A Path To Wellness: part 12

EXT/INT—CABIN HIDEAWAY/SUPER MARKET—MONTAGE

FRED BEAR BY TED NUGENT PLAYS

We see TED lying in bed and HARVEY nursing him back to health.

We see Ted chopping firewood, while Harvey cheers him on, and turns away to masturbate on a sapling, Ted notices and gives a WTF look.

TIM takes the grocery list from Harvey.

Ted pulls a stump from the ground and celebrates, Harvey is off on the tree line masturbating onto a sapling.

Tim is in the grocery store, he notices he is being tailed.

Ted takes aim with his bow at a deer.

Tim exits the store, followed by men in black type figures.

Ted squares his bow for the kill.

Tim drops the groceries and starts running through the parking lot.

Ted pulls back and draws the bow.

Tim jumps a fence and evades his captors.

Ted releases the arrow and the deer drops dead.

Tim tries to cross a small creek, his pursuers take aim.

Ted approaches the dying deer and kneels down beside it.

Tim is shot in the back and falls into the creek in slow motion.

FADE TO BLACK

Comments

150 responses to “A Path To Wellness: part 12”

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    AAAAAnd, you’re officially nuts, Fun read!

    1. straffinrun

      Another diorama idea for you?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Not til i have some work, but I ordered enough materials to at least finish this one,
        https://photos.app.goo.gl/NRGQgSZxiTnoewTj8

        1. straffinrun

          Looking good. Are any of your soldiers in the landing craft losing their breakfast?

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            Most will, those are later details, right now I’m doing ‘Splosions, Beautiful ‘Splosions, the Best ‘splosions, they are YUUUGE ‘splosions, just Like America!
            Make ‘Splosions Great Again!

        2. DEG

          Nice work!

        3. Chafed

          Did I miss something? This is the HVAC busy season.

        4. Suthenboy

          I see you have what appears to be a russian blue mix. Does it fetch?

  2. straffinrun

    It lives! Exciting.

  3. Spudalicious

    So the men in black are to Ted what the deer is to Tim. And a dude jacking off on a sapling. I like it.

    1. This has nothing to do with me!

      1. Chafed

        It has everything to do with you.

  4. Lachowsky

    Sorry to go O/T on your post CPRM, but jesus what a fucking idiotic mess I walked into at work.

    Sitting right outside my place of work is an oxygen generation plant. We have a big system that separates oxygen from the air, compresses it, and then deposits it in a 40,000 gallon receiver tank at around 250psi.

    Sometime today, the company that operates this plant got a call because the plant alarmed. The tech shows up and sees that there is a high pressure alarm in the receiver tank. He looks and sees that the oxygen pressure is sitting at 300psi. On the top of the tank, there is a mechanical blow off valve that should vent to atmosphere if the pressure rises over 275lbs. It had failed to do its job.

    The tech who came out decided that to relieve the pressure in the tank, he would open up a manual ball valve on a a one inch line down at the bottom of the tank. He did so, and the pressure began to drop to safer levels. He then packs his shit up and goes home, leaving the valve open.

    Fast forward a couple hours, and the furnace operator calls me to inform me that he has low oxygen pressure going to his burners. At this point I’m unaware of anything being done at the oxygen generation plant.

    While in the process of figuring out why I have low pressure, i find this one inch valve wide ass open blowing out pure oxygen at the ground level. This is bad. Very bad actually. About 150 yards from where this valve is located, is a melt shop that does nothing but melt steel and blow sparks and generate heat and do all kinds of other things are very conducive to igniting oxygen.

    Jesus christ people. This moron could jave blown this place up through his stupidity. I’m not normally one to call for someone’s head over mistakes made, but I think this qualifies as a bit more than a mistake. The guy should have known better and he put a whole bunch of people’s lives in danger. Fuck.

    1. Spudalicious

      Silver lining? The whole plant didn’t go up in a spectacular mushroom cloud. And yes, that dude needs to lose his job.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        First question you ask is, Why did the relief valve not go? Change it. Were the Gauges and Sensors operational/calibrated? Spooky

        1. Lachowsky

          Yeah. I changed the relief after closing the manual valve. The tank pressure transducer output matched the pressure on the mechanical gauge on the side of the tank.

