Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Sara Bareilles played Mary Magdalene in the live production of Jesus Christ Superstar. She did a nice job. I was trying to figure out why her voice was familiar, and wikipedia was my friend.
I’ve been watching “Returning the Favor” and decided Mike Rowe needed to be here again.
Eric Bana has a new show on Bravo.
Works for me.
Not my usual fare, but I’m not arguing, either.
Needs to smile.
Last, but not least.
Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love, and y’all have a good day.
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Morning
Wakey wakey.
Snowstorm here.
Guess I shouldn’t have said last night that at least we didn’t have it here.
Be careful what you say folks.
We just had a ton of rain in thunderstorm format. I’d have preferred snow.
We had that yesterday. Rained really hard.
We had rain last night. Further north got snow. Listening to the weather there’s a couple of hit or miss storms in the next week or so. Whatever, can’t last that much longer.
I’m off this week but going in today to do a clubfoot cast on a newborn baby girl. Pretty significant clubfoot that I put cast #1 (of 8) last week and because they grow so fast I wanted to do a new one today. Just need to move fast and avoid entrapment with other stuff.
Can’t last that much longer? The next week already looks miserable. Lows in the teens.
We’re getting this weather because you touch yourself.
We’re in the 30s.
I can’t imagine that people would want to live here long term or would move here on purpose.
Its the WORST.
We had snow last year in April, too.
Grand Solar Minimum, folks. Build your greenhouses now.
That’s impossible, leon. I’ve been informed that we are warming at a cataclysmic rate. Please recheck your data.
Hey Hotspur https://tinyurl.com/yarov3x4
As someone who works to explain human processes mathematically, I can tell you with certainty that anyone who claims to have built a regression equation for the earth is crazy.
The claim that Temp= f(co2) is equally nuts.
Where I sit has spent most of the 190,000 years that anatomically modern humans have walked the earth covered by a mile of ice.
I’m comfy suggesting that it will one day again be so.
32 degrees here right now. Not too cold, but we have really strong winds all Spring.
recheck data???
the fuck you say –
he should be immediately incarcerated! how dare he!!! blasphemer
F=ma
S= k log W
snow monday
it was rainy and in the 30’s yesterday.
sprinkling and 50 now – feels like a trocipal heat wave
http://tinyurl.com/aemaq5k
Not sure if it’s safe to have coffee today. I should probably drink something, though.
whiskey
bourbon
No alcohol. No good for healing the socket.
I might need to do another smoothie today.
i should send you some of my hooch
haven’t had anything since before thanksgiving, but it smells pretty good and one of my colleague’s in crime has been drinking it right along – he;s not dead… so
we’ve been “aging” it with toasted oak chips. i’ve had worse rot gut in college.
Sloppy socket
brewing now, jam? Nice!
Isn’t the danger period for drinking home brewed alcohol after the distilling, and wrongly collecting the methanol from that? That’s the part that the hillbillies throw away with each batch.
The fucking ground is white again.
Mother Nature is missing!
yep the heads and tails of the distillation
the head cuts are where the methyl alcohol will be
we’ve been chucking out the first X amount off the column and saving the other cuts that aren’t good. the unwanted cuts can be re-distilled to near absolute and used to make super high proof hooch if ya want
one of these days i’ll take a sampling of cuts into the lab and put them on the gc – gc/ms – just an exercise in curiosity
i made a pumpkin mash that led to a fairly complex distillate –
by complex i mean smelled like ass – it has mellowed with age and re-distillation
No snow here. You should move south, Hotspur.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/04/03/illinois-city-bans-assault-weapons-imposes-fines-up-to-1000-per-day?utm_content=buffer458d8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=theblaze
Date seemed to go well. We had dinner at a messican restaurant which was holy carp expensive (I didn’t realize it until the check came, and I had suggested the place), and then went out for a drink and to play pool, but had to cut the date short when her daughter called wanting to go home from grandma’s house.
Also, apparently the Youtube shooter was a crazed vegan. We need common sense soy control. No one needs that much tofu.
The ban passed unanimously despite “some” opposition by the public. “Some” meaning “over 2:1 against”.
