Wherein I Aspie the Shit Outta My Trip
In our last episode, I went over how it came to be that a landlubber like me got roped into taking a Caribbean cruise.
Once the decision was made, I just had to research the ever-loving hell out of what a cruise is actually like. Enter: YouTube.
I found there are two types of cruise YouTubers: “How to Get the Best Deals” and “Personal Vlog”. I watched a lot of both kinds, mainly to get an idea of what to expect. Those of you who have seen me at my drunkest on Zoom may find this shocking, but I hate making an ass of myself in public. And cruising has its own etiquette and social rules. Where you can and can’t go, tipping, drinking, poolside manners – it was all unfamiliar to me.
It turned out my favorite type of YouTube was the “Personal Vlog” kind. I liked peeking into people’s drinking and dining and socializing lives on board a cruise ship. I learned which cruise lines and routes are riddled with kids/families, which ones skewed old and sedate, which had the good food, how excursions are run, etc.
I did find that the line I would be cruising on, Holland America (aka HAL), does not court the social media crowd. Very few YouTubers make videos on HAL, which is a shame. It’s essentially free or low-cost advertising for the line. Oh, well. I ran through the few HAL videos in short order and moved onto videos about other cruise lines. If I ended up wanting to do more cruises, these would come in handy.
By the end of it, I felt I was prepared fairly well to keep the foolishness to a minimum.
Here are a small sampling of my favorite CruiseTubers:
Cruise With Ben and David: very much the “personal vlog” style, these two northern Brits always inject humor into their videos, even when the going gets tough and the dining gets rough. Ben’s ridiculous one-liners always entertain me. They almost never talk about getting the cheapest deals – they just film their experiences and let the audience join the fun.
Emma Cruises: kind of a hybrid between vlog and deal-getting. Emma is a professional cruise consultant, so she addresses where & how you can get the best discounts. But she also invites the viewer into her vacation experiences, with good dining, rooming, and excursion reviews.
Tips for Travellers: very much a technical approach to cruising. While Gary’s on-camera persona is a bit flat compared to people like Ben & David, he is a mostly solo traveler, which is useful to me as I enjoy traveling alone.
The zoom link (started) is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81891984758?pwd=Z3lqZE96eElxeVBxZ2lXNjNPY24wZz09
*takes big snort of glibs*
Ah yeah, that’s the shit.
This afternoon I finally came to understand what withdrawals felt like.
Sorry KK for going off topic so soon.
Hope to see you and Tulip on Sat KK – 1130 at Gourmeltz?
I can’t because I have an exercise class. Sorry, I will miss you.
That’s how you GlibFit!
Wife is going on an Alaska cruise in a few more weeks.
Leaving you unsupervised?
Yes! I’ll probably hang out with The Tall Thin Spaniard what Lurks, drink whiskey and smoke cigars the whole time. We have a new Cigars International right up the street. We have many movies to watch.
Definitely interested in a cruise – but re locations/climate – itd have to be Alaska or something like Hawaii to SD or Australia to NZ.
Not interested in blue water, but canal or river cruise, that I could be up for.
When I was a kid, we did a day cruise up the Rhine. And let me tell you, for an 11 year old who loved castles, it was freakin’ AWESOME!!
I took 3 Atlantic cruises with 700 of my newest friends, each trip with different friends. The accommodations were a little tight, the entertainment limited and the food lacked quality but other than that they were wonderful adventures. Now I’m sticking to a 14 footer and one other ship mate.
Thanks KK, there are a lot of folks that like cruises, my wife did a Gulf one with her 2 sisters and a river cruise in Europe. She liked the European one better ’cause no relatives.
I did one when I was 17. The first hour, maybe hour and a half, was great. After that it was, meh, just another castle.
Reposting for night shift – gotta keep our eyes on this. 1st chip in the admin state wall.
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1527011040730435586?t=Lyf_Zfe7a2Sayo6qM6mhMw&s=19
Whoa…
Mark Joseph Stern ✔️ seems to think this is a bad thing?!
Almost anyone not considered a domestic terrorist would probably think the same.
Well, he writes for Slate.
Bless his heart.
This is what happens when the law is applied to a case. Therefore, it will unfortunately get struck down.
