Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Carin might like this song, it makes me think of Shinedown.
Now for the hunks. Blake Shelton.
Couple more shower pics.
A not gay shower pic. Astronaut Jack Lousma. (He was here last week for the 45th anniversary of Skylab.)
We watched “Roxanne” with Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, and this guy.
Still hunky.
Must be a meme going.
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eddie was 28 and portia was 48…..
chicks and their re invigoration.
that chick is quite fetching roamy
sorry to hear about your cat TeeRoy
mrs jam and i are saying no more pets after our current dog –
it’ll be weird.
we’ve had dogs in the houses for pushing 30 years.
we had a whole boat load at one point. we’ve been running optimally at 2 for years. my daughter’s pup passed in the fall and he wasn’t replaced; the house still seems a little empty.
not sure how it’s gonna be when this muttt (oscar) goes.
we’re dog peeps
weird-puss is misbehaving – keeps kicking me out
curious:
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Frank In Stein
Paula keeps saying no replacement pup after Star crosses the bridge. I just tell her Rowan will be awfully lonely. Every now and then she’ll text me a cute dog from the ACD rescue page. I’ll wear her down.
Still snowing here, supposed to lighten up later this morning. Office begins at 1300. Hoping the powers that be recognize the ridiculousness of that and just cancel the whole day.
If I get my way, the house will be pet free in about 10 years. We have giant, expensive outdoor pets, and the hairball in the new place are killing me.
We’re at the oral surgeon so Possum can get a couple of badly decayed incisors out. This will not be an easy day.
Happy birthday, BroCavil.
Hope all goes well with Possum today, Leon. Wow, she’s young for dental issues.
Troy, I think your kitty’s death went as well as it could.
((((hugs))))
Her front two teeth had cavities shortly after she turned two. No idea why. We always brushed, we didn’t overdo candy, but they kept getting worse. One of them already broke off at the gum, and extraction is the best way to protect the growing adult teeth from infection.
Bought a collection of crime fiction short stories based on Sunday book thread recommendations. Other than the one Sarah Hoyt story, it stinks. One story had a campy Batman ending with our heroes tied to chairs, the villain pulls a lever, and they get dumped down a chute to an arena with a vampire to fight in front of a cheering audience. All it needed was “Pow!” and “Bam!” I have five more short stories to read, and I’m skeptical they are going to be worth my time.
I’ve never heard of non permanent teeth needing such surgery. Poor little possum.
You see that sometimes in kids who went to sleep with a bottle or drank a lot of soda, and I know you didn’t do either of those.
A book I bought at Sam’s club, The Terminal List by Jack Carr was very satisfying and a quick read. Everyone who needed killing got killed. And there is a character very much like Hillary in it.
That’s what I thought too, Roamy.
Ethan has bad teeth- always has. Erin had to have four (front) teeth removed because she fell* and hit them all. Four top front.
wakey wakey
*the kids were actually playing something called “the tripping game”
I’ve been following Dr. Alvin Danenberg on improving gut health and dental health, and I’m hoping the changes will help. I quit using mouthwash, and I’m taking vitamin D and K supplements. If nothing else, I have had a LOT fewer colds this winter, knock on wood.
Mega doses of vitamin C (to stomach tolerance) nipped a cold in the bud for my sister and me. Threw in some Elderberry tablets too.
Does she fall asleep nursing?
I like some Pop Evil – A Crime to Remember. A few others.
Is it Brother Cavil’s birthday??? Happy birthday,Brother!!!
I went the old fashioned way and had my front tooth knocked out at a church picnic by a teeter totter. 2 weeks after my braces came off. Lost the tooth in the car, but it’s ok, because it fell into a puddle of nasty water under the seat, keeping it wet. Dentist put it back in, after he got back from vacation on a horse ranch (can still smell the manure while he worked). Wired it in, easy peasy! Stayed there for 20 years until it popped out while eating corn on the cob the friday before Father’s day, and my new dentist was on vacation! Yay, 3 days without a tooth!
$20 was spent on Easy Mac and soup, which is everything I could eat until the bridge was put in.
She used to fall asleep nursing, but that stopped the moment we saw any sign of decay.
