Good morning, Happy Halloween, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. I could have poated a Halloween song, but I thought, nah, we’ll be inundated enough with “Spooky”, “Monster Mash”, and “Werewolves of London”, let’s go for something different. I found this song from an article about Coral Castle in Florida.
Now for the Halloween hunks.
Birthday boy Dermot Mulroney.
Russell Todd from Friday the 13th.
Travis van Winkle, remake of Friday the 13th.
Ryan Reynolds, Amityville Horror.
Nick Sabile, Bride of Chucky.
Last but not least, Al Santos of Killer Movie.
That oughta do it. Remember, parent tax on the kids’ candy is 10%. Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the links every week, and y’all have a good day.
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i see that car in brought the funny yesterday –
“Comment by Car in on October 30, 2018 7:38 pm
Pupster is a basic bitch. I had my suspicions.”
i raffed
time to getting rolly-polly-ing
Paula dressed up as Batman for her Crossfit class this morning. She wanted to do Pennywise but couldn’t find a red clown wig. Apparently it’s a tradition at her box. I told her next year go for Powergirl.
We had a memo last week about dressing up for Halloween which I didn’t read since there’s NFW I’m wearing a costume. I’ve been giving out kid level comic books for the last couple of weeks. People are funny about the whole candy thing. Everyone wants to sue everyone else. That’s why kids get lousy stickers.
Yesterday I learned that a teal pumpkin means you are handing out alternatives to candy, for those kids that might be allergic to peanuts or gluten.
I usually wear a costume at werk, but this year we were having some vip visitors so the boss said no costumes. VIPs cancelled yesterday and I didn’t get a costume so boring Halloween this year.
I would wear one but I honestly don’t know how my office day will go. The majority of the time everything goes as planned but every now and then I have to deliver bad news. I can’t imagine parents would want to hear their kid needs unexpected surgery or a referral to Boston for a bone tumor from someone dressed as Homer Simpson
Never heard of the Teal Pumpkin dealio Roamy. They need a better publicist.
Friend was showing off her Halloween decorations, and there’s a teal pumpkin with “Ask” carved as the mouth. I think she is handing out glow-in-the-dark necklaces as well as candy.
Mr. RFH had a dental appointment on Halloween once, and the dentist was dressed as Bozo the Clown.
I could dress up, there’s a costume contest at work, but it’s also safety day, and I plan on cleaning up my office.
Hah. Local weatherman having fun with the green screen.
I need a green screen
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37801/brett-kavanaugh-turns-down-over-600k-raised-hank-berrien
Christine Blasey Ford sure as hell didn’t turn down the cool million bucks from her GoFundMe.
wakey wakey
Erin: I thought he was the one!
Mare: Fuck him. Have some wine.
I like mare’s technique.
What does an NPC pumpkin mean?
We dress up at our box too, but for some reason I can usually never make it. I have ethan’s orthopedic appointment today, so it’s not happening. I work tonight. I wonder if they’d let me wear something a little fun.
[narrator chimes in] “they won’t”
I’m dressed up as a grumpy programmer. Boring, but effective.
I’m dressed as a soulless government peon.
Found out today how supportive our local dem congresscritter candidate is of middle class tax cuts and border security.
Yet she can’t name one thing she would differ on with Pelosi and Schumer.
Huh.
Christine Blasey Ford sure as hell didn’t turn down the cool million bucks from her GoFundMe.
Ford has no ethics to contend with, either in her job or her personal life.
She is definitely in favor of veterans, too.
Meanwhile, local news is highlighting multiple companies withdrawing donations from “controversial congressman Steve King” in the ramp up to midterms.
More free campaign ads for the dem.
King’s a well known racist, in case you didn’t know.
She deserves the million.
Her face has melted.
I had to drop off the Venza for brakes/struts this morning, and the wife was still abed and I felt like it was too early to call my dad for a ride, so I walked home. 45 min of “functional fitness”.
I haven’t had candy, donuts, pastries, cookies or anything like that with sugar for months and months.
