So there’s a chance of a job in South Bend, Potential Future Bossman is coming up to teach a class and have lunch with me next week, and the company that owns the building my previous company used to own but I got kicked out of when the new company bought it might want to employ me after all.
I thought about how I’d say that sentence in Spanish and then got a headache so I stopped.
Anyhow, there’s an ever-increasing chance of me escaping the auto industry. Unfortunately, I’ve now been there so long that I’m going to feel a not-insignificant amount of guilt in leaving. I don’t think it will have an extreme impact on the project in any event, but it’s possible I’ll leave some hurt feelings in my wake. I still have no passion for the program (and occasional bouts of outright antipathy), so it’s still the right thing to do.
Weather’s good, Tri-Adventure Race is behind me, multiple tiny slivers hope for the future whether it means a move or not. Glass status: half full.
Tasteful B&W.
I have no idea what this exercise is called. Roman chair?
Snatch?
What the heck is that on her ribs?
Hat.
It’s weird that that’s just a regular bra. Gives the photo a weird vibe.
Sunset.
I’m willing to bet that there’s at least one guy who wants her number and she wishes he would.
Navel jewels.
Summer sports.
I realized that it’s entirely possible that either (A) I’m finally getting past this year’s SAD season or (2) I’m finally getting into a rhythm with the new job that I still don’t like but have taught myself to tolerate. Either way, I feel better.
Now go Make Monday Great Again!
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The rib thing has to be a tattoo.
Glad you’re feeling better, Leon.
I got back from a weekend in Maine last night. I had fun but can’t really say I got to really relax or enjoy the setting much.
Worst of all, I left my phone behind in the hostess’ car. So if she is a snooper she might have read my text to Scott about how I won’t be going back on any trips with her again. Just a dreadful feeling.
Guess I’ll find out today when I go pick it up.
Here’s hoping the job stuff works out for you Leon. I’ve been blessed with finding the right place with the right partners doing what I love. There have been a few road bumps along the way in my personal and professional life but for the most part I cannot complain.
Your situation now makes me think of my first year in practice in St. Louis. They had been recruiting for a long time and they were happy to get me. I was not as busy as I wanted to be at that point in my career and spent hours hanging around the lounge. After 8 months I started looking for a new job and landed here.
It would never even occur to me to probe someone’s lost phone unless I didn’t know who’d left it in my car.
“I’m willing to bet that there’s at least one guy who wants her number and she wishes he would”
Way too many pronouns….gender confusion!
I keep a pass code/lock code on my phone since it has some work data on it not to mention financial data, etc.
Her shirt says “never give up”, I just crafted a probable narrative.
I know we’re supposed to assume the least-likely narrative of maximal depravity and sociosexual dysphoria, but I’m not down with it.
I haven’t put a lock on mine because I want to be able to unlock it quickly in the car. It’s either in my hand or in my pocket, so I haven’t really felt it necessary. The only work app I have generates RSA codes, and that needs a password.
I drive past 4 schools and 2 police stations on the way to and from work. If I need the phone to answer a text I pull over or use my ear piece if I’m expecting a call.
Time to make that drive right about now…
One thing the iPhone 6 does well is the fingerprint reader unlock function. I have a code, but I can also rest my thumb on the button and it unlocks after a second.
Morning!
>>One thing the iPhone 6 does well is the fingerprint reader unlock function. I have a code, but I can also rest my thumb on the button and it unlocks after a second.
I lived 40 years without that thumb scan feature. I can’t live next 40 without it
wakey wakey.
You lived 30 years w/o a cell phone Tushar, yet you have one of those now.
I like to make calls during the commute to save time, so it’s handy to unlock with a swipe and jump into my contact list.
Just so you guys aren’t all waiting /expecting – I’m going to give the squatty potty a week for a full review.
STAY TUNED.
The main thing was not the hostess herself- I like her a lot- it was her sister. Sis is also a very nice lady. But everything reminds her of a long story, and she has no ability to stop talking. An exacerbating factor is that she ignores any of the normal cues that signal someone else entering the conversation, or wanting to respond to something she said.
During the first and second days I tried to right my mind about her and hold up my end of a conversation. But she is an absolute monologue steamroller. I was frustrated by not being able to talk, and by not being able to make her stop. So then I mainly tried to get away from her- but this created conflict within myself because 1) it’s rude, and 2) that meant that I was pawning her off on the fourth member of our party, who was having the same hard time with her.
After the first day, my nerves were shot. It was like rooming with a cement mixer. Beautiful setting right on a lake full of natural beauty, but very little peace.
My hostess thinks her sister’s motormouth is funny- but she’s used to it. For myself and the other member of our party, it was Hell. On the third day we would only make brief phrases to each other and then deny having spoken when sis said ‘what?’, because any actual speech between us would provoke another jump-in monologue from her. Painful.
