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Retire man has the ability to move to Florida but his weakness is he loses the ability to THINK sensibly. (maybe too political let me edit that... much better. )So Retire Man's power is to become Florida Man. Worst superhero ever.
Retire Man's kryptonite is shady real estate transactions ... which basically is nearly all Florida real estate transactions. As he is corrupted into Florida Man, he often demonstrates his superheroic strength by flipping houses and flipping houses.
Edit: Nekkid posting? Yep, just another typical morning for Florida Man.
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Because she knows me well, Mrs. Sunrise got me a 5-pound bag of gummy bears last weekend. It has fused into a single 5-pound gummy mass.
If it's got sugar, I wish you happy gnawing on your 5 lb. gummi meteorite.
If it's a sugarfree gummi meteorite, I wish that your intestinal tract has the fortitude to survive it (disturbingly descriptive product reviews), or at least that it mercifully kills you fairly quickly.
Suddenly we have an influx of people who keep claiming that the system won't accept their credentials for logging in. Suddenly we have a lot of people that keep trying to log into the wrong domain. It's like they all woke up and got on a conference call to discuss how they could specifically annoy me this morning.
Nah, they do that spontaneously in an uncoordinated way.
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I never wanted to do another weeknight show again, but we figured, "Hey, it's Gloryhammer!" and usually the shows end before 11.
For the Hoots!
I discovered Gloryhammer yesterday when I saw a link on a friend's FB feed.
Another few hours of saving foxes from the beta-issues.
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I never wanted to do another weeknight show again, but we figured, "Hey, it's Gloryhammer!" and usually the shows end before 11.
For the Hoots!
I discovered Gloryhammer yesterday when I saw a link on a friend's FB feed.
I saw gloryhammer and thought something else.
Been at the second job too long.
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Gods, I am *so* beyond ticked off right now.
I forget whether I reported that over Memorial Day weekend two of Impus Major's class journals disappeared. This led to massive consequences:
- I did a full search of the house 3 times
- I helped Impus Major catch up on half a dozen missing math assignments
- I negotiated with the choir director to minimize the number of make-up journal assignments he had to turn in during Finals week
- Impus Major did make-up assignments of his own.
All told, at least a dozen hours for me, and half a dozen hours for him, and he lost a grade in math (B to B-) because of the missing journals.
I asked Impus Minor to check his backpack twice. Both times he assured me he had, and the journals weren't there.
So yesterday after school Impus Minor cleaned out his backpack and his room.
And there, of course, are the journals.
There WILL be Consequences.
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Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
Gods, I am *so* beyond ticked off right now.
I forget whether I reported that over Memorial Day weekend two of Impus Major's class journals disappeared. This led to massive consequences:
- I did a full search of the house 3 times
- I helped Impus Major catch up on half a dozen missing math assignments
- I negotiated with the choir director to minimize the number of make-up journal assignments he had to turn in during Finals week
- Impus Major did make-up assignments of his own.All told, at least a dozen hours for me, and half a dozen hours for him, and he lost a grade in math (B to B-) because of the missing journals.
I asked Impus Minor to check his backpack twice. Both times he assured me he had, and the journals weren't there.
So yesterday after school Impus Minor cleaned out his backpack and his room.
And there, of course, are the journals.
There WILL be Consequences.
so...
Daniel Day Lewis will be playing you in the movie?
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Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
...so....I should not visit either?
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...so....I should not visit either?Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
A quick google suggests the going rate for custom printed marbles is about $50 for a 1,000 of them. So someone could spend $100 to buy a 1,000 with Joss Whedon's scowling face and a 1,000 with Alton Brown's scornful smirk, and then strategically hide them all over NYC in various places a Freehold has been spotted.
Just think, tiny dead-eyed Whedon and Brown simulacra faces hidden everywhere. Everywhere. In your fridge, your medicine cabinet, your box of cereal, inside the frame of your bike, peeking out from your A/C vents, behind the towels in the bathroom, in the bottom of the toilet tank, behind the bed headboard... and that's just in your apartment.
Hidden in your local BonChon, your local bodega, your bank, the bar you meet CH and Patrick at. Glued in the corner of the ceiling at work, staring down directly at your cubical/desk.