The procedure went well, but they made my wife pay after sedation and before the surgery. Bitch behind the counter threatened to interrupt the doctor. There will be formal complaints made to whoever we can. Doc assured us that he never would have stopped and apologized for the staff, but we are both livid.
WTF is that, leon?
That’s some bullshit, Leon.
I’ve had oral surgeons demand payment before the service. Ethan had a root canal, and they were pretty… adamant.
I guess it’s partly because it’s not as if you go seethe oral surgeon very often …
Pupper arrives on friday. She is 10 weeks, named Rosemary. Adorable.
A lot of people who don’t pay?
Is there some legal reason that the can’t ask for payment up front, so they wait until technically the procedure has already begun?
Maybe she’s just an infected cunt.
Comment by Car in on February 13, 2019 9:11 am
Pupper arrives on friday. She is 10 weeks, named Rosemary. Adorable.
Car in: “I’m so excited that we’re getting another puppy!”
Pay: “You mean fostering a puppy.”
Car in: “I’m so excited that you think we’re fostering a puppy!”
LOL. We’re puppy babysitting, so I think they’re going to be rather forceful that I return it.
“We’re here to pick up our puppy!”
“What puppy?”
“Um, the puppy we asked you to babysit.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“YOU’RE HOLDING HER RIGHT NOW!”
“…no I’m not.”
Sorry about your cat, Troy.
We were holding off on any more dogs, but someone gave my son a dog that somehow ended up mine. Best dog I’ve ever had. Not an indoor dog, though. He comes into the mudroom at night when it’s cold, though.
BroCav shares his birthday with Chuck Yeager, 96.
I had to pay for Mini-me’s wisdom teeth extraction when they made the appointment for the surgery. They offered a payment plan, but I still had to make a down payment (I think half of what insurance wouldn’t cover) before they would schedule it.
Haha, saw an ad on AOS: Hedge fund manager says “get out of cash NOW!”
Way ahead of you, Hedge fund manager. I’m always out of cash.
Happy B-Day Brother Cavil.
Punch set arrived yesterday, so tonight I build “yer mom” cept it probably wont be named that for very long as I’ve decided it is the perfect Valentines gift. Tell me, what women in her right mind wouldn’t want a hand assembled firearm built with luv? It’s either that or some smarmy Valentines geedunk from the Dollar Store. (Im classy that way)….
As you might imagine the world of Pediatric Dentistry caters to a wide swath of society. Because of our rural location the ones we have are all employed dentists and don’t care who they see because they know they’re being paid regardless. In a private practice it’s all cash money and if you can’t pay, well, there’s the door. That being said, finances need to be discussed well before the day of the procedure.
It was the logistics of it, I get asking for payment before you have to carry a loopy toddler out to the car. Had they explained it before sedating my daughter it would have been a big nothing. To have a bitchy clerk threaten to interrupt surgery after that point with a surprise “pay us now” is some fucked up you-need-to-spend-some-time-funemployed bullshit.
Dermatology, Plastic Surgery, Oral Surgery and a few others run the pay before service scam around here. Some practices do balance billing and make you pay what the insurance company doesn’t pay them. I’ve never done either and just make it up on volume of amputations
Yeah, that’s just straight up customer relations.
This lady cut me off, and to be honest, I’m a little afraid to honk at her
Unfortunately I also share it with Jerry Springer, but we won’t discuss that…
I haven’t checked who I share a birthday with. I’m the only one that matters, so who cares?
I share a birthday with Lipstick
What’s up,’Indentured Servants??
To have a bitchy clerk threaten to interrupt surgery after that point with a surprise “pay us now” is some fucked up you-need-to-spend-some-time-funemployed bullshit.
True.
I share a birthday with Anita. ♥
I miss Lipstick.
I believe you may be confused. No sir, I’m a debt slave, not indentured.
Ha ha ha … J’ames, I pissed off Mikey.
Happy Birthday, BC. 👋🏻 🎂 buddy, CoAlEx. I miss Lippy. I was thinking about her Compos story the other day.
Saw that. He must have a hangover.
Right? lol
They haven’t been replying yesterday. They must not like targets that have teeth.
lately, even. Yesterday? really?
I’ve noticed some more conservatives coming out of the woodwork in the argument room. Maybe its more of a safe space for them now.
