The fierce hunter of the meadow searches for prey
This is a week in transition. The main (ok really only unless you stretch) celestial event is the conjunction of Mercury and Venus (generally accepted as a good sign). I’ve remarked about ow Gemini has had an unusually good run of luck lately, well this week that luck starts moving over into Cancer, with both Mercury and Venus (’cause they’re conjoined, like I said) crossing into Cancer on Monday night. As that conjunction drifts apart, nothing happens until next week.
There is a rabbit here, I know it.
Gemini: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
Cancer: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Leo: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
Virgo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family matters, archives, extraction.
Libra: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity.
Scorpio: The Hanged Man – Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. In case you couldn’t tell, this interpretation is pretty much the Odin story. It’s probably misdirection.
Sagittarius: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
Capricorn: The Devil reversed – Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
Aquarius: The Emperor – Stability, power, protection, realization, a great person, aid, reason, conviction, authority, will.
Pisces: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity.
Aries: 4 of Wands – Country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace.
Taurus: Ace of Swords reversed – Excess with disastrous results.
So…read the Odin story and expect the opposite?
Taurus … excess
You might have well just said grass is green, sky is blue, and sand is brown. Geez, man. Do better.
Sagittarius: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
Jobs are for other people.
“Taurus: Ace of Swords reversed – Excess with disastrous results.”
Listen, horrorscope, that’s not what I wanted to hear from you. My excess today is my package’s arrival, full of needles and a skin pad to practice phlebotomy before training begins July 8. I intend this career dive into the unknown is wise and quite Ev-ish. Nicole and Knave teamed up to have a good idea?! It’s shockingly rare for such to occur. Korea was likely the last Big Big one. (Other countries were continuations of that push.) Trick is to keep focus, which is easy for me when motivated, especially w my financial ante already invested. Shockingly, I predict good things.
(“Horrorscope” is an underrated album by underrated band Eve 6. They are not tremendous by any means. They did have a legit great radio one-hit wonder, but simply, they were good at what they were trying to do. I do appreciate bassists singing, as one Mr. Ross did in several of my bands. Certainly a high school-only fad for me, but making good songs is hard. It’s been forever, but I imagine it still rings my nostalgia bell.)
How many ticks did you have to pull off Lily?
Surprisingly few. We’re in a a lull between ticks and burrs.
“There’s a rabbit here, I know it.”
Recently in Was-Mart I was waiting patiently for a woman to finish staring at the section I needed to access. She noticed me after a minute or so and kinda surprise jumped. “I am sorry, I am just looking for something that isn’t there.”
I replied “Dont apologize to me, I have been doing that my whole life”
She laughed like hell and said “Aint it the truth!”
It used to be there, though.
I waited for a woman at the peppers at the grocery store yesterday. She literally touched 15 green peppers before picking the one she wanted. It took nearly 2 minutes.
Rambunctious puppy
President Biden adopted a German shepherd named Commander at the end of 2021. During the 26 months the dog lived in the White House, it bit a bunch of people. Earlier this year, Commander was re-homed with unspecified Biden family members.
That should probably be the end of the story, but the legend of Commander lives on. That’s partly because Bitegate is the only really enjoyable Biden administration scandal, and partly because Judicial Watch keeps digging up more details on Commander’s reign of terror
This week, the conservative activist group released another batch of Commander-related records from the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security, which it obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests. The new documents suggest there were at least three-dozen recorded biting incidents, up from the previous tally of 24. And President Biden was reportedly present for at least three of these incidents.
