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Why hadn’t one of you told me about all this? It is WEIRD.
Like I’m gonna spend 15 minutes of my life listening to weird sounds. Please, if I wanna hear weird sounds, I’ll feed PJ a Del Taco burrito.
I’ll feed PJ a Del Taco burrito.
Please don’t do that. It’s a fire hazard.
not to mention its the opening of the apocolypse
do do do do do do do do do do do do
Donuts Ease Relationship Pain.
huh?
wakey wakey
Sean’s “derping” V-vman.
Good morning Car in. What are you doing today?
Eh. Same as I ever do. Making sure the kids do school. CHickens. Soccer runs. yada yada yada.
six loads of laundry, 2 acres of gardening, load and unload the dishwasher, pack the mister his lunch (sywm), and vacuum every carpet and drape in the house. And then she’ll eat a bite of breakfast.
That’s my guess and I’m sticking to it.
I forgot about the yardbirds.
How much time per day do the chickens take? Is it more for more birds?
So far, my chickens take 10 min a day for feed/water/door, plus 30 min a week to sweep out poops from the enclosure.
I don’t think that’d change a lot with fewer birds, and I have 13.
hahaha…I started to listen to Clint’s strange noise video and the first two were on a cloudy day in France and sounded exactly like planes going overhead above the clouds.
Good morning weird noise makers!
Good morning. Went to the apple store last week to buy a memory upgrade, and the pimply faced kid told me to buy it online and save $170. I did, and it has improved my pornbox immensely.
Thanks, appleweirdo!
Leon didn’t include the time he spends holding chickens in his lap. Cuddling them, squeezing them, naming them Georgette.
My guess is that he doesn’t categorize that time under ‘caring for chickens,’ but rather, ‘taking care of Leon.’
I don’t even really pet the chickens, let alone cuddle them. They had feathers when w got them, and didn’t get socialized as chicks. Our relationship is strictly business. I feed them so someday they’ll feed me.
Do any of the chickens wear little bow ties? Or glasses? Where do you find chicken sized outfits for them?
MJ, was your memory upgrade for an iPad or a big Mac (HA!)?
Macbook. Having opened the back, and seen how a computer is fairly basic, I think I’ll just keep this one and upgrade it as necessary.
*blank expression*
*shoves little chicken-shaped dress form behind couch with foot*
*sets a magazine over stack of orders for chicken shirts*
Nah, we have a casual dress code around here. Well, I wear business casual and they’re nekkid, so it averages to casual.
Laura cracks me up!
Before H2 was inundated with bronie freaks, there were the chicken fetishers and the numbers seem to be growing.
Feed mill then work time.
Save $170? On Memory?
My last computer cost $200.
* starts plan to sell MJ more memory *
Buy today and save $900!
Ask about free shipping.
(we’ll say no)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVwJNg4Wgq4#t=00m37s
Apple wanted $200. It’s $30 online. I don’t know shit about computers.
BTW, how much are your cardboard boxes? I need two, so let’s say I send you a check for $4000.
**switches Scott’s coffee to decaf for that link.
Holy cow, I killed it?
**puts regular coffee back
Since Roamy put regular back…I’m going to hang around here until I leave for workout!
“My last computer cost $200.”
Scott owns and Acer tablet?
Good Morning
Bonjour.
Ugh. Mardi.
*surrenders*
Cheaters! The Saints are officially dead to me
http://espn.go.com/chicago/story/_/id/7846290/new-orleans-saints-mickey-loomis-eavesdrop-opposing-coaches-home-games
And what a mardi it is.
*falls out of chair laughing at Laura’s comment and the 17 layers of entendre*
*holds Cyn close and whispers “it was always for you” softly in her ear*
*steals her cinnamon bun*
“Apple wanted $200. It’s $30 online.”
Wow. Apple went to the AT&T School of Business.
The apple memory probably would have made me feel better about myself.
*pulls dipstick out of back of MJ’s computer, wipes it with oily rag*
*dips and checks it*
Dude, yer runnin’ a coupla quarts low.
*slides two quarts of iSmug across counter, rings register for $170*
Plus tax.
Dammit.
It’s Tuesday!
What’s everybody having for lunch?
Mornin’.
So my Dad is visiting for a couple of days. He and Mr. TiFW started talking guns last night, and the subject of being fingerprinted came up. My Dad mentioned that he has been fingerprinted at least 4 times in his life – 3 times for each of the various jobs that he had through the years, and once for the time HE GOT ARRESTED.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The man just turned 80, and I have never known him as anything other than a mild-mannered engineer. Bit of a prude, actually.
Turns out in his wilder days (right before he met Mom), he was quite the hellion.
He was driving home on Christmas Eve and had apparently tied one on. Being a Texas boy, he was used to long, straight stretches of highway, not the curves of North Carolina roads. So he missed a “turn”, overcorrected, and his car hit a railroad support and flipped onto its side.
The doors flew open, the windows all broke, and Dad was knocked unconscious. When he woke up, he felt some guy reaching for his wallet, so he took a swing. At the nice police officer.
Off to the pokey he went, where they charged him with DUI, assaulting a police officer, and a few other minor offenses. He got to spend the night in the hoosegow, nursing his wounds (he says it’s a miracle he wasn’t killed in the crash).
I had to pick my jaw up off of the floor…..
don’t even really pet the chickens, let alone cuddle them. They had feathers when w got them, and didn’t get socialized as chicks. Our relationship is strictly business. I feed them so someday they’ll feed me.
Yea, well good luck with that.
*pets chicken
It’s amazing what your parents reveal as they get older.
What’s everybody having for lunch?
Chicken
“My last computer cost $200.”
*shudder*
Mornin’.
So my Dad is visiting for a couple of days. He and Mr. TiFW started talking guns last night, and the subject of being fingerprinted came up. My Dad mentioned that he has been fingerprinted at least 4 times in his life – 3 times for each of the various jobs that he had through the years, and once for the time HE GOT ARRESTED.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The man just turned 80, and I have never known him as anything other than a mild-mannered engineer. Bit of a prude, actually.
Turns out in his wilder days (right before he met Mom), he was quite the helllion.
He was driving home on Christmas Eve and had apparently tied one on. Being a Texas boy, he was used to long, straight stretches of highway, not the curves of North Carolina roads. So he missed a “turn”, overcorrected, and his car hit a railroad support and flipped onto its side.
The doors flew open, the windows all broke, and Dad was knocked unconscious. When he woke up, he felt some guy reaching for his wallet, so he took a swing. At the nice police officer.
Off to the pokey he went, where they charged him with DUI, assaulting a police officer, and a few other minor offenses. He got to spend the night in the hoosegow, nursing his wounds (he says it’s a miracle he wasn’t killed in the crash).
I had to pick my jaw up off of the floor…..
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O’reely?
My sister used to get a beer or two into my aunt (Dad’s older sister) and ply her with questions. Dad HATED that.