That’s pretty amazing language; finding that Congress unconstitutionally delegated legislative power to a Federal agency. That’s rare stuff.
Let’s see a similar ruling on ATFE.
The replies. My god, the replies. So many people just openly don’t give any fucks about the Constitution. Following it is “anarchy” and “nihilism” and more I’m sure, but I stopped reading.
I have never really looked into a cruise, but when I was thinking about taking the train across the states I looked at a lot of train vlogs. And I found about the same kind of responses, some about money saving, some about the life style, and more than a few about hacks to make the things work for you. Like excersing, how to shower best, vegan options in dinning, and so on.
Yeah…all about the exact right combination/weather/setting. The Rocky mtn railroad is potentially interesting – but the really nice one is the Canadian retro train that goes from Vancouver to Lake Louise/Banff area – esp in the winter.
So, totally bizarre. We are doing a Durango, CO narrow gauge railroad day trip this summer.
Cool – see if you can get some good pics/vids. There are a lot of areas where UP parallels the interstate but you definitely get some better Cliffside perspectives and tunnels in some areas by rail.
I will. I’ll write about it and do a GlibTrain.
Oh God, that came out wrong.
I was in Durango 20 years ago this June working on the missionary ridge fire. Never got to ride the narrow gauge myself, but people in the area raved about it. The San Juans are steep and beautiful! I also recommend Mesa Verde NP which is relatively close.
Durango & Silverton and Cumbres & Toltec need to be on everyone’s bucket list.
The Durango & Silverton is an outstanding day trip! You should have a great time. I have taken the trip twice. The first time was in college when we used it to cut a half a day off of an approach hike into the high mountains. The train stops to drop off and pick up backpackers at one point. The second time was when my kids were young and we took both the ways.
The Cumbres & Toltec is the other narrow gauge line and it is good as well. But some of the D&S route was captured on classic photos from the 1800’s and the route and views haven’t changed.
Loved the D&S! High point of a trip out to SW CO/NW NM a few year’s ago. My advice: spring for seats on the “inside” car toward the back (did and loved it!) and if your schedule permits, take the train for the full round trip. A co-worker said he thought the round trip was too long and said he wished he’d have taken the bus back, so that’s what we did. Bad move – the bus trip was lame.
We did the Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks and flew back. This was when Alaska still flew the Q400 in the state. Knockout of a day.
I had my best quordle score ever and the site has been unreachable all day. It’s a conspiracy I say.
5 4 6 3
no pretty graphics.
I got my first non-chump of the week and am happy to let it slide.
Due to the technical issues I’m bending the rules. Nice job champ!
Am I the only person to post a score today?
Either way, I’ll take it. 😉
Many people postage in the overnight thread, and others in the morning before the outage.
Nah, I already posted the DQR in the last thread and I usually don’t change result if people post scores later. I do however add all posted scored to the database so don’t not post score just because they maybe late.
I just posted mine there – I was headed for same as kinnath but the bottom left fucked me. I guessed every other first letter possibility.
I got bottom left in two…cause my seed word for the day. But that isn’t as beneficial to the game as one would think. I was one letter off and that means I can either guess other words or burn another answer for a vowel…
Chump to Champ. I’ll take it.
Good on the score but as a non-player you’ll probably ignore my compliment.
On a less serious note, are your apple trees blossoming yet? I planted 9 more from seed, the 10 from last year are leafing out and I’ve got a couple new nursery trees that will soon be in blossom. I’ve given away 16 and have about 20 more to give away of the from seed baby trees, It was a fun project in the colder months.
The fuck is quordle?
It’s a word game all the cool Glibs are playing.
Did you check the thermostat?
Oh, wait, if it’s only cool, you’re probably not looking to warm up.
More seriously, it is a wordgame on another site that a subset of glibs have been playing regularly.
That subset being ‘Cool’
You keep flaunting your HVAC privilege!
I don’t even own
a TVan AC.V is for Vacuum.
But, a filthy animal like you probably doesn’t have one of those, either.
Just the one between my ears.
I’m still not really interested in a cruise, but I love to watch travel stuff.
HAL is so good, i got the credit card.
But last cruise there was 2014? Inner Baltic.
Russian port city. Rotting navy on the piers.
The gays are the best at cruise reviews! Not surprised.
Waiting with bated breath for future installments, KK.
