Well, I hope travel and meal plans have been made, as next week is the feasting holiday of Thanksgiving (sorry non-US people, you really are second class). But no one cares about that, or your fantasy football team.
*sigh*
Adding insult to the performance this past Sunday…
In local news, I feel the punishment fits here, and we’re running out of water!
With this, I move that we begin formally removing Cincinnati from the state of Ohio.
Every game does not need an online component. Speaking of games (because I can), I’ve been playing Rogue Trader quite a bit recently. Overall, I’ve been enjoying the game, although it has a problem that keeps bothering me with modern CRPGs… adding complexity and mediocre interfaces and calling it “realism”. It is not more fun to micro manage picking up 20 different coins on the ground, nor fighting pathfinding that has characters run directly over found traps. I enjoy the colony management, the fights, the story, but the inventory management and gear is just… bad. I’d almost rather someone come out with a blend of X-COM tactical fights and more Telltale style interface for the story parts.
I will admit that I am interested in seeing this.
In gaming news, I honestly have no idea who this is for.
There’s a loneliness epidemic, I know the answer!
Sometimes, it really is just bad luck.
Maybe it’s not capable of living up to the promises made by the salespeople? (Mildly related)
Got myself a Trace Buster Buster!
For the cocktail this week, I’ll be going with one I was presented as the welcome drink from a distillery event last weekend
Merry Cherry Christmas
- 4 parts (2 oz) bourbon (they went with their Christmas bourbon)
- 4 parts (2 oz) ginger ale
- 4 parts (2 oz) cherry juice
- 1 part (0.5 oz) orange juice
- 3-4 dashes lemon bitters
To make the drink, I’d start with a shaker full of ice, and put in all ingredients but the ginger ale and shake to combine and chill. Strain that into a glass with fresh ice, and top with ginger ale, give a slight stir. To garnish it, if you must, I would go with a cherry and a lemon twist, if you wanted to get fancy, you could spear that on a rosemary sprig.
With that, I’ll let you get to the weekend.
The worst part for Sanders is – this is the time of year a rookie who has been playing is now operating at NFL speed. It’s painful to get there, but oh man, is it going to be even more painful for him NOT having gone through that yet.
Maybe it’s not capable of living up to the promises made by the salespeople?
Yup. Get back to me when it can consistently and accurately tell me what I did for the past week, what’s in my OneDrive folders, or the fundamentals of my job beyond what can be gleaned from Wikipedia.
Side tangent on AI – I can’t help but notice that whenever I ask it anything on a subject I know about, it’s usually highly inaccurate.
Like “The Economist”?
“Adding insult to the performance this past Sunday…”
Article is paywalled, but I wonder if the break-in was perpetrated by one of those South American gangs. They’re hitting houses in my town.
“With this, I move that we begin formally removing Cincinnati from the state of Ohio.”
The brewery is based in Covington, KY, so they’re on the other side of the river farting in your general direction.
“Hold my beer,” added Josh Allen.
That moment you realize that you’re back to sad lonely holidays. Granted, unlike 24 years ago, my mom isn’t my only company. I have my husband, too. But XX has thrown her lot in with boyfriend’s family and XY has to work. Now, both of them have their shit worked out, but they won’t be here.
I’ve also realized we don’t have anyone we trust to take care of our end-of-life shit. XX is easily overwhelmed, even with direction, and will freeze. XY is…XY. I’m having a bit of a crisis here.
We reared them to be independent and productive, hard-working people. They are that. We succeeded wildly. I knew they’d have to go away one day, but I thought I’d be popping my buttons with pride. I didn’t expect it to hurt so much.
Bittersweet, Moj. There’s still room for growth, right? XX/XY may yet surprise you in the clutch.
Thanks, Gustave. Say, I’ve been thinking about you lately. Did you go ahead with therapy way back in the day? I remember sitting in my therapist’s parking lot on Stoic Friday poking at you to go, and you were on the edge of giving in. How are you doing?
