Monday Links, and Things To Come

by | Jun 6, 2022 | Daily Links, Things to Come | 226 comments

This Coming Wednesday Night…

 

Things To Come – lets take a look at them.

Monday – Like that last episode of Too Many Goodbyes? You will get another next week! Tonight, by popular demand (by demand, mean…) trshy will give us Automating Quordle.

Tuesday – kinnath does a little guitar makin’ and finishin’. RC Dean ‘splains How Hospitals Work. Or not, as the case may be.

Wednesday –  Hide ya wife. Hide ya kids. Yes, it is him again…SugarFree. Then, in further brain-detonation, robc makes A Libertarian Case for Unions.

Thursday – Tulip returns for an after-action on the May Pantry Challenge. See how you stack up. RJ’s Glibflick is teh awesomeness of “Shaolin vs Evil Dead”.

Friday – The Daily Stoic will be there to help us get by. Later, CPRM (plz go fix the broken images in the post, thx) will talk about the value of a buck.

Weekend – Links, Hijinks! IFLA! GlibFit!

Links, sure…let us have them:

The comments section is all yours.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

226 Comments

    • Sean

      On a Monday? Kinky.

      • Web Dominatrix

        It was requested and I am nothing if not accommodating.

      • SDF-7

        So, you’re going to go ahead and run for Mayor for *both* political parties in your town then? 😉

      • UnCivilServant

        If you win both primaries, do they skip the general?

      • db

        There are a lot of assumptions packed into that statement.

      • UnCivilServant

        Minor parties in New York always list major party candidates instead of floating their own.

        Of course, you could hold a pro forma election and see if anyone writes-in, but no one ever does.

      • rhywun

        Minor parties in New York always list major party candidates instead of floating their own.

        Not the LP.

        FWIW, which ain’t much.

      • Tundra
    • SDF-7

      S Q
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      Me.

    • db

      Oh dammit and here I thought I was going to be sober tonight.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^^ Wife might be a bit upset if I do though…

    • DEG

      I might drop in for a little bit.

  1. Tundra

    Thanks Swissy!

    Nice to see your (adopted) countrymen are serious about their rules.

    Oh, and the lynx open in a new tab again!

    • Swiss Servator

      The Swedes gave it up to go all in on “Europe” – oh, and free ride off the rest of NATO.

  2. Count Potato

    Happy Birthday!!

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Wait– 6/6/66?????????

      • C. Anacreon

        Our son’s friend was born on 7/7/00. We went to his 7th birthday party on 7/7/7. Felt like going to Vegas that day, I did.

      • R.J.

        Whew! That was close.

      • Animal

        Geeze, you’re younger than Mrs. Animal. You young whippersnapper.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        So, next-door neighbor to The Beast. Gotcha.

  3. Count Potato

    “will talk about the value of a buck”

    It ain’t what it used to be. I just noticed some supermarket prices are 50% higher than they were less than two months ago.

    • Ted S.

      Q: What’s the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts?

      A: Beer nuts are $1.49, deer nuts are under a buck.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A doe staggered out of the woods and muttered, “last time I do that for 5 bucks”

      • Spudalicious

        Doe walks out a forest and thinks to herself, “I won’t do that for two bucks again”.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ha! You were late and forgot to add the Putin Tax

      • R.J.

        Pope Jimbo’s on FIRE tonight!

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        What do you get when you cross a bear and a deer?

        Beer.

      • Nephilium
  4. Shpip

    Miami-Dade County is no stranger to sewer backups and Environment Florida says the area has a history of sewer system failures.

    You would think that, more than 100 years after its founding, Miami would’ve figured out how to make water run downhill. But, y’know, Miami….

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, when you’re already at sea level…

    • Pope Jimbo

      I would think that this is the perfect time to go swimming there. If you get tired or start to struggle, there are so many logs you can grab onto.

  5. pistoffnick

    CPRM will talk about the value of a buck.

