Obviously, this predates the snow. It’s been too cold lately to take the gloves off and get the phone to work.
Ok, so there are some contradictory signs going on here. Midweek we get the truly excellent alignment of Venus and Jupiter with the Sun. That’s a nearly impossible happening to read a bad omen into, and it’s also hard to improve without adding potential downsides. But then the very next day we’ve got four planets showing disorder and violence. If Jupiter retrograde was present, this would be the sign for civil war. But it’s not so it’s not. Fortunately, that alignment only lasts a day, whereas the good sign continues on until next week.
Capricorn: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
Aquarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will
Pisces: Justice reversed – Injustice
Aries: 3 of Wands reversed – The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.
Taurus: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Gemini: 2 of Cups reversed – Broken promises, fights among friends, something good ending badly
Cancer: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury.
Leo: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Virgo: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.
Libra: King of Wands reversed – Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.
Scorpio: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Sagittarius: King of Swords – Judgment, power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law.
Virgo: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies
One Sunday morning does not a campaign make! – Ronald Dion de Santis
Aquarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will
Coming in second is coming in first! – Nimarata Nikki Haley
‘it’s a two man race’ (after she clinches 3rd)
I go back and forth on how she’ll do here in NH on Tuesday.
I used to think that because of Sununu, that she’ll clinch third again. But, I see really nothing from DeSantis this last week.
We’ll see soon enough.
I think she’s a shoe in for second this time. For some reason Desantis had never pulled well in NH.
enter Fat Lady, stage left
all you hoping for Secretary of Transportation can fuck right off
Nice dog videos.
Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Sufficiently shitty.
Jeez, I may just take a nap all week.
And pass up an opportunity to pillage? These things don’t come along every day.
I recommend a nice non-profit or NGO. Soft targets.
cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment
Hmm, I retired last June.
Sagittarius: King of Swords – Judgment, power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law.
I’ll keep my head down.
Project! I need a project!
knitting?
That’s crochet, but no. cross stitching.
Damn! That looks quite complex.
My wife is getting back into it but is struggling with getting over that initial start. Also knitting. And quilting.
Maybe this will inspire. She should browse the new offerings if she’s been out of it for a while. Tons of cute stuff on Etsy and here My Bobbin. The Russian and Ukrainian designers are fantastic.
Let me know if she’d like a list of the Etsy shops I frequent and I’ll give you my email address.
Thank you! I think she’s good for now, just the doing it part.
‘just the doing it part.’
My wife had the same problem.
So…more doom & gloom?
At this point, I think it’s obvious you were switched with someone with a different birthday.
austere, yet tolerant
Generator is running as I type.
Well then, you’d better go catch it.
Leo: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
I have not partaken of any roguery, vice and pillage in awhile – this could be an interesting week.
Paging Elizabeth Warren
It’s tough to say how buy now, pay later fits into the country’s overall debt picture. Providers that offer the service don’t typically disclose how often those bills go unpaid, and the debts aren’t reported to credit bureaus. Klarna, PayPal and Affirm all declined to share buy now, pay later delinquency rates with CNBC.
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The opacity surrounding the novel service has created a so-called phantom debt phenomenon that has left economists, regulators and even shoppers concerned about the effect it could have on the economy.
“It’s just this nebulous cloud of debt. Nobody really knows how it works and it’s just floating around us all the time and it definitely feels like a pending housing crisis, almost like 2008 but for shopping,” Andersen joked. “That’s the myth that Klarna and PayPal sell you on, is that you can have this lifestyle, you can have these things, but the truth is, you can’t.”
A very thinly veiled appeal for regulation, to save these dopey schmoes from themselves. It’s for their own good. The credit card monopoly couldn’t be behind it. Definitely not.
“That’s the myth that Klarna and PayPal sell you on, is that you can have this lifestyle, you can have these things, but the truth is, you can’t.”
You can only do that if you’re the government and can inflate your debt away.
But aren’t “we the government?”. That’s what I learned in Social Studies.
“Novel” service.
Sure, Jan.
I still remember my(black) fifth grade English teacher making fun of people buying things on layaway.
It’s tough to say. Impossible to predict. A real Sherlock Holmes level mystery.
Virgo: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.
Considering I just learned that my project in Cali this week postponed….checks out.
