I am fortunate to have been born in the United States where I was able to get an education that led to a career which affords me a comfortable lifestyle. I have traveled to some beautiful countries, eaten some amazing meals and bought some fun toys. However, I find the enjoyment that I receive from these expensive distractions are fleeting. What I have found leads to the most consistent feelings of happiness is focusing on the little things. Here are a few of my favorite things.
Every morning, after I have crawled out of bed, I make a cup of coffee. Not just any coffee, but coffee I have roasted myself. I place the kettle to boil, deposit the beans into the grinder and fetch my Glibs-branded coffee mug. I listen for the water to steam and smell the beans as they grind, much like being near a waterfall, listening to the water crash off the rocks and smell the bouquet of nature. A few minutes of quiet contemplation. Once the water has come to the proper temperature, I mix the grounds and water in my French press and begin my four-minute wait. The process in entirety takes ten minutes. Ten minutes to myself, where I’m not concerned about the problems of the world or my own. Broken from my quiet reflection by the timer’s alarm, I eagerly pour my magical creation into my cup and deeply breathe in my latest batch. Did my roast yield mediocre results or the finest cup of coffee on earth? That is the most exciting part. Experiencing the results of your own craft. Really tasting the coffee and noting the uniqueness of each batch. Learning from my mistakes and reveling in my triumphs. I eschew quick coffee methods because I enjoy the ritual and its usually superior results. After draining my cup, I move to the bathroom.
Before work, like many of you, I engage in a hygiene routine. Brushing of teeth, showering of body, combing of hair and whatnot. The one area I may differ in is shaving. Several years ago, I decided to buy a straight razor because I thought it was cool. Probably the influence of too many gangster and cowboy movies. I am not one to waste space on useless baubles, so I decided to learn how to use the aforementioned straight razor. I fill the sink with scalding water and douse my face. I use my silver tip badger fur brush to whip up shaving cream in my little steel bowls. I strop my razor on fine leather and listen to the blade sing. With razor sharp and water hot, I apply the rich lather to my face. I will confess this, when shaving with a straight razor, your mind can be on no other task, or you will pay a blood price. Scraping and contorting my face, I shear my face in the grain of the growth. Another application of lather and I reverse the process. Rinsing, I inspect the results of my efforts and feel pride when no errant hairs are left or blood my blade. A quick application of aftershave and a ritual that requires absolute attention is done. I dress and leave for work refreshed and focused.
Having done yeoman’s work commenting on Glibertarians, I usually arrive home before midnight. I give my wife a hello kiss and a pat on the bottom, then steal away to the kitchen for my own heaven on earth: the liquor cabinet. I enjoy trying new spirits, but rye whiskey is a common companion. I take my crystal tumbler from its place and place two ice cubes inside. I love the sound of ice clinking against the crystal. The high tinkle contrasts perfectly with the dull thunk when I pull the stopper from the bottle of Whistle Pig. The Pig mascot in his top hat looks approvingly at me as I pour myself two fingers of that golden brown elixir and retire to the sofa to unwind. Swirling the glass to chill and dilute the whiskey, I deeply inhale the spicy sweet scent, recounting the day’s events. The first sip lovingly burns my throat and warms my belly. A pricey bottle to be sure, but well worth the expense. Another day finished. Another ritual complete.
These are my half-hour rituals that give me joy and keeps me sane. I spend money to enjoy quality whiskey, coffee and razors, but that small investment pays dividends that more than offset the cost. In fact, your small things need not cost money at all. You could take a morning walk, play with your pet, read to your children or any number of free activities. The key to happiness is being mindful and present and really focusing on what makes you happy. I invite everyone to share their “Little Things” in the comments section.
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654 responses to “The Little Things”
It absolutely the little things in life. They will keep you grounded and centered.
Coffee and Wake and Bake,
Wake 2 hours before leaving for work
Kiss Wife before leaving anywhere
the Zen of Building anything
Zen of Building anything-
I really like this one. Something so satisfying about creating something. We stained and sanded our mantle and I sit and just look at it with the wife and reminisce.
I stare at my dioramas and Zen my next move, very relaxing,
Tracking dog shit all over Zen sand gardens relaxes me.
I take Bella to the Local Mormon church to Shit, they are the only ones that can afford Grass,
Sorry Mo,
What happened to our Mormon correspondent? What was his name?
Gadianton?
He finished his mission? Poor guy had to learn Glib before coming here and then he had to spend his time here.
Missions got reduced from 2 years to 18 months, and that extra 6 months really makes a difference in one’s experience.
With any luck, he’ll have gone native.
Well I liked him and found his articles interesting, (although I had already been witnessed to extensively by a good buddy from my bar owning days> Yes I had a LDS bass player who explained LDS theology to me while setting up his band, musicians are interesting sometimes)
Man’s bestie.
I also arise two hours before leaving work but I gave up on the wake and bake during the work week, that’s my reward for a job well done. I do have my ONE cup of coffee(overly sensitive to caffeine) and enjoy the ritual of drinking my joe, taking a cool shower to help wake up, then make a big breakfast that’s eaten while watching the local tragedies from the night before…and traffic. I hate being rushed for work and my mornings are some of the only times I get some peace in life.
peace and quiet before the insanity of life, well played…..
A masturbation sleeve that looks like it has Bluetooth.
I’m interested in the subscribe & save.
https://youtu.be/mJYtJs_PkKE
I see nothing about bath salts or meth. Fail as a Florida man.
The cost is too dear to partake daily.
Thanks Florida Man, it gave me pause to consider what small things can have an effect on Life,
Life is Cool
You’re welcome. Thank you for taking the time to read and comment.
I always do, Your very Welcome
*ahem*
Yes, the little things do make me gay. I assume you meant light hearted and happy.
Well, of course. Why wouldn’t he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o
That is hands down my favorite movie.
Thats how you know you’re doing the ‘French Mistake’
So what if we need 2 hands to smack our Ladies asses?
MORE CUSHION!
Complete, toxic, masculinity.
“I give my wife a hello kiss and a pat on the bottom…”
That’s the inverse of what my grandfather did to my grandmother before leaving for work every day. An almost Shakespearean model of domestic bliss.
Cheers.
*proudly polishes shitlord certificate*
Kissed her on the ass and patted her on the lips? 😉
Teds’ wins the thread.
Yeah, I larfed.
” I invite everyone to share their “Little Things” in the comments section.”
Maybe I need to focus on that more. I don’t seem to have the “little things” like I did.
Do you wipe with your left or right hand? do you lay out clothes for the next day? plan Dinner?
C’mon, play the game…
You may already have something, but life gets busy and we rush and rush until life’s no fun. It’s about taking time, even if you can only protect 10 minutes and really focus and enjoy. I’m telling you it will do wonders for your mental health.
One of the first things I learned Sailing is, sometimes longer is faster, the wind determine that.
We however can make our own journey, our jobs are as difficult as we make them, and yes,
Preparation is 90% of success, if nothing else you have a cushion when/if you fuck up,
“The canvas can do miracles…”
Although I have never sailed with canvas sails, only nylon. Thanks, DuPont!
Prindle 16, the sails still stretched, a high point in my life was running my Catamaran, we was Fast!
Flying Scot. Newport. Hobie Cat (cartwheeled, no consequences, seemed fun at sixteen).
*sigh* I desperately want to learn to sail.
Pitchpole! You are Flying of the front of the boat!
Righting a Turtled Cat Solo, Awesome
Sailing the open Ocean, Awesome
Giving your boat away to a new Sailor? Awesome…
FL, get a Cat, or a Sunfish, nice and wet, easy to sail
No, I did not right the Cat solo. I was junior crewman of a crew of three, and NSWC Dahlgren range boats were on station, observing, laughing at us since our captain was one of their engineers.
I’ve never sailed open ocean, not even the open Chesapeake. Lame-ass, green water sailor — Potomac and Rappahannock rivers.
Sailing the open ocean late at night with no moon is fantastic. There are so many stores the constellations are different to pick out. With a bright moon just watching the swells come and disappear from view while contemplating the wide openness is humbling.
NOTE: None of this applies on a cruise ship.
FM. You are in a great state to learn. Lot’s of water and experienced people and clubs.
Plus the glut of boats makes the state was of the most promising for finding a boat for a good price point.
Well, you focus too much on the thicc.
Well, it took me a while, as I’m not really in a good place right now:
My office window looks out onto the back yard. I watch the squirrels chasing each other all day, fighting with the blue jays, and watching the cardinals slap the bejeebers out of both of them. They fight like siblings. I enjoy that.
I like sitting in my living room and looking at the books I own and knickknacks and art, all of which are very special to me.
I love fir-scented and mulled-cider-scented candles.
Sorry you’re not in a good place. Ugh.
Thanks.
Doldrums, huh?
Maybe this is helpful-
“The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if you force yourself to write when you’re in the doldrums, it will have the perverse effect of cheering you up. At the very least, it allows you to inflict your pain on your characters, which has the dual effect of giving them more depth while relieving your own tension.” -Sabrina Jeffries
Oh…dont run with that and do Sylvia Plath
Thanks, Tres. This episode of doldrums started about the end of May. I wrote a 230,000 word novel and pretty much ditched everything else in my life. Now it’s done. And I’m back where I started, but with a longer to-do list.
I dont even know how many pages that is. Im hoping it had plenty of cods and cuntes, tho.
And bore you financial fruite.
I think the (general) rule of thumb is about 250 words per printed page. That’s 26 double-spaced lines, but I don’t know if publishing cuts that down a bit. Regardless, 230K words is like a thousand ordinary typed-pages. That’s quite a lot.
If it’s any solace, working in a law firm is that kind of output – except in legal writing – on the reg. It’s not fun. It can be an intellectual challenge, but it’s grunt work. And you do it 20-30 pages at a time, typically (5k-7.5k words). Savagely edited, too.
With very tiny print, 6×9 paperback, ~700 pages.
With any luck, it will be. It’s a total cliche from start to finish.
I’ve never worked in a firm, but I do transactional work and I’ll say we do a lot more copy and paste than fiction writers can. Honestly I find myself kind of longing for something new to draft some days.
@Ozymandias
I do not envy you your writing.
For the manuscript itself, 1″ margins, Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 line space, it’s ~650 pages (don’t have it handy at the moment).
My snippets file, where I keep stuff I cut, is 150,000 words. None of it is duplicated. I do not include that in my word count for the manuscript.
This is a fun week. I get to watch the new associates slowly lose hope as they come to terms with what working at a large law firm actually entails.
Sheet, you’re wasting paper with such wide margins and spacing. I draft at single space 0.79″ margins, same font and size though.
This may be due to the fact that I can’t read wider spaced documents. For whatever reason, my eyes have a harder time staying on the correct line of text when there’s extra space between them. My gaze ends up skittering up and down the paragraph instead of reading what I want to.