So you didn’t even get to first base?
No. Luckily your mom had a cancellation so she could fit me in afterwards.
But she kicked your ass in pool, right?
We didn’t get to play. Her daughter called wanting to come home from grandma’s house and so we ended the date.
I’m for sensible gun control. Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to own them.
Nettle Beer recipe
What do nettles taste like?
If I was going to make nettle beer, I’d ferment it out completely before bottling, then adding priming sugar to get the carb level where I wanted. Burping bottles is a good way to get exploding bottles, and they really go! I learned this while pasteurizing sweetened beverages. I use a covered canner, and I’ve had 2 go wrong. One bottle exploded (probably a small crack) and one cap let go. Pretty loud!
Alex’s date:
8/10 would smash
Like a weed.
Well, she’s got a kid, so you know she does it.
Yeah, apparently she had the kid at 17, lived on her own and worked to support herself. She asked me if I wanted kids and I told her that I wanted lots of kids, which I think she was taken aback by.
It was probably the word “lots”.
Even I only wanted 2. They were just so cute …
Meh, I’m too old to play stupid games where I pretend not to want what I want. If she’s looking for one more kid and then focus on her career, this isn’t going to work.
OMG. The YouTube shooter’s website is FULL of awesome stuff.
But right in the middle is a tutorial on anal sex.
Holy shit I haven’t laughed this hard in days.
Seriously, it’s like every Leon rant was wrapped into a bundle of crazy and a unibrow and shot up YouTube.
It’s just “lots” is a number open to interpretation. Perhaps start with “several” and then work up to “a baseball team”.
How many do the Mormons shoot for? A dozen?
They just keep going and going.
You mean coming and coming.
Wait, my rants, or the targets thereof?
Targets thereof.
Veganism, anal sex, bizarre religions,… she’s the anti-Leon.
Plus, you know, a complete head of hair.
Ah, okay, I’d heard the vegan part and figured the rest was just a given. Nice to see it confirmed.
Don’t forget that she was a protester for PeTA.
There all kinds of crazy wrapped up in being involved with those freaks.
I had two thoughts when I first heard “Active Shooter at Youtube”, both terrible.
1) Someone’s gettin’ demonetized!
2) Is there a livestream?
CoAlex, your new gravatar is freaky weird….
Teresa, that’s the goal.
PETA protested at Ames when they brought cows with Mad Cow disease to the National Animal Disease lab. Stood by the road throwing hamburger.
Yeah, crazy.
Vegans liked mad cow disease. Cheered it on as the wages of sin against their nonsense cult religion.
Heh, reminds me of Car in’s porch, and the talks we had.
When’s Lapeerpalooza 3, The Quickening?
PeTA has their world HQ about five miles from my house in downtown.
I couldn’t tell you how many times they’ve been busted stealing pets from somebody’s yard, then taking it back to kill it at the office.
Couple years back, they got busted less than an hour south in NC picking up adorable, very adoptable puppies from no-kill shelters in small towns – promising to find good homes.
Before they even got back to Virginia, they had killed the puppies and tossed the corpses into dumpsters at various shopping centers.
Evil evil fuckers, they are.
WTF are they doing that for, chi chi?
My porch is available anytime.
Well not right now. It’s fuckin freezing here.
Because they are evil lying fuckers.
in their eyes, a pet is better off dead than being kept as a companion – servant/slave to those whackos.
Since 1998, PeTA has killed over 85% of the animals it takes in, and adopts out about 7%. Their “shelter” is a shelter like PP is a women’s health clinic.
https://www.petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/
(Scroll down for a quick glance at a chart)
Well, the sun came out, and now all of the snow is gone. Mother Nature is a cunt.
Fucking Westboro Baptist Church crazy right there.
You know how people say it’s hot, but a dry heat so it’s not as bad?
We have a wet cold, that is horrible. The water in the air makes the hot and cold worse.
Speaking of hot, dry heat, where is Mare?
I read the headlines at Real Clear and Hot Air, and it appears that all of the people who were once sort of respectable only seem to talk about things that aren’t true. There is no constitutional crisis coming because Trump is going to be impeached. There is no massive scandal right around the corner.
