Yes, yes, I know you all think it’s a non-stop alcohol-, drug- and pizza-fueled party here at Chez OMWC/SP. Sadly, the truth is that we are extremely boring, tired, old, married people. With a geriatric pooch.
How do we spend our free hour or two every night? No, we don’t watch reality TV. Nor do we watch Matlock re-runs.
Being hip and with it, if old, we stream our entertainment like the cool kids (we never were).
What do we watch? Ah! Here’s a sample of this week’s entertainment, Heart-Warming and Funny Dogs Edition. Yes, there have been videos that we cannot hear over the excited barking of Wonder Dog in the living room.
Enjoy! (Or you don’t have to. I’m not the boss of you.)
As of late, I have been freebasing Benadryl, smoking it, and posting to social media until I pass out.
Dogpilled.
I tried to watch but
“An error occurred, Please try again later”
just a heads up. not a bitch.
How do you know it is not a bitch if you couldn’t watch?
You’re not the only one. Every video I’ve tried, both Firefox and Chrome, both on my home ISP and my cell-phone provider.
Interference with comunications is part of the color revolution template right?
YouTube seems to be having problems.
I can’t get into my Bitchute account either. So far as I know I haven’t changed the password (and I don’t want to). Now getting a downed server message.
Test run for when Trump dumps all the election fraud info.
OK, Russia and/or China. One of you ‘fess up.
Oh. Heavens, no.
Idk what to do with myself at the moment. Haven’t finished my shows. I guess could clean the skillet in which I made awesome Mahi fillets so it doesn’t end up sitting in the oven over night (to keep the cats out of it), but . . . That would be, what’s the word, “productive”?
Put it on the floor for the cats. Progress will be mad etoward cleaning it, and you will save a penny or two on cat food
My cats wouldn’t eat people food. Maybe lick it a little, play with it… and then get bored and walk away.
Funny, mine always drag it under something before losing interest so I can have a fun game of “what’s that smell?’ a day later.
I think there’s a joke there, but I’m not feeling too clever tonight.
I have to control their diets, especially the one that got crystals and costed over a grand to save his life.
My cats wouldn’t eat people food.
Mine are constantly getting in the sink to lick plates that have been thoroughly rinsed but not washed. And the male is a carbo. Once he ran off with a loaf of bread when I was putting groceries away. I found him under the bead with his head in the bag chowing down.
Looks like Youtube screwed the pooch!
Huh. Playing just fine at our house.
Oh sure, now it’s working.
Shhh watch your tone! Can’t you see she Glibs was a test for her power? Now she can control the while internet!
It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!
YouTube appears to be down worldwide
I saw that when I was trying to watch that video from blackboxvoting
Youtube and this site having issues at the same time. I see what’s going on here…
The Purge begins?
Russians!
Probably just China moving on Taiwan
It’s possible that all the content creators on youtube got redpilled by the election and therefore deserve to be censored.
Nice takedown – https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1326670938889465861
He took down the tree https://mobile.twitter.com/TmoCal/status/1326615673343074305
#fail
That was not a nice takedown.
Oops.
Further down is the whole thing. Dumbass runner turned back around and ran towards where the cops were. He should serve double time for stupidity.
https://pasteboard.co/JzWJp8X.jpg
Cute doggy!
Sounds like they need to stick to watching Disney Junior to avoid being offended.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CyclopediaBrain/status/1325831179149438977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1325921529679458308%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgamer.com%2Fubisoft-apologizes-for-ableist-language-in-assassins-creed-valhalla%2F
would have been just as “offended” if they’d just moved on and considered it a non-issue without acknowledging the pain and embarrassment?
Well I’ll check out the comments here, but most nights the site has pretty much closed up except for Digby and our overseas contigent.
I read almost every night and will occasionally watch a movie or Netflix. TCM is almost the only station I can watch a movie on without trying to destroy the TV to get away from the commercials. What the fuck AMC? Three hours to watch a 100 minute movie. No thanks.
I end the night by testing the strobe lights and tsunami warning sirens in the orphan dwelling cellar, then chain the hatch shut.
