If you’re a friend, Lily will tolerate a lot. The black-and-white boy there is a stranger. I had to stop filming before things got out of hand.
This week starts off with some domestic strife, with Mars adding to the lingering effects of Jupiter retrograde and Venus from last week. Venus leaves the party soon, with Mars following midweek, but on the last day of the month, the Moon and Mercury team up to make the home situation as chaotic as possible. Saturday is a particularly dangerous time. Saturn (endings) and Mercury (change) align with the Sun so if you were going to terminate some sort of relationship or long-standing activity anyway, it’ll be easier then.
Sometimes Lily Will let Ghost win.
Sagittarius: 2 of Coins – Games, recreation, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Capricorn: 9 of Swords – Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Aquarius: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Pisces: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honorable. love of money, success in business.
Aries: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb.
Taurus: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels domestic disputes, swarming insects.
Gemini: 4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
Cancer: 8 of Swords reversed – Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen.
Leo: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Virgo: 6 of Cups – Happiness and enjoyment but specifically deriving from the past, people or situations which no longer exist.
Libra: The Moon reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.
Scorpio: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
But she will always remind Ghost who really is the bitch in their relationship.
Sorry I missed the opening round of winter steel but I’m still in the “Feeling like I’ve been kicked in the head” stage of this bug.
It’d be abad idea to share it.
Cancer: 8 of Swords reversed – Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen.
it’s not fair to kick me to the curb after letting the first hundred of my disqualifications pass; the GOP has no integrity! – George Santos
Sagittarius: 2 of Coins – Games, recreation, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Trouble bound?
But will I get the full beaver shot in all its glory?
*moon, you perverts
No, Oregon lost on Friday.
It sure did. 129 years of history flushed down the toilet.
They already pussied out on the name of the rivalry. It deserves to die.
Yeah.. 👎
At least the first part says I picked the right time to take a week off.
Lily pegging the patriarchy!
Adorably alarming videos this week.
“Virgo: 6 of Cups – Happiness and enjoyment but specifically deriving from the past, people or situations which no longer exist.”
Funny you should say that. I’ve been sorting through old family pictures this morning.
I’m going to make some 8 X 10s for the grown up grand daughters for Christmas, pictures of themselves as younger people.
[imagines Fourscore’s granddaughters getting photos from when they were potty training]
Close but no cigar. Their husbands will laugh.
One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said “Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.” Every picture is of you when you were younger. “Here’s a picture of me when I’m older.” “You son of a bitch! How’d you pull that off? Lemme see that camera… What’s it look like?” –Mitch Hedberg
😉
AI
I was watching Mitch last night.
“An escalator cant ever break. It can only become stairs.”
“Pardon the convenience.”
“Aquarius: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.”
Oh. Yeah…
For todays activities, dog park around 11 with snouts best friend, Slayer. And at 2 skeet followed with a bit of steel shooting 9mms. Also too, as Oregon is screwing with it’s gun laws in a YUGE way*, I have pushed forward a few gun purchases, so while I am a bit heavier on CC debt than I would like, I now have a nice old .22Hornet and soon a Colt Officers Model Match, the pre-Python. All the joy, much less of the cost. https://coltfever.com/officers-model/
*yes, a local judge ruled it violates the Oregon constitution, but the state supreme ct. will likely reverse that.
It goes to the Appeals Court first and they’ll do the dirty work.
And the fucking state, as soon as they get their permission slip, is going to use last December’s date as the start not when it’s overturned.
Woof means woof, dammit — now stop trying to hump me!
I just watched a little youtube clickbait thing about EVs. The guy (“chargedrive” is the channel name, I think) breathlessly yammers about GM and Ford abruptly backing off from EV production to focus on internal combustion (where they actually make money). Yeah, sure, that’s nice, but if you talk about this stuff without ever once mentioning the EPA or CAFE rules or general government meddling in the industry I have to assume you have no idea what you’re talking about.
I played https://squaredle.com 11/26:
*65/65 words (+10 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 5% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 3
Speaking of blathering imbeciles
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reiterated his claim that former President Donald Trump has fueled the increase in antisemitism and hate across the country Sunday, saying Trump’s “intolerant language and conduct” has given people “permission” to act the same.
“When you show intolerance toward everyone, which is what [Trump] does, you give permission as a leader for others to have their intolerance come out,” Christie said Sunday during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Intolerance toward anyone encourages intolerance toward everyone.”
