Long day today. Got up early to take care of a few things, and my computer went haywire. Aparently the liquid cooling for my cpu died and my cpu temp was at 88 degrees celsius, so I had to order a new cooler from newegg and have it overnighted since none of my important files are on this old backup. And, of course, I couldn’t use the backup for four hours because I hadn’t used it in a year and it basically choked because literally every piece of software needed to be updated. It’s always something, but at least this was only a 100 dollar fix.
I watched Trump’s speech while doing all this, and the man is delusional. The transcript reads like a wingnut “choose your own adventure.” Ok, a paragraph on this, then lets choose this option and talk about islamic terrorism then let’s choose crony capitalism. It’s like buzzword bingo, except no one ever wins.
Had to drive to the big city for a friend’s retirement party, and left as soon as I could because drunks are no fun when you are sober and I hate driving at night.
Also, turned 46 today. Another one down. I’m going to celebrate with a couple scoops of ice cream, some quality Lily time, and watch acouple episodes of Ray Donovan, which I just started. Jon Voight’s character is as disgusting in that show as it is in real life.
Renie
A Very Happy Birthday to you! Hope you enjoyed yourself today
PsiFighter37
Happy birthday! Now we know what day to send you green balloons on each year
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Happy Birthday, Cole. You share it with Elizabeth Warren.
And Brit Hume.
Kansi
Happy Birthday John!
Betty Cracker
Happy Birthday, Cole!
Aleta
Happy birthday, and many happy returns.
lamh36
Happy Birthday John!
GregB
Happy Birthday you galoot. And yes, Voight is venal sausage-head.
Felonius Monk
Happy Birthday, John.
Mnemosyne
Happy birthday! You continue to be a year younger than me.
Our air conditioning went out at work. Fortunately, it’s only 87 degrees outside, and it’s almost time to go home.
Baud
Happy Birthday, Cole. The Big 46.
Out of curiosity, how is Balloon Juice handled in your will?
Barbara
Happy Birthday. Definitely a good choice to make it about your dogs. Also, “choose your own adventure,” I LOVE that!
MMM
Rolly says Happy Birthday! He enjoyed giving you birthday kisses, all 46 of them.
Thoughtful David
Happy birthday , John. I appreciate your blog.
Trump delenda est
JMG
Happy Birthday, John! I think you will enjoy Ray Donovan.
fordpowers
Happy Birthday. Even though I imagine you don’t much care for that sort of thing…
:)
TaMara (HFG)
I actually met Voight a long time ago and creepy does not begin to describe his vibe.
ALSO: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
In other news, it looks like I can begin packing. Woot.
p.s. no matter how old you get, I’ll always be older, so take comfort in that.
Hal
Blech on Jon Voight. And happy birthday!
Patricia Heaton is another blech marring my Sunday morning cooking show watching ritual. I’m expecting Jon Voight as a guest any time now.
LAO
Happy birthday John!
raven
20 years younger than me, it’ll fly by dawg.
Just One More Canuck
Happy Birthday, John. Are you shaving any cat’s asses to celebrate?
Ultraviolet Thunder
We love you John.
Hope your birthday was a great one.
raven
@TaMara (HFG): And, yet, he was great in Coming Home.
p.a.
Happy Birthday. I remember 46; it was Bush 43, year 5 (counting from inauguration, not election). Yours WILL be better.
Shell
Happy Birthday, Cole. Cake and ice cream time!
John Cole
@Baud: I suppose I need to add that to the list right below ‘DESTROY ALL MY HARD DRIVES.’
Kalimama
Happy Birthday!
qwerty42
Happy Birthday, John
rikyrah
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COLE!!!!
rikyrah
Anyone here watch TURN?
This week’s episode was EVERYTHING!!
Major Major Major Major
Happy birthday. Fuck you too ?
Hey, at least you have a backup. Most people don’t.
Renie
@raven: OT don’t like crashing John’s birthday thread but I think you are the one who told me about “River”. If yes, it started again on Netflix today; the whole next season.
Bodacious
Pretty cheezy presser with those front row ‘E-Yeahaaa!!!!’ from sonny-boy Cheeto, and the ‘Whooohooo’ from steamy hot cheeto-daughter. Honestly, couldn’t they find some illegal to cheer for him that wasn’t in the nepotic clan of Caligula? Sorry it had to happen on your birthday.
Major Major Major Major
@John Cole: Oh, and give it to Adam.
Patricia Kayden
Happy B’Day, John! You’re still a young’un.