It is getting ridiculous. My favorite is the drawing out of 30-minute sitcoms to marathons of 35 minutes or more each and you can still see where they obviously cut out scenes so they can squeeze in even more commercials.
“I end the night by testing the strobe lights and tsunami warning sirens in the orphan dwelling cellar, then chain the hatch shut.”
*Takes off monocle and top hat* here take these I never thought of doing such a clever thing. Clearly my libertarian credential must be revoked
*orders tsunami warning siren*
In Arizona? That is just mean.
Never been there for a monsoon, I take it?
In Ohio we call the rainfall in Arizona’s monsoon, a dry Tuesday.
I’m paying $190 a month for satellite to watch TCM.
Well, that and the wife’s soaps.
I never watch porn.
After living in Japan for a while does pixillation start to turn you on?
I don’t even see the pixelation anymore. It’s just blonde, brunette.
Man, you must have been there since the 70s, these days it’s all hardwood floors.
No redheads?
Always get it up for the blurry stuff. My, My, My, whooo!
Yup, sounds about right!
I always wondered what the Regular* roll was. A couple scraps of paper napkins from the nearest Taco Bell?
Apparently, just a Trump vote.
What they have in the restrooms at a typical federal building.
During the toilet paper panic at the start of the pandemic, I had to settle for buying a cheap bargain bin pack of toilet paper once. That is what the “regular” rolls are based on. I’ve never gotten so little utility per roll – thin paper, and very few sheets.
I’ve been watching Issac Arthur on YouTube. It’s kind of inspiring that a guy with a speech impediment could over come and have a successful channel on science.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
Just last night I saw that guy being interviewed on a mostly political YT channel. I thought he just had a strange accent of some sort. Thanks for the link, he was doing some interesting futurist type speculating.
His early videos he talks about his speech impediment. I was watching his new stuff and kept trying to place his accent. He seems pretty fair in his videos.
Not too different here. Mrs Dean watches an ep of a drama series off one of the streaming services (currently, something about the Imperial Japanese court) on her tablet. I knock back my nightcap and surf the ‘tubes with something mindless on TV for background, or read.
The dogs snore and fart.
Mrs. Time and I co-watch some tv for a few hours around dinner time till 8-9pm. She hits the sack and I talk to Asia for an hour or two. After that Video games, tv show, or YT videos. Add a odd book hear or there or some project in my shop.
Most days I spend the evenings in the workshop building an airplane and listening to music or some TV show on in the background.
This is the closest to me, I am restoring furniture while muttering nonsense in my basement shop.
What are you building?
What are you building?
Thanks for these. I am now watching more Crufts. The flyball was amazing!
Those whippets have such amazing musculature and are so damn fast. Also, I LOVE the use of rescue dogs.
Now that Youtube is back up, join us for tonight’s Glibertarians.com livestream.
So you are doing the Glibfit livestream?
Wow
There but for the grace of god (and years of gluttony) go I.
That’s a special class of fat.
I liked the dancing one. Sometimes it’s fun to watch what other people do just for the joy of being able to do it.
The dog flyball thing was pretty impressive.
2016 Dog Dance Winner Ilina Polina – she has the same hair color, hair style and figure of my girlfriend from senior year in high school, a 2nd generation Swede who made my heart flutter.
About ten years ago she found me on Facebook and it turned out she now lived in a city I would soon be lecturing in, so she made plans to attend my lunchtime talk. It was all quite innocent, she has a husband and son, or so I thought. I found out more about her current life as we emailed, and learned she was active doing dog shows with her animal, which makes the above video even more eerie.
She did come to my talk, and it was easy to spot her because of her hair…. and, sadly, it was also easy to spot the extra 100 pounds she had gained since we were teens. She still had the beautiful deep blue eyes, though; we went for coffee, and a couple times she just stared intently at me, and I felt a little of the past tingles. But I’d snap out of it, and see her quadruple chin, and the moment was lost.
