The power company is turning off the power in my area to perform some sort of upgrade, so I am busy stashing candles, flashlights, my kindle, and liquor around the house in strategic locations. I am also on the lookout for cords, shoes, and sharp things, because if there is a way to trip and get hurt in the dark, I will find it. I also have 911 on speed dial and will probably spend the night in a lazy-boy wearing a lacrosse helmet and body armor. I might wear pants, too.
What are you all up to?
*** Update ***
Here’s a live action shot of Lily trying to come up onto my lap and burp in my face, which is apparently how she has decided it is appropriate to thank me for her dinner:
My dad makes fun of me because I get very upset when anyone says anything mean about Lily (they are Jack Russell snobs and think Lily doesn’t have enough “personality”), and one of the ways he gets me worked up is by calling her a “bug-eyed worthless little mutt.” I happen to think she has ample personality, as all of it is dedicated to loving me. I love her back.
justawriter
Don’t forget your cup. Never, ever, forget your cup.
Francis
Dinner at The Sky Room in downtown Long Beach, CA to celebrate my new job.
numfar
Same thing, ‘cept for the pants.
BGinCHI
Dial 9-1, then hang up. Then it’s just redial and then a 1.
Saved you a step and prolly saved your life.
stuckinred
hoop
stuckinred
sdsu-temple ot
Dave C
This SDSU-Temple game is killing me. I love my Aztecs, but they hardly even deserve to win this.
soonergrunt
testing my new movie streaming server on my home network.
Roger Moore
Just finished an event recognizing milestone blood donors (my 20th whole blood) at work. Some guy just finished his 200th platelet donation. That’s a lot.
JWL
Turning off your power for an upgrade at (what?) 7 PM?.
Do the utility workers in your neck of the woods resent working days?
BuffBillsFan
Coming over to your place in my ninja gear (with night vision goggles), searching out those strategically stashed caches of liquor.
Davis X. Machina
@JWL: The shareholders resent paying OT, that you can be sure of — and if the line crews are IBEW, that goes double.
Screw ‘E pluribus unum’, bring on “Maximize Shareholder Value”
Annie
Good to know that you are calm and not overreacting.
tBoy
Clean drawers (hope it’s not too late).
Gravenstone
@BuffBillsFan:
And what’s your cunning plan to evade the Tunch bomb?
quaint irene
It’s always hecks-a-popping over at the Cole Ranch!
stuckinred
sdsu temple 2 ot
Comrade Javamanphil
Wine, NCAA basketball, moving furniture for a project my wife thinks is way more important than I do and plotting the next step in the liberal fascist takeover of the US of A.
Litlebritdifrnt
Well I already have candles in nice mirror backed candle holders placed in strategic places all over the house as well as oil filled hurricane lamps in all the important places cause I am just like that. I have been through too many hurricanes not to have things like that in all the important places so that I can get to them with a lighter in about two minutes from anywhere in the house.
But seriously cutting off the power for an “upgrade” on a Saturday evening? What the hell is that? At least my power company is polite enough to do it at 3AM.
jl
I was going to mention athletic cup, but a thoughtful commenter has already done so.
Cole didn’t keep one of these, did he?
Probably would have, if he had known he would need one to to get from the bedroom to front door and back.
SURVIVAL, EVASION, AND RECOVERY [Kindle Edition]
Army and dubyadubyadubya dot survivalebooks dot com
ZERO point NINETY NINE DOLLARS!
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(Cold should jump on this deal, before Tunch requires more food expenditure)
jman
Cycling 186 miles today/tonight. Have 131 done only 56 left to go. Turning east, should get a good look at the big moon. Oh Goodie!
D-boy
I am watching the NCAA wrestling championships. Sport in its purest form
scav
Waiting for the MOON (yet another wild Saturday night, no?
Gozer
Downing scotch to “forget” that I just spent $8k+ to fix a drainage problem in our basement.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
The middle part of the country — the great blue zone that voted for Obama — is clearly ready for war in Libya. The decadent right in its enclaves in the south and on Andrew Sullivan’s blog is not dead — and may well mount a fifth column.