My SIL and her husband go on a lot of cruises, but Mrs. Whiz and I had never gone on one. They invited us to join them on a short 3-day cruise in the Caribbean just to see what it was like. We combined it with side-trips to Disney World (Epcot) and Cape Canaveral. We went on Norwegian Cruise Lines. Our thoughts:
1. A lot of waiting on the front end just to get on the boat. Long lines, which were difficult since Mrs. Whiz is somewhat mobility impaired.
2. Good and plentiful food.
3. Interesting on-board entertainment in the evenings.
4. The day on NCL’s private island was the best, a lot of snorkeling and lazing on the beach.
5. The swimming pools were a joke — far too small and crowded if you actually want to swim. Of course that can be true of a lot of hotel pools, as well.
6. They had a lot of activities for kids (which we didn’t care about) and some for adults (we had a blackjack tournament, for example).
From the literature we get now, it sounds like many options that cost $$$$$ when we went are now thrown in for free to entice customers back. Things like internet and drinks.
and some for adults (we had a blackjack tournament, for example).
We did an NCL Carribean cruise for our honeymoon. I’d rather have done an all-inclusive resort type deal, but the wife had never been on a cruise and wanted to try it. She ended up hitting jackpot on slots in the casino. 4,350:1 payout with the sirens and everything going off. Unfortunately, she was playing the penny slots so she only walked away with a grand total of $87 for her 2 cent bet.
“Investigators believe a 36-year-old was the gunman that opened fire on the salon in Dallas’ Koreatown last Wednesday.”
https://twitter.com/NBCDFW/status/1526955819455102978
I’m sure this will be all over the news.
“MSNBC’s @DonnyDeutsch: “We don’t have the economy on our side as Democrats. So you have to scare the bejesus out of people — & a way to scare them, to say, You know this replacement theory, this is not just coming from some dark corner of the web, this is the Republican platform””
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1526950504915472387
Yep..it isn’t just fringe voices, it’s your card carrying Republican grandpa and dad that are doing this. This is going to be one hell of a summer I think.
Is it part of the Republican platform when outlets like the NYT brag about it…?
You know this replacement theory, this is not just coming from some dark corner of the web, this is the Republican platform
Which is why I suggested every Republican should be tying the Democratic challenger to Merrick Garland’s memo about parents protesting at school board meetings being domestic terrorists.
I have to wonder if these are false flags perpetrated by the government along the same lines as when the FBI dupes people into being “terrorists” What got me to thinking that is remembering in “The Dark Knight”, where Batman says the Joker seeks out the mentally ill to do his dirty work. These shooters are clearly mentally ill and no one seems to ever act on the signals they send, often reported repeatedly to the authorities months or years in advance of their shooting sprees. And the Progressives are desperate to move the narrative away from how badly they have and are fucking up to REPUBLICANS ARE THE EMBODYMENT OF EVIL WHO WANT TO KILL BLAC WOMENTHE MOMENT AFTER BEING FORCED TO GIVE BIRTH!!!!!
Not a conspiracy guy by nature.
“ 36-Year-Old Arrested in Dallas Salon Shooting, Possible Hate Crime”
First sentence of the article I read on the Buffalo shooting.
“A white male opened fire fire in a Buffalo supermarket………”
Mere stylistic differences I suppose.
It turned out my favorite type of YouTube was the “Personal Vlog” kind. I liked peeking into people’s drinking and dining and socializing lives on board a cruise ship. I learned which cruise lines and routes are riddled with kids/families, which ones skewed old and sedate, which had the good food, how excursions are run, etc.
I do something similar when I’m travelling. I try to find folks on instagram who use the gym I’m interested in. It gives me a better feel for what equipment the gym has than whatever list the gym has on its webpage. Unfortunately, anymore instagram makes it hard to do this.
“The other bizarre aspect of the Nina-Jankowicz/@TaylorLorenz saga: Taylor depicts this poor, marginalized DHS official as the victim of “right-wing” disinformation, when the most devastating investigative piece on her was this one last week in @TheNation”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1526980903070834694
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meet-the-head-of-bidens-new-disinformation-governing-board/
So she had a job funded by Soros to manufacture disinformation to defend actual nazis in Ukraine.
Something’s fishy here.