About six months after that she sent me a note that she was competing in a dog show in Monterey, and did I want to come down while she was in town. I explained that Monterey was a two-hour drive each way when there was no traffic, so it wasn’t going to happen. She apologized that she didn’t know it was so far from San Francisco. It wasn’t hard to read between the lines and tell she was hoping for an illicit Facebook fling with the high school flame, just like you always hear about. But I wouldn’t have done it even if she looked dazzling instead of morbidly obese, it’s just not me, I’m married and I don’t take that commitment lightly.
I could tell she was sad that I didn’t jump at the chance to hook up. Haven’t heard from her since.
Met my old lover in the grocery store. We bought six cases of ding dongs and she ate it in her car.
To which ding dong are you referring?
Gordon’s light foot.
Dammit. Can never keep Fogelberg and him straight.
It’s not up to you to decide if they get it on or not.
There’s an old joke from way back that ends with Jagger singing: Hey, hey, Hugh,Hugh, get off of Mccloud. Something about a party at Hef’s house with Dennis Weaver, I don’t know.
Q – Why are the Scots like the Rolling Stones?
A – The Stones are always singing “Hey you, get off of my cloud.” while the Scots are always saying “Hey, McCloud! Get off of my ewe!”
FUCK YOU DAN FOGELBERG!
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I have a friend from high school who has been trying to connect back up with me for a few years. Since I’m not on Facebook anymore, she has contacted other mutual friends and got my contact info. Back then she was very pretty, and tried vigorously to woo me, but I was unfortunately involved with other girls and/or uninterested. In retrospect, I should have taken the opportunity to date her back then.
When she first contacted me, I wondered why, and thought about looking her up to see how she’s held up over the years, but I feel like I’d rather remember her as she was back then. I’m still waffling about whether to contact her. There’s no real utility in it, since there’s no way I would ever have an affair, and from what I can gather, she and I are probably very far apart politically, and I don’t know what we’d talk about.
But there’s always the question of whether she still harbors a flame for me, and no matter it can’t go anywhere, it’s still nice to think she might still have something.
Ass Wednesday posteriors presented as pommel horses on which to mount.
https://archive.li/LOZay
2, wow, awesome photo, and subject.
1, 2, done.
Drink.
Oh, I don’t know. Play chess… screw…
Well, let’s play chess.
Yeah chess. Haven’t played in some time and need to get back into it
Lately I’ve been watching old Peter Gunn episodes on the Roku channel.
May I be so bold as to suggest then TV series Naked City. One the very first police procedural shows and the very first to be shot on location in NYC. It’s gritty and well written and a beautiful glimpse at what New York was in the middle of the 20th Century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_City_(TV_series)
ust getting back to see this reply.
Yes, I’ve seen some episodes and I liked it. I’ll add it to the queue.
Bedtime.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cTFEkECZ_i0
Bedtime routine?
https://youtu.be/sLCEszOmscw
I’ve noticed that YouTube is translating titles and other fields. Are the titles for this channel really in English or Japanese?
“It’s hot, so when I turn on the air conditioner, the chihuahua’s milk has fallen in no time【dog】”
Here you go. I’ll warn you that it will get dusty at the end, however.
All About My Dog – Marimo
Stupid allergies.
TCM and old farty dogs, sounds like I would feel right at home chez y’all.
Can anyone recommend a tequila for a gift? Patron? I don’t know much about liquor.
I, for one, would love to receive a gift of Patron.
Will buy you one if I’m ever in your town (ABQ?).
Close enough. About 80 miles due north.
Patron, Patronage of the Patriarchy.
I prefer Don Julio or Casa Noble, for about the same price as Patron.
If you’re willing to splurge a bit, Don Julio 1942 is incredible. It’s also $150 a bottle in these parts.
I just picked up a bottle of El Tesoro extra anejo ($90), but haven’t tried it yet, so can’t recommend one way or t’other.
El Padrino anejo is decent, and a bit cheaper than Patron.
For the price, Kirkland (Costco brand) anejo is surprisingly drinkable; I used to use it for mixed drinks.
Disclaimer: I don’t know much about silvers, since I don’t like them. My son brought home a diamante a few months ago and said it was much better…still didn’t care for it.