I haven’t craved it for months either. I do make keto peanut butter cookies with natural peanut butter, erythritol and an egg. If I’m getting fancy I chop up 3 squares of 72% cocoa (Sam’s Choice from Walmart is the best and cheapest) and add a few chopped pieces to the top of each cookie. YES!
Recipe chat room!!
I don’t “do” Halloween these days. SInce my Nixon mask went MIA, anyhow.
I’m gonna be a scary mean hunchbacked nurse for Halloween, same as the other 364 days a year.
I’ve been invited to volunteer at the election as a poll watcher for County Republican Party. Supposed to attend some sort of briefing on Sunday and then be at the poll at 0530 on Tuesday to “watch.”
Cant say Im all that motivated, but it should be a interesting experience and an op to develop a insight on local behaviors.
Maybe it’s too soon to be talking about this, but I can’t help but think about the Pulse nightclub when I read that the people in the synagogue were trapped for over an hour with that nutjob shooting at them. One person carrying could have made such a difference. Now I don’t expect a 90-year-old lady to jump to her self-defense, but crap, I don’t want to be huddled in the dark, waiting to get shot.
Our across the street neighbor has had their Christmas lights on for the last 3 nights now.
For Halloween, I’m going as Hotspur, a middle-aged, curmudgeon who is social but hates people.
Ummmmmm, shoot, I guess that means I’m going as myself again.
Clintbird, stop harshing your neighbor’s mellow.
Hahahahaha, I’m so Hotspur talking in pothead language.
I think I miss Hotspur.
Mare are you cramming down all the candy corn you can find right now?
“I’ve been invited to volunteer at the election as a poll watcher ”
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Maga hat, BDUs and a nightstick!
If Hotspur is middle aged, does that mean he’s going to live to 140?
I just made a mini-loaf of Pupster’s keto bread recipe and have another mini-loaf of another recipe from that website in the oven.
Trying out coconut flour vs almond flour. I must say, this almond flour loaf is light and airy like I was not expecting.
I’m not a fan of how much baking powder is in it. I subbed a homemade mix of baking soda and cream of tartar for most of the commercial baking powder. I don’t like the idea of all that aluminum salts in my food.
The coconut flour recipe uses a lot less baking powder but it will probably be denser, I assume.
is there any less aluminum salt in cream of tartar?
I’m baking sunbutter bread right now. Going to make ham sammiches later.
Shit, is there aluminum in there?! Hold on, I gotta google. I found a baking recipe that was supposed to avoid it.
Nope. No aluminum.
Trying the tortilla recipe next. It would be great to have some keto burritos in the freezer alongside Scott’s regular ones.
Which I also have to make one of these days. It’s been too long since we had a big pile of healthy homemade burritos in the freezer.
Welp, there’s my next day-off project I guess. Chicken this time, we have a ton of giant chicken legs in the freezer. Then I can make stock at the same time.
OK.
https://www.ketoconnect.net/low-carb-tortillas/
I like the video on how to make them, here. Except for the filthy cat on the table, next to the food. Gross. Then she pets the cat, and in the next moment she grabs a tortilla and folds it with her contaminated hands, and eats it.
This thing walks and scratches around in a litter box, and you let it on your table and then you even touch it and without washing your hands you then eat your food. WTF, people.
She’s gonna get the creeping crud.
But anyway, looks like a neat recipe.
I’ve been raping all over Europe. At present I’m raping in Krems, Austria. Tomorrow we rape in Vienna.
Sounds exhausting.
Bring me back a can of those little sausages, please.
I desperately want animals out of the house, but I have to wait until the current group die of natural causes. So unsanitary.
Something about the keto connect kids kept rubbing me the wrong way, so I dropped them from my reads/watches. The cat petting while cooking doesn’t surprise me.
Baking powder has aluminum in it? Hunh (never thought about it)
Is it the California tone of voice? So laid back. So annoying.
Or is it because they are openly cohabitating?
I used to have cats, I get it. But I never let them on my counter. One of my girlfriends got ticked off at me for gently elbowing her cat off the counter when I was cooking at her house one time, lol,
Wonder what the first person who decided to sprinkle aluminum in their bread was thinking?
0430: “I’m going to kill that ruthless bastard with a poison loaf of bread!”