I don’t believe this administration caved on this particular totalitarian measure merely because of some complaints from the usual basket of deplorables.
The Nation could have kept quiet and nothing else would have happened.
I wonder what they’re really hiding.
I think they’re just going to reboot the whole thing under a new name. Notice all of it says it’s a “pause” on the Ministry’s activities – it’s not dead or disbanded, despite what some of the media is saying.
Yeah, they could always go back to censorship behind the scenes. It does kind of work for them.
I think Jankowicz, or whatever her name was, was such a bad choice to start with, and couple that with an idiotic name and it is being buried for the time being. It will come back, once the institutional memory of it is passed a bit.
I’d call myself cruise curious, but I’ve never actually been. At first blush, it seems like exactly the kind of experience I’d hate. Crowded, flimsy attempts at making you feel like you’re not customer #2543 of 4500, cramped hotel rooms and too-small swimming pools and 100 amenities and activities that aren’t quite all they were billed to be.
On the other hand, everybody I know who has gone on a cruise has enjoyed it. All for different reasons. Because of that, I’m curious. I’m not sure that a carribbean cruise would be my jam, but maybe an Alaskan cruise.
It really depends on a) the experience you want to have, and b) your budget. Then do a bit of research.
Cruise lines are positioned like any other good, from mass market (Carnival, Princess, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean) to a bit more upscale (Celebrity, Azamara), to quite posh (Regent Seven Seas, Oceania, Silversea).
Do you want a smaller ship with fewer fellow guests? Be prepared to pay more. Upscale food and drink? Ditto.
A neat way to try out cruising while avoiding crowds and saving a few bucks is the repositioning cruise. When the ships are moving from, say, the Caribbean in winter season to the Med or Alaska, they’ll take passengers at what is usually a greatly reduced rate. The Bosslady and I have done San Diego to Vancouver and Ft. Lauderdale to Rome on Celebrity, as well as San Francisco to Vancouver by way of Alaska on Oceania. Enjoyed all of them.
Whew! It looks like Life on Earth as I Know It goes on!
On the other hand. Why was I the last one to be let back into the club house?
It was bad enough when I thought I’d lost y’all. But then to find out everyone has been here for awhile and I was still on the wrong minute. C’mon, I change my t-shirt on Wednesday.
uh, we were gonna tell you, honest…
https://archive.ph/p8rag/38ea29e99ebed01a6dd91dfd66937c609e9e6208.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/Ay3hc/7a7f0aaea30a83ef52596009f76c8c3265a346ec.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/BiZdx/3f64acf2a1237242a0e53c92127c445daa8d1293.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/UnCun/03d6002ff5aff331acb914244fe075c0cbc9f757.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/yUV7N/1f3ef7c5d80369e3af5276a91236bb220066f8c3.jpg
NSFW.
Abby Winters. No wonder the women all look normal. I like the redhead at the bottom the best.
Same.
Also, must be that time of the month- these ladies look especially pleasing.
That will reboot a website.
I thought that picture was from (mildly NSFW) this photoshoot. Judging by the pictures the Daily Fail has up, it’s not.
Glibs has schizophrenia?
No, just mutliple personality syndrome.
That’s what I told MikeW, but he’s a cynic and didn’t believe me. MikeA got all pissed off about it, but that’s normal because he is a hothead. And MikeD just ignored me and kept playing rap music.
Been away awhile, now that Musk bought the Internet and Emperor Trump is back in charge of social media, I think it’s time I exercise dominion over all your Jews.
So… what’s up.
what’s going on these days
I’ve been having ‘one of those days’ where everything is broken.
I moved to management, and the $138/month post tax income increase from that is insufficient to cover inflation.
They’d have to bump me up a lot more than that if they want me to move into management (and they do). For starters, I’d want a salary within sight of the average for my area instead of being tied to my below-average salary that’s been dragging me down for more than a decade.
You know in your industry you have options.
Let’s pretend I don’t feel like moving.
I think you were demoted.
Unless you’re Mark Corrigan and love being in charge of other people, that’s a demotion
Thanks, KK!
https://youtu.be/e5MAg_yWsq8
Love that song.
Was expecting this, which I don’t particularly care for.