Yeah, I continued to be a massive disappointment for more than a decade after I moved out. There is always time.
That’s life though, my wife has the same pain.
I try to focus on the fact they are successful and happy, although it would be nice to see them more.
I’m sure my parents had the same thoughts about me after I joined the Marines and then got married.
It’s not about disappointment. It’s that I always said I wouldn’t live my life through my kids. I’m not “XX’s Mom.” I’m not “XY’s Mom.” I’m not even “Dude’s wife.” I’m ME. I retain my identity and my interests.
I just don’t have any family who can take care of my business if I die after my husband does.
XX is anxious and deliberate. She freezes in a crisis. When she unfreezes, she can’t make decisions quickly, not even if I wrote out a detailed, bullet-point binder (which I actually did when she graduated from high school).
XY is perfectly capable of taking care of business and is pretty good in a crisis IF he has enough knowledge and/or life experience not to make stupid assumptions and fly off the handle. He’s a bit clingy (which is okay) and he sends me funny things almost every day because he likes to make me laugh. HOWEVER, he hasn’t quite earned the trust back after his teenage shenanigans.
What got me really starting to think about this was when I was onboarding for a transcription gig with the gummint and they wanted to have a SECOND emergency contact too. I didn’t really have anybody to put. It took me a LOOOONG time to decide whom to put in that space, and I chose XY for the first time.
I don’t trust XX not to throw me in a Medicare/Medicaid nursing home and XY will never have the resources to take care of me himself. He’s brilliant, but he’s stuck in a debt loop like I was.
Beyond that, what I need to do is see to my health now so I don’t have to worry about being tossed in a nursing home. Death doesn’t bother me in the least. Decades of lingering, however, terrifies me.
I’ve had a similar feeling with the oldest having left for college. It hurts pretty bad when you raise those you can’t live without to live without you.
I am very close with him, and it hurts everyday that he isn’t around.
I just don’t have any family who can take care of my business if I die after my husband does.
You have my contact info. I’m more than happy to talk through the available options. You aren’t the only one out there with these types of concerns.
It’s going to be a bit like that for us too. Youngest Kid will be here over Thanksgiving for 9 days, which is going to be awesome. But she won’t back for Christmas, Oldest Kid of course has run away and won’t be around, and I doubt Middle Kid will do more than text or maybe meet me for dinner.
And the AWFUL thing is that this is a consequence of having done our jobs WELL. Yeah, this was the goal. We made it. We succeeded. Maybe not as completely as we would have liked, but this is the point of it all.
I’ve always thought of children as a stewardship, not a power struggle. We went through some tough shit, granted, but we acquitted ourselves pretty well.
Moj, I think that is every parent’s worry. Somehow, somehow, the kids will step up to the plate and surprise you.
We are trying to do everything now to make it easier for everyone. We want to make some changes to our trust,
including the executor, but the attorney seems slow. Time is of an essence. As with most parents we don’t want
to burden our own family. A couple months ago I sat my kids down and explained how we hope the plan will work
out. They were relieved to be included in the information loop, I told them to ask questions at any time.
“the attorney seems slow”
Call him/her every day at exactly the same time. You want them to flinch when the phone rings at precisely 9:30 a.m. If that doesn’t work after several days, call them twice a day at precisely the same times.
I guarantee you won’t have to go to three times a day.
From what you’ve said about XY’s recent employment adventures, he strikes me as the kind of capable guy who will be good in the end-of-life crunch. As for both of them, well, people do a lot of, I dunno, maturing in their 20s and 30s. I suspect they will do right by you.
I agree with R C.
When I talk to my son, who is also a restaurant manager, you don’t get that job unless you are good under stress with unexpected situations.
I think you might be selling XY a little short.
With both my parents getting on in years, and particularly with Dad starting to visibly fade…this is simmering in not looking forward to.
That’s one thing I was not prepared for as I got older, the fact our parents would all get really really old.
