Fourscore
This month’s book is “Empire of the Summer Moon” the history of Quanah Parker and the Comanches. Many are familiar with the story of the capture of Cynthia Parker and her integration into the Comanche society. SC Gwynne goes into a the history of the Southwest Indians starting with the Spanish exploration and attempts at civilizing the Indians of the period.
A lot of detail about the Comanche history pre Cynthia’s capture as a 9 year old and the conflicts of tribal rivalry. The life of Quanah Parker, the offspring of Cynthia and her Indian husband, his youth and rise to dominance in the tribe is an interesting biographical sketch of the Southern Plains tribes.
The destruction of the buffalo and advancing dominant civilization doomed the lives of these early Americans.
Is history repeating itself, albeit with different players and circumstances?
Richard
Someone here mentioned the The Chronicles of St Mary’s series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/109102-the-chronicles-of-st-mary-s
So I thought I’d give it a shot. I didn’t care much for how it starts, I think the protagonist is a Mary Sue, but I persevered for the first three books which have some funny moments. Then series basically reboots and I didn’t find it entertaining so I quit during the fourth book.
Now I’m near the end of the second book of Larry Correia’s Target Rich Environment series:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38531439-target-rich-environment
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43822377-target-rich-environment-volume-2
These short story collections are fantastic, some of the best reading I’ve had in a long time. If you like anything Correia has written then you’ll like these books.
R.J.
Reading Now:
David Nobbs: “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.” I suggested this to others but never finished this. Finally getting around to finishing it. That same author had done a whole series, including “The Return of Reginald Perrin” and “The Better World of Reginald Perrin.” I am looking for those now. Pathos and humor go so well together.
Patrick McManus: “The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw.” Somebody here has suggested reading Patrick McManus. Short funny stories perfect for reading while traveling.
Aspirational Reading List:
“The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike.” I may never get to it, but I keep this on the list. A massive two volume compendium from the University of Oklahoma press. This is the guy who climbed Pike’s Peak (odd they should have the same last name. Must be a coincidence). This is massive, annotated and has fold out maps. I feel it is important to keep reading history first hand as so many people with ill intent are trying to revise it.
The Hyperbole
J Todd Scott The Flock (2022) **½ A couple of murders and a kidnapping lead back to a Branch Davidian/Waco-ish cult/fed massacre, hints at some supernatural shit but leaves it just ambiguous enough.
Robert Crais The Monkey’s Raincoat (1987) **½ Elvis Cole and Joe Pike book one, Run of the mill LA based detective story, stolen coke, gangsters, kidnapping, daring rescue/shoot out… I’ll probably read the next one but if the characters and or the plot doesn’t get more interesting I won’t read many more.
Fredric Brown Homicide Sanitarium (1984 (stories from 1938-49)) **** Collection of detective stories from pulp author possibly better known for his Sci-fi, not quite as hard-boiled as Hammett or Chandler.
Dashiell Hammett The Continental Op: 21 Classic Detective Stories (2022 (stories from 1923-26)) **** title says it all
Joe Lansdale Bleeding Shadows (2022) *** Collection of stories and some poems. Horror, crime, Sci-fi western all of Joe’s favorite genres, as usual in collections there’s good and not so good here, the Nat Love stories being particularly good.
Starting Rousseau’s First and Second Discourses.
Cynthia Parker captive seems to have inspired the ‘Stands with fist” woman in “Dances with Wolves.”. Has there been any alternative histories written that show another plausible outcome for the native American population in North America?
Well, there was this one guy who postulated the impact of landing the cream of Roman society in pre-Columbian America…
We’re seeing similar attempts today with the Green Movement and Woke. trying to change a whole population into some culture we’re totally unfamiliar with. The difference being that it took a couple hundred years to reach this point of industrialization/urbanization and the new religion is only a few years old.
The Years of Rice and Salt. One of the few Kim Stanley Robinson books that I actually enjoyed.
The premise is that the Black Death killed 90% of Europe. So the Chinese and middle eastern people colonized the Americas from separate coasts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt
Sounds interesting.
Guessing the present day kind of sucks in that world.
The Orson Scott Card Seventh Son series had the natives utilize their tribal magic to isolate themselves from the settlers.
Elvis Cole is one of my favorite detective characters. Don’t give up without reading LA Requiem<\em>. Would probably be good to read the one in set In Louisiana in between so you know why he has a girlfriend with a French name. Also, don’t read many set after LAR. Crais kind of left that universe without anywhere to go but down.