Was expecting this, which I quite like. (::hopes it hasn’t already been linked, as obvious song is obvious::)
Not this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRsEuCocT4
I have that album, on vinyl no less. Good choice!
Outages of Glibs is dangerous. I carry The First That Will Change Everything in my man womb. When it is time for the birthing process, it must be inserted onto Glibs as soon as it enters this world or we risk a still born First. All of humanity is counting on this.
Do you plan to chestfeed?
While smoking a Chesterfield.
Or a ottoman.
Gilbert K. Chesterfeed?
Mr. Richard Smoker
A First is not like a human child. But The FIrst That Will Change Everything is not like other Firsts. Normally, a First feeds on the seconds that come after it, but even with such a powerful First and the tremendous feedback it is sure to generate, it may also need some secondary nourishment. If I am able to produce the milk, I will certainly feed it from my chest.
Just gonna leave this here:
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1527096243821989888?s=20&t=9HoX5KE6mfG_uf3OzyXxFg
It’s so beautiful.
Fucking idiot. What did he mean at the end by “75”?
Some inside joke apparently. Yeah…I hate all our politicians past and present.
Dur….he is 75.
Oh, sure. Duh.
Also, like he wasn’t an air head and 45?
It’s a very odd slip of the tongue. I wonder if he doesn’t spend a lot of his time pondering just what a fucking mess he made.
He don’t give a fuck. He had no sons so didn’t need to worry about that and was acting as a good son to finish what daddy didn’t have the balls (correctly) to do.
That’s exactly how I read it. I know these people are monsters, but as they get toward the end, I wonder if a little feat doesn’t creep in
Of course, I can save him the angst. He’s absolutely going to hell.
All presidents go to hell, I would imagine.
If there really is such a thing as a Freudian slip then that was it.
*chef’s kiss*
And straff was thinking last night that comparison to the US invasion of Iraq would be taboo…
Bruh.
Zoomers all done?
Hey everybody!
I’ve been busy – I miss anything today?
Well…the fucking world ended! But we got better.
The world was a newt?
I’ve got an ongoing application outage, and it appears the diagnostic step Oracle asked for has broken it further.
So I’m trying to undo the change, but it requires getting into the application 🙁
I was just on a 8+ hour call re: a widespread internal outage due to OCSP problems. Still not fixed, but I need to rest (and it’s not something I can fix).
My problem is that the root causes are all within my domain, so I’m expected to fix it.
Well, you picked the day for it. No one else was on Glibs for much of the day either.
Hi Denver J!
Bringing this forward from last thread:
1. I’ll echo everyone else’s comments on the site being down. I was checking from different devices, wondering if I did something wrong.
Perhaps a little too concerned…?
2. Also, is there any chance that among you malcontents there is someone who is admitted in the E.D. TX and willing to allow me to file a complaint there?
It’s 500+ military folks against the vax mandates and I’m happy to provide a copy and explanation if someone has concerns that need mollifying.
I’ll pay for any attorney’s or paralegal’s time for the 30 or so minutes to file it.
I have someone to PHV me and my co-counsel in. It’s got some urgency because my clients are being systematically discharged.
TPTB know they have my permission to give out email – doesn’t take too much searching to find out who I am from this site.
Ill drag one over, too
Is there a Zoom?
Why did I bother to wax my balls ?
There was but its done. I can start one up if there are late nighters
What will the topics of discussion be?
What stale slap stick jokes will we get from Tres
I can’t make it, so please present this on my behalf:
Interviewer: Can you explain these four jobless years in your resume?
Applicant: That’s when I went to Yale.
Interviewer: Impressive! You are hired!
Applicant: Thanks, I really need this yob.
What are the benefits of waxing over just shaving?
/asking for a friend
Dear idiot Chevy designers, DRLs are not turn signals and just because color changing LEDs exist doesn’t mean you should use them for automotive lighting.
Also, rear turn signals go up with the taillight cluster, not down on the bumper. WTF jackases?
For Tres or other late zooms
Ill be up for a bit
Really messed that up.. Zoom link
R C Dean on May 18, 2022 at 11:19 am
I wonder when the last person who actually remembered being a slave died?
I wonder how many generations the average black person has to go back before they have an ancestor who was a slave?
