If you come to realize that if you don’t get certain things done first thing in the morning (like exercise), then they just won’t get done, then you need The Miracle Morning. Author Hal Elrod lays out a plan to start your morning in a way that is incredibly productive and will make the rest of your day better.
Elrod’s claim is that by waking up early to start your day, you carve out time for your most important activities, get them done, and go into the rest of your day feeling centered, accomplished, and right with the world. Elrod created the acronym S.A.V.E.R.S. for these activities. They are: Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing.
Silence can be meditation, prayer, sitting quietly with your thoughts, reflection, and/or gratitude. Affirmations are just what you expect.
Elrod has a clever take on visualization. He recommends going into your future to “see yourself accomplishing what you set out to accomplish and you want to experience how good it will feel to have followed through and achieved your goals.” He also recommends seeing yourself in the positive actions you will do each day (e.g., exercise) and see yourself enjoying the process. Adding these feelings to your visualization is powerful.
Reading is self-explanatory. Scribing is his synonym for journalling. After all, S.A.V.E.R.W. does not roll off the tongue.
Elrod recognizes plenty of people don’t like waking up early and have a hard time doing it. He asks, why are you waking up? This is a deceptively profound question. Are you waking up because you have to? In other words, is sleeping to the last possible moment an act of resistance? Contrast this with waking up on purpose. If you are waking up on purpose, then you have clarity and direction. The act of waking up is joyful. Elrod’s point is you can consciously set your intention.
Elrod also has pointers for those who want to make an early start as easy as possible, especially when you are just getting into the habit. First, think about when getting out of bed early was easy for you. Elrod thinks about Christmas morning as a kid. That’s how you want to feel starting your morning.
Second, set your intention the night before. Find your positive intention/goal/motivation. Whatever it is that is going to make you happy to start the day. Third, put your alarm clock across the room. I hope you are single if you use this technique. If not, I recommend turning off your alarm and putting your feet on the floor. Fourth, brush your teeth. I’m not impressed by this one. I’m going to do it again after I eat breakfast because I’m considerate that way. But, if it works, then use it. Fifth, drink a glass of water. Here, Elrod is on to something. You dehydrate overnight, so this is good advice. It also means you are probably getting out of bed to get that drink. Finally, get dressed in your workout clothes.
That, my friends, is how you ensure you have the time for your workout and get it in.
In my case, it’s sipping coffee and hanging around with the Glibs who show up to comment at the tail end of the overnight post before AM Lynx post. I get up a lot earlier than I’d absolutely have to in order to get ready for work on time just so I can relax for a while and hang with the gang. 🙂 (For the record, I’m able to get my exercise sessions in after work.)
For which we are grateful, GT. A little sunshine in the morning is good for the rest of us.
🌞☕
I used to get up before the dawn and get my workouts in. Since I stopped, I essentially have stopped regular workouts. Can’t recommend this strategy enough.
Having the baby really helped me get in the habit of waking up early. Sort of have to get up when the monitor is crying in your ear.
Then I was tired all the time, which encouraged me to get serious about sleep. Now I’m in bed by 10 and asleep by 1030 for a full 7 hours on gym days, and 8 on off days. Everything sucks when you’re only getting 4-5 hours of sleep.
Now that cowpoke is older, hes sleeping in til 7, but daddy has goals, so it’s still up with the alarm for the gym. After being out of the weights for probably 20 years, I’ve decided to jump back in again. I’ve been doing Strong Lifts 5×5 for the last 4 weeks, trying to get my baseline strength back up. I forgot how much fun it is to challenge yourself, and how rewarding it can be when you see those weights climbing. Everything is still pretty low, right now, but I can feel it ratcheting up.
Our kids were also my first step toward waking up early.
I used to keep “programmers’ hours”, which meant I’d wake up late and tired due to having been up late the night before. Since I was tired, it would take me a little while (and a bunch of caffeine) to get into the flow. Once I was in flow, I wouldn’t want to stop, both because it took a while to get into that state and also because I got such a late start that I needed to work late just to get in a decent number of hours. So, my schedule would tend to shift forward until it would get out of hand. Ugh.