Recommended treatments for doldrums from Dr. GT [Disclaimer: I’m not a real doctor, but I DO have a Master’s Degree!] –
1. Watch Harold and Maude.
B. (Re)Read The Phantom Tollbooth.
The Phantom Tollbooth.
♥
I’ve only seen the band.
I’m sorry to hear you are feeling melancholy. I tend to be pessimistic by nature and that’s why I wrote this piece. These are the things that keep my short temper in check.
bummer for your spot, but it’s probably fun to watch the action, enjoy it, you’ll be fine Mo,
Thoughts and prayers. How’s the little one’s ankle?
LOL The little one who is 4 inches taller than I am?
Fine, although I feel stupid because yesterday I should have just poured ibuprofen down her throat, slapped ice on it, and gone to get fresh Ace bandages. I can never really tell how much pain she really is in.
Thank you for asking, tho!
Keep your chin up Mo.
Little moments are where the happiness comes in. Playing in the yard with the pups. A favorite meal. Owning a lib. These are a few of my favorite things.
The problem with owning libs is how quickly they depreciate.
Wait there are people that actually have time to take care of themselves in the morning? I thought everyone fought with a 4 year old about wearing sandals when it’s 10 degrees outside, or a winter coat when it’s 90.
I think the more crazy your life, the more important self-care becomes.
Yep
“Kiddo, go get dressed.” 30 minutes pass “Bunny” silence “BUNNY!” faintly “Huh” “Are you dressed we have to go?” “almost” 5 more minutes pass “BUNNY” silence “BUNNY!!!” “huh” “Are you dressed?” “almost” storming up the steps, “OH MY GOD!” 5 year old sitting butt naked reading her book, with one freaking sock half on her left foot.
But you know it is one of my favorite memories now that she is growing up.
Oh god, that dreaded “almost” — which usually means “Not even lose”. lol
But yep, treasure those memories, because then they get surly and STILL don’t get dressed in a timely fashion.
*close, not lose.
Then take them wherever you’re going naked.
(This is why I don’t have children….)
All I could think of is one of my little pleasures… music. This song in particular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9cFM4-MRuE
You make like this then:
https://youtu.be/zkF08P-_ztA
I do indeed
Dude on the end is the Nick Gillespie of banjo pickers.
Hi Neil! Welcome and I hope you enjoy our Company, please submit an article, and feel free to call out Tulpa! I’m a Tulpa, Saul Goodman!
and he’s a Hearty Fuck Off! just for You,
Cheers!
Neil’s been round before. He’s a good dude.
So Neil is a Florida Sock. Wait, do you all even have socks in Florida?
Nuh uh, I’m Tulpa
See?
Cheers!
I’ve heard tales of socks, but they seem ridiculous in the land of sun & humidity.
Hello! I haven’t seen/”met” you before.
Lovely musical selection. I bookmarked it.
I comment somewhat infrequently. I lurk quite a lot, but I usually don’t read things until the threads are long dead.
I’ve been really into bluegrass for the past year or so, but punch brothers are on another level for me. They have straightforward stuff like that one, and other songs that cross musical genres brilliantly.
My first exposure to bluegrass was from my distant relatives deep in the Missouri Ozarks at the one and only family reunion we went to. They weren’t very good. It put me off bluegrass for a very, very long time. Then came Alison Krauss. I have been very careful since then, and your link, I like.
My daughter started playing the fiddle and I went looking for songs with good fiddle in them and just kinda fell down a rabbit hole.
This one is another pair of gems from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=staHSMEE1pw
Anne Harris.
I have such a girlcrush on her.
Nice. I’ll have to check out more from her when time allows. Thanks for that.
Out of curiosity, what brought you out tonight Neil? It’s been commented that quite a few new faces/lurkers are out.
Here’s some video from the last meeting the Glibs editors had.
That is AWESOME!
We then raided Seville.
Did you shave the barber?
FM already mentioned the razor.
/serious mode on
I would very, VERY much like to go there one of these days.
I took my wife to Seville before we had kids. If you get the chance I would recommend also spending a night or two at the Parador at Carmona. Lifetime memories.
That sounds lovely.
I live in Kansas City, Missouri. We have a huge chunk of the city that is an almost exact replica of old Sevilla with a 1/4 size replica of La Giralda, Country Club Plaza.
Now, I have never been there (obvs), but I DID write a book and set it there. Thank you, Google and YouTube!
Kansas City is Sevilla’s sister city (one of them). They have a major avenue named Avenida de Kansas City. When they had their world fair back in the 80s, they needed to replace very old street lamps, but the problem was, they didn’t have any to replicate. Guess what? WE had them, from the 1920s, I think (that’s when the Plaza was built). So they came here and cast our replications so they could replicate them.
Anyway, Sevilla is one of my pet interests. I have many weird ones. Chernobyl is also one.
“I live in Kansas City, Missouri.”
My dad was born there in 1928.
Neat – I know nothing about KC. I love learning stuff like this.
The city in Germany I lived in for one year is the sister city of my hometown. And yes, there is a Rochesterstraße. I am a pretty sure there is no Würzburg Street in my hometown, but there is a cute little pedestrian bridge downtown called the Sister Cities Bridge.
During the Pendergast years. 😀
@Rhywun, that is very pretty. I’ve been to Bavaria, and it was so, so lovely.
They got some pretty little women there and I’m gonna get me one.
@Mo
Yeah, it’s kind of my ideal “small city”. It has everything you could want and none of the crap you don’t.
In 1930, his preacher dad ran off with the church secretary. He moved to Idaho in 1940.
Do they still have “Red Hot” Tuesdays?
I don’t know what that is, but Google says no.
I think I might actually be Superman. I don’t have super strength, but I do seem immune to all the unfortunate trevails that many succumb to. I’m not balding, I don’t have digestive issues, no cancer, my teeth need work, but the issues aren’t severe or really even discomfiting. I’m in my thirties and frankly I think I’ll outlive you all. I might even have sex again.
I am not, however, immune to fucking WordPress bullshit code, and so what’s intended as a joke post at the bottom of a comment stack is inserted at some random point because fucking WordPress.
I don’t blame our overgenerous hosts for using WordPress, but WordPress needs a sound thumping with a corduroy pillow.
I’m in my thirties
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA….Deep Breath..coughing spell…hack up a lung…another deep breath….HAHAHAHAHAHa!!!
I really hate to burst someone’s bubble, but yeah. Being healthy in your 30s isn’t a superpower, sorry man.
*waves from across town*
“Do they still have “Red Hot” Tuesdays?
I don’t know what that is, but Google says no.”
Tuesday was Red Hot tamale day. There were hand pushed carts that sold them.
We were able to buy them in the freezer section in CA. Mom even had a “tamale steamer”.
“I’m in my thirties and frankly I think I’ll outlive you all.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I hope we’re all still here in 20 years to point and mock you.
No, you don’t understand. I can drink half a bottle of cheap gin, and I’m mostly kindof okay to go to work the next day, I’m not brilliant, but I perform.
I lived by a ginormous Sears warehouse and my dad would take me there on Saturdays every so often to Jim’s tamale cart out front and get tamales.
This was in the early 1970s, though.
No, you don’t understand. I can drink half a bottle of cheap gin, and I’m mostly kindof okay to go to work the next day, I’m not brilliant, but I perform.
Yeah, we believe you. But as you cross those delightful milestones ahead you’ll understand what we find funny. 40 isn’t that bad, 45 it starts to sink in, 50 you get a preview of coming attractions.
Commodius, don’t listen to these old men! 1/2 a bottle of gin? Piker! Up your game!
Can confirm.
I’m most indisposed toward WordPress right now.
Also: getting old isn’t that tough or people wouldn’t be doing it all the time.
Wait, what? Why are you having WordPress issues? The software or the .com?
It’s the damn buggy code which I’m pretty sure has something to do with the cache (and I’m already out over my skies with regards to speculating about coding): if you reply to a comment, it seems to save your reply position. So if you later go to comment at the bottom of the page, it resorts to posting your comment where you clicked reply, rather than posting it at the bottom of the page like you intended. I think it’s a WordPress bug.
I have found that manually deleting the comment and THEN hitting cancel comment before going to the new spot avoids that.
Yes, I’ve done that twice in the last two days.
I spent a day in Seville while our plane (which we would fly to Gander next) was being worked on. Got to see a little of the countryside, wandered around without a guidebook for a very little bit, went to the first bar we found for a couple of drinks and snacks, then back to Moron. I wouldn’t mind going back for an actual visit.
https://youtu.be/R2aiuZiFkbA
I don’t TT ever looked hotter, either before or after.
How the F did it end up here? It was supposed to be at the end.
IT IS MY NOBLE RIGHT!
I kept waiting for Lisa Gerrard or Brendan Perry to walk in and lay down some vocals.
I was expecting that techno-viking dude.
“TECHNO VIKING DOES NOT DANCE TO MUSIC- MUSIC DANCES TO TECHNO VIKING!”
You’re going to have to translate that reference for the Millennials.
Meh, they can internet it.
When the dude with the balls walked past the camera I did a spit take
I liked it. Was that SF spinning the crystals?
I assumed the crystals were for communicating with SF at his home in R’lyeh.
You are both correct.
Now I’ve got a crappy Blink 182 song in my head!
It is amazing how a good meal and some alcohol can make the ending to shitty day relaxing.
It is amazing how I have studiously avoided them my entire life and I STILL know that fucking horrible song.
There’s nothing wrong with that song.
Oh my God.
Palate cleanser.
https://youtu.be/P00HMxdsVZI
What have I ever done to you?
Lol. I thought you would like a little ear ?.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD! That song is terrible.
Meh, It’s better than the entire Brian Wilson songbook, and you can throw in Jimmy Buffet and whoever wrote the Grateful Dead’s (Phil, Bob, Jerry? can’t be arse to look it up) shit in there as well.
Ain’t saying much.
Fine it’s also better than 30 minute self indulgent drone fests by Carlos and crew or Duane, Dicky, and the rest.
Terrorizing the interns, making my girlfriend roll her eyes, appreciating that I’m tone deaf in higher registers while my daughter practices the violin, seeing my enemies driven before me and hearing the lamentations of their women.
I’m more an open steppe, falcon on the wrist, wind in the hair kind of guy.
I’ve… been excommunicated from Glibs, haven’t I? Sigh.
No, but you must do each thing in its proper season. The enemy driving lamenting stage must occur before the steppe can properly be enjoyed, otherwise some asshole native might ride across your field of vision.
I was hoping for some kind of division of labour/comparative advantage thing.
Not yet, but you need to ponder your sins on the tree of woe.