HRA
Happy Birthday, John!
raven
@Renie: Aw don’t worry about the thread, he’s totally cool! I could have told you about it, it was ok but I’m not crazy about all those ghost people talking to him.
jharp
My friends in Cleveland tell me a once in a lifetime event happened there today.
1.3 million people downtown to celebrate the Cav’s win.
Wow. So sorry I couldn’t be there. That’s half the people in northeast Ohio.
RobertDSC-iPhone 6
Happy Birthday, John.
maya
Happy 46th, JC.
Let me think, what was I doing on or around 6-22-70. Oh yeah, working at one of the Slaughterhouses on Wall St. E.F.Hutton. Long deceased now (1986?) after customer checks kiting scam thought up by some of the less clever boys at the top trying to increase their personally owned corporate stock’s net worth. But that was back in the day when there were actual consequences for bad investment-adviser behavior. That’s all been fixed thanks to $$$ now considered free speech and other peoples $$$ now considered plush-pile carpeting in your new house. Scalia still dead? Has anyone actually checked the tomb?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Happy birthday John Cole. Thanks for the blog. Many blessings and a long happy life with all the animals that fit.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Also Meryl Streep.
And John Dillinger.
Happy birthday, John Cole!
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Tontine.
@ Cole @ top: Happy birthday.
Felonius Monk
Any doubt that the TrumpenFarter campaign is being run by idiots has been erased.
nutella
Thanks for the reminder. Backup is running now!
Chris
Your birthday is the longest day of the year (or thereabouts) and happens just at the end of the school year? That must have made for awesome birthday parties as a kid.
Happy birthday, JC.
rikyrah
I don’t tweet, but, for those of you that do, this is a great idea:
@deray 4m4 minutes ago
And it seems that the Republicans have started #StopTheStunt to “counter” #NoBillNoBreak.
lamh
Someone should tweets the names and pics of the victims from Sandy Hook, Charleston, Orlando…etc to Ryan and use with that hashtag…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’ve got Trump on mute on the Hayes show. Looks like he had the marmoset re-tinted for summer, a fun shade of blonde for lawn parties East Quogue or wherever the hell.
raven
@maya: It was my first summer coming out of the green machine and it was sex, drugs and rock and roll like a motherfucker!
redshirt
Fuck you Cole.
And oh yeah, Happy Birthday!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Last troll standing?
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah, the way most people learn the importance of backups is when they lose something important with no back ups.
Back up, sheeple!
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I don’t Tweet either, but I think we need to get a bandwagon going to do this.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I don’t know if you know this, but it seems that 46 is the new 23. So there’s that…
Betty
Happy birthday, John. Thanks for creating this space – nice bunch of folks.
RandomMonster
Ray Donovan is just a great series — my wife and I binge-watched the first several seasons, and now we’re just hungry for more.
Oh, and happy birthday to you!
Schlemazel Khan
from one cranky old bastard to another – happy birthday
maya
@raven: Yeah, well all that was allowed on the Street too. Tidy little bar on the upper east side of Manhattan called Rums was a good place to start after a hard days work, of course.
Olivia
Happy Birthday! You share it with Kris Kristofferson and Elizabeth Warren.
SiubhanDuinne
@Felonius Monk:
No, actually it doesn’t.
raven
@maya: I couldn’t have been in a more different place, East Central Illinois was no Wall Street.
K488
Happy Birthday John Cole from all the K-numbers, as well as our six over-cats.
raven
@Schlemazel Khan: 46 ain’t old.
gogol's wife
Happy Birthday!
Let’s crush Trump.
Kay (not the front-pager)
Happy Birthday, John. I’ll be 66 next month, so I’m officially old enough to be your mother. :-|
Iowa Old Lady
Happy birthday, John. Thank you giving us all this nice, disfunctional home.
rikyrah
Thor Heyerdahl
Best to you John on your birthday!
rikyrah
For those who tweet:
Charleston victims:
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd (54) – Bible study member and manager for the Charleston County Public Library system; sister of Malcolm Graham.
Susie Jackson (87) – a Bible study and church choir member.
Ethel Lee Lance (70) – the church’s sexton.
Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49) – a pastor who was also employed as a school administrator and admissions coordinator at Southern Wesleyan University.
Clementa C. Pinckney (41) – the church’s pastor and a South Carolina state senator.
Tywanza Sanders (26) – a Bible study member; grandnephew of Susie Jackson.
Daniel Simmons (74) – a pastor who also served at Greater Zion AME Church in Awendaw.