Our son is now twenty and our twin girls just turned eighteen, so it’s been a while since I did that. Since then I’ve also had three surgeries for apnea, got first into hiking and then into running. When my running got serious, I eventually found that taking a double espresso at the same time each day (5:15 mountain time) helped synchronize the rest of my body (especially my GI tract), although it also meant that switching on and off Daylight Saving Time became much harder on me.
DST is the devil’s work.
First, think about when getting out of bed early was easy for you.
Days off.
But most days aren’t days off.
Last week at the gym went well. On my second deadlift day of the week, I pulled 295 lbs off of blocks for three work sets. The first two were sets of three, the last was “as many as possible, target three”. The first two sets were a breeze but that last I only got two reps. Failed on the third rep.
Music is good.
Wait a minute… is Tonio pinch-hitting for Chafed?
Nope.
I do all the WordPress stuff for GlibFit and forgot to change the author field from myself to Chafed. This has been fixed. Apologies to all.
I can’t sleep past six any more and I feel fortunate it if I make it to five.
These days I almost always awake several times a night, but I don’t allow myself to “do anything” until 4:45am and even then I still take my double espresso at 5:15.
So, my alarm is set to 5:15 for every day, but it’s not for when I should wake up, it’s for when I take my first drink.
Lol. Just drive 90 minutes for a pipe organ concert by Alan Morrison and it’s obvious the organ is malfunctioning today. The technician is testing the lower pipes and the valves are not filling opening and oscillating causing a pressure vibration in the sanctuary with no actual sound.
fully opening
Alanis Morrisette has gone tranny??
Would that be ironic?
It’s like 10,000 stops, when all you need is a pipe.
Her older gayer brother
Phrasing!
I get up early because I have to, otherwise…
I need to exercise in the morning, not early but after breakfast, if not I won’t. I don’t lift heavy things anymore, though they are still heavy for me. I like getting up early, even if I have to go to bed early. Early onset aging requires 8 hours or a little more of sleep.
“In other words, is sleeping to the last possible moment an act of resistance? Contrast this with waking up on purpose. “
I don’t think I’ve ever tried to stay in bed until I absolutely couldn’t (isolated exceptions notwithstanding). I think I’ve always gotten up relatively early. I’ve never understood staying in bed late – this is an interesting observation – people stay in bed because they expect their day to suck and be pointless. I guess I’m lucky that I have to go way back to having long hours at an unskilled labor job for anything like that.
I never had a job I didn’t like, I always went to work to enjoy myself.
I had bosses I didn’t like though. My mother told me not work for someone dumber than me, there were times I only learned enough to know it was time to move on. OTOH, when I was the boss I wanted to keep those that were smarter than me, made my job easier.
When you’re the smartest guy in the room, it’s tough not to work for someone dumber than you.
It’s been a humbling experience to meet the Glibs. At least I’m usually the tallest guy at a Glib meeting (ref: Honey Harvest). Some of the boys are pretty competitive though.
I used to be a night owl, but then I took a promotion that had me doing an hour commute to beat my drivers who started at 6am. Then, all of a sudden I flipped. Now I wake up, sans alarm, around 4:30-5:00.
Husband grew up next to railroad tracks with a 4:00 a.m. route. He also has severe sleep apnea (won’t use a CPAP because he calls it the “mask of doom”). He has to hit up the Tylenol PM to get to sleep (so do I). So he’s up around 3:30-4:00 a.m. That’s when he does much of his sweepstaking.
I am with him on the Mask of Doom. That man is on the right track!
(Try Melatonin to fall asleep. I have found it works great once you get the amount dialed in.)
CPAPs don’t help you fall asleep so much as they improve your quality of sleep. Apnea means you don’t really sleep much – you are constantly “surfacing” due to oxygen deprivation (which also causes brain damage).
He can’t get to sleep with the mask on. That’s the problem.
“He also has severe sleep apnea (won’t use a CPAP because he calls it the “mask of doom”).”