These people have all lost their minds.
On this day in 1969, two children named Anita & Chris got married. They had no idea what they were doing…
CONGRATULATIONS!
The neocons are presently where the dems were when Bush won: fantasy land (see “The West Wing”).
Thus the labeling of anyone to the right of Bill Kristol as “alt-right”.
Ace and Allah used to be pretty close. Amazing what has transpired at Hot Air.
Wingers sound crazy at Hot Air. Only read Real Clear to see what bullshit polls have sprouted up.
Its sort of weird to see grown ass men struggle with reality. I guess their bullshit flew during Obama but its clear now they have no idea what’s actually going on. My guess is they collect huge paychecks, work for a few hours a week and spend most of their time at leisure.
Next year it will be fifty years, ChrisP. Think you guys can stick it out?
Congratulations on 49.
Guess they’ve made beltway friends, is my thought.
49 years huh, Chrispy?
I hope it works out for you two.
Hot, dry heat.
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Hotspur, I’m actually in the desert. At airport about to leave. Flight delayed, won’t make my connection in Dallas. Booooooooi
Congrats, Chrispy and Anita!! Well done!
– https://tinyurl.com/yanouc4s
Gross.
Congrats to Crispy and Anita! May you have many more years of love together!
Happy Anniversary guys!
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/04/02/heroes-fawn-over-young-obama-dcs-legends-tomorrow
Hap-P anniversary.
https://centuriesofsound.wordpress.com/
If you’re ever bored
Congratulations, ChrisP and Anita!
Good afternoon.
Whose turn is it to search Jay’s ebelskivers for contraband?
you mean æbleskiver?
Today in Gun Control!
I get angry when my battery dies…
Thanks, folks.
We may still be able to make this thing work…
Congrats, Chrisp. Just stick with it a bit longer, it will be ok.
Fuckit.
I have no focus, my memory is crap, I’m running across things I did wrong and can’t figure out why, I look at them and say “there is literally no reason for me to have done that, why did I do that”.
I turned in my resignation at work today because I’ve gotten so crappy. I don’t know it’s accepted yet. I need help, so I’m making appointments with psych/neuro folks to figure this shit out.
I’m tired of stepping on land mines I laid with no memory or reason.
I suck.
Grats to ChrisP and Anita though! Y’all rock!
Congrats ChrisP & Anita!
Cavil, is it to the point that you’re really worried about dementia, or is it just disengagement on the job? Either way, I hope it works out.
BroCav –
maybe consider a sabbatical?
do you live near a superfund site? family history of any early onset dealio’s (not meant to be a joke or snark)
not sure of your age – i’m guessing 50’s so the obvious questions come to the fore quickly…
good luck tho brother
we’ve got something going on here locally with kids developing various types of cancer at a higher than normal rate. Testing has not found a root cause yet. 4 more kids within the last year – 3/4 mile radius ish
Its my professional medical opinion that Brother Cavill should do the following
Start smoking weed
Stop smoking weed
Cut yourself some freaking slack.
47 here. Given how dad’s last years went I worry about dementia, though I have no clue what’s in the DNA there as I’m adopted. Now it could be stress and sleep and health and diet very easily–the history of the past four years would tend to make that a leader–but I’ve always had some issues and have a half-brother who’s autistic, so I want to at least rule out more exotic issues.
And someone who makes $25k/year can’t really do a sabbatical.
Really puts a crimp in the A+/Network+/Security+ plan. Kinda hard to move in that direction when the tools seem to be dulling.
Start farming weed. It’s easy, and if you don’t smoke it you’ll clean up.
It could be stress.
As you age, stress becomes more and more evil.
I quit a job I liked, at the ripe old age of 35, because I thought it was about to kill me.
dr. scott knows shit –
so i’d listen to him
&
his co-pay is reasonable – 1 wheel barrow of mulch hay or a bucket of woodchips per visit
stress is a killer
dr tee-roy’s office policies indicate:
he likes payment in chickens
don’t give him any that you like tho – cuz yannow – assfixiation
I used to really enjoy stress, kinda like a runners high.
