Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. I enjoyed watching the Olympic trials this past weekend. While the hunks were hunky, the women gymnasts were amazing. Maybe we can hold our own against the Chinese this year.
I remember watching this on MTV and still having a serious crush on my favorite Monkee.
Introducing your Olympic team:
Andrew Campbell – rowing
Ryan Lochte – swimming
Luca Cupido – water polo
Brady Ellison – archery
Jake Dalton – gymnastics
Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Morning. Coffee’s ready.
Today will be meetings all day long. Blah.
I thought my oil change place opened at 7. Got here at 705.
They open at 730.
My credit union opens at 0730 and I need to transfer some $$$. It’s on the ground floor of my office building. Very convenient to bank there.
First in the door, but it’s a dealership attachment. Price is good, but it could be faster.
I strangled a hobo for this?
xbrad is up? WTF?
Oil change was free. Reward credit left over from when I bought tires.
*successkid.png*
heh, love this sidebar story: I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code
Orientation. Wakey Wakey. Bored already.
Yeah, juuuuuust a touch of insomnia this morning.
Also, it’s already 87 outside.
Sitting in an auditorium doing nothinf
I would have loved to be the manager with firing authority presented with a petition helpfully listing the names I needed.
Man, I knew this would happen with the Millenials years ago. Seeing them in action (inaction?) when I went back to school tens years ago told me all I needed to know.
(Yes, I know, not all Millenials. But too many…)
I loved that story too. It is so satisfying. Someone brought out the spiked cluebat instead of administering gently to their illusions (which is what I typically see).
I will say, however, that the vast majority of kids I go to school with are very very nice people and they are willing to work hard. But I think their background and choice of profession has self-selected these characteristics for that group.
Grrrr. I H8 having to get millennials to “Buy in” to every single task. No, it does not have to have “Meaning”. You are getting paid to do it, do it.
Can you explain ‘buy in?’ I didn’t know what you meant last night.
Buy-in = they agree to your task, and have accepted it as something they would do. They have claimed that idea as their own, essentially.
It’s not just millennials that have this affliction.
They think they have to be sold on why to do the task, rather than just fulfilling their end of the bargain “you work, I pay you”.
Fuckers would starve if they couldn’t eat to further some cause, it seems sometimes.
I’m trying to get away from work where I have no ‘buy-in’ other than the money I’m being paid. I’ll keep doing it for the money as long as I need to, and there won’t be any degradation in my performance. Why not? $$. There’s your buy-in, twerp. They bought your time, it’s on you to deliver.
It’d be different if the work suddenly changed to something I couldn’t morally do, like we added slot machines or adware to the cars, but that would just make me quit outright, not slack off.
I’d like to weigh in on millennials.
They are educated, tolerant, want to make a difference rather than money, etc.
It’s all lies and virtue signaling. They simply tell people what they think is virtuous but behave a totally different way.
Yeah, they’ve been patted on the head every time they’ve paid lip service to the Party Line on whatever, and watched peers get the stick whenever they dissented or even mildly grumbled agin’ it.
Ah, so by emphasizing Justice and Fairness and all that stuff throughout their entire lives, enforcing that they pretend ‘everybody won the big game today! Yayy!’ and acting falsely, we have raised a generation of mendacious actors? Who knew?
That run-on sentence has some real problems but I’m leaving it.
MJ is also correct. They act like little Republicans when it comes to their own well being. Make that little Libertarians.
I don’t think they are acting, laura. They truly believe what they are thinking.
The firing might do some of those interns some good, in that they will figure out who is in charge, and how to actually get ahead. The author didn’t quite pick up on that. I know plenty of both types.
Again, most of my ‘peers’ at school have had real jobs throughout high school and college, and haven’t shirked when they’ve had to perform in clinicals.
Which is quite often a literal shitty job. They whip on their gloves and get on with it. Aside from one of the boys, they seem rather eager to prove themselves, and they don’t ask for anything.
This is probably more of a blue-collar upraising phenomenon.
They believe.
There’s almost no humility at all. They feel as though they are here to teach us the right way to live, think, behave, etc.
Sure, they lack experience, wisdom, and knowledge, but these are merely social constructs.
I agree with lauraw. The millennials that have worked or seen hard work seem to behave a little differently.
I guess we can see what happens when the more politically-connected of these shits start to enter positions of real power.
Josh Earnest is what happens when little shits get positions of real power.