          The original over pressure problem occurs from time to time when we are not using as much oxygen as we normally do. Today was shut down for maintenance day at the plant, so not much O2 was being used. After the oxygen in compressed and before it goes in the tank, it goes through a dryer/cooler. The O2 going into the tank is significantly cooler than outside ambient air. If what’s in the tank is allowed to sit for several hours, it will expand and pressure will go up, hence the need for the relief valve to regulate the pressure.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Stupid lazy Tech, probably Younger (no offence) I’m glad that worked out. As soon as you said Free Oxygen I went Oh Shit, good to know you Da Man!

      1. Spudalicious

        People on home O2 and forgetting to take off the cannula to smoke a cigarette.

        Oxygen is a hell of a drug.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          And the most corrosive Element in the Universe,
          / No Aliens Here!

          1. Suthenboy

            Fluorine Yusef. Fluorine. Oxygen nor Chlorine has shit on Fluorine.

          2. Florida Man

            That’s why I only drink grain alcohol or rain water.

          3. Count Potato

            I DON’T LIKE THEM PUTTING IT THE WATER THAT TURNS THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY.

          4. Suthenboy

            See, I told’ja.

        2. Rhywun

          So is nicotine.

        3. Sean

          “Oxygen is a hell of a drug. ”
          So is meth.
          Just saying …

    3. Florida Man

      Technically oxygen doesn’t burn
      /that guy

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        And everything around it burns, very well with an ignition source, like Melting STEEL!

        1. Florida Man

          At 150 yards open air I doubt the O2 leak caused an appreciable rise in oxygen concentration. Not to let a lazy tech off the hook. He should have fixed the problem, not treated the symptom.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            Agreed on both parts, the last thing you need near open flame is pure Oxy, unless you are refining…

          2. Lachowsky

            You may ne right, and I may be over thinking this, but there are actually a lot of things between that tank and the melt shop itself. Like four 4160 volt 2000hp ventilation motors, the substation that provides the power to those motors, a haul road used by a dump truck that hauls red hot slag from the slag pit to the slab pile, a silo full of lime, and other things. It’s not a good situation.

          3. Florida Man

            It’s sloppy work, which should never be excused. I’m sure the designers placed the oxygen generation plant that distance to reduce the risk of a worst case scenario. Oxygen enriched fires are a high litigation risk in my profession, so I take them seriously.

          4. Yusef drives a Kia

            Murphy Rules here, Oxy is always Dangerous, it wants to help ignite things, it’s what it does….

    4. kbolino

      I don’t work on anything like that, but I at least know two things: ensure the real problem gets fixed, even if you can’t fix it right now, and don’t leave until the job is done.

    5. Did you try hitting it with a hammer?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        And there’s your ignition Source people, spark any one? anyone?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Brass hammer.

          1. Spudalicious

            Rubber mallet?

        2. Tres Cool

          Louisville Slugger

      2. Florida Man

        I think this falls under the WD40/duct tape matrix as it’s supposed to move but doesn’t, so WD40 is the answer.

        1. Florida Man

          For those uninitiated
          https://goo.gl/images/4psFhP

          1. Lachowsky

            That chart has been hanging in every maintenance shop I’ve ever worked in.

          2. Playa Manhattan

            That also applies to children and animals.

          3. Count Potato

            If children and animals won’t move, I don’t WD-40 is going to help.

          4. Florida Man

            Can’t hurt.
            *shakes can*

          5. Playa Manhattan

            On the flip side, duct tape WILL help.

    6. Tres Cool

      As the ‘radiation safety officer’ for my plant, we were doing an expansion for an oxygen line, and the piping company brought in ‘weld inspectors’, aka radiographers, to check all the piping coming into the plant.
      Not to malign the good name of radiographers everywhere, but they’re generally like carnies. Anyhow, one morning when I got to work, the security people told me they’d been coming in and out of our truck gate an inordinate amount of times. I tracked them down, and 1 guy seemed worried. I asked what was going on, and he fessed up, “we lost our source”. Ya see, in the radiography business, when it come to x-raying metal, these guys carry around monster-sized radiation sources to generate what they need to penetrate welds. This one happened to be a 120 curie Ir-192 source. As it turned out, the previous day when they were done working, they just chained the camera to a tree on our back lot, and left. When they came back the next day, hungover the preceding nights activities, they couldn’t find it.
      Fired on the spot.