I never would have even THOUGHT to do that -
My aunt still tells tales about when they were growing up, but they’re not the juicy tidbits Bev was always able to pry out of her…..
Leftover chicken and vegetables. BOOOOOOOOOO!
O’reely?
Didn’t find $20 or nuthin’…..
Getting that Dana Carvey Ching Chang chicken vibe from this thread.
In my early 30′s I told Mom about some of the stuff we had gotten away with when we were teens still living at home.
Yeah, don’t do that.
I wasn’t gonna tell my daughters shit but my big-mouth sisters already ratted me out.
At least on the stuff they knew. They don’t know everything tho.
In my early 30′s I told Mom about some of the stuff we had gotten away with when we were teens still living at home.
I’m hoping my kids let me wallow in blissful ignorance.
My mom was bragging about our strict curfews to her sisters. My Aunt Maria knew that we were in “bed” by nine and out the window by 9:15.
I was shocked by some of the stuff my sister told me SHE did when we were growing up.
My YOUNGER sister.
And my parents thought that I was the one they had to keep an eye on (which is why I never did anything I wasn’t supposed to…..)
YOu guys are all a bad influence on me.
Breakfast: 1 egg, 1 egg beater, spinach and half a piece of bacon. Lunch will be a piece of skinless chicken and 1/4 cup of 3 bean salad.
That’s crazy, MCPO. That’s not enough food for *me,* nevermind a big man a foot taller than me.
I think you really need to consider giving your doctor a wicked case of Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Laura – It’s okay ’cause at 2:00 I get 15 raw almonds!!
Scott you trickster!
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/04/21/womans-torso-shipped-to-bjs-westborough-headquarters/
Haha MCPO. Congratulations on the weight loss.
When did MCPO get anorexia?
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU
Male Sensitivity
The room was full of pregnant women with their husbands.
The instructor said, “Ladies, remember that exercise is good for you.
Walking is especially beneficial. It strengthens the pelvic muscles and will make delivery that much easier.
Just pace yourself, make plenty of stops and try to stay on a soft surface like grass or a path.
Gentlemen, remember — you’re in this together.
It wouldn’t hurt you to go walking with her.
In fact, that shared experience would be good for you both.”
The room suddenly became very quiet as the men absorbed this information.
After a few moments a man, name unknown, at the back of the room, slowly raised his hand.
“Yes?” said the Instructor.”
I was just wondering if it would be all right if she carries a golf bag while we walk.”
Seems a bit harsh MCPO but I admire your commitment.
*looks forward to the giant ribeye I grilled last night that’s gonna be lunch along with a salad*
Apple memory is batshit expensive. Glad you bought it online, MJ.
I don’t think this is gonna make the recipe thread.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-world-cavuto/index.html#/v/1579437049001/cavuto-we-are-getting-cooked/?playlist_id=86933
PS – Nancy is a commie bitch, but you already knew that.
We can have an intervention for Chief and his anorexia at Lapeerpalooza
*pencils it in for Saturday morning.
Man, this schedule is getting FULL.
Apropos of nothing, constipation is quite painful. Eventually.
Today is so … tuesday-ish.
So, xbrad is full of shit?
That is NOT a news flash.
Fuckit. I’m not gonna sling rock today. There’s a huge pile of other chores I just haven’t gotten around to. They’re on the list for today.
>> Apropos of nothing, constipation is quite painful. Eventually.
There’s an app for that.
There’s an app for that.
It’s called Twitter. It spews shit all over the place…
Laura’s still making sourdough, I see….
http://tinyurl.com/d9pucr6
I’m doing okay. Workouts are up to an hour and forty minutes and I’ve dropped 6 lbs. Apparently, all from my face and neck. . .
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are,
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are,
Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,
Lost in musing circumstances, that’s just where you are. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXMivGU1zE
I think I’ve lost at least 5 IQ points from watching daytime TV today.
Roamy – That’s why I turn the bloody thing off after the 1st SportsCenter on ESPN!
I think I lost about 50 reading the “trayvon” comment thread over at hq. yikes.
G-Mo – Meaning what?
I needed the distraction today, MCPO. Btw, you might like the space pic of the day.
http://xbradtc.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/space-pic-of-the-day-8/
Mohawk, I quit reading the comments at HQ except for the StuckonStupid story. Gives me more time to harass Hostages.
Roamy, I was laughing at Scott’s fourmoreyears tweets so I went to the actual site. I lost 5 IQ pts in the first few tweets.
I think I lost about 50 reading the “trayvon” comment thread over at hq. yikes.
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I put one comment on that thread, and after I actually went back and read it, I kind of wish I hadn’t. I feel like I need a shower.
I laughed at “Taft looks like a dogeater.”
Ok folks get busy. I’m at the secretary of state office.
I redacted a shitload of comments on that thread. I wish those pieces of shit would stay over at Stormfront where they belong.
Ack -patchouli right behind me. I may die. Dude looks like Spiccoli.
Honestly , is that crap to hide the smell of weed or BO?
That’s what I mean Laura. My comment was bland, but I don’t even want my name anywhere near that clusterfuck.
ASK HIM FOR WEED!
*crosses ‘get weed to Michigan’ off list
Happens almost every time over at the HQ, when certain topics are brought up. They just can’t help themselves. They have to spout their crap.
Gawd, I hate patchouli. Everyone at the pizza place laughs at me, but I do. Probably because that smell is usually followed up with something happening or said that is really stupid.
Plus it stinks.
Yep.
*crosses “get weed” off list*
What do you expect? Regular people are beginning to see the double standard and the race pimps are unapologetic in their threats of violence, yet the press actively suppresses these stories. People are frightened and angry. They are scared because they know that the political class are PC cowards and fear that the police will not protect them any longer.
I blame Face Book and Twitter for allowing more people to know the truth. . . not a good thing for the media or politicians.
I have a co-worker that uses patchouli but not deodorant. I won’t let him in the clean room when I can smell him before I can see him.
Thanks, Lauraw for going into the swamp and trying to clean it up.
They are scared because they know that the political class are PC cowards and fear that the police will not protect them any longer.
On that subject, a friend of mine would like to know if she should keep a gun in the car (would be illegal on the arsenal), buy pepper spray or mace, or buy some other security measure.
If you smell like patchouli aren’t you just advertising your stoner nature?
I love it when they come back and defend what they said.
When in a hole, stop digging.
I never carried on Base.
Pepper spray is good to have. Plus you can just leave the old tire iron sitting out on the back seat.
Is it illegal to carry on base?
“Gawd, I hate patchouli. ”
I HATE it too. I hate it worse than Sohos hates panty lines.
It sickens me.
Pepper spray is excellent….don’t keep it on your key ring.
