Good point Timmy. My mother was considered black Irish which would mean possible Spanish heritage? Anyway, wonder if i would qualify for loan as a black Irish person.
Got my chainsaw back from the shop, that's a positive in my book because now I can finally finish sawing up the logs in the yard. As the mekaniak said: "I don't know how you did it, because this safety-catch here, should prevent the saw from running, but somehow you've managed to run it anyway, which oughtn't be possible".
Always did have that magic touch with machine and electronics, me. Ever want something stress-tested, let me at it. Odds are some unforseen flaw will become evident just from me touching it.
Like that time when my father-in-law bought his first Pentium II. "Hey, why don't you go in the den and fire it up, I'll bring the whisky and coffee and show what it is about?!"
Sure thing. I push the 'On' button on the tower, the machine goes frazzapp, the screen blinks on, and all that's displayed is white rectangle, blinking on and off, as if it's waiting for you to type code.
Turns out, when I pushed the button the entire thing shorted and burned out the hard drive. Which, according to the tech-guy in the computer store, "shouldn't be possible".
If he's got some Swedish migrant in his family, we might even be related. Some people, they're just born at the tail-end of the Bell Curve for whatever, good luck or the opposite, with some thing or other.
Every bicycle I've ever had, it was busted inside a year and not because of me being reckless. No, the chain would break or the gears lock up or the screw and clamp holding the handlebar in place would wear out.
"Funniest" time that happened, it was the rod connecting the handlebars to the steering column/front wheel that broke. As in: broke off. While I was on my home from work. In traffic.
Faulty specimen, should have been caught at the factory - only good things were it was still under warranty, and the bus I fell in front of managed to stop instead of going over my fool head.
The number of store-bought axe-handles I've busted. . . Make my own, then at least I don't feel like a chump for shelling out for something that's more ornament than utility.
What made me smile... I finished reading "The Lost Man" by Jane Harper. It's a whodunnit set on a cattle station in the Queensland outback. I figured out the killer and method of the killer about 40% of the way into the book, but I didn't know the motivation. Still, it made me smile to figure out the killer so quickly. Maybe some of my brain synapses still work.
On the other hand, received a letter in the mail from the IRS today. Didn't understand a word of it. Will send it to our Tax Lady.
The Catz Carlton wouldn't be allowed in our town. The permit process from City Hall would take months what with architectural drawing, Environmental Impact Statement, hazardous waste mitigation, energy conservation study, and I don't think that color of blue would be approved by the Planning Commission.
That cat negotiation strategy is the same one the Obama admin used to negotiate Obama Care with insurance, health care and pharmaceutical companies. The remarkably awful, extremely behind schedule and breathtakingly expensive website rollout was the icing on that buffalo turd cake.
Making things no one (outside the state) wants mandatory is SOP for socialism/fascism/communism. Funny how it was not mandatory for parliamentary whores in DC though. They have golden Cadillac heath coverage, for life, including their families, compliments of the American tax mule.
I just watched Harris claim that she was on the Senate Intel Committee and she wants to remind voters that it is a FACT that Russia interfered in the 2015-2016 election specifically targeting Blacks with misinformation…. What the effidy eff is she talking about??? And NO ONE will correct her!!! That’s all I got, it’s Tuesday and I’m already hoarse from SCREAMING!!
Mrs. McFarland, Can Blacks be seen at night? How black are Blacks? I know people use the term to refer to people of African ancestry, but I think it's stupid. Whites aren't white. Well, albinos are white, but most Europeans come in all shades. Harris says that she is Black, but her Mom comes from India. I think they are called "Browns." American Indians are called Redskins, though the football team in DC had to change its name to Commanders. Seems more appropriate in a way. The Cleveland Indians changed their name to Guardians. Guarding what? Lake Erie?
Big time crazy!! My daughter went to Miami of Ohio…. Chartered by George Washington …named because the land had been home to the Miami Tribe… that also lived as far as Florida….. it’s never ending.
I'm a grad of Miami. Quit giving to alumni fund in 1990's. MU changed Redskin mascot to red hawk with the M tribe of Oklahoma's formal resolution to revoke their approval of the mascot (blessed the alliance in 1972, choked on it in '96).
Oh... And DC football mascot is the Condoms not Commanders, fyi.