The most vivid new account involves Biden ordering Commander to stand down, to no avail, then leashing him after he bit a Secret Service agent and tore his suit. Per Judicial Watch:
POTUS took Commander (on a leash) to the Kennedy Garden this evening for a walk. While POTUS and Commander were in the Kennedy Garden I was standing half way from the Book-Sellers and the Family Theater. POTUS opened the Book-Seller door and said [redacted]. As I started to walk toward him to see if he needed help, Commander ran through his legs and bit my left arm through the front of my jacket. I pulled my arm away and yelled no. POTUS also yelled [redacted] to Commander. POTUS then [redacted]. I obliged and Commander let me pet him. When turning to close the door, Commander jumped again and bit my left arm for the second time. POTUS again yelled at Commander and attached the leash to him. My suit coat has 3 holes, 1 being all the way through. No skin was broken.
Blah blah blah more bad owners than bad dogs. Biters get the hammer.
My wife calls Commander the one living creature on this planet that actually loves Joe Biden.
POTUS then [redacted].
Shit his diaper?
Replace each instance of [redacted] with the word “shit”.
I like how they say this is the only “enjoyable” scandal. Those other ones are beneath us covering and just right wing talking points, after all.
My dream: a one page Selective Service Modernization and Repeal Act of 2024. First paragraph would add women to it, second would repeal it entirely. Done.
My dream? A constitutional amendment forbidding indentured servitude of any kind.
If the Scotus has stones, they would have overturned it already on those grounds. But it’s too scary like “Congress shall make no law”
SCotUS already punted the 13th Amdt, and instead said “hey the PA SC ruled on the legitimacy of the draft [at the state level and pre-13th] so based on that, and laws in other countries – we’re good”.
I don’t have any problem with voluntary indentured servitude. Pretty much travel, food +room/board for x amount of time. As long as the contract is followed, the laborer gets training and a stable gig. The employer invests in a worker and gets x time of service.
Ensure the contract is followed and I don’t see the problem. Pretty much like joining the army, but never forced, w no ‘forever’ commitment or clause.
(I ‘spose if folk wanna write the contract like that, they can. Pretty much ‘marriage,’ yeah? *never-married ev scurries away*)
Like the feds couldn’t just push a button, in an existential emergency, and come up with 20 million names of the right age to hand a gun to and ship to Ukraine/Iran/Taiwan/France.
I expect that given the state of government databases, it would take months to years to build that report against the… mess that the data lives in.
If there was an existential emergency, I’d expect all Americans, not just kids, to stand up. But true existential emergencies are rare.
I just put a bunch of guns up for sale. I don’t really think that counts as extravagance. (What I’m planning on doing with the proceeds, on the other hand…)
The ATF now regards you as an unlicensed seller who should have applied for an FFL
I’m selling them through my family FFL, so the BATFE can gag on my ass.
Anything interesting?
Two Staccato C2s with lots of magazines and associated gear, an Atlas Gunworks Nemesis v1 .40 Limited gun, and a Glock 43. I also have a Bravo Company 11.5” complete AR upper (celebrate the pistol brace ban repeal!) and a Vortex AMG 6-24x precision rifle scope all on the block. I can post details in the forum.
Nothing there piques my interest. Good luck with the sales.
A collection like yours isn’t complete without an Atlas.
I’m trying to figure out who should get which gun(s) when I no longer able to use them. I do have a new great grandson that probably needs a couple and some other worthy people that enjoy/use a few but after that?
About 15/20 years ago a friend gave me a very nice 1911 that he gotten thru the Civilian Marksmanship Program. I had no special attachment to the gun, other than I’d carried a similar one in VN many years ago. I told him if he ever wanted it back I’d be happy to return it but his wife (antiNRA/Guns Kill) is the sort of person that didn’t want it. I was concerned that if/when my kids ever got it there would be a dash to the nearest pawn shop.
Anyway, a few weeks ago he asked for it back. I was happy to return it and added 200 rounds of ammo. He wanted to give it to his youngest son (about 55 years old). Worked out perfectly for both of us, I hadn’t shot it anyway.
Invest in hookers and blow, waste the rest?
Extravagance?
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/E8HU-pzdQruSedEjRJdMVg.vjLMMbgLShLHh9aizcUv4F
First pair grilled.
They still look pretty rare, but you do you! 🥩🥩
I don’t hear any mooing.