MJ, I went to Ace’s, to that post…were the comments getting particularly racially nasty? (I didn’t read the comments)
J’Ames – Big no-no. That’s why Hassan was able to kill so many. It’s an assine rule. I have to be qualified with a pistol and a shotgun to stand watch, but can’t carry on base. Supremely stupid.
That’s the reason I asked, chief, the Hassan case. The media even remarked on that fact (with a straight face). Didn’t know if it was true.
Off to vote – Later, ‘taters!
This just in…Master Chef coffee does not suck.
33 oz can is only $5.73 at Walmart.
Plus it will remind you of MCPO.
That’s the stuff I get at Sam’s scott. Kept in the freezer, it lasts a long time too.
MJ, I went to Ace’s, to that post…were the comments getting particularly racially nasty?
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Yeah, but limited to a few people.
Oh, yeah, POWs (Privately Owned Weapons) on base was a major fucking pain.
Not too bad if you lived off post, but if you lived in the barracks, your POWs had to be stored in the unit arms room, you had to get permission from your CO to draw your weapon, and you had to fuck up the company armorer’s weekend to draw and return your weapon. Which usually cost at least a sixpack, and often a 12-pack. Plus, if your armorer is a dick, he’s fiddling around with your weapons and fucking them up when he’s dickin’ around in the arms room when he should be working.
Ugh.
http://tinyurl.com/7qwrny6
I would feel safe on base even after Hassan. (call me nieave)
But if I went through bad parts of town getting to base.. could you leave at the entrance?
Pups, did you forget to add a link when you asked me when I last went to a wedding?
The fact that carrying a weapon on a MILITARY base is a pain in the ass is just one more proof point that this is a screwed up world.
The responders in the Ft. Hood shooting were City of Killeen cops.
Scott, Pups, this is for you:
http://uberhumor.com/woof-means-thank-you
Oops, Agiledog and Vman too.
well, armed responders I meant, obviously there were EMTs and stuff
I liked the story of the soldier getting his nail clippers confiscated while boarding with a real weapon.
http://www.newser.com/story/105750/tsa-takes-nail-clippers-from-gun-toting-soldier.html
It might not be true, but the point is that we can all believe it is true. It’s not unbelievable. Just like carrying on base.
That was pretty damn special Mare, thanks.
The responders in the Ft. Hood shooting were City of Killeen cops.
The cop that shot Hassan was actually a Ft. Hood officer. Yes, the Army apparently has civilian (DoD employee) police forces on some bases.
I wish I could look at mare’s link.
*pouts
Mare, I made the mistake of reading some comments at your link. Gah!!!
Pups, did you forget to add a link when you asked me when I last went to a wedding?
No, I posted it last night after you passed out in a puddle of box-wine and flop-sweat.
Pupster, what kind of trick question is that?
http://tinyurl.com/no-reason-just-curious
http://i.imgur.com/rGHOZ.png
Wow, my allergies kicked into high gear after seeing that, Mare.
I think I’ve lost at least 5 IQ points from watching daytime TV today.
Rookie mistake.
I put an ad on craigslist for our Detroit house. Have had three calls/emails. One seems sketchy (her email ady was VA?) but the other two seem legit.
Have to call her back with a time I can show her the house. Another – i KNOW she emailed because I included a pic of my house in Spring with the gardens. She wrote that she’s a gardener.
Dare to dream.
I’ve done all my little errands. It’s almost that time of day …
Yes, that moment you all have been waiting for …
MY WORKOUT.
When I’m almost guaranteed to be off the H2 for two or three hours.
h8ters. I know that’s what you think.
I thought she’d never leave.
Car in should Ustream video of her butt during her workout.
I’m not
dead yetgone yet.I need to do nothing for just a little bit longer. 10 minutes or so.
ar in should Ustream video of her butt during her workout.
You could ask some of the dudes on the machines behind me to do it for you. It’s not as if it would be a distraction for them.
OMG, I SO wanted to get a picture of that guy at the Secretary of State. LOL. He was wearing a satchel and everything.
I think the server is swamped at the moment, but there’s livecam of Discovery being set up in Udvar-Hazy. http://ow.ly/auea9
Enterprise goes to NYC on Friday.
I had a small window of opportunity to take a shot- but I flaked.
Where’s the cry of outrage and “separation of church and state!” from ACLU, athiests, etc. when Obama says, “Can I get an amen?”
…but I flaked.
*tears off a small corner of Carin’s Hostage Card*
*tears off a small corner of Carin’s Hostage Card*
**tapes it back on**
Cyn, it’s VERY Hostagesque to say “Meh, fuckit…”
meh fukit!
hey cyn, the half price day was very dee-lish
Patchouli guy might have been ugly enough to break the camera.
roamy i comiserate with you, a conclave of hipster/hippy jackasses live in the building behind us
Yaknow….when you wake up at 2:00 am and can’tget back to sleep, you start really feeling shitty by 2:00pm. Trust me on this.
The tab at the top of my screen says “WTH? – The H2: Setting mare’s teet…..” Having been a hostage for several years I assumed it was shorthand for “The H2: Setting mare’s teets on fire since 2009.” Imagine my dissapointment to find that it was actuallly something else.
i beleive that mare has asbestos boobers
I learn today watching Shep! that it was another s’rt svc agent that reported the other agents’ shenanigans in Cartagena. Is it wrong of me to feel a little bit that this agent (a black female BTW, NTTAWWT) sort of ratted them out?
Only myself and two other voters at the polls. . . except for the poll workers, of course.
Lunch today is a Famous Star burger from Carl’s Jr.
Kinda takes the edge of Eusday-Tay.
That worries me MCPO, on the ballot for us is a $75 million school renovation. The town employees and teachers will all be voting for it.
Hahaha, Soylent green has the bestest spam letter EVAH!
http://sonofsoylentgreen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bankimoonbatspam1.png
Scott – A radical prog is running for Attorney General of the Commonwealth. That alone is a reason to vote today, although I have to say, I hate the lateness of our presidential primary vote. Moot point and all.
So that’s Ban Ki Moon money, instead of Obama money, jay?
Our library had an expansion vote last election, too. 75% of the people voted for it.
Up go the property taxes, again.
Cyn – I thought it was because the escort called the cops to help get her full payment that the trouble came to loght?
Heh, I guess, AD.
Spam, it’s not just from Nigerian princes, anymore.
If you want to get a hooker in Lapeer, Cyn, I won’t rat you out.
Yaknow….when you wake up at 2:00 am and can’tget back to sleep,
I woke up at 5 feeling like something was crawling on me. I scratched the spot and rolled over. 10 minutes later, I felt the same thing on a different part of me. I got up to check for a tick – nothing. As I went to get back in bed, I see one crawling across the sheets. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep much more this morning….
I won’t rat you out.
But I bet you’ll ask for a group discount…
AD – What??! No GroupOn coupons?
This is why you are my favorite, MJ.
But to be accurate, they prefer to be called “male escorts”.