    My Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Barney (smartest dog I’ve ever had – and the most neurotic), liked to eat dollar bills.

    I pulled a fiver out of his ass, washed it and spent it.

    I KNOW the value of a buck, sir!

    • Sean

      Was probably all the coke residue.

      Yer dog was a junkie.

      • Animal

        “Mostly Maui Waui man, but it’s got some Labrador in it.”

      • Fourscore

        Enjoyed your article, Animal, even as I arrive late to the party.

        I have an excuse. Or explanation. Or lie.

        The bloom is off the rose when Army nurses make LTC, in my experience.

        Waiting another week, I’m a patient sort of guy, when it comes to nurses.

      • juris imprudent

        You are registering as a practical sort toward a licensed vocation.

      • R.J.

        Did not see your article! I just stopped working a little bit ago. Will read it tonight. I have also been enjoying it.

  6. Tundra

    Urban cowboys.

    Impressive wranglin’!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Impressive indeed. Love the commentary over it too.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Those evil bastards were whipping a female of color! I demand they be fired.

  7. ron73440

    I’m probably the only one here who cares, but Eluveitie has a new song.

    Aidus

    I like it.

    • Sensei

      Naturally. People always BOTH hang and shoot themselves.

      • SDF-7

        “Friends of the family stated that he was nothing if not thorough….”

      • R.J.

        Look, if you are going to do something, you need to NAIL IT!

      • Gender Traitor

        Crucify yourself too?

      • R.J.

        Might as well. Clinton’s friends are nothing if not persistent in their desire to end it all.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now they’re just mocking us.

    • Sean

      I wanna see them all on a Jerry Springer show.

      • Kwihn T. Senshel

        It’s already a Jerry Springer show, just not yet in the mid-afternoon time slot before Judge Judy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They aimed for West Wing and Veep and instead just remade Washingtoon

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Remember the Christmas stocking photo where the press fawned over how elegant Jill was? Except it was missing one for this poor kid.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Sorry, no stockings for a FitzBiden. Family rules.

      • dbleagle

        That and now this show the true bidens (both him and her) are both evil. Just because that innocent child is politically inconvenient an honorable couple would not pretend that she doesn’t exist.

  8. pedantic

    “Hey, it really was cultural appropriation!”
    Stealing this (!)
    Would love to know more deets about the shards he was smuggling. 15 years seems like a hell of an overreaction, although I find it hard to believe he didn’t know he was in the wrong when stashing cultural artifacts from a country that is understandably quite touchy when it comes to looting.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The punishment seems overly harsh, at least from the details given. But yeah, I’m not buying his “Costanza defense” either.

  9. Sensei

    Neutral means neutral.

    Unless under threat of being cut off from banking systems.

  10. Gender Traitor

    [insert whatever that computer code is that commences a rant] Gals, if you want to change your name when you get married, that’s fine. I get that. I DID that. Twice! But if it doesn’t work out, either suck it up and keep that name unless/until you marry again OR, if you insist on going back to your maiden name, promise that you’ll never, ever change it again no matter what./rant

    • Ted S.

      Did someone’s name change make you job more difficult?

      • Gender Traitor

        Yeeaaah… and every time she thought of another place where it had to be changed, she sent me another email. ?

    • rhywun

      My mom reverted to the name of husband #1 after marriage #2 failed. Maybe because her four kids shared it. Also, marriage #2 came some 15 years after marriage #1 failed.

      She took the name of husband #3 – a man she knew long before husband #2 blew into and out of our lives – a few years later, and kept it for the rest of their lives.

      I’m actually struggling to remember what her maiden name was. Funny, I can remember the surname of my grandma’s 2nd and 3rd husbands but not the first.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You want struggling for a maiden name?

        Let me tell you about the time I filled up with gas in Cartwright, NoDak and for some reason my credit card had been flagged for suspicious activity and in order to get it working again I had to tell them my wife’s mother’s maiden name. WTF? I have no idea. I don’t even know her real first name either.