I finished the fifth AiArt article, and I think I’m going to take a break – and it’s not because I need to do more research… oh wait, it is.
You’re a machine.
Just wait until you see the low quality of the work.
More proof!
I decided to prioritize washing dishes over showering, since I’ve already run my errands for the day, out in public like a filthy hobo. Gotta wait for the hot water to refill.
TANKLESS WATER HEATER, PLEASE
Yeah. Those are fantastic. Is it an option for you?
I hope so – lots of RVs have them. I’m going to ask the RV repair guy about it. I think it’ll be about a grand. WORTH IT
It’s worth it for 2 grand.
We’re under a boil water warning: keep a few gallons going on the stove.
Lots of marginal installations here freeze and burst, so half the flow in town now is going to leaks.
JFC
that’s the way it is at this latitude….choices
spend more on plumbing repair and property losses than insulation and heat-tracing would have cost
spend more on tree-trimming and rewiring after ice storms than putting electrical under ground would have cost
spend more on wrecks than snow removal and salt would have cost
choices
But it only gets that cold once a year. 😉
We are all gonna die!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/20/fascism-is-everywhere-on-the-march-and-its-trump-who-sets-the-pace
Too fucking funny
I thought the link name was a joke, until I saw the grauniad.
Not clicking.
It was so full of lies and stretches and twisted, I laughed all the way through,
Cheers!
It’s fun when people use words they have no idea the meaning of.
Of course it’s the left. They could be using it as a deliberate deception. They are, after all, nothing if not mendacious.
“Trump sets the pace”. Objectively true. Paces can be fast or slow. Both parties and their chiefs set the pace of fascism in the U.S. Trump’s pace, if we can believe him, will be a bit slower. If (when?) He wins he will be the pace setter.
As for the R primaries everyone but Trump is angling for an admin position or in it for the donations. That Trump has the nomination is a foregone conclusion.
Agreed, it’s a joke to watch it for anything other than entertainment.
I don’t understand the rich guys who waste money giving to these stooges. Insurance I guess?
Hoping to get what you pay for
“I’m not paying for a landslide” – Joe Kennedy
Actually it’s democracy, 51% get to try to live off the remaining 49%. It works if you ignore that 34T bill out there
Trump is the same age as Biden and confused Pelosi and Haley. You bet you your ass it’s insurance.
So DeSantis drops out?
I feel like I should be surprised but Im not for some reason.
So Nikki moves into 2nd place. Her big chance coming up in a couple days. Now neither Nikki or Donnie will have to prepare for debates.
We won’t DeSantis to kick around anymore.
Haley is all in on pointless fake wars so the establishment desperately wants her. Trump should have no problem mopping the floor with her cute ass on that alone.
If Trump was a little smarter he would have kept Desantis in a little longer.
A lot of their base is the same, but I do don’t what eat good primary voters will break.
“A lot of their base is the same, but I do don’t what eat good primary voters will break.”
That’s some class A authentic frontier gibberish.
What I meant was:
A lot of their base (Desantis and Trump) is the same, but I do wonder what way Desantis’s primary voters will break.”
Meh, I just figured you were drunk.
I wish, just autocorrected. To nonsense.
Yep
I’m going to sit the primary out.
I’m registered undeclared so I could so something like switch to Democrat and vote Vermin Supreme, but that takes time and I’m not going to take the time to do it.
Is the guy still alive? Or a write-in?
He’s still alive and is on the ballot for the Democrat primary.
Not voting for Paperboy Love Prince? Racist!!!!!!
Problem is, all the Democrats have nothing better to do than go vote for Icky Nikki.
you’re correct to hate Nikki
but there is no correct answer before us
Only those registered undeclared can reregister at the polls as a party taking part in the primary.
If they’re already registered Democrat, the deadline to switch party registration for the presidential primary was in October.
Correct me if I am wrong, but due to D fuck ups, Biden isn’t on the ballot, and they have to write him in. But, if they cross register to vote for Nikki, they can’t write him in, no?
Quite the conundrum.
The DNC wanted to change the order of primaries and caucuses. Officially the reason is to have more “diverse” states early on in the process, but I think the real reason is Biden did poorly in early primaries/caucuses like Iowa and New Hampshire. They pushed a rule change down on order of primaries and caucuses.
