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February 10, 2026
Categories: carpet connoisseur, Lobster roll, Stop Trying To Make TuesD'AWWW Happen, Stroller . . Author: Jay in Ames

28 Comments

  1. Lumps's avatar Comment by Lumps on February 10, 2026 5:07 am

    Being up at 4:30 is what happens when you go to bed at 8:30 but I don’t care.

  2. Lumps's avatar Comment by Lumps on February 10, 2026 5:30 am

    Our snow is going to get freshened with a new light coat today, but after that it looks like we’re going into a long gentle thawing period. So we have that going for us, which is nice.

    It’s almost time to sow the earliest carrots and spinach out in the hoophouse. I never do it this early but after seeing what other people with hoophouses do, I’m trying it this year. I’ll have to go in there and check if the ground is still ringing hard like iron, lol.

    If it is still frozen when I go to sow them I will sprinkle the seeds right on the ground and scatter vermiculite or potting soil over them. Nothing stops this show.

  3. Car in's avatar Comment by Car in on February 10, 2026 6:53 am

    wakey wakey.

    I wake up at 5:30 all the time, but I go to bed (usually) between 8:30 and 9 and read i bed for a while.

  4. Jimbro's avatar Comment by Jimbro on February 10, 2026 7:24 am

    On my own I’m more of a 10 till 5:30-6 guy but Paula goes to bed early and since I don’t like to disturb her too badly I’ll often head up earlier. The hard part is when I hear her chatting away on the phone or the noise from a video and assume she’s still awake. By the time it dawns on me that I haven’t heard anything in a while I become Tagnath, Destroyer of Sleep.

  5. Car in's avatar Comment by Car in on February 10, 2026 7:28 am

    If I go to bed at 10, add in reading time … nope. I need to had to bed earlier. That way I can read as long as I want w/o worrying.

  6. Jimbro's avatar Comment by Jimbro on February 10, 2026 7:51 am

    I make more progress in my book when I head up earlier for sure. It also depends on the book. Zombie crap is easy to devour but almost everything else that requires some cognitive function is tough.

  7. leoncaruthers's avatar Comment by leoncaruthers on February 10, 2026 8:06 am

    I’m the one who has to do the finding in my house.

  8. Pupster's avatar Comment by Pupster on February 10, 2026 8:06 am

    I like to head up to bed and read by 8, asleep by 10, usually up at 1-2 when Mrs. Pupster comes to bed, then if I’m lucky I can grab another couple more hours of sleep without pharmaceutical intervention, up for sure by 6. The up at 2-3 is tricky because I could probably just go about my day, and sometimes I get to thinking about work and I just might as well get up at that point and fix breakfast.

  9. Mrs. Peel's avatar Comment by Mrs. Peel on February 10, 2026 8:14 am

    I’m still hung up on the idea that there is someone out there who is reading Little Women and has no idea who King David was. I guess it’s pretty commendable if that person is reading a work so far outside their culture and knowledge base, but I can’t imagine there are very many such people.

  10. Jimbro's avatar Comment by Jimbro on February 10, 2026 8:15 am

    Paula has the same pattern but watches videos rather than reads. When she wakes up in the middle of the night her worries center on the mess of a life that dirtbag son has created and how the fcuk she can solve them. She blames her sleep lability on being perimenopausal which I think is only partially true. I think it’s “Older asshole son, bigger asshole problems”.

  11. Jimbro's avatar Comment by Jimbro on February 10, 2026 8:19 am

    Maybe the King David explainer is for the Hindu and Buddhist reading audiences.

  12. MJ (grease gun)'s avatar Comment by MJ (grease gun) on February 10, 2026 8:23 am

    Stereo MCs still perform. Amazing show.

  13. MJ (grease gun)'s avatar Comment by MJ (grease gun) on February 10, 2026 8:23 am

    This year we’re taking MJr to his first concert. It’s going to be a multi city affair.