        They wouldn’t let me try another question, even after I explained that my wife is from Korea and I have always referred to her by some honorific.

        Luckily the rube NoDak running the counter was amused and didn’t beat me for wasting all his time

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Ha I can say my MIL’s maiden name, but don’t ask me to spell it. Or, for anyone looking at it in print form, to pronounce it.

        Fuckin’ Poles.

      • Rat on a train

        MIL is Filipino. Maiden names are not useful for security questions. Men and unmarried women use their mother’s maiden name as their middle name. Married women use their maiden name as their middle name.

    • Tonio

      Thank you for that. It’s a massive headache for IT, especially for the “frequent flyers,” of whom there were many.

    • Ownbestenemy

      People are deviant. Want to sexualize your child, have at it. I will think of you as a horrible person; just stay away from my kids. Time to take the kids to Twin Peaks!

    • Tundra

      How the hell does this stuff just magically appear? Drag queen story hour? Drag shows with little kids at gay bars in Dallas?

      Fucking ridiculous.

      • Compelled Speechless

        This is the result of a large portion of the left that has defined itself by contrarianism. They don’t have an actual moral frame work, they just take the opposite stance of Judeo Christians on every subject and call it a day. Christians hate killing babies? Fuck that, we love killing babies! Christians think gays are icky? Well now gays are the most important people and so much hurting their feelings should get you kicked out of polite society. Christians don’t think kids should be exposed to sex workers? Hold my beer…..

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

      • rhywun

        Not drag – burlesque.

      • rhywun

        Well, yes. I believe that is a different event from the one linked above.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        A huge neon sign “It’s not gonna lick itself” acting a photo backdrop for the kids to pose with the drag queens. I mean… what? I don’t think many of us would hold back if we caught an adult man saying that to our 6 year old while having his arm around the kid. If it was untucked and out, that would be a capitol offense.

        I’ve said before that I was initially skeptical of the groomer claims, but it’s become very clear that is a part of this. It’s almost beyond words how insane this is.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        yeah yeah capital. I know.

      • Ted S.

        If you believe Madison Cawthorn, it may be a capitol offense too.

      • juris imprudent

        No I think you had it right the first time.

    • Drake

      That is appalling.

    • Sean

      Groomers. Groomers think it’s appropriate.

    • waffles

      It’s not rocket science, they just want to diddle kids.

    • Sensei

      You know what else was burned in Poland?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pierogis?

  11. Shpip

    So today is National Drive-In Movie Day, celebrating the 89th anniversary of the first drive-in opening in New Jersey.

    Which led to the following discussion:

    Me: Wanna go to the drive-in tonight?
    Bosslady: Nah, gotta go to work tomorrow.
    Me: We can to in the Cayman. I won’t even try to get you in the back seat.
    BL: (Laughing) That’s ’cause there isn’t one. Still no.

  12. waffles

    Weigel got cancelled for retweeting a fairly innocuous joke. Have we reached the peak?

    I mean sheesh, the WaPo really is in the gutter right now. Weigel was probably one of the better ones.

    • Ted S.

      I thought WaPo is the joke.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      The whole episode is hilarious to me. Reap what you sow, motherfuckers.

      • Sensei

        That’s where I am.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Yep. It’s a cavalcade of fail.

    • rhywun

      OFFS. NYT writers have *tweeted* shit far worse than that. Usually racist, violent fantasies but whatevz.

    • kbolino

      Weigel was probably one of the better ones.

      Sad but probably true. It’s probably also the reason he was targeted.

    • ron73440

      Everything is stupid.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      It’s also a perfect illustration of “Twitter is not real life”. There can’t be more than a few thousand people in the entirety of humanity that give even the slightest fuck.

    • Gender Traitor

      Found the joke in question. I laughed.

      I may not be a typical example of women reading it.