Carin, I said I “can’t” live without it. That thumb scanner makes your phone more secure and yet a breeze to unlock.
I doubt FBI would be willing to pay a million to some Israeli hacker to see what freaky videos I have lurking on my phone.
Sorry Tushar. I misunderstanded. In my defense, I’m out of coffee.
Since Leon is somewhat optimistic today, I’ll be the downer.
I am SO pissed that my manager has decided I can work EVERY fucking hour the restaurant is open next weekend. I offered to work the holiday (Monday) but that doesn’t NOT effen mean I’ll work friday night, then three doubles.
I really should not have had to tell her that. Honestly. Ga. This job sucks. I basically hate everyone today.
Sucks being the go-to, Car in. At least you’re needed, and wanted. Paid for it is another matter.
I get that crap duty too. Since I don’t have kids, I get the calls at night, and the weekend fixes. Maybe it’s just because I answer my phone, and no one else does.
Hmmm.
Wish everyone a magical day.
Star Trek: Beyond
Written by Simon Pegg. This could be interesting.
I think I will scott.
I’m really really pissed. We had a sign up for holiday. THE HOLIDAY. Not THE WEEKEND.
I wanted mother’s day and father’s day off – which plenty of folks want those days. ( I think the money sucks). I actually WORKED the rest of the weekend, and didn’t really take a day off – it was my “sunday” off anyway.
That’s bullshit, Carin. You’ll be dead on your feet before Monday’s shift.
That’s why she does Zumba. Training for work.
Infantrymen have a less strenuous weekend.
Infantrymen aren’t almost 50.
By SUnday night I’m usually in a IDGAF mode already. Insult the regulars, etc. Monday could be epic.
Last sat/sun double shift (a week ago) on Sunday night – I had a bar full including this guy Rick (who is there EVERY FUCKING NIGHT) and this other couple who I like. Anyway – they’re leaving and thanking me for the conversation and service (etc) and I say “It was great talking to you guys too, no problem” and “Rick ” says –
“You never say that to me!”
To which I responded/ deadpan “Weird”.
entire bar erupted in laughter.
Hopefully the Star Trek movie will be good, J’Ames. I really like the last two movies, great casting.
I liked them too, Pepe. The role reversal in the last one from Star Trek 2 and 3 was pretty inventive. JJ knows a good action flick.
Bradley smoker did the brisket to perfection. Had friends for dinner, and they declared it was the best brisket they had ever had. That may be hyperbole, but I have found that you cannot get brisket in any restaurant (I’ve tried) that will beat what you can do yourself.
I stopped ordering brisket in restaurants. Always dry, even at places that supposedly do it right.
This brisket was so tender and juicy. I used hickory for the smoke, but will try mesquite next time.
Let me know if you want some choke cherry logs.
There’s a place in DSM that has excellent brisket, Smoky D’s. A little less smoke than I like, but theirs is definitely acceptable. Their burnt ends are awesome.
I’ve noticed that fruit woods can’t add a lot of smoke to beef. Beef is too powerful a flavor. You need the hickory or mesquite.
Fruit woods are great for chicken and pork.
Some people don’t like the taste of mesquite, either. It’s different. I like it, just like hickory better.
We used some of this for the hog roast last year and I could taste/smell it in the meat. Was nice.
Thanks, Leon, but this smoker does not use wood. It uses these little pucks that come in various species.
Can you use pellets, like the pellet smokers, HS?
Little puckers.
This smoker is specifically designed to use the pucks. Pellets wouldn’t work.
Smoking is the new bread at this hear blog.
Good luck if you live in Baltimore.
Potential Future Bossman lives in MD. I really hope he doesn’t have to go through Baltimore’s airport to come up here next week.
I’ll stick with the old bread, thanks.
Great bread demands great yeast.
Great yeast is why I didn’t bang your mom last week.
I have about 100 eggs
I was waaaaay off. Only 94.
Don’t let Sean know that, Car in :)
I thought they only came in intervals of 12
I have no eggs. I have no birds, either. Might still get some, might not.
Now when I was just a little boy standin’ to my Daddy’s knee
My Poppa said son don’t let the man get you do what he done to me
Not really, but I wish he had.
Reading is fundamental. Gah> Trump supporters are so fucking stupid I really don’t know how I’m supposed to “get behind” him.
Here’s an idea – tell the stupid people in your movement to shut the hell up
I could get behind Trump…
…with a red-hot poker to shove up his ass.
Nice thing about electric smokers, very little airflow.
I would order a lifetime supply of pucks.
They are going to jack up the prices eventually.
Our old Mosquito Magnet required nets, that should have cost about 50 cents each. Nope. They were the only source and the prices doubled every year.
