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  • Wednesday Afternoon Links

    Hey guys, y’all tell me what’s good, because I don’t have anything to add today. I’m still… digesting… SugarFree’s latest story. So far I’ve vomited twice.

    “It Just Got Easier to Make Hordes of Blood Cell-Sized Robots All at Once” — Huge progress, whether towards Utopia or Dystopia is difficult to say. I have been fascinated by the Drexlerian vision of nanotechnology since I first discovered it in… 2002? For those of you who don’t know about Eric Drexler, his ideas on diamondoid carbon chemistry, atomically precise mechanical assembly and how that might affect the future are basically the foundation of Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age.

    “Pipe Bombs” sent to Clintons, Obamas, and CNN. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but why would anyone target three groups that are waning in power? Oh, right, the type of people who mail pipe-bombs are idiots.

    “It was for the girls”, Roger Daltry claims about The Who’s instrument smashing antics. I am strangely moved by his heartbreak over seeing a perfectly good guitar smashed.

    Well, these Florida Girls have the Mean Girl thing down. Now we need a re-write of Heathers where the Heathers are the killers and Veronica and JD are fighting them.

     

    How about a song from The Who with great shots of Bonham just absolutely smashing the kit.

  • GlibFit Week 6 wrapup – 10k steps a day

    We’ve spent a few weeks talking about food, but that’s only half of the equation. The other half is activity.

    Mrs. trshmnstr wants to make sure that priorities are in order when it comes to working out. While the type and the amount and the intensity all matters when you’re trying to hit a goal, the important thing when starting out is to get your body moving on a daily basis. Mrs. trshmnstr recommends 10k steps a day as a goal. If you do nothing else, this will incrementally improve your fitness level.

    This is especially important when you’re largely sedentary during the day. I, as an example, spend most of my workday sitting on my ass. Sometimes I use the standing desk to get on my feet, but the most I move in a day is to the pisser and back. Getting a base level of movement into my life improves energy, which improves mood.

    It doesn’t take all that much to get to 10,000 steps. I find that I get 3-4k steps as a sedentary person. Add in an evening walk, a couple laps around the office during lunchtime, a trip up and down the stairs instead of the elevator, or a few extra steps from parking at the far end of the parking lot, and you’re getting pretty close to 10k steps.

    The great thing about 10k steps as a goal is that most smartphones track steps these days, you don’t need anything except comfortable shoes, and it doesn’t take very long. It’s the perfect first goal for somebody who doesn’t have the time to get into the gym for an hour. You can be on a phone call, you can talk with a coworker, you can spend time with a spouse, you can do quite a few things while walking.

    Anyway, enough trying to sell this concept. Seriously, don’t be a lump.

    Workout of the week

    Complete the following circuit four times, resting 1 minute after jumping rope in each round.

    1. Mountain Climbers

    Reps: 45

    2. Pushups

    Reps: 20-30

    3. Front Plank

    Duration: 1 min.

    4. Jump Rope

    Duration: 1 min.

    (see this and more workouts here: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/10-hiit-workouts-to-get-you-shredded-for-summer/2-jump-rope-interval-workout/)

    Recipe of the week

    Shrimp-and-Vegetable summer rolls

     

  • The Hat and The Hair Extended Universe: Hillary, The Becoming: Episode 23

    “Bring me The Vessel!” Hillary called across the blasted plain.

    Two burly women stepped through the dimensional gate, each with a hand around Huma’s arms. She was dressed in a white nightgown, filthy, the lace yellowed by age.

    “Hillary!” Huma cried and tried to free herself.

    “Let her go,” Hillary instructed. Freed, Huma ran to her and threw her arms around her portly lover.

    “Where have you been?” Huma asked.

    “Shh,” Hillary said, guiding her to the first step of the dais and smoothing her hair behind her ears.

    “The Vessel!” she told the horde.

    “The Vessel!” they cried back.

    Hillary ran her hands down Huma’s body.

    “She is fertile and fecund!” Hillary declared. “Our Master will be born through her and He will rule for a thousand years!”

    The crone cackled and lightning flashed.

    “I’m sort of uncomfortable with the word ‘Master,’” someone in the horde said.

    “And I feel like a very unfortunate connotation of masculinity has crept into our conception of the ultradimensional being we worship,” said another.

    There were murmurs of agreement all around. Hillary buried her face in her hands. She was about to explain it to them all again when a voice piped up.

    “Honey, are y’all about done with y’all’s meetin’?”