Starfish
Don’t you think mopping the bathtub by candle light while not wearing pants is a more appropriate activity?
jl
I shouldn’t make fun of survival stuff, since my situation is desperate. I checked a few days ago, with all the disaster in the news, and found
candles (with matches that don’t work)
flashlight (broken)
liquor (two or three fingers of cheap wine in bottle forgotten in corner of kitchen counter)
And…
emergency water (four out of five containers empty, what happened to it?)
emergency kit (was supposed to be in this sack in the closet, but its empty, except some out of date and musty smelling emergency food bars).
Wha happened?
I think most of it was cannibalized for camping trips, but have not kept track enough to know.
What clumsy is to Cole, disorganization is to me.
Alex S.
Lily looks surprisingly slim.
jl
@Alex S.: Ha, Lily looks like a *girly* dog.
(Was that mean enough?)
Edit: but seriously, thanks for the Lily pix. Always looking forward to pix of the distinguished heads of the Cole household.
Roger Moore
@jl:
Interesting point. I should probably do my biannual look through the emergency kit to look for out of date food. The tricky part of picking food for an emergency kit is to find something that’s good enough that you’ll be happy to eat it when the time comes but not so good that you’ll be tempted to raid it in the mean time.
Winston Smith
Lily is a bug-eyed AWESOME little mutt.
Awwwwwww!
Canadian Observer
Remember:
The torture of US political prisoner Bradley Manning goes on, and it was protested against to day by Daniel Ellsberg.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/03/19/quantico-marine-base-issues-threat-advisory-for-bradley-manning-protest/
End the torture regime/police state and demand that the US free all political prisoners!
Just Some Fuckhead
You tell yer dad I said words can be hurtful sometimes.
Southern Beale
A couple of my cats are sneezing up a storm, vet says allergies. Oy.
Delia
So your dad thinks only JRTs have sufficient personality, huh? Have you mentioned to him that you have a spare one hanging around that would really light up his life?
Roger Moore
@Southern Beale:
So what gives cats allergies? Human hair and saliva?
Baud
I’m trying to take up creative writing. It’s much harder than it looks, and it makes me sad to think how much mental ability I’ve lost since I left school.
Litlebritdifrnt
YAHOOOOOOOOOO France 28 Wales 9 – guess the French team didn’t take Sarkosi’s phone call. ENG ER LAND ENG ER LAND ENG ER LAND. Next stop World Cup and Grand Slam baby!
pattonbt
I noted in the other thread the reasons for my disappointment with our intervention in Libya and I keep being reminded why. I’m sitting here in an airport lounge and all the news channels are getting their war porn on with the bombing and wall to wall war. It sickens me. They just LOVE covering war. They get their “on the ground” reporters breathlessly looking for the story that will “make them”. Trying to pimp and fluff anything military. Just the general hard-on for death and destruction is saddening. Just so obviously excited for more escalation and disaster.
I haz a sad :(
stuckinred
Lily’s a sweetheart!
JPL
From the NYTimes
Ms. Palin and her husband, Todd, were in India for such a short time that they did not get a chance to see the Taj Mahal, in part because it is closed on Fridays, the only day they had free time. Instead, according to local media reports, they went to one of New Delhi’s glitzy new shopping malls.
hahahaha
Mr Stagger Lee
Is the Butler doing it again? Does anybody here have an intact bracket?
stuckinred
@Mr Stagger Lee: Rainin trey’s!
Just Some Fuckhead
@pattonbt: Do you think it’d be all over the teevee if it was one of those stand-in-close-and-hack-each-other-to-bits-with-bladed-weapons conflicts of yesteryear?
I can’t honestly answer that.
lamh32
Saw “Limitless” tonight. It was pretty good. Bradley Cooper is REALLY easy on the eyes isn’t he? He eyes seemed SOOOOO blue in this movie. Now that he and Rena Zellweger are no longer dating, I’m gonna have to add Mr Cooper to my “Junger Fever” list…lol.