I like Lalo myself. Generally a little cheaper than patron, though prices are always weirdly inflated here in the people’s commonwealth of Pennsylvania and their state monopoly on liquor sales, so price may vary depending on your location. It’s smooth, good for actually sipping and enjoying neat. Plus it looks nice and classy, good for gift giving.
Merci buckets to you both.
(Santa Fe?)
About 50 miles west of there. On the map look for the giant round crater rim of the Valles Caldera. I’m on the rim of that.
Budget?
Too late — sorry — but 50? 100?
“You could buy a mexican who will harvest and distill the agave for that!” – Hat
Wanna virtually guarantee no voter fraud? No purple ink on your finger. You get one finger lopped off for one vote. Vote ten times if you want, unless you’re a man and then you can vote eleven.
I’m intrigued, but after you’ve lopped off the finger, how do you match the finger to the ballot to make sure no one switched votes during the counting? It’s not like you can prove it’s your fingerprint any more, unless they let you keep the finger.
Because if you’re suggesting no one would lose a finger in exchange to exercise petty rule over us, I would beg to disagree. I can totally see a political junkie pointing to each stub saying “and this was in 2022, and the primaries were super important, so this was 2024 primaries.”
Skin in the game. Sure, there are bugs to work out, but glibs are up to the challenge.
And homeless people to pay to take the hit for ya. That’s the next thing I thought of. Why lose a finger on your own when you can just pay the already poor and desperate to vote the way your want? Sure it’d probably be a relatively expensive vote, but given the expected vastly shrunken pool of total voters, it should still be feasible. I’m not discarding the idea, just working through the logistics and fail cases.
Hey LG, the server ate my post about the Glib case for Oklahoma the other day.
Pros: Cheap gas, ethanol-free is easy to find. BBQ, onion burgers, Vietnamese food. Liberalized or liberalizing laws re guns, alcohol, cannabis (Sundays still dry, I think). Friendly unpretentious people. Low COL.
Cons: churchy, flat, dull, mutable weather.
Another con: sales tax on food.
Agreed on all points, and I have family on both sides of the marriage out in Oklahoma. There are some pretty parts of OK; Stillwater, Fort Supply Lake, etc. It’s just not gorgeous like entire states are. I have to give Virginia that, it’s such a beautiful state, it’s hard to leave. Northam has me about convinced, though.
And there is something to be said for flat and boring. On the 4th of July, you can see the fireworks displays from 5 different towns from a single location in the extra drab parts (Kingfisher!)
Telling Noah about the flood!, as my Okie grandpa used to say. Apologies.
I don’t think there are presently any Okie Glibs, are there? Dallas and Arkansas, yes.
Hayex’ is an expat’ Okie…
Hahah, I hadn’t heard that one before. But it’s good to see I’m not the only one who thinks OK should be on the list of possible candidates for a libertarian move. They’re making progress, and while they’re churchy, it generally doesn’t bug me as long as it isn’t mandatory. Better, none of the most liberal types would even look at Oklahoma as an option. TX, TN and FL are under attack, but OK isn’t even on the radar.
On our way back from a trip to SW CO/NW NM a few years ago, we stopped in OK City. The pavement on the highway was so bad, Tom T pulled over and asked me to get out and see if we had a flat tire. (We did not.) We mentioned this to the hotel desk clerk, and she said she’d once had a flat tire driving on the highway and just thought it was the crappy road.
So…libertarian paradise?
I specifically intend to stay far away from OKC or Tulsa. But yeah, the roads are shit. Not that Missouri or Arkansas or Indiana can really brag. We pulled over in Indianapolis for the same thing (thought we’d blown a tire). That’s why you get a big-assed truck that doesn’t care if you’re on a road. ‘Murrica.
We could up the ante. Go to the guillotine and you get a vote.
I like it. And it’d definitely make me reconsider voting more than just the prospect of picking the loser does.
Biden announces a national “screw for chastity” program
TW: Breitbart
The Minnesoda Glibs will be very proud their guy got the reward he so wanted.