    Through splayed fingers, she could see Bill’s disembodied head poking through the ragged gash they had torn in reality to travel to the cratered hell plain.

    “Billlllllllll…” she began, the old rage inside her.

    “Hi-ya, Ruthie,” Bill said, waving to the crone. “Ladies,” he said to the horde and winked.

    “Lllllllll! Get the fuck out of here,” Hillary screamed.

    “Ah, now, sweetheart, don’t get upset,” he said and smiled.

    “Hi, Billy,” one girl said.

    The seasoned rake looked back to the horde. “Y’all’s pussy hats are so cute. I like pink pussies a lot.”

    Hillary was shaking with rage, spittle building up in the corners of her mouth.

    “Anyway, you all finish up with yore meetin’; I didn’t mean to interrupt. I just wanted to tell Hills that the chicken fingers for dinner are all done heatin’ up.”

    His hand came through the enormous energies of the interdimensional rift and waved to the horde.

    “Call me!” said one of the horde as he returned to Earth.

    “God-fucking-dammit,” Hillary muttered.

    Huma hugged her fiercely. “Strength my love. Show them strength.”

    “Look at The Vessel,” Hillary said without much enthusiasm. “I shall implant her.”

    About half the horde looked at their programs and gave the reply: “She shall be implanted.”

    “Behold,” Hillary said. She dropped her robe. The horde gasped at her twisted form, a few vomited. Her pendulous breasts were covered in a suppuration of sores. Her stomach seemed in constant motion like writhing eels were about to burst forth. Meaty keloids ran down her arms and legs, the remnants of past attempts at transformation–abstract horrors the human mind forced into shapes it could comprehend: faces, fists, inhuman genitalia, half-buried burrowing insects.

    “I am woman reborn!” Hillary said, the old fire returning, and let out a plangent howl.

    “Reborn!” the ones not vomiting or fainting replied.

    Hillary squatted and let out a piggy grunt.

    “What the fuck?” one girl said.

    “Shh,” said another. “She needs to concentrate.”

    Hillary began making hooting noises, interspersed with deep grunts. Something appeared between her legs and it grew.

    “Oh, Jesus, oh, fuck,” one of the horde up front said.

    Huma brushed the hair out of Hillary’s eyes and kissed her forehead tenderly.

    With a final grunt and a scream and a gush of thick black liquid, the pseudopenis slid out, making a sizzling plop as it hit the ground.

    “BEHOLD!” Huma screamed, pointing, as Hillary struggled to stand. More vomiting and fainting.

    Hillary–standing, smiling, triumphant–spread herself apart and a clicking clatter arose. A brave few, fatally curious, stepped close enough to see that Hillary’s clitoris and vulvular hood had been replaced with a glossy yellow and black beak. Ringed in blind questing cilia, it snapped and gnashed. Huma dropped her knees, the cilia straining for her face, drawing her in, caressing. Huma began licking the beak.

    The remaining few of The Pussy Hat Horde still conscious began chanting: “BLUE WAVE! BLUE WAVE! BLUE WAVE! BLUE WAVE! BLUE WAVE!”

     

  • Wednesday Morning Links

    The dingers were the difference…

    Hump Daaaaaaay! The Rd Sox doubled up the Dodgers to start off the World Series. Kershaw was Kershaw…playoff Kershaw. Winners of the big UCL games were: Bayern, Ajax, Roma, Juventus (over ManUre), Madrid, and Man City. And on the ice, the Red Wings continue to personify Detroit by sucking as much as possible.   Les Canadiens and the Maple Leafs are playing great, as are Boston and Carolina in the east.  Pittsburgh is getting it together and the (I hate to cll them this) Stanley Cup champ Cpitals are doing just fine again. In the west, the Preds, Avs and Jets are looking solid with the Blackhawks, Sharks and Mighty Duck Fucks nipping at their heels.  The Kings, Coyotes and Blues are sucking hind tit.  And that’s the day in sports.

    The former ManUre star celebrates

    Playwright Moss Hart was born on this day. As were famous G-man Melvin Purvis, bluesman Sonny Terry, football legend YA Tittle, musician The Big Bopper, notorious gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray, rocker Bill Wyman, underrated actor F Murray Abraham, drummer Jerry Edmonton, actor Kevin Kline, Canadian mass murderer Robert Pickton, oilman and psychotic soccer team owner Roman Abramovich, personality Tila Tequila, Mr Potato Head-looking soccer player Wayne Rooney, and Internet personality PewDiePie.