Agree with this 100%.
This month has seen me plowing through Stephen Kotkin’s “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941”. Richly footnoted and full of Russian intrigues and counter-intrigues. Since as a group we are kulaks and wreckers I thought it was a good time to see what and how the progressives’ plan to deal with us. Recommended
“Godforsaken Sea” by Derek Lundy. A good account of the 1976-1977 around the globe solo (and non-stop) sailing race. I am interested in reading about the Southern Ocean, and have seen it a couple of times. Sailing it solo as fast as I can go? Nope right out of that.
“Going Back to Bisbee” by Richard Shelton. I saw early this month that RS died recently so opened this volume for the first time in decades. What a great read. If you have been to the Sonoran desert and the surrounding grasslands I highly recommend this book.
Something else which already slips my mind so I don’t recommend it. Since today starts my 64th lap around the Sun I will be grilling a porterhouse later today.
Congrats! You’ve made it this far, seems like every trip is faster but a little/lot harder. Good show!
Happy birthday, brother!
Missed that in my first read. Congrats, dbleagle!
🎁🎂🎈🎉🍸
Congrats! Hope there’s some quality tipple to go with that porterhouse. And for after.
I hear 64 is the new 35.
Mahalo!
Guten birthtag!
Happy Geburtsday!
Congrats on making it through another round about the sun!
I complete my 64th rotation in a bit over a week.
Near the end of my 53rd.
Once again tax day falls on a weekend 🙂
Well done. You, I mean. Cook the steak rare.
Happy Birthday Dbleagle!
Happy barfday!
I am a huge fan of The King’s Blades novels by Dave Duncan. I had thought there were only six full novels and three YA novellas (which I hadn’t bothered to read), but I found out there were two more written before he died in 2018. Good luck trying to find either of them for sale at a reasonable price, even used. So over this weekend I read one directly from a website page by page, and found the other in a pdf file, which I finished last night. One of the final two novels includes characters from the YA novellas, so I said ‘fuck it’ and ordered those from Amazon.
I like some YA now and then, from the right authors.
Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Interesting tale of King Arthur’s court written in the 14th Century.
Finished “Death Comes For The Archbishop.” I really enjoyed it.
Still working on “Storm of Steel.” WWI sucked.
Read the first two Jack Carr novels. “The Terminal List” was quite entertaining, but I didn’t enjoy “True Believer” as much. Is there any reason to keep going in the series?
About a third of the way through “Hollywood’s Last Golden Age” by Jonathan Kirshner. He explores some films made between 1967 and 1976 and discusses how they reflect the societal upheaval of the time. So far I hate it and hate him. Turns out he’s a college professor who thinks Keynes is pretty cool and RFK was the messiah. Perfect example of buying a book because I love movies of that era, but looking at it trough the lens of a boomer lefty is painful. I’m gonna give it a little more time, but this one may end up in the DNF pile.
From the dedthread.
Have fun, see how much you can impact DC or your hometown.
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
It needs some work. It seems to think that Tucson is in the ocean(?). A smallish iron asteroid hitting downtown Tucson would only kill a couple hundred people, but would leave a crater into ocean floor and create a huge tsunami.
If the asteroid is headed my way I won’t be here tomorrow, along with an estimated 12 neighbors
Just nuked myself. Oops. This is why I’m not allowed to play with asteroids. Damn Heinlein.
That’s fantastic, thanks!
2001VB would be a really bad time if it hit anywhere other than the middle of the ocean – then it’d _just_ be a mile-high tsunami.
Started Night Soldiers, by Alan Furst. Not sure where I got the recce for this one, but it is really good. Premise: a kid from some town in the Bloodlands gets recruited into the KGB before WWII. Extremely well written. I’m not that far into it (I seems to have less time for reading than I would have thought), but can recommend. First of what looks like a pretty long series of spy novels.
Alan Furst does some of the best WWII-era spy novels I’ve ever read. One of my favorite novelists.
They are terrific. Sheldon recommended them and I read the first bunch. Great stuff!
That one, and Dark Star are my favorites. Not too sure about his more recent ones, as I haven’t read them.
I’ve been looking for another classic mystery writer (not very hard, but still), and just downloaded several from John Dickson Carr. So literally today I’m starting “The Blind Barber”. I always like and re-read Christie and Sayers, so hope’s up here.