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45) – a pastor; also a speech therapist and track coach at Goose Creek High School.
Myra Thompson (59) – a Bible study teacher.
Schlemazel Khan
@raven:
Well, he is 19.5 years younger than me but he acts older!
rikyrah
For those who tweet:
Sandy Hook
Noah Pozner, 6
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Olivia Engel, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6,
Catherine, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Jessica Rekos, 6,
Victoria Soto – teacher
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
James Mattioli, 6
Madeline Hsu, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
Josephine, 6
Rachel D’Avino, 29
Caroline Previdi, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Chase Kowalski, 6
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Mary Sherlach, 56, Sandy Hook Elementary’s school psychologist
Daniel Barden, 7
Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47, who became Sandy Hook Elementary School’s principal
Grace McDonnell,, 7
Emilie Parker
The Thin Black Duke
Congratulations, Mr. Cole. May the next turning of the page be joyous and rewarding.
eemom
Happy birthday, Cole!
Hey, for your birthday, since I’m about 100 years older than you, howzabout you give me a present? What I’d like is the John Cole of 1-2 years ago who finally figured out that the word “couple” should be fucking followed by the word “OF” (unless it’s being used as a noun). kthxbai.
rikyrah
Oliver Willis @owillis 17m17 minutes ago
dems are emulating civil rights actions w a civil rights leader
while gop just nominated the new bull connor
Jordan Rules
Happy Born Day John!!
‘Preciate the blog!
#nobillnobreak
rikyrah
Al Giordano @AlGiordano
1. A little history lesson is in order here. John Lewis was 19 years old when he began his training in nonviolence from Rev. Jim Lawson.
7:15 PM – 22 Jun 2016
JPL
Well John in honor of your birthday, John Lewis is conducting a sit in.. Pretty nice huh?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Happy Birthday Cole.
rikyrah
bago
Holy hell, have everything backed up all the time to a journaling file system if you can!
jnfr
Happy birthday, John! I hope it’s an excellent one in spite of the world today.
maya
@raven: All I know, or remember, about Illinois was being at some diner on a November night when the clocks were going to be turned back because of the end of CDST. A waitress asked her (female) boss how that effected her pay check. The boss told her that since the clocks were being set back she would actually lose an hour’s pay. The waitress accepted that explanation. I just sat there. You have my sympathies.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Just posted in the thread below: it’s over for the Republicans now that Lin-Manuel Miranda has thrown his support behind John Lewis.
/mostly kidding
lollipopguild
@Baud: Watch your back John, Baud is moving in.
AnotherBruce
Happy birthday, Mr Cole!
Davis X. Machina
Sen. Warren bringing the Dunkin’
raven
@maya: I left there 32 years ago but it will always be home.
Manyakitty
Happiest of birthdays to you! You make the world a better place.
ThresherK
Best of the day, John.
I’m trying my durndest to not pay attention to anyone’s age in these parts.
Scott Alloway
@Baud: As I used to say to a co-worker when he went on a business trip, “If your plane crashes, I want your computer.”
J R in WV
Happy Birthday, John… many happy returns. I turned 65 last winter.
And thanks for the blog. I dunno what I would do without your blog at 3 or 4 am. Take care, and love the cat.
jacy
Many happy returns, Cole.
maya
@raven: Left NYC 44 years ago. Don’t miss it a bit.
Douglas W Wieboldt
Happy Birthday! Thank you for all you do. Also, more puppy and kitteh pictures!
hovercraft
Happy birthday JC.
Thanks for giving us a forum to tell one another to fuck off.
Very cathartic.
NotoriousJRT
Happy birthday, John!
dollared
Happy Birthday JC! Absorb and internalize all that Lily adoration. You deserve it.
NotoriousJRT
@Thoughtful David:
Trump delenda est
A great bumper sticker / tee shirt.
M. Bouffant
Many happy returns!
I’ll just wait here a while until your age catches up to mine.
dollared
@maya: People really don’t believe that there used to be laws, and that they used to be enforced. People on this blog, for example. One of my best memories was from ’86, when one of the brothers that ran K-Tel records almost went to jail because KTel was paying for his kids’ boarding school in Switzerland, and KTel was a public company. Now, the CEO of Boeing gets awarded a pension that pays $300,000 per month, and no one bats an eyelash.
Tinare
Happy birthday!
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Took it in order from the source article. What is interesting is that McNeely responds with a “No Comment” and remains a fervent Trump supporter. I somehow don’t think he is getting the message that he is not Trump’s African-American.