So not only our first black asisn president female…but Biden stole the election. Talk about just gaffes all over.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/de-blasios-daughter-verbal-slip-claims-biden-was-able-steal-election
Well, that could just be the heroin talking.
Wife and I have been watching old sitcoms on Hulu.
I’ve been watching the current anime season and been quite depressed. I’d be hard pressed to pick even one to recommend this season to anyone with even a vague interest.
Jujitsu Kaiben looks nice, if nothing else. Story isn’t anything to right home about so far, but it is definitely pretty. Danmachi’s second season is good, but anyone that would care should already know about it from season 1; nothing else really comes to mind, kind of a dead season.
I’m generally not a shounen fan, but I will give thumbs up to Jujitsu Kaisen. I’m very much middlin on Danmachi and this season is my least favorite so far.
My favorite so far is Tonikaku Kawaii. Given the asinine premise I thought it would suck, but was very much pleasantly surprised.
Fly Me to the Moon
And Kamisama ni Natta Hi may or may not suck – so far has been funny, but it made by P.A. Works which pretty much has 50/50 shot of either meaning a great ending or shitty ending. There is no in between with that studio.
I’m more worried about the involvement of 麻枝 准 than I am of P.A. Works, I’m waiting for the gut punch before I recommend Kamisama. I’ll try pushing past the premise for Tonikaku, but as I’m pure shounen trash it probably won’t be my thing.
Tonikaku was written by the same mangaka that did Hayate the Combat Butler.
He said he was writing to fans of that series that were now of the age were they were getting married and considering families.
I neither hated nor loved Hayate. I prefer Tonikaku. That said if you didn’t like Hayate I wouldn’t bother with Tonikaku.
Here at House de OBE its prep the trailer for the next days dogs, im usually cooking and trying to get the kids to at least pretend to be engaged with school. Once all that settles?
Usually a couple episodes of Community/Silicon Valley/MASH/ or Fraiser and then its wifey bedtime. I am the night owl and I have been taking Udemy courses on Unity game making and shitposting here and on my neighbors via Nextdoor
I spend the better part of my nights right here.
#metoo
Speaking of which, where’s diggy been?
I’ve been in contact. He’s taking some time off after the election is all.
It appears that I’m about to re-start doing the same.
Times to rock out with my cock out. ?
I stalk.
I know it wasnt my letter from a nobody in Nevada that has driven Trump to this…but if the true endgoal is ending our chapter in Afghanistan…even if brief, I would follow him in 2024.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/11/trump-esper-pentagon-defense-afghanistan/
Did truckers come through on their threat of a srike?
An interesting 2014 article from Dr. Michael Osterholm, the Biden advisor who wants us to lock down for six weeks, concerning the Ebola outbreak of the time and he couldn’t have been more wrong:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-ebola-epidemic-is-about-to-get-worse-111493
The guy’s nothing but a panic-monger.
Fauci isnt going to go quietly into the night for that spotlight ya know.
The real problem is Fauci won’t leave period, spotlight or no. He’s been in his position far far too long.
Is he the same guy who wants the US to distribute any vaccine globally before meeting US demand, or is that some other asshole on his panel of “experts?”
Not SP asked, but tonight I’m watching videos downloaded from the internet.
I just watched that bitchute video Drake posted. If it’s 10% accurate, our election system is totally fucked.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Maidengate
Now that the NYT says it isn’t true, it probably is. If it were false, they would have just ignored it.
Huh. I have two previous names. I wonder how they voted.
I try to avoid the TV after work. After spending 9 hours sitting staring at a computer screen, the last thing I need to do is sit staring at a TV screen.
That said, I get out and get active not nearly often enough, and usually end up reading glibs, playing Mario kart (double dash) with my 3 year old, or turning on recorded episodes of America’s test kitchen, this old house, or wheel of fortune.
Cute corgis. I know of one who walks himself in the park he lives next to.
“Ticketmaster Reportedly Planning Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine, Testing Policy For Concert Attendance”
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/ticketmaster-planning-mandatory-covid-19-vaccine-testing/
OFFS!!
I mean, they realize that the rollout of a vaccine is going to be slow, right? That initially it won’t be available to everyone?