And R.J, when you finish that McManus, I’d recommend that you pick one of his old ones next, like “A Fine and Pleasant Misery”, or “They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They”.
I assume you’ve done Rex Stout? If not, recommended. Nero and Archie are a great combo. The 2 year series with Timothy Hutton as Archie Zna Maury Chakin as Nero were good, occasionally great.
Well, I just read this:
https://jeffgoldstein.substack.com/p/a-re-declaration-of-independence?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1050295&post_id=110822542&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
And I have to say, it deserves a standing ovation. I suspect most of the misfits hereabouts would agree.
Damn! Thanks – best summation I’ve seen.
That is fantastic.
I like books with maps. (Probably how I got through LOTR) Hype, could you let us know what book that is, or did you just like the pic?
I’m just re-reading Animal Farm now. I do have a couple books on Statistics up on deck, as well as my old Chemistry textbook, along with Peter Wyden’s Bay of Pigs . I might get what dbleagle’s reading (the Kotkin), that sounds like my kind of fare.
Waiting for Hitler is volume 2 of what will be a three part biography.
Volume 1 is “Stalin: Paradoxes of Power” and volume 3 is TBP.
Thx, dbleagle, I looked through it at thriftbooks.com . I’ll probably wait now for the whole series to finish, then buy them used. Thanks again for the FYI. I don’t know why, I love NF History (and sometimes alt history like Timeloose is talking about.)
BTW, Bay of Pigs is a good intro to that whole eponymous mess, but there are probably some better follow-ups that go more into the connivance of the CIA regarding that matter. I’m sorry that I didn’t follow up to be able to rate any other histories of that mess, but I thought it would mostly be details and small corrections at that point.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/bay-of-pigs-the-untold-story_peter-wyden/329727/?resultid=41a6c9ec-28ae-4de9-8eb6-0750c8777142#isbn=0671240064
Should have spelled it out: I love non-fiction.
You might not want to wait for volume 3. The first two volumes were published a few years apart and more than that time has expired w/o an anticipated release date.
R.J. sent along the picture so I’m 99% sure it’s the book he mentioned – “The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike.”
That is from the journals of Zebulon Pike. I read such ridiculous things that I feel the need to take pictures of it so he doesn’t think I am pulling his leg.
I like books with linguistic appendices. I skipped LOTR and went straight there. Ditto with this one.
I have three books going right now. First, Crime on the Solent an early 30’s British mystery. Not sure where it is going, but the opening neatly describes the cement production business, along with business in that era of time. For that alone it is pretty good, but we shall see about the crime.
Second, Joseph Conrad’s The Shadow Line. like all Conrad, wonderfully evocative, and as this one is semi-autobiographical, you learn directly about his sea years, the white man in Malaysia, and his biggest issue; can you be true to your humanity when you are the conqueror.
Last, Ernst Junger’s The Forrest Passage, this was reprinted during the Trump years as a philosophy of living during a tyrannous regime, but it seems much more apropos now. And, as many of you know, he was a very well regarded soldier during WWI, an officer during WWII, and lived under communist tyranny. A man to listen too.
That reminds me. I need to pick up Heart of Darkness. I’ve recently seen some vids on the Belgian Congo under Leopold…
That was one of the things I got out of his “Lord Jim” – I know all those islands from when I lived there. The Bugis “colony” in Java that was beseiged by the other sultan – that was great conceptually.
Enjoyed “Victory” and “Almayer’s Folly” a lot too. Been planning on checking out the movie of “Victory” for a few years now – should probably get around to it sooner rather than later.
Still re-working through Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (since work is super slow and I spend most of my time online – till this Friday).
All good, lots of interesting 60s-70s era ANCAP/paleo Lib material.
In other news – probably too local for WI glibs – one of my buddies from my reserve unit is getting screwed over by a town council (big taxpayer $$$ too). This may make him a little more libertarian – already pointed him towards @morlockp’s #barnlaw saga.
https://www.wiscnews.com/columbus-city-council-opts-for-new-development-over-preservation/article_d0c052a6-08ff-5131-be7b-41c3231d4806.html (also relates to bees/honey)
Gonna be started on Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (although, Glibbies, you should see this book; it is a freaking work of art). Then I shall start Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is in preparation for me starting a series on LIW and later maybe Rose Wilder Lane (as part of one of the mothers of libertarianism).
Oooooooh, there’s gonna be a third one!
Yes please! The content on this site just keeps getting better and better.