    Its also the day Kepler succeeded Brahe as imperial mathematician to Rudolph II. Its also the day the Treaty of Westphalia was signed and Switzerland’s independence was recognized, West Virginia seceded from Virginia, “Black Thursday” on the stock exchange, Al Capone was sentenced for tax evasion, the (worthless) charter of the (worthless) United Nations went into effect (without any force behind it), Ike pledged support to South Vietnam, “The Manchurian candidate” hit the big screen, Zambia gained independence from the UK, Mick Jagger was busted for pot, the Yom Kippur War ended, Keith Richards was convicted for heroin possession, the Concorde made its last commercial flight, and Michael Schumacher won his fifth straight world drivers title.

    And now I bring you…the links!

    What could possibly go wrong? Not that it really matters in that single-party shithole.  But still…this is a bad precedent.

    If only this were possible…

    You can either give $38M you got for free to someone else or you can pretend you’re Monty Brewster. The Irish-American running against a hispanic in Texas is opting for the latter.

    Somebody in South Carolina became a billionaire last night. Elsewhere across the country, tens of millions of people voluntarily paid the government and got nothing in return (me included).

    The Darwin Awards are starting a music category. Also, “Canadian rapper” sounds weird to say.  Also, the last sentence of the story made me laugh.

    What the fuck is wrong with people? Seriously, what the fuck?

    “And the best part is, when you’re famous they let you do it!”

    “Actress” says “LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE”. OTHER ACTRESS RESPONDS “NO, LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!” Then both proceed to heap raise on each other. Fucking celebrities.

    And I thought initiations by American fraternities were weird. What a pisser.

    Bulgarian socialists say: keep voting until we get the results we want. Well, those dips hits will have to keep trying, I guess.

    You get the good stuff today.  At least in my opinion. Which is what matters.

    Now tell me what I should have played from the vast catalog in the comments. And have a great day!

  • Working Your Wood with McGinty – Building a Murphy Bed – Part 1

    We finally got around to sprucing up our basement which doubles as a bedroom when my dad visits. He doesn’t do stairs all that well and since the garage and basement are on the same level it’s easier for him. There is a full bathroom down there as well so he has everything he needs. When he’s not visiting it doubles as an orgy room. Just kidding. Maybe.

     

    While the basement is big enough to have a queen size bed laying around I always liked the idea of a Murphy bed since it would free up floor space when the bed isn’t needed. They make hardware kits for a few hundred dollars, and really only a few hundred dollars of wood is needed. However, I thought about it some and figured I could build it with just 4 bolts (3/8ths thick) and use some of the ¾ inch plywood I had in the back of my truck (that was supposed to go towards a different project). I did make a run to the lumber yard for some poplar, but if I had to buy the materials instead of using what I had I would buy ½ inch plywood for the bed frame and cut the poplar down to ½ inch thickness as well. Since the poplar is 13/16ths thick a thin blade on a band saw would do the trick in splitting it into 1/2 inch and 1/4 inch thicknesses. The leftover ¼ inch thick pieces would then be perfect for some of the trim work later on. Unfortunately, I don’t own a band saw (yet…) so I made do with what I had.

     

    I started with the bed frame, ripping the poplar down to 2 ½ inches and cut to length. Then I used my super handy Kreg pocket hole jig (*sticks out hand for a kick-back from Kreg) and screwed everything together. No glue needed as the frame will get glued to the plywood:

    This is a view of the foot end, and the two areas that are “notched” in are where the fold down legs will go.

     

    After I glued the frame to the plywood, I used my super handy Makita track saw (*sticks out hand for a kick-back from Makita) to shave off any proud edges so that the sides of the frame would have a nice even surface to glue to:

     

    Here is what the bed frame looks like with the sides glued on:

     

    The other end is the head end, and I wanted some type of built in headboard that also doubles as a support for the mattress when the bed is folded up:

    Other than a couple of screws in the sides it’s just glue holding the headboard and the brackets to the frame. The mattress we bought is really light (20 pounds?) so this is plenty strong.

     

    Also, I glued a piece of scrap I had that was ripped to 45 degrees to brace the corners which are also just glued together:

    For the case, the ¾ inch plywood is definitely needed as this will support the head end of the bed when it’s down, and the entire thing when it’s folded up.

