Walking to the donut place for coffee and a bite,
Old Vietnamese guy chain smoking with a newspaper in his hand,
Skies will clear by 10, then the sun begins, relentless in its brightness,
And I take a stroll past the shops, the traffic is non existent, for it is a Tuesday morning.
But the shoppers and homeless walk by, clothes for rags and rags for clothes, as they live, cheek and jowl.
A man prostrate in a parking lot,
A blonde Armenian shopkeeper greets me with a smile,
A Maserati gets rear ended by a Tesla, and no one cares,
The sirens are mostly for the old, as the ambulances roll,
Crime doesnt pay the cops enough, so there is none.
No Smoking here, but spark a joint,
No guns allowed but assault is fine. This is no place for a civilized person. No matter how much money you have, too many people here.
May as well be Japan with cars, and cuter girls.
I came for business and am glad to leave this place, Home is a great comfort, And I shall be there soon.
Next is an Elite series PDGA tournament, 6 days, Air BnB, in Henderson, Nevada. I sponsored a young friend, MPO, he is worth the money. Hard work, hard partying, and road trips, damn this is fun
Hmm, has a Charles Bukowski feel to it. That guy was the definition of a functional alcoholic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTPxWkBgW6U
Its fun to just observe, and write what you see, SP taught me that,
Hemingway said good writing practice is observing and then describing the scene from another perspective.
Observe, empathize, repeat.
I was telling a friend about my being from the 23rd century, and that I needed a Heisenberg compensator, his reply?
“Are you certain?”
He got it.
[golf clap]
narrator: and the Derp’s heart grew 3 sizes that day…
This could be set to Tom’s Diner almost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mto47BMT3yA
Thats pretty much the vibe I felt when I thought it up, great song!
Great minds think alike, my friend.
This place is an ongoing convention of great minds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhG0TR45Y4k
lol The left found some refugees they will refuse to support.
Take a guess.
Sud Afrikanners of course, think Elon
White Africans aren’t going to come here and vote for Marxist bullshit. Plus, it shines a bright light on the evils of African governments. Like, when you give the oppressed power, they often just turn around and oppress right back while running whatever country it is into the ground.
And the Blacks in Zimbabwe with for white farmers to return so they can afford meat again…..
Wish
Best example I’ve used to explain the bullshit of “Black.” – Coloureds in South Africa DESPISE Black Africans. Kylie, ex-Lady, is coloured and confirmed this. She told me to NEVER conflate the two, or call one the other, as doing so could legit put you in legit fight-danger. I got verification from her coloured friend and some other Afrikaans.
But they’re all Black cuz their skin. MLK fucking died for nothing.
WTF. I get it if someone has a criminal conviction tied to apartheid. Otherwise, it’s just racist.
Narrator: The left is racist.
Updating the Disc tournament Im bringing my MPO kid Xaelen and my FPO friend Shelimae is coming as well. San-diego yes!
I miss my house in Henderson, I do not miss Henderson or Nevada
The LVC is in Henderson, good, I vowed to never set foot in Vegas again, so I get my wish. The air b and b looks very nice, with 4 of us going for 6 days it becomes cheaper than hotels so why not?
I always see that as Henderson, KY, about 5 miles south from my boyhood home. Being so close to Ellis Park was a lot of fun, growing up.
My family comes from 2 valleys over in Hazard
I enjoyed that.
Although I thought this was one of your maker articles. I am disappointed that I did not learn how to craft or refinish an old Vietnamese man.
Im making the trophies for an upcoming charity event, that may be worth an article, Lazers!
Varnished old Vietnamese man?
I love that comment, Gold!
We aim to please. 😉
TPTB, I do have a few things ready if you need light content
Bring it.
Well-done, and brought me back. Hilarious, how smoking is *constant* in Asia. Mom was baffled to see hospital patients in Korea, in full gown, with IVs legit still attached to rolling stands, hanging outside smoking several in a row.
Gotta say, cute is cute no matter what, but I’d rank East Asian over South East.
This city is stocked with cougar blondes and smoking hot Armenian women,
Glendale, fuck yeah!
I turgidly approve.
1977-Darnall Amy Hospital-Fort Hood, TX
Twoscore could hardly move but I kept a cigarette going in bed. My room mate was a young black man who had been shot in the neck and his head hung not straight.
There was coffee at the nurses’ station, that young man kept bringing me coffee, I could smoke and drink coffee, no room TV but I had some books from school that I needed to read anyway. Could have been worse.