Don’t ask for one from Scott.
He doesn’t have a puck to give.
zero pucks to give
I bet there’s a redneck puck technique out there if you look hard enough.
redneck puck technique?? Not to be attempted without first consuming a 12 pack of Budweiser and half a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Make your own!
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/161434/an-idea-for-making-bisquettes-for-bradley-smokers
Your mother offers the cheapest pucks in town.
Kinda pissed at myself. I should have saved the yeast from my latest batch of Weissebier. I meant to, and I didn’t.
Don’t get me started on toner cartridges.
When I got the Happy Birthday call from Goofy at WDW, he told me to “Have a Magical Day”. 😂😂😂
Rush won’t endorse Trump, huh? Little too late there, big guy. You had your chance. Playing both sides of the fence sucks, doesn’t it?
WHERE’S MY YEAST????
Oldie but goodie
http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6773579/sibling-treaty
We were walking next to a farm today when something
resembling a dump truck drove onto a freshly plowed field.
Then this happened https://is.gd/2jllY1
We were very lucky to be upwind.
Greetings, Tuck, Pole, Trickle, and other assorted Dicks.
That was an annual practice on my dads farm when I was growing up. The common name for those trucks is “manure spreader”. My older brother rechristened them “shit fliers”, the summer I was about 10. that was the funniest thing I heard that summer.
That’s the cloudiest shit I ever seen. Sure that wasn’t powdered fertilizer being spread?
Maybe it was farting.
We were guessing powdered lime.
Don’t put down lime in west Texas that I know of. Never seen dry fertilizer dust up that bad.
I googled ‘applying powdered lime’ and found similar photos. Makes sense, they wouldn’t fertilize here. The whole area gets flooded every spring and a new layer of fish poo, river mud, and dead carp gets deposited.
Spring sounds like a truly magical time of year there.
It smells like clam dip in here.
Clam dip and fail.
*suddenly staples Sean’s pants to a mountain lion*
*watches as he’s extravagantly mauled*
*Sighs happily*
Sometimes I wonder if life is worth living, but then, there’s precious moments like this to renew my joie de vivre.
It smells like clam dip in here.
You need to wash your moustache.
So do you.
Happy to heeeeeeeelp
*slow clap*
Touché.
I look forward to our next meetup.
It’s probably fish sticks.
Howdy.
I spent half the day wondering how my utility blade kept stabbing me in the ass when the blade was retracted. It turns out the blade was innocent. It was actually the slightly used syringe I had stuffed in my back pocket.
MOOOOOOM!!!! JEWSTIN IS BEING A JUNKIE!!!!!
My drug of choice:
http://tinyurl.com/zlc5rks
I know it seems glamorous and fun right now, Jew, but when it kills off all your gut flora and you start to pick up drug-resistant bugs, you’re gonna be in a world of hurt. But we’ll be here, ready to love you until you can love yourself.
Cause its always a good idea to put syringes in your back pocket.
Ever thought about repurposing a toothbrush travel case as a syringe case?
A good idea I had another day was to put used needles in my front pocket while vaccinating. I nearly stabbed my junk. Then it occurred to me that I probably shouldn’t do that.
How soon does Jewstin start the zombie H2N1 swineflupocalypse?
Could it please be before November?
I look forward to our next meet up.
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Awwww. That’s so sweet.
*pays up life insurance
Safety first, Jewstin. Needles should be facing up when you put syringes in your pockets.
hey all, just gonna drop this here for everyone to enjoy. see if you guys have the same reaction I did – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9q2lOZ1Fw
Game of Thrones kind of sucks right now.
Discuss.
I’ll try my best Leon. This morning my pet sow, Bort, licked my eyeball. She might have infected me.
When I was a resident there was an old timer Rheumatologist who went around the hospital with a shirt pocket full of syringes loaded with corticosteroids. When he saw a patient he thought needed an injection (i.e.: everyone) he’d grab an alcohol wipe and wipe the skin, grab a needle out of his pocket, clench the cap in his teeth to withdraw the needle and then poke the injection site. He recapped the needle using the swab hand not his teeth.
Game of Thrones kind of sucks right now.
Discuss.
Disagree. I like the story so far this season. Also, the actress playing the actress playing Sansa has nice tits.
I was helping ship cattle once. One guy was making fun of a couple of guys because they were a little chubby. Chubby guy walked past and stabbed him right in the ass with a 16 gauge vaccination needle. Shut him right up.
Game of Thrones kind of sucks right now.
Discuss.
I know, right? They’re not killing off nearly enough of the fans’ favorite characters.