It’s what liberals usually do. Retreat.
It’s just funny because Mikey posted a bunch of bs this morning, and I didn’t let one go w/o spanking. He must have gotten tired of my beating.
And honestly, that he accused me of being juvenile? He posted a really stupid story, and I called him on it. It’s too early for him to be drunk, so hungover it must have been
Trump telling Omar to resign is brilliant. She’ll name drop Kusher in a matter of hours to prove Trump is a zionist stooge or something.
The healthcare revenue cycle is a hot mess. My guess is that its creeping into dentistry.
A shocking amount of people don’t pay their bills, which is actually a byproduct of Obamacare. The expansion of medicare/medicaid (to a small degree) and shitty insurance in general (the main culprit) has led to an explosion of bad debt. In order to get ahead of it, hospitals and most of healthcare groups are trying to estimate and collect payments as early as possible.
All that being said, payment should have been discussed well before the procedure was started. That was poor timing.
My wife is a hard lady to really piss off.
She was ready to have a mostly peaceful protest.
messing with a kid is the quickest way to a woman’s temper.
hospitals and most of healthcare groups are trying to estimate and collect payments as early as possible.
Well, maybe not early as possible, but at impactful times throughout the procedure.
Maybe they should tie it in with recovery services, or pain meds. “pay up, or no pill!”
Crossfit workout 1 done. Dug us out at the road.
I’m headed to the gym at 5 or 530. Squats, ring work, dumbbell presses and rows, then punching the heavy bag until I can’t raise my arms.
Gym at about 9:30 or 10pm. Squats and bent-over row. Plus an hour walking on the treadmill and maybe hitting the heavy bag.
J’ames, I pissed off Mikey.
What is this ‘argument room’ and is this Mikey, the NeverTrumper cartoon Mikey?
Heavy bag is my cardio. I might fall back on the incline treadmill if my arms tire before the rest of me.
It’s a closed group on facebook. Everybody argues politics. The butthurt is high on this one.
hospitals and most of healthcare groups are trying to estimate and collect payments as early as possible.
Yeah….not sure about that. A couple of months ago, the hospital my FIL was in two years ago sent him a bill for nearly $600. Husband asked them for an itemized bill and btw, FIL’s estate has already been dissolved. So, they sent a list of shit supposedly worth $600 not itemized. Husband asked “Two years, really?”….Their response was that they were fighting with the insurance. And yet we’ve been billed for everything needing billed from the other hospital he was in six months prior to his death.
Husband talked with them again today and they said the surviving spouse MUST PAY!!
I call bullshit on the fight with insurance. Gonna call them (insurance) and ask what they have in their records from two years ago that they refused to pay.
Make that a bill from the fall of 2016.
I almost suspect a scam. How are the elderly supposed to deal with such bills, two years after the fact? How are they or their families to know if this is legit? We were never told there was anything being held up with insurance.
Comment by leoncaruthers on February 13, 2019 2:21 pm
Heavy bag is my cardio. I might fall back on the incline treadmill if my arms tire before the rest of me.
Walking on the treadmill helps keep me from spending all day sitting. Usually the heavy bag is interval training for the cardio effect.
H2 Solutions should be a policy advisor/think-tank. If AOC’s buddy can do it, I’m pretty sure we can. Alex can write up his whipping post policy paper and get this thing rolling.
Heh, I’ve actually thought about trying to estimate the savings from reduced incarcerations.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a26309827/left-to-their-own-devices-pricing-algorithms-resort-to-collusion/
Given the centrality of the prisoner’s dilemma to game theory and thus to AI, that outcome should have been predictable. It’s a hypergame and neither benefits in the long run from “defection”.
My daughter had a tooth removed when she was three-ish. I had taken her to our regular dentist because she had a weepy blister on her gums above a top tooth, which wouldn’t go away. Dentist said it was a sign of infection to do with the tooth and sent us to the pediatric oral surgeon. Pediatric oral surgeon said the tooth was dead and had to come out. The weepy blister was actually kind of lucky for my daughter because had the tooth not had an outlet via the ‘weep’, it could have been a nastier and painful, infection. She gave me a choice of either scheduling another day for removal or we can do it now. Duh.