Thanks for the article, Florida Man. I’m starting to try and incorporate little things like this to stay sane. Full time work plus full time PhD program means I’m working on school pretty much every waking minute that I’m not work-working. It’s not a fun schedule, especially with 3 little ones.
Afternoon coffee has become an important ritual in my day. When I get off work, I walk a mile or two around my yard with my daughter. It’s nice to take a break from sitting in front of the computer all day and spend a little time with her. Once it gets a cooler and the ticks die off, we’ll start hiking through my woods instead of the yard. I’m going try to take a break and go fishing on some Saturdays this fall. I stocked my pond with smallmouth and haven’t been down there yet.
I hear you brother. Stay healthy. It sounds like you have some great things in your life to keep you grounded.
The Singularity just happened.
That doesn’t exactly look like the singularity they promised me.
Sex robots are step 2.
OK, then I’m onboard.
Robot reports biracial Professor for sexual harassment. News at 11.
Depending on how you count, it’s at least triracial.
No one needs more than 2 races of human!
Do you really want glasses that report on and to every ass you leer at?
I have already detailed my position on this matter.
I would say that this is just creating evidence for Sexy Cyborg’s harassment suit against you, but she is a bit slender for your taste.
Don’t typecast me.
Fair enough. I apologize and offer penance
Damn
She didn’t hack it to make these noises? That’s some bullshit!
Sounds like she is still mad at Vice and Sarah Jeong.
@Count P.
Well, being outed without your consent does that to you.
I got curious from HM and Count’s conversation and went down a rabbit hole. I had previously just watched a few of Sexy Cyborg’s videos, but reading her experience with Vice/Jeong confirms what I think about left leaning media. All their ‘caring’ is about movements, individuals are just meat to them.
I’m not saying her feelings aren’t justified, I was just surprised to see so many recent tweets from her about it.
What, missionary? Reverse cowgirl? Glowing juniper?
“Glowing juniper?”
Look, we don’t take kindly round here to that tree hugging hippy shit.
And then gin for after.
I had no idea that it had a name. But yes.
Those would look good on a soft butch.
Hello, shitlords. I am unfortunately not able to post or work from home now because of intense level pre-rollout testing. Sucks to be me right now.
All of you are effete sissies.
This is all one needs to start the day.
Umm, I’m a Shitlord, so Fuck Off!
my kids’ laughter is a great blessing. Just can’t beat that sound.
My oldest and is 3 and watching him learn and be in awe is a joy as well. He was impressed at the summit of a hike we did, but even the little things like a few well chosen books gets him excited
Thanks FM for the post. Enjoy your little things
Well, this was lovely.
I wish everyone could see that. Unfortunately, everyone will continue to be lied to instead.
Right on Florida Man, I enjoyed this post. My life feels like I run a marathon every day. I’m up at 630, making breakfast for three little kids and getting them ready to go to school with my wife. The phone calls and emails start pouring in and I usually drop off the preschool one while the wife gets the older boys to grade school. I drive all around the busy city and do jobs as quickly as I can while feeding off calls for jobs, parts, and inquiries. I often eat while I drive because I don’t have time to stop. I don’t get much time to myself until 9pm when the kids finally are in bed and stop their fussing and requests. During the day 5-10 minutes sometimes if i have to wait for an appointment to show and I will often check out Glibs. This place is one of my little pleasures. I have big pleasures in my life, but I really love the peace and quiet of my last couple hours. My wife usually falls asleep early and from 930 or so on I have absolute peace and quiet, with no one requesting anything of me. Just some music or an old movie, a good beer or Irish whiskey, a few times a week some high quality tobacco rolled with some high quality weed in really good papers with a tip rolled in, and some Glibs or whatever reading I get up to. Bliss.
Thank you for the warm response. After I submitted this I had second thoughts if anyone would be interested. I appreciate the validation.
Oh, FM, no! It was lovely!
Thanks Mo. I have a follow up piece as soon as my trusty proof reader cleans it up.
I like your coffee ritual and enjoyed your previous coffee related posts as well. (Also a huge fan of French press and fresh grind, but haven’t yet gotten to the home roasting yet!).
It’s a fun hobby. You only need about a 1/2 per week to roast unless you a have a high volume coffee drinking household.
Very Cool,
Thanks again!
More validation. I get up at 4 am and drink coffee in total silence and peace for an hour. I cannot imagine skipping it. Thanks for reminding me why.
Of course, I’m lazy. So, my coffee is Peets in a k-cup.
Driving fast on winding roads out in the country, walking the dog through the woods on a crisp, still winter day, having coffee on the deck before anyone else is up.
Thanks, FM. Excellent stuff!
Tips of the hat to you good sir.
Church leaders urge government to ban pointed kitchen knives
I forgot that the Brits prohibited one from purchasing more than 16 tablets of Tylenol at one time to prevent overdosing.
I think they achieved no bloody point some time back.
Is this part of the glorious modernity?
Well, if we are to live our lives in imitation of Christ, did He have access to paracetamol while on the Cross?
Hmmm?
Related.
I was expecting Star Trek V. Teh disappoint…
“The UK has worked for the public good by restricting” “Star Trek V.”
Heroic Mulatto on September 25, 2019 at 7:50 pm
Winston on September 25, 2019 at 8:33 pm
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Star-Trek-V-The-Final-Frontier-so-reviled-by-fans-and-critics
awfulmovies.miraheze.org/wiki/Star_Trek_V:_The_Final_Frontier
Isn’t Christ now that Swedish Girl?
Yet you can still get codeine there without a prescription.
Tylenol is probably more damaging to your health.
Cooking has been a zen moment for me for many years. This afternoon, I made a fresh spaghetti sauce with the last of the San Marzano’s from the garden. Sublime. Focusing on what you’re doing, to the point of shutting everything else out, is the goal.
My morning bike ride. From yesterday.
http://imgur.com/a/gMl6Vkx
No ride today. Yesterday I fell off on a steep downhill corner and my thigh must have hit a rock. I’ve got a huge charlie horse and can bairly walk. At my age falling is no small matter like it used to be.
Just brought in all the tomatoes ripe or not. Winter is coming.
Beautiful. Sorry to hear about your mishap and injury.
Haven’t you been reading the news? Greta jumped from the top rope and stabbed the Night King; there will be no more winter! The world is literally on fire!
Great picture.
The family and I are doing our first bikepacking trip this weekend. It won’t be that scenic, but hopefully pretty fun.
Sorry about your fall. I hope you feel better
I’ve done some motorcycle camping. I still have my one man tent. It’s different from the usual motel motorcycle trips, but fun in it’s own way. Lotta thought goes into packing.
Sorry 🙁
OT: So I’m wondering, the dems and the media are focusing on the Biden part of this Trump call, but could it be something else that they’re really worried about?
Hey, man. I’m so sorry about missing my Patreon shit for your cartoon. Not going into details but life got kinda fucked up for a few months. Anyway, I’m getting you squared up on October 1st and will be back to contributing. Again, sorry. I feel like an asshole.
CPRM’s a findom?
Damn you for making me Google that.
No prob. If you’ve not noticed, I didn’t delist you in the credits. If anyone from here misses a payment I will assume there is just cause. I’m very grateful for all the support everyone here has given me some supreme people who only gave once but generously still get credit. It might dilute the value of getting that credit to some, but I just want give thanks where thanks is due.
I regret calling CPRM a findom.
You’re clearly a finsub. I bet you meet your deadlines and stretch goals, you bitch-made creator. You’re a disappointment to Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian, pbuh.
I haven’t watched the last few episodes yet because, well, I felt like I didn’t deserve to yet. I know, that’s probably silly but there it is. I appreciate you being cool about it. If anything stupid should pop up again I’ll give you notice. Keep working, I’m paying up!
I myself am poor. I know bills aren’t really due until they day they shut off whatever service the bill is for or take you to court.
Have you ever tried Cold Brew?
Yes:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/06/how-bout-a-cold-brew/
Nice:). I need to be less lazy and do that more.
This is the very article that inspired me to pick up a cold brew rig. I say rig, but we’re talking big-ass Mason jar, mesh cone, and screw-on lid with a flip top. I have to drink hot coffee in the morning, but I’ll keep a half-gallon of cold brew on hand for a few shots before lifting weights after work or if I’m feeling groggy in the evening. It also mixes well with whey powder.
You know, this is why I started writing for glibertarians again. It is nice to hear that people learned something new or that you have some positive impact on the community. Thank you.
The key to happiness is…
boobs
Give me a cute face and long legs and I’m a readymade fool. Sorry, Aus and Q.
Actually, I hear ya. Big ‘uns are fun to look at and play with, but small-perky are fantastic, maybe even preferable in a long term relationship. Definitely age better too.
…All I really want is a kindhearted woman to welcome me home, hold me and tell me everything is going to be okay…
*runs away sobbing*
She’ll even tell you Trump’s being impeached.
I noticed there, what you did.
You coulda just stopped there, you know.
“This is the woman on the video who told Beto he wasn’t taking her guns…”
https://twitter.com/tlvance63/status/1176882128690319360
Well, that’s going on my “girls with guns” board on my Pinterest.
I think I need to move out of the city, preferably south. I can and do date women that look like this, but they always have turrible SJW politics.
Yeah, she’s going to shoot herself in the knee with that thing. She really needs a more gender appropriate side arm, something a frail little lass like that can handle.
Cmon man… it’s just a picture. Clearly she is just doing it for the sexy look.
At the Beto speech, she had an appropriately holstered glock.
Next youre going to tell me that those girls in bikinis shooting machine guns are also doing it wrong?
They aren’t? I mean I’m not a gun nut like most of you but even I’ve seen movies and that hot brass is gonna leave a nasty cleavage scar, I guess it could work for the chick if she isn’t conventionally pretty and the scar distracts from her big nose, uni-brow, or close set eyes, but still gun safety should take precedence over image.
Once I was at the pistol range and brass lodged between my face and eye protection. I calmly placed the pistol down then adjusted the eye pro so the brass fell out.
First time that’s ever happened and I only get to the range once or twice a year. I was very proud of myself for keeping my cool as the hot brass seared by skin.
/brag
Being left-handed means that when I shoot a lot of rifles the spent casing ejects across my field of vision. What it also means is that sometimes they’ll pop up, back, and slightly to the right, placing them in the hood of my hoodie, say, or lodging right between the collar of same and my neck. No scars, but I was walking around with a red mark for a few days once.
Yup, fellow lefty here. They get everywhere. Down my shirt brass happens almost every time I go to the range. It’s hard to find lefty semi autos.
Tavor?
https://iwi.us/left-hand-conversion/
Thanks FM. It probably ain’t worth it for me as I don’t constantly shoot. I also feel that the brass burns build character.