  14. leoncaruthers's avatar Comment by leoncaruthers on February 10, 2026 8:32 am

    Analects has a similar set of footnotes for the non-Chinese reader. It’s pretty much the only surviving writing of Confucius because a later dynasty Year Zero’d the history he existed in, so it’s possible even the natives need context.

  15. Jimbro's avatar Comment by Jimbro on February 10, 2026 8:38 am

    Are you following Motor Booty Affair?

  16. Lumps's avatar Comment by Lumps on February 10, 2026 8:49 am

    I figured out that if I can be all done eating food by around 3 or 4 pm (3 is better), my sleep improves dramatically.

    From that time on I just focus on hydrating and then cutting off water at least an hour before bedtime to reduce getting up to use the loo.

  17. Jay in Ames's avatar Comment by Jay in Ames on February 10, 2026 8:58 am

    This year we’re taking MJr to his first concert. It’s going to be a multi city affair.

    This isn’t possible. You can’t take a baby to a concert!

  18. Brother Tim's avatar Comment by Brother Tim on February 10, 2026 9:56 am

    Is there cheese at the end of this maze?

    I don’t think there’s cheese in this maze.

  19. leoncaruthers's avatar Comment by leoncaruthers on February 10, 2026 9:58 am

    It smells like cheese.

    Stinky cheese.

    Wait that was a fart.

    My fart, from last time I was in this part of the maze.

    Dammit.

  20. Pupster's avatar Comment by Pupster on February 10, 2026 10:03 am

    There could be more than one King David. I know a lot of Daves.

  21. Pupster's avatar Comment by Pupster on February 10, 2026 10:04 am
  22. leoncaruthers's avatar Comment by leoncaruthers on February 10, 2026 10:12 am

    Uncle Dave has dementia. So do 2 of his sisters and one of his brothers. Dad’s been spared so far, and his baby sister, but I suspect she’s just further back on the timeline since she’s the only one still in her mid 60s.

    Dad keeps joking that he’s the one who did worst in high school and has been saving his brain for now.

  23. Hotspur's avatar Comment by Hotspur on February 10, 2026 10:15 am

    LOL

    Trump is pissing in the canucks’ Cheerios as only Trump can do.

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116043090074364624

  24. Markie's avatar Comment by Markie on February 10, 2026 10:17 am

    Lots of good Olympic TV on again today, mostly on the USA channel.

    I’ve mentioned before that Cookie and I had to downsize a lot when we moved here about 10 years ago. I have been here by myself for most of that time and have mostly organized the stuff we keep so that it’s easy to find and takes up minimal space. I think she’s finally getting the system of where things are and why I’m so anal about putting things in the same place after they are used. At the same time, her being kind of a shorty, we put stuff that she uses a lot where she can reach it on the shelves or in the cabinets. It’s a team effort and seems to be working very well.

  25. Markie's avatar Comment by Markie on February 10, 2026 10:22 am

    Lol, Cookie came home last night after bingo and went crazy trying to find the source of the smoke she smelled. She looked everywhere and then gave up, deciding that the house was not on fire. She was hungry and opened the fridge only to discover the source of the smoke smell. It was the cheese I smoked yesterday, even though it was vacuum sealed.

  26. Hotspur's avatar Comment by Hotspur on February 10, 2026 10:25 am

    I’m an equal opportunity sports fan. I will watch as much of the olympics as I watched of the super bowl. It’s the same amount as I watch of soccer.

  27. Brother Tim's avatar Comment by Brother Tim on February 10, 2026 11:07 am

    Updated myself on the status of the whole ITT student loan ongoing saga. Boy howdy is it a clusterfuck.

  28. Jay in Ames's avatar Comment by Jay in Ames on February 10, 2026 11:11 am

    Libs want you to pay more taxes. Just you, though, they will jump through every hoop, legal or illegal, to not pay taxes themselves. I HOPE that DeSantis comes down like a ton of bricks on this guy, even though he isn’t running.

    https://x.com/1109Patricia/status/2021134827886379207


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