The boy had a couple of friends over helping move some cattle to another pasture. Our psychotic dog went with them to “help”. It was hilarious, one of his friends is used to having well trained cow dogs. He’d give the dog the proper commands and she’d do the exact opposite of what he wanted. He kept getting really frustrated. My kid was cracking up because the dog is deaf and a total asshole anyway. She never cared what you told her, always did whatever she wanted, never wanted to be petted, just chase cattle.
I tried watching Game of Thrones, but they made most of the characters gay. It was really weird. At least once they finish the series I can find out how the books were supposed to end since Martin is too lazy to finish them.
When I got a steroid injection the nurse had to go find a baby needle because I’m so damn scrawny. The needles I use at work are 18 gauge.
My cow dog is reduced to heeling the vacuum cleaner and, in the winter, snow shovels.
Bubba was a vacuum killer.
Our cattle dog kept trying to herd cars. Eventually he lost.
He is so funny with the whole crazy eyes and scary teeth, weaving back and forth and then lunging at the machine to lift it off the floor. It drives Paula crazy but I’m greatly entertained by the whole scene.
Luckily he’s not a car chaser. He gets nervous near the busy road and keeps to the inside of the road away from traffic. Kitty cats are a whole other story.
I’m glad you all agree. GoT sucks.
Never seen it.
Once again MJ is wrong. You must be getting used to it.
I liked what I saw of Game of Thrones, but that’s only a handful of episodes from the first season.
Of course MJ is always wrong. He’s married.
The whole Fantasy genre has just never really held my interest. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen any of the Conan movies.
I’m at my sisters house and she’s a game of thrones fan. I watched it with her and bil last night. Don’t understand enough of the storyline to be entertained. One of the chicks had a nice rack though. Then they went and showed some fags junk up close. I can get that shit every Monday here.
Everyone dies Shawn. Everyone.
Even the dog.
Never seen GoT, never read it. Won’t.
It’s probably like Facebook, but gayer.
Whew. No more needle talk.
Tried to watch GoT. We’ll probably try again after we finish SOA.
We don’t have Starz this year. I KNOW!!!! I can get the app for my phone/iPad for $8.99 a mo. Can’t add it to our Gen3 Apple TV. Me to Dan: I should just buy Black Sails and Outlander on DVD. I don’t need Blu-ray and it would be cheaper than the Starz app. Dan: I don’t watch that gay shit, how is it cheaper if I have no intention of watching or buying? FIN.
I don’t know what that means.
I’m done reading fantasy. It all sucks.
I’m sticking to Judy Blume.
https://is.gd/33tDU8
I watch 2 shows on Starz. We had a cable package at a low rate that included Starz. It ended. I still want to watch my shows. They have teh ghey. Dan is being cheap. We are binge watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix. Almost finished. Need more shows to binge.
I hope you all had a magical day.
I’m about to blow up on a mail-order gardening company.
It was an emotional roller-coaster.
I watch GoT. I read the books. I stuck with Wheel of Time for damn near twenty years until it finished. I will not be watching the TV series.
I don’t pay for HBO, I just watch clips on YouTube. I do pay for Showtime on Hulu so I can watch Shameless and Penny Dreadful.
Moose has gas. I need one more glass of vino.
Car in, have you used, “Kitchen is closed. Moose out front should have told you.” on your kids yet?
Something similar, CoAl. That’s one of my favorite parts of the movie.
What movie?
Debbie Does Wally World
Natl Lampoon’s Vacation
The one about a family man who kills a dog, drives cross country with an old woman’s corpse in his car, and then terrorizes an amusement park worker with a gun.
My mom: Dr won’t do valve replacement until she loses weight, gets her sugar and her blood pressure under control. Next appt in 3 months.
MiL: No PT progress. Insurance will stop rehab coverage in 4 days. So far, Dan has been unable to find her an available bed at a full-care facility. RN from the Woodmark will be visiting her tomorrow to see if we can get her back in the Woodmark. She’s paid up through June there.
We have Marty Moose eggnog mugs.
I’ve seen it, but it’s been 25 years.
So I actually had a pretty good day at work today. I hate when that happens. Makes me conflicted. Having lunch with the former coworkers from my former building tomorrow. Lunch with Potential Future Bossman next Wednesday. No word from South Bend.
Shouldn’t you be in bed, Leon?
Yes, I should be, chatting with wife.
So I actually had a pretty good day at work today. I hate when that happens. Makes me conflicted.
emo leon is emo.
*cries in hoodie*
I’m really just a permanent malcontent who shouldn’t be indulged.
BED TIME
G’night. Early day tomorrow. New release Tuesday.
Every day I write the book.
Hi, Sean.
My derp is old, it holds my memories, my body burns a gemlike flame
Somewhere between the soul and soft machine, is where I find myself again
Hey Chumpo. Looks like I missed you. Hope all is well. Write if you find work.