You people…😋
Obviously a pre pic.
Ever planning on turning the grill on?
I got a 1 pound ribeye I’ll cook up later in remembrance of my dad. With grilled corn, beans and a baked potato.
What a prick
The story *does* induce one to cock an eyebrow
Some people have taken to calling me First Bae. This is not acceptable.
Your displeasure is duly noted. To adequately state your position, Your Eternally Subordinate Bae-ness, I will seek guidance from proper authorities.
I, a mere local emissary for The King of Cripples, am not fit for honoring you with your new official title. I shall ask SugarFree for his wisdom. (If He hasn’t gotten to you earlier… *squint intensifies*)
Heh. Not bad, Ev.
Lighten up, Francis.
The Devil reversed – Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
and
4 of Wands – Country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace.
House Imprudent has a bi-polar week ahead it looks like.
At church. XY is here with us of his own free will. I haven’t asked him why.
He loves communion wafers ?
Spaghetti?
Nachos
My favorite memory of my Presbyterian upbringing is the Sunday when someone forgot to get the grape juice and wafers, so we had communion with Hawaiian Punch and pumpkin bread.
GT, I have to believe the Big Fella was amused rather than offended.
The Buddhist services were popular in boot camp, they had cookies.
All kidding aside, that is probably a good thing.
Glibs who know some or all of the story will have their eyebrows raised all the way back to the crowns of their heads.
Yeah, that is a red flag. Guilty conscience about something? Trying to curry favor for some impending ask?
I mean, an actual spiritual awakening is theoretically possible, but c’mon . . . .
Actually, I suspect it’s loneliness.
Or not loneliness.
Dude wins a prize in an AI image contest. There was only one problem.
The guy’s nom de photo is “Miles Astray,” which might have given the judges a clue that they were being led around by the nose.
I strongly approve. (In the story, no mention of the askance name. Would love it to be real. *Chef’s kiss*
I find it monstrous my generation is eagerly diving into the madness of AI. See also: Weimar Republic and countless other times in history. In groups, dangerous, panicky herd animals. See also: Biology.
Sounds foreboding
“It’s quiet. Too quiet.”
Should I kiss & tell?
https://ibb.co/yPrwX6R
Yep
No; he should. 😜
Well, you can tell whatever you can tell tastefully (assuming there was anything tasteful to tell.)
Glibs? Tasteful? 😆
Alternatively
Uh. That’s a fuckin’ Sam Eliot look-alike. I KNOW that’s a SWISH for most ladies.
(Would. I ain’t gay, nor Gay for Pay, but Gay for Say? Hell yes, would.)
Give wedgie.
Then tell him it’s a Glib tradition. If he falls for that, you can get away with anything.
Loan sharks
When Marlon Fox, a chiropractor in North Charleston, South Carolina, got his $119,500 student debt forgiven last year, he didn’t tell many people his story. He lives in a mostly Republican area where there is deep skepticism toward forgiving the debt of those who’ve benefited from higher education.
“They say, ‘Hey, you got your school loans paid off? That’s unfair,’” Fox told CNBC last year.
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But the reason so many people today feel that failing to repay debts is irresponsible is because they’ve been “inundated with that message” from entities who profit from it, Padgett Walsh said.
“Lenders and businesses — especially now, given how much of our consumption is propped up by debt —profit from people taking out debt and feeling obligated to pay it back,” she said. “So, they encourage us to take out as much debt as we can possibly bear, and then insist that it would be morally wrong not to repay it.”
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Fox, the chiropractor who got his debt forgiven last year, had been paying off his student debt since 1988.
Over those years, he paid around $200,000. He originally borrowed close to $60,000.
*outright prolonged laughter*
Where do they find these moralizing “experts”? The only thing they’re expert at is ass backwards rationalization. Borrowing money and not paying it back is stealing. Paying interest and not principal is stupid.
How the hell does it take you 34 years to pay of $60K?