I have a scar on my foot from a fresh 556 brass going down my boat shoe.
ouchie
Would
What I have found leads to the most consistent feelings of happiness is focusing on the little things.
I too enjoy masturbating.
haha
Can someone let SP know to block and erase my account? I’d email her but I don’t have an email account. I just thought she might be here today. I already knew what you guys thought of me, so that’s fine, I just want to be erased. This isn’t attention-seeking, but I know you guys will think what you want and that’s fine, I’m just looking to be erased.
And we can all forget about it
Thank you
What’d I miss?
*confused*
Two threads back for this drama, yesterday’s morning links for the Lord Humongous drama. That should catch you up if you care to dig in.
TL;DR version, we’re all assholes, and sometimes our special brands of assholery don’t mix well.
I’m not.
Well yes, you’re a douche bag, it’s all laid out in those other threads.
Wait, what’s up with Lord Humongous?
He left in anger at HM.
HM is too smart and I know he has … ‘*experience*
I know better than to get in the pit with him.
He did say “Y’all can go fuck yourselves” so I don’t think it can all be blamed on HM, I’d like to take at least partial credit but I’ve never cheapened myself to the point of mocking disabled children, so it’s on the rest of you.
Differently abled you shitlord.
There was no pit fighting. I posted something, and sometime the next day while I was afk at work he posted a call out and I guess walked off. My only stance is that I believe he overreacted. I hope he entertains the notion of returning soon, because it’s already water under the bridge as far as I’m concerned.
I’m looking, but not finding it.
I’m pretty sure you’ve posted unflattering comments about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the past, Hyp.
CPRM – Tuesday Afternoon links : Comment 48, but don’t go and read it, it’ a shit show. And really doesn’t need dredge up again, to repeat do not go revisit Comment 48 on Tuesday afternoon links.
HM – I doubt it, I stay away from the low hanging fruit.
I wish LH & EF had read this before they left. Glibs in one of my little things.
For real though, what the hell is goin’ on around here? First LH leaves all pissed, then some rando shits up a thread by bitching about how mean people are and then takes up like 700 posts with all the mean people around here trying to convince him that life is worth living just in case he actually is serious about killing himself.
Climate change
Well shit, climate change or tariffs, I just wish people would stop acting like cuntes.
I don’t like it either.
For the past day and half, the comments have been just like this.
/flips lunch table, yells “OOOHHHHHH!!!!”
In the case of the PM Links, Bill, you ARE NOT the father!
I know, right? They should have been more like this.
You guys, that’s like, totes disconcerting.
Boy, that escalated quickly.
I mean, it really got out of hand.
I too enjoy masturbating.
If it gets out of hand are you doing it wrong or right?
Yes
Doesn’t everybody?
I can’t speak for anyone else, I don’t think ill of you. I’d be happy for you to hang around. If not I hope you will be well.
Does asking to be deleted make you happy? Does seeking attention from the people that post here make you happy? If not, maybe take some time to self reflect and figure out what you need. You alluded to being suicidal earlier. I believe in self ownership, but consider those that would be hurt. Seek help before making a decision you can’t take back.
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
The thing is you guys think this is attention-seeking but I’m just a random person on the internet. I’m sorry I shat on your threads today, I didn’t mean to. I thought I would get banned and erased faster than it happened.
(I consider them every moment, and it hurts. I’m not an asshole IRL, not that it matters.)
Please just let SP know to erase all this, OK? I’ll stop posting.
*all this and everything I’ve ever posted and ban me
A suitable punishment would be to leave everything you wrote up.
If you don’t want to be here, there’s nothing stopping you from just not coming.
yeah
ok
Dude, I haven’t seen the thread, and don’t really know you but just relax. Yeah, this is a rough place at times but if you’re not being an intentional troll you’ll probably be welcome. And if you feel you embarrassed yourself, so what? I embarrassed myself here all the time. You wouldn’t believe what an ass I made of myself the first week I mustered up the courage to post at TOS. I had a very messed thing happen with my family, shared it without really building a report first, and was mocked mercilessly. And remember, back then TOS Hit&Run was an uncensored free for all. It really upset me. But you know what, I refused to go away, somehow made a few friends, and years later these pricks accept my as one of their own, regardless of what they think of me. And I feel the same. Don’t bitch out. 😉
We accepted you until you joined the avatar changers.
Ah, shit! I forget my most redeeming quality was my bitchin’ Trudeau avatars.
Give me a few minutes to dig some out and bring myself back to acceptance…
Oh, while we’re waiting…and because it’s pertinent…and because I’m an asshole…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQTmYVrOzU
Yay your avatar’s back!!!
If you want to be memory holed stop posting. You’ll soon be forgotten. It is not fair to the people that post here to causally mention suicide. Although we put on a gruff exterior, these are some of the most empathetic people I’ve ever known. They not only care for each other, but also their fellow man. People here contribute time and money to help people they don’t even know. I’m sure many/most of us here have been touched by suicide and it’s cruel to remind them of horrible times. Either seek help, contribute in good faith or please leave.
It wasn’t casual or flippant, and you’re right, none of you know me so you shouldn’t care, but I didn’t mean it like that, and I’m sorry to kinnath and everyone else for it seeming that way, and I wish you the best.
Depression is a chemical imbalance in brain. Like any other illness it can be treated.
You can manage it to a certain extent with over the counter products like St John’s Wort and Dopa Macuna.
Try to fix yourself before you try to end yourself.
i hope your brother stops suffering at least suffers a lot less and i hope you don’t have to suffer his suffering.
Suffering is not all there is to life. What do you like? Not beating you up, genuinely asking. Even if you don’t presently have whatever it is, what would you enjoy?
i’m really sorry kinnath
he’s lucky to have you
I will be offline for the next three or four days.
Take care of your self.
Kinnath, good luck with your endeavors!
Good luck with whatever is going on Kinnath ( I think I missed something)
Every time I’ve ever had the guts to post you guys call me a piece of shit, and it’s true. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for this to happen, and I will leave now.
Who specifically treated you poorly? All I’ve seen is magnanimous restraint in dealing with you theatrics. If you want to contribute something to the community or simple lurk you are still welcome. If your only desire is drama I suggest joining a real housewives blog.
First, love yourself.
twice today already
Prostate cancer prevention.
Some people think that, others think other things. That is how it works, we aren’t a monolith here. I’m happy to listen if you have things you want to share. If not as I said before I wish you well and would be happy to have you remain here. You do need to stop with the begging SP to delete you. Whatever that symbolizes to you, it does not actually accomplish anything. You don’t need that to happen to leave this community, if that is something you really want to do. I will say once again I think your perception of exclusion is more in your head than in reality. As with anyplace some people here will like you others may not. Ball is in your court.
That is how it works, we aren’t a monolith here.
Speak for yourself, I think exactly the same way the rest of you does.
Well, I don’t, so you’re out of sync with me at least.
You’re a Simonist too?
I tried to show that to a chipmunk in my yard to get a more informed opinion, he looked at me, froze for a moment, looked at me again wriggled his nose and ran off. So clearly Simonist as well.
Much like your thicc Thursdays:
I don’t get it.
🙁
I don’t get it.
Theodorite heretic!
“under communism all chipmunks receive equal head”
https://twitter.com/rumeruwu/status/1176904927395876864
I don’t know who this Peter Fitz guy is, but he’s an asshole.
What’s awl dis bout den, ay? I’ve spoken with you quite a few times over the last several months, and I don’t recall ever being anymore gruff with you than I am with all the others. Your talk of suicide along with wanting to be deleted has me worried you’re planning something even worse.
Of course you’re just a random person on the internet, we all are. Others have tried to talk to you about how much doing anything rash will hurt other people (It’s been 5 years since my dad died and the world still doesn’t seem right). In the end, it is your choice. Nobody can stop you from doing the wrong thing, but that doesn’t mean you should do the wrong thing.
Words of wisdom. I hope he listens.
A clean wipe is always appreciated.
You mean like, with a cloth ?
I’ve never used a bidet, but I am curious.
It will change. Your. Life.
I need to try that as well.
I am intrigued by the seat attachments on Amazon, but weary of too much splashing.
So, every time I come close to pulling the trigger I think about what my wife will say when I explain that I’m hooking a bidet to the toilet because I don’t feel like wiping poo off your butt with paper is gonna do the trick. Then I persevere, but then I think about what my 4 year old will do when she sees it, and the threat of the biggest bathroom debacle in history is enough to turn me off.
I don’t feel like getting into the story right now, but a bidet saved my life when I was living in Bangkok.
“Laugh all you want, honey, but I have it on good authority that in certain circumstances a bidet can be the one thing standing between you and your untimely demise.”
Chained to the toilet and the bidet provided the only potable water?
I was going to guess life ending shits and saved his ass from getting shredded by toilet paper every three minutes for 48 hours.
Never share the story, it is perfect left as this.
Second. I was skeptical until I used a washlet. Still use some TP, but there’s something about warm water and a warm seat.
Toilet paper will never accomplish a clean wipe.
I too am someone for whom taking walks in the woods is one of life’s pleasures. Living next to 1000 acres of state forest helps.
One of these days I’ll get enough pictures to do a post here.
Living next to 1000 acres of state forest helps.
I hope a true Scotsman lives there… ;P
I’m one to talk cuz MUH ROADS!!!
Oh man, that sounds like heaven on earth.
The only bad thing is the damn spiders that spin their webs across the trails.
I agree that wandering through the woods is a true joy. And another place where your focus on what you’re doing pushes out other thoughts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgGQUNtzdQw
What is this? Joe Breen deserves an apology…
From the afternoon links :
The SF fiction that I’d like to see is
Donald and Greta: A Love Story
Now, this would be legal in my country, and in Sweden. However, I suspect that, were it posted here, OMWC and SP’s neighbour’s kid would end up being killed by a flashbang grenade.
OMWC is American. He doesn’t have any neighbours.
Never underestimate the incompetence of police. They’d fuck up if OMWC was living like the Australian kid Bart prank called.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
Greta winning a Nobel would be like the ultimate cosmic joke showing what a shitshow liberalism and “modernity” are, just like how Herbert Spencer protégé was none other than Beatrice Webb.
Does Greta even have enough Drone Kills to qualify?
Pretty sure there’s a minimum requirement these days.
Well the enviro agenda will a ton of people so I think that will qualify…
*will kill a ton of people*
Oh damn you’re right… we’re talking millions.
She’s good a good strategy, I can see where the judges are coming from now.
At this point it’s almost guaranteed that Greta wins it.
Hell they’ll probably give her the physics prize.
Yeah, this performance is the most obvious Nobel-bait I’ve seen in my lifetime.
