Today was a beautiful day. 34 degrees, bright blue skies and no wind. So we went and shot sporting clays. I had a middling round, but the weather more than made up for it. And I was also away from the derp, so the day was that much better.
Some derp:
SARS, or Spanish Flu? We’ve been lied to and I expect this to get much worse before it gets better.
Now that’s how you control an outbreak.
A family spat. Schumer crows, “we got him this time!”.
Appropriate.
I don’t know what to do with her body, Cremation is our wish, but I don’t have the money, or any clue as to what to do, I’m Lost and alone, any tips?
Bob. Do this. Go here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/maps/meetinghouses
You will have to navigate to find where the closest meetinghouse is to where Wendy is.
You will be able to find a bishop’s name.
Call him and tell him what you need.
Tell him your friend in Missouri told you to call.
A Mormon bishop is responsible for every soul in his ward (parish), not just the Mormon ones. He will find a way to help you.
Thank you,
GBY, Bob. We’ll help you get through this.
The things I learn here. That’s some good information.
Right?
I’m already set-up to be buried by the VA, but you can never know too much
Green burial or direct cremation are probably going to be your most cost-effective options.
Don’t let a funeral director guilt you into spending more than necessary. You have a million thoughts going through your head right now, but clarity of thought is of the utmost importance.
Should you decide on cremation, look into getting an urn online. Funeral homes’ markup on the things is staggering.
So sorry to hear about your loss, Bob. My sincerest condolences. I did some Googling on your situation, and it seems like the best bet is to contact the county coroner where she died and let them know ASAP that you don’t have the financial means to pay for a funeral and burial. You might have to show them some documentation to prove said hardship, but once done the county will bury the body, per AZ law.
I think they are in Las Vegas.
Correct, I’m still processing al of this, and crying at the same time,
Damn!
#MeToo
#MeThree
I told Mr. Mojeaux. There were tears. ?
Stop it you 3….its like a Hallmark commercial came on, and Im PMS-ing
Yep.
Also yep. I’m sorry Bob.
Nevada law on burial looks a bit less specific than AZ, but if the above options don’t work out I’d still reach out to the county coroner to explain the situation.
http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/social-service/services/Pages/BurialandCremation.aspx
Honest response? Worry about it tomorrow. Grieve tonight.
I’m really sorry for your loss, brother. You have a lot of friends here who are mourning alongside you.
There are options for you from the traditional funeral homes, to religious routes like Mo mentioned, to direct cremation provided by the county or the state.
Thanks trashy, I’m getting tired…..
Yes. Grieve now and then get some sleep.
This. For now grieve. Those other things will be there later and (hopefully) people to walk you through it. I’m someone who always tries to look on the bright side, the last two passing in my family happened at home, so there was much more stuff to immediately take care of, at least that.
Godspeed Yusef.
Not to be cold, pardner.
Has Wendy passed away? Condolences and I am saddened by your loss.
My wife and I are donating our bodies to science. I think that the gaining facility incurs all costs. Speaking for the Fourscores only I’m hoping there may be some useful parts or possibly some use to med students, etc.
Take care, Ol’ Bud
I will and she did
Sincerest condolences. She can’t suffer any more. I hope you don’t suffer for the both of you though.
I managed to necropost the last thread.
Any trouble with the hospital, let me know. TPTB have my email. They should hold her until you make arrangements.
Take a few days. Let them know you’re working on it, and there shouldn’t be any problems.
My deepest condolences, Yusef. Really, I pray for you and your family. She is no longer in pain.
My condolences, Bob. May you find strength in this painful time.
Bob, my sincerest apologies for getting in this late, as I don’t wish to keep you from dealing with this as needed, or, to belabor a very rough time. Condolences on her passing, and prayer that you can grieve, and then, decompress when it’s the proper time. Know that you are loved and valued here–and needed, too.
“SARS, or Spanish Flu? We’ve been lied to and I expect this to get much worse before it gets better.”
And the “vaccines” will send us all into a shopping frenzy.
I’m not sure how “discovering a method to diagnose cases more quickly” equals “we’ve been lied to,” but, having lived through the Great Hit and Run Ebola Freakout of ’14, I know better.
Spanish flu hit in 1918 and we’re JUST now building a wall on the southern border? Unbelievable. If my uncles on Facebook are correct, Trump’s tariff plan is all part of his long game on getting China to pay for the corona wall. God bless America
I blame Obama.
Lied to by the Chicoms. This is much worse that they’ve told us and they waited a month before letting anyone outside China know.
Of course communists lie, that’s what they do. But I still don’t see how discovering a new method of diagnosis equals anything sinister. If we had evidence that they were actually cooking the books, that would be one thing, but this just sounds to me like you are speculating as to why they recently reported a large number of new cases (which if it follows the trend, only 16 percent of the 15,000 new cases would be “serious”.)
That wasn’t where my comment was aimed. I was talking about the whole situation. I think they’re coming to the realization they have to fess up. If you can believe the stuff that’s dribbling out, it’s much worse than what’s being reported. I usually find the truth to be in the middle, which still isn’t heartening news.
Haven’t seen you for awhile.
I hope all is well.
Just roughing it out here in the great white north that is Columbus, OH. My first winter since leaving LA last spring. Worth every penny saved in cost of living.
::irons Michigan t-shirt::
Plus, a better hockey team!
Good to hear.
Hockey? The hell is that? Soccer with sticks?
It’s ok. I keep forgetting where you come from.
I predict it will be worse in China because China is a communist shithole.
China is asshole.
Yup most of the sick are in Hubei. It’s not spreading rapidly outside of China. The 15 confirmed in the US we’re all in China or close to someone who was infected in China. I’m not worried at all
The media will ALWAYS overhype the shit out of this stuff. Just think of the weather channel on steroids. And I suspect that organizations like WHO would not even exist unless they could at least attempt to cause mass hysteria over the next ‘pandemic’. And I swear the left want a pandemic because somehow that will get to bad orange man. Sick fucks.
China 2020 population is estimated at 1,439,323,776 people. Without doing the math the figures listed are pretty trivial. What % of Americans have had the flu and what % of Chinese are we talking about, with some new form of respiratory problem. Not making light of it but the accompanying hysteria seems over the top, at least at this point.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, BAYESTARD!