That sucks. I use one, and it has improved my quality of life. Plus, sleep apnea causes brain damage. I wouldn’t be without my CPAP.
The first two weeks I used CPAP it was the best thing in the world. And then it wasn’t. I tried different masks, BiPAP, DPAP, nasal pillows, going off caffeine for three months (that SUCKED), etc. and I could never reproduce the awesomeness of those two weeks. My guess is that, in my case, the CPAP was placebo effect.
AFAICT, some sleep doctors are convinced that CPAP will work for everyone and if it doesn’t work for you, you’re doing it wrong. Others seem to have a more nuanced view. I wound up having three surgeries. The first two (UPPP and Genioglossus Tongue Advancement) were done under the same dose of general anesthesia (i.e., “at the same time”, although they were done serially while I was under). The third, “BiMax” was done years later, after my apnea was much better, because if they had tried to do BiMax immediately I may have died on the operating table.
BTW, RCD, I’ll be out in Tucson for the Tucson marathon. Let me know if you’d like to meet up.
That was pretty much my experience with the CPAP. Worked great for about five nights. After that it prevented me from breathing at all.
I really should shop around for a sleep physician who isn’t an asshole…
I’ve replied, but there are three links in my reply, so it’s awaiting moderation.
It’s been awhile, but I recall trying 3(?) masks and taking some weeks to get it squared away and get used to i. It works for me. Nothing works for everybody, of course.
I’ve been using a CPAP since 1994. I can’t sleep without one.
I have often lain in bed crying, asking myself that question.
I have responsibilities. That has gotten me out of bed more than any excitement for the day.
😟
Sorry to hear that, Mojeaux,
That first cup of coffee, after the powder room trip, is worth getting up for. The day is brighter then.
I am not a terribly phlegmatic person.
I really, really wish the wife would go back to the office at least twice a week. I cannot get anything done around here with the constant Zooming, needing quiet to concentrate, and naps for “Brain Work” I want to finish remodeling the bathroom, and need to make quite a bit of noise to do that (belt sander to level some of the flooring) and when I finish that I need to get back to working on the stairs (this was the one piece of flooring that had carpet when we bought it, a sure sign it was going to be bad underneath. And, of course, it was.) And there are a dozens more projects, but they are all noisy.
/rant off.
It’s nice to be the one blamed for why “America can’t have nice things” because of our power.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-continuing-destructive-power-of-libertarianism/ar-AA13hYae?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=49500f61ddbb430798e26b069324665c
After I have my orphans cut this article into granite using only old popsicle sticks I will destroy the very stone with a concentrated jet blast of CFC’s and CO2 just to make Greta cry.
And everyone knows there are no limits whatsoever to the responsibilities that are within the purview of Congress, unless it’s something Democrats don’t like of course.
Those damn libertarians – secretly controlling everything by wanting to leave people alone!
BWAHAHAhahahahahaha
OK, let’s take a look.
…
Taps out after a few paragraphs. What planet is this person on?
Few? How did you make it past the first?
Planet Make Believe. That’s the planet where the Libertarian Party has been in power for decades. The society is so affluent people are interested in his fantasy.
Apparently there was a horde of complaints against the SSL security certificate for the website hosting RFK’s Fauci movie causing the host to take it down.
It’s been restored but there are obviously a lot of coordinated interests that don’t want it to be seen,
EF and I are headed out for a vacation in Charleston. No LH Jr., and plenty of time to soak in booze and good food.
GlibFit.
https://preview.redd.it/dnrbndceilv91.gif?width=540&format=mp4&s=4b0084e065ef5a603168e3d07ac0c6852b36c2a1
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/8zNAG/08dd2a9da22b95b634181ef143daf930414b9134.webp
NSFW.
https://preview.redd.it/idbmu0bnkkv91.gif?width=368&format=mp4&s=318eaea49c984601fd21da484392fe7aa6e80ca1
NSFW.
https://i.imgur.com/KtE5DHD.mp4
NSFW.