There are so many things I can reflect on and reminisce, in my mind, so many things I am grateful for (like leaving prepositions at the end of a sentence). I won’t buy a lottery ticket because I am too lucky.
In the twilight of life I am relatively healthy, fairly sound of mind, my bucket list is pretty short (wake up in the morning, after that every thing is good). Few things worry me, I see the trials and tribulations of my family but realize those things pass and are forgotten. Political events are laughable because they have been played before.
I look out of the window and think I’m in heaven, I go outside and I am in heaven. One of the toughest things in life is learning to like ones self and I’ve done that. We live simply, comfortably.
I want my kids /grandkids to be happy but I can’t make their decisions for them. I am grateful to have the Glibs as friends, since so many of my local friends have moved to another dimension. Thanks, FM, and to the Horsepower that provides me with my daily fix of laughs and anguish, need both.
Hear,hear!
‘(like leaving prepositions at the end of a sentence)’
Murica!!!
*sheds single tear*
On the less flippant side:
‘One of the toughest things in life is learning to like ones self and I’ve done that’
Then I envy you. Most of my life’s problems have arisen from generally not liking myself of feeling I deserve better than what I have. I’m working on that, seeing as how given my lifestyle I’m undeniably middle-aged. Cheers, 4×20!
If I had to see this
https://twitter.com/RyanBLeslie/status/1176543461690007552
What’s so weird about that? That’s your average Nissan owner.
I have three Nissan’s. I do not wear short-shorts in public.
I should clarify, Ghosn-era Nissans.
But do you stuff the muffler and pipe under the hood and expect it to fit?
These euphemisms are getting out of hand
I too enjoy euphemism.
Small things: giving the dog her belly rubs in the morning.
All the knowledge at my fingertips and the beauty of life.
I too love that we live in a time when knowledge is so readily available.
Every fact AND every lie in the palm of your hand
You can take a partisan to the library, but you can’t make him read.
Yeah, sometimes I wonder how great it really is.
Then I take a drink, burp, and read more snark.
Yes at that knowledge doesn’t necessarily make everyone smarter or cause everyone to agree with me.
My son gets his soccer cleats customized with a small “Rule 32” on the heal. That is the ‘enjoy the little things’ rule from Zombieland.
That’s ruthlessly good.
+1 twinkie
“YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said today that content by politicians would stay up on the video-sharing website even if it violates the company’s standards, echoing a position staked out by Facebook this week.
“When you have a political officer that is making information that is really important for their constituents to see, or for other global leaders to see, that is content that we would leave up because we think it’s important for other people to see,” Wojcicki told an audience at The Atlantic Festival this morning.
Wojcicki said the news media is likely to cover controversial content regardless of whether it’s taken down, giving context to understand it. YouTube is owned by Google.
A YouTube spokesperson later told POLITICO that politicians are not treated differently than other users and must abide by its community guidelines. The company grants exemptions to some political speech if the company considers it to be educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic in nature.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/youtube-ceo-politicians-break-content-rules-1510919
“Social media firms have seen their policies for reviewing and removing content come under fire in recent years, particularly when such content endorses hate-filled views or incites real-world violence. The issue is even more prickly when it involves world leaders like President Donald Trump, who has used bullying or violent language in social media posts.
Wojcicki’s remarks came a day after Facebook’s global affairs chief Nick Clegg told the same conference in Washington that political leaders would be allowed to break the social network’s content rules. Earlier this year, Twitter announced it would label and demote, but not remove, content from politicians that violates its standards.
YouTube also allows certain content to violate its rules if it is educational, documentary, scientific or artistic in nature, the CEO said.”
Mmm hm. Maybe just stop trying to decide what’s important for people to see.
Notice they aren’t saying they are going to treat all politicians equally.
Cooking a wonderful meal that requires some skill, good taste, and experience is my Zen place.
I will happily stand in the kitchen for hours making some of the more complex dishes, but it’s worth it when the guests exclaim spontaneously that “This is the best (fill in the blank) I’ve ever eaten!”
This is the best (fill in the blank) I’ve ever eaten!”
Posting this here? I see you too like to live dangerously.
I did kinda walk right into that, huh?
That did just kinda float right over the plate, there. I think nobody’s said anything because they suspect something that easy must be a trap.
I thought no one said anything because we are all gentlemen.
::spit take on monitor screen::
Ok, in keeping with today’s theme:
Florida Man have you heard the voices long? Do they ever tell you to do anything harmful?
Who said that?!?
*looks under desk*
Schizophrenia, It beats dying alone.
For all my nerds out there
I too like to eat wonderful meals.
?
Don’t encourage her.
I don’t think we need to, the lady seems determined.
Well, I guess I’ll get the ball rolling:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick
Babylon Bee strikes again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/in-addition-to-impeachment-congressional-democrats-announce-their-plans-to-get-involved-in-a-land-war-in-asia
Heh.
OMG I almost fell into a similar trap last week. I’m not good at saying “No” but it had to be done.
Britain’s War on Cutlery: The Sharp Knife Ban
https://youtu.be/YaZZjyAcAzE
They really are screwed no matter how Brexit comes out, aren’t they?
Whoops, misthread. Also, the BB is awesome.
The question is, what will they go after next?
Well before knives we used clubs, so solid objects that can strike things? Golf club and cricket bat ban incoming.
I like that! Banning cricket bats. I can see the Brits twisting themselves to disavow the sport too.
“Oy, you dair! Your phingurnaiws is too longue! It’s a phuckin deadwy weapon!”
Don’t make me take my jaw of an ass and kill you dead.
I think they banned that as animal cruelty.
Why are they wasting time on an unwinnable war in Asia? They could be making plans for a conventional invasion of Russia instead, to put Trump’s puppet master in his place. Should have no problem taking Moscow before winter; it isn’t like it hasn’t been done before, right?
https://youtu.be/R2aiuZiFkbA
I don’t TT ever looked hotter, either before or after.
TT is not a ThoT. Nice song.
Dirty jokes. A good can make my whole week.
Thomas Massie is wonderful. I love him.
If you haven’t seen the documentary on YT about him, do yourself a favor and watch it. My life goal is to have a property like his, tryna earn my money in the City then build/buy a place like that.
Re: Little things.
I have a morning ritual that’s probably similar to a hell of a lot of people. I get up, go downstairs, grind some coffee, put the pot on, feed the dogs, cat, and my kid, then sit on my duff with a cup of coffee and watch tv. It’s not profound, I know, but carving out fifteen to twenty minutes of just sitting idly, more or less by myself unless my daughter’s laying around on the couch with me, quietly watching the telecast of a local radio show and letting the coffee work its magic, I’m an utter psychopath for the rest of the day. I can hack a lot of stress, but I need to start the day with no demands and no surprises first.
Dang. I should say that without doing that I’m an utter psychopath. I’m gonna blame the oyster shooters.
That’s the beauty. It doesn’t have to be anything profound, it is the being present and appreciating what you do have and forgetting about what you don’t.
Slow mornings are great. Last month my daughter started taking walks together after dinner. Mom isn’t around so we can talk about school without being interrogated. Or we just walk. 30 minutes. Sometimes we’ll stop of for ice cream. Fall nights at 8pm are perfect for a walk with a 10 year old.
It sounds like I’m cheating myself by taking a caffeine tablet every morning.
Small things:
My daily walk on the local beach before work. This time of year it is before dawn and in a few months I’ll be able to watch the Southern Cross in the deep dark.
Harvesting my garden & fruit trees and being able to share the bounty with friends and neighbors.
Crisp mornings/evenings while hunting beyond the crowds. Watching and listening the desert/forest/juniper lands come alive/go to rest by myself. Extra points for a elk bugling.
Yeah. When fall comes, I make it a point to go out of a late evening and say hello to Orion.
What gives me true joy is driving and spending time in Northern Michigan with my wife especially around Autumn. The beauty is overwhelming and it feels like all my problems just melts away.
Oh yeah…little things. Eating breakfast with my wife and looking out into our backyard.
Autumn is Michigan’s best season, unquestionably.
Some of the little things I appreciate:
The first half-hour of the day when the house is almost quiet (with three cats, it’s never completely quiet). Getting lost in a good book. Long walks, rain or shine. Quiet talk with old friends. Those moments when the writing goes well. Watching our family of rackety coons dining on what we put out for them. Lurking around this den of iniquity. Giving my wife a laugh.
Thanks, FM, for writing this. I think that too often in the busyness of our lives we forget that the small things are what matters.
What is it with cats? Before I adopted two I was under the impression they were the quiet pets. That’s not even a little true.
First they aren’t pets. They are small predators that cohabit with us. They do what they want, when they want. Sometimes that includes knocking over furniture at 3 am,
Bill, if they’re ever quiet it means they’re either a) sick b), dead or c) up to some deviltry.
You could have an owl.
A cat with wings.
Cats rule.
My current cat is VERY vocal. Always mreowing about something.
I love all animals, but always had an affinity with cats especially.
It’s even more fun with two who fight all the time (or more accurately, one bullying the other).
*sigh* Just had to break up another fight.
So. fucking. sick. of it.
one cat is asleep on top of her
and the other one is moping under the bed
It depends a lot on the cat. I have three, all from the same litter, and I think part Siamese. They are not particularly quiet. One is bored and roaming the house yowing as I type.
If it’s any consolation it probably indicates an attachment to you. Adult cats don’t communicate with other adult cats through meows much. You’ve likely taken on the role of Momma cat for them, so they meow at you as if they were your kittens.
In my experience 99% of it just them demanding food (or, if they already have food, better food).
Well, kittens generally want food more than anything else. But mine meow at me if they’re distressed in any way, or seeking attention. One in particular gets bored and wanders the house meowing inconsolably. If I whistle at him he comes running and jumps in my lap, but I have to whistle to him before he does it. As Wittgenstein said, “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”
Wittgenstein
look at the big brain on Brad !
/ Russell fan
Well, my cats and Wittgenstein have a lot in common. They all talk a lot, and I only vaguely understand anything they say.
The difference between our cats and Russell is that I often understand Russell:
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Giving my wife a laugh.-
That’s a really good one. Thanks for contributing.
My biggest little thing:
As soon as it’s warm enough in the spring and until it’s too cold in the autumn, I love to go out onto our back porch – AKA Tranquility Base – on Saturday and Sunday mornings with coffee, my laptop, my Nook or a “dead tree” book, and my little portable satellite radio. On Saturday mornings, I tend to listen to jazz, and on Sunday mornings I tune in to the classical station’s choral music show, then their “early music” show. Ideally, I can hang out back there all morning.
I’m especially cherishing these last few weeks of warm weather, knowing that soon all the leaves from the many “mature trees” in our back yard will need to be raked, and it will be time to put the back porch futon away for the winter. I’ll miss it.