     

    I cut dadoes on the sides where the back will attach with my super handy Makita compact router (*still waiting on my kick-back Makita!) then pre-drilled holes to make it easier to glue and screw to the back:

    I still managed to get glue all over the place while trying to attach the sides to the back. A nice, slow drying, gel type of glue would be awesome (*sticks out hand for a kick-back from Tite-Bond for the genius idea) as the regular wood glue just ran down the sides in the few minutes it took to assemble it. Perhaps construction adhesive for subfloors or even liquid nails might work better here (*retracts empty hand). Hopefully I’ll remember that next time.

     

    Here is the case with the sides attached:

     

    The top was glued all around, but just screws on the sides. The clamps really made for a nice, solid fit:

     

    So after the case was built I took out my tape measure to check that the inside was big enough:

    63 ½ inches.

     

    Next I checked the width of the frame:

    61 ½ inches. Huh. So I’m off an inch and a half. I’m not sure where I gained this extra inch and a half, but it’s a hell of a lot better than being an inch and a half short.

     

    So I decided some wood blocks that go where the bolts mount the frame to the case would do the trick:

     

    So here it is assembled in the up and down position:

    There is a lot of trim work still to do and some kind of safety latch to hold it in the upright position is needed, so I will save that for part 2.

  • Tuesday Afternoon Links

    Howdy, y’all. Nothing has happened since the last time we checked in except that my eldest son has the diving part of soccer down pat. Also, he and the best athlete in his group (team?) had a decent shoulder-to-shoulder fair charge for a ball. The problem is, they were on the same team. Its still a work in progress, but he’s not coordinated enough to catch a baseball, so this is intro to team sports 101. The coaches out there are saints. Saints. Oh, but I picked up a sixer of Cigar City Oktoberfest. I’ll let y’all know in the comments if it is any good.

    Links? I thought about running a couple of Sloopy’s since he’s been running my regularly the morning after. I assume if he’s awake he’s drunk after the way OSU quit when Purdue started running the ball in the 4th quarter, so I’m going to cut him some slack this week.

    Trump gets another Supreme Court pi… what? She retired during W’s administration? Never mind. More seriously, I don’t wish that on anyone, even Supreme Court justices who completely bludgeoned the law of the land to keep educational affirmative action alive.

    Most innumerate article ever? “We sold over 300M lottery tickets for this draw, there are 302M possible combinations. 75% of the possible combinations have been picked”. I’ll need A Leap at the Wheel’s help on this, but that sounds not fantastically out of statistical bounds.

    OMG! Gorsuch is going let Trump count black bodies as 3/5 of a person in the next census! Just kidding. They blocked a deposition of a Federal official in a case about whether or not it is or should be legal to ask whether or not a respondant is a US citizen in the 2020 census. So they ask your age, ethnicity, race, and income, but they can’t ask citizenship status? T/W Slate. Holy cow, there are so many stolen bases it looks like a late-80s baseball game.

    Also from the “That sonofabitch Trump” files: EPA cheers 2.7% decrease in US GHG emissions. Algore has a sad.

    I always wanted a pair of glasses that would display the date as a HUD. SMDH. Maybe it can also display my heart rate and a bunch of other shit I don’t need for 99.9% of my day. Outside of professional use, smart glasses are a solution in search of a problem, and even inside professional settings, Its probably most useful for truck drivers.

    I dunno, I’m going Motown today.

  • 8 Forms of Capital or Why Equality of Outcome is Impossible

    One of my favourite Canadians, the Canadian Mike Rowe (Curtis Stone) introduced me to an interesting concept that solidified in my mind why equality of outcome is ridiculously impossible.

     

    Curtis pulled this from a book that I haven’t read, but he cites it in the video if you’re interested. Frankly, the concept is a bit hippy-dippy for me, so you may see a bit of measured skepticism from me.

    The premise of the video is that there are 8 forms of capital:

    Financial capital – money

    Material capital – non-liquid assets

    Living capital – plants/animals/ability to cultivate plant and animals

    Social capital – relationships with others

    Cultural/Power capital – things your community values, tradition, powerful connections, reputation

    Intellectual capital – book knowledge

    Experiential capital – practical knowledge

    Spiritual/Habitual capital – religious attainment, unflappability, disposition toward success

    My broad definition of capital captures all of these. Capital is a thing of value that is able to be bestowed upon others in an exchange. You can group these categories into three main groups. Asset Capital  – (Financial, Material, Living), Human Capital (Intellectual, Experiential), and Relational Capital – (Social, Cultural, Spiritual). I’ve sort of modified the spiritual capital category to include non-spiritual habits. I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call spirituality a form of capital, so I’m bolstering it. Similarly, I’ve bolstered cultural capital to include reputation and powerful connections such as exists when you’re a government representative, for example.