0900: “BEST BREAD EVER!!!!”
What I’ve learned today:
Ohio’s political history is one of dysfunction, back-biting, and corruption, and that’s why its constitution is over ninety pages long.
Hotspur, cram a bunch of Vienna pastries into your pants. Those sound delicious. Not the ones in your pants the ones in the display.
Steven Tyler is crackin’ me up with this self-deprecating shtick.
twitter.com/IamStevenT/status/1056700642041810944
lauraw, there are some great costumes down that Tyler feed.
My two cents, Megha the female half of KetoConnect does a few things that bug me, she chews with her mouth open and talks with food in her mouth. She holds her fork like a person poorly raised (although I don’t know if she was). She uses “like” too often. Way too often. And lastly, she’s young and doesn’t understand this yet, but she will actually stop the flow of conversation to “one-up” Matt. She has to say something like, “I’m the one that said/did/found that.”
They are not married yet, however, they are engaged. Matt is easy going enough to let that slide, but that shit gets old quickly. She is insecure and needs to beat Matt all the time (even in bowling it was a thing). She went to law school in San Francisco and didn’t pass the bar. No big deal but I think that insecurity and insecurity from when she was a chubby kid haunts her. Ergo, the one-upmanship.
Some of their recipes are EXCELLENT. Some are not so great. If you are looking for comparable recipes that I’ve found to be better, Sugarfreelondoner always hits it out of the park.
I shouldn’t say, sugarfreelondoner is better, just a good site to check out.
Ohio’s political history is one of dysfunction, back-biting, and corruption, and that’s why its constitution is over ninety pages long.
And people wonder why we declared war on those guys…
Thanks, Mare! I’ll check that one out too.
Bookmarked. Now to get ready for worky-worky.
Viennarape is sooo sophisticated.
Comment by MJ on October 31, 2018 1:24 pm
Viennarape is sooo sophisticated.
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LOL MJ is such a slob. Like our US gang rapes by Supreme Court Justices aren’t good enough for him.
The weirdest part about that whole thing is the no one on the left ever gets shamed for it.
As in, ‘remember that time you were so worked up in a partisan lather that you thought Bret Kavanaugh was a serial gang rapist that just happened to be a superstar genius his whole life?’
Something I really like about Matt from KetoConnect? He admits to smoking pot every day while in college and afterward. Since he’s started his own business he doesn’t anymore. He also has a healthy, capitalistic attitude that it’s not a zero-sum game. If you’re successful doesn’t mean someone else is not. He talks a lot about working hard and liking keto because he is so productive while in that state.
‘You were convinced that he had cryptic references in his HS yearbook to his serial gang rapes that somehow went unnoticed even though there were hundreds of witnesses.’
As in, ‘remember that time you were so worked up in a partisan lather that you thought Bret Kavanaugh was a serial gang rapist that just happened to be a superstar genius his whole life?’
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Exactly, MJ. They’ll do it again if they need to.
I’m wondering how they will make a complete party girl, slut out of the Catholic, female SC possibility who has 7 children and a couple of them are adopted. And one biological child with special needs. But, hey, she’s obviously the fricken devil.
I love that they think making Kavanaugh admitting to liking beer and partying in high schools was going to be a deal breaking. Effing idiots.
‘You thought someone telling ‘her truth’ was indicative of the actual moral truth.’
‘You desperately wanted more girls to get raped cuz muh abortions. You were actually praying for a net rape increase. Rape + 1 or 2, 3 would have been better.’
And looking at his lovely wife, she’s no arm candy, trophy wife, partner in partying, woman.
But no, they couldn’t add that to the equation of him being a square. They didn’t get we would see him as probably not the serial gang rapist they tried to portray.
Non arm-candy wife who’ll stick by you and raise your kids right is usually pretty giving in the bedroom.
And quantity has a quality all of its own.
I’m wondering how they will make a complete party girl, slut out of the Catholic, female SC possibility who has 7 children and a couple of them are adopted. And one biological child with special needs. But, hey, she’s obviously the fricken devil.
They’ll either paint her as a crazy religious nutjob or find someone to claim an affair.