They’ll struggle in merit based positions, but excel in positions where sizzle is more important than steak. That’s my guess.
All kids who were raised correctly behave differently.
Also, I’m too lazy to link it, pretend I linked the fart noise gif in the direction of interns who would put together a petition and think anyone gives a shit.
The whole Obama administration is full of dickweeds thinking they are the smartest person they know. Jonathan Gruber, Josh Earnest, that guy who was a limo driver and miraculously became a policy maker/spokesman and had the smooth, hairless balls to say, ” dude, that was like two years ago!”
We have that with interns here, sometimes. They ask why, and the answer is “because”. Some don’t know how to deal with that.
I like it when I explain the because and their eyes glaze over. Completely over their head.
I have a little sign on a table that says, “Because I said so!”
My kids still chuckle over it.
Lord help me if I questioned something my Dad asked me to do.
The whole Obama administration is full of dickweeds thinking they are the smartest person they know. Jonathan Gruber, Josh Earnest, that guy who was a limo driver and miraculously became a policy maker/spokesman and had the smooth, hairless balls to say, ” dude, that was like two years ago!”
Barack Obama himself.
Yeah. Reggie makes him keep hairless down there, I’m sure.
Just an observation, the Tacoma News Tribune put the Turkey terrorist(s) story on page 13.
A comment from this article: Millennials don’t eat cereal because it’s inconvenient (no, not the cooked kind, the pour in a bowl with milk kind)
I’ll admit that I don’t wash out bowls right away. But then again, I’m a bachelor who knows how to load a fucking dishwasher and turn it on before I go to bed.
I’m waiting for Carin to write a gardening post on H2gardentalk.wordpress.com…
**looks at sink full of dirty dishes**
**looks at dishwasher full of clean dishes**
Fuck it. They’re not smelling up the kitchen yet.
Have I mentioned that my purple sage needs a trim.
/gardentalk
Come now, that takes at least 30 seconds out of your day!
Coming now takes way less than thirty seconds.
Not today Lauraw. Maybe tomorrow. Orientation right now
You aren’t doing anything right now, get on it!
Why do you need to be orientated?
Now? I’m told old for that. I can come a little later after I’ve had some time to get warmed up and move around a bit.
Comment by scott on June 29, 2016 12:13 pm
Why do you need to be orientated?
She bought a Subaru? Maybe “orientation” is code for “softball tryouts”.
“softball tryouts” is code for “do you have TMJ or can you do this for a while?”
Have I mentioned that my purple sage needs a trim
*resists mightily*
She’s with her daughter in Detroit (Wayne State). I’m hoping orientation covers cover vs. concealment and appropriate weapon choice.
I’ve heard that topping my basil (what remains of it) will help it spread out and be bushier. Anyone know if that’s true?
Yep. Stimulates branching at the lower leaf nodes.
Right after you do that, apply a little compost with some blood meal or other nitrogen source, and mulch it. Helps stimulate more leafies.
Got it. I’ve got some compost in the tumbler that should be plenty ready.
Anybody else want posting rights over there? I saw Puster’s comment but I didn’t know if he was kidding?
I could poat pictures if you send an invite. I’ve got a volunteer roma growing that’s doing better than a lot of the starts I bought.
OH! I could do before-and-after shots of my trellising.
Will you accept beekeeping posts or is it strictly an herbivore society?
I would LOVE beekeeping posts!
Please tell me what email addy is associated with your wordpress account and I will send the invites.
And I love trellising. Scott also just noticed my volunteer tomato growing by the blueberry bed. He almost weed whacked it. I hate how volunteers grow so much better than the things I plant.
Or, just any email addy that I can send to. I see here you don’t need a wordpress username.
Sent.
Also, I poated again over there.
The roma is practically leaning on two of my basils, but so far they aren’t sad about it, and it’s growing so well I can’t bare to try and move it.
Nope, just brace it in place and trellis it up however you can.
Next week’s garden post I’ll show my tomato trellis system this year. I try something different each year. We’ll see how this one holds up in a storm.
I might cage that one, it’s the only tom in that row.
Love the H2 garden site. I’m just starting…
Going to combine two beds into one big one, set up a potting table, etc.
Thanks for the great visuals.
Mare? http://i.imgur.com/8Ww7KfJ.jpg
Let me know when you’re ready to post pics, MJ!