Ya know, we prolly could get a decent group rate deal. Maybe Carin could check on this and pencil it in for sometime Saturday night.
Yaknow….when you wake up at 2:00 am and can’tget back to sleep, you start really feeling shitty by 2:00pm. Trust me on this.
My dog woke me up at 2:35, pacing and smacking his lips.
He smacks his lips when he’s feeling pukey.
Naturally, instead of doing what he had to do and getting right back inside, he had to go on an extended tour of wood’s edge (quite a distance from the house), making me wonder what he’d found.
So I’m standing out in the backyard at 2:40 in the am, in my pajamas, whistling loudly for the dog and occasionally cupping my hands and yelling his name, because he was ignoring me.
I’m sure the neighbors love us.
This project would push our property tax to $5000 a year for our crappy little house.
That’s about $1,200 more a year than my property taxes, including the pool.
Hooker group rate.
I’m on it.
*gets out pencil , erases “auction off opportunity to kick mj’s ass”, replaces with. “”hookers?”
Hell! I only pay around $1200 a year on the condo!
Do both, Car in. How else are ya gonna pay for the hookers?
Don’t know if this has made the rounds yet or not – it’s new to me:
http://takimag.com/article/punk_rockers_make_good_conservatives_gavin_mcinnes#axzz1szaSNz87
Yikes, Scott – that’s a lotta property tax!
Fortuntately, we get to “Homestead” our main residence here in Texas, so no matter what the valuation increase may be in any given year, you cannot be forced to pay more than 10% above what was paid the year prior to that.
We lucked out and had decreased property values in our neighborhood for a good 15 years or so; they are skyrocketing now, but those of us “Urban Pioneers” who bought “low” are sitting pretty…..
Our car taxes are around $750
That’s obscene, Scott.
Our car taxes are around $750
HOLY COW!
My property taxes are = to Scotts car taxes
Yeah, but our HS football team has astroturf and tall lights now. So.
Really now, Scott, you need to get your head right about this. It’s for the best and your own good.
And our volunteer fire department kicks ass.
If the $100 million project gets approved in Wiserbuds town, his taxes go up over $2000 a year.
Don’t all police stations have marble fountains out front? Who are we to pluck the caviar out of the mouths of a stonemason’s children?
Yea big government. We gotta spread the wealth around! That’s what built this country.
That’s what built this country.
Obligatory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxGGckAc1rs
School district threatened to lay off 4 teachers if they didn’t increase taxes. Citizens responded that they could save 4 teachers by laying off 2 administrators. It will be interesting to see what happens. . .
Ha ha ha. Omg laying off four teachers. End of the world.
Carin – BUT!! Class size would be over 24 children per teacher!?!?! BTW – My 1st grade class had 50 children and a single teacher!
I should take a picture of an $150,000 median but we are being swarmed by moths and I’d have to go outside.
TiFW ♥s the Citizens in the Chief’s town…..
We don’t have state car (property) taxes here, although there is a sales tax at purchase. Some municipalities have a personal property tax on cars (I remember Dallas had $50 a year, any make/model/year).
Annual registration for my truck is about $70, and a safety inspection is $14.50 (higher in urban counties where they do emissions testing, about another $30 or so)
Thassit.
My third grade class. 56 little criminals and one 5′ nun.
“Citizens responded that they could save 4 teachers by laying off 2 administrators.”
FINALLY!!!!!! What the hell is wrong with the country that we don’t hear that all the time, everywhere!!!
That explains why you’re all ‘toopid. I had a whopping 8 twerps in my first grade class.
Good evening. Tonight’s supper will be a fine selection of swai filet seared in truffle oil, asparagus in butter, and sheepherder taters.
Holy cow, the taxes. The RFH tax bill is $700 for the house and land, under $300 for all three cars.
I’m older than kindergarten. My sister went in CA but VA didn’t have it.
Roamy – Do you have a state income tax?
MCPO, yes. It was about 3.4% for us this year. Plus the sales tax is 9% with only prescription drugs exempted.
On the other hand, the schools suck.
The tax thing is outrageous. Other than California, I’ve enjoyed living in low-tax places. My registration for one vehicle in California was $270. In Wyoming, less than $25. In Idaho, it was $38. In Nebraska, $45. I don’t know about Texas yet. I still have a month left on my old tags.
That explains why you’re all ‘toopid. I had a whopping 8 twerps in my first grade class.
But you grew up in Bumfuk, Egypt.
Our property taxes are about 3k for the farm, each 10yo vehicle is ~100 per year. But I’ve also got state income taxes and 6% sales tax.
Dinner tonight is turkey and sweet potato hash with a side of steamed and buttered carrots, broccoli, and spinach.
But you grew up in Bumfuk, Egypt.
Bumfuck.
Leon eats carrots?! WTF?!
Why would I not eat carrots?
Leon – Hell if I know, but I’m not allowed carrots until phase 3 (maintenance), and then, only tiny amounts.
That’s absurd and likely based on shitty science with how the glycemic index is calculated, which iirc is the spike in glucose caused by eating like 100g of a given food, raw, and in isolation. I wouldn’t worry about them unless you eat that many with no other food and particularly with no fat.
Did anyone else just add a couple days to their work week?
Winning!
Actually, Bumphuk.
I get to work next weekend, but I get paid for it.
When I monitor, carrots are one of the better carbs. I hate needles. I also hate carrots. I hate apples too. 20$
I get to feed the horses after I finish my veggies. Ought to be a blast and a half.
/grumble
We had apple trees and standard sweet cherry trees when I was a kid in Hartford. Cherries right off the trees are the shizz. We would sit up in the branches and stuff ourselves sick. Apples, meh.
I’m kicking myself for not planting cherry trees here when I thought about it ten years ago.
Bleargh. Cherries are yucky.
I’m starting to get concerned about Obama’s level of delusional. It’s set to eleventy11!1!!!!!!11
Starting. . . ?!
Mare, uh, have you filled your prescriptions lately?
I love cherries. My grandmother wouldn’t let us eat them. We would sell apples and cherry cider to Texans on their way to Ruidoso. The icky apples were for us. Everything else was for tourists. Stupid roadside stands.
I love fresh cherries. . . hard to find ’round these parts. Germans are very, very fond of apples.
My buddy has 5 blueberry bushes and a pear tree. I did not think it was possible to grow them here.
Can cherries grow down here?
Oooo cherries are probably my favorite. Or at least tied with blueberries. Both kickass in pie.
WTH is a swai?
At least one apple should be eaten by all humans on a daily basis.
You troglodytes have clearly never had a bowl of mulberries.
Chief – if you can find this book, I HIGHLY recommend it:
http://is.gd/dHAuWG
It’s a fascinating look into how the human body reacts to starvation – it’s the story of voluntary, medically-supervised experiments done at the end of WWII; conscientious objectors wanted to contribute to the war effort, and saw this as a way to be of service (Allied Forces wanted to know the best way to re-introduce foodstuffs to starving Europeans without “killing them with kindness”).