Wait a second, 36.
And how did you wind up with $60K of loans in 1988? I’m class of 1994 and had nothing near that in loans.
Chiropractic school?
Harvard Law School tuition, for the full three year program, was around $60K (probably a little more) in the mid-80s.
Yes, that is the reason. 🙄
Sadly, there are people this stupid.
Mendacious, not stupid.
Where is Elizabeth Warren to tell us how evil universities are? Where is the CFPB to make it illegal to write interest only student loans?
Fun Fact:
The state of Idaho charges you five dollars extra to renew your license plates in person.
Todays LA Times crossword includes the clue ‘6-Down: Like Mr. Peanut’.
The answer? Monocled, of course!
Florida Man racks his shotgun, heads south.
Flamingo branding is everywhere in Florida, from cocktail straws and tourist T-shirts to hotel names and the Florida Lottery logo. But the real-life pink birds have been largely missing from the Sunshine State since the early 1900s, when hunters nearly drove them to extinction in the quest for their fashionable—and highly profitable—plumage.
Now, however, flamingos seem to be returning to Florida. Birders recorded 101 wild American flamingo sightings across the state in February, according to recently released figures from Audubon Florida. That count included more than 50 in Florida Bay, 18 in the Pine Island area and 14 at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Those racists? Hmph.
And all they can focus on is the color of the bird.
South Park guys on storytelling. Interesting.
https://x.com/nathanbaugh27/status/1800880264693817557
I’d be interested in what our authors think.
Depends if you’re going for surrealist humor or not. If the joke can be told ‘therefore’ their is no zany humor. But narratively, yes, each part of the story should lead to the next part.
Well, surrealist humor is probably 0.1% of storytelling, so . . . .
Big-ass reply all typed out here on my iPad and squirrels ate it. 😡
Sounds like an actual post!
Not that you don’t do enough to carry the site, Moje.
Okay, lemme try this again.
Goal, Motivation, Conflict
There are several ways you can say the same things in the tweet. The above is what I prefer to think of it as.
What does the character want?
Why does he want it?
What’s stopping him from getting it?
===
There’s more to storytelling than just answering the questions above. There’s structure, rhythm, and pacing, too. In the Southpark tweet, they talk about “beats.” Well, a “beat” is part of the rhythm, and I think that’s difficult to master.
I’m editing a book right now, sort of an Animal Farm story that’s not as smooth as Animal Farm, but getting there. Anyway, the author had left a segment with a sentence that had something missing. There was a “but…” at the end of the sentence that the author didn’t see/hear. I had the damnedest time explaining that the storyline demanded he put a “but…” and add something relevant. Much like a musical phrase, the sentence was just the first part, the question, and it was begging a second part, an answer. Then I said, “Or, you can just remove the separator between this segment and the next.”
One more example. You know that typing exercise, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”? 11 syllables.
I don’t know where I saw it, but I was a youngun, and I could SWEAR it said, “The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog.” To me, the second sentence has a better rhythm. It’s more complete. 12 syllables. There are no beats missing. That could just be me, though.
Matt and Trey are very anti-“comedy is a bunch of jokes strung together” a la Family Guy. I can only assume they frown at Zucker Bros films for the same reason.
Intents and purposes
A tiny electric car called the Seagull, designed by a former Lamborghini designer, starts at less than $10,000 in China. A version with a battery that can go 250 miles on a charge costs a little more, at $12,000.
The car—made by BYD, the Chinese manufacturer that overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of EVs late last year—isn’t available in the U.S. Neither is the Zhidou Rainbow, another tiny Chinese car that starts at $4,400. More expensive Chinese cars, like the sleek Xiaomi SU7 (which looks like a Porsche, at a fifth of the price) or the XPeng G9 SUV, are also priced to undercut competitors like Tesla. The cheapest EV for sale in the U.S., by contrast, is the $28,000 Nissan Leaf.