No answer, but did get me wondering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_McCrear
Last living survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, born in Africa, died in 1940
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Moore
One of the last living proven freed slaves, died in 1948
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_%22Teen%22_Blackburn
Another, died in 1951. There’s been claimants who died later but their records are more muddled.
Quite amazing to realize that on the eve of the civil right era, there were Americans who had been enslaved, freed, then lived much of their lives under nearly the entire span of Jim Crow.
That is eye opening.
Reminds me of in Dandelion Wine when the boys discover a time machine. I think I first read that story in an abridged version in Boy’s Life.
What about the one played by Cicely Tyson, who waa a slave as a child but lived long enough to drink from the whits only drinking fountain in the 1960s? Oh, I guess that was just a fictional tv show.
Great news that the U.S. Women’s Soccer team has embraced the Labor Theory of Value. That must mean that my granddaughter’s mud pies, on which she expends hours, will now be selling for the same price as the town’s award-winning baker. Now that equity has replaced quality, America will soar as never before.
The individual must die and be reborn as the collective. Except them over there…we didn’t mean them.
Why did the men’s union agree to this nonsense?
Because they are stupid?
I don’t think the gravity of what could have happened today has fully set in. The First That Will Change Everything could have died. And people are talking about Quordle and soccer.
Did you fall down some stairs?
I’m sure it wouldn’t be the First time.
It Feels Like the First Time – Foreigner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6jKL2qWxo
The First Time – Bella Fleck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-eO3jTVU
The First Time – Lifehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0YvWQNWEJA
oh thanks for reminding me
Daily Quordle 114
4️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
4 5
6 7
I FINALLY got one!
/feels slightly less stupid
Daily Quordle 115
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
*checks in*
The site is still alive and kicking, thank god.
Is it sad that the thought of this place disappearing gave me a massive anxiety attack?
You and 5 others…how things going Trigger?
https://youtu.be/ljIQo1OHkTI
Good to hear!
Sorry for the vapid, lowbrow response. It’s just a hair past midnight in my neck of the woods and my already middling mind is barely going through the motions at this point. I need to go to sleep.
P.S.
I hope the good people who donated to my GFM don’t mind if I reinvest a few bucks towards a donation to the site. Killing squirrels takes all of us.
My deer hunting buddy keeps a loaded .410 shotgun by the door of the deer hunting cabin. He HATES red squirrels. If we see a red squirrel, we are supposed to shoot it.
Even dredged in Tony Chacheries-enhanced flour and fried in bacon grease, red squirrel is…not good.
Grey squirrels rule the roost around here. I personally don’t mind them. They don’t cause me any harm and are mildly amusing when nature watching. As far as the taste…my early twentieth century born, Arkansas hillbilly Grandpa died nearly twenty years so I can’t exactly remember what squirrel stew tastes like…I seem to recall it being a bit gamey.
Older Women – Ronnie McDowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hRamSOlDk
Can’t confirm yet. More research needed.
I enjoy cruising as the skipper or a crew member on a sailboat. I have had some wonderful times. Being on a huge petri dish rushing from place to palce with people I would never choose to spend time with? Sorry, I’ll nope right out. But for people who enjoy them, more power at ya.
I grew up on a 32′ blow-boat, bouncing between Coconut Grove, Marathon, and Charlotte Harbor, FL. I always found the idea of cruise ships to be anathema and roundly mocked those who desired to be in a floating hotel from which one can’t leave. Then, for MiL’s 65th birthday, I got dragged onto a cruise to the Caribbean. Wifey and I and our 2 kids, and 17 in-laws (15 of whom are Orthodox Hassidic Jews)… I’ll be damned, it wasn’t horrible. The food in the included galleys was of Morrison’s/Piccadilly Café quality, but it was plentiful and available round the clock. The pay restaurants were amazing (the Wagyu sliders were the best burgers I’ve ever tasted) and the boat was large enough that it was easy to find solitude and respite from the hoards. There was small swimming pool/hot-tub setup right up on the bow that went largely unused after dark, so the kids and I pretty much camped out there. I won a pretty penny on my 1st and only try at roulette (I’ve always heeded my grandfather’s warning that gambling is just a trap for those who are bad at math), and one of the singers in a lounge took a shine to my kids and would drag them up on stage to sing and dance with her every time she saw us. I don’t think I would want to cruise again, but I was wrong to completely disregard the concept.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/where-e2-80-99s-wilder-york-county-woman-e2-80-99s-stolen-car-found-in-philadelphia-but-dog-nowhere-to-be-found/ar-AAXqWTA
Awww…they stole her doge too. ?