Milk just shot out of my nose.
See, you gotta watch your priors.
Kinky…
Uffda. You yelled at Fourscore. The nicest guy on the internet.
Some day you will visit a Honey Harvest meet the guy and feel awful about this comment. Really. He’s that decent of a guy.
It’s all a front. Honey Harvest? More like a honey trap.
Go out to harvest honey, drink a beer or two; wake up hog-tied in a bathtub in an old shed, naked and covered in barbecue sauce. Apple stuck in your mouth. Fourscore’s li’l piggie.
Goddammit, I told you that in confidence!
Seriously though, it is nothing to make light of, but all evidence thus far suggests that it is as serious as influenza. The vast majority of people who have died from COVID have either been elderly and/or suffering from a chronic illness like heart disease or asthma prior to infection. Commonsense precautions should be made. Yet because familiarity breeds contempt, people should advocate for the same precautions for the flu, but they don’t. It has even become a badge of honor among some to not get the flu vaccine. Such cognitive dissonance exists because we have cognitive biases for novelty and saliency. I’d like to think we Glibs are better than that, though. Think better.
I stopped getting the flu vaccines because they made me autistic.
Now I have no friends and I threw my vote away on Gary Johnson.
Did you at least make sustained eye contact with the poll worker when you threw that vote away?
This will help you.
I seem to get the flu (or something flu-like) exactly 6 weeks after I get the flu shot.
Real disaster level epidemic diseases have an exponential spread. Obviously numbers from China are suspect but other than some completely silly air pollution analysis by trolls there has been nothing indicating that sort of growth that I have seen. Honestly the only indication that there is anything to worry about has been the quarantine news. So in effect, the panic is what is fueling the panic. If we start hearing 10s of thousands dead in the next 2 weeks, I’ll start to worry, but so far this is not expanding at that sort of parabolic rate.
See, that’s the problem right there. 1.4 billion is inauspicious. Either go back to 1.3 or power through to 1.5.
(4 being similar in sound to dead. Sì and sǐ)
1.8 FTW
Ha!Bā!I suspect you are right. I worked for a company back in the mid 90s and they opened a site, I mean a manufacturing facility, AKA sweatshop in some mostly rural area of China. One guy who I worked with went over there to help get things set up and going. When he came back, I asked him about his experience and the first sentence out of his mouth was ‘the dirtiest fucking place I have ever seen’. Just sayin.
Yeah and I am no doctor or scientist, but I gotta imagine the piss poor air quality hammers the locals lungs real hard and makes respiratory infections more serious. Course, I maybe be completely 100% wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time.
This guy has the right idea.
I’m just a hunka-hunka Burma love…
I went back and looked at the clip again, didn’t look too, oh, oh…
“23-year-old Italian couple with piercings and tattoos” is asshole.
Seriously, WTF.
The video, in case anyone is interested.
God I dont want to be alone right now….
We are only separated by miles, all the Glibs are here for you to help in any way.
My sympathies.
I’m sorry for your loss Bob.
Hugging you from across the internet. I’m here for you, dude.
Sorry to hear about Wendy. She was loved and you are loved.
“God I don’t want to be alone right now….”
Given the outpouring of support you are receiving and no doubt will receive on this website, YdaK, I do not think that you can, or will ever, be alone.
I love breaking clays. My local range does trap, which I enjoy.
There’s a nearby restaurant that also has a skeet range and sporting clays – https://www.powderbourne.com
I’ve shot skeet there. Also fun. Never tried their sporting clays. Also, their bacon is fucking fantastic.
This place is fairly close – https://www.lvsclays.com
Absolutely love that place. I don’t go nearly as much as I’d like to.
“I’ve shot skeet there.“
Slow your roll, Lil Jon
https://media.giphy.com/media/iOMSfTen1pZUPTx2QF/giphy.gif
x3 Skeets
You can drive by a range on a Sunday afternoon and determine whether it was a skeet shoot or a trap shoot without slowing down. Trap shooters will have the trunk opened and trying to swap guns. Skeet shooters will have the trunk open, a cooler out and a cold one in their hand. I liked skeet way better than trap.
I managed to suck at trap, skeet and sporting clays.
I could kill ducks and grouse, though…
Shooting clays definitely helps at the birds though, except for doves. A good dose of luck is handy when dove hunting. I haven’t chased the ducks/grouse in 30 years. Haven’t shot a shotgun more than a couple times in those 30 years.
No question, but grouse are weird. They fly crazy, their habitat is dense and they seem to just want to fuck with hunters.
At least those are my excuses.
I wait until grouse land in the tree right above where they flushed. Then I walk around the tree until only their head is showing before taking a shot.
Good music, Spud
Perfect.
I’ve heard that some people shoot them in the ditches along country roads.
Only rumors, mind you.
Thanks fourscore. It was one of those days where that song fit.
There are few here anymore. Never was many but if I see 1 or 2 a year, along the road or in the woods I’m always surprised. Foxes/skunks/coons? We always had them, change in logging? No idea.
I remember the first grouse I shot, 12 years old, deer season. A clear, crossing shot, #4 skeet high house. Single barrel Iver Johnson 12 gauge. I was a 1/4 mile from home, ran all the way back and told my Mom, gave her the grouse. When my brother and Dad came in from deer hunting they got my story several/many/non-stop times. 70 years later I’m still remembering/bragging. Good to be a kid.
Awesome.
I was trap shooting once. I think it was here. I just remember it was near Trexlertown.
How did you do? My first time out was dismal, can’t remember but about 3-4/25. 3 years later I did 49/50. Now I’m probably back to 3-4.
Skeet was more fun, more relaxed, I thought.
I like skeet better than trap, too. Not sure if it’s my eyes or what.
I think the first round was 15/25 and the second 10/25. Both were done with a borrowed shotgun set up for a left-hander. I shoot right-handed.
I was surprised I hit anything, and then the scorekeeper told me the scores. I thought they were fucking with me, but they weren’t.
My MIL has decreed a family vacation to the Greenbrier this year (she’s paying – it’s how she has decided to spend part of a small inheritance).