I would like to congratulate this week’s winner.
And that’s about perfect… or else my standards have slipped with age 🙂
I concur.
And now, drag queens.
I found this very illuminating, with info that was new to me.
TL;DR – those innocent drag queen story hours at the library are brought to you by explicit Marxists. Shocking, I know.
No way! They seem like ordinary people.
The bits about the originators of their “foundation” openly talking about destroying the family and the rest of the Marxist claptrap – without any shame – floored me. But of course, they’re clever enough to keep quiet about that stuff around parents.
Of course. That would give away the game.
The interesting question to be studied years from now by historians will be “how did anyone ever take the oppression bullshit seriously”?
Really good article. All parents should read it.
Actually, it would be super cool if school and library admins would read it.
Yeah but I afraid they are too far gone. Might be wasted on them.
Augered out 15 holes yesterday and dropped a 100 lb wood post at each hole today. Hoping to get an excavator to come out soon and drive each post in rather than using a sledge. Quite sore from just the auger and moving the posts around. I’ll chalk that up as my Glibfit for the weekend.
The wife and I loaded the posts in the back of a little lawn mower trailer, 4 at a time, since it was too tight for the tractor. Lashed the posts together with ropes but not to the trailer itself so it couldn’t flip while overloaded. I walked alongside to provide counterforce. Worked pretty well until my attention slipped and the trailer ran over my foot. It’s fine though.
That’s enough to refence one stretch of road front. Will probably take 25 posts to do the other stretch. Then 10” diameter sonotubes with embedded rebar for car control. That should do the trick.
>>Augered out 15 holes yesterday
Is this a STEVE SMITH story?
Well, it was a two man job.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1583512936437325824
Microsoft just unveiled the ultimate LGBTQIA+ Pride flag
I don’t see super-straight represented.
Aaaaand now I’m having seizures.
Straight Pride! I like teh ladies, peeps.
Saw that. Still not sure if real.
If it wasn’t, it will be.
Whatever.
Late-stage decadence.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/27/12/59573601-10956787-image-a-71_1656328390070.jpg
LOL
Ernst Rohm approves. LOL
Looks like relying on France for nuclear power as Europe’s backup energy option wasn’t such a good idea.
France’s Nuclear Reactors Malfunction as Energy Crisis Bites
The linchpin of the country’s energy security faces maintenance and pipe-corrosion problems plus labor unrest
https://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-nuclear-reactors-malfunction-as-energy-crisis-bites-11666517581
It’ll be okay though. France has solution modeled after Brussel’s ‘buy-high sell-low, price-fixing playbook’ for natural gas.
>>maintenance and pipe-corrosion
Trust me – it happens with age.
The strikers should have their power turned off.
It’s France. Of course the maintenance is behind schedule and the unions are on strike.
Those corrosion issues are known and predictable. All of the older nuke plants have them and shut down on regular schedules to replace pipes.
If they’re having difficulties with it, it’s not because they’re surprised.
Y’know the left sees Nazis everywhere. I am the point where I wish commies were being stomped everywhere. Or thrown out of helicopters.
But – that’s not happening. Nor will it ever unless the cultural war actually turns hot. And – to be honest – I don’t see that happening. People will bitch and moan but – outside of elections – I don’t see a real movement to actually strike back at the Marxists.
The lessons around how to slow-boil a populace are well-known by now. Where has anyone managed to strike back at Marxists with any success?
Our evolution to fascism has been slow-boil. The melodrama about Nazis belies the reality of our acceptance of Mussolini’s system.
Tonio!
Or is it?
This is interesting to me. I’ve never been able to lift in the morning. It takes my old bones awhile to start moving.
Should I order the book?
Hi Tundra. I think Tonio hit the wrong switch or button or whatever makes the website run. I wrote the article.
I like this book it’s short and, mostly, to the point.
Thanks, I figured.
I’ll order the book but lifting early hurts!
Speaking of books, Chafed, on Friday I got the “Pocket Book Edition” of Stretching per your recommendation. Even in this more compact format (still 240+ pages!) it looks as if it has PLENTY of information.