Ron when I look at my aged hands I see my dad’s hands when I first noticed he was getting old…
My parents were self suficient well into their 80’s. My dad died unexpectedly at 85 – burst anyeursym, he went almost instantly. My mom is 90 and resides in a Medicare bed in a skilled nursing center. She cannot walk and is bed ridden. Mentally she is mostly all there, she has short term memory issues. She seems content, I pray I don’t end up that way. I visit her every week, nursing homes are miserable places to visit. I have great respect for the people who do this work.
We had a classmate meet up today with one classmate, in a very nice assisted living. Six of us, same class, a quick look around the table, mostly mobile, except for the resident. We all know each others medical issues.
My wife worries that I may go first and leave her stranded. She is beginning to have a few issues with memory and mobility. I’m having trouble
working off a ladder to change fluorescents into LEDs. I have to be extra careful walking, another fall and I’d be back in a wheelchair.
Alibi, a cocktail and karaoke bar in Greater Manchester, reportedly implemented an unusual door policy when it first opened three years ago: solo partygoers are strictly verboten. “No single entry,” reads a sign on the door. “After 9pm, Alibi does not permit single entry. If you are with guests already inside the venue, please contact them in advance of entry. This is for the safety of all guests.”
Just put a “No Guns Allowed” sign on the door.
Go further “No Violence Allowed”
Amazingly, almost all of the bar fights that I’ve seen start were between two groups of people, not an individual starting a fight with a group.
“No toxic masculinity allowed”.
Troublemakers are always solo.
So you hang out in the parking lot until another singleton rolls up, and go in together.
This ain’t rocket surgery.
What a load of horseshit.
(He says, as a perpetual bachelor who likes bars.)
🙄
No news is good news.
“We’re all gonna die in a drought! The rivers and lakes will dry up!”
*rain*
“We’re all gonna die in a flood!”
No, but apparently every single-player Steam game’s discussion page needs someone whining about a lack of multiplayer.
I just miss couch co-op. When they starting taking couch co-op out of games, I stopped playing them.
Don’t forget the “Localize to this language with a small playerbase despite the fact my English is fine” crowd.
Crisis
The late-night change came on the same day that media outlets, led by The Washington Post, discovered that the Coast Guard had written a policy earlier this month that called those same symbols “potentially divisive.” The term was a shift from a years-long policy, first rolled out in 2019, that said symbols like swastikas and nooses were “widely identified with oppression or hatred” and called their display “a potential hate incident.”
The latest policy that was rolled out Thursday night also unequivocally banned the display of any divisive or hate symbols from all Coast Guard locations. The earlier version stopped short of banning the symbols, instead saying that commanders could take steps to remove them from public view and that the rule did not apply to private spaces outside of public view, such as family housing.
Both policies maintained a long-standing prohibition on publicly displaying the Confederate flag outside of a handful of situations, such as educational or historical settings.
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After the initial policy change became public, Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada said the change “rolls back important protections against bigotry and could allow for horrifically hateful symbols like swastikas and nooses to be inexplicably permitted to be displayed.”
Some days I kind of wish the mere sight of a forbidden symbol would actually kill these people.
I’m picturing a Monty Python-style incident where a Coast Guard gun boat pulls up to a Venezuelan drug runner, the Venezuelans pull out a big swastika flag, and everyone on the gun boat immediately collapses.
Something something shall make no law something something else.
The Navy changed from “potentially a hate incident” to “potentially divisive”! Everybody fill your diapers!
And it sounds like they are actually stricter in practice with the new guidelines, so yea…
All the nurses I know are freaking out over Bad Orange Man reclassifying them as non-professional.
The coasties would faint if they went into the museum at Ft Campbell.
lol No kidding – it advertises support for macOS but only versions older than six years ago.
So say we all.
This Al guy is a hell of a hard worker, and very very eager to help, but he is dumb as a post.
To garnish it, if you must, I would go with a cherry and a lemon twist, if you wanted to get fancy, you could spear that on a rosemary sprig.
Why not a candy cane?
That drink sounds like a good way to end up carrying your date home like a sack of potatoes.