    The reason why equality of outcome will never happen is simple. You can only confiscate and redistribute asset capital. It is impractical to the extreme to redistribute Human Capital and Relational Capital.

    A prog may argue, however, that it doesn’t matter. The only “real” capital is Asset Capital. So, they go full commie… from each according to their ability to each according to their need, and we’re all now on exact equal footing asset-wise. How long before somebody with more human and relational capital trades something of value for some money? Now that person has $10 more than the rest of us and one less chicken. How long before the carpenter lends his services to me, takes my tree and returns me a finished table in exchange for $100? It’s not long before the communist utopia turns into a mess of inequality and oppression again.

    It comes down to a basic truism. Knowledge, relationships, assets, habits, and power are all of value, and they’re all interrelated to one another. Just like a loom increases the value of a textile worker, non-asset capital increases the ability of a person to acquire asset capital. After all, rich people do rich people things and poor people do poor people things. When a poor person wins the lottery, they’re as likely as not to be broke within a few years.

    I don’t know if I fully believe in this model. Calling things like traditions and religious attainment “capital” seems a bit wonky. However, this exposes a basic truth. Equality of opportunity will, by definition, result in inequality of outcome. We each have a unique mix of these 8 categories of “capital”, and even when presented with the same base set of laws and opportunities, we will apply our “capital” differently from one another. Equality of outcome is exposed as the soft bigotry that it is. It’s a forced leveling, a social engineering to subsidize those who have less human and relational capital and to punish those who have more of it.

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    Hey look: the Falcons won and the Giants suck. But don’t worry Giants fans. So do the Jets. Arsenal beat Leicester 3-1 and have moved level on points with Chelsea and Spurs in 3rd through 5th place.  The LeBron Lakers are 0-3. And that’s about it.  The UCL returns today and tomorrow and the World Series from hell starts tonight. Enjoy it all.

    White man appropriates culture. Film at 11:30.

    Marcus Agrippa was born on this day.  So was football coach John Heisman, TV host Johnny Carson, pitcher and politician Jim Bunning, soccer god Pele, drummer Freddie Marsden, writer Micheal Crichton, musician Greg Ridley, musician Wurzel, filmmaker And Lee, country singer Dwight Yoakam, Weird Al Yankovic, actor Sam Raimi, short man Doug Flutie, actor Ryan Reynolds, coattail rider Meghan McCain, and actress Emilia Clarke.

    Racing legend Jack Brabham

    Its also the day Mark Antony and Octavian routed Brutus and then he killed himself. Also, the first plastic surgery was performed, 25,000 women marched for their voting rights in NYC, the US Army fired their first shots in WW1, “Dumbo” ht the big screen, Joe Frazier won the Olympic gold medal, Jack Brabham won both the FIA drivers and constructors titles in the same season, the US national debt hot $1 billion dollars (in 1981), a suicide bomber killed 243 Americans in Beirut, Robert Bork was officially Borked, Jack Kevorkian helped two women kill themselves, Israel and Palestine reach an agreement to exchange “land for peace” (and we see how well that worked out for Israel), and for you Canadian baseball fans, today’s the day Joe Carter hit the ultimate walkoff homerun.

    That’s the sports and old stuff.  And now on to…the links!

    I know the trunk of your car can get to be a mess, but this guy was taking things a little too far, dontchathink?

    Cretinous globalists still deserve due process.

    House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office window was smashed in with a boulder.  And at the same time, somebody put a bomb in George Soros’s mailbox. Great job, whoever you assholes are that are doing this shit.

    As the caravan of “refugees” continue their trek to America (through multiple other countries where they could seek asylum if they so wished), questions linger: how will the fact that Mexico are not stopping these people, even though our government has asked them to intervene, walking over 1000 miles through their country to get to ours going to affect trade, general relations and immigration regulations between the two countries?  My guess: not very fucking well.

    Its a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him. Too bad for captain dumbass here that he’s not famous and can’t remember entire quotes. (The comments are predictable, by the way.)

    From being called “Uncle Tom” to being Uncle Sugar almost overnight

    After Chance the rapper and Kanye West endorse her and dump money into her campaign, a long shot candidate in Chicago moves quickly up in the polls. But remember, a week ago Kanye was just an Uncle Tom lapdog of Trump and doesn’t have any influence at all. CNN told me so.