So I was looking for a specific quote to start it off, and found the seed-wheat taking incident.
Pa actually went there to buy some. Almanzo denied having the wheat, but Pa took it out of the wall and then insisted on paying for it. They settled on 25c, then Almanzo invited him to have pancakes.
That scene is still fresh in my head despite having read the book 40-ish years ago.
I decided to title it “Laura Ingalls Wilder fucked me up.” LOL
Conte’s out at Spurs.
I assume they’re going after Nagelsmann.
OFFS. This game of musical chairs at the top of various leagues is getting tiresome.
Finished reading Fields of Fire by James Webb. Currently reading Across the Northern Ice about the theory that the first people in the Americas came from Europe rather than Siberia.
On an unrelated note, I fixed our TV by replacing the backlights, and I’m feeling pretty good about myself. Saved about $700.
Well, this is fucked up.
https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/status/1639934790026555394
Scruffy was right. They are doing everything they can to kill crypto.
If this is accurate, it looks like they’re killing a lot more than that.
Horrible Deed By Federals In Virginia by: Mr. R. D. Stewart
Payback is a bitch.
“A World Undone”
About WW one. Haven’t there already been enough books about WW1? Nope. There will never be enough. It was the beginning of the fall of Western Civilization.
Great book so far. Nice balance of facts and opinion, diplomacy and battles.
I’m listening to the Audible version.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Undone-Story-Great-1914/dp/0553382403
There will never be enough. It was the beginning of the fall of Western Civilization.
I agree with your take. Still working my way through Storm of Steel and no matter how many times I think I’ve read everything, that fucking war finds a new gear.
WWI was the end of the age of kings, and we are still working on what comes next. I listened to the audible of A Short History of the Spanish Civil War. And while it was all too clear where the authors sympathy’s lay, it seems that atrocities were committed on both sides, and the genesis of it really comes from the death of the Spanish empire, and with it the fall of the royal house.
Kind of a war axiom.
Ever shall it be thus. The scale and intent is what can differentiate between combatants.
Yes, but the modern way is to blame everything on Franco’s side, while ignoring the socialists and their slaughter of anything religious and bourgeois. Franco was supported by the middle class, as they were losing everything to the socialists in the urge to purge, so to speak.
That sounds familiar.
I can recommend “Castles of Steel” by Robert Massie is a great account of the naval war in WWI. It was far more extensive than U-boats and Jutland. I had it on cassette tapes and it wasmy accompanying noise for a cross continent move. It made it from CA to NC and still had a couple of tapes to go when I arrived.
It was the beginning of the fall of Western Civilization.
This is one where the Europeans really are ahead of us; most Americans really don’t get this.
They are the canary in the coal mine.
If my ex doesn’t sign the divorce settlement papers and instead requires it to go to full Nevada court process, I’m going to seek custody of the cats.
Cat pictured in my avatar is Oscar. I miss Oscar and Felix.
Best of luck ‘Splosives.
Aww, cutie.
I heard we had an Ozzie and Harriet when I was a baby.
The proper response is “Nice pussy”.
🙂
Thanks for the levity. I need it!!
Don’t get her started.
That’s no fun.
If he’s ostensibly trying to get the cats – 99% he’s trying to play you. (If anyone has dispute, let me know.) I’m trying to get to reality here, not win a point., FYI. Act cool about the cats (I know if you love them it’ll be hard.) and agree to let them go (yes, I know this will be insanely hard). But something significant could come up where you could add in control of the cats as a factor. Ideally, it would be a point in your favor.
All that said, I’ve never had a legal split, so….
Considering the squatters rights case on daily mail, the best case may be to just rescue them.
Sorry for the above reply. Save your kitties. I think he’s still just trying to mess with you, Hi-X, but there’s no real reason not to fight for them if you want them. Even if it’s just a “F-U” response from him.
That’s interesting they are a point of contention. When my wife filed, it was clear I was taking the dog. In truth, she was probably relieved not to have the responsibility.
And Ted’S is right. Nice pussy.
Glibfit for me was moving a lot of packing boxes, as well as taking the dog up to the trailhead of the state forest that borders the old house. Despite the fact that both parking areas were almost full at 10:45 on a Sunday morning, we only saw one group of bikers.
Sonny remembers the shortcuts, and wanted to take the trail that leads back to the old house….
I think I missed this news. Where’s the new house?
I posted it last night. We moved about a week ago closer to Kingston, someplace that’s got municipal water and sewer. And other 21st century conveniences like real high-speed internet, and a dishwasher.
