I have been in a very weird frame of mind lately. Out of sorts, pouty, moody, stressed out, and also been reflecting and reminiscing about things. I have all these thoughts, but then when I go to express them, either here or to someone with whom I am talking, I just lose all interest and think “ehh it’s not important.” Maybe just a phase. Or maybe I have a brain tumor. Who knows?
A very good friend recommended the new John Mellencamp (yes, John Cougar Mellencamp, fellow olds), called Orpheus Descending, and I have to say I very much enjoyed it.
Give it a listen.
Social media is just a clusterfuck right now, with twitter, bluesky, and threads all being somewhat functional but everyone is scattered among the three. Will be interesting to see how that all sorts out.
What are you all up to?
War for Ukraine Day 499: A Note of Clarification
Jerzy Russian
I never got on to social media, so I am not directly experiencing the various fusterclucks.
I am outside on the patio enjoying the awesome weather. It has been a bit cooler than normal here in San Diego, and pretty low humidity to boot.
cain
Thinking of a mastodon server for jackals. :-)
jackals.social
balloonjuice.social?
jackals.online <– has my vote.
I figure it might fine for a small group of us – and it’s a nice safe entry. I rather start small as I feel like doing admin/moderation might be burdensome.
#ETA oh yeah, fuck yea – #2!
Jerzy Russian
@cain:
And I thought I was the only one who reads this fine blog while sitting on the pot.
Trivia Man
Summer fest tomorrow in Milwaukee. Worlds largest music festival according to their press office. No idea who I’ll see, just wander and explore.
imagine Dragons is the headliner – I’m not paying the extra for that one
cope
It’s not a tumor.
Benw
Listening to the new Royal Tusk song out today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ7ogO-FyPo
So good!
Frankensteinbeck
People really, really, really, really, really do not want to leave Twitter, but Musk finally seems to be forcing them off. It’s amazing. I think he could actually have pulled off his stated goal, of keeping the site running but forcing liberals to deal with constant hate speech harassment as the price. People are that invested. He’s having to make it physically unusable with his incompetence to break that hold.
rikyrah
Watching stuff on streaming.
Glad the heat broke.
Watching the social media fights
Been a long week😒
Planetjanet
I am looking forward to a bike ride along the river in the morning. I’ve set an extra alarm in the morning to help me get there on time. Something nice about being along the river in the morning. We’ll start out from Jones Point, do a little hike around Roosevelt Island when we get there and head back. Summer is sweet.
The Up and Up
Heya Cole, or is Mr. Cole better? I always thought of my elder relatives as a “Mr.” though. I don’t think you are that far away from me in age. Comrade Cole? Blogfather? I dunno.
I feel the same about posting. “I have all these thoughts, but then when I go to express them, either here or to someone with whom I am talking, I just lose all interest …”
Anyways I attempted to be to more social during Pride month, however I just kept stumbling over my words, botched whole conversations, etc.
There’s therapy as a result of a bad situation that happened earlier in the year. Still frustrated on the injustice.
I might drive somewhere next week.
On Mastodon. That’s it for now.
BR
@cain:
Your ETA is why I still think jackals.wtf is the way to go.
ETA my goal is to see @[email protected] become a thing. Because that just seems like it makes total sense to my brain.
geg6
I’ve always been a Mellencamp fan. Years ago, he went on a tour of various US cities. Not a band tour or a stadium/arena tour, but a real family tour with his wife (at the time) and kids, in a Winnebago, just visiting and busking in the streets. I ran into him in downtown Pittsburgh, playing guitar on a street corner, unrecognized (until I came along) and singing his heart out. He was kind and grateful and asked that we not tell anyone until he had left town. It was a unique and fun experience.
Odie Hugh Manatee
You think it’s bad now, wait until the day of the nuptials… 😜
Wapiti
Smoked up some salmon today and it came out really nice.
Previously, I’ve done an overnight brining and cooked the next day, but I tightened up the sequence and did a 4-hour brine, then let the salmon dry/get tacky for about an hour in the fridge, then 40 minutes in the smoker. ( I have a little stove-top smoker, but I use it outside on a propane stove. I can’t imagine using the smoker indoors.)
For dinner, we made a smoked salmon linguine with about 1/4 pound of the salmon, lemon, cream, and parsley tossed in the pasta.