If you wanna know why some folks in this country are so screwed up, you need look no further than the insane “diets” they insist on following.
And it doesn’t take much calorie deprivation to turn folks batshit crazy…..
Oh, okay.
http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2009/01/swai.html
Clint, Swai is some sort of fish. I’m just trying it for the first time and will let you know shortly what it’s like.
Totally OT. Lots of Yankees/Rangers baseball talk. In July of 1989, Dan asked me to marry him before a Yankees/Rangers game. We were there to watch Nolan pitch. He claims I got him drunk first but he was sober when he asked. All the series hype has him reminiscing. You may resume your apples v. cherries comments.
*Eats doughnut.*
Jewstin, if it’s any good, the price sure makes it interesting. Fish here in our supermarkets is higher than hell, and fairly unreliable.
I won’t eat seafood that comes from that part of the world.
VMax, we can’t grow cherries here in FTW – it doesn’t get cold enough in the winter, and the summers are too hot.
Citrus fruits have to be sheltered (usually inside, but sometimes on porches) in order to make it through the winters.
Pecan trees and Peach trees LOVE it here, though…..
I just cheated with a piece of dark chocolate. It was either that or strangle and mutilate the next person walking down the street.
My concern too, Scott. Lots of problems there w/unregulated drugs, pollutants, heavy metals, etc. Would have to learn much more about where these fish are caught/raised.
MCPO, recent reseach suggest dark chocolate actually HELPS people dealing with weight issues. Eat away.
I don’t know if it was “Swai” or something else, but a couple of our friends toured a food facility recently. Their tour guide told them that only “American” catfish can be marketed as “catfish” nowadays, but in blind taste tests, most people actually prefer the flavor of the Asian, river-grown fish.
The more you know…..
I don’t like cherries cooked, much at all. Maybe on ice cream with brandy and set ablaze. That’s about it. But fresh straight off the branch is the best, the BEST. It’s like the difference between storebought strawberries and home grown. You can pick them when they’re dead ripe. They’re basically tiny, supersweet plums.
Oh, I would love a plum tree too.
I should probably just go ahead and plant some trees this Spring.
Chief, eat/drink some fat. A 1/2 cup of cream will keep me satisfied for a couple of hours…..
*gets out pencil , erases “auction off opportunity to kick mj’s ass”, replaces with. “”hookers?”
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I support this plan, although I expect a good effort to kick my ass from everyone.
STFU MJ. There. I did it for you.
Mmmm…plums. We weren’t “allowed” to eat those either. I may have endured spankings for eating plums and cherries.
I had some Szechuan chicken (no rice) for dinner but, still felt more hungry than I have in days.
I worked with a lady from Cuba who had a real thing about apples. She was one of those people that won the ‘lottery’ to come to the US during the Clinton years.
She had never had an apple and fell in love with them. Like, went nuts over them, and was amazed at how cheap they were compared to the fruit she grew up with that is so dear up here. It was the snappy texture she liked.
I guess there’s not a lot of crisp-textured tropical fruit.
I rolled my swai filet in spices and flour and fried it in truffle oil. My brain finds it . . . baffling. It has the taste and texture of eggs scrambled easy.
I really don’t know if I like it or not. I’ll try using the remaining filets in ceviche. I’m stumped on this one.
I’m still liking my brewing chocolate a lot, but I’ll have a bar of 86% on occasion.
If you are looking for a cheap white fish, go with tilapia. Swai, is, um, a little weird.
I’m not saying it’s bad, because it’s not. It just gives me brain-hiccups.
Leon – Is that like bittersweet chocolate?
Lauraw, apples were like gold on the black market on Taiwan. Locals loved them.
I wish to God I was qualified for this: http://www.planetaryresources.com/careers/
Mushy huh Jew? Do not eat frozen flounder then fresh is barely tolerable.
Leon – Is that like bittersweet chocolate?
86% is basically just really dark chocolate. Anything over 92% is almost baking grade, and not quite as palatable. The brewing stuff is actual cocoa nibs that’ve been roasted and ground like coffee beans.
That sounds right, Vmax. It’s like carp if you’re from the land of fresh water.
“It just gives me brain-hiccups.”
Mercury does that.
>> I just cheated with a piece of dark chocolate
Dark chocolate is a low-carb dieter’s best friend, although I’m thinking about this coconut oil thingy
Leon – Didn’t find it on Amazon under that name. Hmmmm. . .
Mercury probably explains why I’m ‘toopid. Or, possilbly, radon.
You’re RADON???
http://shop.chocolatealchemy.com/
That’s where I bought mine.
Jewstin is “Radon”.
I shall transmit this information to Vladimir.
Chief, pretty sure your local Target has the 86% Dark Chocolate in their candy aisle. It has been certified too. No children or slave labor harvested that chocolate.
Pfft. You can’t be Radon. There are no shirtless superheroes.
“brewing cocoa” is what I bought.
Do you mean Rayden? He wore a jacket with a belt.
Dum-dum-dum dum-dum dum MORTAL KOMBAT!
I haven’t seen Brewing Cocoa. Who’s in it?
wait, is that a recipe in “Dreams From My Father”?
what? who?
….confused…
Radon! What a fucking scam. Anyone care to hazard a guess how the government conflated radon exposure to cancer?
He had a pretty nifty hat too. I bet his scalp hardly every sun-burned.
Radon’s a scam? My cellar is bad with it. Do tell.
MCPO, that’s my favorite government meme. I did sit atop the very real danger of radon poisoning. Testing made sense.
Some dipshit bureaucrat decided that those assholes in Kansas had the same risk and doubled the cost of testing.
It’s like water conservation. It makes sense in Nebraska. In Washington State. . . not so much.
Radon was gonna be the next “asbestos”
Do you mean Rayden? He wore a jacket with a belt.
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Forward, back, back, back, high punch
Deep earth uranium miners. . .
http://tinyurl.com/yday5uf
In NM, we have radon in our non-existent cellars and arsenic in the groundwater. The uranium mines and lab run off…meh.
Hahaha Chief!
I never got that memo MCPO. All I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
New Mexico has large amounts of uranium which result in large amounts of radon. It’s second only to Wyoming there.
I peeled 60 lb of bananas one day. Pretty sure I’ve got cancer now.
I had to pay almost $2K for radon mitigation in order to sell my last house. Should have put a mask on. . . 1/4 hp fan and 20′ of PVC!!
MJ, is that a Fatality, or aa Animalality? I was never able to complete either.
There were some businesses like radon testing in Florida before the housing crash.
A company would apply a colorless, odorless, non-detectable coating to your roof and it would magically make it last longer.