Carrie
Get off the fucking lazy boy, you’ve already had an unfortunate incident when Tunch jumped on you once, remember?
Go sit your helmet-headed self in a corner of the room until the power comes back on.
JPL
@Mr Stagger Lee: In other words, who picked Richmond for the Sweet 16.
Just Some Fuckhead
@JPL:
Just wow.
cathyx
@JPL: I’ll bet that mall is filled with the same stores that are in every American mall.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Carrie: He should lay carefully in the middle of the floor and not move for two hours.
Sorta like I did in the kitchen last night, except with a cat licking my eyeball.
pattonbt
@Just Some Fuckhead:
If they had TV, global mobility and a good hook, of course. As a species, a deep part of us loves bloodlust.
Corner Stone
Looks like ABL and Andy K need to add Jack Balkin to the list of the only -4-, no wait -5-, no that’s not right either, I guess it’s 6. Balkin is one of the only 6 people writing about Manning for his own benefit and exposure.
National Security State
“All of which brings me to Private Bradley Manning. The Obama Defense Department’s treatment of Manning, a American citizen, has employed the sort of harsh techniques that candidate Obama and his supporters would have loudly decried if applied to Guantanamo Bay inmates or to another American citizen, Jose Padilla.”
Litlebritdifrnt
@JPL:
Yeah and if anyone can translate this word salad into English for me I would be forever grateful
JPL
@cathyx: If I were ever fortunate enough to visit India, I can promise you, I would not be in a mall shopping. In fact I have only been in a mall once the last year.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone: Roseanne Cash has also been tainted with the stink of Hamsher. Is there nothing sacred left in this world?
Carrie
@Just Some Fuckhead:
>>sigh<<
I miss all the great threads….
Just Some Fuckhead
@Carrie: ‘Sup in yer little part of the world?
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: She is obviously interviewing for a job in Pakistan.
Sarah probably thinks she is the next Benazir Bhutto.
stuckinred
@Litlebritdifrnt: Hey, someone downstream posted a story saying the Brit press was all over Obama for dragging his feet on the NFZ. Didn’t you say yesterday that there was lots of resistance to the NFZ in the UK?
Delia
@Baud:
Great. You had to remind me I’m supposed to be working on my next chapter instead of indulging my writer’s block and trolling the intertubes. I should go now.
Arclite
You can totally see it in those big doe-eyes. She is the kind of dog that is totally dedicated to her owner, and needs his approval.
lamh32
Damn, Malia Obama is as tall as FLOTUS, and she’s just 12 I think. That young lady may be taller than both her parrents.
US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama (R) and daughters Sasha (2nd L) and Malia (2nd R), upon their arrival at the Palacio do Alvorada
stuckinred
Holy shit, what a fucking call against Butler! Pitt down 1, less that a second to go, 2 freethrows!
Mike S
Too late for the book thread but I must must must recomend the book “A Dog’s Purpose.” Best book I have read in years. It will make you laugh, cry and scream.
JWL
“I happen to think she has ample personality, as all of it is dedicated to loving me. I love her back”.
From which I infer tonight has been declared a drinking holiday.
Southern Beale
Because this day just couldn’t get any better ….
Mr Stagger Lee
Stupid foul Pitt
stuckinred
Pitt misses the second and FOULS on the rebound! Now Butler can win at the line!!!
stuckinred
@Mr Stagger Lee: Almost as stupid as the Butler foul!
Carrie
Hey Fuckhead!
Well, where should i start?
I’ve been busy changing the world, ya know? Fighting battles alongside the chanese, railing against HBGary, MSM all in the name of freedom of information. I have seen the OODA LOOOPS and they really are WAI, seriously.
I admit i did sniff-crotch but that didn’t last very long as i get bored easily but, yeah.
How are you? What’s been going on here?
Where’s M_C?
JPL
@stuckinred: So do you think the refs just gave Pitt a win. I know there is OT..but how many times does Butler have to win.
stuckinred
Insane, people want to tell me how lousy the college game is because of one and done!!!!!!!