MJ, that isn’t a 4/20 gardening site, just so you know.
How’s your peppers coming along, Jay? I have a couple jalapenos almost ready to pick. Earliest so far. I think my little greenhouse closet this Spring really helped them out.
I had a bacteria mishap with starting this year, and all mine died. That’s what I get for reusing soil from last year, without sterilizing it.
let them get red, much better!
Heh, just came across a beer recipe that is practically daring me to try it: Three Floyds Zombie Dust Clone
Got the invite lauraw. I bee posting before too long!
Awesome.
Do they get hotter when they get red, Jay? For sure I will let the earliest peppers get mature, but just to save the seeds. I’m getting acclimated to a little heat but don’t actually like super-hot peppers.
I didn’t raise the peppers or toms from seed this year. Got excellent, sturdy little plants from Agway. Couldn’t turn them up, they were too nice.
Laura,
To add to the garden talk, I have squirrels taking bites out of my ripening tomatoes. Any suggestions, besides pellet guns, for keeping them off? Will garden netting each mater work?
I don’t think they get hotter, the taste is actually better. Maybe a little hotter, but the overall flavor is much better. Like the difference between a vine ripened tomato and one that you ripen from green with an apple.
Tomswifty, netting/ caging seems to be the only thing that does work. I’ve only had squirrels attack my toms a couple times. Once it was a couple of baby squirrels and I swear it just looked like they were just having fun tearing around in the tomatoes. They stopped coming back after I charged them a few times.
Before that, a squirrel was eating toms at my Mom’s garden. It was during a prolonged drought when the creek in her woods went dry. I put out a pan of water and it stopped eating the tomatoes. It could have been a coincidence, who knows.
My apologies to the nongardeners who are surely watching youtube videos on how to tie a proper noose.
Oh, God. They’re all dead.
WHAT HAVE I DONE
I was wasting time before going back out into the pond to fight more phragmites. Gotta clear out the ones under the dead pine so I don’t set it ablaze by mistake.
Don’t fight them before the flamethrower is done.
No offer yet. Had my 6mo review of plans for this year. Sounds like there’s a risk of me having underlings and being in charge of something if nothing changes. Then I’m pretty much stuck for life.
Jay, this is just preventative phighting to make sure I don’t burn down a tree. I’m planning a Home Depot trip tomorrow to find some more FT parts.
Gotta clear out the ones under the dead pine so I don’t set it ablaze by mistake.
Yeah, you want to set that suck ablaze deliberately.
Exactly.
Thanks, Laura. We have a bird bath near the tomatoes, which we keep filled, so probably not moisture they are after.
Awesome HHD mens, Roamy!
*pushes Amazon Dash Buttons for 17 poolmen and the fresh peach daiquiri machine*
Cyn!
She lives!
I had some food poisoning for the past two days that truly fucked me up. But I’ve put some things in motion that mean I won’t have to work for 12 hours a day, 11 days every week.
Mostly, yeah 🙂
About six weeks ago, I thwacked my left foot, third toe in, on a door frame. I was finally able to get to see a foot doc yesterday after it was still not feeling like it was healing and giving me constant nagging pissed-off-type-pain. Ruptured joint capsule. The fix (well we’re hoping this will work) is taping the bad toe to a good-and-straight toe. Fingers crossed, no surgery will be needed.
Ruptured Joint Capsule – worst band name ever.
Boo for food poisioning, Yay for motiony things!
I stubbed my little toe on my left foot on the boat once when we were anchored out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Tore a huge gash in the part between it and the next toe. All I could do was tape them together and hobble around the deck. Resolved to not go barefoot on the boat again.
Barefoot was my sin too. And you think I’da learnt my lesson on that after stepping on a scorpion a few years ago. *smacks forehead*
I feel a need to apologize to you good people. I might have said this already, but I’m coming up on my 1 year anniversary as a pig farmer. My roommate said when I told him, “You’re kinda tough. I don’t think I could do that for a year. But don’t you want some friends or something?”
I do want some friends or something, and I’ve neglected you who have cared for me. I’m sorry.
I was all toe up.
You’re the best pig farmer I know, Jewstin.
Bad Pun! Bad Hotspur!
*books flight to kill sometime this weekend*
I’m gonna garden poat tomorrowish
Attaboy Jewstin.
Squishy hugs, Jewstin.
I was in a two-hour meeting today with a guy who sounded like a Bond villain.