SC, Thanks for the link. I lived in Cleveland as a kid, but don't remember the bridge. Does the baseball team use these "Road Guardians" as a team logo? They are kinda cool, but I like Chief Wahoo. Dad took me to my first baseball game at the old Memorial Stadium on Lake Erie. Damn! That stadium was cold even in July. The Indians were playing the Red Sox. I saw Rocky Colavito and Ted Williams play. Dad bought me a Chief Wahoo cap and an Indians pennant.
It's crazy because black people don't even know what a computer is, yet they were still forced by that misinformation to vote for Trump at a blistering 8% clip.
I forgot that gem… and let’s forgive business loans to Black Entrepreneurs ( not Black, don’t qualify) and lower the charge for marijuana possession…. Hmmm, racist much? And when she was CA AG , she incarcerated a record # of blacks for possession. She’s such a lying piece of shit… oh, and her latest Freebie is not Constitutional!!
It's the coaching she gets because she's like the Coneheads' second cousin.
She has zero connection to any particular place. And I have the feeling she's got extremely conflicted feelings about her mother. You read the mother's list of accomplishments and the places where she worked, it's fairly clear she had little time available for child-raising though she didn't want the kids' dad to share custody. It would be sad if Kamala wasn't such a dreadful person.
Pbr, I've found that sleeping together, and I mean sleep, not sex, is the most important part of a long marriage. The snoring, tossing and turning, and then getting up to pee all night, can be stressful. If your mate can sleep through all that, you've found a winner.
We have found that the so-called "bowling ball mattress" actually works as advertised. When one gets up the other is rarely disturbed. Not cheap but worth it!
Add two 40-60 pound dogs to the mix it is a wonder any of us get our sleep. It is worse when it’s a full moon. It so bright let’s go out and play with the other creatures. NO! Go back to bed, dog names uttered.
I am presently (after vowing No More Cats) feeding 4. One is inside with cat flap, one is a seasoned veteran, one used to sleep on the leaky furnace vent on the roof, one is not known what he does. The roof kitty is chased and scared by Snoots the inside/outside tyrant. I used to have an electric bed by the front door, but they all eschewed that after Carlos died. He didn't die on the bed, so who knows what happened. Thank heavens I'm too old to build a condo. I can't even imagine! Blessings on her.
When I was really in the cat feeding business (also cat trapping, neutering, and spaying), there were 11. Six of them came into the house and mostly stayed in the sun room. Five of them wanted to roam free. During the winter the five would drape themselves over the leaky furnace vents on the roof. I said they acted as insulation.
P.S. I washed the cat bed even while Carlos was alive. I cleaned it after he died, but no one would use it. I worry about the roof kitty. She's a sweet calico who is not afraid of me, but is afraid of the other cats. She was here before Snoots but refused to come inside. It's all a mystery.
As long as she knows that she CAN come inside if she has to, she'll be fine. Bonnie comes in for heavy sleeping and eating, but she loves her little catnaps and adventures outside most of the day.
Afraid not. Snoots will not let her inside. She eats outside the back door. I stay out with her while she eats. She will not come inside. Even before Snoots she would not come inside. She belonged to my dead neighbor.
Good point Timmy. My mother was considered black Irish which would mean possible Spanish heritage? Anyway, wonder if i would qualify for loan as a black Irish person.
As long as there is government, all 365 days of the year are Mondays.
What made me happy this past week? My twins hit the milestone of 21 years of age, are happy, healthy and productive members of society.
Bergen, That is a great accomplishment. RESPECT!
thank you! wasn't easy, but definitely the most challenging and rewarding accomplishment.
Blanco is a great name for a cat.
Jimmy, Probably referring to the look in the cat's eyes when you ask, "Did you eat the salami?"
Got my chainsaw back from the shop, that's a positive in my book because now I can finally finish sawing up the logs in the yard. As the mekaniak said: "I don't know how you did it, because this safety-catch here, should prevent the saw from running, but somehow you've managed to run it anyway, which oughtn't be possible".
Always did have that magic touch with machine and electronics, me. Ever want something stress-tested, let me at it. Odds are some unforseen flaw will become evident just from me touching it.
Like that time when my father-in-law bought his first Pentium II. "Hey, why don't you go in the den and fire it up, I'll bring the whisky and coffee and show what it is about?!"
Sure thing. I push the 'On' button on the tower, the machine goes frazzapp, the screen blinks on, and all that's displayed is white rectangle, blinking on and off, as if it's waiting for you to type code.