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“I think that there have been a lot of people who contributed to it,” Christie said Sunday. “I believe Donald Trump’s intolerant language and conduct gives others permission to act the same.”
Yup. Sure. Whatever you say, fatso.
The more the ruling elite betters( i.e. the hired help ) run their fucking mouths, especially about Trump, the more support he gets. They are hopelessly out of touch, corrupt and incompetent. I encourage them to put that on display as much as possible.
Uh-huh, so Trump is to blame for Tlaib? Is THAT your story?
JFC Biden is worse than Trump ever was and Obama was worse than both.
I get it; it’s primary season but have some perspective dude.
I’m 5 years older than Biden. If you want to know what Biden will be like at the end of his presidency follow me around for a couple days.
You wouldn’t let him take care of your cat.
I don’t have a cat.
Not anymore.
Imagine those days before Trump when no pol would ever refer to an opponent as “Hitler” or claim one’s opponents wanted to “put you in chains” or that half the supporters of your opponent were “deplorables.” No one could ever find any crude, bombastic, or intolerant words coming from the esteemed former governor of New Jersey.
I guess those old Bushitler remarks were attempts at bullshitter.
Trump was the most pro Jew/Israel president ever…
I remember when the left had a screaming shit-fit when Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
Clearly he is worse than Hitler.
I think that the left’s intolerance and hyperbole have completely killed their credibility. A lot of people dont believe or even listen to anything they say, and I mean anything at all.
This is the main reason the country is so divided and the divide is widening every day.
Yeah. I don’t care. Let the left scream.
I am stoic. Part of that has to do with being with Spaniard at Cigars International, and later we will be eating BBQ.
Doubly smoked evening, it seems.
Oh yea. Another order of sausage is coming.
Nor do I care. I pay no attention to anything they say. My default position is to consider it a lie until solidly proven otherwise.
Thus the national divide and looming possibility of a national divorce.
So the guy who is so hated by the left that they feel empowered to openly steal elections to ‘save democracy’, is responsible for that same left saying antisemitic things.
The guy whose daughter converted to Judaism and married a Jew is responsible for the left’s anti-semitism, because he did mean tweets and it’s only fair for his political opponents to retaliate by chanting a phrase that calls for genocide against Jews.
Un-hunh. Sure.
Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb. and Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Eh, I’ve seen worse.
Zwak – comment on last thread, that you wasn’t directed, it was meant as a general you. I suppose I should employ one for that purpose.
One might find it pretentious-sounding (like Charles trying not to make himself the sentence’s subject), but it does help.
Yep, and present company excepted is just a little bulky.
We understand.
And We, like all countries, great and small, like a good political argument. So, all is fair, and the Kingdom of Zwak smiles.
That’s my problem with one, it just ends up sounding really fucking pretentious.
I think you could just substitute “people” for “omen”. One should X = People should X.
Fuck you, autocorrect. Fuck you with STEVE SMITH’S prehensile penis.
Nice dog videos.
The black-and-white boy there is a stranger.
He’s just shooting his shot, doggie style.
Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Sufficiently shitty.
Indeed. Salut!
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The stars get me.
Aquarius: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
I’m not even engaged.
Take a trip to Vegas this week. Have a few drinks, buy some questionable street drugs, see what happens.
Afterwards, write a Hunter S. Thompson book.
OMG.
Tubi posted Death Toilet.
https://link.tubi.tv/fTqqIOFc3Eb
I put Tubi on my Firestick and added the fourth Doctor episodes.
👍😁
Excellent! I watched the episodes where Ace was introduced last night.
The best part was ditching Mel.
I have spent the entire day in dogs-wearing-Santa-hats pyjamas. I put on real pants for about five minutes, to go hang the outdoor wreaths, before I realized it was raining. Back to the PJs. Decorating the tree with the wife, brainless Christmas movies on the TV.
RJ and myself are having some BBQ at Hard Eight and we are delighted with this post. Here comes more sausage.
Hello! It was nice to see you the other night on the zoomies!
Yes! It was great to see yall as well! Looking forward to the next one.
This is the new beginning on commenting for Spaniard.
BY NEW BEGINNING MEAN…
STEVE SMITH BRINGING MORE SAUSAGE NOW!