New tariffs from the Biden administration make it unlikely that Chinese EVs will be sold in the U.S. anytime soon. But if they had, they almost certainly would have sped up the shift to cleaner transportation.
“If the goal is to try to drive a transition and to get more EVs on the road, putting up trade barriers is counterproductive,” says Michael Lenox, a business professor at the University of Virginia who studies the EV industry.
Zero emission paradise awaits. What’s stopping us?
“the Chinese manufacturer that overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of EVs late last year”
Well, if you believe Chinese numbers, of course.
“…the shift to cleaner transportation.”
No such thing is intended nor underway. The whole EV thing is pure horseshit.
Yes, it does look like a knockoff Taycan, just like that oRolexo you can buy from a street merchant in Guangzhou looks just like a Swiss timepiece.
The Xiaomi also features that legendary Chinese reliability.
Britty Yung Ding?
The fundamental design is simpler than a gas car. “You do not have all the systems that you need in an internal combustion engine—you don’t have a coolant system, you don’t have an exhaust system, you don’t have a fuel injector,” says Lenox. “All of these things add cost to the vehicle.” (EVs are also cheaper to operate because electricity is cheaper than gas and because the vehicles need fewer repairs.)
So simple. As long as nothing happens to the black box filled with magic.
“…EVs are also cheaper to operate because electricity is cheaper than gas…”
Now see, when you say shit like that….
The magic is smoke. If you let the smoke out of electronics, they quit working. I have personally witnessed this many times.
This right here
Also, EVs do in fact have many of the same subsystems as conventional IC cars, such as cooling systems (despite what the clown in the article claims). Also, the climate control system is much more complex because it may have to heat or cool the battery at the same time it’s doing the opposite to the occupants of the car. Also the CAN networking for the computers to run it all, but yeah, other than that, it’s just like that radio controlled Porsche you got from radio shack when you were a kid, only bigger.
Par for the course
Dad jokes time:. I really don’t like elevator music.
It’s bad on every level.
What goes in hard and dry, but comes out wet and soft?
Gum.
I bought a dog from the local blacksmith. When I got the dog home, it made a bolt for the door.
Just finished a D&D session with some of the tax deductions. I actually had some fun as the DM this time.
I ran The Hole in the Oak from Necrotic Gnome.
It was surprisingly easy, mainly because the focus is exploration, and not fighting a battle every five steps. The only thing I needed to do was create a small chart to track time. In their one battle (with a crab spider), I tracked the monster’s hit points in my head. It could have gone terribly wrong had the spider managed to get its fangs into one of them.
“ It could have gone terribly wrong had the spider managed to get its fangs into one of them.”
Pretty much how I treat every encounter with a spider.
Cav, I don’t know where you are in the D&D hierachy, but I have been a regular at this blog for a good decade or more: https://grognardia.blogspot.com/
It is waaaaayyyy old school, with probably the best recounting the history of the game I know of. But, I am 53, and have been playing since ’80. OD&D/AD&D!
(I have also had two beers and three Salty Dogs, so, take what I say with a grain.)
Accidental Death & Dismemberment?? 😳
Sure, why not.
You fantasy RPG players don’t mess around!
No, we really didn’t.
Jerry Seinfeld deals with a heckler:
https://x.com/thehoffather/status/1802375009253601453/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1802375009253601453¤tTweetUser=thehoffather
I get a message saying that page does not exist.
https://x.com/thehoffather/status/1802375009253601453/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1802375009253601453¤tTweetUser=thehoffather¤tTweet=1802375009253601453¤tTweetUser=thehoffather
The post is by Ari Hoffman
@thehoffather
I like how Jim Jeffries is the reference “shit, who’s an Australian comedian? Paul Hogan? Too dated – I got it, Jeffries!”
Biden and Netanyahu get stoned together:
https://x.com/israelnewspulse/status/1802355056504602916/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1802355056504602916¤tTweetUser=israelnewspulse
NATO member. That’s just great.