Turns out, when I pushed the button the entire thing shorted and burned out the hard drive. Which, according to the tech-guy in the computer store, "shouldn't be possible".
Small wonder yours truly prefer manual tools.
Rikard, I had a friend like you. If he drove a car, it threw a rod. I wouldn't let the guy near any of my machinery or computers.
If he's got some Swedish migrant in his family, we might even be related. Some people, they're just born at the tail-end of the Bell Curve for whatever, good luck or the opposite, with some thing or other.
Every bicycle I've ever had, it was busted inside a year and not because of me being reckless. No, the chain would break or the gears lock up or the screw and clamp holding the handlebar in place would wear out.
"Funniest" time that happened, it was the rod connecting the handlebars to the steering column/front wheel that broke. As in: broke off. While I was on my home from work. In traffic.
Faulty specimen, should have been caught at the factory - only good things were it was still under warranty, and the bus I fell in front of managed to stop instead of going over my fool head.
The number of store-bought axe-handles I've busted. . . Make my own, then at least I don't feel like a chump for shelling out for something that's more ornament than utility.
Rikard, You should wear a warning label, "Do not let me near machinery."
Hehehe - but when the eLon-androids and Zucker-bots go all Skynet, I can at least kill them just by touching them!
Super Power!
Purrfect sleep tonic #1.
Blue cat condo plans & components I need #2.
Pawsitivity success on water swept survivor #3.
Thx SimCom.
What made me smile... I finished reading "The Lost Man" by Jane Harper. It's a whodunnit set on a cattle station in the Queensland outback. I figured out the killer and method of the killer about 40% of the way into the book, but I didn't know the motivation. Still, it made me smile to figure out the killer so quickly. Maybe some of my brain synapses still work.
On the other hand, received a letter in the mail from the IRS today. Didn't understand a word of it. Will send it to our Tax Lady.
The Catz Carlton wouldn't be allowed in our town. The permit process from City Hall would take months what with architectural drawing, Environmental Impact Statement, hazardous waste mitigation, energy conservation study, and I don't think that color of blue would be approved by the Planning Commission.
How very British of you. A nationalist perhaps, but not a racist. Clanker , really? I love it.
Have to start using it before the robots get emotion chips and start feeling sad -- then we can call it part of our culture.
That cat negotiation strategy is the same one the Obama admin used to negotiate Obama Care with insurance, health care and pharmaceutical companies. The remarkably awful, extremely behind schedule and breathtakingly expensive website rollout was the icing on that buffalo turd cake.
"Nobody wants health insurance because it's too expensive and being able to afford insurance doesn't actually mean you can afford to use it."
"Make it mandatory."
"BRILLIANT!"
Making things no one (outside the state) wants mandatory is SOP for socialism/fascism/communism. Funny how it was not mandatory for parliamentary whores in DC though. They have golden Cadillac heath coverage, for life, including their families, compliments of the American tax mule.
(in Yakov Smirnoff voice) “What a great country!”
That most certainly *is* the beset song on the internet today - this week - this month - this year! Love it!
It's been running through my head since I heard it like 3 days ago.
I just watched Harris claim that she was on the Senate Intel Committee and she wants to remind voters that it is a FACT that Russia interfered in the 2015-2016 election specifically targeting Blacks with misinformation…. What the effidy eff is she talking about??? And NO ONE will correct her!!! That’s all I got, it’s Tuesday and I’m already hoarse from SCREAMING!!
Mrs. McFarland, Can Blacks be seen at night? How black are Blacks? I know people use the term to refer to people of African ancestry, but I think it's stupid. Whites aren't white. Well, albinos are white, but most Europeans come in all shades. Harris says that she is Black, but her Mom comes from India. I think they are called "Browns." American Indians are called Redskins, though the football team in DC had to change its name to Commanders. Seems more appropriate in a way. The Cleveland Indians changed their name to Guardians. Guarding what? Lake Erie?
I think it's all crazy.
Big time crazy!! My daughter went to Miami of Ohio…. Chartered by George Washington …named because the land had been home to the Miami Tribe… that also lived as far as Florida….. it’s never ending.
I'm a grad of Miami. Quit giving to alumni fund in 1990's. MU changed Redskin mascot to red hawk with the M tribe of Oklahoma's formal resolution to revoke their approval of the mascot (blessed the alliance in 1972, choked on it in '96).
Oh... And DC football mascot is the Condoms not Commanders, fyi.