‘You were convinced that a drinking game was a thinly veiled reference to teenagers participating in threesomes. As if a 17 year old guy was going to show his fuck style in front of a friend with glee rather than crushing insecurity. Two 17 year olds were going to dick joust like porn stars.’
And anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together is not going to side with a woman who couldn’t remember shit and seemed exactly like she was, a silicon valley, leftist, political tool who didn’t seem all that bright and whose high school picture painted a portrait of a “I wanna be popular like the pretty girls” girl.
‘You were convinced that a drinking game was a thinly veiled reference to teenagers participating in threesomes. As if a 17 year old guy was going to show his fuck style in front of a friend with glee rather than crushing insecurity. Two 17 year olds were going to dick joust like porn stars.’
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BWHAHAHAHAHAH. Forgot about that idiocy.
Yes, religious nut is already being bandied about.
Comment by leoncaruthers on October 31, 2018 1:41 pm
Non arm-candy wife who’ll stick by you and raise your kids right is usually pretty giving in the bedroom.
And quantity has a quality all of its own.
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Leon, I’m going to assume you knew the point I was trying to make.
I called her lovely because I think she is. I’ve met a shit ton of successful men who prefer the arm candy to a practical and loving lifetime mate. KAVANAUGH IS NOT LIKE THAT.
Can you imagine when RBG dies?
LOL
It’s gonna be AWESOME
Calling Jimbro – everyone else ignore:
So, the MRI “reader” said it looked like another ACL tear, etc. The orthopedic surgeon says he doesn’t present clinically with any of the signs and thinks the tech is misinterpreting the MRI. He doesn’t see a tear – thinks it’s bla bla bla, I dunno. Plus, there is a little laxity, but not a lot. Both other times he moved his knee and said Yep. It’s torn. This time? He doesn’t think so.
Please clarify.
It’s probably his prostate, Karen.
MJ, when RBG dies (PBUH) the unparalleled crazy will be epic.
I may have to go to DC with a pussy hat to infiltrate the crazy women to experience the highest levels of, “WE’RE OPPRESSED ALTHOUGH WE WENT TO COLLEGES ON DADDY’S DIME AND HE’S ALSO LEAVING ME A FORTUNE WHEN HE FINALLY KICKS IT, I’LL TAKE THE MONEY EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A CAPITALIST PIG AND ROTTEN LIKE THE COLONIALISTS!!”
I want RBG to pass peacefully in her sleep late at night on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. When the left wakes up hungover the next morning after sobbing all night over Trump’s reelection and sees the news…
Yes, I know what you meant, Mare.
When people would say this guy is a good speaker, I would argue…NOPE. And I’m right. Also, is he nuts?
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
I have money on Sotomoyer first.
When Hillary retires…
Who am I kidding? She’ll die (soon) squawking about the glass ceiling.
For Leon
Changed my mind about werk costume, put on OSU gear from head to toes, Buckeye necklace, block O hat, and I tied my OSU Snuggie around my neck like a cape.
Surprise! No one else in the entire office even tried to dress in a costume. Fuck it, I got to wear sweat pants to work and say “Go Bucks” at the beginning and end of every sentence. Worth it.
Pupster dressed as an OSU sophomore?
Thanks Alex, I’m seeing that in a lot of places, nowadays. A veteran I follow on YouTube interviewed another who’d been crippled by PTSD. Dosed carefully a few times, not once since, and he’s functional again. It’s not “getting high”, it’s “hitting reboot”.
Yeah, I’m generally not a fan of drug legalization, and think the medical mj folks are 90% crap, but more and more I think that we should look into DMT/mushrooms/etc. for the treatment of psychological issues.
http://instinctmagazine.com/post/walmart-sells-offensive-tranny-granny-costume
remember the good old days when you could still have fun? and dress up like wiser
It is cold and raining like cats and dogs outside. So this year I am “dressed up” for Halloween as “Fat Lady Sitting in the Recliner in Her Pajamas”. 😈
Crazy would be the day after Trump’s re-election, HRC, RBG, and Sotomoron all keel over at once.
The keening and wailing would be heard echoing through the space between galaxies.