WereBear
We’re watching The Monolith Monsters on DVD and hoping our will to live (bout with flu last week) will return sometime soon.
stuckinred
@JPL: Bulter won!
JPL
@stuckinred: I walked away.. I can’t believe I missed it. Yeah.. I can
Hal
That face is all about manipulation. She knows exactly what to do to make sure the food keeps coming.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Butler does it again, now on to the BYU-Gonzaga game with Jimmer Fredette, one of the best players in the country
stuckinred
@JPL: The Agony and the Ecstasy!
Litlebritdifrnt
@lamh32:
And Michelle is wearing heels! Holy treacle how tall is she going to get?
SmallAxe
F Stupid M-F’ing Fouls!!! WTF are you thinking you arm grabbing idiot!!!
F Butler
Litlebritdifrnt
@stuckinred:
After speaking with my Mother today I can authoritatively report that the response is “well how could we do nothing?” however bomb chucking and stuff is fine, boots on the ground is a no-no. IMHO however the odds that the SAS are in a safe house in Tripoli waiting for the “take him out” word are pretty good.
stuckinred
@Mr Stagger Lee: I guess you are telling all the people here than don’t care about basketball that the leading scorer in the nation is a good basketball player?
Has No Name
Pants are overrated.
stuckinred
@Litlebritdifrnt: They are sooooo good.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Carrie:
I’m a little subdued today after failing to take astronomy into account with yesterday’s Living Better Through Chemistry episode. Apparently, a Supermoon doesn’t mix with caffeine, melatonin, allergy meds, seratonin blockers, twelve beers and marijuana. You can bet I’ll be watching the heavens next year.
I can’t say because it appears to still be going on.
Who?
Ash Can
Awww. What a nice doggie!
Mr Stagger Lee
And yes that is John Stockton’s son playing for the Zags!
stuckinred
@Just Some Fuckhead: Damn dawg!
Mr Stagger Lee
@stuckinred: Well at least to those who might not be paying attention ;-)
stuckinred
@Mr Stagger Lee: Roger that!
something fabulous
@Litlebritdifrnt: Oh good lord. What the hell is a hyphenated day??
Bob
John, I don’t why, but I thought of this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNFgehvqkE&playnext=1&list=PLE84219599B2C22CC
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: Hope you are right. The moon btw is lighting up part of my back yard.
Carrie
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Oh dear, didn’t realize the eyeball licking cat incident was for realz. Sorry about that, sounds rough.
The moon is lovely tonight though…
trollhattan
I am going to BBQ steaks in the rain because damnit, this California, not Seattle, never mind it’s been raining for days and promises to rain through next weekend. On the plus side, any new-kew-lar fallout is going right out to the river and towards the ocean.
Yep, I’m BBQing.
Kathy
Picts of Lily make me very happy, Picts of Tunch scare the bejesus out of me. Pitt lost? Wow, I had them losing to Ksu with Ksu in the final four. Very interesting. Looking forward to Duke/ U of M tomorrow, but I really wish Jalen Rose didn’t make the Uncle Tom comment that is under every Duke Player’s pillow tonight.
(martini night in case you couldn’t tell)
Just Some Fuckhead
@stuckinred: Alls well that ends well.
trollhattan
@Southern Beale:
Well, it really is the perfect time, isn’t it? Nothing to see heah at all…ooh look, shiny new war! Also, too, baby with the drillin’ and such.
kdaug
Psst, Cole: ain’t just your dad.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Carrie:
It’s my fault for laying down too close to the closet we keep his food in. He just assumed I was trying to feed him.
I’m afraid to look at it. I could be running through the woods all night.
asiangrrlMN
Lily is beautiful. Cole, be careful. Seriously. You worry me. I stopped watching the BYU/’Zaga game ‘coz, and I just ate lunch. If I never hear the name Jimmer again, it will be too soon.
Oh, and TUNCHIE?
Carrie
@Just Some Werewolf:
That doesn’t sound so bad, you might even like it.