Jewstin, NM has put the kibosh on uranium mining and made ghost towns out of several communities. We have cancer clusters around Ground Zero and the labs but who’s to say they wouldn’t have happened anyway.
Mold!!!!! I was in Texas on vacation when Farmers and other insurance companies bailed because of MOLD!!!!!!
Jew, it was a fatality. I had to look it up, but I probably spent WAY too much time playing that game.
I fell for it, but that was back when I was gullible.
I am going to invent the next thing that we all need to be saved from.
mwuah ha ha ha
Aluminum. I’m afraid of aluminum. Mostly because I can’t say it. Plus it causes dementia. Squirrel!
Mike Check 1 2 3 4
I thought “Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor Child” was an arrestable offense:
http://theothermccain.com/2012/04/24/new-york-advocacy-groups-plans-very-gay-mothers-day-event-in-sex-toy-shop/
Aluminum has actually been linked to Alzheimer’s not dementia but I can’t spell Alzheimers.
Even more OT than my baseball OT. They are expecting snow at higher elevations this weekend. We’ve already made dog reservations at the spa. I have no idea where I will be next week. Hubby is looking at a Midland, TX vacation O.o
Wait, is mold fake too???
Are you shitting me?
No, lots of people are allergic to mold. It’s nasty and will fuck you up. It screws me up, that’s for sure.
Hells Hole!!!!!! eleventy!
It won’t snow there will it?
It’s only 12 miles or so from where you park the car, and you only have to cross that stream about 90 times, but it’s totally worth it.
Lauraw, I am allergic to everything. The mold lawsuits just seemed suspicious to me. I’m allergic to sage and one of my dachshunds rolled in it today before sitting in my lap. I want to sue her for an hate crime. I know it is deliberate. Scott, HH will be getting rain or snow this weekend. The forecast is showing precipitation.
Scott, I was trying to go to Datil before Midland. Datil. I’ll try to steer my hubby to the Gila and the catwalk.
Hubby is looking at a Midland, TX vacation O.o
That is quite possibly the most preposterous shit I’ve ever read in my long history of browsing tittyweb jenkins.
Wait- mold lawsuits?
You can sue mold?
AWESOME.
*calls lawyer about my fridge crisper drawer*
Did anybody put the screws to anybody else today?
Lauraw, last time I was in Texas, mold lawsuits were huge. HUGE!!!
Midland city council voted a couple of months ago on new water rates which went into effect this past month:
$3.95 per thousand for the first 10,000 gallons
$19.95 per thousand from 10,001 to 25,000 gallons
$39.95 per thousand over 25,000 gallons
Lots of $200,000+ houses with thousands of dollars of landscaping are going to be destroyed this summer.
Sean, I save that for Wednesdays. Tuesdays suck enough on their own.
The landscaping will be destoyed. I think the houses will survive.
Sean – Flathead or Phillips?
“Hubby is looking at a Midland, TX vacation O.o”
That’s right next to Graham, WA on MY “vacation spots” list!
YGTBSM…
PG, he has never been to Midland. He wants to make a loop through Hobbes.
Oso – Ever been to Bayonne, NJ?
Screw big landscape!
Hearing about some of Y’alls city water rates makes me glad I live in the boonies, and have my own well.
O’course, I live in WASHington and we get water from the sky for 8-9 months each year, so don’t have to water much.
I hear Bakersfield is lovely in the springtime.
(Okay, that’s a filthy lie. Bakersfield is never lovely.)
I hear Bakersfield is lovely in the springtime.
Sean just wants me to link Buck & Dwight singing “The Streets of Bakersfield” again!
Hobbs at least has an Indian Casino. Feather, not dot. Midland has………a Confederate Air Force hanger full of vintage war planes and……..the Petroleum Museum. Other than that….maybe you could tour the Halliburton yard.
If he insists on this madness, the least you can do is make him take you to a Rosa’s Tortilla Factory and get the beef fajita plate. It takes second place only to Uncle Julio’s in FtWorth.
We’ve been to Bakersfield. Never been to NJ. I am texting about the Gila now. Crossing fingers.
I’m the nicest arguer on twitter.
Laura, I believe the specific issue on molds had to do with claims for health problems that were larger than “the sniffles” and whether or not an insuror should bear the expensive cost of removal.
Homes were being declared “uninhabitable”, which, if the issue were dog dander, and you happened to be allergic to it, would be true for you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean people will die here.
Funny thing to me is, mold ain’t exactly a new problem in a house.
I’ve been told that Bakersfield CA and Odessa TX are very similar in their complete and total lack of charm.
PG, I love fajitas. I have family in Midland and he hates mi familia. Right now, I am lobbying for the Gila. He only has 4 days and has already crossed out Denver, SD, SA, and Dallas.
I have a aunt that lives in longview Tx. Never been there though.
oso, if you decide to vacation out this way, you better get hotel rooms nailed down ahead of time. There are so many out of town oilfield workers around here that all of the hotels are full almost every night.
Hobbs at least has an Indian Casino. Feather, not dot.
Aw, and here I was imagining Tushar as a pit boss…
We are getting ready to see pigeon lawsuits. Apparently, pigeon poop is toxic and gets into vents. My brother was averaging 40K on bedbug lawsuits in NV but they gave him the willies. He is a consummate bottom feeding lawyer.
PG, I have family in Midland. If we can’t get an hotel, I can make my hubby room with familia. Win. Win. Do they have Braum’s in Midland?
Ah, thanks Dave. Interesting.
And yeah, if it were actually deadly, people in certain geographic regions in years when the atmospheric conditions promoted mold should have experienced large scale die-offs, but that is not the case.
New England would be virtually uninhabitable much of the time.
vmax, you damned near live closer to longview than I do. It’s in far east texas back behind the pine curtain.
I have pulled a couple of dead dishwashers that had the molds from the leaks. Lots of bleach and messy clean up. But yeah, it was the overclaim that mold caused debilitating disease and death, and probable Aspergers too.
Insurance companies nutted up as contractors lined up to charge tens of thousands to declare this home “clean”.
No Braum’s. Closest Braum’s I know of are Amarillo and Wichita Falls. Got a few Dairy Queens.
I saw that PG it is like next to Shreveport.
Lauraw, your yard pics are so green. We have Xeriscape out here. We envy Spring and Fall in NE.
PG, please tell me there is good BBQ or Llano steaks.
It’s only a hunnert miles or so farther to drive from here to Atlanta than it is to drive from here to El Paso
Bedtime baboons.
What yard pics? Why wasn’t I informed of this?
I have no idea, Dave. Scott must be exercising his camera phone again. The yard’s a frickin’ mess, anyway.
Why would anyone drive to El Paso??? Living in NM sucks when you only have a 3 day vacation. I remember when we could jump on a SW flight at the last minute and enjoy a vacation. Night, PG.
Lauraw, it was green, and there were chairs, and trees. Looked relaxing and cool. And green. Did I mention the pics had green?