Because I’m just that easily amused.
I mean you can hardly blame him, Jaqlyn’s vagina was just so open. Fuck’s sake, you’d be embarrassed if he didn’t fall into it.
I don’t know why he couldn’t have just seen the dangers ahead and walked around them like normal people.
We have a joke around my house: “It just slipped in. Twice.” (I wanted to use that in a book, and finally was able to.)
Had a friend who was meeting an online dude. I said, “Look, just make sure you don’t have sex with him.” Oh, no, no, no, she’d never do that blah blah blah. Fast forward two weeks later. “So, how’d it go?” Long story about picking her up at the airport, taking her to a hotel, romance, roses, balloons, and I’m like, “You had sex with him, didn’t you?” She says, “Mojeaux, it just slipped in. … … Twice.”
I was in doubt and am still doubtful of the “just the tip” gambit, but steadily less so…
For the weebs:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
At least it’s better than feminist “poetry”.
She musta been wearin’ them banana peel panties again!
So she’s a Minion?
BAH-na-NAH!! : D
You didn’t even mention the basketball hoop in your pool.
That’s true. I tried to stick with the daily rituals. Pool side basketball is a weekend activity.
You get weekends off in your line of work? Lucky.
This time of year, it’s probably a 5 day a week activity here. In the winter, not so much.
Because I work second shift I get every weekend and every holiday off. It’s a fair trade since I don’t get to see my wife during the week.
I myself am not married, but many married men have told me that such a thing is benefit, not a detraction.
+1 all my married coworkers “let’s go out for drinks after work!” single me “grumble OK”.
They aren’t necessarily wrong.
Depends on the wife. Mine is my best friend.
Sounds like dog
(ok I am sorry)
NewWife and I have spent 75% of our married nights together over five years. When we both had offices in Dallas we’d take the same plane and just get one room. At one time she was creeped out that that I had a spreadsheet for everything, but she got over it.
Got an invite to see “Downton Abbey” for free today. Anyone else see it? How authentic is the forelock tugging and all the other crap “ordinary” folks were expected to do toward their betters even in the 1920s? Several characters were on the edge of fainting at being in the King’s presence; one at the very idea he was about to sell an egg that George V might eat. The royals and the nobles all come across as twits, yet everyone bows and scrapes to them. Guess it had to do with keeping one’s job.
Huh, forelock tugging, I’d never heard of that before.
Today’s military saluting is the abbreviated practice that peasants used to tug their hair forelock when addressing or encountering Top Men.
The best part of DA was Rose Leslie.
Other than Sybil before they killed her off.
So, had the day off from going into work, just needed to a video to a client for my self employment. I was planning on just chilling and maybe playing some video games and animating a new cartoon. Then the hard drive I have a lot of my client’s content on crashed. Been fucking dealing with that all day. The program I using to recover files from the disk says it’s working, so just sitting around waiting for it. Something new is wrong every fucking day around here. Fuck sake. But the secondary monitor is working good as the primary monitor, no headaches, so there’s that.
https://youtu.be/CNp2p4iMrLY
I’m gonna need moar popcorn.
If the Queen had the bloody lot of them put in the gibbet and suspended from the London Bridge i’d shed nae a wee tear. Except for Boris and Mogg, they’re alright.
What an amazing shitshow.
Corbyn looks like the personification of Screwtape.
I think he’s more like one of the higher ups at NICE in That Hideous Strength.
I’d buy that.
I fear for my Irish nephews. Not so much because of anything related to the current troubles, but because they’re Irish. But the current troubles aren’t helping. I told my sister to marry a black guy, but she’s headstrong…
Oh, you aren’t fooling us SOYBOY!! You think you’re so clever, what with your handle-changing*, and your relevant posting all of a sudden…
We’re well on to you, sonny bo-
Wait….are you Soyboy?? SORRY! So sorry!
It has been a while since I’ve been here, but this is the only handle I’ve ever posted with. I feel like I might have missed something on the order of gamboling though…
Oh, right! Up-thread…”Soyboy”
It was just may way of jumping into that….bs, while having some fun. Also, the blank avatar, which was nominally just on Soy’s comments in the thread…
It was funny in my brain.
…………….o-kayyyy.
*backs out of room*
Right there with you.
great song, hot women.
You re welcome
That’s actually a weird video if you listen to the lyrics.
Lyrics?
Also, hello Chafed. Or, do you want in on this Glib in-fighting? I could throw a “shit-head” your way… Or, how about a “schmuck”? Or, “cunte”?
I live to give, you know?
In case you’re hungry? Mosquito burgers? Ill drop this here-
sksksksk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItNFP7icUw
so basically human blood burgers?
Meh, still looks more appetizing than Big Mac.
Thank you , Jarflax–I now know what my ‘simple pleasure’ is.
Sir Digby! You’ve arrived!
Hi, Mojeaux!
Banning frogs? Kekistanis are coming for you
Who is that guy in you avatar Digby?
May god have mercy on your soul, Winston.
Mel Tormé
I don’t know, but he’s in Sir Digby’s place!
Ummm…..I just want to clarify that I’m NOT Soyboy. Just like I’m NOT a Naked Intruder.
I mean, NOT just like that….fuck, this is getting confusing to me.
Let me start this over: It’s freakin’ awesome to get a reception upon arriving here. However, considering Soyboy is in need of some serious affirmations, I don’t want anyone thinking I’m xim/xir…whatever.
But, Thank You, nonetheless. CS, you kick all sorts of ass.
Your former Chicken Digby Caesar avatar is knocking heads with your current avatar, the Percy of avatars, is what I’m getting at.
OH…Percy, is it???
You really are angling for me to pull that compliment, aren’t you??
This guy.
There’s a bit in the Hulu show Difficult People where Julie Klausner tries to impersonate an Australian actor playing an American, and it’s so special. She has a dinner party thrown in her honor for being so special.
It’s a very underrated show.
It’s a very underrated show, I meant to say.
Holy shit, the benadryl is coming on.
To answer your question
in a round about waywith another question, Winston:“<a href="https://youtu.be/5_RwIt3a8xs" title="How do you know I'm NOT Mel Torme’?” target=”_blank” >How do you know I’m NOT Mel Torme’?”
/This is the real footage from the last Glibs meet-up
God, what an awful linkage!
Tracy Torme is enough reason to at least be indifferent towards Mel. Then of course, there is Night Court.
Oh, I’m indifferent enough just because I’m not “into” crooners”. I think he sang very well, and all–I just like Top Secret! that much.
I loved Top Secret!
It really is an underrated jewel of comedy.
+1 underwater bar fight
But, not a +1 Anal Intruder?
You live and learn.
I meant the ‘indifferent’ to be a compliment, as that’s not my style either, but his son worked on Sliders and ST:TNG, and Mel was funny on Night Court; so he has lead to some good things even if I’m not a fan of the music.
Ditto, then.
Until CPRM’s link I only remembered him from Seinfeld. I had forgotten that Judge Harry had something of a man-crush on Mel.
Otherwise yeah he’s a bit before my time.
Heh, heh. It’s the little things that make you laugh.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-23/off-duty-police-officer-shoots-himself-road-rage-san-marino
Nope. There definitely wasn’t two raged up apes on the road. Nope.
And they were both going to teach John Q Public a lesson. How is it that a shot was fired and the other didn’t respond with panic fire? Pretty good training, I guess
Highly trained, the best. Protected and served.
At no point in that story did pot fall out of anyone’s ass, why would you link that?!
Reminds me of this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Gaines_(police_officer)#Death
I like how a cop driving a Mercedes is just glossed over (although the price relative to non-luxury brands, particularly on the low end models, is much lower these days).
Meh–my former co-worker (dispatch supervisor) drives, or, drove a Mercedes. Used, and her husband made pretty good $ (I wouldn’t say we did). That, and all the off-duty gigs cops love…
But, point taken on this guy. Way over the top.
Of course you know this: It’s easy to drive anything (rent anything?) if your house isn’t paid for, you don’t carry insurance, you have no idea how your kids are going to college, you have given up on retiring with dignity, and you’re planning on walking away from a stack of credit cards.
Huh.
My wife has had James Hahn as a judge a few times. Super nice guy, but not what you’d call intelligent.
Greta. You lied to me!
.WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH
SUNDAY AFTERNOON…
* WHAT…Blizzard conditions possible. Heavy snow possible. Total
snow accumulations of 12 to 36 inches along the Rocky Mountain
Front and adjacent plains, with locally higher amounts. Snow
accumulations of 6 to 18 inches across the remainder of the
watch area, including the greater Great Falls and Helena areas.
Record or near-record cold temperatures in the teens and 20s
with dangerous wind chills zero to 15 above zero. North to
northeast winds of 15 to 30 mph with gusts as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE…Portions of central, north central, southwest and west
central Montana.
* WHEN…From Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS…Extreme impacts possible, including to power
infrastructure including power lines resulting in widespread
power outages, agricultural interests; outdoor recreational
interests including camping and hunting activities; and
travel. Widespread significant tree damage is possible with
heavy wet snow and strong winds impacting trees with foliage.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…This early-season winter storm and/or
blizzard has the potential to set a new benchmark for snow
accumulations, cold temperatures, and resulting impacts for
parts of north-central and west-central Montana. A similar storm
in 1934 produced prolific amounts of snow in late September over
north-central Montana. An extension and/or expansion of Winter
Storm Watches are likely.
*
That’s weather, not climate/
But, at the same time, Climate Change will create more severe weather, but less severe weather is also due to climate change. It’s science when it helps the cause, it’s not when it doesn’t.
C, did you look behind the curtain??
So true. And last winter we had more snow than we’ve had since like 1912. Indeed, we’re on fire.
Climate catastrophe theory. It’s all very scientificy.
Jealous.
The inmate swatted the drone, and drugs fell out of its ass.
Heh. It used to just be called bean bag toss; but now that it’s called corn hole I suppose a prison is a fitting place to play it.
Did he shoot it in the balls?
+2 Drone Ballz
Glad I don’t work in a jail
https://youtu.be/hkScqV115x8
Direct supervision sucks. Although, there are those who do the work who swear by it–wouldn’t have it any other way.
After having done it the “regular way” for 3 years (DON’T…), I’ll sit my fat ass in the dispatch office, TYVM. Also, no jail in college, so…that works out fine for me.
When I worked at the prison, there was an inmate who bit an officer who was escorting her somewhere. She then got thrown in segregation, where she proceeded to act out even more and try to injure herself. They strapped her down and were giving her a thorazine shot when she began thrashing again, causing the needle (which had just been in her arm) to stick one of the officers in the hand. That officer never came back to work after that.
“What I have found leads to the most consistent feelings of happiness is focusing on the little things.”