No, no… with a candy cane that drink is called a Bill Cosby.
Doesn’t sound that strong to me. It’s going to come out at, what, 30 proof if you start with 80 proof bourbon?
Depends quite a bit on ice used and shaking technique. But, assuming no dilution (and ignoring the bitters), you’d wind up at about 12% ABV. 2 ounces at 80 proof = 0.8 ounces pure ethanol in a drink at 6.5 ounces. 0.8/6.5 = 0.12
You can garnish with what you want, but the peppermint of a candy cane would not mesh well with the orange and cherry juice to me, while an underlying hint of rosemary should work with everything else.
Tragic
We need to be guided by the science, and the science is very clear, but some of them argue against the science. The IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN-convened body of the world’s leading climate experts] has made it very clear that 1.5C is critical. But you hear in the negotiating rooms people opposing the science, saying: “Oh, there is other science besides the IPCC,” that the IPCC is not “the best available science”.
This is really distressing, to hear them say that. It hurts me. We keep defending it, but they don’t listen. They don’t want to listen.
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Sometimes I feel that this process has lost its humanity. Sometimes it’s like we are arguing with robots.
Negotiation means you agree to our demands.
1.5cc?The things we do for climate change.
The IPCC should consider themselves lucky that they’re allowed to use the word ‘science’ without bursting into flames.
Intredasting
According to a new SEC filing, the Harvard University endowment’s largest publicly-traded investment is now in the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which is a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) operated by Blackrock. The filing indicates the endowment increased its holdings of IBIT from 1,906,000 shares to 6,813,612 shares since its previous such report.
At current prices, the value of those IBIT holdings sits at around $364 million. This is already down rather heavily from the roughly $443 million valuation included in the filing, as bitcoin’s price has recently been struggling and now appears stuck under the $100,000 mark.
Mind you, this is still less than 1% of Hahvahd’s $57 billion endowment.
I had my third day of therapy today, and saw my concussion specialist. Right now the plan is to continue therapy and see the Dr. in another 3 weeks. I had to withdraw from another hockey tournament, and we just don’t know when I’ll be cleared for practice again. The therapist said maybe a few months, but you never know.
Meanwhile I turn 54 on Sunday, and we have tickets to see Sting that day, and Youngest Kid will get here on Tuesday. So there are still bits of awesomeness out there.
Hope you keep getting better.
Thanks. I am improving, just not super fast. I asked the therapist if this was rare, she said it was pretty common. The problem I have is with my eye tracking, moving my head while focusing my eyes on something makes me feel car sick. Unfortunately that is 100% what you do while playing hockey.
Hockey with any wooziness sounds like torture.
A friend of mine is head of the road crew on this tour, so I’ve passed along the request to put this on the set list just for you:
“(Please) Don’t Stand In Front of Me”
I hope you continue to get better.
I just had an inspiration. All those countries worried about rising sea levels can build dykes with old worn out wind generator blades and solar panels.
Funny how the people of Venice have survived so long with the constant threat of flooding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwkr18kzP7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3qqO8yQswg
NJ is CA without the weather or scenery part 1,001.
New Jersey Korean spa forced to allow trans women in female nude section after being sued
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/new-jersey-korean-spa-forced-to-allow-trans-women-in-female-nude-section-after-being-sued/
Arrest the judges as sex offenders and sting them from lampposts before making it to the jail.
Men. Forced to allow nude men in women’s spaces.
The ridiculousness won’t go away if you don’t use the correct language.
“In 2026, audiences will get to see Coyote Vs. Acme, the live-action-animation hybrid’
I loathe these hybrids. Especially given what can be done with animation now. The animation short collections on Amazon Prime (Secret Level is the most recent) are just amazing. Why nobody is making feature films with that technology is something I simply cannot understand.
I watched some secret level. Excellent.
I hadn’t played a single one of the games, so I probably missed a lot, story-wise. I just thought the technical/visual side of it was amazing.
R C Dean:
Pretty sure you’ve played one of the Secret Level games.