    I swear, men create the most toxic work environments. Just look what he made this woman supervisor do to him. LOL, fortunately for both of them, the union will be sure its the taxpayers that poor the bill. The victim here will get a fat chunk of money and the perpetrator will still get a sweet retirement.  Win-win, as they say.

    South Korea and North Korea reconciliation moves forward. But not everybody in the south are happy about the way in which they’re progressing. Now is the tough part, in my opinion. Selling peace to a broke-ass enemy is easy. Selling the sacrifices to a free people might not be. I wish them all the luck in the world.

    Occasionally I go off and post three songs on a morning. Today os one of those days.  Here’s the first.  And here is the second song. And finally we come to the third masterpiece. Ignore the poor video production and enjoy the sound.

    Now go have a great day, friends.

  • Vegan School: Quick and Easy Pineapple Curry

    I’m a curry fiend.

    I love it.

    In fact, I love it so much the other night I told my husband I need to open a shop called “WebDom’s House of Pain” and it will only sell curry.

    But, like all things I do, I don’t exactly play by the rules, so my curry dishes are more like a curry-ish because I love to throw in things you wouldn’t traditionally find in that type of curry.

    This week’s vegan school recipe is for my quick and easy pineapple curry.

    This recipe is pretty free-form, and it uses a curry paste as the base. It also uses frozen vegetables. This is what makes it “quick and easy” compared to my usual curries where I make the sauce 100% from scratch and use only fresh vegetables. Once it’s assembled you can basically walk away and let it simmer, only stirring every 5 or 10 minutes.

    I use this red curry paste as it’s what is available somewhat locally. Any red curry paste would yield a fairly close result.

    I use this coconut milk, which I have found to be superior to all other coconut milks. It’s very thick and very coconutty.

    I use this not chicken base to make the 8 cups of not chicken broth.

    Quick and Easy Pineapple Curry

    • 1 pkg extra firm tofu (drained, cubed)
    • 1 sm sweet onion (diced)
    • 8 baby carrots (chopped)
    • 1/2 bag frozen red peppers and onions
    • 1/2 bag frozen peas
    • 1/2 bag frozen cauliflower
    • 1 can pineapple chunks (15oz can)

    Sauce

    • 8 cups not chicken broth
    • 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
    • 1 tbsp soy sauce
    • 1 can coconut milk (see notes)
    • 1 can red curry paste (see notes)
    • black pepper (to taste)
    • sesame seeds (to taste)

    1. Dry fry the tofu until browned on all sides. You may use a little oil to coat the pan. I do not but that is a personal preference.

    2. Add all the veggies. Add the sauce ingredients. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for 45 minutes or until sauce is thick.

    3. Serve over rice. Top with black pepper and sesame seeds to taste. 

  • Monday Afternoon Links of… Inexhaustion?

    I actually managed to (somewhat) catch up on rest this weekend. It was great. And I only had to donate a little bit of blood to get the dryer back together. Angle brackets made for the inside of machines are still sharp. I knew this, but it still got me. There’s that second where you don’t take a deep breath and think and then you’re bleeding and you’ve got a good minute to think about how that wasn’t the smartest thing you ever did while you go look for a band-aid so you don’t bleed on the laundry room floor while you finish.

    I also went to the zoo Saturday night for some Halloween themed thingy. The younger one took off running one point and was out of sight for more than a minute. Which, for a three-year old in a crowded place, was pretty traumatic — for his mother. Turns out that he couldn’t find a family of apes or humans who were better than the one he has already, so he came back. Completely oblivious to the fact that his mother was frantic. So she paid him back by taking him on the water-slide ride — telling himself the whole time “it not scawy”. Right on little man. Feel the fear and do it anyways.

    Vlad Pootie-Poo promises more Russian military vapor-ware if US pulls out of missile treaty. Maybe a secret Doomsday device?

    Pot-bellied pig (the 4 legged-kind) apprehended by local police. I guess professional courtesy is why they didn’t just shoot it like a dog.

    Posted just so I could type “headless chicken monster”.

    Who do you think got off more on this, her or him?

    I don’t think “I dodge taxes just like Trump” is going to go far in 2020. This guy is going to get himself disbarred and start a referral business that will never be as big [reference to litigious Texas former lawyer removed by legal]

    Sadly my wife has never been the short skirt, long jacket type, but she makes up for it in other ways.