Litlebritdifrnt
@JPL:
I just complained to my husband that despite my love of trees they are annoying sometimes because despite the fact it it 10:13pm here I STILL can’t see the moon because my entire yard is surrounded by large trees.
gogol's wife
Lily has a ton of personality. You can see it all over her.
Just Some Fuckhead
Certain ads on the front page seem to be directly related to the content of the front page post. Right now, on this post where John has said the following:
.. followed by..
..the rotating ad on the right side of the page sez “Why Can’t I Find a Date?”
Anne Laurie
Cole, doesn’t one of your uncles breed Papillons? Lily certainly has some kind of toy-dog genes… bred to be the perfect companion, a much harder job than it looks if you’ve never tried to do it for a living. She is a sweet good doggie, and you deserve each other.
As for the Jack Russell terrorists: “Terriers are for people who aren’t creative enough to have their own personalities, so they rely on their dogs to give their lives meaning.”
It was a third-generation West Highland White Terrier breeder who told me that, before anyone panics.
Skepticat
JC, at least you had warning of a power outage–though that really is pretty bizarre timing. Here in the Bahamas they’re “upgrading” the power system (which I think means they’re adding a few more hamsters to the wheel), and the power goes out for periods lasting from minutes to days at totally unpredictable and always inconvenient times. At least we don’t have to worry about it knocking out the heat.
Annie
@Southern Beale:
One of my cats also is sneezing up a storm. I think he is allergic to cats.
PeakVT
That first pic is great.
Also, too: B&J Americone Dream ice cream.
Anne Laurie
@Southern Beale: Fish-flavored benadryl. If your vet can’t provide it himself, make him write a scrip and take it to your local Target to mix up. At least, our Target advertises fish as one of its compounding flavors, so I assume it’s chain-wide.
Another commentor, in the past week or two, said their pharmacist made some bad-tasting medicine into a paste that could be rubbed into the cat’s ear. Don’t know if antihistamines can be absorbed through the skin, or if it’s really a practical solution when you’ll have to do it several times a day for many days at a time — but you might want to ask about it.
If you have multiple cats, “kitty ice cream” (strained baby-food chicken) works pretty well, because each cat has to slurp up their portion before Those Other Guys steal it.
Kristine
@lamh32: And Mom’s wearing heels. Malia’s wearing flats.
kindness
Look into her eyes. Watch her face. Lily can write a book with those.
PNW Warrior Woman
Sleep over out here the the Pacific Northwest! Four elementary-middle school boys, pizza, soda, Wii, me and the he man spouse in the house. I recommend the Redline “Nebo” LED flashlight. 220 Lumens, bright as hell. You can do open heart surgery with this baby.
http://toolguyd.com/2010/11/nebo-redline-flashlight-hands-on-review/
CatPerson
How can anyone not love Lily? She’s adorable.
WaterGirl
That first photo is a great action shot of Lily’s tongue. What a sweet girl, the perfect doggie soulmate for John.
trollhattan
An Aussie beat Fabian Cancellara today in Milan-San Remo. Well done, Bruce!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/20/3168581.htm
Steeplejack
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Dude, you were epic last night.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Steeplejack:
What the hell happened?
Phoebe
You should tell your parents that when they aren’t around, Lily dances and sings like that frog in the cartoon. Seriously, I don’t know how you can let them get to you. It’s almost an insult to Lily that you do. She is so obviously adorable. I think they’re jealous.
JenJen
When I would take my dear departed little angel-mutt Strider on walks, or to the dog park, people would somehow be compelled to march right up to me to say, “Gosh, what a weird-looking fat little dog!”
I always bit my lip, and hard, but wanted so badly to say “Well, that’s a real compliment, considering how fucking fat and weird you look. If Strider could say ‘thanks ever so,’ I assure you, he would.”
You tell your Dad that I said that’s not very nice. Not very nice at all.
Nethead Jay
@trollhattan: Damn you Aussies! /Cancellara fan
Blehmannwa
My new pup is so gorgeous that he stops traffic. So is Lily.
Jebediah
Lilly pretty.