I think the reboot idea is cool and exactly what these things were put on this earth to do.
They’ve been looking into it for depression, too, among other things. Makes me wonder a little about my life choices there.
I don’t get it.
It says “drink more Ovaltine”.
Today sucked. I had a delivery to make in VT.
It took 3 hours to get there and 5 hours to get back.
Comment by Pupster on October 31, 2018 5:59 pm
I don’t get it.
It’s one of the Zodiac Killer’s letters, and the joke on Twitter was that Cruz was the Zodiac Killer.
Comment by scott on October 31, 2018 6:41 pm
Today sucked. I had a delivery to make in VT.
It took 3 hours to get there and 5 hours to get back.
Did you have to fight off any angry lesbians?
Everyone but Carin ignore:
So, the MRI “reader” said it looked like another ACL tear, etc. The orthopedic surgeon says he doesn’t present clinically with any of the signs and thinks the tech is misinterpreting the MRI. He doesn’t see a tear – thinks it’s bla bla bla, I dunno. Plus, there is a little laxity, but not a lot. Both other times he moved his knee and said Yep. It’s torn. This time? He doesn’t think so.
Please clarify.
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Clinical exam is pretty reliable for a cruciate tear, especially for a chronic tear when there’s less pain, swelling and guarding. Surgeons who do ACL repairs examine a shitton of knees and know what a tear feels like. I don’t do ACL repairs but even I don’t get fooled that often by a false negative Anterior Drawer Test or Lachman Test. The Radiologist reading the MRI doesn’t usually do an exam on the patient (I’ve known a few over close to 30 years who actually went out and examined the patient … shocking, I know). The knee is post surgical and there has been 2 repairs IIRC so the graft may look weird on the scan.
So, probably an intact graft. At least functionally which is what matters. You can ask the surgeon to show the MRI to his colleagues to get their opinion. Ask for another Radiologist to look at the scan. If the surgeon suggests a scope to “look around” the knee, at this point I’d ask for a second opinion on whether it’s necessary or not based on the exam and MRI. In other words, if the knee “feels” stable, it probably has a graft in place that’s not torn and doing a scope isn’t really going to advance things in a meaningful way.
Did they comment on the meniscus?
Good twitter thread commenting on church designs.
Turkenshranz!!!
Rub some dirt on it.
Finally home. Ready to go back. MA got her glands expressed, her nails did, and shampoo and blowout. She smells and looks amazing. We took her bandanna off in memorance of Gingy. Gingy hated bandannas.
Aloha Oso
http://digg.com/video/headless-little-girl-halloween?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email&jwsource=cl
Aloha. (I frequently say “hola”to service people. We laugh and laugh!!! ) Quite a few service people at the Hilton from Immaculate Conception. Recognize us from Mass.
Glad you had a good time, oso!
One of our local grocery chains is Schnucks. They’re resetting and bringing in new items. One of them being Culinaria popcorn. Their kettle corn is the shit. Quite addicting.
It was rainy yesterday. Check out was 11. Red eye flight was after 7. We were killing time at a beach park. Lots of locals getting baked. Next time is Big Island and a regular flight cycle. Our flight last night was full of collegiate golf teams. Looked like a bunch of future frat boy Kav rapists. 🤪🤪🤪
Or extremely polite white boys. (stop calling me ma’am)
Schnuks!!! They have a really good deli. Cater to yuppies.
I pulled the trigger on our kitchen cabinets today and during the process I almost lost my shit over a series of ‘errors’, while trying really hard not to (as in I’m trying overall to remain calm like Mr. B. can).
The struggle was real.
Then, when I came home, Mr. B. told me something that happened ‘in the news’ this morning that put my afternoon in perspective. Ask me tomorrow. Thinking about it makes me a little ill.
Beasn equates DIY freakout with something that happened in the news. I am no longer influenced by local news, I assume SJGR for the Beasn.
More goblin activity this year. We’re not handing out candy, so didn’t turn on the front light. Still had three kids come to the door, escorted by 7 adults. Hello adults, you should know the porch light rule. So we turned off all lights but one, in the house.