Mornin peeps.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9Kf0D5BTs
?
Let’s kick this shit off.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philly-teen-skateboarder-dies-after-hit-and-run-collision-with-dirt-bike-e2-80-98he-was-loved-by-so-many-people-e2-80-99/ar-AAXrmB0
Sad. Very sad.
It’s Thursday, and PA still doesn’t know who it elected for Senate. ?
https://www.yahoo.com/now/gas-prices-surge-past-2-090153810.html
Fuck Joe Biden, his family, and his handlers.
If they can send forty billion to the Ukraine with virtually no questions asked a temporary gas tax holiday should be easy to enact. Apparently the only way to get some relief from these twats is to be a foreigner.
And a quick search shows the federal tax to be 18.4 cents per gallon…not a whole lot but better than nothing.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/teen-girl-stabbed-by-male-classmate-in-montclair/
“possible” charges? Da fuq?
Almost there: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6ln36SgT4
Perhaps, mildly, nsfw.
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A good time for my seed words to pay off, and a lucky flyer in the upper right.
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So close to a “gold standard” 3456! 50/50 shot on the last word and I went with the wrong one. Oh well, any day in the teens is a good day.
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Hype, are you tracking the words from Quordle? If not, I may start in order to do some statistical analysis on letter frequency to see if it differs from the average.
If not hype, maybe talk with whiz?
Not that I see an article out of you on this…no, I would never be so…transparent!
I just want to improve my score
Whiz’s article gave me the idea.
I am not keeping track of the words, only a nerd would do that. I merely keep track of how many letters are shared by two or more words or repeated in a word for each days solution, as any normal person would.
Tulip, I found a list of English words on github the other day and am playing around with that. If you want, I can find the link again.
https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/
Good morning, Tulip, Stinky, & Sean!
Being excessively fair of skin, I suspect I would not reap the full benefit of a tropical cruise. However, I’ve long felt a river cruise – even here in the U.S., especially down the Mississippi – could be delightful. I also understand at least one of the big cruise lines has started service on Lake Superior (and maybe others of the Great Lakes?) which I could imagine could likewise be delightful (as long as the ship isn’t named “Edmund Fitzgerald.”) I also understand some Yoopers aren’t necessarily keen on the idea of having such ships come to dock in their ports.
The Lake Erie to Lake Ontario cruise is scenic but gets a little rough in spots.
Been out on my SIL’s/BIL’s big sailboat on Erie. In October. Yeah… Erie can be…choppy.
I think Rhywun is worried about the tourist traps between the lakes.
How literal is the “trap” part?? ?
Thousands of people Fall for it every day.
They are barreled over by the scenic wonders.
Then they should definitely put up guardrails!
A great lakes cruise would be cool
Definitely sounds fun
Mornin’, GT.
“Being excessively fair of skin, I suspect I would not reap the full benefit of a tropical cruise. ”
Yeah, the sun will do a number on you. Mrs. Patzer and I took a cruise for our honeymoon. There was another honeymooning couple on the cruise, the bride was excessively fair of skin and excessively deficient in common sense. She ignored the repeated warnings to wear long sleeves shirts and long pants on the Costa Rican rainforest tour and got her legs shredded by the foliage therein. At the next port of call she (and presumably the groom) stayed on the ship to soak up some sun, after which her skin tone was a perfect match for her lovely red hair.
::shudders at the thought of legs both shredded AND burnt::
Mornin’, reprobates.
Holy shit. I’m sitting on my front porch and a fox scoots across the lawn about 5 feet in front of me, with a chipmunk in her jaws. Very cool, it’s gonna be a good day.
Not for the chipmunk. ??
Not for the chipmunk.
Damnit.
Gonna be a GREAT day for me! ?
Fox has kits to feed. Just saw an instant replay.
Chipmunk nation is in trouble.
Morning, Glibs.
Still haven’t fixed the application, but now it’s completely inaccessable from the user access point. My administrative access account needs a password reset, so I was wrapping up to go to sleep when my internet went out and said “You are DONE for the day”.