And even when you don't spot them, you'll know that they're there.
Watching.
Waiting.
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The only stuff you'll find in our medicine cabinet is ibuprofen, shaving stuff, dial soap and industrial strength no ouch hair bands, because Crookshanks' hair is almost to her knees and as full and curly as mine.
Crookshanks fun fact: She's cut her hair once, in kindergarten and has vowed never again.
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...so....I should not visit either?Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
To summarize the pain that will come tonight:
"Your fridge is too full. You always have too much food."
"There aren't enough vegetables in here."
"You have too many leftovers."
"You have too much junk food. No wonder <target of the day> is fat."
And yeah, our fridge is full of lemons from our lemon tree, apples, condiments, and restaurant leftovers from a week of pre-graduation social commitments. I doubt anyone other than my mother would call leftover lobster risotto from Rivoli "junk food", but she does.
And because it's not nothing but a single bag of a raw leafy vegetable, our fridge is too full and we're all too fat.
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"We have a new pet!" - Crookshanks, after discovering the sour dough starter the General started in the refrigerator.
...so....I should not visit either?Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
A quick google suggests the going rate for custom printed marbles is about $50 for a 1,000 of them. So someone could spend $100 to buy a 1,000 with Joss Whedon's scowling face and a 1,000 with Alton Brown's scornful smirk, and then strategically hide them all over NYC in various places a Freehold has been spotted.
Just think, tiny dead-eyed Whedon and Brown simulacra faces hidden everywhere. Everywhere. In your fridge, your medicine cabinet, your box of cereal, inside the frame of your bike, peeking out from your A/C vents, behind the towels in the bathroom, in the bottom of the toilet tank, behind the bed headboard... and that's just in your apartment.
Hidden in your local BonChon, your local bodega, your bank, the bar you meet CH and Patrick at. Glued in the corner of the ceiling at work, staring down directly at your cubical/desk.
And even when you don't spot them, you'll know that they're there.
Watching.
Waiting.
what happens when I collect all of them? Do I summon Whedon and Brown for fighteration or something?
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...so....I should not visit either?Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
To summarize the pain that will come tonight:
"Your fridge is too full. You always have too much food."
"There aren't enough vegetables in here."
"You have too many leftovers."
"You have too much junk food. No wonder <target of the day> is fat."And yeah, our fridge is full of lemons from our lemon tree, apples, condiments, and restaurant leftovers from a week of pre-graduation social commitments. I doubt anyone other than my mother would call leftover lobster risotto from Rivoli "junk food", but she does.
And because it's not nothing but a single bag of a raw leafy vegetable, our fridge is too full and we're all too fat.
Can't you just point her towards your backyard Kale Sanctuary (which is something that all Californians are obliged to have, by law) and leave her to it?
...so....I should not visit either?Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
To summarize the pain that will come tonight:
"Your fridge is too full. You always have too much food."
"There aren't enough vegetables in here."
"You have too many leftovers."
"You have too much junk food. No wonder <target of the day> is fat."And yeah, our fridge is full of lemons from our lemon tree, apples, condiments, and restaurant leftovers from a week of pre-graduation social commitments. I doubt anyone other than my mother would call leftover lobster risotto from Rivoli "junk food", but she does.
And because it's not nothing but a single bag of a raw leafy vegetable, our fridge is too full and we're all too fat.
your mom sounds like she would be fun at parties.
...so....I should not visit either?Oh, and you know how people like to put marbles in their medicine cabinets to embarrass snoopers?
My mother's coming over to spend the night tonight. I want to fill the refrigerator with marbles...
To summarize the pain that will come tonight:
"Your fridge is too full. You always have too much food."
"There aren't enough vegetables in here."
"You have too many leftovers."
"You have too much junk food. No wonder <target of the day> is fat."And yeah, our fridge is full of lemons from our lemon tree, apples, condiments, and restaurant leftovers from a week of pre-graduation social commitments. I doubt anyone other than my mother would call leftover lobster risotto from Rivoli "junk food", but she does.
And because it's not nothing but a single bag of a raw leafy vegetable, our fridge is too full and we're all too fat.