      ::declines to identify which descriptor in the tweet applies::

      • Ted S.

        You don’t seem bipolar….

  13. DEG

    Messemer says that nearly a foot of water led to a wastewater overflow from the facility.

    The county said that the untreated water has the potential to mix with floodwaters and flow into nearby waterways.

    Yuck.

    • Tonio

      Swimming/boating in sewage is a fact of life. Many municipalities have older “combined” sewage systems where the storm drains and residential wastewater flow into the same sewer system. When the systems become overloaded, such as during big storms, they often just dump the untreated sewage back into the river.

      • Nephilium

        Most of the beaches and waterways that connect to Lake Erie have warning signs about that all over the place. The worst are the 90+ degree days after a big storm, at that point the news is all warnings about not going into the lake.

      • Swiss Servator

        Milwaukee sheepishly grins.

      • R.J.

        “When you’re boating in a bog
        And your prop chops up a log
        Gonorrea! Gonorrea!”

  14. Count Potato

    Inflation is out of hand when donkey ball is worth $4.5 Billion.

    • Sensei

      I read an article earlier that suggested most PMs that survive them resign not soon after.

    • rhywun

      I wonder who’s waiting in the wings there. Remember, Britons, it can get worse than Boris.

    • kbolino

      It’s amazing to me sometimes how our “leaders” can commit no crimes except blasphemy and hypocrisy. No amount of direct and intentional action can be punished, as long as you just do what the (correct) “experts” tell you to.

      • kbolino

        Context: he wasn’t challenged for pushing lockdowns, masks, or “vaccines”, none of which did anything, but only for getting caught doing what they were all doing anyway

      • grrizzly

        From the article:

        In an effort to shore up support, Downing Street on Monday sent a briefing note to Tory lawmakers pointing out that midterm slumps are normal and saying Mr. Johnson is a proven winner, having delivered Brexit and a fast vaccine rollout during the pandemic.

        Even if they are not campaigning on lockdowns, they are still campaigning on “vaccines.”

    • Drake

      He’s doing the Biden thing of blaming fuel costs, inflation, and everything else on the war in the Ukraine – while spending huge amounts of money to prolong the war in the Ukraine.

  15. Sensei

    “I would be shocked if we do not achieve full self-driving safer than human this year. I would be shocked,” Musk said, predicting full self-driving would become “the most important source of profitability for Tesla.”Jan 27, 2022

    Amish buggies are freaking my car out

    • Pope Jimbo

      Running over the Amish is a feature, right?

      When I was working at a large German company 4 years ago that was heavily into the automotive market, even the super conservative Krauts thought they were getting close to fully automated driving.

      The biggest confounding factor was asshole drivers. The ones who don’t let people merge into traffic. Or that drive half into another lane because the road narrows ahead and they are tired of people getting ahead of them.

  16. Tundra

    Paging Ted’s:

    Ever seen this?

    Mmmm. Veronica Lake.

    • Ted S.

      No I haven’t. I assume Universal has the rights after MCA bought the pre-1950 Paramounts, and they’re bad with their back catalog.

      I’m watching Barbara Stanwyck in “Night Nurse” on TCM right now. One of the wilder pre-Codes out there.

  17. Count Potato

    “That same day, Beto claimed on CNN he’s not proposing gun confiscation.

    BETO: “What I’m talking about is a mandatory buyback, where Americans who own an AR-15 or an AK-47 will sell that weapon back to the government.”

    CNN: “It sounds like confiscation.””

    https://twitter.com/MiaCathell/status/1533857765269159938

    CWAA

    • rhywun

      If Beto ever wins anything more significant than dog catcher, we might as well give up and admit we’re done. Stick a fork in us.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Even CNN realizes it’s a loser

    • EvilSheldon

      Beto is too dumb to even lie coherently. That’s pretty dumb.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’d love for a journalo to ask Beto if he’d be OK – given his history of driving drunk – to be forced to sell his car back to the govt.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Still trying to find when I paid the FedGov for my arms…

      • Pope Jimbo

        If he had become President, he could have shipped all the guns off to the Ukraine. Now he can only sneak them across the border to some Mexican cartel. What a gyp!