        1. Tres Cool

          Oh, ‘orphan sources’ taken from radiography devices is a huge problem.
          I once found an intact bottle fill-gauge in our scrap stream. We were hyper-sensitive from any radiological material getting into the plant, cause the bosses didnt want a repeat of this:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerinox_accident

          1. Rhywun

            Caesium-137 incident.

          2. Tres Cool

            far too late for EDM

          3. Yusef drives a Kia

            Electronic Dance Music? since when?

          4. Tres Cool

            I dont know what you long-hair hippies call that these days.

          5. Rhywun

            It’s just tagged “Synth-Pop” in my iTunes. I don’t go for too much fancy labeling.

          6. Playa Manhattan

            I have it tagged as “gay steel mill”

          7. Rhywun

            I’ll leave it up to Lach to decide on that.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Homer Simpson?

          1. Playa Manhattan

            That’s one of 4 references I would accept. I owe you a beer.

    7. DEG

      Fuck. Good thing the plant didn’t blow up.

    8. Suthenboy

      The guy just opens the valve and takes off? Didn’t fix the relief valve?
      Just spitballin’ here but maybe that dude should be drug tested. Seriously.

      1. Lachowsky

        Honestly, I dont give a shot of he was on drugs or not. Whether one is high as a kite or sober as a judge, that’s not excusable to me.

        I honestly think that work drug testing is over rated. I find it pretty fucked up that two people can make the exact same mistakes. Say for example – run a fork lift mast into an overhead door that is not all the way up and tear up the door.

        Both employees will be sent for a drug test. Employee #1 posses hot for pot and is fired on the spot while employee #2 posses clean and gets a write up and an admonition not to do it again. That doesn’t seem right to me. More important is what you did, not what state of mind you are in when you did it.

        1. Suthenboy

          It also occurs to me that the contractor may have sent out a young janitor who knows nothing about the machinery and just did what he was told. I’ve seen that shit before.
          Maybe y’all need a new contractor.
          Lives were put at risk. Investigation warranted.

          1. Timeloose

            This reminds me of one of the first things I saw on the interwebz. Lighting your BBQ with liquid O2.

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sab2Ltm1WcM

          2. Timeloose

            I found a safety issue many years ago and raised holy hell with the facilities team. They turned off the vent hood in my lab and neglected to tell anyone. I only found out after getting a face full of hot acid etch fumes.

            The next day they started the installation of an audible and visible alarm in the vent hood. I also made sure they informed all staff that use the lab when work on the faculties is being done.

  5. Spudalicious

    Dear gawd Cory Booker is a fucking asshole. He’s rapid firing accusations and innuendo and giving Kavanaugh no chance to answer or see the documents that he’s referring too.

    1. kbolino

      The whole thing is a farce. If they spent less time grandstanding and more time exercising their constitutional oversight and legislative functions, the Supreme Court wouldn’t matter half as much.

      1. Spudalicious

        It’s a complete shit show. I don’t even think it’s working for the Dems proggy base.

        1. kbolino

          Wasn’t it just a couple days ago that some unimportant hack in the Senate died and we were treated to a week of extolling the virtues of civility and statesmanship?

        2. Playa Manhattan

          When I was 3 and getting in trouble for sticking paper clips into electrical outlets, shitting my pants didn’t help me. A lesson that Dems apparently haven’t learned.

    2. Rhywun

      Maybe he won one of those newfangled college “debate” contests?

    3. Chafed

      It would be nice to see Kavanaugh call him on it. It’s not as though silently taking the abuse will win any votes.

      1. Spudalicious

        Kavanaugh waited until Booker’s time had expired and then asked if he could take a minute to respond. In the next five minutes, he undid everything Booker tried to accomplish.

        1. Chafed

          Nice. Is video available?

    4. creech

      Booker wants to be on the next Dem presidential ticket. Harris is in his way. Can’t have two colored people, even if sexually balanced (traditional genders) on the same ticket. So each will compete to be more outrageous in their mouth-foaming about Kavanaugh than the other is.

      1. Count Potato

        “Can’t have two colored people”

        RACIST!!!!!

    5. Michael

      I was listening to a bit on NPR while I was driving earlier, and even they stopped just a squeak short of likening the Dem performances in all of this to that of petulant toddlers. When you’ve nearly lost NPR…

  6. Trigger Hippie

    The improbability of Harvey being able to muster enough energy to walk all the way to a treeline simply to rub one out makes this whole thing absurd.