Anne Laurie
Happy birthday, John, and many happy returns.
(yeah, should’ve posted it earlier, but I’m recovering from the latest episode of a dental adventure involving two root canals, two replacement crowns, three-and-a-half new crowns, and a cracked-filling replacement. All of which is going to cost as much as a compact car. So you’ve got good dental health in your favor, at least… )
tastytone
Happy Birthday, Cole! May the coming year be filled with beautiful political whinging and adorable furry things galore.
One month behind you. My bad knee is making grinding noises, but I’m pretty sure it sounds like “Happy Birthday”.
Emma
Let me add my congratulations, youngster.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
No spoilers!!! My son and I are binge watching. Love that show.
Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLE!!
aimai
Happy Birthday, John! I WISH I was 46 again! But there’s so much love and happiness ahead of you. You just have no idea! You are loved by hundreds of people you will never meet. Not many people can say that. I wish you so much joy today, and every day this coming year! Hugs to you and all my best wishes.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@NotoriousJRT: Too many people would think that you’re praising Trump in Mexican.
hovercraft
Listen to Mom
FlyingToaster
Happy Birthday, John!
At 46 (9.5 years ago) I was about to get pregnant with WarriorGirl. So believe me, 46 just ain’t that old.
hovercraft
@efgoldman:
He’s a staunch believer in tough love. I can just see him batting those baby blues telling you “this will hurt me more than it will hurt you”. In other words an asshole.
Cat48
Happy Birthday, John! ?????
The Lodger
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah. Something clicked. Loudly.
Also Happy Birthday Cole.
SFAW
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Wow, and both prime numbers! (More or less.)
lurker dean
happy birthday, grumpy old man!
SFAW
Happy Birthday, John, and many more!
Mzinformation
Happy birthday John. Hope you have a great and healthy year!! This blog is our gift every day.
Garbo
Happy birthday, John. Proprietor of my favorite online hangout!
Denali
Happy Birthday to you!
JosieJ (not Josie)
Happy Birthday, fellow Cancer! My 50th is Saturday!
Jeffro
@efgoldman:
Hey, waitaminute…46 (and 1/2 in my case) is not old!
Happy birthday John. I’ve never looked at green balloons, kittens, or tire rims the same since I started hanging out here.
Let’s CRUSH THEM LIKE RAMSAY this fall!!!
Joy in FL
Happy Birthday, John.
This blog you started consistently enriches my life : )
Thank you.
wuzzat
Happy birthday, John. Here’s hoping 46 is the best year yet!
NotMax
Hmph. Young’uns. Always craving attention.
;)
(Feliz cumpleaños.)
AliceBlue
Hope you have the best birthday ever (computer problems notwithstanding).
geg6
Happy birthday, Cole! Lovey sends kisses!! And so does Koda.
Nice of John Lewis and House Dems to give you such a lovely gift. I wish they’d give me a wonderful thing like shouting down Paul Ryan.
RSR
>>big city
Wheeling? Okay, maybe Pittsburgh.
Jonathan Holland Becnel
46, geeeezzzzz, ur soooo old!
Mr. Robot FTW
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
Hippo birdie two ewes, Cole!
Omnes Omnibus
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: Where the hell will he put that damned hippo?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Happy Birthday Cole, hope you had a good day.
satby
Barely made it, but Happy Birthday John. You’re a good guy, and we all appreciate the little corner of the net you set up for us. Many happy returns.
Miss Bianca
Happy birthday to you, John Cole!
seaboogie
@rikyrah: My twitter skillz are rudimentary, and I don’t want to co-opt the faces, especially of the Sandy Hook children, but I am tweeting names and ages to #StopTheStunt with #SandyHook. On to Mother Emmanuel now…
Agorabum
Happy birthday! And you yell at us and the world to get off your lawn as if you are 76 years young!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Happy Birthday blogmeister! They’re going to keep coming faster, so you might as well get used to it.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Elie
Happy Birthday, John! All the best!
No One You Know
Happy birthday, John.
Here’s hoping you get a massive quantity of whatever brings you joy. We hope comments count!
Steeplejack
Happy birthday, Cole! Best blog on the Intertubes.
Glaukopis
Happy birthday, John!
Gregory
Happy birthday, John!
Fred Arnold
Carbonite automatic online backup has worked for me for years now.
http://www.carbonite.com
BTW, have a great year, John!
ads
Happy birthday! I am exactly 10 years older.
JustRuss
Belated Happy Birthday Cole. Bummer about the computer. I enjoyed your Voight comment.