Oso, run on up to the great sand dunes and stay in that drive in movie theater motel.
Oh I wouldn’t drive there.. I was just expressing it as an example of scale. As a young man I failed to take “scale” into account on my first New England vacation.
We kept arriving places way earlier than I thought we would.
lauraw,
scott put-up a picture of water shooting out of a downspout into a blue recycling-bin.
Chairs and a bench facing the pond, trees and lawn. It looked like a nice peacefull place.
Green and cool, yeah it is that, I guess. Ton of minty-fresh weeds growing in it, too, lol.
I had 3 foot tall thistles in the yard before I got all nary on em last month. Those fuckers will start growing on New Years Day
GMo, in CO? DiT, my hubby had barely left NM when we married. East Coast distances are nothing to him. Prices on the other hand? We priced out a Tennessee vacation V. an Hawaii trip and Hawaii won. I have friends on the East Coast that want us to visit and Hawaii is cheaper. Pretty sad when Hawaii is cheaper than Memphis.
He did?? Oh, we grabbed a hundred+ gallons of rainwater Sunday. He rigged a gutter to the bin and I kept scooping it out and filled every other container I have!
Had not rained here since January. Bizarre for us.
Yep. My grandmother had a cistern. Collected rainwater and we would use it for bathing and heating on the wood stove. Lauraw, the picture was great. Lots of green. My grammo had an herb garden. She swore by rainwater.
Oso, yep, by Alamosa. That motel is funny, all the rooms have huge windows and face a drive in movie screen and you watch it from your bed. But the sand dunes are kind of this weird geographical oddity like a piece of the sahara got tele-transported. Anyway, for 3 days, it seems close enough.
Well, not sad I think. Indicative of economic realities. I’ll bet Vegas is dirt cheap right now.
*pulls a dandelion out of Laura’s ear*
Hey Laura, speaking of rain, we’ve had some this spring (thank god), last year at this time, it hadn’t rained since January too. Leaves were already dropping from my trees, it was hot and the drought was on.
Yeah, our tap water does not seem to really wet down the soil right. Doesn’t penetrate down through the dirt. Doesn’t have the right charge on it or something. Plants survive on it but they do not thrive.
Gmo, anything is better than Midland!! Vegas is dirt cheap but we were just there in March. I have been to Vegas 5 times in the last 2 years because of the great prices.
2 weeks ago we had a late snow and my hubby was out with a broom saving trees. It was cute. Now we are having a moth swarm of epic proportions.
Anybody here know anything about deferred income tax accounting and need a job? I’m about to fire the motherfucker whose inability to comprehend a couple of simple goddamned instructions is causing me to do work right now.
Andy, they said there’d be no math. Sorry.
Tell me! Strange, strange weather since last Autumn here. October blizzard, no Winter, early Spring, wildfires and drought in April.
I scarcely know what to plant in the garden. Will the peppers blight and rot? Will the peas be killed by dry heat? Criminy, who knows.
No but I am a quick learner Andy.
Do I have to be a Masshole? Or can I work from my home?
/joke off
>> Anybody here know anything about deferred income tax accounting and need a job?
Kinda. But my calculator is a new iPad and also I got a job.
If only I had studied the humanities, I’d be a gem.
Lots of transferable skills, Dave. Lots.
Oh, and you’ll laugh, but I really do use my iPhone for a calculator at work. Either that or Excel, I mean.
I do that all the time.
Also, you are undervaluing people skills and you should be educated about this. I haz new info.
Lauraw, wildfires? That’s crazy! We’ve had controlled burns get crazy in NM and AZ but Connecticut?
I planted an eight-foot row of dandelions for Mom. In my vegetable garden. When I look at them they give me an itch in my hoe.
Not uncommon here in Autumn, oso, but in April it’s a damn novelty. We’re usually in mud season/ underwater from mid-March to May.
Oh, I musta missed that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCC_PxRWVI4
Dandelion Wine. Bradbury? Do people actually make wine from weeds or is that a writing/people skill I’m undervaluing because I’m THE MAN and shit?
…we didn’t have much for fires, even after all this dryness. Just a couple little outbreaks. Still; unheard of in March/April around here.
Should be done now, after all that rain.
I can be taught to follow simple goddamned instructions.
Just sayin’.
And I’m fairly competent with putting data into Excel.
Our .43 precipitation in April has been crazy. It never rains in April. That is why we are so shocked that our camping trip is being averted due to rain/snow. I mean really! Who wants to go to Midland?
Laura
I turned my A/C off 24 hours ago. That is only the 4th time this winter.
My usuall electric bill drops from $150 to $60 in November, then back in May. It has been $130 all winter.
Wildfire that caused my train to be late last week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55294087@N05/6965381472/
All the grass in that little patch of swampland between my POV and the fire is burned off (as well as a huge swath to the right).
Dinner tonight was another Carl’s Jr. Famous Star burger. Though I need to tell the girl there to quit putting so much damn lettuce on the thing.
I’ve been spraying my dandelions and now you guys tell me its a f’in cash crop?
http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110826/1000/awesome_classic_movie_gifs_19.gif
O.o I thought NE was all about high taxes and Autumn color displays. You guys can’t have draughts and wildfires.
Wow.. weird to read about northeastern wildfires after last summer here when I totally freaked and made my girls come from Austin to stay in the city limits.
Stay safe my dear friends.
yes indeed, they made Dandlelion Wine during the depression
and i can say, its an interesting flavor
Dave, you did the right thing. Texas last year was crazy. Kind of like AZ the year before. And parts of NM. My family ranchero was on fire last Spring.
Dandelions are only good to have if you have a little ginny woman skulking around the place. Otherwise, burn ‘em.
Small world. Just had a Lotus like the one in the header pic drive into my cul de sac.
We just had seventeen inches of rain on Sunday, Dave. It’s over.
We could actually get some rain here on Thursday with temps down to 78 degrees. Sweater weather!
Seventeen inches???? That’s crazy!!!
Seventeen? In a day? Holy shit, that’s like a 500 year rain here. (measured as in “how often that happens”). I’ve lived in Temple 21 years, 8 inches in a day is what we call a hundred year rain. I’ve seen those 2 times.
Also, hey wiser, we have a series here now.
We may, just may, get showers tomorrow.
Cyn, we actually thought about PHX but my cousins pissed my hubby off. Midland? Gah!
cyn, is it bikini season yet?
Hell, we had half of Perry County burn up earlier this month. Usually the leaves that fell last fall are sodden from fall rains and winter snow. . . not this year!
That’s too bad, Osoloco. White Mountains would be gorgeous this time of year!
LOL, of course not seventeen, you goofs! We had a lot for one front here. Several inches delivered in a long soaking kind of rain.
Cyn, I know. His last text has us staying home and his watching me. We are in negotiation.
The Lotus in the header reminds me of the time when we owned two Lotus Elans!