The “sick man of Europe” has never really been European, even when it was the Byzantine Empire.
The Sick man or Europe used to be England. Either the most Euro country, or the least.
You’re linking to the pages wrong, because this one also gave me a page does not exist message.
Doing a bit of guesswork, I see you can stop at the / before “mediaViewer” and get a valid link.
I’m just copy and pasting; I will see if I can erase the offending part of the link
Apparently, “taking Father’s Day day off” has a specific meaning…
Totally worth it.
A missing American tourist has been found dead on a beach on a small Greek island west of Corfu, local media reported.
https://apnews.com/article/greece-american-tourist-found-dead-island-mathraki-f47253a9234ad070729ac7a7c4e62e3f
There are others who have died or disappeared.
Just had my first boiled peanut. It’s gonna be a no for me, dawg.
You feed those to squirrels. Don’t eat them.
But eat the squirrels
My deer hunting partner hates red squirrels. He keeps a .410 shotgun by the entry to deal with them. I dredged the squirrel in spiced flour and fried it in bacon grease. Even that wasn’t enough to make it taste good.
Brunswick stew.
Anybody have a good history book to recommend? I’m thinking something 19-20th century Europe.
You asked for the one time frame I am least interested in… so I have no good recommendations.
I’m reading about the discovery of Panama and the making of the railroad and canal, I’m about 1/4 of the way through it. Interesting to me but probably not for everyone.
“The United States Discovers Panama”.
It’s always about the money, isn’t it?
Twentieth century Europe, you say?
That looks interesting—thanks!
Any biography of Churchill will do the trick
Recommend Roy Jenkins’.
Read “The Guns of August” if you haven’t already. Tuchman beautifully explains the absurdity of the “Cousins War (WW1)”
I haven’t read the Cousins War—I’ll add it to the list!
The Great Game: a history of English and Russian spying in India and Central Asia
https://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Game-Peter-Hopkirk-audiobook/dp/B074ZJSBVL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FSBN4AKQL1MV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Ra6tMKal9jK2rEGFESB1grjzWS8g9Adsd3KLxv4zO88f5URhT7_VLlkSAzl1G_yDd-arRxdfhWbzUBQBD3RHR9Ue8jm5j7K7FcGLGPW01YZI-xQnvSm51A_Z2IfWh7ythwwJeNxM7WiUzh_kbBSNObDnNJaIm0aoNybPgA9ETAdwA4eGMHMzabnNGoOdwrFgdI_wCbxCpqQr5X1OAjsHIPXuDtZD9y-Ky2eJoNbYbOQ.5LqxtBF6zXKYj6sJognfdJKyG8OCFkFwDzH9bhw8vXs&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+great+game&qid=1718593184&sprefix=the+great+game%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1
I’ve read that one. Excellent.
New favorite gun video*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BFi_B0mLn0
*I mostly hate gun videos, so bonus round?
Is a round in the chamber the “bonus” one?
Outside action flicks our active combat, me thinky that is no good idea. I’m also ignorant of most things.
Any gun I intend to use for self-defense has a round in the chamber and a full magazine. Self-defense is likely to be an extremely high-stress situation; why risk forgetting to rack the gun, or with a gut full of adrenaline, botching it?
When hunting, as soon as I am out of the car and and I start actually hunting, there is a round in the chamber.
Very good point that makes perfect sense. In your nightstand etc, yep. Get used to where it is until it’s Known, and yep. That’s its purpose.
*shrugs* I don’t own any guns, though I do enjoy when I get to shoot ’em. To me it’s a lot like knives in a kitchen: Don’t try to catch one ya drop. That grab reflex+ idiocy makes a hypothetical me keeping a firearm chambered an exceptionally bad idea, to all and everyone.