Iowa Democrats and the DNC came up with a compromise: Iowa holds its caucus on the regular day, but only for voting on party business. Determining the nominee is done through mail-in voting which ends sometime in March. I think Biden is one of the options in Iowa.
New Hampshire has a primary which state law states must be held before any other states’ primaries. The legislature would not change the law, so the NH primary goes on as planned. The DNC will not recognize any delegates from NH. The DNC will penalize any candidate which is on the ballot in NH and/or campaigns in NH.
Biden is not on the NH Democrat primary ballot and has not set foot in NH since the DNC announced the rule changes.
There are a group of Democrats that think if Biden doesn’t win the NH primary, then that would look bad in the press. They’re running a write-in campaign for him. The most prominent Democrat politician involved is MA Governor Maura Healey. I think these people are wrong: The press outside of NH won’t cover the NH Democratic primary at all. So it doesn’t matter. Biden isn’t involved in this campaign, so the DNC won’t penalize him.
I am not surprised because he is objectively better than Donald or Nikki on any measure I can think of.
I think that’s true.
Sad to see his exit. I think in the postmortem it will be obvious that he should have waited 4 years. But then, his polling was good, until Trump was indicted 57 times by the Democrats, which only supercharged Trump.
A part of the GOP establishment was behind DeSantis. Also, pretending that the 2020 Presidential election was fair and free is not a minor thing. DeSantis was too dependent on his donors. Once he expressed an opinion that the war in Ukraine was not important for the USA, just a border conflict on the other side of the globe. It enraged one of his mega-donors and DeSantis adjusted his position in just a couple of days. And then he signed a hate crime/speech law in Israel. WTF?
Ev is a bit more stable now. But still floating in uncertainty.
It’s an odd existence, mine. Tomorrow is going to suck, and fingers crossed it sucks as little as possible.
You haven’t even gotten to tomorrow yet. Declaring it sucks already is defeatist.
Just looking at my schedule. I sent my formal letter of complaint to Outpatient on Friday. No reply yet. So a 6:pre-scheduled 9-10 appt with my ‘Case Coordinator’ and we’ll go over it. Then I have Group from 10-11:30. Then work from 1:45-6:15 or so. It’s just going to be an emotional day.
I’m not worried, really. Just several Game Faces to wear and goals to accomplish, juggling my emotions across a psychological tightrope. I’m prepared for it. I just hate waiting on-deck. When I get in, I’m good to go. Sitting there, twisting my bat (these euphemisms are getting more athletic) gets my neurotransmitters aflutter. That brings out fun symptoms.
I feel better at least, and I know I’ll be fine. But just put me in, coach. Idle hands, waitin’ on the bench, ain’t no good for me. I’m less of a wreck than I was. Plus me.
A shower was taken
+1 cleanliness
The kitchen faucet will be on full trickle tonight (last night of below freezing for a while)
Good idea.
I know you feel better. I had to wait 4 days for a shower. I felt like a new man.
Pics or it never happened.
Hawt.
Good. I could smell your stank ass on the zoom last night.
Yeah likewise, Grizzly Lebowski
Where did you take it?
Can anyone name one thing we have gotten out of the fake wars of the last 20 years? I mean other than scars and fitting our children for coffins or artificial arms and legs. The establishment is backing Haley because she agreed to be a war monger.
I think there is a sunk cost phenomena going on about that. People are afraid to admit that their family members were sacrificed for nothing. They cant face it so they lie to themselves about superficial patriotism and heroism.
Trump could shoot Nikki down with that alone. Well, the first part anyone. He should keep his mouth shut about the second part.
Depends on whether “we” includes military contractors.
I should have been more specific. That is what I was getting at.
All that is fair enough.
But where does war mongering fit in the pantheon of issues?
Suppose we throw some things out there
* size of government
* size of debt / value of the currency
* property rights
* expression rights
* preservation rights (defense of person, right to carry, etc)
* abortion
Don’t most of the candidates disqualify themselves on one of these?
It is well and good to hold Haley to account, but what is our priority and who fills that bill?
I’m not a Dave Smith clone who thinks war is the biggest possible issue.
Sure, it’s evil and a waste of money, but in the end they are foreigners and volunteers involved. The foreigners I will admit to carrying less about and the volunteers signed up for it.