I took the now because no way in hell did I want beasnette stewing on that for any length of time. Made sure she got the goofy gas to make it more pleasant, but she was pissed at me for the rest of the day.
I’ve been binging on The Expanse on Amazon Prime, and apparently the fourth season will come out sometime this year.
According to Shankar, season 4 will have a space Western vibe, as humanity begins to explore and settle on new planets. One such planet is Ilus, which soon becomes a conflict zone between settlers, corporations, and the protomolecule entities.
“In the book, [Ilus] reads like southwestern desert,’ said Shankar. “It’s rugged, it’s a frontier, it’s a remote place. We keep talking about how the first European ships that came to Australia must have felt when they landed on that continent… Along with that, there’s not knowing how the biology and the flora and fauna are going to treat you. How is your body is going to react to these places where there are things that you never experienced before?”
They outta troll sci-fi geeks by putting the characters on horseback in one of the episodes, with a spaceship flying overhead.
Genghis Khan conquered a continent on those things, because he had no need for logistics on a vast ocean of grass. Ideally, that’s how something like an advanced nanotech-based anything would work. Reactors and so forth that can turn what you have where you are into what you need where you’re going. You rarely see that fully explored in even good sci-fi, it’s too magical.
Given the centrality of the prisoner’s dilemma to game theory and thus to AI, that outcome should have been predictable. It’s a hypergame and neither benefits in the long run from “defection”.
It’s interesting, and frightening, especially as more and more of our lives become intertwined with “AI” decision-making.
AI will end up looking like “Big X” in every venue: conspiracy against those not in the club. The only disruptions can and will come from without.
Hoping to meet with a financial advisor in the next month or so.
He may flip the eff out when I tell him I’ve considered investing all my money in glass jars of moonshine and .45ACP.
but she was pissed at me for the rest of the day.
This reminds me of when Mini-me had trigger thumb surgery when she was 3. I was rocking her as she was coming out of the anesthesia, fussing over her, kissing her head, and I got this grumpy, slurred “Quit.”
Get one that will join you, leon. Or at least knows how to get better yield from the still.
A couple of months ago, the hospital my FIL was in two years ago sent him a bill for nearly $600.
A couple of years ago I got a bill from a third party billing outfit working on behalf of an orthopedic I was seeing. It was for services rendered 14 months prior. It was $200 or so and I could’ve paid it but I got to thinking….fuck these guys. I mailed it back with a note that said, if you don’t need your money So much that you neglect collecting it for over a year then you don’t really need it. Never heard back. Surprisingly.
When my girls had their wisdom teeth removed we paid in advance. I didn’t think anything of it other than they must get stiffed a lot.
When we go to the Doctor we are self-pay (we have Christian Ministries Healthcare for catastrophic stuff). When we tell them that we get a nice (sometimes half or more) discount but we pay as we go-they get their money that day.
Just guessing PG but that $200 might have been balance billing left over from the insurance payment. Corporation feels the squeeze from decreasing revenues across the board and a friend of a friend at a conference mentions this service they use to collect stale revenue and well, first thing you know, Old Jed’s a millionaire. The fact they left you alone points that way.
Eliot Engel of NY is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He must be either afraid of Ilhan Omar or supported her attack on Elliott Abrams, to not cut off her time and reprimand her for that nastiness.
Holy shit, that skank who married her brother is absolutely nuts. She actually said I’ll take that as a yes. WHORE!
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She needs to be deported and her scummy brother too. 12th century freaks.
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haaahhhhahahahaha Pups, the truth is always better than fiction.
mare, did you see how the muslima bitch was reading – badly – from a script? I wonder who wrote it? All them motherf*ckers need a foot up their asses.
Minnesota is f*cked.
Side note…I looked up some of the students I taught back in the day. They were second graders. One was reading at the six grade or higher level. She had a sister who skipped a grade. Some time after, the family moved to Minnesota..the sisters grew up. Both unmarried and working at a nonprofit that feeds the needy. The older sister turned lesbian and her facebook page is nothing but lefty talking points and full support of her new muslim overlords. Dumbass didn’t turn out so smart after all.
I binge watched all of The Office, this past month. Finished up yesterday. Pretty good.
and I got this grumpy, slurred “Quit.”