I like the way the new renters across the street did up their house for Halloween. They’ve got a fire pit going and friends over. Usually don’t see them except coming and going.
Nah, oso, it was something that happened in another state..to someones. Compared to that, my problem was negative miniscule.
Btw, what Novena you doing?
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One year anniversary of houseguest is this weekend.
That was quick.
Wow, that was quick, Scott.
That means a year and a half since Laura graduated?
Hey Jam, a 4th grader from a Rochester school wrote to me, asking questions about space materials. That was the highlight of work today.
Scott, is there any chance of the houseguest moving out in the near future?
Wow. That would be correct, Roamy.
Near future? No.
Elvira is on Storage Wars tonight.
The Mistress of the Dark is 67.
Rosetta quality BBF.
She doesn’t look 67.
Lychee is my favorite. Ordered a lychee shaved ice. It was awesome. Shaved ice guy aske$ me to describe what Lychee tastes like. Me: Lychee? Uncle Shave Ice: If you’ve never tasted Lychee, how do you describe it? Oso: Fresh Lychee has the texture of grapes, but sweeter and with a slight gingery bite back.
We’ve done a fire pit in the front of the house every halloween here in southern canada, this year three other houses on the street followed suit. Good crop of cute and polite kids this year.
Three years now. Long enough I reckon.
Uncle: Li hung mi? Oso: We had those on Taiwan, too. Tastes sour, but tastes like Li hung. (Chinese dried plums in Li hung mi) uncle: describe to a tourist that never had Li hung previously.
Clinical exam is pretty reliable for a cruciate tear, especially for a chronic tear when there’s less pain, swelling and guarding. Surgeons who do ACL repairs examine a shitton of knees and know what a tear feels like. I don’t do ACL repairs but even I don’t get fooled that often by a false negative Anterior Drawer Test or Lachman Test. The Radiologist reading the MRI doesn’t usually do an exam on the patient (I’ve known a few over close to 30 years who actually went out and examined the patient … shocking, I know). The knee is post surgical and there has been 2 repairs IIRC so the graft may look weird on the scan.
>E,?
Thank you so much. That makes sense of what I was told – (how does it not show on the MRI what the doc feels?) He doesn’t think it is meniscus or anything – I suppose through all the “feeling” he did. Ethan has ZERO pain right now, no matter what /how he manipulated it. So, the next step is this guy /pt who specializes in athletes. The tuesday I get back from florida we have the appointment.
Messed up format. Sorry. Long day.
I was busy tonight. The other waitress was “over it” and I had to wait on all the people. Made good money though. Tips were fat. Other waitresses was getting shitty tips, so that bit is on the down-low. First tip was $20 on $47 from an older couple.
Yesterday, Anita had her boyfriend(11) from the church garden, over to help her with yard work. She has been teaching him about growing food( soil amendments, soil PH, nitrogen fixing, drainage, watering, etc…) and he wanted to help her with her yard work in return. She was going to move a few hundred pounds of horse chestnuts, from under the tree, to low spots in the east pasture.
Silas: “You can use your wagon and I will use the tractor.”
Anita: “Okay,” hands him the key.
Silas; Face goes white, eyes get big, “I have a nose bleed!”
And he did…
She fired it up and got it outside, then set him on it and went through making it go forward, backing-up, lifting the brush-hog and working the loader.
He was excited and terrified at the same time.
He had never run a big machine like that, but he wanted to(he’s a little boy, after all).
I think they both had a wonderful day.
Anita was very proud of him, and he had fun.
The horse-chestnuts got moved.
It was a ‘good’ day…
Sounds awesome Chris.
Nothing better than operating machinery when you’re a kid.
G’night guys. I was sleeping so well in Kauai, multiple night terrors. It was funny. Even Dan was screaming in his sleep. I miss my feathered alarm already.
The perfect Mom Meme
Damn!
Satan gave me a taco
And it made me really sick
The chicken was all raw
And the grease was mighty thick
The derp was all rancid
And the beans were so hard
I was getting kinda dizzy
Eatin’ all the lard
Huh.
Overnight, it went from the 40s to now 70°
And I just switched over to long johns, goodies and white Russians for fall/winter…