Jewstin – glad to see you back.
Cyn, what the Hell?!? Quite the run of luck lately.
I hope you’re feeling better real soon, sweetheart!
And Jewstin’s too skinny for food poisoning. He must not be big enough to throw a shadow now.
And Teresa, stay out of the hospital for ten damn days willya??
Sheesh, people. Cut the crap.
You’re still ok in my book, jewstin.
After a shower, of course.
Your mom is like a little toe, somebody’s gonna bang her on the end table tonight…
After a showser? I used to likd you.
What was the food that poisoned you, Jew?
I think it was a chicken wiener I ate at the gas station for breakfast. I probably should have gone with the sushi. But it was bad. Yesterday I was dripping wet with sweat and shivering cold at the same time.
I felt better today without the fever and the barfing, except I was weak as a kitten andf my bones hurt.
Never eat gas station chicken. Stick to the Combos.
And never go barefoot on the boat.
For Fuck’s sake. Gas stations are supposed to exemplify the highest standards of culinary safety. This is frankly shocking.
The only safe things to buy at a gas station are in sealed cans and bottles and in envelopes with “Jack Links” on the label.
I ate your moms at a gas station, and I felt fine the next day.
Well, except for the burning sensation.
I plucked all the phragmites around the dead pine, should be safe to throw flame there now. Picked about a cup of black raspberries and watered the main garden. Now, dinner.
Jewstin, did you even watch The Simpsons? Kwik E Mart food is never good. Cyn!!!!
Lauraw, today was a no H2 wifi day at work. The guys answered Buy In for me. Dan knows to go to Ace.mu.nu at Sam’s to get faster wifi. at&t blocks ace and sometimes H2.
[CynEdit: freed you from teh bucket; you may have to keep an eye on this happening and maybe use full sentences for a while, yeah I know, sorry.]
Everybody eats at Cum and Go, yeah? Mayb not?
Jew, I saw them in Arkansas. We don’t have them or Wawa’s in NM. You can get an Allsup’s death burrito here.
We barely have 7-11s here. I feel blessed.
Bed time.
Cum and Go normally gets 5 stars.
I am shocked.
Phragmites sound biblical. You should “smite” them.
Allsups burritos and chimis. AKA gut bombs at 2 am got many a drunk kid through College. Myself included.
Ugh, a friend of facedouche is starting in on the Trump is Hitler crap.
I don’t eat at Allsup’s. Vaughn for death burritos, no bathrooms for miles. And miles. My brother couldn’t get his kids to eat anything at the Vaughn stop. He tried to explain the tradition to them, but they didn’t buy in 😂👊🏻😘
I had some free time today. Read a few chapters of the Crisis of Character book. Even if Trump is Hitler, he isn’t, he’s still better than Soros backed and funded, HRC. She is beyond vile.
Oh God. So he posted some article from huffpo about Trump being accused of child rape by an anonymous woman. When people brought up Bill Clinton and Juanita Brodrick, he responded with a quote about how Brodrick had been cheating on her husband at the time and that it called her character into question.
So apparently it’s ok to bring up a woman’s sexual history if she’s accusing a Democrat of rape.
CYN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reading the news:
Is this real life?
No, it’s just fantasy.
My fantasies involve a lot of freaky shit (like, well, Mare) but not HRC or Trump.
Freaky but wonderful.
Mare is in our neighborhood, yet she has not offered to buy BiW and myself a beer at “Engine House #9”.
She is here and will not meet with us.
WTF, Mare?
You said that you would hook-up with us here, but you lied!?!?
Relax, Chrispy, Mare’s just MJ’s sock puppet, and meeting him was nice, but no big deal.
My fantasies don’t involve celebrities. Well…..except for pee wee Herman.
CoAl, you can’t have reasoned conversations with Clintonistas. They are as vile as the duo they protect at all costs.
ChrisP can you meet at engine house 9 tomorrow?
You, Anita and BiW??
Where is everyone??
Chrispy, you need to reply!!!!!!!!!
Chrispy, mare@awesome President.com let me know. I’d LOVE to meet you tomorrow.
I leave the next day.
Oops, I leave 2 days later.
If not for you
Babe, I couldn’t even find the door
I couldn’t even see the floor
I’d be derp and blue, if not for you
Woke up at 5. Put laundry in dryer. Off to work.
Morning. Who wants a chicken wiener from the gas station?