This shit is never going to end. They’ll keep it going for the next decade at least.
Le sigh:
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson cried when Biden was declared the winner
That’s some quality social signaling, Lou.
(but not surprising, given how stupidly woke Ballers got)
It’s too bad about these guys, but I won’t let it stop me from watching their stuff or enjoy it. I could watch Deniro in Ronin every week for life.
I long ago made peace with enjoying the output of people who would think me a deplorable. I can separate the artist from the art.
DeNiro always struck me as particularly empty-headed – I suspect that’s what made him such a good actor; there’s not much there to keep him from really sinking into his roles.
I thought I could but I was wrong. I’m so distracted by the social signaling that I see the actor,not the character.
The Rock has never actually made anything I enjoy. His movies suck.
He was entertaining as a wrestler.
He was great in “Reno 911! Miami”, albeit in a tiny role.
I enjoyed “Central Intelligence” as well as “The Rundown”.
But I mostly wouldn’t miss his output.
Thanks to my kids, I’ve seen his entire Jumanji series. They are well crafted films and he does a fantastic job (particularly when their minds get switched and he has to play a teen girl). Also, Johnson and John Cena were very nice to me when we worked a week of Hefty trash-bag commercials. Both The Rock and John Cena are avid Warhammer 40K players.
Typical evening:
Me: You know who else reads books about submarines?
General Grievous: (sheepishly) My dad?
Me: (nods knowingly) Yeah.
For those of you who don’t grok the reference, here you go.
I greatly enjoy that series of ads.
Insurance ads are in a class by themselves. Some campaigns work (Gecko, vintage Flo, “That’s not how any of this works”) and some fall flat (LIMU Emu).
The new “don’t turn into your parents” one is well cast and well executed. The examples of the fathers giving advice to strangers or to plumbers they’ve hired had me giggling.
I agree about the emu ones. They’re sad and stupid, not clever at all.
I like, “We all see it. We all see it.”
Read Hellcats? My uncle was skipper of one of the subs./brag
All three books are good selections. I have a copy of “Thunder Below” autographed by Gene Flukey. My ex could not understand why I grumbled NO very aggressively when she suggested I part with it.
Both Thunder Below and Operation Drumbeat are autographed by the authors, and will only leave my library after I’ve completed the room temperature challenge.
My other two prized books are signed first editions of The Right Stuff and We Were Soldiers Once… And Young.
I certainly won’t talk about my internet viewing on a public website
Good morning glibsters
It’s all incest and granny porn. We already know.
I like watching dog agility stuff. The skill’s impressive plus there’s always one that just goes nuts and it’s hilarious.
But I had no idea dog dancing was a thing. huh. okay.
“Laaadybird…!”
Watching a James Bond movie in 4k: Quantum of Solace. I’m pretty sure it was the first time I re-watched it.
Portland. The gift that keeps giving.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/11/portland-city-commissioner-jo-ann-hardesty-calls-911-refuses-to-get-out-of-lyft-car-after-driver-cancels-ride.html
The Lyft driver is in the wrong: the passenger was wearing a mask.
That’s your takeaway from the article?
At any moment, a Trump supporting, MAGA-hat wearing psychopath could have jumped from the shadows and stolen her purse after microaggressing her.
He really called because drugs fell out of her ass.
Other nights we watch cooking videos, old movies, GoldShaw Farm videos or Thomas Sowell videos. Lately it’s been nice enough to leisurely dine on the patio and enjoy a glass of wine, too, so some nights the TV remains dark.
The couple hours we spend cooking and enjoying dinner are about the only time we see each other during the week. Since we still like each other, we make sure to connect every evening.
Jealous.
What whiners.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/education/ccsd-support-staff-weigh-in-on-hybrid-learning-plan/article_0864f466-2486-11eb-893d-4b8dcbc4618f.html?block_id=1002214
I am sure at this point you are more likely to die from a mass shooting than you are COVID
The more time goes on, the more I sympathize with people who want to go off grid and live in a shack in the wilderness.
Or perhaps the Amish take outside applicants?