  7. Gustave Lytton

    It’s been a long time since I heard Fred Bear.

    1. westernsloper

      Perfect music for this scene though. CPRM can score a scene.

      1. CPRM

        Well, score would imply I could write music. Instead of writing music for scenes I write scenes for music.

  8. Count Potato

    “So today Laura Loomer is ejected after being auctioneered-over by a Congressman, Marco Rubio gets into a heated argument with Alex Jones, Vanilla Ice is live-tweeting from the Zombie Apocalypse plane from Dubai, Jack Dorsey gets harassed by Loomer who wants her blue check back”

    https://twitter.com/inihelene/status/1037455271428321280

    1. Count Potato

      And here is a video of the auctioneering thing:

      https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1037414684994007040

      Not that (((Laura Loomer))) is alt-right.

      1. Spudalicious

        That was fun.

        1. Rhywun

          It even has footnotes!

          1. Tres Cool

            the TALK tab on Wiki articles is like the Reader’s Guide to all the submitters arguing. I find it more entertaining than those twatters sometimes.

          2. l0b0t

            The arguments, vandalism, and flame wars on the hummus and pita articles are hilarious but tedious and very, very sad.

          3. Rhywun

            I can only picture it as an Aspy version of a Twitter feed and therefore best avoided at all costs.

    2. Tres Cool

      This is exactly what I hoped for when Trump was elected. I cant wait for the second act.

      1. Akira

        I usually go to bed on election night and just check the results in the morning, but I swear, I will stay up all night just to watch the Democrats sperg out if Trump trounces them yet again.

  9. Spudalicious

    Not to be outdone, I give you Kamala Harris.

  10. Lachowsky

    I dont think Kavenaugh is that good of a pick. From what I understand he helped to write write the patriot act. That doesn’t strike me as boding well for him to be any kind of a restraint on big government.

    I dont know if trump could do better if he was rejected, but I dont find him to be very compelling to me as a justice.

    1. Chafed

      Lach there are better choices. He looks pretty good on 1A and 2A but bad on 4A. What I wrote above isn’t to support his nomination. It’s to call out the Dems for mindless opposition. They are against him but not for any principled reason. They are against him because elections are coming.

      1. Lachowsky

        Oh I get it, the dems are going to screech and howl about anyone that trump nominates. They would probably take issue with him nominating Barack himself.

        Given that reality, I would have liked to have seen another Gorsuch nominated. Someone who doesn’t skip numbers when counting to 10. I get that trump isn’t principled in the slightest, but the guys at federalist who compiled the list of judges for him to select from should be. I would like to see a better job from them in getting a constitutionalist nominated. There are better names out there.

    2. Spudalicious

      He was picked because he’s squeaky clean. Just think about who Hillary would have picked.

      1. Tres Cool

        Comey.

        1. Tres Cool

          or since I thought about it….Lynch

      2. Lachowsky

        Chief Climate Justice Al Gore has a nice statist ring to it.

        1. Tres Cool

          I dont think William Jefferson Clinton has been d/q’d
          May have a rough time with the hearings tho.

      3. commodious spittoon

        I bet she’d have picked Obama out of spite. I doubt the big zilch has any interest in public service so much as sternly lecturing fawning mostly-white audiences about the need for fostering racial comity between people of colored and Nazi white supremacist bitter clingers.

  11. Raphael

    Alas, poor Tim! I knew him, Ted.

    1. Spudalicious

      What I get out of the whole thing is Ted basically put Tim down with a well placed broadhead. Long pig is on the menu.

      1. Raphael

        That is…probably the correct take-home message.

    2. CPRM

      In case it wasn’t clear, THIS is Tim.

  12. straffinrun

    So the Dems are declaring they’re “taking off the gloves” to defeat Trump in 2020. Wrong analogy. They’ll be taking the cork off the fork.

  13. CPRM

    Damnit, I miss read when this was being posted, was thinking it was Friday.

    1. straffinrun

      Is it a good idea to enter the comments on your own article? I do, but I always feel a bit tacky when I do.

      1. CPRM

        I don’t do good ideas, you’ve seen all my pieces here.

        1. straffinrun

          C’mon. These are fun pieces. This places ever takes itself too seriously and I’m leaving.

      2. Rhywun

        I see it all the time and I don’t find it tacky at all.

        1. straffinrun

          Suppose it’s all in how you do it. My hope is that the article would spark discussion and you could allow others to debate the fine points.