Best of all, even before trying out any of the stretches in the book, the “sciatic” symptoms I’ve been experiencing in my left leg for the last few weeks seem MUCH improved! (::knocks wood vigorously::) I’ve still been taking ibuprofen through the day and naproxen sodium before bed to keep the pain at bay, but the last couple of days I’ve lowered the dosage of NSAIDs – I’d been taking three ibus at a time, but for the last couple of doses, I’ve only taken one tablet. Dare I hope that what I’d feared might be the onset of a chronic condition might have been a temporary injury/strain? I’ll start stretching and continue with the water aerobics in hopes of preventing a relapse.
Sweet. You need to eliminate those fucking things. NSAIDs are fine for a day or two or recovering from some shit, but not for regular use.
Nice job, GT!
This.
If just ordering the book helped that much imagine what using the stretches will do.
Several members of the local beer club came over today. We crushed and pressed 12 bushels of apples to make cider.
I am whooped.
That’s not beer.
correct.
Beer Judge Certification Program has standards for cider and mead. Deal with it. 😉
Can anyone smash apples, or does it require a certification?
I would assume anyone can smash apples, but you can’t enter that organization’s competitions without the right certification.
Anyone can enter. Judging is a different story.
Wine geeks tend to reject anything outside their main focus.
Beer geeks seem to like to expand their horizons. Hence, BJCP provides standards of judging cider and mead as well as beer.
So, yes home beer brewers have shown more interest in making cider and mead that home wine makers. At least in my past experience.
Anyone can smash apples.
This is a fine thing.
So, you made whoopie?
👉👌
From your trees? Good ! Looks like we may see some cider next Sept.
Not my trees. My trees are totally out of control. Although we did get enough to make one awesome apple crisp.
1 apple crisp is way ahead of me. A neighbor that you saw but maybe didn’t meet brings me an apple crisp once in a while. She feels sorry for me. I did give her 2 baby trees from seed, she may regret it if they ever produce any apples.
That’s what next years are for, the apple crisps in our future.
My father had an orange tree that was a super producer, and every year I was tasked with handing out bags of fruit to the parents of all my friends.
Chafed. My dude. I love, and I mean love, that album. Laughing Man in the Devil Mask. Goodbye Lament. Into the Night.
Stellar choice.
Still working on managing my time. My plans never seem to survive contact with the enemy.
🤘🤘
I thought I was the only person who knew it existed. Of course, it’s not available on Spotify and a used CD is a bit pricey. I think I what I want for Chanukah.
In all seriousness, you may want to give this book a try. It’s amazing how starting your day right powers the rest of your day.
STRIKE!
https://twitter.com/BornAKang/status/1584054864178339840
Grey shirt may not be getting back up. Sounds like the back of his skull crunched on the curb.
If so, I wonder if that’ll be manslaughter charges or legit self defense of his friend. Probably depends on the circumstances leading up to it.
Kicking or stomping a downed opponent can be reasonably viewed as deadly force.
No way I would vote to convict from what is shown, not even for a misdemeanor charge.
Nice flying dropkick.
Vaginal rejuvenation.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20189258/bladder-battle-mum-three-kids/
Thunder
We’re having a fucking thunderstorm that last week of October.
Oh my. It got super hot and windy here. I am heading to Vegas shortly for some cooler weather. Never thought I’d say that.
I ❤️ thunderstorms and I ❤️❤️ the November rains.
I thought rainy days and Mondays always got you down.
Not even for Karen Carpenter will I refute my love of rainy days and my indifference to Mondays.
That just makes me sad.
“I don’t like Mondays.”
– some rats
Mondays are not my Waterloo. Tuesdays are.
https://youtu.be/PmDVsNnqK_Y
I guess the media is beginning to panic that the Dems won’t be able to fortify this election enough.