What got my brother-in-law to agree was pointing out their Gun Club (he’s a hunter/gun nut); I’m planning on taking the “Introduction to Sporting Clays” class.
The idea of something that’s “like golf, but with shotguns”, sounds awesome.
“when I die, I want to be cremated and put in my wife’s chili….that way I know Ill tear that ass up one more time!”
I have had some thoughts about that…..
Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/HhiRRPCzrm8
What even in the fuck?
That photo, OFFS!
lol, I was just telling my daughter that she’s about to grow out of onesies (“no daddy, I’m not onesie, I’m two”), and my wife told me about the adult onesies. She’s gonna be disappointed to hear about that company’s demise.
I refuse to believe that isn’t a hoax.
You been near any woke college campuses lately? Because I could totally see some of the current crop of students wearing that. Fuck, I probably have seen it, but I tend to not gaze too long upon woke girly men.
Lacks that Nu-Male sheen.
Is that anything like the “Hi-Pro glow“
Some (allegedly) drunk fucker slammed his reefer truck into one of our fleet trucks today. Oh yeah, and 7 others at the same time.
All the victims were stopped at a light when this guy slammed into everyone at 40+ mph.
Neither of our employees had major injuries. A little sore from the impact, but that was it.
A couple pics to be posted tomorrow of the wreckage.
7 other cars? Yeah, I doubt the drunk fuck will have enough property damage coverage for all of that. File with your own carrier soon and file often.
Stop back for photos tomorrow. I’ll put them in the am !inks. That poor Mercedes…
I notified our agent immediately.
Yikes. Good there were no major injuries.
Drunk driving on a commercial license? That’s a big no no.
Aghh, I’m sick to my stomach, it HURTS!
Ahhhh, my Baby, AHHH, I’m….
No one to call, no one to talk to, I’m fucked…..
So sorry to hear, Yusef.
Your stomach is going to hurt for a week. Your head will feel numb for a couple of months. Sorry sir – that’s your brain’s emotional rev limiter kicking in.
No kidding,
Drake: “Your stomach is going to hurt for a week. Your head will feel numb for a couple of months….”
YdaK: “No kidding,”
From Crisis Response Network on Grief and Loss :
“You may feel empty after a death or a loss. You are in shock. You may notice physical changes such as trembling or nausea. You may have trouble breathing or dry mouth. Your muscles may be weak. You may have trouble sleeping and eating.
You may become angry – at a situation, a particular person, or just angry in general. Almost everyone in grief also experiences guilt. Guilt is often expressed as ‘I could have, I should have, and I wish I would have’ statements.”
I recommend reading the beginning of the article and then saving the link I provided. I also hope that the advice/comments from further on in the article under the heading “Moving Through Grief” will be of some benefit when and if you read it in the future.
If you’re feeling really bad, email me at emd2k3 at yahoo dot com and I’ll send you my number to call and talk.
Thot Thursday is starting a pandemic.
http://archive.li/RzszZ
I never had any interest in yoga until I saw 2.
I guess it’s just one of those days. I’m sitting at my father’s bedside while he’s on Comfort Care as we wait for him to pass. He had a stroke two years ago and though he made a partial recovery, he was prone to pneumonia and being in care homes. But his body is just done now.
Going through that with my 90 year old Mom. 10 years post stroke. The last few years the dementia has destroyed her intellect and persona.
My sympathies.
My sympathies as well.
I was at my SIL’s funeral 2 weeks ago, now another one this Sat for a friend, widow of a classmate. Day by day anymore. No surprises. You have my sympathies , ota.
So much sorrow and death around this week, with friends and family both near and far. We should phone up NotAdahn and get our money back for not warning us!!
I’m so sorry
So sorry.
My dad seems to be declining in health and we’re all worried for him.
He had his triple bypass a couple years ago, but refused to make lifestyle changes.
Sorry.
Goodness gracious. I am so sorry.
When it rains, it pours. I’m sorry to hear you’re going through that.
I’m sorry to hear that. I need to go do more stuff with my Dad while he is still here.
Every few weeks I go back and watch every episode of Hat and Hair cartoons to find what worked, what didn’t and where to improve. My favorite is still Episode 15 – A La Carte.
I have to say, if someone else were to show me this series made this exact same way by someone else, I’d say it’s pretty badass. But me knowing everything I do wrong, I’m still a ‘meh’.
yeah, that’s a damn good episode!
If I didn’t know I was the one doing 5 out of the 6 voices (including the Patreon tag) I don’t think I’d guess it was a one man show.
Fuckin’ A! Now, let’s go get McD’s…
Argle bargle.
Too many ad-block and cookie requests and autoplay vids to enjoy the links. I’m not playing that game. Sorry, dude. Looked like some solid headlines, but each one was hosted by an awful “news” site.
I’m really tired of them. I find that clicking on “reader view” in the address bar gets past them.
Reader view is great on the iPhone, but doesn’t help with the PC.
I’ve got reader view on my laptop. I’m on Mozilla.
Oh, Yufus! I have had you on my mind all day and much of last night. I’m so sorry.
Don’t forget to lean on your friends and family. You need to take time to process and reflect on the good times.
This is from an essay my daughter wrote after a “G.R.A.D.E” (modern D.A.R.E.) course with a police officer. This is some deprogramming I’m going to have to do.
As my final point, I’d like to talk about laws. Laws are a set of rules that must be followed. Laws play a very important role in society. Laws are critical because they represent punishment for things like crime, murder; etc. Without laws society would be a mess due to there being no rules or punishment. Because of laws, jail, and other things, there’s not as much crime as there would be. Laws help society in many ways as well, because they prevent substance abuse ( Refer to body paragraph 1. ) and bullying. ( Refer to body paragraph 2. )
“Laws help society in many ways as well, because they prevent substance abuse”
I’d start the deprogramming with that sentence.
Have her watch this over and over and over again, until she gets it.
Awesome. I have always said that the United States Government is the largest corporation on Earth.
And therefore, also the largest consumer of fossil fuels.
I’ve noticed that the DARE signs are gone from the small towns around here. Either the money ran out or the cops stopped chasing kids, realizing that some of them may be theirs.