Good times, back when we ‘worked in tall buildings and drove Porsches’, and Lotus…
Once upon a time, we had a red, white, and a blue Lotus Elan in the garage.
I will forever regret not getting a photo of that…
Now, we are old and poor and I drive an 18 year-old Subaru.
So it goes…
Didn’t MCPO get seventeen inches of snow?
I really don’t know why you yanks are on the metric system.
Oso, tell your hubby he can do whatever he wants, but YOU are going to drive to PHX, crash on Cyn’s sofa, have a pillow fight, eat bacon and beef stroganoff, and then head out for drinks at Gordon Biersch’s.
White mountains? New Hampshire? What? California has White Mountains too? I own property close to white sands.
It glows
Xbrad, dont forget the chocolate dipped cyn
A 100 year storm here is 12″ in 12 hours. A 500 year storm is 36″ in 36 hours.
The more you know.
My stroganoff does kick ass, Oso. I actually whipped that up for bunco this weekend.
stroganoff? hell cyn, for strogo id CRAWL to AZ
Xbrad, dont forget the chocolate dipped cyn
I’ve always wanted to try that, but it seemed rather boorish to try, what with me drinking Mr. Cyn’s good booze right in front of him. And him telling me about how his martial arts training is coming along.
Haha Xbrad! I had a severe allergic reaction at Gordon Biersch on Oahu. Vmax, White Mountains in AZ. White Sands is great! Last time we were there we were a few minutes behind a mountain lion. We were just in the NM Sierra Blancas in 2008. Hubby wants something different.
thats the beauty of having congestive heart failure. i gewt to flirt and if the Mister kicks my ass ill either drop dead or ask about home health Care
Cyn’s couch is different. Trust me.
Last time I sat on Cyn’s couch next to her….
Cyn, dogs go in to the spa on Saturday. Picked up late on Tuesday. I’ll let you know. I mean really! Midland!!!! He’s even talking OKC for gosh sakes! (He’d have to deal with Sheridan’s parents if we went to OK and he isn’t ready)
… she played me selections of the ASU marching band. From a CD that Will had given her.
You know you’re only about 4 hours from Greer, right?
hey OSO, you get close to Tulsa, Coffee and Donuts on me
*involuntarily flashes devil pitchforks*
hello
MC Hammer was an AK3? Really? MCPO, did you know that?
Goodnight, my invisible friends!
xBrad – Yes I did.
Sweet nighties, Chief.
Maybe if he’d made it a career, he wouldn’t have gotten Whitney hooked on coke.
cyn what did yall have for suppah
MC Hammer? o_O
I made brats, tots, and salad with double extra creamy dressings. I rarely cook anymore though; that’s become Mr.Cyn’s gig, but he screwed up an appointment and ran late.
Cyn,
My stroganoff would kick your stroganoffs ass, break it’s teeth, and leave it whimpering on the curb.
I’d put it in the recipes blog, but that would be ‘telling’.
i have a recipe for extreme tots if you want it, pretty good stuff
He actually was late for the parent teacher conference. On the good side, we learned that my 13 y.o. 8th grader is testing at Post High School levels in every conceivable subject imaginable. Greeeeat.
no wonder the salad had extra creamy dressing
congrats to your s,art 8th grader
Orly?
*throws down wooden spoon, ties on Team Bacon™ apron, and gives Chripsy the “bring it on” look*
What are extreme tots, Krow?
ill gstring it to ya
I’ve had Ms. Cyn’s splendiferous beef stroganoff.
Twice.
And bacon. Lot’s of bacon. Separate from the stroganoff. But hey, I’m not about to talk shit to someone who sends me home with a pound of incredible bacon as a snack to nibble on during the grueling drive home.
Haha. Hubby got home and we walked the dogs. He won’t go to Chama because my ex lives there. We’ll see come Monday where I end up.
You’d better give us full details here, Krow; we are the consummate recipe blog on the interwebs you know.
Cyn,
You don’t really want to know. It would break your little pea-pickin’ heart.
So it goes…
Xbrad, now you need to sample Chrispy’s stroganoff and let us know which is the most asskickingist.
actually cyn, i rather like the recipe blog
goddammit.. 35 years and I still keep overfilling a zippo
Chrispy, if i told you my secret ingredient, you would immediately concede that mine is the best and that yours would maybe make penitentiary inmates marginally satisfied. Yes, really.
*almost starts to point and laugh at Dave and then remembers that that is exactly the reason I don’t use fillable lighters anymore*
Cyn, I don’t feel the need to stoop to testing Chrispy’s. Yours is the best. Plus, Chrispy doesn’t have bewbs.
*that, and I’m only smoking about 2-4 ciggies a day*
I’ll be burnin my thigh tomorrow.
Night cool kids!
ok sent cyn
cya dave-o
Cynnabuns,
I’m calling a foul.
Red Card!
XBradTC has been to your place, eaten your food, and driven away with your bacon.
Can you honestly call him an unbiased judge?
I think NOT, missy!
When he was up here in the Pacific NorthWet, he stopped by E9 and had a few beers with BiW and me.
NOT a level playing field.
And, if I ever met you in person, I’d probably hug you so hard I’d break a rib. Then Mr. Cyn would kill me.
Sweet nighties, Dave. And don’t burn your thigh tomorrow. TYIA.
Level schmevel, Chrispy. Sometime, somewhere, somehow, we’re doin’ a HOSTAGE STROGANOFF COOKOFF. I’ll take you down!
Oh and hugs are the best and my favorite! Besides, Mr.Cyn goes to bed early. *winks and smiles sweetly*
ChrisP, it’s WAAAY more than a Lotus. Here are the details:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/24/steven-tyler-buys-wild-275-mph-ride/?intcmp=features
how did ya like that recipe, got that from the 66 cafe downtown
Smooches! To you, and G’night!
Got it, Krow: Chili Cheese Tots are your Extreme Tots! Those are killer, and nice touch with the jalapenos & sour cream. I’ll make those next time I do chili cheese dogs for dinner. #Good call.
M’wah and good night, Chris. Give Anita a good hug for me please!
set me on fire, but i finished em, thems was deelishimuss
Herpity derpity durr.
Top o’ the derp to ya, Sean.
Got up inadvertently early today. Dog saw me open my eyes and look at the clock. Then it was all over.
wake wake
I don’t have much outrageous outrage anymore, but Chris Matthews called the GOP the ‘Grand Wizard’ party, apparently referring to the KKK—-to Michael Steele.
Rather the being defensive, or calling the statement ridiculous, the proper response to this racist bomb throwing should be:
Ahem. Fuck you.
I’ve tried it. It works.
Ys for sale! $200.
There’s a trendy new poat for Roamy to push down hard.
*Kicks cabinet door closed
*Wrestles sticky kitchen drawer
*Stands over percolator with crazy-eyes