Just spent two hours in a bar, fathers day no less, having two beers (some local IPA), and three salty dogs (a greyhound with a salted rim, which I had to explain to the girl behind the stick, {and I also gave her an old trick on how to deal with smart asses who order drinks [ask whether they want a west coast pour or a NYC pour (((hint: a NYC pour is 1/4″ below the rim{{{shuts them up every time]]])))]}) I hope Neph is reading.
Anyway, depressing day. Coffee drive through strippers in native country (Tulalip) are kinda sad, seeing an old hotel you used to stay at (in Tacoma) turn into a drive through drug deal is sad, a Telsa burn crash with what might have been a dead body or a car seat is sad, fuck Seattle is sad. Anyway, a college town book store is always good (got a nice Paddy Leigh Furmor first), and a peripheral blur collar college town bar/restaurant/poker den is a good place to while away an hour or two.
I visited the grave where we put some of my dad’s ashes (his parents grave, the ashes in Quigley Down Under DVD case and a Montana coffee mug, we’re odd folk) bought a big steak that I’m yet to grill on the grill we bought my dad for fathers day in 1992.
Seven hours outage for the DB, two and a half more before the application was back.
It would have been faster, but I had stepped away just when they decided to actually report fixing the DB
If you’d done some fast Hacker typing it would have been a quick fix.
“Access Denied”
I spent more time on the phone than on the keyboard.
Hack better, bro, L.E.A.R.N. T.O. C.O.D.E!
I know how to code.
It’s not applicable to the issue at hand.
Do you get comp time for at least some of that?
Some. I’d have to do some math to figure out how much of the day I was actually working.
Type drunk, edit sober, don’t you Hemingway?
RJ needs to start doing videos for GlibFlix.
Meant to have this link
I just can’t do it. I hate my voice, I can’t talk off the cuff, and I look like an overfed Brussels sprout.
That guy’s voice isn’t so great, he’s reading a script and looks like a dusty, old qtip. The kid is cute though.
Exactly. And I would not do any better. If I cannot add value to the genre I will just do my Thursday post.
Had a lovely seafood dinner with the family. It was quite nice and I’m glad I didn’t have to pick up the tab for 5 adults + 3 kids. And then we got home and a heavy blanket of depression fell. It’ll go away, like always, but it’s both strange and predictable.
Tomorrow will be as lovely as it can be. I do enjoy how Luna is peers from above through my window. I rather like her.
I really hope you’re not related to Luna.
Of course not, but we’re more than friends, I’d say. She certainly loves to nibble. Those little love bites are adorable.
Me likey when She nuzzle-wuzzles. She ain’t her full, vibrant self tonight. Lil sleepyhead. *Rupprupp* No rush! We’ll dance again and we know it!
This is more based on the absurdity of modern medicine, as best we understand it. (We don’t.) Until we know how placebos work, rather than ‘knowing’ Placebo X is more powerful than P. Z, it’s just our flavor of snake oil. (I don’t think modern Rx’ are stupid or don’t work at all, I just doubt One Size Fits (Many?) when the brain is as fucking complicated as it is.)
My new Rx leads me off w: Quetiapine (Seroquel, Seroquel XR) is an atypical antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression. Yeah. That’s a great thing for semi-sane folk, or those with any of those issues, to ponder. Well, I assuredly AM an atypical person whose psyche sometimes flees the scene. More frequently it’s just my little toe or foot out the door. But, hey. Why the reminder?
Her name is Luna,
She lives on the second floor….
There is nothing like the love of a Libertarian woman, I am a happy man…..
There are no libertarian women, disinformationer!
You know better,
HH2022
HE, GT, MOJO, ToG, Athena SP, anyone else?
I invited Anjali here, but she didn’t bite. (Deservedly, and acting in her way, she pretty much cut me off a couple months ago.) She’d get on just fine here. There are a few others, but the tricky bit is the part we all know:
Everyone can find at least *one* issue to agree with small-l libertarians on. More econ conservative than anyone in the room, and more liberal on social issues as well. (Ya know what I mean. We’re the only ones calling for OTC ‘everything’ and legalized prostitution+. Plenty more. It’s always that ‘logical consistency’ part that confuses folk.)