Size of government has to be the single biggest issue because it informs all the rest. No one is good on it.
What’s worse is nobody votes on that.
Average Republican voter response: U S A!!! U S A!!! U S A!!! U S A!!!
https://babylonbee.com/news/we-would-prefer-if-3000-babies-werent-murdered-every-day-says-crowd-of-deranged-extremists
Lack: You are correct. Cutting the nuts off of the Leviathan would go a long way to stopping the other evils it perpetrates.
You are anti war now? What caused this?
I was never pro-war. There are actions we should have taken but never the ones we did.
Anyone else lose coverage of the Bucs/Lions game, or is it just my local NBC affiliate? Other cable channels are fine.
(And no, I don’t need the Cal score, but thanks anyway!)
Not watching it. The season ended last night.
Nope, it’s on for me.
Damn weekend interns. “What does this switch do?” 😒
The good news is that I’m almost done with the first half of a long-neglected crochet project.
I’m still dealing with Christmas Crap™ (“bad” food), so I’m going to make a cheese danish with the leftover ingredients. Otherwise I’m stitching and reading Reddit.
Re: How I would impress Taylor Swift.
I attract talent. We have much in common. Global travelers, performing musicians, athletic, medical curiosities, cute… She’d be intrigued, one way or another…
^^ Didn’t fully edit that. That reads creepy-as-fuck. Not my intention! My charm and character would intrigue her in some manner. Reads like I’m legit date-raping her.
*Hangs head in shame. * Bad, Ev. BAD!
Fwiw, I didn’t get a rapey vibe, but I’ll leave it up to the ladies to pronounce your sentence.
Creepy, no. Bewildering, yes.
Poor Tay Tay! Settling for an NFL player with two Super Bowl rings and multiple commercial endorsement contracts. If only she knew! 🙄
Psh. I’m Wolverine. Who can drum. Who’s semi cute and still fit and athletic. Seen the world.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I attract talent. (Keeping it…ev be bad.) Her work ethic and equal determination would be good for m̶e̶ us. *Hangs head in joking shame. Pebble kicked.*
LOL. OK, dude.
Aaaaand the back (or front?) of a crocheted tank top is done! Now all I have to do is do the same thing all over again! 🧶🙄
It’s back! 😃
Game. DAMN good Distraction Dust to sprinkle. Feels like Jan 3. I just need my 15-20 min. Halftime will be a lovely stream to float along. No rocks. Just me in bed.
Note: I was a competing gymnast for about 10 years growing up. This just in (to me): Olivia Dunne. Um. DAMN. I’ll join her in my bunk.
“Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss”
So, another week of (part-time) lawyering. Presumably, the considerable loss is on someone else’s books, because that’s how lawyering rolls.
I may just decide to move to an ice-free part of America, or elsewhere in the world. Fucking shit has taken me off my feet twice this weekend.
A number of years ago, around this time of year, I took my neighbors some cupcakes.
Slipped in the driveway and broke 3 ribs.
See what being nice does ?
No good deed goes unpunished.
That was Fri afternoon – shoveled the walk, steps and deck for a neighbor, came back down the steps and whooosh. Today was taking out our trash – black ice on the driveway.
Better watch that shit. You can sustain very serious injury from that nonsense. Ask me how I know.
Ask Fourscore.
Dont take chances.
If you go through life without a few broken bones and a lopped off digit or two have you really lived?
Half of my weight is scar tissue. You would be proud of me. I have been shot, stabbed, snake bit, had the shit beaten out of me and gnawed on by every critter you can imagine. Well, almost. I managed to avoid lions, tigers and bears….so far. Somewhere around here I have a small bull shark’s tooth I pulled out of my left foot.
I plan on sliding into the gates of hell late for the appt. ragged as hell, freshly screwed, and slightly drunk.
Yeah, happily (haA!) this is just bruises. Last two days wind’s been blowing like a thousand dollar whore, and the snow that came down was powder – so anything you shoveled once, you shoveled a couple of more times. We’ll be going down to Florida next month and I am really looking forward to that.
I walk slowly and carry a big stick. My walking stick is a big bladed ice scraper that bites in to the ice. Falling down is not an option, at least not a voluntary one, particularly on ice. I hold on to everything available.
Damn it, you guys/gals, be extra careful, we need each and every Glib, healthy, hopefully wealthy and already wise.