AND SOMETIMES A CIGAR NOT *JUST* A CIGAR!
BY SMOKE SAUSAGE MEAN…
🙂
Coppell ?
The Colony
Dafuq is wrong with my team.
Is it the Chiefs? If so they are losing because they are colonizers abusing Indian titles. This is Known.
Snopes judges this claim to be mostly true.
Taylor Swift has f*cked them.
Yoko Swift.
I still think it’s a PR stunt. For what, I don’t know, but suddenly there are a lot of new football fans of the young woman variety.
😂
Oh no!
That’s more like it.
Yup. I feel better now.
Me: *sees I’m almost out of medication*
Me: *Drags myself to the store*
Me: *Picks up cleaning supplies and food*
Me: *gets back to car*
Me: Wait… what was I here for?
Welcome to my world brother.
Was thinking about you yesterday. My brother and I were on our timberland. We walked about and came across the site where our family home was (cabin built in 1802) and my brother mentioned going around there with a metal detector. Later we went to another piece and had to drive through a town that no longer exists named Blade. The name comes from the forge the Bowie family had there. I thought that would be an interesting place to wave a detector around as well. There are lots of old home places out there. It used to be all family farms, now it is all timberland.
It was a good day today: Two trips to the dog park, some fun shooting (the Stoeger still doesn’t run well, but I did get a 4-target string hit in 1.86 seconds, so that was awesome).
Just like I’ve got my own game going at this club, some of the people who shoot for the joy of it are working on something with the privately-owned-but-intended-for-cops range. That could be really interesting.
For years I have warned my fellow Glibs not to get into shooting. Heroin is easier to kick.
Sounds like you are getting pretty good. You are hooked….I should just write you off. Soon you will be holding out a tin cup for gun/ammo money.
One thing that I have going for me is I am way too lazy to get into the high-dollar/high-maintenance guns. I am so content to run my CZ which needs lubing every 3500 rounds-ish, and a cleaning once a year. in 20k rounds, it’s had 3 failures to eject and one failure to extract. Three stoppages total. And I’m currently feeding it ammo from North Macedonia.
I have no desire to spend more time tuning and maintaining than I do shooting.
what is the key to running a pistol?
I’m much to serious with fine beads and one-shot-one-kill; I need to undo the bolt-action mindset for the real world
My wife is similar with her shooting.
The difference, I think, is speed. Good enough is good enough on aim, so go for speed once your sight picture is . . . good enough. The real fun is on follow-up shots. What helps me is to never lose sight of the target during recoil – helps me hold on target/manage recoil.
never lose sight of the target during recoil
that’s second nature; I’m not going anywhere
It all depends on what you are shooting. Most of mine are single shots, Martini action being most common in firearms, break barrel in air arms. if you cannot pull up to the same point every. single. time. then you aren’t shooting. Speed? Scopes? Nah… Irons, and learn to hold your body.
Hitting the target is about grip and trigger press.
Speed is about seeing the target quickly. At first, it takes longer to see the shot than to take it. Later there is a breakover and your eyes become faster than your hands. At that point you need to learn to complete one shot before moving to the next one.
I can handle two rounds a second; anything faster than that today is just luck
Sounds like your follow up shots are fine. Is it taking that you’re taking too long for the first shot? That’s where “good enough is good enough” coms in.
I’m thinking tactical shooting here, where “good enough” usually means “torso hit”.
Interesting what Suthen says about strong hands. I should work on hand strength. Mrs Dean has strong hands – from milling cows as a young ‘un to doing massage therapy.
milling cows
Ground beef.
Lilly is awesome as usual thanks. The dog park always looks like it is one step away from becoming a dog fight and why we don’t g to them. We go to the open areas where ball chasing can be freely done. It warmed up to a sunny 37 today with no rain or snow so prime rib was smoked. It is resting now and shall be warmed in a bath of Au Jus prior to over consumption.
Sink replacement day. Going to a single basin which messes with the plumbing underneath. Got the wrong dang size…I’ll hit it up tomorrow I guess. I’m done
NewWife had to swap dispose-all sides during granite top installation…long story
I’m still replacing bits of shortcuts and bs they swapped around instead of just replumbing it all correctly at the time
I often wonder what the future plumbers reactions will be when they come across some of the Goldberg-esque solutions I’ve contrived over the years.