      • DEG

        I bought a few rifles from the CMP.

        They can’t have those rifles back.

  18. Count Potato

    “The CEO of a South Carolina animal rescue nonprofit was arrested when police found dozens of dead animals inside her home while investigating a complaint about the “smell of death.”

    Caroline Dawn Pennington, the 47-year-old CEO and director of GROWL, was arrested Friday and charged with 30 counts of ill-treatment of animals after officers discovered the bodies of 28 dogs and two cats decomposing in cages inside her home…

    In addition to being the director of the animal rescue GROWL, she was also employed by the Kershaw County Humane Society at the time of the incident. ”

    https://nypost.com/2022/06/05/30-dead-dogs-cats-found-in-home-of-south-carolina-animal-rescue-ceo/

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hold on. Isn’t Milo gay? I was assured that conservative GOP-ers would burn all gayz given half a chance.

      • Ted S.

        I thought he was only gay for pay.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I thought he converted. Honestly, I can’t keep up.

      • Drake

        He claims to be a straight Christian now.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sounds like he can’t keep his story straight. Maybe he’s bi-poler.

      • Spudalicious

        Boo this man!

      • Brochettaward

        He came out with some ridiculous story about turning himself straight, though he continued to live with his (black) partner as a roommate. It was one of the stranger and more pathetic attempts to get back into the spotlight I have ever seen. I say that as someone who had defended the guy. He was unfairly cancelled and made into a pariah by the mainstream right that never understood or cared for his schtick in the first place.

    • Brochettaward

      I cannot for the life of me figure out how Kathleen Kennedy is still allowed to run Star Wars.

      • Ted S.

        She fits a demographic check box.

      • Brochettaward

        Regardless, what it really boils down to is that all old IP’s will in the future be geared to pushing the progressive agenda. The fans who aren’t dyed in the wool progressives will be pushed aside and cast out of the fandoms while a small and rather stupid minority defends the product being shoveled down their throats. Some will defend it purely because of politics. The useful idiots in the media will run cover for this.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m waiting for the all female reboot of Platoon. Greta Thunberg will be the naïve grunt (Charlie Sheen) who is torn between and evil TERF (Tom Berenger) played by JK Rowlings and the idealistic Sgt (Willem Defoe) played by Lia Thomas.

        Things come to a head when the platoon goes into a bar where kids are participating in a drag show. JK Rowlings flips out and kills a couple parents. Knowing that Lia Thomas is going to rat him out to Nina Jankowicz at the Disinformation Board, JK abandons Lia in Downtown Chicago on a cold night. As they leave on the El, the entire platoon sees Lia being beaten to death by Jussie Smollet.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Dude, no one is going to buy that about Jucie.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Dude, no one is going to buy that about Jucie.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Well, the squirrels might.

      • juris imprudent

        Her iron grip is squeezing the last few pennies out of the franchise – that is why she is in charge.

  19. Pope Jimbo

    Strange how being neutral about Ukraine gets people so revved up.

    • db

      Ain’t it, though?

    • Ownbestenemy

      You MUST pick a side!

      • Animal

        I frequently tell my kids, when discussing anything policy/political: “It’s OK to hate everybody involved.” That applies here too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. Teen#2 is getting accustomed to just telling everyon to F’ off, you all are crap.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh I must, must I? How exactly do you plan on forcing me to – put a gun to my head?

      • Ownbestenemy

        If need be yes and there are a bunch of bitch ass losers that would gladly step behind that gun.

      • juris imprudent

        Nah, they’re spineless – thankfully. They don’t have that kind of conviction, after all, the next Current Thing to support will distract them.