Which was then made into a game.
The con was working great, why not double down?
Minnesotan found guilty of posing as wounded POW and reaping $146K in benefits
Let’s see, at the Minnesota minimum wage of, call it $12/hour, that’s about 6 years of working full-time on a roadside cleanup crew.
Sounds about right.
12, you forgot to charge him for his board in the prison.
I’m willing to cut him some slack on that. Roadside cleanup in Minnesota during the rut, and then the winter, sounds sufficiently shitty.
Rosemary is the devil. Pine is for smelling not tasting.
Funny. I love rosemary on poultry. I mentioned this to my Japanese friend and she made a point to say it is not popular in Japan.
I’ve never heard of anyone here explicitly disliking it. Unlike, say, cilantro.
I’m with you on that.
Usually in cooking I’ll sub in parsley and thyme.
And my wife never gets tired of my “I hope we can find the time” jokes when she is digging through her jars.
What does she say when you run out of pickled ginger?
Sometimes you don’t have a choice.
I still chuckle when foreigners make that joke.
My Japanese teacher actually doesn’t like it, so I had to make it when she told me.
What is the joke?
Shoganai means there is no choice or there is no ginger depending on the kangi, but spoken they sound the same.
I see, thank you.
Ron nailed it. I’d add the idiom has a fairly strong cultural significance so saying it about something trifling helps make it funnier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai
It is said about trifling things commonly, however.
Another joke she likes is when I say three nine instead of thank you.
For UCS or anyone else, in Japanese 3 is san and 9 is que
Said together in Japaneses it would be san que.
Somehow that makes her laugh.
Number words as reminders in Japanese are really common.
96Neko is musician.
Neko= cat
9 kuu
6 roku
Ku + ro = kuro = black
Black cat.
Government buffoonery, ch 4,103
The decision by the DOJ to dismiss the charges against Martinez and Ruiz came a day after a federal judge in Chicago ordered the government to turn over to the defense additional text messages by the CBP agents involved in the incident.
During a Nov. 5 court hearing, CBP Agent Charles Exum, identified as the agent who shot Martinez, was questioned by Parente about text messages he sent to friends and family after the incident in which he appeared to boast about his shooting skills.
“I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys,” one of those messages said.
When pressed by Parente about the text messages during his testimony, Exum said, “I am a firearms instructor and I take pride in my shooting skills.”
If you’re such a superb marksman… oh, what’s the use?
So he missed once?
*ducks, runs*
I, for one, have never once in my life wondered if Skyline Chili would make a good flavor of beer. Of any kind. Ever. This is what happens when the Gret Lakes run out of water. Madness.
I’m just disappointed that Mr. Ilium beat me to the punch reporting this. I heard about it on the local radio news this morning and was hoping to bring it up during Mexi’s beer review post tomorrow. 😞
To make the drink, I’d start with a shaker full of ice, and put in all ingredients but the ginger ale and shake to combine and chill. Strain that into a glass with fresh ice, and top with ginger ale, give a slight stir. To garnish it, if you must, I would go with a cherry and a lemon twist, if you wanted to get fancy, you could spear that on a rosemary sprig.
This looks good.
It was quite good. The girlfriend spent most of her tickets on those instead of the various bourbons and ryes available (as expected). They also released a 3 gallon batch recipe (which has some variance), which starts with 3.5 bottles of bourbon.
RCR Stories on the North Yungas Road in Bolivia.
This is Canada. I mean, could be the US or I suppose any Western government at this point, but still…
Guy is acquitted of various drug charges because the search that found this cash around was deemed illegal. They kept the money anyway because FYTW.
I’d like to mock Canadians as submissive government slaves…but let’s be real. The same thing would happen here, with the same outcome.
Yeah, I do the same with the dramatic loss of freedom in the UK.
We’re like five minutes behind.
So unless they make exceptions for preplanned leave approved prior to shutdown….i will not be eligible for the 10k. Oh well
Damn.
A real patriot would have cancelled that leave to support Trump in his time of need.