Same as mine in a 100+ YO house. There are so many work arounds and “they don’t make that any more” in this place it stopped being funny a week after I bought it.
I like to think that KK, being a planespotter, would love the house I’m in now: every square foot of the house is a different geometric plane.
When my parents started renovating the old house after paying off the mortgage, they cut a hole in the new countertop and were about to put the new sink in when they had to stop: they had special-ordered matte countertop but were delivered glossy.
Thankfully the company ate the cost and didn’t ask for the glossy back, so Dad was able to reuse most of it.
Having had the need many times to undo such contrivances myself I can tell you exactly what their reactions will be.
I like to think they’ll feel a combination of anger, confusion, frustration and a tiny bit of begrudgingly given admiration.
Ugh. Was supposed to be a reply to Don above.
I botched a link so badly earlier you’d swear Gilmore was back
Is plumbing 2 trips back to the hardware store or is that electrical? Or both?
Mixing plumbing and electrical can be fatal.
Phaa, sissy
Resistance is useless.
2?
You Sir, are much cleverer than I am. I consider myself lucky if the minimum is twice that.
North central. If you draw a line from Duluth to Fargo it’ll go through my garage. Emily is the nearest town.
I ran winter tests out of Bemidji in my automotive days: snow, trucks, lovely people, fried walleye
Naw, I just have a lot left over from a previous trip and sometimes I can find part of what I just broke.
Zwak, read the post above this one. Old guys…
Hey, 4×20, where in Minnesota are you? I am planning the road trip for Honey Harvest, and I am trying to find a good spacing of days to make it next year.
I’m thinking of taking the Empire Builder train at some point next year, from Seattle to St Paul. If I choose dates right, that could put me in Minnesota at HH. I’d just need to rent a car and hotel!
Be careful about the hotel, find out where the NoDak boys are staying and avoid that one.
The EB is a great trip. I’ve taken both directions and it is almost as scenic as the Zephyr.
Baxter/Brainerd is a convenient place to stay. That’s were I stayed the first year. Hotel accommodations at various price points. Lot’s of choices for food. It’s a relatively short drive to 4score’s place from there.
The last several years, my wife and I have splurged on lake-front cabins from the Grand Lodge in Nisswa. We will be back there next year again.
Three it seems!
Shooting:
Shoot enough that you have no flinch, no blink and keep your eyes on the target. You need strong hands. With strong hands and zero blink or flinch you can easily see the recoil and the sights bounce back quickly to point of aim. To accomplish this I kept some hand squeezer exercise thingy in the car. I cant remember the weight of it. 40lbs? There abouts. Any time I would drive I would use the thing and squeeze as fast as I could. I finally got up to 200 repetitions on each hand in less than one and half minutes each.
I couldn’t miss. Those were revolver days so I could unload 6 rounds of 357 as fast as I could pull the trigger and at 25 yds land them all inside 8 inches.
Back then there were much fewer people around and I had a place that was safe to shoot in the air. I could toss pea gravel up, draw and turn it into dust. I could hit 2 – 2″ blocks of wood tossed up 20 ft or so. If the block was hit center enough to lift it back up within sight I could often hit it a second time. If anyone care I will describe the technique for doing that upon request.
Good days/Bad days:
Some days I could not miss. Some days I couldn’t hit a barn if I was standing inside of it. My best theory on that is eyesight. It takes a special kind of short sightedness to be a really top notch shooter. Even a little variance from that will throw you off a bit. My best guess? Hydration and rest. Level of hydration affects your eyesight a little that you dont notice until you face a challenge. Those are the bad days. Rested and well hydrated were my good days. Keep that in mind. It is good for you anyway even if I am wrong about it adding up to good shooting days.
Shooting, whether you are chucking lead or arrows, is much like golf. You aren’t competing against the other guys on the line. You are competing against yourself. You learn discipline, focus, precision. You learn preparedness. I taught a fair number of children about shooting just for that reason. It makes you a better person when that carries over into the rest of. your life. Excellent activity for kids. And it is fucking fun as hell.
Ahhhhh to be a young man again.
You say that, but there is one certain asshole I take great pride in beating.
Just keep beating yourself. You will look up one day and that jerk will be so far in your rearview you will have forgotten about him.
Yeah, I had ‘that guy’ too only mine was not a jerk. He was just that guy you could never pass because he took up the whole road.