LOL. Little booger.
She, like most muslims from Somalia, is a low IQ, weirdo.
That’s a lot of Office watching.
She calls him Mr. Adams instead of Abrams. Effing idiot.
He should call her Gomer.
I’m not sure and I’m sure one of you will correct me but I think we have that drunk, raper, idiot, Ted Kennedy to thank for some shit bill in the 70’s that completely changed our immigration policy.
Kennedy is the gift that keeps on giving, like McCain and Romney and so, so, so many others. Effers.
*grabs ahold of Mare’s ankles*
*pulls her down from the ceiling*
I’ll be in Boston tomorrow, Mare.
I will flip off someone or something in your honor.
There is a good chance I will scream MASSHOLE! at the same time.
Flip someone off in MA? Yeah, that’s rare.
We use that more often than turn signals.
hehe, which hand?
Boston is the flip off city.
In NY you honk your horn and swear.
In Middletown CT you urinate on Chris Dodd’s boat.
‘Ted Kennedy to thank for some shit bill in the 70’s that completely changed our immigration policy. ”
marezee-dotes – i think it was in the mid 60’s that teddy (the leave-em-in-the-drink drunk fuck kennedy) introduced a poison pill to an immigration bill that the fucking retard repubes let pass – the bill completely changed the quota system: europeans & caucasians were essentially no longer allowed permanent entry into the US.
every third world shit-hole dumped their detritus on our shores and the proggies rejoiced at the demise of our way of life –
and now we have the Ilhan Omars of the world openly gunning for our literal downfall –
and the pelosi’s and company are active participants – there used to be a term for that kind of thing.
Kennedy is the gift that keeps on giving, like McCain and Romney and so, so, so many others. Effers.
Or herpes.
There is a good chance I will scream MASSHOLE! at the same time.
Mega bonus points if it’s at Ed Markey.
Ed Markey spends his nights eating Kale chips.
I made it down to the road today, in Anitas’ 4-wd truck, and got to “Total Wine” to get 4 handles of whiskey. First time I’ve been out in 8 days. I had to use 4-wd to get back up the driveway to the garage.
The tire-tracks are now solid ice.
Not A Fan…
What jam2 said about immigration. It was the 60s. Europeans were put on the bottom of the list. Third worlders were/are given priority.
Try to change that back, watch proggies go postal. Look how they react when Trump suggests it by saying switch to merit based….what can you offer us and prove you won’t be a burden. You know, like every other country demands.
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Snow sucks, ChrisP.
Ahhhh, another evening of work completed, and home again. Life is great. I’m making cinnamon rolls tomorrow. People are bringing treats to work for Valentine’s day and I’m bringing cinnamon rolls. I hope they turn out well. They’re made, I just need to bake and glaze them before work.
Not a bad day at all. Sometimes, just having a chill day is best for your birthday.
HB, Cavil!
Funneh. Local news was all in for MLG, XOCHITL, and Haaland. All against the Wall. I was in the break room with Arlene from the PI, George from Egypt, Speciosa and Toby from Uganda, Kathie from Santa Fe, and Stephanie from Shiprock. They are ALL anti illegal. They thought I was white. Lots of joking and bad jokes ensued. Arlene said the best thing about being brown, was not having to worry about skin cancer. I got on my soapbox. Melanin is not sunscreen. Starting anecdote about POC with skin cancer due to thinking melanin protected them.
George is learning Spanish. As a Coptic Christian, he is being persecuted from both ends. (He finds me freaky. He has never met anyone that knows so much about Egypt, Israel, Libya, Lebanon, and Syria as I do. I like giving him Mossad and RL friend Israel links.
Heads up, losers. GND does not equal Girl Next Door
Fast track to Socialism. Don’t fall for the Commie propaganda
VA is now saying biopsy results next week. Thanks for being my besties
Woof.
Woke up at 0230, couldn’t get back to sleep. This jerb search is more stressful than I thought it would be, lots of opportunities out there, but I’m not getting calls for the ones that I want.
There are three hooty owls calling to each other from 3 different spots around my house, so that’s kind of cool. Never had heard owls before I moved up here.
Deny everything regarding Potsdam.
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