That’s what she said.
https://archive.li/9ch1T/8020392de701c499440af305c024e5f21c65f2dd.jpeg
NSFW.
Nope
Well, folks, I’m outtie.
‘Night, Mo!
I am fortunate to have been born in the United States where I was able to get an education that led to a career which affords me a comfortable lifestyle. – I mean it’s not exactly Denmark, but it aint that bad
Good morning glibz
Good morning, ya Dane-o-phile!
You have a link to the Dane’s Bill of Rights? I haven’t read that one.
Rigths are overrated. What you need is public transport and a strong welfare state. If you dont step out of line you dont have to worry about rights
A well fed populace, being necessary for the coffee time of a hungry state, the right of the people to bake and consume danishes shall not be infringed.
While the Danish lifestyle seems better than most to me, I’ll see your rather dry but still excellent cookies and homogeneous culture and raise you my full-size washer and dryer in a rented apartment. Among the small things in life I appreciate most sitting in my home rather than in a laundromat has to be up there.
OTOH, I am seriously considering moving to Mexico.
Hmmm…. Well, if you do, be sure to move one of the poorer towns.
Those resort areas are very dangerous shit-holes.
I wouldn’t move to a resort or to a poor town. I suppose those are the only parts of Mexico a lot of people know about (or maybe those and expat spots like San Miguel and Ajijic,) but Mexico actually has some very nice and fairly modern, cities, like Queretaro and Merida (too hot for me, but excellent if you’re a tropical sort) where the cost of living is low, the quality of life is high, and not everyone has lost their goddamned minds.
What makes you think Mexican urbanites are sane?
Let me put it this way- not everyone there has lost their minds in a way I have to understand or engage with. As a bit of background, I’m at ground-zero of the revolution. I have a neighbor who literally flies a pride flag on a full-size flagpole in his front yard, the size you’d see at school.
Now, I have nothing at all against the gays (if anything I liked gay guys better when they were less respectable, because I have never been very respectable, so we had a fair bit in common) and I would actually have been the first to applaud and defen
d that full-size pole when it would have been controversial. But these days- it’s some Stepford wives shit. I skipped the neighborhood pot-luck this year, because every social occasion around here is fraught these days.
OTOH, if some Mexicans are crazy, or have some views about AMLO? Good for them; let’s drink some tequila and dance some salsa. Not my problem.
Phrasing?
Not entirely unintentional.
::nods in acknowledgement. And, approval::
Mexico is like New Orleans. I like it when I’m there, but there’s this nagging voice in the back of my head that bothers me because I’m not familiar to spot the bad areas that don’t look like bad areas.
I lived in the NL for a few years and having a washing machine was typical (although sized), but having a dryer was way more a luxury item.
Where you thinking of moving in Mexico may I ask?
There are a number of really attractive spots in Mexico. I’d put Queretaro pretty high on the list. It’s perhaps the most middle-class of Mexican cities, very safe, very modern, but with a beautiful old colonial Centro, traditional markets, just a really nice city of two million (though of course not without the problems Mexico has- but they are minimized there more than almost anywhere else in Mexico.) Surrounded by Mexico’s wine and cheese country, and not far from the Sierra Gorda, an enormous nature preserve. And only a few hours by bus from Mexico City and Guadalajara.
Merida is also really great if you can stand the heat- I can’t, but if you like the tropics it’s maybe the best balance between cost of living and quality of life in the Western Hemisphere. Safer, for a gringo not involved with anything shady, than any major American city, and only twenty minutes from the beach. Valladolid is also beautiful if you prefer your Yucatan on the smaller side. I like cities.
Guanajuato city is also great, though a bit small for me (how good is the internet is is an important question too.) Built on a mountainside it’s the definitive walkable city, as you can’t do anything else. Move there and you’ll feel like a real colonialist if you bring your furniture, as you’ll have to hire porters to carry it to your house. Maybe the best place to retire to in the world, if you expect to always be spry enough to get up and down its streets. And, it has a museum full of mummies, which… OK, I’m not sure that’s all that great, but it’s at least famous.
And then there’s Morelia… dunno, there are actually a lot of great places to live in Mexico. They’re just mostly places Americans don’t hear about much.
Sounds sort of like you’ve already made you mind up about a move there, and just need to narrow it down. I take it this all comes from previous experience?
Unfortunately I am unable to obtain a US passport at the moment… I would probably be in Queretaro right now if that weren’t the case, but I’m afraid that if I leave the US I will never be able to get back in (and it turns out to be illegal for me to enter the US on any other passport.)
Wonderful post. Couldn’t agree(?) more.
I see this very much as my daily ritual, which I insist on. It’s a major reason I don’t like travel.
I’m a total home-body. Traveling is fucking exhausting.
God, I’m glad there are at least two other non-travellers.
I’m constantly fending off my brother’s insistence that I go on big trips somewhere or another. He acts like I’m incorrect for not wanting to travel. As if this particular recreational activity is the one that is objectively enjoyable and you’re a stupid moron if you don’t do it.
The older I get, the more I find that I don’t like the travel, per se, but like being in the destination. Most of the time.
I guess that’s my thing as well – I just don’t like the packing, booking hotels, and all that crap. I do enjoy going somewhere within driving distance. It’s nice to just spend the day out there but lay down in my own bed that night. Maybe I’ll have to hold out for some kind of worldwide version of the Hyper Loop.
I think the only major vacation I can see myself taking is Italy. I’d love to go there, check out some Roman ruins, and just eat fucking everything, and I’d put up with the hassle of travelling for that.
+1 Ringworld transfer booths
. The one area I may differ in is shaving. – do most American men shave daily? I do it twice a week. I really fuck up the skin of my neck if I do it more often, though I have heard said that after a few days of daily shaving my skin would get used to it and stop getting irritated. But I don’t like how I look clean shaven anyway, and my job does not in any way require it. I can’t grow a beard sadly, not that I would but would be fun to have the option. I generally like a 3 day beard, but I have not found a machine to keep it that way that I like so I shave twice a week.
I started growing a beard as soon as my face allowed for a full beard to grow. When I did use to shave I used the 6 for $3 disposables with a lubricating strip. Nothing else. Water and that razor with a lubricating strip, every day except for my goatee I started growing when I was 14. Full beard was ready to be done when I was 20.
I would make a joke here, but, I shave 2x per week, too. And, I can’t have facial hair, other than a mustache (Fuckers!), which I’m not doing.
Also, shave in the shower for constant heat/hot water, and I use two different razors and shave creams–one for ‘with the grain’, the other for ‘against the grain’.
But, whatever works–this is just how I roll.
I only shave with the grain
You lucky people. I shave and there’s already a 5 o’clock shadow. I grew out a hitlertasche shortly after Basic because I figured that was just a little less I needed to shave. After I got out of Guards, I let the rest grow out except for shaving below the beard. No neck beard for me.
i always wanyed to try a streigth razor but i know my lane
Have you tried a safety razor? Super cheap, very sharp blades and minimal risk of cutting yourself?
Once a week. Electric beard thingie. I hate a clean shave. A five day stubble is ideal for me and luckily I don’t have anyone demanding otherwise.
Get yer self a Miami Device.
try shaving with a safety razor. Those multi blade razors suck for people with sensitive skin.
El oh el.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/24/democrat-on-aoc-fracking-claim-we-do-ourselves-no-favors-when-we-ignore-science/
Alex–‘Stupid’ is a toxic emission. Work on that, please.
Honk honk!
I love her own-goals.
72F on the IR camera is toxic emissions? Good thing AOC didn’t turn it on herself.
It was probably just a ghost/science
Why all the drama around here the last few days? I just wanna pop by when I have a few minutes, see what knucklehead is in the news and look at a few tiddies.
“Familiarity breeds contempt”?
Uh, I mean…”Familiarity breed contempt, asshole”.
I don’t know which one of you three to respond to. Don’t want to hurt any feelings.
Go ahead–hurt my feelings.
I often end sentences with “just sayin’” because it seems less offensive than “you dumbass”
::nods in agreement::
You’re secret is out now. May as well go with “Dumbass” from now on.
That might just turn me into a masochist….
Bless your heart.*
(*in the Oklahoman sense)
::blushes::
Still might make me into a masochist…
/same in Texas.
That’s problematc. We’re trying to attract the Woke Millenials. Too local/The Nick Gillespie of Nick Gillespies.
Well there needs to be occasional tension and drama otherwise the viewer gets bored
What Pie said.
When the characters change their motivation and direction at the drop of a hat, it becomes a soap opera.
Calgon take me away.
So this site is the Last Jedi?
Oooohh…Winston! Good take.
But, no–I like showing up here for the abuse.
About %45 of the files recovered from my failed HDD are said to be recovered after 6hrs..heres to the hopes of waking up and finding the files I need to meet my client’s deadline by morning. What a swell ‘day off’.
That sucks. I’ve known the pain of a failed HD without an adequate backup.
I lost my whole music collection once, until I figured out how to grab what was on my iPod – which at the time was not my whole collection.
(Now it is.)
Man, we need to get you on a game show, or something–some place where you can win a bunch of computer equipment, to replace what you have, and that none of us has to pay for (directly).
Yeah, anytime one thing goes wrong around me that means everything will go wrong. Conversely, any time something around me goes right that means everything will go wrong…
Well, you could be like Soyboy, you know…. That poor schmuck.
/yes, I keed.
I don’t think I have anything that would be of help i this technical crisis, but, if there is something you need replaced, drop me an email, and I’ll see if I have anything I could hook you up with
As long as everything does as it should, I’ll be ok…but then again this HDD was ok yesterday…I know that quote about luck being bullshit, but you know, sometimes luck is just luck, and it’s about how you respond.
True dat.
Do you happen to use flash drives and/or SD cards for this? Any desire to do so, if not?
Thanks, Florida Man. This article was a welcome read after all the morning’s drama. I’m at work. Goldbricking in bathroom, eating biscotti with some yummy French press (8 O’Clock Columbian Roast) and ripping mad clouds of Bubblegum Kush with a new vape battery (a hearty FUCK OFF, SLAVERS! to the shitty alliance of interest groups about to kill the industry). Those are my wee things in the moment.
Yeah, that’ll do it…
Meh… if I didn’t want to check this wonderful website and have a tasty cookie. I would just vape in one of the walk-ins. Seriously though, vaping has been a blessing for me and my lungs and I’m really sickened to see (what to me is) a blatant cash grab by the state coupled with a Baptist \bootlegger type situation.
Yeah, this push is getting me angrier than I’ve been in a while.
They are literally setting up a situation where us addicts are going to go back to cigarettes.
And they know it’s bullshit.
::whispers to l0b0t::
I, uh…I was trying to make a poop/roughage joke.
Sorry–I’m bored at work, and I’m weird like that,if you weren’t already aware.