*wonders if lauraw survived the search of j’ameszez’ evilskivvies*
I’ve noticed a big problem with short term memory over the last couple of years, I can read a 4 digit number, say it to myself, even write it down and forget it immediately. A lot of my work involves IP addresses and district/store numbers and part numbers and pricing, and I kinda suck at it. It just doesn’t stick. I had a work cell phone number for almost a year before I could recall the number, I never have memorized my desk phone number. I overcompensate by documenting everything in multiple places, which make me slow at my job but very thorough. I turn 51 in a couple of weeks.
Bears purr. I did not know that.
https://is.gd/vbfI5O
I can remember the first phone number I ever had, and everything after is dicey. I’ve forgotten so many bank codes I don’t even use my ATM anymore.
961- 9256- childhood
822-2392-dads house
885-4675- grandmas
727-3747- cottage
And my current phone number. That’s it
Computers and smartphones are making us dumber.
Swear to God I should just try cranking out potboiler novels to publish through Amazon.
Happy anniversary, ChrisP and Anita!
Agree with the idea of stress as a mind killer.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201402/chronic-stress-can-damage-brain-structure-and-connectivity
During my divorce the stress was unbearable. Took a while to work through all that. Very dark time in my life.
Neuropsych eval is a good idea. Stop by the liberry to see if there’s any books on neuroplasticity written for popular consumption.
This is a good one about the effect of stress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Zebras_Don%27t_Get_Ulcers
Every now and then I remember how I knew every short cut in my home town and several surrounding towns. Now my driving is limited to where I need to go. Anywhere different and it’s all GPS. There might be a New England paper map in my truck. Maybe. And if it’s there it’s over 10 years old
BroCavil, how’s your sleep situation?
I have been forcing myself to turn off the GPS from time to time.
You need to exercise that muscle.
Random. I realized this week that in the past four years the limited periods of good sleep stood out. That is what I am told is known in the trades as A Bad Sign.
It’s not just work either. I can’t focus or do as well at things I enjoy and used to be fairly decent at. At first I told myself I’m just getting older and just want social time (I talk to you jackholes more than my flesh and blood friends, which is fuckin’ sad), but I’m starting to think I just can’t wrap my head around some of those old things anymore.
I’m so old that when I was a kid phone numbers were expressed with a prefix. Our number was Empire 3-2445 or EM 3-2445. Or 363-2445. But when you told someone your phone number you said Empire 3-2445. Or Valley 7-8392 (my grandmother’s phone number). Everyone knew just to use the first two letters.
It was cool.
My hometown used JU. Every now and then I’d hear local radio announcing a phone number as JUNIPER so and so.
I can manage for a few days on five hours of sleep or less, but then memory and coordination take a nose dive. I do better with 6.5 hours. I’d work on that – make it the same time to go to bed, no phone, no TV, no lights, temp on the cool side, no alcohol. Wind down half hour to an hour before bedtime with limited blue light (I use f.lux on my computer), a nice shower, then a good book.
F.lux has settings where you can tell it your wake-up time is 6 AM, and it will pop up “You are getting up in 8 hours” at 10 PM. You might find that annoying (I think you can turn that off), but it is very useful for me because I tend to get engrossed in something then be shocked that it’s 12:30 AM, shit, I should’ve gone to bed hours ago.
I have a decent sense of direction, but I have no sense of time.
Happy Anniversary, ChrisP!
I have a good sense of direction, and a good sense of time. But I’m a man, so….
I don’t use GPS much. Nobody can give directions anymore, though. “Just type the address into your phone……” Phone directions often go astray out here.
https://tinyurl.com/yal65utu
Apparently Elon Musk is now sleeping at the gigafactory to ensure that Tesla 3 production gets back on track. Because having the CEO sleep deprived and micromanaging your work is the best solution.
To be fair, people have always sucked at giving directions.
Never ask for directions at a toll booth.
There’s a list of “You might be from Huntsville”, and high on the list is “You can give directions to anywhere in Huntsville solely by Taco Bell locations.”