Fucking TOS. I don’t go there anymore unless it is linked here, but I do still subscribe to the youtube because the Braggs put out Gold, Jerry, Gold!
Anyway, after I’m sure there were many explainers on TOS about how voting for Joe Biden was the most Libertarian thing ever, now they release a video “Joe Biden’s Disastrous Record of Using ‘Bold Federal Action’ To Solve America’s Problems” after the election, way to Truth To Power you fucking pieces of shit.
I was assaulted by a drunk gf last night. I greatly enjoyed it.
IYKWIMAITTYD.
Braggart.
?
Braggart indeed.
The highlight of my day was when I stuck my head into the entry of my wife’s office/she-shed and thanked her for her service.
She growled, “Shut up.”
Any other markets seeing “count every vote” commercials?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIHrl00Z-c
?
Meg’s rather cute. Wonder how she’s doing.
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/grocery-stealing-lake-tahoe-bear-released-back-wild
Bear update.
mornin’ ya’all
?☕?
mornin’ Tres! and Sean, and GT, who’s around here somewhere….
Buongiorno à tutti!
Buenos Dias Meine Dame!
You too!
*fist bump*
Mornin’, all! I’m on vacation, so I’m running a little later than usual.
I’m still working today and tomorrow… then I get my vacation.
Hopefully I’ll get one of my books moving again when I don’t have to fret about work.
I hope you do, too. Looking forward to more.
I note you never remarked on Cyril’s placeholder codename.
::frantically looks back at draft & e-mails:: Found it! (Sorry!) Not familiar enough with the Marvel universe to get the reference. ‘Splain me here or by e-mail?
Back just before the shutdowns, Marvel had announced its newest round of ultra-woke characters, headlined by a pair of characters named “snowflake” and “safe space”. The entire roster of the group they presented had zero personality as could be seen from the previews, focusing instead on ticking off intersectionality boxes. It got a whole bunch of laughter and derision as it deserved, and the company buried the book during the shutdowns.
During the discussions at the time, I remarked that a good writer could pick up such a mess and still salvage something. But was rightly reminded that they would be written by their creator, who was a known hack simmered in wokeness.
On the flip side, I created Cy Scriven as a character first, with a personality and backstory before thinking about how his powerset might be used. Given the limitations (not yet outlined in-story) its most useful form would be as armor. With the constructs being ivory, and his do-gooder nature, it was easy to dub him a literal White Knight as a descriptor and a riff.
Thanks! I do remember hearing about those gawdawful “woke” heroes. May they now fade into well-deserved obscurity.
“White Knight” as a codename is “problematic” on account of the “w-word,” so as far as I’m concerned, it’s DEFINITELY a keeper!
“Cases hit an all time high this week.”
Fuck off.
Fuck off.
Fuck off.
They’re prepping for an outcome where Trump proves voter fraud.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/boom-president-trump-tweets-dominion-voting-machines-involved-election-fraud/
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I say a 6 week full shutdown would do America good.
How do you reckon that?
I have a proprietary model
Michigan had the hardest – and longest shutdown. As a result, I saved a ton of money because all I could do was work, get groceries, and go to Lowe’s.
I need to go to Ludington Saturday for some Walmart supplies, where are you Elspeth?
/Manistee
Hi!
– we are in the opposite direction from the lakeshore, about 2 hours southeast from Ludington.
morning, Glibs.
workday after password change day. Always a fun romp of old muscle memories.
Morning, UCS. It may behoove me to drop in at the office today ever so briefly. I realized after I left Tuesday that I forgot to put my out-of-office greeting on my phone & e-mail. The phone I may be able to do remotely, but not the e-mail. : (
If you do, someone will try to rope you into work-related work.
Luckily, my office is right by the back door, though I have to go through the break room. If I time it so my boss is in his weekly senior management meeting…
Wear a disguise.
I know! I’ll wear a mask!
Hrmm… walking into a credit union wearing a mask.
Verrry suspicious.
Seriously, at our branches, staff has to ask members to lower their masks as they come in so the security cameras get an image of their faces. I suppose there’s a chance we’ll have to close our lobbies again and go back to drive-through or by appointment only.