    • Brochettaward

      Most of the people in question never even would have thought of doing something like, oh, you know, serving in the military, but will dutifully tell a veteran who doesn’t go with the propaganda that they are a Russian stooge and a traitor.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Smoked meatloaf for tonight and later next week will be making an attempt at using the pellet smoker, a smoking tube and its ability to do cold smoke…some cold smoked bacon, cheese and fish

    • db

      Smoked meatloaf sounds awesome.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ive done it on the wood fire smoker and yes it comes out fantastic.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So my boss who is vaccinated will still single out the unvaccinated to get tested bi-weekly….EEO complaints incoming!

    • Drake

      What a line-up of incompetents in that picture.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Remember when this would have been wall-to-wall coverage on incompetence and denial of COVID from the last Administration? I do.

    • Brochettaward

      But doing so could increase Biden’s exposure to the illness. The White House has previously pointed to pandemic concerns when asked why Biden, 79, doesn’t travel more often, though they have acknowledged that he may become infected.

      I’m sure it has nothing to do with his horrible performances in both scripted and unscripted settings, his complete inability to handle questions, and the absolutely tiny crowds he would attract which would undermine the notion of him as the most popular president in history.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        And now we know why the ‘rona is still a “concern”

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      Are they still wearing the stupid masks?

    • rhywun

      He forgot to praise the Jab and the Booster in his boilerplate tweet.

      • ron73440

        Business Insider didn’t forget the propaganda:

        The president has been vaccinated and twice boosted, which are factors that reduce the likelihood that he’ll need hospitalization or that he’ll die from COVID-19.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Look at that goal post moving. No mention of protections from getting it.

      • Nephilium

        Look, it’ll lessen the symptoms, until it doesn’t. Just get your vaccination and booster.

      • db

        My GF, vaxxed and twice boosted, had more severe symptoms than I did. And I recovered faster, with the exception of smell and taste.

      • ron73440

        They never said it would stop you from getting it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh really?

        “Vaccines provide significant protection from ‘getting it’ – infection – and ‘spreading it’ – transmission – even against the delta variant.”

        Data from clinical trials indicate the vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are about 95% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections.

        The vaccine rollout has affirmed those findings.

        CDC chief Rochelle Walensky said earlier this week that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick.”

      • ron73440

        Sorry, that was sarcasm.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Afterwork sarcasmometer is broken… 😉

      • R.J.

        Recalibrate! Recalibrate! Recalibrate!

      • juris imprudent

        The hell they didn’t say that; that’s the only reason I got the J&J – on the presumption that it would mean I couldn’t spread it. Fucking liars.

      • juris imprudent

        Poe slaw – thinly sliced BS.

    • R.J.

      *Puts hands together
      “Please Lord, give him Monkeypox too at the same time”

    • Tundra

      “I’m coming to join you, honey – RICH!”

      That dude stole every scene he was ever in.

      • Sean

        Yup. I’m enjoying picking the clips out. Some days, I’ll screen several before I find one I really like.

    • Stillhunter

      Black Classics channel (503) on PlutoTV

    • DEG

      🙂

    • Ted S.

      I didn’t know Kimchi was Swiss.

      • Not Adahn

        Rosti mit kimchi?

      • Evan from Evansville

        That’s because you’re broken. Have all of mine. Seven years’ worth.

        Shove it up your ass. Does more good than eating it the “traditional” way.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Are we now purposefully signalling Red Flags for Ev to get incensed about?

      It’s fucking disgusting prisoner food.

      Gochujang (Their red pepper paste that pervades all kimchi and most Korean food) is absolutely dreadful. Everything, from protein to cabbage…all you can taste is that fucking sauce. Probably to hide all the war-torn difficulties and spoiled rations of yesteryear. Now, they (Koreans) are all used to it and it’s comfort food. If you didn’t grow up in the trenches, then you (and me) have no idea.