“Laws help society in many ways as well, because they prevent substance abuse ”
Wait, whut?
Reminds me of a meme I saw on FB where the dems are asking for $50 Million to provide security for the DNC national convention, and the meme text is “I say we just put up some Gun-Free Zone signs and call it good.”
Mighty fine propaganda, Lou.
DARE helped me turn my kids into cynical shitlords, so I have no complaints.
Ugh. There was none of that crap in my schools.
DARE to keep kids off Ritalin.
DARE to resist government bullying.
DARE to force boys to act like girls!
DARE to be STUPID!
Had you linked to anything less, I would have to
pull mycancel Patreon support.Laws play a very important role in society. In order to do this they must meet certain criteria.
First, they must be promulgated. Since they are the rules of the society they must be clearly understandable, publicly posted, and no longer than any normal intellect is able to read, understand and remember. We are talking 12 tables here a dozen metal plaques in the public forum, not 100s much less 10s of thousands of pages.
They must also be reasonable. A law that is not overwhelmingly accepted is not reasonable. The citizens are the players in the social game for which these laws are the rules
You know what I think I’ll make this a long form article and get a good minarchist/anarchist fight going some night.
Of course you mean a minarchist/feudalist fight.
You need some Tuttle Twins.
Good eeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Spud and co.
With rum spritz in hand, I will now peruse the lynx.
~”Get some.”
Last time I went to the range, somebody left bottles of cheap beer, aka party slop, behind in the snow.
Since that stuff isn’t real beer, they got shot.
I go to Idaho Sporting Clays out past Homedale. Jim and Carol don’t put up with bs.
Here in Canyon County, there is an open public rifle/pistol range. Most people are perfectly respectable, although a few yahoos do bless us with their presence, occasionally.
Is that the one outside of Nampa? I haven’t been to that one yet. I’m a member at Gem County, but the yahoos have multiplied over the past few years.
Yes. South of town and the Deer Flat Animal Refuge. Named after some sheriff whose name I can’t bother to remember. Well maintained. Clean, for the most part. Did see one yahoo there trying out his quick draw. He managed to thoroughly perforate the ground between himself and the target.
He gets his own bay.
Dickshooter is a bit south.
How sad is it to be named Dick Shooter?
That there is bumfuck nowhere.
Of course its nowhere, its Owyhee County.
Didn’t I read somewhere that the people on House Hunters were actors?
https://people.com/home/hgtv-features-first-throuple-on-house-hunters/?
In that they have already purchased the house before the episode, yes.
Or in some cases, no purchase at all. In one episode, I found all of the houses on Redfin, and the status never went to pending. All were still on the market with price reductions.
I also think it’s hilarious that the photo, from left to right, is like a bar graph of increasing masculine appearance.
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE REPRESENTATION OF TANSTHROUPLES OF COLOR!!!!???
*thinks about linking to lemonparty*
*demurs*
Yeah notice how its an MFF trio of decently attractive people. That’s the acceptable throuple. Real life is different. If you go lurk on reddit /polyamory you see a bunch of pretty ugly people, and there’s an awful lot of “one not so attractive woman, multiple guys who have no chance of getting a girlfriend except on a timeshare”
Hard pass.
Yes, some do call it that; “The hard pass”…
TANSTHROUPLES OF COLOR
Typo of the year.
The house hunters have already bought the house before the episode is shot.
I’ve been on an HGTV show along with the wife as buyers of a house. We were actually the sellers of the house. It’s reality tv.
El oh El.
Fail.
http://archive.li/dGMtC
Oops.
I like to plug myself, is that wrong?
Phrasing?
Yes Cyril, we’re still doing phrasing!
She WAS a call girl. But now she’s dead. You killed a hooker, Cyril.
For Bob: Something to Take the Edge Off
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fStPFPaTLjQ&t=2112s
Small solace, yes. But as fucked up as it sounds, I hope you smile tonight.
I’d love to see him on Wild broadcasts.
Yeah, it’s 2020, but all Katheryn would have had to do is laugh it off. Lame.
Meh, that’s not really something you should say on a podcast, especially since shes a married woman. I think that crosses the line between “we’re all adults here” humor and being inappropriate.
It’s a fucking podcast.
Smaller audience (usually) and looser ‘rules’.
Kathryn torpedoed him.
Too slow. Missed opportunity. Something like “well, I guess we know one thing on your bucket list that ain’t gonna happen” would have been better.
Yeah I just think when you’re explicitly talking about someone by name talking about how you and your wife and her jumping into bed together, when you were on a business trip, I think at that point you’re stretching your own neck on the block. I don’t even think shes doing it out of spite or some SJW bullshit, its a straight up business move. Rumor starts flying shes playing the unicorn for a couple on a business trip, it could affect her career. Shes got to set the record straight.
I get its a podcast, the rules are looser, but I think that was a little out of line.
If someone close to me fucks up in public, I do whatever I can to help them.
All she had to do was remind everyone that JR’s wife and her are friends and they both both know he’s a knucklehead.
Fuck Kathryn.
He just needed this https://youtu.be/YSJMISy5UgY
Katheryn aside, Jeremy was right about Patrick Sharp – that’s a pretty, pretty man.
This is true. Can’t believe he played as long as he did with no damage.
When is Honey Fest 2020? I start my new job next week and after 90 days I get the vacation stuff, maybe if all is well I’ll make the trek, learn you minnysodans about drinking.
3rd Sunday in September, 9/20 I believe.
I am happy to get you on the list. minnetundra@geemail
…learn you minnysodans about drinking.
Maybe, but the NoDak boys might hurt you.
I think you’ll know my e-mail by the subject line, if it wends it’s way through the toobs.
Did you send it by fucking carrier pigeon?
I probably fucked up. I always do. Don’t hit me again daddy! (unless that turns you on)
Lol.
I got it. No more beatings.
🙁
“No more beatings” is a real kick in the balls.
Uh what? Why would they need to transfer the money in country rather than buy the material direct and ship it to NK?
“Why would they need to transfer the money in country rather than buy the material direct and ship it to NK?”