BetterOffRed, Hahaha. I can see the inflated condoms flying onto the field when the Washington DC team comes to town.
"The Cleveland Indians changed their name to Guardians. Guarding what?"
The roads.
No, really.
https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/articles/the-guardians-of-traffic
SC, Thanks for the link. I lived in Cleveland as a kid, but don't remember the bridge. Does the baseball team use these "Road Guardians" as a team logo? They are kinda cool, but I like Chief Wahoo. Dad took me to my first baseball game at the old Memorial Stadium on Lake Erie. Damn! That stadium was cold even in July. The Indians were playing the Red Sox. I saw Rocky Colavito and Ted Williams play. Dad bought me a Chief Wahoo cap and an Indians pennant.
Not exactly.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fcleveland-guardians-logo-history-v0-3f9b36fw20cb1.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd222a7f5d68a39485aedcb5ac61c0487915095e1
The 'wings' on the ball are a nod to the wings on the guardians, but that's about as far as it goes.
SC, Thanks for link. Man! That is one ugly logo. Looks like a guy's testicle in a vice.
They will never let go of the lies. That's all they got.
It's crazy because black people don't even know what a computer is, yet they were still forced by that misinformation to vote for Trump at a blistering 8% clip.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html
I forgot that gem… and let’s forgive business loans to Black Entrepreneurs ( not Black, don’t qualify) and lower the charge for marijuana possession…. Hmmm, racist much? And when she was CA AG , she incarcerated a record # of blacks for possession. She’s such a lying piece of shit… oh, and her latest Freebie is not Constitutional!!
Oh.. and she’s def on something…. She’s too “ up” at times…
It's the coaching she gets because she's like the Coneheads' second cousin.
She has zero connection to any particular place. And I have the feeling she's got extremely conflicted feelings about her mother. You read the mother's list of accomplishments and the places where she worked, it's fairly clear she had little time available for child-raising though she didn't want the kids' dad to share custody. It would be sad if Kamala wasn't such a dreadful person.
I hope I get beer and scrambled eggs for Halloween, come to think of it.
Let's split the treats. You get the beer and I get the scrambled eggs.
Husband and I celebrate 30 years of marriage today. Some parts were rough, but would do it again to get to this point. The word is content.
Pbr, I've found that sleeping together, and I mean sleep, not sex, is the most important part of a long marriage. The snoring, tossing and turning, and then getting up to pee all night, can be stressful. If your mate can sleep through all that, you've found a winner.
We have found that the so-called "bowling ball mattress" actually works as advertised. When one gets up the other is rarely disturbed. Not cheap but worth it!
I will second that!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Add two 40-60 pound dogs to the mix it is a wonder any of us get our sleep. It is worse when it’s a full moon. It so bright let’s go out and play with the other creatures. NO! Go back to bed, dog names uttered.
Congrats!
Royals had a great season....but they lost ot the WS bound Yankees.
For all the cat lovers! https://photos.app.goo.gl/XkMDRLAMEd22QyWG6
AWESOME!
I am presently (after vowing No More Cats) feeding 4. One is inside with cat flap, one is a seasoned veteran, one used to sleep on the leaky furnace vent on the roof, one is not known what he does. The roof kitty is chased and scared by Snoots the inside/outside tyrant. I used to have an electric bed by the front door, but they all eschewed that after Carlos died. He didn't die on the bed, so who knows what happened. Thank heavens I'm too old to build a condo. I can't even imagine! Blessings on her.
suannee, "Roof Kitty" cracked me up.
When I was really in the cat feeding business (also cat trapping, neutering, and spaying), there were 11. Six of them came into the house and mostly stayed in the sun room. Five of them wanted to roam free. During the winter the five would drape themselves over the leaky furnace vents on the roof. I said they acted as insulation.
P.S. I washed the cat bed even while Carlos was alive. I cleaned it after he died, but no one would use it. I worry about the roof kitty. She's a sweet calico who is not afraid of me, but is afraid of the other cats. She was here before Snoots but refused to come inside. It's all a mystery.
As long as she knows that she CAN come inside if she has to, she'll be fine. Bonnie comes in for heavy sleeping and eating, but she loves her little catnaps and adventures outside most of the day.
Afraid not. Snoots will not let her inside. She eats outside the back door. I stay out with her while she eats. She will not come inside. Even before Snoots she would not come inside. She belonged to my dead neighbor.