfortable recovery! Please keep us posted as you’re able!
Hope her surgery goes well. Mine is scheduled for 7AM tomorrow.
Best of luck, ‘patzie!! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Best wishes to you and Robonerherder’s wife.
*hears dryer running*
Yeup.
After McCarthy backdoored Ukraine funding last night, Gaetz is flooring a motion to unseat him.
If only Ukrainian funding has been truly backdoored. As it stands, American taxpayers are the ones taking it up the ass.
This is beautifully funny on different levels.
Peak funny for me is the Godzilla meme, because I read it in STEVE SMITHS voice.
I’m not sure what to think of that; I might have a condition.
Ukraine is determined to self-immolate.
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1708315472771559473
Their choice. But we don’t have to enable them.
I like your story of OMWC and Tomb Raider.
Best wishes on the cabin. It sounds like it’ll be a great place once you’re done.
Thanks! To say I’m overwhelmed would be an understatement lol
SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
“Time and time and time again, House Democrats have had to come to the rescue and push back against the extremists,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York told reporters. “When we read the four corners of the agreement it was clear to us that this spending bill was a complete and total victory for the American people and a total defeat for the extreme MAGA Republicans.”
Once more the nation has been saved from wholesale death and destruction at the hands of extremist right wing Republicans who want to dismantle every last trace of common sense governance.
Democrats initially blasted the last-minute legislation, saying they were blindsided by McCarthy holding an immediate vote on a 71-page bill they hadn’t read. They didn’t trust him to write a “clean” bill and worried there might be something tucked in there that they wouldn’t like.
That’s unheard of. Who would do such a thing?
Read the bill? Congress reads the bills it passes like we read the links.
“USA – We call it Fall because leaf fall down.”
Some Slavic languages have a month of Listopad which means leaf fall. I think it’s November.
Ok, that’s fantastic. I looked it up. It apparently varies based on the language. In some it’s October, in others it’s November. Thanks for the rabbit hole!
The well is on the high end of alkalinity, and the pH is slightly too low.
🤔
Wait… https://youtu.be/Cvy7MWjfVPE?si=yUIulq0JN6Gse2aP
Sleep was in 2 hour segments last night. But the puppy went outside and not in the house (first one was a freebie for her). Not really eating the kibble that she was supposedly eating at her litter home. Chalking it up to transition right now. Chicken is being grilled today so will just boil a chunk if the appetite isn’t there for the pellet feed.
October, the most Hebrew of months in Japan: Jew-月.
I got about 4 hours of sleep, none of it good. About 2 weeks ago I had run out of my ADHD med and couldn’t get more because of the shortage, so I just didn’t take it. Didn’t feel the effects at first, then started getting very sleepy during the day and more irritable than usual and started having confusion and not knowing where to start my work. Finally got it back in stock and took one yesterday MORNING. I wasn’t fidgety or anything, but damn, even with loads of Tylenol PM, I couldn’t even start to get sleepy until 5 a.m. So now I tired and wired, but not sleepy. I didn’t take one this morning. I think I will not take them on the weekends.
Fucking loans- how do they work?
Tens of millions of Americans with federal student loan debt have had a financial reprieve for more than three years as a pandemic-era repayment pause was extended multiple times since March 2020.
Now many face a new reality on Sunday, Oct. 1, when they are due to resume making payments, all while struggling with nagging inflation and rising interest rates.
More than 45 million borrowers together owe approximately $1.6 trillion, according to President Joe Biden’s administration, which tried to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for tens of millions of eligible borrowers, only to have the Supreme Court kill the program in June.
Advocates have long considered student loans a financial albatross weighing down the middle class, preventing upward mobility and exacerbating racial disparities, especially for Black borrowers.
To get a better understanding of how borrowers are preparing for the resumption of payments, NBC News asked people across the country what kind of trade-offs they’ll have to make to make ends meet. Six people shared plans to leave the career they went to school for, take on additional debt, spend down savings or cut back on leisure activities, among other sacrifices.
They should just order more checks, and get another credit card or two.
Six people shared plans to leave the career they went to school for
That makes no sense unless the plan is a winning lottery ticket.
If they can make more money in a career they didn’t get a degree for, I’d say they made a very poor choice to go to school.
*made a very poor choice to go to school….if money was so tight for them. I have no problem with people “following their passion” and getting whatever degree they want. But if it’s in a field that pays shit, I don’t want to hear your bitching. And I damn sure don’t want to pay off your loan for you.
Exactly. Or it’s a degree, any degree, just to meet the credentialism of your company/field. See mid level NCO civilian education.
This damn well better hold true for the next few weeks. I just made a plan to build my niece a PC for her birthday and plan on using an old Windows 7 version I have to install and upgrade the OS. I just was asking my brother on Friday if he knew if the upgrade policy was still in place.
From the ded thred, Suthen mentioned about AI unnatural narration on YouTube. My pet peeve is the phony commercials.I used to think it was just Chinese but maybe Chinese AI is it. They all have a text to speech robo voice, the background is just generic clip video stitched together, and the language is totally unnatural. “This former NASA space engineer knew he needed to find a solution so that his elderly beloved parents could make their live easier. Using all of his Johnson Space Center training, he set out to identify the best shape for drinking water. After much trial and error, he was able to find a perfect solution to the problem and then developed it into a commercial product so that everyone could take advantage of his amazing discovery…”
It’s raining.
My pet peeve is the phony commercials.I used to think it was just Chinese but maybe Chinese AI is it. They all have a text to speech robo voice, the background is just generic clip video stitched together, and the language is totally unnatural. “This former NASA space engineer knew he needed to find a solution so that his elderly beloved parents could make their live easier. Using all of his Johnson Space Center training, he set out to identify the best shape for drinking water. After much trial and error, he was able to find a perfect solution to the problem and then developed it into a commercial product so that everyone could take advantage of his amazing discovery…”
I have gotten sucked in a couple of times by those “breakthrough” in this or that clickbait ads (What if there really is a way to stimulate and revive damaged nerves? Yeah, I know…).
And then they go into a teaser loop where it says the same thing over and over without any additional info. It makes me wonder what they’re trying to load onto my computer.
Some remodeling music for WebDom