How do you say “mordida” in Korean?
I dunno but S Korea seems to rival Illinois for public officials in prison.
For Bob and the rest of us https://youtu.be/KAIc6CrFA3I Linked it on the last thread but missed out on condolences. I’m so sorry to hear about your troubles, Friends.
Mojeaux – I finished Dunham (80 hour workweeks have been killing my reading pace). While I generally groan over plots involving the hero and heroine deceiving each other, I greatly enjoyed that one. The pacing never dragged, and Celia was awesome. From the back cover, I gather I should read The Proviso next?
YAY!!!!
If you’re going chronologically, 1520 Main is next. It’s a Prohibition book in 1929, though, so it might not be your cuppa (I personally don’t care for the time period). Tundra just finished it, and Creosote Achilles beta read it.
Might want to ask GT or Cannoli what they would recommend you do.
It took me 25 years to write Dunham. I knew what I wanted to do when I started, but I also knew I didn’t have the chops to do it.
It took me 25 years to write
I really liked it.
But I’m a shitlord, so…
So is Trey. *snicker*
Marina eventually gets to shitlady status.
I read them in publication order. The Proviso, Magdelene, and Dunham were my favorites. I think the ones set before The Proviso can be read in any order. The ones set after would be spoilery if you read them first.
I love that time-period. Wish-listed.
Oh, forgot the link.
http://moriahjovan.com/talesofdunham/thebooks/1520-main/
There is deception involved. Actually, now that you’ve pointed it out, I use deception EVERYfuckingwhere. Oops.
http://moriahjovan.com/talesofdunham/
Scroll down to the timeline table. Either of those orders should work for you.
I think I’ll start with The Proviso next, then, although I’m actually rather fond of prohibition period. Thanks for writing some great entertainment!
You’re welcome and thanks for reading! 😀
Yeah, I’m late – as usual. I happened to read The Proviso first, but I like the idea of at least starting the series chronologically. Since you’ve read Dunham, you might want to consider reading 1520 Main next (I didn’t because it hadn’t been finished until I’d read all the others,) and then The Proviso, since it centers around direct descendants. Unless I’m forgetting something, I don’t think the order of the other books is as critical. I think Magdalene is still my favorite.
Proviso, Stay, and Magdalene need to be read in that order.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-kelly/former-chief-of-staff-kelly-rejects-trump-north-korea-approach-as-futile-report-idUSKBN2072L5
How dare Trump not take the advice of his betters! And the North Korea policy had been working for the last 20 years.
But TRUMP was going to cause Lil Kim to blow us all up! That happened!
Carter, Bush and Obama – we give NK billions. NK works on nukes and missiles
Donny – NK works on nukes and missiles. It’s not clear they’re really very good at the later.
‘While North Korea has not tested a nuclear bomb or long-range missile since 2017, a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday said it continued to enhance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs last year in breach of U.N. sanctions.
North Korea did not act on a threat to present the United States with a “Christmas surprise” that some feared could involve a return to testing, but Kim has warned that the world would soon see a “new strategic weapon.”’
Believing what Reuters reports at face value or not, I’ll continue to remain skeptical about NK’s willingness to concede the advancement of their nuclear capabilities. They’ve managed to do so over the last twenty plus years while giving the west nothing but platitudes. Why change course unless the currents run too strong against your set destination?
Lizzie Warren’s campaign is sinking so fast that I had to skip a few episodes of her story arc (it certainly wasn’t my fault for not keeping up with writing them, nosiree) and write the second to last episode. Unfortunately, it turned into a bit of a montage episode, but I hope the final one outweighs the suck of this next one.
I like your stories even if they were a tad dense at first. Once I knew who and what everything was it all clicked into place. Keep ’em coming!
Yeah, my brain to word interface is a little bit inconsistent. Getting that mental picture illustrated properly is much harder when I have a whole series of events swimming around in my head that need to be kept straight. Doesn’t help that I flat refuse to organize my thoughts or write down a story arc.
Tons of respect to the fiction writers here. It’s much easier to write an an article on the minutae of libertarianism than it is to write a serial.
I’m just glad to have a place to dump my creative fruits, no matter how good or bad they are. They’d end up crumpled in a trash can or nagging at my subconscious otherwise.
She allied herself with Saira Rao, one of the most vile human beings on earth.
I have a stupid OCD-driven dilemma.
I mentioned the other night that I was going through my mementos and keepsakes. Festus said he didn’t have that many and I took from what he also said that maybe it’s not a good idea to keep onto mementos too tightly. Anyway…
I have journals going back to 1997. I read through them the other day. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. Now I’m looking at my file cabinet full of mementos (I threw a few away while I was going through them) and wondering if I should just ruthlessly cull them. Some things don’t mean anything to me anymore. Things I saved that were funny no longer are (although the United States seal that’s an unzipped fly from the Clinton era is still funny). Almost none of it will be funny to my kids because they don’t know the zeitgeist of what was going on. And then I have my letter and medals and ribbons from high school, almost all of which are second place (a pathology I may write an essay about some time later).
So how do you all handle mementos that go back 50 years? I have a favorite one it is from my very early childhood, so I’m keeping that. But what would be your threshold for keeping something or throwing something out?
Hopefully, I’ll get metoo’ed and have all my mementos catalogued for me.
Ah the good ole chain of custody mementos
I saved a few things that I thought the kids might like, otherwise it’s gone. Photographs are fun.
Cull relentlessly.
My photos have faded so badly that they’re more idea than imagery.
You could go the Lileks route and just digitize everything you can – that’ll free up a ton of stuff without outright destroying it.
I don’t have anything older than a couple decades.
*Except some books – not really mementoes but they mean something to me.
Albums, too.
I dug this out not long ago.
1981.
*sighs and farts dust*
Oh, that’s long since digitized.
Of course. Solid media are still fun.
I don’t have any physical music media left. Aside from a couple random things like free CD’s received from friends or at concerts.
I got my brother to store all mine!
My kids have no interest, so I don’t expect to ever reclaim them.
I still dig playing records.
Level 1: “Is this something that I will ever actually enjoy again?” And by enjoy, I mean more than just seeing it in a box of other keepsakes and smiling for a half second.