Throw Impus Major at her.
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Oh, nobody's even here yet and it's gotten ugly.
The kids all planned to go to San Francisco for dinner after graduation. I thought it was stupidity, but I figured it was OK. Then our weekend filled up, and the *only* time Impus Major might have with his grandmother, who is here to give him money for college, is tonight. So he tried to cancel on his friends. And they're all calling him and guilt-tripping him and giving him s***...
...for trying to spend time with his not-long-for-this-world grandma.
So Impus Major is screwed either way and I feel for him, but ugh.
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That stinks. He should be celebrating, not dealing with their baggage. Please tell I.M. congratulations from our family, and hugs all around.
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WW and I borrowed a chainsaw and cut up and hauled away a tree that came down in his mom's yard during the storm last weekend. Tomorrow I'm going to meet the AT&T guy at her house so she can finally get her landline and internet restored. It's only taken ten months, but she's finally admitting that, yes, she does need just a little bit of help.
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what happens when I collect all of them? Do I summon Whedon and Brown for fighteration or something?A quick google suggests the going rate for custom printed marbles is about $50 for a 1,000 of them. So someone could spend $100 to buy a 1,000 with Joss Whedon's scowling face and a 1,000 with Alton Brown's scornful smirk, and then strategically hide them all over NYC in various places a Freehold has been spotted.
Just think, tiny dead-eyed Whedon and Brown simulacra faces hidden everywhere. Everywhere. In your fridge, your medicine cabinet, your box of cereal, inside the frame of your bike, peeking out from your A/C vents, behind the towels in the bathroom, in the bottom of the toilet tank, behind the bed headboard... and that's just in your apartment.
Hidden in your local BonChon, your local bodega, your bank, the bar you meet CH and Patrick at. Glued in the corner of the ceiling at work, staring down directly at your cubical/desk.
And even when you don't spot them, you'll know that they're there.
Watching.
Waiting.
We make sure to film it and release it as part of an anthology horror film. Your segment will be titled "Teeny Faces of Eevill™." (except with a better name)
Can't you just point her towards your backyard Kale Sanctuary (which is something that all Californians are obliged to have, by law) and leave her to it?
And segment two of the film will be Nobody discovering he now has the power to wish people into the Kalefield.
Edit: lisamarlene's segment will be "Alley of the Triffids."
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That stinks. He should be celebrating, not dealing with their baggage. Please tell I.M. congratulations from our family, and hugs all around.
Oh, I'm not going to expose TOO much laundry, but:
(1) The kids planned to ditch the moment graduation ended, or even a little bit before, indicating that we seem to be the *only* family of the group where relatives actually flew in to be here.
(2) This is only the second time in 30+ years that two of the visitors will willingly be in the same room, the first being our wedding in 1994.
(3) My mother is planning on giving Impus Major a sizeable scholarship.
So, "Stay long enough to be polite to your relatives" is apparently too much for the rest of the kids, and they're seriously pissed at Impus Major about it.
And that pisses me off, considering the countless hours they've spent at MY house enjoying MY hospitality, and asking them to cut him a little slack is utterly ineffectual.
Grr...
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what happens when I collect all of them? Do I summon Whedon and Brown for fighteration or something?A quick google suggests the going rate for custom printed marbles is about $50 for a 1,000 of them. So someone could spend $100 to buy a 1,000 with Joss Whedon's scowling face and a 1,000 with Alton Brown's scornful smirk, and then strategically hide them all over NYC in various places a Freehold has been spotted.
Just think, tiny dead-eyed Whedon and Brown simulacra faces hidden everywhere. Everywhere. In your fridge, your medicine cabinet, your box of cereal, inside the frame of your bike, peeking out from your A/C vents, behind the towels in the bathroom, in the bottom of the toilet tank, behind the bed headboard... and that's just in your apartment.
Hidden in your local BonChon, your local bodega, your bank, the bar you meet CH and Patrick at. Glued in the corner of the ceiling at work, staring down directly at your cubical/desk.
And even when you don't spot them, you'll know that they're there.
Watching.
Waiting.