The “LA Times” goes “ohhh noooooes!” this is different. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voter-beware-divided-government-will-be-an-unholy-mess/ar-AA13hvRx?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6d3eec79e34d46a794f8da524c0f863b
Over at “The Atlantic” David French tries to explain to the Dems why the risk losing to Herschel Walker in GA over their abortion demands. I know it is DF but even a hog suffering from Covid finds an occasional truffle. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/herschel-walker-and-the-plight-of-the-true-conservative-voter/ar-AA13hqXg?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6d3eec79e34d46a794f8da524c0f863b
But the best article was a few days ago on MSN that I cannot now find online. It explained the horror of a GOP investigating biden and his cabinet “purely for political payback” and totally unlike the “brave and patriotic investigations” under Pelosi. The author was “fearful for democracy” if the House impeached biden in an “authoritarian populist” move. The progjection in the article would stand taller than a Saturn V.
I don’t expect a narrow GOP Congress able to accomplish much, but anything they did or didn’t accomplish would be better than Pelosi and Moobs. I would love to see a GOP Senate hold up and effectively kill Pelosi’s ambassadorship to Italy for no other reason than FYTW.
To have the committee actually publicly go over her, and her husband’s, financial dealings would be figure out to DVR CSPAN worthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM
I am reminded of the David French point on the graph illustrating a slippery slope.
There is no danger from leaving the job in Rome open. joe has not seen fit to fill it the entire time he has been the stand in for whomever is running the Executive Branch. After all it not like Italy is a country with a top 10 worldwide economy, important US military bases, a large number of US citizens with familial ties, the southern NATO HQ, and like biden is nominally Catholic. Oh wait…….
He can deny that he is holding the position on the Via Venatto for Nancy, but like his pants by mid-morning the entire thing stinks.
You could write a batch script to generate these articles, they are so tediously predictable.
It’s been done, more or less.
Translation: Boehner and Ryan were cuckservatives and we prefer them to the Freedom Caucus extremists.
It is interesting how, in the first paragraph, French talks about, with clear horror, someone running for the senate who might have a gun issue. But, nowhere does he talk about Fetterman, who is on record as running down a black man with a shotgun.
Interesting.
Go Pittsb—
Ah, fuck.
I have the game muted and therefor have greatly enjoyed the commentators.
I saw a mosquito the other day and fear my teeth are getting loose and old wounds are reopening. I better fix myself a G&T and continue to rock the house with Bonnie Raitt.
I’m enjoying my first beef stew of the autumn, and best I’ve made in ages. Pairs well with vodka-something highball.
Polycarbonate lenses my ass. One day in Puptown, and the whole thing scratches. Or, rather, has puppy teeth puncture marks. it is a good thing I like this dog, and that she is super cute, as she fully embodies terrier.
I still have bite-marks on my daily wear lenses from Maggie, RIP you bitch. 🙂
Thumbs up!
I like to get up early, log in to my work pc at home, answer emails, attend early telecons with east coasters, THEN have a little “me” time, breakfast, etc., and finally get dressed and ready for the morning commute.
I do not maintain a regular schedule, and that’s fine for me. As long as I get 8 hours, I’m good.
My job and my personal life require adaptability. I don’t care for routine. Some folks would probably hate it, but I like it.
I love routine 🙂
I’ve done the other way enough to not want that any more.
Re: the Fauci vid; even when he’s being interviewed by sympathetic media, Fauci comes across as an arrogant, insufferable prick.
That’s Mr. The Science to you!
I’d love to get into a routine and get up early in the morning, but I just can’t do it*. I’m a nightowl by nature and I have to fight to get myself to go to bed on school nights. I was in my element when I worked second shift. I’d get off at midnight and stay up until 3-5am. Sleep until noon, give or take an hour, and have a few hours to run errands and whatnot before going to work again at 3:30.
*I guess I’ve never really tried. Maybe I’ll check out this book.
I was all 2nd and 3rd shift until my 30s, and hated every minute of it even though I am also a night owl. Accomplishing shit before work never seemed right to me. I want me time at night, not work.
Finally I got a 9 to 5 job and it felt right for a couple decades until recently I can’t just sleep on command the way I used to.