Level 2: “Is this something that I could enjoy in picture form instead?” And by picture form, I mean take a picture of it, throw the article away and put the picture in a keepsake photo album.
There’s still a bunch of my old stuff in my old bedroom at my dad’s house. As he’s prepping to move out of that house, he keeps telling me that he’s boxing my stuff up and I can have it whenever I want it. Thanks for the sentiment, dad, but I don’t want my participation trophy from 4th grade soccer.
But what about your self-esteem??
I’m married, it’s in my wife’s purse next to my testicles.
You admitted it! So brave! So stunning!
I have my dead dad’s baptism papers. Makes me weep every time I see them. You never know what is going to be a spark of recognition for descendants. I don’t think my dad’s aunt ever knew how much her talking about Laurel and Hardy effected me, and how much it meant that I got those worthless statues.
I’m not good at getting rid of stuff, but start with the stuff you don’t use/doesn’t hold as much meaning anymore.
Anyone here a Marie Kondo devotee? My impression is that she covers mementos.
This is all I know about her.
Okay, that was funny.
“Things that bring you joy.” Yes, I know. That doesn’t exactly work for someone who’s not quite sure what joy feels like.
I keep thinking, “If the house burned down, would I miss this?” but that doesn’t help as much as one might think.
Put it in a box for six months/year/whatever. If you don’t pull it out by the end, toss the box in the dumpster.
^^^ that’s solid advice ^^^
(along with my “digitize it first” advice)
I get the same flood of memories from a picture as I do from an object, so I obviously go with the one that takes up less space.
In addition to my preference of keeping pictures of my kids in an infant car seat vs. keeping the seat itself, it also brings me joy to give away the seat to someone who needs it.
Wish I could help but I really don’t have any mementos. I never really devoped a nastalgia around items growing up. My parents aren’t really big on it either. After my grandma passed they pretty much sold everything of value and gave away everything else. My wife and her family are the opposite. I’m going to die from a clutter induced heart attack whenever we have to deal with the inheritance from her side.
Ugh. Journals from a questioning age should be burn-pitted. That stuff that you wrote when you felt so lost and alone? It’s gotta go. You don’t want the people that you love on this plane to read that stuff. That’s why mine is going into the pit this spring once I can reach it. Young childhood stuff is pretty vanilla but my stuff is in a single bin and it’s gotta go.
Ugh journals. I remember starting one in college and filling it with center-left drivel and thinking it was so original. OK, it didn’t last more than ten pages or so but still.
Would you want the left-overs to read it? If not, burn it.
It didn’t make the move with me from Buffalo to San Francisco in the late 90s.
Your journal was wise or just very afraid.
If I could go back to 15-year-old me I’d say “Ask Kathy out!!”
If I could go back to 30-year-old me I’d say “Thow shit out!!”
Once the stuff is gone it’s liberating and I never even rember what I’ve tossed. We’ve literally tossed tons and the only regret is the really cool dash I’d removed from our old Citoen.
Momentoes? You’ll see them again when it’s time to throw more stuff out again. Like the half a carton of cottage cheese int the fridge. Toss it now don’t wait until it’s covered with mold,
TL/DR It’s only stuff.
“But we might neeeed it someday!”
A thought I no longer allow myself to think.
It’s wonderful.
Besides, that’ why Dog invented Amazon.
One-time use tools that I’ve bought over the years… Unless I start working on pre 1995 vehicles they are useless. Cobwebs.
I still miss the hand-scribbled drafts of stories I was trying to write back in high school. They’re both worthless and irreplacable.
This^^^
I have a folder filled with faded paper with parts of short stories, plot lines, pieces of poems, etc. Someday…
I maintain several shoeboxes of mementos going back 40+ years. I’ll continue to do so.
At Christmas, I shared a pic of a letter (and enclosed photos) I kept with the writer. It was from the mid 90s.
I’m a little sentimental.
Had a 30 minute debate over this song. I was on the side of: worst song of the genre. My opponent took: best of the genre.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw
I’d say overplayed.
Disclaimer, I have every Queensrÿche álbum through Q2K plus OMII and American Soldier.
It’s terrible but I don’t listen to anything in that genre so I won’t pretend my opinion counts.
It sounded like they wanted to be Pink Floyd. I wanted Empire and Operation Mindcrime. That drek makes me weep.
So many people over the years only know that song when I mention Queensryche. I just want to slap my forehead. That song is NOT a good representation of the band.
For years I dismissed Blind Melon because I only knew that one annoying song No Rain that was way overplayed. Then a few months ago a friend played the Soup album for me on his kick ass stereo system. I was blown away. That is a kick ass album.
That would have to be a damn good friend (for me), Pud.
That, or I would have to be at their mercy, a la needing a ride/place to stay, and in no position to gripe.
It was a record listening night with a friend who likes a lot of the same stuff as me. He insisted I had to give it a listen, and I thought it was great. Luckily for me No Rain is not on the Soup album.
I, of course, haven’t heard the album, but, I feel entitled enough to agree with you “lucky for me” statement.
Not a snowflake…
Well, they are the
thinkingweeping man’s metal band, I hear.It’s a sweet, and somewhat interesting song, but a bit too…saccharine, I guess is the term. Plus, it tends to be rather disappointing when a more energetic band does anything ballad-ish.
I definitely change the station if it plays. Then again, I sort do that for “Empire”, too. I encounter more than enough “justifications” for GovCash, as it is.
It is a bit dated.
Promised Land is my favorite.
Album, not just the song.
Bob, as I wrote earlier today, I’m in the phone book. I think I can doxx myself cryptically and temporarily; maybe TPTB can help with this? I just woke up from a worry-induced crying nap. (You know what I mean. I can’t even speak English anymore.) I haven’t been right for at least a month for worrying about you.
HE, I haven’t forgotten about you either.
Dunno if any of the powers that be are awake right now….
Awake, probably. Sober, nope.
BTB; against many a Tulpae impression, I am not a PTB.
I’m up. What do you need?
I.e. if you want to put something up, I’ll set my alarm and nuke it in an hour.
You’re a solid man, Playa!