MLW of course.
Haven’t seen Cannoli in a while, but she fits the bill. Also Rockabilly Girl comes on the Zooms occasionally.
Bethannica was too left wing, she couldn’t take it.
Baby Cannoli has been keeping me busy. I still lurk, but I’m often a day or so behind.
Good to see you, Cannoli! How old is Baby C now?
Just had a nice, three hour long conversation with my son. One of the great things about adult children is that they have their own personalities, opinions, and so on. So, a good talk, and, because I had five drinks tonight, we got deep with some things I normally hold back on. IE his mother and I’s divorce, women I have dated, things like that. But the big thing was drive, and the lack of it we both feel at times, especially around art. His is music, mine writing. I write from time to time around here (not counting filler, such as ZWAK music) and when I exorcize that muscle, I am pretty good at it. He, music. We just meandered around the topic, not really going anywhere with it, but I pushed him on one excuse: the ease of sharing via social media.
I asked “what is it you really, really like about music?” and, to boil it down, it is being caught in the moment of a great bit of music, live. So, something to think about, as he left the left (coast) to find this and bottle it. Shit has gotten away from that quest for him, so i am trying to redirect him towards it, in such a way that he feels comfortable.
Like I said, a good conversation. Fathers need to do this sometimes.
Also, just found out that his aunt, my ex-sister-in-law, has stage four liver cancer.
I’m roughly 80% Dad. I frequently, like a polite referee, as best I can, mediating things so he doesn’t feel left out btw me, Mom and Older Bro. He’s silly with many of his thoughts, his autism doesn’t help, and he is intellectually and socially at odds/ends with those two and my SiL. We’re a lovely family and absolutely nothing nasty ever occurs, but I try to add balance and mix flavors.
That ending escalation threw me adrift… All the best for all. As best as possible.
We are all, quite often, adrift.
I’m quite certain I’m not all there right now. Physically I’m fine, mental sharpness remains. That heavy blanket remains and I am not excited for a couple tasks tomorrow. One should be fun, but it’s difficult to think such right now.
I trust I’ll awake without this looming, psychological Mind Fuck towering over. I always see those smiley faces in headlights. They’re always there cuz I always look. I enjoy that ever-lasting trait of mine.
Gonna be a warm one for a lot of us today. 🌄👀
Stay cool, Glibs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oXrCX-NLIcE
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Great live tune. WTF is up with that crowd of zombies?
Forecast high of 90 today, 97, 98, 98, and 93 for the rest of the week.
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Good morning, U! High of 94 here today, then 93, 95, 98, and 98 again the rest of the work week.
That is somehow worse than here. Good luck
Lacky – Did you see the email question I sent the week before last?
That’s funny, I just answered before seeing your post here.
😁👍
Good morning, Sean!
A couple of minutes ago, I saw a doe and two fawns in our front yard. They then ran up between our house and our neighbors’, but by the time I got to a back window and put up the blind, I couldn’t see where they’d gone. We’ve been seeing a few mostly single deer in the yard from time to time recently, which always worries me, as we’re only a couple houses down from a busy street. 😟 🦌
Good morning gt!
Time to get some shooting practice in.;)
Good morning, TAFKALack! As tempting as it might be, no bucks that I recall, and I’m pretty sure the township would take issue with our discharging of a firearm. All we’ve dared to do is fire BBs at some pesky raccoons. 🦝🦝🦝
I just imagined you going all Ted Nugent with a bow and a beer in the front yard.
Nah, go Ted Nougat.
With a Three Musketeers bar? 😋🍫
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There was an old bit they’d play on WEBN. Its a game show and the host asks a contestant to name three Mickeys.
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Way
suh fam
whats goody
Hey from the (216) and Ill be outside all week.
TALL AND HOT ERIE CANS!
Eeewww, I don’t think I’d want any drink made with Lake Erie water.