Yeah, trash day was during our local snowpocalypse, so ZWAK did jack. We have a big can, it can stay out back another week.
Draw a line across Florida from Sarasota to Vero Beach. Nice winter sanctuary. Wish I had bought a condo there when prices crashed in ’09.
You misspelled ‘money pit’.
Probably why I didn’t buy, but during cold snaps up north, it might be worth it.
Okay, I did the research and got the Sixth AI Art Article in.
I am at a good break point where I’ve covered the basics from a user perspective.
I don’t need no stinking interpretation of planets and stars; Hayek’s getting laid!
Hmph, that’s not what I got out of that.
You’re not attuned to the stars like HS is.
Alaska Airlines. Still bette than Spirit.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/snl-pokes-fun-at-alaska-airlines-following-midair-blowout/
I love Tom Woods. Have I mentioned? I will whip that man’s backlist into shape if it kills me.
I am a big fan of Tom Woods. His last show with Scott Horton who is a photographical memory hole of all evils done by warmongering shit bags was great.
I enjoyed my time on his show, and I also enjoy him as a client. Very easygoing.
I’m not sure what is more disturbing the sweat or the t shirt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/18wasaj/why_do_i_sweat_like_this/
WTF is up with the English (mirrored) and the single Japanese word for “genius” on the shirt?
My first thought was Blofeld’s cat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/18yrbr2/its_mine_meow/
Hmmmph. Shitty server? The reddit stuff doesnt want to load for me.
Chill AF
Comments are good too. “Come in and close the door…”
So Jugsy had a birthday a couple days ago. Im making her oft-requested cake: the standard issue chocolate cake recipe on the back of Hershey’s cocoa.
Fun fact- Grandma Tres has (had- shes dead) that identical recipe hand-written in what I guess was 1920 or so. The difference is that her’s calls for “scalded milk”.
Anyhow- the current one calls for 1 cup of boiling water. I was wondering if any of our culinary chemists can tell me what role the “boiling water” plays, as opposed to
hot, tepid, or cold water.
LMGTFY: “it helps to dissolve and ‘bloom’ the cocoa to bring out as much flavor with as few cocoa lumps as possible”
Sometimes the recipe calls for hot coffee.
I learn new shit every day whether I want to or not.
I don’t, I’m still relearning the old shit. Someone keeps changing the back of cereal boxes, I have a tough time keeping up.
I swear I first read this as “dead parrot”.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article284431680.html
So not pining for the fjords.
I’m unreasonably happy for the Lions. I have 0 ties to Detroit, but they’ve done well and they deserve this.
So I didn’t watch the old game but I have two questions:
1. Why did TB go for a two point conversion.
2. Why didn’t TB call their last time out and force the lions to punt?
Re #1, Collinsworth was trying to explain it but the analytics say that’s the right thing to do.
Having lived to see the Cubbies win the World Series, I think it would be nice to also see a team like the Lions or the Browns win the Super Bowl.
…but even nicer to see the Bengals do so. 😁
Maybe next year.
HAH!
I will also give you Cronulla-Sutherland, Footscray, and Melbourne Football Club.
I was more rooting against TB but yes, Detroit can use this.
If we end up with Buffalo and Detroit, they have to switch the site to Cleveland.
Superbowl: Lions v Ravens
/realist
I work with a lot of Lions fans. I would be really happy for them if the Lions win it all. But also it would be hilarious if the lose the Super Bowl in some perfect Lions way.
Lions.
Now that’s some spin worthy of Team Biden.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/21/hamas-says-october-7-attack-was-a-necessary-step-admits-to-some-faults
Mistakes were made, but it was friendly fire.
Those hostages just thought a little side trip to Gaza would be a nice adventure.
We all know this wasn’t meant for western audiences and will serve its intended purpose.
I’ve got to admit I don’t think I would have come up with “friendly fire”. Props.
Well, I don’t understand the mind that can say “the Israelis were to blame/did it” and never mind the hostages that Hamas is still holding and not even pretending otherwise.
George Orwell had a thing or two to say about the ability to “know” contradictory facts.
To believe in nothing except fear as I recall.
Well, yeah it leads there eventually but first, it’s just another adaptation the brain has to make in order to deal with totalitarianism.