Jay, they suck at following them, too. I was hosting a dinner for a co-worker and his wife. Gave them the saved map and directions that we’ve used time and again over the last 20 years. He decided that I meant left when I said right turn, ended up doing an hour-and-a-half loop through the county, gave up and went home. Oh well, the house was clean, and I had leftovers.
What can’t it do?
CarIn needs 2.
https://tinyurl.com/yaqyynjj
Just sitting here waiting for all those government officials to realize how hard they’ve made it for themselves to get no-strings-attached booty. Better start liking sex with your wives again. #FUCKSESTA #FUCKFOSTA
— Nikki Irish: Boston 4/3-7 (@Nikki_Irish) March 23, 2018
People don’t want to hear the truth, but I’m sorry it’s all I’ve got
Sometimes I think only you jack holes accept me for who I am.
KMFN. On phone with mom
Friend hurt her knee a few weeks back. Her doc sent her to PT which I thought was weird, but friend said was helping. Ok. A week
Ago she falls at PT with a sub trainer, and is infirm with pain. Crutches. Whole 9 yards. MRI says today torn ACL and bad meniscus tear – which is what I said was probably the issue because she’s had so much pain. She wants to sue the PTB because of her fall which the doc said MAY have caused the tear. I point out no MRI, so you can’t prove when the tear occurred. Plus, if the ACL was torn she could have had an event any time which would cause further damage and thus the only blame should go on the doc who didn’t just order an MRI and sent her to PT.
But what do I know? She’s not talking to me.
At least I have you guys, right?
We’ll always listen to your endless bullshit, Car in. We’re good like that.
James. She’s ignoring me to ask someone else who had ACL surgery 20 years ago.
Ok. Fine. Fuck you.
My son had 2 surgeries in the last 12 months, but what do I know.
I do hold a fucking grudge. Look if you want someone to blow smoke up your ass I’m not your gal.
Ca rin.
I love you so very much.
Attitude…
No one says pissed off people make sense. It’s her loss, not yours.
You got this.
Maybe she’ll come around.
ChrisPy said I should say thank you to y’all.
Mostly I live in the Big Blue Room and Facechimpduche.
I read your comments and it kinda got dusty in here.
So, thank you so very much.
I never expected to live this long let alone be married this long.
Thank you a second time for being his family (and vicariously mine).
Is this a Crossfit friend, Carin?
happy anniversary mostly harmless
it is required Harmless
How many bullwhips?
Jay you are slacking.
Your best beer will atone, or peppers.
Who has two thumbs and is going to a comedy show with the girl he’s bonkers about tomorrow night?
*points thumbs at chest*
This guy.
*does happy dance like a retard*
*wonders why sean is flopping around on the floor*
*sticks a stick in his mouf just in case it’s a seizure*
sounds great sean
who are you going to see?
i think spectrum is fucking with me –
i just spent an hour trying to reset my cable modem
had to reconfig all the wireless shits TWICE
had lights flashing on the damn thing in a manner not dissimilar to the way sean’s hands were flapping around –
nothing
was getting ready to go nite-nite and ….. connection
ah-ite
nitey-nite fer realzy
I think it’s a workshop show–where they go to test out new material. The people mentioned on the bill are Tom Green, Jamie Kennedy, and Dane Cook, none of whom I’m particularly interested in seeing. But she could have said (and, oh yeah, she asked!) “Hey, let’s go see Hitler’s Brain in a Jar, Noam Chomsky, and Kathy Griffin do standup,” and I’d be like, “I’m Johnny on the spot!”
Heh. Sean is funny.
I’m really happy for you, man.
Those three names are probably the first three I would turn down free tickets to, but yeah – for the right girl, ID go watch Rosie O’Donnell roll around in a pigsty for a laugh.
Good for you, Lil Sweet! Let us know how it pans out – you might get 49+ years out of the deal?
I’ve got the derp on a string, sittin’ on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a derp, what a life, I’m in love
That is maybe my favorite song in the world.
I do a pretty decent rendition, myself (in the shower, of course). If I were ever drunk enough in public to sing karaoke, it would be that song.