I hear you on running errands before work. It did feel weird. I’m glad to have a day job, but I never have been able to kick the desire to stay up all night. I blame it on my clinical case of FOMO.
This. When combined with my inability to sleep past 7am anymore, sucks.
How many people are naturally night owls vs people who just stay up/sleep in cuz they are mentally screwed up?
*heartbeat increases
*eye twitches
I don’t know what you mean.
*gets out leather strop*
TCM is starting “Get Shorty”. Time to change my drinks to a strawberry frappe.
And change the channel.
The value of silence 👍
Without out it, I become an automaton.
Obvious Depeche Mode reference.
Gallagher make that video?
RGBT.
https://japantoday.com/category/national/'robbing-women'-japan's-sperm-donation-law-spurs-controversy
A casual Twitter search turns up hundreds of accounts touting the handsomeness, college degrees and athletic talent of would-be donors, who typically offer recipients either cups of semen for self-insemination, or impregnation via intercourse.
Can I buy you a drink?
I’ll have what she’s having.
Weird. https://japantoday.com/category/national/%27robbing-women%27-japan%27s-sperm-donation-law-spurs-controversy?comment-order=oldest
What did the receptionist say to the guy leaving a sperm bank?
“come again!”
Kid left home this morning, but forgot her house key. I don’t wanna leave the key under the mat. I left a message on the door telling her that her phone is in the mail box and to call me. I hid the keys somewhere outside the house and can tell her where when she calls me. I’m sure my little plan has some problems I’m not seeing. Ideas?
Someone sees the note and steals the phone?
I lost my keys in Germany once, and found them at the town’s lost and found.
Even in my teens I was cynical enough to be surprised at that.
And you knew to go there and check.
No, the host parents knew.
Yep. That’s one.
Leaving the key in the door may be a problem.
I did that once. I came home to find the keys still in the door and everything in my house replaced by replicas.
I’m currently printing this and it’s almost done. The anticipation is killing me.
It’s not a machine gun but it’s a start.
Good summary of the closest Senate races.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/20/ranking-the-11-competitive-senate-races/
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It’s hard to scribe. Trump hatred remains strong but most people vote with their wallets in mind. Biden’s admin has been nothing short of a disaster for most. The Reps will take the House handily and probably gain 3 seats in the Senate, barring fortification. The Gubernatorial races look equally bleak for The Dems.
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Tiffany Smiley is quiet on RKBA which seems odd but it would be nice for at least once in 20 years have a senator in WA that isn’t explicity anti-gun. I won’t hold by breath because Seattle/King County have a habit of suddenly finding more mail-in ballots.
Dino Rossi nods solemnly
Mornin! I slashed my finger open trying to get into a blister pack. The earbuds didn’t even fit in my phone.. Whoop whoop.
From the knife you were using to get in, or from the plastic? I ask because I’ve done it both ways. 😖
Blister packs are yet another decline in standard of living. I remember when the plastic was merely glued to a cardboard backing. Toy figures, office supplies, all of it. If it was even packaged.
They’re the infuriating work of the Devil.
Do you not own scissors?
I’ve cut myself on those fucking things even using scissors.
There’s some trick online that works, can-opener or something.
Packaging engineers hate this 1 weird trick !
At college, we used to joke about the packaging science majors.
I’m convinced this is their revenge.
I suppose at a tech school you’d have some pretty specialized programs. Were they the lowest on the totem pole?
Most unusual major at Miami/OH, at least on the STEM side, was Pulp & Paper Technology (later renamed Paper Science & Engineering.) Those who majored in it were, of course, known as “pulpheads.”
I don’t know where they stood on the totem pole because I was in the college of computing, so the people I generally interacted with were Comp Sci, It, Software Engineering, and sometimes MicroE folks (who had a chip fabrication lab in our building). The MechEs, EEs, and other hard engineering students had a different building.
Oh, the real bottom of the totem pole was anyone who was majoring in a liberal arts discipline.
RIT was not known for its liberal arts college.