Technically I’m no longer in the Catskills, as we’re not in the Catskill Park Preserve. But, closer to all the shopping, and no 1000-foot driveway on a hill to have to plow. And with the high-speed internet, I’ll be able to do WFH.
This all sounds good.
Nice! Sounds like a great move. In a few weeks all will be sane!
THAT’S FANTASTIC!
I missed this news as well.
Ok, then.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1639927659764371456
Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.
I recently finished Asher’s Cowl. I love Asher but unless you’re a completionist, I cannot recommend it.
Currently reading (local author) Max Gladstone’s The Ruin Of Angels, book 6 of his Craft Sequence.
I picked up an omnibus of the first five a few years back and enjoyed them very much; so far, so good with book six.
Agreed on both counts. Cowl is, imnsho, Asher’s least work. Gladstone is generally very good, although Empress of Forever does not live up to the Craft Sequence.
What’s up, party people?
Fuck off, TulpaHowdy, stranger!It really is old-timers week.
Beat goes boom?
“It was the beginning of the fall of Western Civilization.”
We are so far along because we’ve lost touch (deliberately or not) with what made America unique and great. I sat through a 4 hour meeting last Saturday that was preparing the County’s historical societies for the “America 250” celebrations in 2026. Maybe 60 or 70 of us. Speaker after speaker, and commenter after commenter, pointed how how we can focus on historical structures, discuss slavery and the Lenape, talk about agriculture and grist mills, discuss the river systems that transported settlers inland and brought their goods out, about how the colonials dressed, blah blah, blah. Finally, I had enough. I stood up and said that we were forgetting the one thing that made America unique, and it wasn’t some old cabins or what Farmer Jones planted or ate for lunch or his agricultural equipment – those characteristics can be found in other countries too. What made America unique was its professed system of self-government, respect for individual rights and property, and a constitutional republic that became the model for the world. “That’s what we need to put front and center in 2026.” Got some head nods and a few folks came up afterward to express appreciation.
Perfect. Well done, creech.
Nice.
Bravo!
Huzzah!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Train
Why do I keep getting logged out?
Yous guys trying to tell me something?
Happens to me too.
Because fuck you, that’s why?
Might be your browser. I have no issues. You been talking to The Man or something?
Past 3 or 4 days. Work pc and Kindle tablet.
Work pc is a bad thing to use. Kindle is using… Chrome? Maybe try a different browser if possible.
No problems on Edge – I get logged out after the usual 2 or 3 weeks or whatever it is.
As long as I log in every few days, I never get logged out in Brave or FireFox.
Are you back again?
I can’t log in and my internet is out. What’s the score of the Cal game?
Update from Gordilocks (https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/the-mid-america-trucking-show)
Jerk chicken tonight. So damn good.
I used habaneros because it’s difficult to get scotch bonnets. I should probably try growing them.
They named a chicken dish after Bro?
Fillet o’ first?
Lol
You should be eating First chicken. It’s hella better than jerk chicken.
You will thank me later.
Good eats. Love me some jerk chicken. I use habaneros, garlic, ginger and green onions pulsed in the processor with some olive oil and lime juice with a healthy amount of allspice and salt and a few dashes of cinnamon and ground clove. So damn good.
There’s a First down yonder. You’d have seen it if you weren’t too busy gazing at your fucking navel.
The Army brought back it’s “be all that you can be” campaign. With Jonathan Majors at the center of it because nothing speaks to your recruits like an overrated (seriously, the guy has no notion of subtlety), coddled black actor from NY. But what’s funny is that they have now pulled the ad.
He is the new Idris Elba, only far less talented, ugly as fuck, and apparently likes to beat women. The media has been fawning over him for about a year now despite him doing absolutely nothing to earn it and watching it blow up in their faces is glorious. Naturally, this is the guy the Biden admin decided to use to sell the Army to people. All style (with no real style) and no substance.
Never heard of him but to be fair I’m not really up on the Ant-Man threequel scene.
I only pursued this in order to verify your “ugly as fuck” claim and well, yeah – he’s not a man I would give a second look at.
He was in the third Creed movie, too. He’s basically the guy Disney is banking on carrying Marvel for the next few films because they have no one else to bank on so they’ve probably pushed the media into hyping him up endlessly.
They’ve basically removed or castrated any other masculine character.