For a while he had the top slot in the Louisiana Sheriff’s pistol shooting.
Sink replacement day
2 trips
NewWife has gas logs. I can’t say they’re zero charm; they’ve grown on me; the cats think them essential. The thing suddenly won’t come on; I can see the pilot’s lit, so there’s the list of things to go through.
I get a kind of anxiety: I worry about worrying. There’s not much in a house that baffles me, but I dread the details. I don’t mind the work at all: vacuuming up the soot, laying out a drop cloth, taking the logs apart and remembering how they were stacked.
70% says it the low voltage switch, which I hope because it’s just wires and there’s zero problem replacing it because an exact duplicate isn’t required.
But the sensor thing I hate. I know them all and can trouble-shoot it all, but there’s the trip to get the exact replacement with the exact threads and connectors and so on. It’s cheap ass shit and little chance that it agrees with the cheap ass shit at Home Depot, so that means driving to an HVAC parts house during business hours to make sure things match.
There’s nothing to it. When I was a kid I loved figuring this stuff out. Now I merely hate paying a guy $300/hour to do high school work. I don’t change my own oil, but if I don’t do this it won’t be done right and I’ll be having the guy out to do it again in three years, and the thought of that creates more anxiety than the hatred of doing it myself.
That reminds me, I need to hire a chimney sweep. I am sure this thing hasn’t been used in 6 years
It all depends on what I enjoy, vs. what I never enjoyed. Wiring, of pretty much anything, is fun. A puzzle were I know the rules. Changing oil? Nah, that was never fun.
I had to replace the battery in the wifes Subaru. Not hard in the slightest, but I hate how small it is, how cheap they have become. It bugs my sense of proportion. But, not calling a tow to tell me what I already know, and can do both faster and cheaper.
I don’t have a Christmas tree anymore. Don’t really want to get one either, since I have a small apartment and all the ornaments are in the ex-spouse’s care anyway.
But I wanted a little cheer so I bought a group of those prelit “birch trees” 3 ft, 4 ft, and 6 ft tall. Pretty minimalist but a nice effect on the front patio. And not specifically Christmasy, so I might keep them up for January to brighten up the long nights.
A good low-effort alternative.
New house has high vaulted ceilings and Mrs OBE is salivating at a huge tree….I’m looking in my wallet
Yeah, we have around 13 foot ceilings in the living room. So far I’ve managed to keep the trees under 10 feet. Bigger than that, and there’s a real phase change – the trunks get really big, the circumference can be . . . significant. And of course the price.
FirstWife was like her dad: she had an idea and bought something, then bought something else that seemed better, the tried the larger or longer-lived version, then broke down and got the metric full-auto version….four of everything.
We split the sheets pretty amicably and then the season came and how ’bout I get one of the trees, but she’s got the one she likes and has managed to maim or give away or lose the other three. I paid for four, but I get nar’n….bupkis.
Sunday night amusement
Power’s been out here for going on five hours, and the latest word from the electric company’s outage line is that it won’t be back on for another hour+. As far as we can tell, it’s just four houses. (One transformer’s worth?) Thank goodness for camping lanterns. 😒
***SIGH!!!*** Now they’re saying two hours. 🤦🏼♀️
Do you need The Scores?
We are going for it this year, 2 trees, 11 foot and 7 foot, flying Snoopy in Sopwith and Surf Danta, so far.
1200 lights so far, yee hah!
Surf Santa, der
Hey from Atlanta.
Hey from Anchorage.
Hello, friends. I hope you are all well.
I’m in Tennessee to help my dad because my mom is in the hospital here. The good news is that her vital signs are in the right range; the bad news is that she’s been on a ventilator for three days and has been mostly unresponsive.
Here’s a summary of the saga: she was on a European river cruise with my dad to celebrate their 42nd anniversary. She started feeling sick on the 15th, saw a doctor, and was prescribed an antibiotic for a UTI. For the next few days, she was OK. Last Wednesday, she became weak, and when she got back to Tennessee on Thursday, she became sick enough that my dad called 911 so she could be hospitalized. Things snowballed from there, and she ended up in intensive care. The infection began to affect her kidneys. That messed up her calcium levels and caused an irregular heartbeat. Fortunately, the doctors and nurses were able to stabilize her. While she was still able to speak, she asked for a priest to come bless her. She’s Catholic and I suppose wanted to keep her spiritual bases covered. My dad signed a bunch of consent forms because some drastic treatments were needed to stabilize her.