As pointed out this is not meant for western consumption.
The people it is aimed at are so bone-crushingly ignorant that it defies belief. In addition to that they have a very strong bias.
They will. swallow it hook, line and sinker.
When you think that Israel is an occupying power, then almost every action against it is justified. It’s not just Arabs, in 1946 a Zionist group felt it appropriate to bomb the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. 91 people were killed.
Are those people being celebrated today the way that the palis in Munich and on the Achile Lauro are?
They must be realizing the end is near.
So, when are the Israelis going to shoot a missile into the Hamas leader’s luxury hotel room in…is it Qatar or Bahrain?
#notprowaratall
I never said I was a pacifist.
Now that there is no more glib fit, and having read UCS’s comment the other day, (good job UCS)! I am going to post my keto dinner tonight. This will turn into lunches for the week as well
. I have been on a 6 month fuck off of food failure and gained ten pounds and I feel like an asshole for it. Sure, many of you will say that is not why I am an asshole but GFYS. You’re the asshole. I buy the big ass package of chicken thighs at Walmart and do this:
Skin and debone. reserve skin to feed to dog and bones for broth
Chop thigh meat in food processor’
add:2T chopped garlic
2 T basil paste
a couple t’s coconut aminos
a splash or two liquid aminos
1/4 C rice vinegar
some salt
some pepper
some ginger powder
fry up some onions and throw that in………..When cooked through, throw in a bag of cole slaw mix and cook until ….whenever you want to say its done……. put it in a bowl to eat or use as taco filling or whatever. At least it isn’t a hot pocket. stop eating processed food and the world would be a better place.
PS: 4 qt’s bone broth simmering in the crock pot. Eat well!
‘Bone broth’ Fuckin’ neo-hippie shit. It’s stock.
Sad to see that go to a field goal.
If past experience is any indication, we’ll need every point.
That’s more like it.
Of course GM made an open deck diesel. Like the Olds diesel wasn’t dumb enough.
https://youtu.be/p39Si2fl9a4?si=M2B4jxD_3xtFy6Xr
I’d love to know how much the easier casting saved them initially before all the band aids.
Um… what is an open deck diesel?
https://www.enginelabs.com/news/supporting-your-cylinders-open-semi-closed-or-closed-deck/
Guess which one costs more and is stronger at the expense of weight.
Whichever one GM didn’t pick.
I always wonder at the choices and the reasons. Open isn’t necessarily bad, but I don’t know all the other issues: thickness, material, a thousand things that cost money, time, and space. This is a frivolous observation, but if the cylinder center-lines were far enough apart that the open-style walls were essentially as thick as the closed-style would have been, you’d have the best of both worlds………….but it would be a larger/longer block.
There are almost never any clean-sheet designs; I’ll bet they were also trying to save a crank design or something like that…or a pattern/geometry so they didn’t need to redesign……….OR they are open to a new XYZ design but it has to be machined on the XYZ machine centers we already have, so, while we’re open to a longer geometry in principle, that wouldn’t fit on the mill that turns down the main journals……million things like that.
And every now and again they hit one out the park taking that approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_V6_engine
It was 90 degrees and needed a balance shaft since it was a cut down V8. But everybody says the thing is just bulletproof.
Half of my weight is scar tissue.
With apologies to Todd Tiahrt, I have more scars than I need AND more than I want.
I banged the crap out of my hands doing it, but I changed the spark plugs and ignition coils in my truck today. And it fired right up afterwards and runs noticeably smoother. First time doing that kind of repair myself, so…
::manly happy dance::
Hey, I know that feeling! Congrats!!!!
LOL commie front group is running out of money.
Wiki sez they’ve got 77k members, so for $20 a throw they can each according to his need their way out of this with money left over
Hey. You can only steal from OTHER groups. Not your own.
*sad trombone*
Lol, these commentators are the best at jinxing people.
‘so and so has never given up a touchdown… And there’s his first one given up this season.’
I didn’t want to lose in the Superbowl again, anyway.
That’s the spirit.
Chiefs are doing better than I thought they would, honestly.
What can I say. I’m still traumatized from the Marty years.
My husband doesn’t understand my generational trauma here.
Our run game got shutdown.. Not looking good for us, even with that super lucky touchback… And more injuries. Can’t catch a break.