I tend to use Exacto knives, but I have those around for hobbies and I’m accustomed to carving plastic.
I don’t care (for the moment) if the Astros are cheating shitbags. Sweeping the fucking Yankees is glorious.
Have a good night, friends. I have tomorrow off, so I’m going to go continue* my Amazon Prime sponsored, chronological viewing of every** James Bond movie.
*until I fall asleep…shortly
**the ones that matter.
** Casino Royale (1967)?
That was specifically the one I was thinking didn’t matter.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/24/stacey-abrams-fair-fight-action-00061348
$25m laundered. Not too shabby.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/ap/ap-sports/harpers-hr-powers-phillies-past-padres-into-world-series/article_2f397788-af48-5986-8919-08d7c52628f1.html
Sportsball. Meh.
Mornin peeps.
It is morning, Monday morning.
Maybe to you people. But I just got home from work, so its my evening.
And since I’ve worked the past 4 nights, and I’m off tonight, this is my Friday and tomorrow is my Saturday.
Its no wonder I never know what day it is.
“Its no wonder I never know what day it is.”
Good morning, Mr. President.
Life at the Fourscores
I’m already behind schedule.
See you guys when I reach the office.
suh’ fam
whats goody
What did the green grape say to the purple grape?
“Breathe!”
Breathe!
+ Jesus Built My Hot-Rod
Its a miracle today.
Good Morning.
“Miracle” usually has good connotations! Do tell!
And good morning, ‘bodru, homey, U, RoaT, Sean, Stinky, and rhy!
just a reference from the title of this post.
I think most of us here are more “morning person” than not.
Coincidentally its supposed to rain here, looking at getting an inch today.
I’m a night owl. I just get up this early because my hours are set up to let me get in to wrok before traffic and before the parking lot fills up, also letting me get home with a reasonable chance of getting a place to park. Given how stressful traffic is, making myself wake up for work is easier on me than dealing with that many people.
Ah! Of course! I hope you get a miraculous amount of rain. I know you’ve needed it for a long time!
Also, obligatory. (::giggles, runs away::)
Its been a very challenging year for sure.
Maybe next year will be better.
You’re a monster.
There’s a certain agency near downtown Dayton for homeless/runaway/”troubled” youth called “Daybreak.”
Guaranteed ear worm every time I drive past it. Every. Single. Time.
The other day there was some discussion about inheriting music tastes from older siblings.
In addition to the typical hard-rock I got from one brother, I got Barry and Barbra from another one. 🙄
A miraculous morning it is. Bonjour to you and the rest of the merry reprobates.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Continuing to recover comfortably, I hope?
And the Yankees got swept! That’s certainly making ME feel better! 😁
“And the Yankees got swept! That’s certainly making ME feel better!”
#metoo. Mitigates the discomfort to some extent.
Neat first person view of a Russian pilot ejecting from a jet:
https://youtu.be/34-4D-MmR4I
A very, very close call for the pilot no doubt.
Is that Russian for “I’m glad I write my brown pants today”?
wore
Translation from the comments (the chatter I guess with his wingman):
“Bro, it’s okay.”
“Yes, I’m watching.”
Sounded calmer than I would have been.
Very little swearing in this one.
I am dragging this morning. I think the stress of the past couple of weeks just caught up.
I’m sorry to hear that! Are you in a position to take some time off anytime soon?
Not for a couple of months at least. It’s seven days a week until I get the books in order and AP under control.
Good Morning all,
While it may appear I’m late to the party I was catching up on the overnight follies. Good to see everyone and hope you all have a good start of another week.
We can watch and laugh at our betters in the news but we get to reap the pain, nonetheless.
I came here to post a miracle morning /sarc. I was an hour late.
o.O
(-.-) (._.)
I guess it is a miracle morning! This post is still alive!
Somebody has a case of the Mondays!
*bleep* you, you *bleep*ing *bleep*!
/Still asleep
The MIRACLE Mondays!
You’ll get your ass kicked saying something like that.
I thought maybe wordpress was back to doing that thing where it won’t refresh to the most recent post.