Odds & Ends

Another busy week. Worse than usual. I took a few days next week to help my daughter. That triggered a deadline for my project to be sent to review for today. Fuck me. Would be ready, but they wanted the labs working too. Hoof…Not in our fickle cloud. Most of it does.

I don’t feel appreciated.

I blew off the pulmonologist. They renewed my meds a few weeks ago. Couldn’t deal with his bullshit this week. Small lung test, then outside the lane we go to my throat, which is a well traveled road this month.

By the time this post hits, I’ll be with the woman for a long weekend. She makes me forget all this silliness. At least she appreciates me.

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Granny MaoJackets was on the tube:

Fretting over Muh Democracies and such. Whatever. Clawing for relevance whilst hocking her latest loser book. Why can’t she flap those leathery dragon wings and fly away. Who needs it.

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I’ll just leave this right here:

TLDR; IBM monetizes on confusion, legacy systems, and corporate inertia. We sell tech to trap companies in it, then charge them forever to keep it working. The only reason companies are with IBM is because the cost of leaving is higher than the cost of staying and we make billions just off that equation. There is no bright future. – From Vox Popoli

I’ve worked for more than one company where this is the entire business model. It’s soul sucking. One, who I won’t mention, has a big software package that they toot their horn about. It has 13 customers. 13. They are big. But 13?

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Sing it brother:

My doctors are obsessed with this. To the point of overmedicating me. 3 things – he dimes out my  traditional BP as on the upper range of normal, as it was seen back in the day. 2- BP naturally increases with age, due to a number of factors and 3 – most hypertension is due to insulin resistance. Get an A1C and Glucose and see. Lower them, BP will lower. Mine did.

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Stupid SJW fuqs going to the penitentiary for chucking soup on a Van Gogh. Good. What dumb reason to be sent to prison. “Whatdder yer in fer”? Being a dumbshit, that’s what.

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Zman sizes up the VP choices:

Instead of salt of the earth middle-aged white guy, the Harris campaign got wacky old guy who gives people the creeps. The debate simply underscored the fact that the regime candidate is a ham-and-egger thrown in at the last minute. On the other hand, Vance looked like the guy who would take over the populist movement after Trump retires and actually have the skill to implement the agenda. Last night highlighted the fact that this election is a choice between normal and crazy.

At least I’m not a wacky old guy that gives people the creeps…yet.

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Chose RayBans instead of Oakleys.

No bifocals. I’d like to see the bike’s instrument cluster. Really never have when riding, unless I move my neck to look down. No bueno. Oakleys temples were too thick for the helmet. These felt better, by far.

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Driving here is tough. Especially in the mornings when the stupid are out in force.

BTW – I’m convinced they push their shopping carts in the grocery store just like they drive.

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What’s an extinction burst?

All fishermen recognize the extinction burst. The trophy fish makes one last, all-or-nothing run for freedom as the battle draws to a close.

All parents (and grandparents) of two-year-olds recognize it as well. Just before the child accepts the absolute necessity of not hitting, scratching or biting of “their” adults…they make one (or several) final, last, desperate runs at flipping the tables.

If you are a conservative, you probably believe that Donald Trump winning the 2024 Presidential Election will be a good thing.

In the long-term, I agree with that assessment. In the short-term, we are likely to see a storm of “Extinction Bursts” from various entitled classes. The most violent will likely be illegal immigrants who will be directed to spend their seven-year wait prior to a legal hearing IN THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. But those will not be the only ones. – Eaton Rapids Joe

I think this’ll happen either way. Buy guns and ammo whilst you still can.

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Never let a crisis go to waste. There’s been stories all over the place about government officials jamming up those that are coming to help in North Carolina. Apparently you can only accept goods and services from their vendors.

There is nothing that these people won’t grift from. Nothing.

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An underrated band, far as I’m concerned:

There’s nothing that sounds as rich and fat as a Gibson Les Paul. I had a black beauty once upon a time, but sold it. I needed dough. I knew as I did it that I’d regret it forever. I paid $900 for it new in 1987. Look at the price of a vintage one now.

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Another Canadian reportedly dead in Lebanon amid escalating Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Don’t know why they were there, but the time to beat feets was when the two were squaring up for a bar fight.

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Time for culture:

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A towel snap to defend against a machete attack?

The towel-snapping technique is 100% guaranteed to almost work, provided your attacker is a frightened woman with a fake knife who doesn’t really want to cut you. Also, you have to carry a towel with you everywhere. 

I’m having an impossible time remembering that these are the same people who once overran France in six weeks and made it all the way to the gates of Moscow before winter stopped them cold. – Stephen Greene

Yeah. No. I’ll take my .44, thank you. That said, if they want to go Indiana Jones, I’m sure a bullwhip would be more effective. Huh…maybe I should get one.

That said, I was clearing out a bag from my refugee move last December and found some goodies – My baton, a very cool fixed blade knife, and a sap I forgot I bought. That one will go in the truck.

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Was goofing with the camera in the storage room where they boy likes to inhabit. I moved the camera remotely, and he zeroed right in on it..

He likes having a window for himself to hold vigil.

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I went to the Central Market near me. I forgot how close it was. Amazing produce, great butcher and seafood. And for the most part, a lot of what the HEB sells up north, for the same price. I bought some veggies and fruit, a few odds and ends, and a premade meatloaf meal for later. Walked out a little over $35. Half of what I’d have spent at Tom Thumb.

Here’s the funny part – on the far side of the meat counter was the fake ‘beyond’ meats freezer display. Makes sense. Just past the meat. I studied it a bit and something caught my eye…

Bwahhhaha…. Whelp.. not exactly ‘meat’ per se. Cracked me up. Pork products in the hippy fake meat display. I do love me some scrapple though. Hard to find here. So I bought it.

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Under the “Jesus are they still up to that” heading:

Sure.

For whatever reason, the bathroom sinks weren’t off, nor were the counters very clean.

Whatever. Lots of dorks in masks there too.

Remind me to stay out of Dallas, will ya?

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I miss Chester.

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All I got. I’d say I’m outta here, but I’m already out where I’m at.

Have a good one.