Old Vietnam veteran,
🙂
I’m thinking the Canadians will be the last to come to tariff terms. I’ve spent a number of months, over the years, in Canada and saw their love-hate attitudes to U.S.A. So they will cut off their noses to spite us just so they can appear to be independent, tough, and annoying.
And red headed, and retarted?
As it seems for many Canucks the only part of their identity that is socially acceptable to show is the “At least we’re not American” part, you are probably right.
Honestly, they kinda have a ‘Well, he wouldn’t dare harm *ME!*’ feel to it. They feel entitled by our neighborly presence cuz it’s all they’ve known and they take it for granted. They are correct we wouldn’t bomb them, or anything, but they seem ‘used to’ being the younger brother who’s just a little too bratty for his own good, happily poking at his elder.
Enh I don’t blame them too much for their complexes they feel for being our micro-brother.
I grew up on the border so I am probably more familiar with them than most Americans who probably don’t give a moment’s thought to their neighbor.
Yep
I don’t ‘blame’ them, either. They’re used to it. It’s kinda all they’ve ever known. And it’s been great for both them *and* us. More recently, they’ve started being more prickish with their pro-Euro leanings, when by all logic .. uh. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. But Canada is now, has been, actively praised and rewarded for continuing to nibble at American fingers, when other Euro natn’s won’t. (They fear losing trade privileges and other benefits, but CANADA! She can take the hit, cuz the US won’t attack Baby Bro.)
It’s quite predictable, sadly.
Good. Fuck them.
I was at a conference thing today at which panelists could not bring themselves to name the country south of Canada. And suggested that Canada form alliances with China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
Literal retards.
I have read that China is already making overtures in a belt’n’road fashion and your r-tarded PM is receptive to it.
I find such developments rather alarming.
Heh, an alliance with China? That really would result in Canada becoming part of the US (as an occupied protectorate).
I think some of their population will gladly cut their noses off for them.
Finally FAA actually saying what happened at Newark…then goes and says stupid shit.
“The copper lines are too slow” we arent pushing out massive amounts of data really. 150 Mbps is perfectly fine. It is a software and hardware design flaw.
“New fiber lines are too fast for old equipment!”
Again….just a atupid statement on what data we are actually pushing
Something about sunk cost fallacy mebbe?
Actually trying to get away from it, but you know when a Dept Secretary says we are gonna spend money, all the grifters push to the side actual smart people to line their pockets with bullshit notions of tech.
“Clearly this is a problem that we should use AI to solve.”
And all I can hear when they say they are too slow is Colonel Sanders saying “light speed too slow?”
They put many of our remote towers on fractional T1s cause the bandwidth requirements didnt need more. So really, 1.5 Mbps. We arent pushing video, just information that is processed at the remotes.
The issue is how the system handles dropped packets and that is where the shit hits the fan.
Used to be lots of 56k ckts for the FAA. I’m out of touch but long range radar station nearby upgraded from 56k to GigE a couple years ago.
Radar needs only that and the upgrade was cause long ranges fall under national defense program and they had money to blow and we were getting off our radio network
Well it’s timely. Copper circuits are going away relatively soon. Still spendy. The radar sites around here tend to be on remote hilltops.
I really enjoy reading your articles on the subject. I’m quite ignorant of the ATC aspect of it all. And the fed+ fuckery with it all.
Bro took flying lessons in high school and almost got his license, but getting one was never the goal. He did fly frequently and worked at the Evansville Airport. I’m Indiana Jones with flying as a kid, I did take off and fly a Cessna several times, but never was allowed to land. At least ‘on my own.’ I may have been held on a tight leash, but I was allowed to descend ‘most’ of the way to the runway. I might’ve been 11-15 for this.
Dad wanted to expose us to different shit and did so constantly. Columnist for the Evansville Courier, he ‘knew’ all sorts of folk. We’d been there for five years when this happened:
“On February 6, 1992, a C-130 plane, doing touch and goes, crashed into what was then Drury Inn and JoJo’s restaurant. The aircraft took off from a National Guard base near Louisville around 9 a.m. that morning and crashed in Evansville about 50 minutes later.”
A friend of mine, went to school together and played high school (full contact) hockey together, lost his father in that crash. In the diner, IIRC. He’s a triplet and his mom took care of the three 5yos after that. All three are doing very well, to my knowledge on FB. Mom garners all respect possible.
My brother’s friend had triplets right out of the box in their 20s. That’s an insane amount of work, all at once. One of their parents moved down the block to help them out.
“February 6, 1992: A C-130B, 58-0732, c/n 3527, of the 165th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Kentucky Air National Guard, with five crew aboard (3 pilots, one flight engineer and one loadmaster), stalled after a touch-and-go with a simulated engine failure and crashed into a hotel one mile south of Evansville Regional Airport, Evansville, Indiana, United States, on U.S. Highway 41. Seventeen people were killed in the crash and fifteen others were injured.”