Mornin’
We love *surprise* rescued greyhound videos at our place !
The heir has a good collection of MST3k that we pick through from time to time.
Mondays we go to the public library to get some other DVDs (we didn’t use to stream at all until we got a better TV this past summer).
My new thing while watching the videos is to do needlepoint. It’s super soothing, like the slowest color by numbers ever, and more relaxing than knitting (my longtime hobby).
Ooh! I love knitting! I’ve started to do some crochet, too, but I’m not nearly as experienced at it.
I bought one of Mojeaux’s counted cross stitch patterns and some of her floss and fabric, but I haven’t started it yet. She recently mentioned having drafted an article about counted cross stitch and selling on Etsy. I hope she submits it so I can figure out the best way to get started stitching. (I know there’s probably a million YT vids about it, but…)
I have knitted and crocheted since I was 8, thanks to my grandma. She was very patient and taught all 4 her granddaughters. I also figured out cross stitch when I was little.
“Being hip and with it, if old, we stream our entertainment like the cool kids (we never were).”
Wait. If you’re not the cool kids, then I’m even more uncool than I thought.
So a worldwide computer problem with our Dutch overlords has resulted in every single Stop & Shop and Giant store unable to connect to the corporate network, employee discounts are not working on purchases, and half (fucking half!) of our global workforce did not get paid this week (Direct Deposit is messed up). I hope everyone else is having a better day than I am – penniless, on a forced vacation, with 2 days of non-stop rain in the forecast.
So sorry – that really sucks! : (
Bummer, man. Sorry. If it gets so bad you have to prostitute yourself, put up a GoFundMe ?
Damn, hopefully they’ll get that fixed asap.
Speaking of getting paid. I once spent 3 weeks working on a bunch of commercials for a Korean bank. Normally, crew fills out and submits timesheets which are then processed and we get a check within a day or so. Not so for a giant Korean bank. The client was a wee old man accompanied by two giant young men, one of whom had a big valise handcuffed to his wrist. At the end of each day, the old man and his goons (there is a Korean term for these bodyguards, something like trapped doves or something but it escapes me) walked up to every crew member, the old man bowed, asked how our day was, had the big fellow reach into the valise for a stack of cash, and handed it over with smile and a “You come back tomorrow, yes?” Cash in hand every day is the way to go.
“You come back tomorrow, yes?”. Cash in hand every day is the way to go.
The guys I occasionally hire to help me out on the property are paid in cash at the end of each day instead of at the end of each job like everyone else around here. I also let them stay clocked in for lunch breaks and don’t care whenever they need cig breaks or whatever. For some reason I have no trouble finding help, while everyone else complains about not being able to find anyone.
Gooood morning GLIBS! Anyone else get more than 5 hours of sleep last night?
#notme
Luckily, I’m not working today, so I can take a nap when I hit the wall.
I crashed at like 9:30 last night. Something’s way off with my internal chronometer.
Morning.
I would not call it sleep. It’s more like passed out. According to fit bit, I crashed at 8 o’clock sharp.
My local Y’s website has been down since early yesterday evening. I bet it crashed after our gov threatened to shut down bars, restaurants, and fitness centers again a week from today if our COVID numbers don’t improve.
80% of my possessions are outside, with about 60% under tarps. I’ve always dreamed of being such a goram redneck that I gave no mind to just having many of my things just strewn about the front yard, including furniture, and partly dismantled vehicles. If the great divide happens, I’m considering applying for amnesty in west Texas.
Why west texas? That’s one of the least hospitable regions of the country. (sure, there are worse, but most of those are completely uninhabited.)
Next week on Hoarders: International Edition….
I have a similar thing going for the next few days, if that makes you feel any better from thousands of miles away (probably not).
Very curious. Tell us more.
My step-dad was a huge VW aficionado. We always had 2 of each kind (Minibus, Bug, Ghia), one was for driving, the other was in the back yard for parts.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098837/mediaviewer/rm3148728064
What’s our Rose done now? Does this mean Hyacinth is coming over?
Mind the bicyclist, Richard…