Husband: I'm taking the kids to the zoo.
Wife: That should be fun.
Husband: I'm hoping the primate exhibit will take them.
Wife: Don't bother. I already tried.
"We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts."
-Mike Rowe
A Pennsylvania man was arguing with his wife, and decided to start working on his home....with an excavator.
Some dude with 28 prior arrests was found not guilty of murdering a Seattle man due to insanity.
I agree. The people involved in such a travesty of justice are insane.
Ouch! The new Disney Star Wars movie fell 80% from Friday to Friday. And it fell to 3rd place in that second Frida, behind two low budget indie films.
Serves Disney right.
RIP Marcia Lucas. I think without her, real Star Wars would not have been as good.
Archaeology News! Also Beer News! Researchers analyzing some Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets unveiled a 400 year old beer recipe. It dates back to the Ur III period, from around 2112 to 2004 BC.
I'd love to see someone try and brew that.
Seems a bat found near a California neighborhood tested positive for rabies. So now officials are warning residents of the area to be careful with wildlife. This is in some place called South Fremont.
Sad to see Dark Horse comics employees unionizing. There's a good chance, if they succeed, that I'll stop buying Dark Horse. In my experience, unions inevitably lead to higher prices and poorer quality. Not to mention...filthy communism.
Some losers are apparently trying to push a boycott of DC comics. All because the company doesn't want to publish books with characters they think won't sell well.
My guess is it's some people trying to essentially guilt DC into giving them jobs. Kind of like an old mafia tactic. "Nice business ya got here. Be a shame if something happened to it..."
So now I suppose I'll have to look for a few more DC titles to add to my pull list.
Boomers: Shove your feelings down!
Gen Z: Talk about your feelings with each other.
Gen Y: I'm in therapy for my feelings.
Gen X: You guys have feelings?
My daughter was doing her history homework and asked me what I knew about Galileo. I said, "He was a poor boy, from a poor family."
My kid: How much of an allowance did you get as a teenager per week?[i]
Me: [i]I was allowed to live there and eat.
Gen X:
It's not that our parents tried to kill us. They just didn't put a whole lot of effort into preventing it.
Happy Birthday Walt Whitman!
Happy Birthday Julius Richard Petri!
Happy Birthday John Ringling!
Happy Birthday Charles Greeley Abbot!
Happy Birthday W. Heath Robinson!
Happy Birthday Don Ameche!
Happy Birthday Akira Ifukube!
Happy Birthday Denholm Elliott!
Happy Birthday to the legendary Clint Eastwood!
Happy Birthday John Robert Schrieffer!
Happy Birthday Jay Miner!
Happy Birthday Johnny Paycheck!
Happy Birthday Joe Namath!
Happy Birthday John Bonham!
Happy Birthday Yoshiko Sakakibara!
Happy Birthday Colin Farrell!
Not much planned for today beyond laundry, some reading, and bringing the boy to/from his hike.
I am going downstairs in a few minutes to start cooking bacon. Later this evening I'll be grilling some chicken for dinner.
Been a pretty quite day so far. I was a bit careless when cooking the bacon this morning, and got a splash of hot grease. Worst was my finger, but some aloe took care of that.
My daughter was a bit concerned when it happened. I assured her that wasn't the first time I had been splashed by hot grease. And not the worst splashing.
Back in the day, more than 30 years ago now, I worked one summer at a Popeye's Fried Chicken. Back in the kitchen, you had to be careful putting the chicken into the fryers, lest you get a splash. I got many a splash.
Still, that was a fun job. And sometimes we got to take home unsold chicken after closing.
Brought the boy out to his hike about 2 hours ago. It's a little further north (about 20 minute drive). A pretty straight shot though, all things considered. I used Google Map on the way out, but won't need it to go pick him up in half an hour.
Leaflet Designs
by Pam Flett
Leatherwork for Beginners
by Tanya Hyde
How to Live on a Budget
by Penny Pincher
The Life of a Lumberjack
by Tim Burr
Numbers through today are finally in for Box Office Mojo. The Disney Star Wars movie's overall weekend drop wasn't as bad as the Friday to Friday drop - 68%. Still, not good for them. And it still came in second place to an indie movie for the weekend.
The number one movie was that Backrooms film. I saw the trailer, and it looked interesting. It made about $118 million of a $10 million dollar budget. Not bad.
Mayhap I'll see if the boy wants to go visit the theater this week...
Hmmm...Burger King is bringing back a nugget menu item for the first time in 15 years. To be honest, I can't recall the last time I was in a Burger King. There's one just down the road a ways, but there are also better places nearby.
Still, I recall liking those nuggets...
One of the dudes whose videos I occasionally watch on YouTube has been in Japan for a little over a week now. And he's been vlogging about it every day. And I've been tormenting myself watching those videos. Because Japan is awesome and I want to go back one day. Only as a pure tourist.
My daughter is watching some show where the dude is building some kind of weird obstacle course in his backyard. The purpose of this course seems to be trying to prevent squirrels from getting to bird feeders.
If people can make a career out of this kind of crap, I’m in the wrong line of work.
Nevertheless, it looks like the dude is having a blast. And squirrels do deserve that kind of torment.
Not particularly. Then again, nor is it necessarily "unhappy". At least, not yet. Give it time, though. I'm sure the Universe will come up with some way to add to my general vexation.
For instance....
Instead of editing my previous post successfully the first time I tried, the Universe decided it would be hilarious to completely ignore the edit and instead reload my screen on the very last of the 87 pages of Off-Topic threads.
WTF?
And now I'm getting a text from one of the former scouts who just made Eagle not too long ago. Telling me a date he's available to schedule an Eagle Court of Honor. So I have to tell him that Eagle Courts of Honor are entirely up to the family. The troop has nothing to do with planning those.
Of course, that also reminds me I have to get his paperwork, and that of the other, more recent scout down to council headquarters. I forgot to drop it off at that dude's house last week, so I should see if I can do that later today.
Marriage is when you know your wife adores you but also finds you the single most annoying person on the planet, all within the same minute.
Last night, I got thrown out of a casino. I totally misunderstood the craps table.
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