They get special bonus points for “diversifying” the Army historically showing shots of black soldiers in the trenches of WW1.
There were Negro regiments in WWI and two “Colored Divisions”. Unlike the rest of the US Army, Pershing permitted these two divisions to fight under French command.
But to your larger point. It glosses over history to try to show something the US Army was not at that time.
dbleagle, thx for your replies above.
It would be wonderful if Team Red wins the presidency in 2024 and uses David Goggins for Navy recruiting. Look it up kids. He appeared in their ads years ago.
Actual style
https://youtu.be/E_OCDJIT344
The Gamma Goat was a crapstastic vehicle. We had them in my company when I was LT for the mortar platoon. Those 6 wheeled POS rarely could leave the motor pool.
Even at jump school in 1980 they showed us that commercial.
Nice stache
I flipped on PlutoTV so I could watch some Star Trek:TNG to turn my brain off. They had the very first episode on. Man, the first season was just awful.
The first two eps are a good story.
Yeah, the rest of season one is shit and it’s amazing they renewed it but Trek was so revered even then that inertia carried it forward.
Don’t get me wrong. I was routing for it from the beginning. I wanted to like it. But I suffered through that first season. The second season was a breath of fresh air right from the start.
Sorry Rhy but I did not enjoy the Farpoint episodes.
Routing = rooting
Rhy’s correct about the 1st season as are you, Chafed. Bad episodes, a series of road apples. TNG Second season was somewhat better, then third season and they got relatively good & more consistent. Unfortunately, everyone was out of patience when Enterprise came around with their 1st couple seasons. Turned out patience didn’t help with Discovery, and Picard’s probably going to be too short to benefit from them finally getting a clue (apparently, going by reviews stating it’s much better than 1st two seasons).
Pretty much, only DS9 and TOS had anything going into their first couple years. Voyager was kind of mediocre throughout. Still, I (mostly) like Trek, so I watched it.
Enh, it was a good story. Told poorly. The difference in quality from the rest of that season, and apparently budget spent, only became clear to me many years later.
As for Voyager… I like it. I think it has a lot of very good individual stories that get missed due to all the hatery.
There’s a couple of decent S1 episodes, imo. Or as decent as future seasons. Lots of stinkers for the entire run.
Season 2 was also shit.
Well that was fun. Just watched the remastered bluray of “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man”. Great stuff. I’d seen some Fields and McCarthy stuff before, but not in a big, full length flick. Great jokes. Will definitely pick up some more of these great remastered editions (pretty cheap too).
Its not necessarily that Bergen does a perfect job not moving his mouth, but the banter and wit at top speed is definitely another thing almost like watching Groucho and Chico go at it about the Sanity Clause. (blu-ray was night and day compared to this version).
Sigh. Unhappy tidings. Judi spent the last year trying to get her son into assisted living and he has apparently blown that to hell. Turns out that the people running those things don’t cotton to drug dealers. Next stop, rehab. Of course I know what happened, he was happy to have a roof and three squares in mid-winter but now that the Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, wonder where my meth-head is? So predictable. Nobody listens to Cassandra. I am financially and physically broken. My GP is not going to like my BP on Wednesday. I just wish it would end. Come on SMOD! Really dug Secret Commie President, Penguin!
Festus, I’m sorry three hots and a cot weren’t good enough for the step son. I do think it’s amazing how some individuals never seem to recognize what they have, although I am no one to be criticizing others for short-term thinking. As for other things, hope you can get metoprolol (or an equivalent) in Canuckistania. It’s worked wonders for me. Basically, a generic, $32 a year, BP around 130/80 or less so long as I use it 2x /day. Sorry, don’t know the conversion to metric.
Thank you for the SCP ref. I was really worried about that. Turns out the people who liked it previously still like it now. Go figure. I just gotta keep on top of it, and deliver at least a few funny lines. Next up, ST:TNG Missing Episode 2, then another SCP.
But way more importantly, I hope you can settle family issues. I also know how hard that can be, being a mule-headed prick who didn’t listen to his parents for 2 years. I did wind up getting that degree, though. All hope is not lost.
Received in solidarity, good friend!
Sorry that your news isn’t better, Festus. But it’s nice to see you, so to speak.
Ditto. Saw your post last night Festus and thinking as suck as it is, you’re still getting your own beers. 🍻
Indeed. Sorry it took so long to respond. You are a great contributor, Festus, and I value your contributions, as well (as the convos we had on Zoom). Also, for
“and deliver at least a few funny lines” I should make that “and deliver so many funny lines they pee in their pants” b/c that’s what I’m aiming for, but whatever. That’s actually a bit more negative than I want.