I even solved the puzzle!
Aw, you both are so sweet.
Area code is that shared by Birch Aquarium.
Surname is: NUKED
First name: NUKED
Assuming I got the right guy, you used to be my neighbor.
I’m going to have SP email him the phone number. It was quite the puzzle.
No!!!! Whut? Am trying in vain to remember either of my 9-digit zip codes, past or present.
Ex was very kind to let me keep the number.
My name is not a reference to New York.
PS. Aforementioned is land line; I am usually out from about midday to dinner.
Just want to confirm I got the right guy.
Did you go to a high school were the mascot is (at least now) a Seahawk?
RHS Class of ‘97, yo!
Although the handle dates it to circa Class of ‘87.
MCHS 97.
No idea you went there. That explains your spot on theory about McMartin/Martyrs. I’ve shared that with a lot of people. Best explanation I’ve heard yet.
I didn’t go there. I graduated from New Castle Chrysler High School in New Castle, IN. Class of 87. My wife grew up in RB and graduated MCHS in 93.
Regarding McMartin, yeah my crazy notions come as an outside observer. The insular culture of the MB/Martyrs elite and the need to find “an other” to blame the rampant abuse perpetrated by the Church at the time just seems to fit. I worked at as a real estate agent with some people I assume were the kids from McMartin. It’s just an observation. I’m pretty observant, though.
We’ll have to have beers And I’ll tell you my whole reasoning.
Well, hell; now, I want in on beers and theories.
#BeersAndTheers ?
(Sorry, I fell back asleep.) I suppose you have. That is, the ex did. I miss the South Bay; lovely place.
The number has been passed along.
shared *with*; me talk pretty one day…
I weep for you, Yusef, in a very literal way at present…I’m a softy.
You and your beloved will be in my heart and prayers. With your blessing I’ll place you on the on the prayer list at my church.
My reading specs got hard to see out of. Makes your own troubles seem pretty less.
I’m a loner by necessity these days- gotta keep the biological looky spheres dry while I wrap up my higher ed. After my last dog died I called it quits on the emotional attachment end.
To quote my favorite band:
“I don’t have the heart to lose another fight, so until my ship comes in I live night by night.”
http://archive.li/gcChh/5bf0dc6180d13f41c5e73aceeeedd131ad3d6ad6.jpg
NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Ba-zing!
Art.
Yes. #2.
I was attempting to refer to #1, but #2 is OK, I guess. If you like that sort of thing.
Crackers/Beds whatever. Both would break this cracker’s bed, back or beyond.
Lord Digby: Elitist SCUBA is the Hat’s best friend, but I sleep now when he shows up. Next week this time I’ll just be getting home from WORK and grabbing a beer. Here’s to next week!
*clinks glass*
::Looks at watch:
Eh, feck it–CHEERS, MFer!
L’chaim!
Mazel mazel! Good things.
BTW, animator-who-isn’t here: When do I get to upgrayedd to Hair friendship? I mean, Hat’s bigly with me, don’t get me wrong. But, I was never a wild child that would/could hang with Hat’s shenanigans. YaknowwhatImean, Vern?
Yes, I’ve linked it before. So sue me. It’s all I have right now.
A song for someone and for everyone.
No storm nor fire can ever beat us down.
No wind that blows but carries us further on.
And you who fear – oh lovers gather ’round,
And we will rise to sing it one more time.
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful ends…
End*
I hate my old phone.
Nice. Reminds me of Wifey’s songs that she and her sister recorded in the before time. In the long, long ago…
Help?
How so, Bob?
[nuked upon request]-pm
Being alone sucks,,,,
My wife is dead,……
You aren’t, at least in spirit. There are at least a hundred people here grieving with you right now. It don’t seem much but it’s something. We don’t know you and we’ve never met Wendy but we care.
Thanks, I know, that’s why i
I am here…
My life is gone,
No, it’s not. I know it seems that way – and will for some time – but you still have kites to fly with your grandchildren.
My kites were Stolen, by a tweeker, all gone, like my Wendy, I’m done….
I’m so sorry, but you can – and should – make more kites. They won’t be as high-tech as the ones you had, but they will fly.
Don’t make me link songs from Mary Poppins, because by God I will!
Cry-laughter is actually pretty soothing, GT.
No. It is in disarray. Take some time. Your Pup and Kitteh need you right now. Do the mechanical functions that you would normally do. Walk the dog, clean the cat box and take a shower at least every other day. Shave. You’ll feel better about yourself and the world clean shaven.
You are right, I’m going to shower and clean up, I feel dirty and need to clean up, I’ m not dirty…
No, but you’ll feel spiffier. I wish I could take on some of your sorrow so that it wasn’t such a burden to you. Sorry, Friend.
I want to die, but not yet..
Well that’s a start. You’ve got Grandkids that need to learn stuff.
I’m not going to drop some platitude. It’s gonna take time.
Lean on us, and if you wish me personally.
Up well past my bedtime, if I nod off know I’m praying for you and will check in tomorrow.
I, too, have to go to bed. Diggy – or whoever’s around – could you keep our grieving friend company as best you can?
Much love to you, Yusef.
We’ll be here.
I wish I had a human to hug right now, Agggggghhhhhh, it hurts,,,,,
Bob, I’m terrible on a number of levels at social and physical interaction, but should we meet, you’ve got a hug from me.
Help….
We’re here as best as we can, Bob. Cry it out if you need to. Bob the Builder can get through some terrible shit.
Bob, I am around, as normal. I have no idea what I can say or do to assuage your pain–my brain does a sort of shut-down in regards to major trauma events with people I’m not exceedingly familiar with.
That said, I am here and will listen to/read whatever you need me to, and will help ya as best as I can. Please do carry on, push through, persevere–live.
Just finished up my work day. There are still some of us checking in. Hang in there, Bob.
My sincere condolences Bob. I’ve never lost anyone as close as a spouse, so I can’t understand the pain you must be in. I wish you the best as you try to get through this difficult time.