Yesterday, she was fairly responsive. She reacted well when the priest to came to bless her. When I spoke to her and touched her hand, she opened her eyes. Today, when I told her goodbye and said I’d be back tomorrow, she sort of grimaced as though she didn’t want me to leave. According to a close friend of hers who was a nurse, no news is good news. There are no last-minute calls for friends/relatives to hurry in and say goodbye before it’s too late. What actually happens is someone from the hospital calls and says “please come as soon as you can”, which is code for “your loved one died some time ago.”
Bottom line, she’s not of the woods yet. Although I’ve always been closer to my parents than my siblings, I wish I had spoken more with my mom over the years. Hopefully I will speak with her again soon when she’s better.
I’m sorry, Derpy. All love and prayers to her.
Best wishes to her and to you, Derpy!
Ugh. Sorry Derpy. Best wishes for your mom’s recovery.
I’m so sorry. Best wishes to you and your family.
It’s quarter to three in the morning. What does my brain offer up as reasonable activities? a: email my supervisor and explain that a combination of medications, congestion, and a messed up sleep schedule has left me discombobulated and probably unable to do my job today. b: get some sleep. c: hand scrub the baseboards in the bathroom because that dust is clashing with my freshly mopped floors.
These meds are messing with my priorities. Clearly the answer is d: brush my teeth.
And I’m just now getting to bed after the power finally came back on at 1:15 a.m. and I was finally able to go through my evening rituals. I’m wondering how badly I really need to go to work tomorrow…
‘quarter to three ‘
You didn’t get hip with that jive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzyhogPKV54
Like a child, I don’t grok parents. My kid can’t mis school/[activity] practice to spend time with a person they love!! They only get [x^10000] days of that! Surely that will benefit them more than spending time with a person they love!
#NotAllParents
Where did the holiday weekend go?
😞
Time to make the donuts, y’all.
🌄☕🍩
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPiRKbNCWY
🎶🎶
Good tune.
Good morning all!
Today brings my musical contributions to a close. I’ve run dry on things that are both available on YouTube and not already well-known.
So, here’s Mike Oldfield, with
Return to Ommadawn pt. 2. Long, lovely, and with a callback to one of the first tunes I posted, On Horseback from Ommadawn.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau and Sean (and maybe Lack and CPRM??) Good lord, 6:00 a.m. arrived awfully early this morning! 😩
Thanks for sharing these, Beau!
It’s Mondays like this that let me know that no matter how much I like my job, spending the day without it is so much better.
Ugh, insomnia. Again. Or is the cold circling back around, and that is why I have a sore throat? Or did I talk too much to an actual person yesterday?
Ugh. Derp, sorry to hear about your mom. That just sucks.
GT, glad your power is back on.
New Yorkers and such, yes, it is Montag.
Beau, you will find some more music, even if it is well known. You like this too much.
Thanks, zwak. Sorry you can’t sleep, and I hope the irritation in your throat doesn’t turn out to be another cold.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Derpy, hope your mom pulls through, take care. Odd coincidence – wife’s cousin is in a hospital in Tennesee. He collapsed on a flight from AZ to TN to visit his daughter for Thanksgiving; had a clot in his lung. Spoke to him yesterday, he’s doing OK. His diet will include Eliquis going forward.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Best wishes to Mrs, P’s cousin!
suh’ fam
whats goody
A little tune for GT.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZ0sSStW6Y
WRT her power outage, I was expecting this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXhAW4QiPU
I thought she said she got her power back?
The kids are not alright.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/27/metro/nyc-high-school-students-at-hillcrest-hs-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-school-safety-agents-week-before-mob-targeted-pro-israel-teacher/
I lived 3 blocks from here in the mid sixties, the neighborhood appears to have gone downhill.
🙄
The same scene is probably repeated multiple times a day around town.
See The Blackboard Jungle, 1955. Yes, it’s gotten worse, but it’s not new. I remember it being a concern of my parents and their circle from the mid-50s on.
Eh, in my high school, students could get expelled. And teachers were allowed to respond to violence as they deemed fit.
The school should put up signs saying, “No fighting or misbehavior allowed”