Decides to poke Mo: “Lin Elliot”
*haughty sniff*
We decided to give our oldest doxie some air b and b, to escape the kids,
Happy doggo!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/br1zx4XcBDienpad8
Well that’s an interesting take.
Can’t hit a guy if the QB might throw the ball later on.
Mahomes must have whined to his favorite ref for that flag.
That was some bullshit.
So about that …
JFC.
“Wide right”
Not even surprising. What I said about jinxing guys?
They brought up some crazy stat about how he’s never missed when we were trailing by 3 or less… And miss
It was practically inevitable.
And now I have a meteor-game to watch between the Chiefs and Ravens.
They must be the guys who jinx the Eagles. “He hasn’t thrown an interception in 16 quarters.” Next play – pick six.
“I never slice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5u7yZiV3bI
Ouch, Norwooded.
Too soon.
But yeah, he’s no Vinatieri.
I was rooting for the Bills, but still that was one hell of a football game.
Tunguska/Terma currently running on Comet.
America’s true pastime is First Offing.
I know its late but let me voice my hatred of Guardian Day and Rage Along With The Machine. That is all.
it’s (sorry Tedz)
Hey! It’s time to get back at it, Glibs!
Happy Monday morning. 😒☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QC5doqwPdg
🎶🎶
YUM. I think Lauren is getting a lil thicc, but YES. I’ll be in my bunk.
You made me visualize you having a thing for thicc Lauren Bacall. 🙁
Maybe UCS can get you some AI generated images.
I avoid making anything based on real people. It’s both easier and carries fewer ethical questions.
Whee, it’s Monday!
Thus endeth my enthusiasm
Good morning, Beau, U, Sean, and Ted’S.! (And a belated wave to Festus!)
Morning.
How’s it going so far today?
I made it out of bed and to the store for food. They had Diet Dew in stock.
Almost makes up for being stupid enough to stay up until 2am
Oh my. 😳 I hope you bought out their entire stock.
I would have, but I wasn’t using a cart.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie!
I’m getting pissed off at this asinine plastic grocery bag ban. I don’t have any handy small trash bags, and they were so useful
Why are you so insistant on contributing to the ginormous plastic garbage island in the middle of the ocean that actually doesn’t exist?
If we put enough plastic out there, we’ll have somplace to ship all the illegals.
Ugh! I’d forgotten you were suffering under that! I hoard those bags for cleaning the cats’ litter boxes every day, so I’d be livid if such a ban went into effect here.
Our produce department has the normal little bags for vegetables and then some hefty ones. I may or may not grab a couple extra for trash bags.
They do sell Kitchen bags in the plastic bag department. A little bigger but useful nonetheless. We use the free bags as much as possible but if they leak they go into a kitchen bag. We’re about as thrifty as people can get. My wife makes me change into dress up clothes to go work in the garden, that’ll tell you something.
I throw away dozens every week, right in the trash.
What are you buying that you have dozens per week?
I go to the store every other day. I always forget something or decide at the last second that I want something I don’t have for dinner.
Plus if the self checkout is busy and I go to a cashier, the idiot bag boy will give me three times the bags I need. I’ll have 10 items and end up with 9 plastic baggies.
Youngest Patzer attends school in PA. He is under strict orders to bring plastic bags with him when he visits.
Good morning!
Good morning, NA! How are you and Lily today?
She was in a petting mood this morning.
What is she petting?
Mornin’!
Catching up on links and posts in the we hours as per usual.
Assuming legal shenanigans don’t keep Trump off the ballot, what’s the over-under that Trump floats the VP spot to Hailey?
I haven’t been following too closely and maybe there is enough vitriol between them to make it a non-starter, but I wouldn’t be overly surprised if his first act as a nominee was to demonstrate that he learned absolutely nothing the first time around.
I just cannot see him selecting her unless he pulls the rug from underneath. Say she will get the nod, she drops out, then pivot. Nah, he is terrible at selecting a team, but that one..I think is too far. *disclaimer* I have been known to eat my words from time to time.
Sarah Huckabee, you saw it here first. Female, conservative, flyover country, Christian., governor.
Sounds legit, I wonder what the odds are. Time to call my bookie.
Candace Owens.
Another possibility is Kari Lake. Female, loyal to Trump, DC hot, and from a swing state.