So today I’m going to be working on the same problem again.
Good luck! Starting today, I’m covering for Reliable Co-Worker, who’s taking a well-deserved vacation through Memorial Day. And I need to listen to (and write up the minutes for) the last third of Tuesday night’s Board meeting. Got through my boss’s financial report, so I’m hoping that means the worst is over.
So, the
applicantapplication is a bum?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4jEOe18Ums
Meh.
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“Latest Covid-19 Wave Expands to More of U.S.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-covid-19-wave-expands-to-more-of-u-s-11652903321
I wonder how this is going to work as a midterm election strategy. Hopefully all but the deadenders are over it.
Time to break out the wet suit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMChBJZUDK8
Now THAT looks threatening to the health.
Even the mayor said he’s ignoring the new TREMBLE threat placed on NYC.
Well the Ukraine was a flop, abortion was a flop, they’re still searching looks like. Points for tenacity though.
Maybe this will work?
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/05/18/monkeypox-massachusetts-case/7011652925355/
Mornin’
No gym this morning. I have to take my fun car into the shop. The timing with work won’t work out for a gym trip today.
Huh, latest article doesn’t show up until you sign in, otherwise you get yesterday’s evening links. At least I know the trick and can stop pulling my hair out now.
Eleven incumbents gone in PA primary
Nearly a dozen incumbent lawmakers lost their re-election bids in Tuesday’s primary election including one, possibly two, long-time Republicans who hold top caucus leadership posts.
Rep. Stan Saylor of York County and Sen. Pat Browne of Lehigh County, both Republicans, serve as the majority chairman of the powerful appropriations committee in their respective chambers. In those roles, they review all legislation to determine its fiscal impact on taxpayers and play a role in helping to shape the state budget.
Saylor, who was first elected to the House in 1992, has served as the appropriations committee chairman since 2016. Prior to that, he served in two other leadership posts including whip and education committee chairman.
Browne, meanwhile, served in the House from 1995 to 2005 when he moved over to Senate. He was first elected to serve as its appropriations committee chairman in 2014. Prior to that, he served as whip and chaired several committees.
Saylor handily lost to political newcomer Wendy Fink for the Republican nomination in the 94th state House District seat. Fink captured 56% of the vote to Saylor’s 44%, according to the unofficial vote count with 99% of the votes counted. No Democratic candidate appeared on the ballot for that seat.
In the 16th senatorial district contest, unofficial vote totals show Browne down by a mere 30 votes to a local school board member Jarrett Coleman. The winner of this tight race will face Democrat Mark Pinsley, the Lehigh County controller, in the fall.
I take that to mean that he has frequently abandoned his constituents’ wishes in favor of political get-alongism with the state Democrats.
More on Mastriano’s win
While some Republicans were laying the blame for Mastriano’s win on the Pennsylvania Republican Party and Chairman Lawrence Tabas even before Tuesday, according to Politico, there was nothing but olive branches coming from the state GOP on Wednesday in the aftermath of Mastriano’s victory.
“The PA GOP is filled with passionate individuals and, although we don’t always agree, we always come together,” Vonne Andring, a senior advisor for the PA GOP, told PennLive.com.
Just admit it, you’re going to shank him, just like the RGA:
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts appeared on CNN on Sunday and would not commit to the Republican Governors Association spending money to get Mastriano elected in the fall, Politico reported in the same story.
Ricketts said whoever would win the primary must be competitive and, if so, “the Republican Governors Association will be there to support Republican nominee.”
Following Mastriano’s win, RGA Executive Director Dave Rexrode released a statement targeting Gov. Tom Wolf and Shapiro, but which danced around making a commitment to financially help Mastriano in the general election.
whats wrong with Mastriano? Too maga?
Ultramaga.
I voted for him.
Not sure what it is, but refreshed, closed tabs a couple times on my tablet and I can see nothing on glibs page newer than afternoon links – and 0 comments on that one even after refreshing. Seems to work ok on my phone. Using DDG for both devices.
huh. I got the same on both my devices (0 comments and this article not showing).
Opened a new tab on phone just to check – seems to be working here. Even with early morning links.
The only thing I can tell that’s not working is the comment numbers–they’re not showing up for me.