We make sure to film it and release it as part of an anthology horror film. Your segment will be titled "Teeny Faces of Eevill™." (except with a better name)
Can't you just point her towards your backyard Kale Sanctuary (which is something that all Californians are obliged to have, by law) and leave her to it?And segment two of the film will be Nobody discovering he now has the power to wish people into the Kalefield.
Edit: lisamarlene's segment will be "Alley of the Triffids."
'Children of the Kale', feat. Caroline Monro (hauboy), Gwinnywinny Caltropow and Donald Pleasauce.
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Because she knows me well, Mrs. Sunrise got me a 5-pound bag of gummy bears last weekend. It has fused into a single 5-pound gummy mass.If it's got sugar, I wish you happy gnawing on your 5 lb. gummi meteorite.
If it's a sugarfree gummi meteorite, I wish that your intestinal tract has the fortitude to survive it (disturbingly descriptive product reviews), or at least that it mercifully kills you fairly quickly.
They It is sugar-full.
It still has the spring of the original gummy bears, and so far so good...
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Yeah. Over 50. Check. Out 'til nearly 1:00 am at a metal concert. Check. Impus Major's graduation tonight with the who parents can't stand the sight of each other insisting on both going. Check.
Should be an interesting day...
Anyone good?
(the band that is, rather than the parents)
- The opening band (whose name I can't find anywhere) was surprisingly talented, but needs a better songwriter.
- Aether Realm was significantly better; they started off with some clunkers, but as the set went on they got better and better.
- Gloryhammer, was, of course, Gloryhammer, so they were a blast.I never wanted to do another weeknight show again, but we figured, "Hey, it's Gloryhammer!" and usually the shows end before 11.
This one went 'til around 11:50 pm. Ouch.
I normally loathe the idea of going to a concert, but Gloryhammer is one of the bands I'd make an exception for. You have all of my envy, sir.
I'm more of a punk/grunge/hip hop person myself.
I like metal, but selectively, and I'm waaay behind the times (the last "new" metal band I got into was System of a Down).
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While I'm recovering from my nose injury I realized how on the nose the episode of King of the Hill wherein Hank Hill breaks his nose is.
I totally understand where Hank is coming from.
I want to see Waggaki Band.
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Finally managed to land myself a job!
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I'm not a huge fan of live shows, to be honest.
Or rallies, or marches, or pretty much anything where you get a whole bunch of people in the same spot.
Finally managed to land myself a job!
Congrats!
Can I borrow 20 bucks. :-D
Borderlands, The Handsome Collection is free at the PlayStation Store for PlayStation Plus members, and here I was, going to pay actual money for it not even three weeks ago.
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Borderlands, The Handsome Collection is free at the PlayStation Store for PlayStation Plus members, and here I was, going to pay actual money for it not even three weeks ago.
Be sure to play it with friends!
And the Tiny Tina added content is easily the best DLC ever, and on my "top ten list" of most-fun multiplayer online "RPGs" ever, even though it correctly identifies itself as an "RPGFPS". Utterly hilariously done.
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I'm not a huge fan of live shows, to be honest.
Or rallies, or marches, or pretty much anything where you get a whole bunch of people in the same spot.
Yep. I hate crowds. I'm mainly there as transportation/a sober watchdog.
But Alestorm and Sabaton put on live shows that are worth attending... especially Sabaton.
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I'm mixed on concerts.
I bought Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers tickets for WW's birthday one year and it was probably the most disappointing live show either of us had been to.
(We were also the only people in the crowd who weren't drunk or stoned, and dressed for Key West at an outdoor show in San Francisco in September, when we really ought to have been dressed for McMurdo Station.)
Mark Knopfler was very, very good live. It helped that, since I was 38 weeks pregnant, the usher ignored our tickets and snuck us into the handicapped area in the front. He was affable, funny, told stories, and went on long guitar improvisations. He drank tea from a mug onstage and poked fun (gently) at the people who were sparking up.
I don't know whether I've mentioned it, but I'm working on emptying our Public Storage unit before the European trip.
Why?
Because the rental rate has increased by about 11.8% a year every single year since we rented it in 2015.
And that's just the reality around here. Anything you rent you can expect double-digit increases in price every single year forever. It's just not sustainable.