          1. CPRM

            The comments here go quickly off topic, so sometimes to get an idea of what people actually think, you have to interject. And who doesn’t feel honored when the author acknowledges the readers existence? On a separate note, I found out the girl I’ve been crushing on is only 20. Damn that’s way too young for me. Fuck I’m old.

          2. straffinrun

            True on both counts.

          3. CPRM

            My niece, who is pretty much my daughter, said this girl was a senior when she was a freshman. We hell, that just makes me feel like a perv.

          4. You didn’t feel like one already?

          5. Suthenboy

            “We(ll) hell, that just makes me feel like a perv.”

            You make that sound like a bad thing.

      3. Yes, if people have legitimate questions.

    2. CPRM

      Reacting to a Youtube video I’m watching, not you clowns: Fuck you! Retrurn of the Jedi has the most simplistic film making of the orig trig? The Luke/Vader duel in that movie is the most compelling fight scene ever, and not because of the story, but because of the film making. Fuck you random youtube video!!!

      1. Rhywun

        I find it helps my sanity by not watching random Youtube videos.

        1. CPRM

          Well, it wasn’t random, someone I’d seen some videos from before. As a film maker myself I feel a need to consume information on the subject, but this was an illconcieved idea presented as fact. Everyone has a hot take these days.

          1. CPRM

            I don’t get worked up about all the politics we discuss here, but it’s people spouting stupid hot takes on movies that make me want to just punch people in their stupid fucking faces.

  14. Yusef drives a Kia

    i’m pouring Water Tomorrow, and still have miles to go, but water is cool, and you asked for it…

    1. CPRM

      Don’t go chasing Waterfalls.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        RIP

        1. CPRM

          Andre Rison’s house?

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Sporty & Left Eye
            https://youtu.be/2nEzfa43VF8

          2. CPRM

            Maybe the reason why my relationships always fail is that I fall for crazy chicks like lady Otep.

          3. Chafed

            I hope you are joking. She is very talented but she writes her own lyrics. That means those are the thoughts running through her head.

            Never.Stick.It.In.Crazy.

          4. CPRM

            I could regail you with all the crazy’s I haven’t stuck it in, but it would only serve to make feel sad. Mitch, I’m lonely.

          5. Chafed

            Nice ladies

            I give you permission to date any of these women.

          6. CPRM

            The problem is, there is no way to tell how old any of those ladies are, (because I like Rob Zombie, but I gotta be honest) That looks and sounds exactly like what he is still doing, so them ladies could be 60 for all I know.

  15. Chafed

    As long as you ignore the Russia part…

    1. CPRM

      The Russian Flu? Did you not read the last chapter?!

    2. Chafed

      For shit sakes. I screwed up the link. He was right!

      1. CPRM

        Those are talking points from a ‘right wing’ liberal at this point, makes neocons look like innocent lambs. We’re fucked.

  16. straffinrun

    Just saw the Rubio vs Jones bout. Gotta give round 1 to Alex.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9z1Vbk2bTFo

    1. CPRM

      It’s crazy, the peak of Alex Jones’ head and the balding pattern make it look like he’s wearing yalmike, and given his conspiracy theories, it is HI-larious.

      1. Chafed

        (((My))) hair loss spells prayers are working.

    2. Chafed

      Really? Rubio isn’t likable but Jones comes across as a self-aggrandizing nut. And he sprinkles in a gay slur at the end just to keep it classy I suppose.

      1. straffinrun

        Jones baited Rubio into saying “I’ll take care of it” if Jones touched him again. I put my money on Alex if it came to blows. It would be a pathetic fight by both, needless to say.

  17. Yusef drives a Kia

    No, just expensive Acrylic water, Effects com later, but this is the critical point of the the Diorama, pouring at 8ish,with Coffee and Bongers,
    not easy.

  18. straffinrun

    Tim Pool pronounces Nike as “Naik”. Anyone else do that?

    1. CPRM

      ‘Thanks’ asshole, now I have to watch a documentary on the Battle of Marathon! (I mean, don’t have to, but it will put me to sleep, so I will.)

    2. Gustave Lytton
    3. Chipwooder

      Boobie Miles in Friday Night Lights

  19. Gustave Lytton

    No wonder Burger King’s burgers taste more microwavey than flame broiled these days. F-ing convection broilers.