William D
new kitchen floor laid in but grouting will wait till monday…bracing for upcoming heat wave….oh…one of our dogs has gotten lost somewhere so printing out flyers and bothering neighbors and checking the pound and social media…a stressful bummer
really like the song though…thanks
Odie Hugh Manatee
My wife made the first two batches of jam for the year. Raspberry and strawberry, both from our garden. We got three quarts of each this round and lots more to go if the sun cooperates. Blackberries will be turning in a few weeks and then it will get real busy. The smell of garden grown berries boiling away on the stove is pure heaven.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@Trivia Man: My employer is based in Milwaukee. If not for Summerfest I’d be there now — the hotel costs skyrocketed for Summerfest, so to rein in spending the global team meeting I was organizing had to take place back in May.
Last time I was there they asked if I’d be interested in a lump sum payment to help me move there. I don’t mind the city at all, but after 25 years in Georgia the Wisconsin winters would be hellish, so no. But I do enjoy visiting.
SiubhanDuinne
I rarely look at FB but I did tonight and basically didn’t recognise it. It was mostly cooking videos of people doing extremely weird shit with popcorn (popcorn and shaved soap! popcorn and melted popsicle, with extra sugar! popcorn and coloured sprinkles!) or appallingly badly acted “message” films about servers at restaurants who got their comeuppance after they were really mean to old ladies who turned out to own the place. God only knows what I did that tickled the fancy of those algorithms.
So I decided “Fuck it, I’ll just watch old Pinky and the Brain videos on YouTube.” And that is indeed what I did.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I have to go to a party tomorrow. I promised the hosts, of whom I am genuinely fond, that I would be there. Then I remembered there will be other people there, some of whom are… fine, and others I am very much not fond of. And it’s a long drive. I’m already exhausted and figuring out the minimum amount of time I’ll have to be there.
It’s an afternoon thing so maybe I can figure out somewhere interesting to stop for a walk on the way home.
danielx
Your basic midwestern summer night except better than anybody has a reason to expect: 77 degrees, high clouds and nothing unpleasant until at least tomorrow morning.
Good night to sit on the back porch and listen to Goose…..
SiubhanDuinne
@danielx:
ooooh, I like that!
Another Scott
Just doing the usual reading stuff.
Tonight I set up a login at Substack to read Wonkette’s stuff since they’ll be mostly/kinda moving over there in a week or so. It’s not clicking with me yet, and it’s not immediately obvious to me how one does simple HTML like include a link and a blockquote (it does its own HTML-ifying in the background). I may not have much time to actually do much more than skim articles there – I’m not interested in doing my own blogging-type-stuff anytime soon. I’m not liking all the “SIGN UP NOW! REFER MORE PEOPLE TO US NOW! EARN POINTS BY RECOMMENDING US TO PEOPLE NOW!” stuff that’s everywhere on Substack, but I understand that people gotta earn a living.
I went to move my 2004 TDI Jetta wagon a day or so ago – it’s mainly been sitting since I got a 2023 Kia Niro PHEV at the end of April. Of course, it wouldn’t start. The battery has been weak for a while, even though it’s less than 5 years old. :-/ It looks like I’ll be getting a battery for it tomorrow as I want to use the wagon for some chores before I give it away (sometime in the fall). Gotta keep the economy going!!
The advice a few days ago to try to keep moving to get out of a funk is good – I hate the first 20 minutes of any exercise, but after that it becomes worthwhile and bearable. I need to get back to it.
Hang in there JC, and everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
Betsy
Maybe you’re like one of us where we’re all just burnt out because of first, four years of Trump and three years of pandemic and tons and tons of bullshit and Putin‘s war and people getting their hands cut off in Darfur or wherever and Zaporizhzhia nuclear annihilation and global warming and the hottest week in recorded history and so on and so forth. I mean, we all just feel like big fat dinosaurs and the comet is approaching, so no surprise.
It’s a combination of trauma, extended trauma, burn out, and depression, and anxiety all at once and I just don’t have any energy left. And sounds like you’re just about the same.
To me, everything from just feeding the two cats, to picking up sticks in the yard, to clicking two clicks to pay a bill online, feels like wading through molasses.
Got no special words tonight, just empathy, hope you at least get some good sleep.
Salty Sam
Great song. Loved the instrumentation, couldn’t understand a single word. I don’t blame Mellencamp, it’s a failing of mine since junior high. The advent of lyrics.com has been a godsend for me…
BeautifulPlumage
I’m trying to talk myself down from anxiety. I was hoping to sign a lease on Wed, but new laws took effect July 1 which meant more ppwk from me for my application. Now everything is in but I need to wait until next Wed to sign, but it’s only 99% sure. I’m holding off from really unpacking and decorating until I’m sure I’m accepted & the lease is signed.
mvr
Re-bricking (bricks and sand to let water retur to the soil) the paths between our veggie garden beds (which are doing quite well) and getting ready to head to Yellowstone by car over the next several days. And reading this here blog.
danielx
@SiubhanDuinne:
Top shelf.