      Hands-down, the worst cuisine in my 6-continent tour of the world. Despicable and I’m glad for it to never show its face again. My family knows this rule when they ask “Where should we go to eat?”

      I probably, thankfully, will gain a substantial amount of weight when I return to a nation that has good/better options.

      Lady won’t wake up for 3 more hours. I’m gonna try to get her to go to one of my favorite spots. Eggs Benedict with salmon for me. For her? Up to her and on me.

      • ron73440

        I make a darn good kitchen soup and my wife’s Korean fried chicken is awesome

      • ron73440

        *kimchi* not kitchen.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Kitchen soup is what we all will be eating soon so I was going to ask for the recipe.

      • Gender Traitor

        Anything like stone soup?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Isn’t that a summer veggie soup? Can’t remember. When things got tight we reverted to our English/Irish ways had it was potatoes and cabbage ‘soup’.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Gochujang used correctly is fantastic.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Um. Huh. That’s…well…that’s…um…interesting….

        via GIPHY

      • Ownbestenemy

        To each their own!

      • rhywun

        I’m with you. Was not impressed the couple times I’ve had it.

      • Evan from Evansville

        It’s frightfully disgusting. I stand by my “war-rations” and “prisoner food” comment.

        (I accept that I’m biased as I’ve lived here for 7 years.)

        25 hours left in Korea (if everything goes right) and 21 left in Daejeon.

        Wheelchair service is ready to go at Incheon and in Detroit. Goodies will be bought with my bro in Detroit. I plan on going to the moon as soon as I can.

  21. Evan from Evansville

    People here? It’s 8:32 AM here.

    Should be picked up around the way in about 21.5 hours.

    • Gender Traitor

      No. No one is here.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dave’s not here man

    • Evan from Evansville

      I have a strange bruise on my arm. Looks like I burned it on an oven, but that makes no sense. (None are anywhere near me.)

      I also have a suspicion that I’ve cracked a rib on my back. I fell over several times recently. It wouldn’t surprise me. It’s not “shattered” broken (if it is), but a crack makes the most sense.

      I’ll see how it is in a bit. Then I’ll think and, if proper, I’ll add it to the register of broken bones.

      Y’all would be shocked. I look pretty good for a broken shell of a human.

      I need to get some happiness out of existence. I shockingly do find it constantly. I’m used to looking at the bright side of life. *Whistle whistle whistle*

      Last day in Korea. Hopefully, if everything goes well. Last change to hang with Lady. I doubt I’ll see her ever again. Maybe I shall. Who knows. Life has a fun way of throwing curveballs at ya. Lean on the back foot and make adjustments with the front.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The epitome of ‘small world’ was when I went to Denmark and at a bar met a girl I knew from high school.

      • Evan from Evansville

        You best have taken it down.

      • ron73440

        So she’s not going to take the free trip your folks offered her?

      • Evan from Evansville

        She wants to. Her contract is up in September. That would be the time. We shall see.

      • ron73440

        Sounds like she’s earned it.

        Hope it works out.

    • Sean

      It’s almost time for me to go save the commonwealth.

      • db

        Sorry, PA’s gonna need more than a single vault dweller.

  22. LCDR_Fish

    Yongsan was a great place to be stationed – around 07-08. That downtown land had to be worth at least as much per acre as if it had been in Tokyo. Of course…most of the buildings (with a few exceptions) – including my house, were probably built just post-war and looked like absolute shit – but it was a nice place.

  23. CPRM

    CPRM (plz go fix the broken images in the post, thx)

    They’re showing up just fine in preview. They are hosted on a different site, but so were the transformers ones. But I’ll go in later put all the images through the glibsite.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    Postmodern Jukebox is supposedly playing here in Vegas. Might buy those tickets. Music of John Williams is supposedly going be coming through too. All before our planned exit date. Maybe a farewell to Vegas tour for us

    • Tres Cool

      If you land in SW Ohio, Ill be happy to show you where GT lives. She can buy you a beer or two.