Dammit, where is Q with my Redheads?
He’s usually busy posting ’em when I’m on my 9am lunch break, part of which is spent alone in my car with a smoke. After spending the day observing Talent, and there is *some* at work, colleagues and shoppers alike. Urges have struck me then, on my lonesome. Hrm. [REDACTED]
Ya do gotta ignore the several morbidly obese folk ya see gimping the aisles in affluent Noblesville.
You need to come visit, just walk through the grocery store is impressive,
Where are you? I took on Vietnam from the south up, on four different trips. The grocery stores are SUCH FUN. Go to as many ‘bodegas’ and try as much street food as you can.
Started in Phu Quoc island off the deep south with an ex. I drove her on a scooter, successfully(!), on a couple-hour drive through completely rural land. I was FAR too busy not killing us to pay attention to the scenery, at that particularly moment.
I’ve been to Bangkok a couple times, and then Da Nang and Ha Noi. Mom went with me on the latter trip, going there once when Dad thankfully avoided going in the 60s. (Born in ’49, with going to Virginia Tech he skated to the reserves.)
Morbidly obese broads in Nobelsville? Not quite Zionsville but I’ll take it.
Where do I sign up?
In case anyone was wondering if Kanye is an intelligent person or artist, I submit this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQgjq0mCdE
other musicians respond:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGx9oqcgn8
Got caught up on some threads last night on shift. Sad to hear Half Door is closing in SD. At least I’ve got my shirt and pint glass. They had some excellent beers and a really solid menu. Hope the replacements are good.
Dbleagle – thanks for the hat suggestion. Good thing I caught it before ordering – need to research and compare with what GT posted. Also need to confirm my head/hat size on Friday before I make an order. I’m taking some local leave for touristy stuff next month and I definitely need something good in this weather.
It’s that time again!
Happy national frog jumping day.
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-frog-jumping-day-may-13
🐸🐸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXEfa3JnPDU
Dark tune. Fun video.
🎶🎶
I can jump a frog in a single bound.
Good morning, Sean, Roat, Ted’S., U, and homey!
Morning, how goes?
So far, so good! Coughing didn’t keep me awake last night, so with any luck I’ll be able to keep it under control through my hair appointment today (for which I get to leave work early!) 👩🦰 How are you? (Other than having an insubordinate computer.)
Though diminished, my cough has not departed. One of the radish stalks was so ambitious in growing tall that it tipped over. I’ve propped it up so that it’s not laying across the growing zone for the adjacent Radish.
Not much of real import has happened, so just the little updates.
Hope the radish stalk that…overextended itself continues to grow and gets sturdier.
Here’s hoping.
How’s 🌺?
Baby Groot, The Little Magnolia Tree That Could? He’s leafing out quite nicely, thank you! 🌳
😀👍
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/us-news/dnc-panel-votes-to-void-david-hoggs-election-to-democratic-vice-chair/
Lol. They got some problems over there. 😂🤣😂🤣
The long knives are out for The Hoggster.
If this keeps up, he’ll have to get a real job. Worse for him, more people will ignore him.
My money’s on him going into podcasting/political YouTubing before it’s all over. He’s good at doing fake outrage and will unfortunately do fine.
Aw… I thought the plan to primary all the remaining old white men with far-left wackos was exactly what the party needed.
Taaaaaarrrrrrriiiiiiifffffffsssssss!!!!
Oh, wait….never mind.
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/05/13/newark-ice-faith-protestors-sing-cringe-song-n2412707
Bring back violent police over reactions. Release the hounds. Where are the fire hoses?
More or less cringey than the “Hey hey, ho ho” chant?
cheerleading squad dropouts
Go back to waitressing
Too old, there’d be a lot of broken hips if they did that. Let them have their little show complete with that sweet, sweet folk guitar and they’ll head back to the homestead in time for dinner.
lol
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/12/nashvilles-democrat-mayor-orders-police-to-report-ice-operations-to-his-office-of-new-americans/
The list of commies never stops growing.
It literally nothing more than rEsIsTaNcE against Orange Man.
My god, what are they going to do when he shuffles off??
Morning Glibs. I am quite consternated because my computer rebooted without approval. It should have submitted a change request and then stayed running when that was denied.
If it’s the work computer, is it really yours?
Who said anything about the work computers?
suh’ fam
whats goody
/rainy on the stack today
AM ales! 🍻
It’s too early for me… You go ahead.