No worries. I’m a bit slow in the uptake (Bubblegum kush, ya see). Pallets are broken down, 4000 or so items across 2 aisles, I’m about to get into OCD Zen/Sleeping With The Enemy mode and dress-right-dress some groceries so they be torn apart tomorrow by our lovely customers.
Ah, yes–The Circle of
LifeBusiness.Since I don’t smoke, enjoy a puff on my behalf.
Oh Sir Digby. You went from Mel Torme to… Tom Green?
Winston…you cretin. That IS Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
Commodius goes and insults my Mel avatar, so I figure, “Why not indulge the little
bastardcritic?”And, now this? I can’t even any more….
Sorry my knowledge of Mitchell and Webb is very low. One of them was MEEP in Phineas and Ferb.
Well, see–I learned something today.
I have a particular fondness for Peep Show (on Hulu, if you can). Very innovative comedy. Super Hans is my second “spirit animal”.
Y’know… I caught shit for being Luther Baldwin for a few weeks and now we’ve got everyone changing their names and avatars a dozen times a day.
*frown*
It is NOT a dozen times a day….once or twice, sure. Also, you should go back, if you like. I’m finding out it’s difficult to please all the
assholesfine, upstanding glibs, so, go with what you like.Nah, I won’t go back. I was a fun lark but not in character for me.
That’s cool. But, if you change your mind, you do have my permission…
🙂
Well I took some flak for my current avatar so I might do the next one in a full Naqib
Damn you, flakkers!!!
I’ve had the same name and avatar since day one here. I like consistency *to complete the joke I would then change both, but fuck it, it’s been a long day*
Climatepocalypse is striking here. Freezing temps starting Saturday night with snow in the passes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NKcS8Jtduk
Sir Digby won’t be doing the Varsity Drag I see.
Well…………….I could!
How about the Michigan Rag
Ok, documentary time. I work late tomorrow, so yall probably won’t know the fate of the contents of this HDD for a few days. *The tension is palpable*
It’s the little things indeed.
Like SP.
In Oedipus Rex a shepherd finds a baby abandoned in the mountains with a spike driven through its feet. The shepherd scoops up the baby, brings him to Thebes and gives it to the King and Queen to raise as one of their own.
We discover over the course of the play that the baby (Oedipus) was the son of King Laius of Corinth. An oracle had told Laius that his son “will mate with his mother, and shed with his own hands the blood of his own sire.” In order to avoid this fate, Laius orders the baby killed. The servant tasked with carrying out the order drives the spike through its feet and abandons the baby in the mountains to be devoured by wolves. Self-fulfilling prophecy at its finest.
In CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), one of the goals is to get the patient to recognize when they are catastrophizing. Being incapable of seeing any alternative reality other than the worst case scenario is a recipe for a mental health disaster. Greg Lukianoff went through CBT after a bout with depression and suicidal thoughts. After treatment, he recognized that modern universities were actively encouraging kids to catastrophize with all the “trigger warnings” “safe spaces” and so on. It’s what inspired him to write The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt.
We can look at how King Laius indulged the Oracle’s prophecy as a form of catastrophizing. Normally, having your own child murdered would give someone pause to reevaluate the way they view the world.
So what metaphorical babies are we in 2019 dumping in the mountains? What philosophical gifts have we been given like newborn babies that we are attempting to slaughter out of fear? I’d say the mountains ringing our society are filling up with abandoned babies; Due process, Free speech, Freedom of association. The children of Montesquieu, John Stewart Mill, Martin Luther King are all under threat of infanticide.
And that’s the real danger. By trying to provide safety at the expense of liberty, the table is set for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Utopian visions are seen as the only remedy despite “utopia” meaning “no where”.
Oedipus grows up and falls victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy himself. He thinks he wants to know the truth and demands, under threat of torture and death, that the old blind man Tiresias tell him what he knows. Tiresias drops a truth bomb on Oedipus that the enemies of liberty in 2019 would be wise to listen to:
This day will bring your birth and your destruction”
*Was gonna submit this, but I couldn’t get it quite right. I didn’t want to abandon it, so I cleaned it up as best I could and plopped the baby down here.
I’d say it goes hand in hand with not wanting your children to suffer [normal childhood experiences], and as a result lack the ability to deal with real problems later.
Haidt often talks about a study that shows how our shielding kids from everything PEANUT!11! has caused a spike in peanut allergies. Exposure to potential danger is essential for growth.
I think you’ve both struck on excellent points.
“Don’t you want better for your children??”
(Not having kids) Ummm….no. Not really. I had it pretty good, and, besides, how are you defining “better”? Are they earning this better, or, just getting because they exist. They should certainly DO better than me, but they can do that even with “less”.
Everyone eats a shit sammich sometime in their life. Just matters whether or not you whine like a bitch when it’s your turn.
“Squeal like a pig!”
There’s an interesting parallel here to a mythology that has been passed down to us from time immemorial. It has been called the Laurasian mythology. A decent brief summary of it can be found here: https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/mythopoeia-5/
Note that it predicts the future, and that it features the following prediction:
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In the future: final destruction of humans, the world, the gods
A new heaven and a new earth / eternal bliss
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We’ve been immanentizing the eschaton for a long time!
Maybe GayJay can dust off his passport
https://youtu.be/ZTaoyJpr-YE
Heard someone talking about the “Aleppo moment” the other day, so I went back and watched the video again. Gayjay got screwed over in that interview.
Yeah, it was, wasn’t it. Why not not just ask him what he’d do about Syrian refugees? Other than it was about tripping him up by design. And it worked.
Well, I’m late to the party as usual. The daily little things: A satisfying tire chirp and exhaust rumble on a launch from a stop light on the way to/from work or feeling the rear suspension load up while turning onto a street while lead footing it.
Trumputin confirmed! The Orange One hasn’t denied that this is his favorite music video
https://youtu.be/mx-LeculiOE
I may have ingested some alcohol in moderate quantities.
I never realized Gordon Ramsey and Putin were such good friends.
Ha!
I know I’m
aksingasking this rather late, but, is there something going on with the site? I’ve noticed it is loading a bit slow, and that’s on multiple formats (phone, pc, and chromebook).Just wondering if I missed something.
I don’t notice anything like that.
Great post, Florida Man.
I suppose jogging is one of my rituals. There’s nothing better for me than running my route that takes me through the hustle and bustle of downtown, out into the country through some remote woods, and back to my house where there’s a hearty meal and an ice cold coconut water waiting for me. Don’t ask me to explain it, but when I’m running, it’s impossible for me to think pessimistically. That part of my brain just shuts off somehow. It doesn’t matter what kind of problems I’m having – if they cross my mind when I’m out there on the trails, it will be from a “I can fix this somehow” or “I can endure this” standpoint, never “woe is me”. Even in the dead of winter, it’s lovely to be out there. Everything is cold, dead, and peaceful, but it makes you feel alive. Jogging at night is great, too. Matter of fact, I just did 2.5 miles out there. The town is absolutely deserted at this hour.
Cooking is another one. For some people, it’s a chore. For me, it’s more of a craft. Cooking is creating things with patience, skill, creativity, precision, and passion. One of my favorite things to do is cook a pot of tomato sauce. Making bread is another one. Lately, I bought a kitchen scale and started measuring out my ingredients to the gram. I just find a Zen-like satisfaction in creating this wonderfully simple thing (water, flour, salt, and my own sourdough starter) and seeing just how perfect I can make the finished product.
And often times I purposely spend more time on cooking than I have to just because I enjoy it. I often do things the long and hard way just for the pride of having done it. That’s why I just roll my eyes when people watch me cook and ask, “they make minced garlic in a jar, you know” or “why don’t you just buy a bread machine instead of getting your hands all messy?”
As far as just relaxation… I’d have to say sitting on my back porch with a Campari & soda and a good book.
“Lately, I bought a kitchen scale and started measuring out my ingredients to the gram”
Yeah- so annoying when recipes are in things like cups. What the hell is a cup, really? OK, a cup of water is consistent, but a cup of flour is not.
I have a hundreth of a gram scale and I can’t imagine any of my friends being like OK, that looks like a teaspoon when I could measure out a teenth or few _on a scale_.
Baking, and other endeavors, benefit from using accurate measures, by weight.
Yep. Plus it’s handy for weighing out sausage meat and the proportionate amount of curing salt. Precision when working with curing salt is hella important.
Mmm, sausage… I make my own fresh sausage, but I have yet to make a cured sausage. Do tell.
A’ight…Y’all motherfuckers need to feed us!
Home from work. 5 year old is tantruming because he can’t seem to find the Maurice Sendak video he wants to see on YouTube and 8 year old is bouncing around the house gleefully because the cast of Blackish is going up against the cast of The Goldbergs on the season finale of Family Feud. Calgon, take me away!
Apropos of nothing but Maurice Sendak videos, this is my favorite, though it’s not really the season for it yet.
OMG! I still have the tiny boxed set containing that book that my father gave me when I was 3. That one was always a favorite. Thanks for bringing it back.
Local news:
https://www.wfmz.com/news/pennsylvania/gov-wolf-lt-gov-fetterman-call-for-legalizing-recreational-marijuana/1125439345
Will PA be the next state to legalize pot?
Maybe 20 years ago I would have cared, now it’s a shrug and a “meh, whatever”. Until federally accepted, it’s still technically a 4473 disqualifier.
Now if they could deregulate booze….
(OK, I’ll stop laughing now.)
The internet was built for watching ? cats (and porn).
https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/the-cat-cafe-san-diego-live-cam
“It’s quiet….TOO quiet…”
Dayton has a cat cafe, though I haven’t been there. Mr. GT has been put on notice that I want another kitteh (our widdle man died suddenly back in June. **SNIFF!**) by some time around my mid-Nov birthday. Don’t know if we’ll procure from the cafe or from one of the many other local rescue orgs.
However cute the fuzzy murdermachines are, I wouldn’t subject one of them to living with me.
Relevant
The one thing I really wanted, the one thing I asked for in the move planning, was a quiet spot.
Of course I’m stuck in the midst of people who never shut up, and only use speakerphone for all calls. I’m spending so much time trying to not shout at everyone that my blood pressure is up.
What did you do to piss off your AFSCME boss?
Not part of that group. And the union didn’t get involved in the move planning.
PEF is even more useless than most since they don’t even put up the fig leaf of doing anything for the people forced to join it. (It’s also under the AFT, and part of the AFL-CIO that way, not AFSCME)
In fact, I’m not sure AFSCME has any of the new york unions under it’s belt.
Amazon to the rescue – https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Buds/dp/B07F6VM1S3
3 microphones per bud? ?
Fuck that.
I was looking more along the lines of muffle the world through sheer bulk