I wish I could help in a more direct way, but, well……..there’s a reason why we libertarianize. And my hopes for the best. Hopefully, Trudeau will be gone soon in a good world. Bon chance, mon ami ! (sorry, I’m a frog)
You are a good man, Festus, and may cosmic justice actually start working for you, as it should.
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning.
How goes things with you?
Have to drop off soon to go to the ghee mines.
Fun.
That’s awfully early. 😴😴
Insomnia is a lovely thing.
/sarc
Good morning, U (so sorry you didn’t sleep well!) Ted’S., Sean, and ‘bodru!
Last week of the month – at work, my draft of the Board minutes is done, I’m caught up on plugging loan recovery payments so far in March, i’ll get info about the charged-off loans, and today I process the third pay of the month – from which no health insurance premiums will be deducted! 😃🥳 (Apparently our PEO can divide our share of the monthly premiums by two, but they can’t multiply it by 12 and then divide that by 26.)
Math is hard.
Actually I can see some manager going “It’s a monthly premium. We are going to charge that much each month.”
“…and twice a year, we give everyone an ‘insurance holiday.’ Isn’t that generous of us?” 🙄
So where are you going for your insurance holiday?
Well, ackshually, the day before (Thursday) I go in for a routine mammogram. 😖 So…yippee?
Hopefully there’s nothing more than the discomfort of the test.
Thanks. No family history, so I’m not concerned.
Mornin’, GT. Hope the mammo goes well. I like to dump on the medical profession, and they have lately done much to earn contempt, but routine mammo screenings are one of the good things, caught Mrs. Patzer’s tumors very early when they were readily treatable.
Oh my! So glad they caught hers in time, and I hope there’s never any recurrence!
Insomnia is evil.
Good Freaking Morning.
Morning.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Time to go appliance shopping. First-born patzer comes to me last night, says “Something’s wrong with the microwave. “What’s up?”, say I. “Sparking a little”. Of course I have to check this out, and when I turn the damn thing on spectacular arcing commences complete with sci-fi sound effects. Pulled the plug and apologized to the spawn for doubting hom.
Did you remove the foil liner from the box?
No, but I did check the thermostat.
Yikes! 😳 And not even any old AOL discs in there being “kiln-fired” into coasters?
(Also, good morning, ‘patzie!)
I wubs my Panasonic inverter from Costco, not that you were seeking recommendations.
Good morning, TO’G! Warehouse clubs are indeed good for small appliance deals. Loyal Sam’s Club member here. (Never been to Costco, as the only local one is on the opposite side of the metro area.)
Thanks for the recommendation. We need a very specific size to fit in the space over the oven, not sure if that would fit the bill.
The macrowave to microwave converter must have failed.
Come on now, the actual name of the key component is too sci-fi to not use.
It’s a Cavity Magnetron.
Its way to early for me to get my science on.
check the radar range
Bingo! Also, the light show resembled your avatar.
I’m annoyed when the solution to an issue wasthe embarassingly simple one.
I’m working on cleaning up roles in an application, so in dev I created some test users and a simplified form of the environment. Friday My first test user couldn’t see what it was supposed to despite the rights looking correct.
Turns out permissions only refresh if I log them out fuly and log back in. 🙁
One-finger salute FTW!
OK, So i generally don’t trust polls……
https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/26/2016-all-over-again/
People are noting/suggesting that Desatnis is significantly behind Trump. It seems tediously early for this sort of analysis. While I wish Trump could decimate the deep state, i dont think he is smart enough.
I told my wife yesterday that Trump will be the one. Since every Presidency gets worse than the previous one Trump looks to be the one to make that happen. When folks say no one could be worse than Biden they haven’t reckoned with the vengeance of a scorned Trump.
Good morning to all y’all,
” my draft of the Board”
GT, you scared me, remembering the draft of the board some 65 years ago that changed my life for the following 20 years.
Hoo boy, I sweated that one out. By the time I came of age a lottery was in place and my number was high enough to avoid an extended vacation in Vietnam.
Abolish the Select Service System.
Only after they register the ladies.
SNL is still funny every now and then.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/24/saudi-tv-airs-snl-style-skit-mocking-joe-biden-kamala-harris/
“Saudi Night Live”
*clicks refresh*