Waylon Jennings passed away on this day in 2002, so I’ve been listening to his music all night. Whenever I’ve been really sad or distraught, I always turn to music. Spiritual, sad, or melancholy music seems to help me during during tough times. Thinking about you tonight, I’ve played this song several times. Thought maybe it might help in some small way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pop9TGxabxg
I stopped by to see old Waylon this morning. He’s conveniently permanently playing a gig near me.
BTW SP, I had someone send a donation to glibs on my behalf. I trust he sent it, but wanna make sure y’all got it. Rather than pay me what he owed me, I told him to send it to you.
We’ve received several this week. If you can be more specific in an email, I’ll let you know.
Ok. It’ll be a new address. I killed the old account.
That’s great! I’ve become a big fan of his the last 5 years or so thanks to my buddy Cheech. He does a lot of outlaw country tribute shows and Waylon is his favorite. Pert near every time his band plays they’ll throw in at least one Waylon cover. I’ll have to send you a video link if I ever get around to editing his Willie and Waylon show. They do Waylon justice.
Hang in there, and accept help you’re being offered.
Thanks for the phone call.
Hang in there Bob. You got a lot of people here pulling for you. It really sucks badly to watch those close to you die. It’s the inevitable fate of all of us, but that doesn’t make it any easier.
I’m awake if you are, Bob. (I hope you’re sleeping though.)
Can you take Bella to doggie day care?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/bobs-farewell-to-wendy?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
All, above is a link to a fundraiser for a Yusef to take care of Wendy’s final arrangements and memorial. Please consider a donation.
You can call me , Bob 1-778-675-0908. Doxxed.
Today’s sketch attempt and my local street which I’ll give a shot next.
https://imgur.com/a/xYYkyj6
That sketch is very sexual. Good job.
Yeah, the sausage factory was a little much, though.
Forgot the title.
https://imgur.com/a/c9OomaH
Three thumbs up!
I’m hearing Crosby Still and Nash now.
Which one? “Helplessly Hoping”?
“Would you know we’re riding
On the Kavanaugh Express
All on board that train”
I still like beer.
I don’t wear bill-boards but that one is frenchified.
And Prosecco?
j/k…maybe. 😉
I hear Ozzy. But, you’re fine.
Now I’m thinking the tracks curve down and to the right and run right into the viewer’s backside. No where to run with that embankment. Hearing Casey Jones.
I think I saw that
filmmovieflick…Not that I was said ‘viewer’. I simply viewed the vie–you know; never mind.
Not bad! I used to carry around a pocket sketch pad when I had dreams and schemes of being an artist. Random is good.
It’s something to kill a little time instead of just fucking around as usual.
I’ll bet they all cover their mouths and giggle when you try to “fuck around as usual”.
::gasp::
That is just straight-up lacist!
Sexy, sexy lacism…
heh
https://youtu.be/nXLNLCqowuo
Funny!
Did I just stumble onto early footage of CPRM?
Hey, sorry we dropped the ball last weekend. We just weren’t online much. Do you want we should change the date and post that post this Saturday?
Hmmm…if I can edit it to take out the Valentine’s stuff, that would be grand. Or, if you think just adding a PTB note at the top that it’s the one for last weekend would do, I’m good with that, too. Because, I can’t have people thinking I’m weird, or anything…. ?
OK, I’ll add a note and get it scheduled. Thanks, Digby.
Ahem. It’s “Diggus” nowadays we’d have you know…
“We”, Kimosabe? I specifically went with ‘Lord’, thankyouverymuchyoungman…
/as in, ‘shitLORD’
Y’all are too much.
Put the bottles down , pop a diphenhydramine and say goodnight!
Hey–I gotta be here all night, what with work, and all.
Therefore, I shall continue with the bottle…
No, no–thank YOU for handling that! Much awesomeness.
https://youtu.be/3DbyAdxp4DQ
I think this fits and on Valentine’s eve.
Bob? Are you alright?
Going to bed now. Bob, I doxxed meself above if you need a shoulder. Diggus? You’re the Champ. SP? Please put away those things.
With a glass jaw!
Bob, if you’re reading this… My biggest condolences. I know you fought so hard for her.
So much pain in the world today . Let’s all Bear it together; I don’t think we could Bear it apart.
I love you guys.
I guess I don’t really know any of you but yeah, fuck it I love this place and the people. Robsef I am so sorry to hear of your loss. You are not alone. Even some dude you don’t know in England is thinking of you and wishing you the best.
https://www.wfmz.com/features/life-lessons/uber-lyft-a-germy-ride/article_3dbf7a80-48fb-11ea-8f59-7ffab0794454.html
“You might not be able to see the germs, but a new study conducted by the insurance company, NetQuote, found they are there! Results showed the average rideshare vehicle has about 219 times as many germs as the average taxi, which is regularly cleaned.”
Ewwwwwww.
And?
Unless they’re novel germs, that’s not really much of a difference in terms of risk.
?
Dunno. 219 times more!
I don’t do rideshareing anyway.
I haven’t ridden in a taxi since I was a child. Ridesharing is that much better.
I had no choice when I visited the UK. Even on the trip where I rented a car, the car rental office was some distance from the train station.
If I’d been sane, I’d have rented at Heathrow.
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/02/man-in-a-stolen-car-led-police-on-2-high-speed-chases-in-2-days-officials-say.html
Nice headband there, Nigel.
I feel like this article needs some amount of good news, no matter how little, to counteract the cacophony of awful that has been happening to glibs the past few days/weeks.
We just dropped below $110k owed on my student loans, down from $255k of consumer debt 2.5 years ago. Given my conservative estimates (no raises, no bonuses, no income from wife), we’re looking at a little less than 2 more years until we’re debt free (excepting mortgage).
I’m hoping 18 months is the real number, but that requires us embracing the suck and spending near zero on anything but necessities and a few small luxuries (Netflix, a couple activities for the kid, etc) and/or substantial irregular income.
I… Shit, I was never in that much debt. I think I was kissing 100K including mortgage and car when I had to replace my focus and still had most of my mortgage.
But it’s good to hear you’re on your way to debtfreedom. There are times when I look at my remaining debt and feel giddy at how little is left.
I’m going to have to throw a party when I’m debt-free.
Awesome keep it up! It’s great not to have a bunch of debts to pay.
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