Gvg
Gardening. I should go swimming more. I am almost done building a trellis system to keep my blackberries off the ground. Found out the University native plant nursery is having a summer plant sale tomorrow morning. Wasn’t advertised much. I was researching greening resistant citrus trees I could buy and stumbled across this sale. So I have to get up in the morning. Maybe.
So far this year I have started 8 trays of rainlily seeds from my plants. Each year I collect the seeds and start more. Eventually I hope that my shady front yard where grass won’t grow can be pale pink flowers every summer rain storm instead. I have a good start after 3 years. Gardening helps my sanity a lot, I think. I am now getting seed from my seedlings.
eclare
@geg6:
I have liked his music for a long time too, and your anecdote makes me like him even more.
Jackie
Like the Mellencamp song. Always have loved the raspiness of his voice.
FlyingToaster
Managed to mow the lawn except for the part reserved for WarriorTeen to mow.
Found out I got the wrong size of downspout diverter, but the right size of hose, so I’m not completely incompetent.
And basically set up shop at Bluesky (sorry, no invites yet), because I could never find a Mastodon instance that wouldn’t end up flinging my metal ass right back out. My invite came through at what seems to be minimum critical mass; my timeline is interesting and lacks chuds (due to pre-emptive blocking of transphobes, bigots, and Assholes with Casseroles; pre-emptive muting of AI Edgelords, NFT “Creators”, and CryptoBros). Desperately miss Lists from the old hellsite.
Now chilling out with BJ.
eclare
@William D:
Fingers crossed for the doggo!
cain
@BR: OK, fine – but one of you has gotten that DNS domain :-)
you know watergirl.rocks is free :D
it’s too bad fuckem.all is not available. :D
Trivia Man
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): Scott walker nearly destroyed any hope for the state but it might be in the upswing like Michigan. Winter is definitely an ordeal, less so if you have a little financial security for a reliable car, good clothes, cozy house. I’ve been here off and on for 25 years but it still doesn’t feel like Home.
MMM
this very good friend of yours and I have similar taste – vaya cos dios
geg6
Humidity has finally broken. Very pleasant evening. Hopefully, it holds like this. Am going to see Ed Sheeran at Heinz Field (I refuse to call it Acrisure Stadium) tomorrow night with my youngest niece as her 22 birthday present and I really don’t want to sweat my way through it. Bad enough that I’m not the biggest Sheeran fan, but bring sweaty mess would make me inappropriately unhappy.
cain
@geg6: My wife literally came out of the womb hating sweating – she turns into an angry person when she’s sweating. She is in Bombay right now during monsoon season and she’s a dripping mess. She strangely is mostly calm and her skin is amazing :D
BR
@cain:
Oh, hrm. that’s too bad. There’s jackals.fail, jackals.ooo, jackals.ninja, and maybe the winner jackals.lol
eclare
@Betsy:
I was so unmotivated and lazy yesterday that for dinner I gave the cat a can of tuna, and I gave the dog ice cream. Kroger is maybe a half mile from me.
I did get out and get proper dog and cat food this morning. Then I discovered I had some extra in the car that I had never brought in. Oh well, I am sure my dog enjoyed the expensive sea salt and caramel Gelato that she got instead.
HumboldtBlue
After watching the Phillies go into Tampa Bay and sweep the AL’s best team — and yes, I was up in Betty’s grill with smug turned up to 11 — the Phillies saved the best for last tonight. Two outs, trailing 3-2, top of the 9th…
Oscar Budejen has the call:
CAMPANAZOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PACHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
As for weather, I have a hoodie and sweat pants on. It’s chilly.
eclare
@cain:
Oh that would have been perfect!
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … Whitehouse.gov:
A good day.
Cheers,
Scott.
john (not mccain)
I’ve been thinking about that desantis antigay ad. I wonder why somebody hasn’t gone on the offensive against all the recent bigot rhetoric.
There should be ads, online and the real world, with pictures of convicted pedo priests and preachers of every flavor. You could run a different picture daily for years with no repeats.
Taglines could be like PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM THE REAL PREDATORS or THE PREDATORS ARE IN THE PULPIT. Constantly being on the degensive isn’t working.
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: I got to tease BC last wknd when the M’s took 2 of 3 from the Rays last wknd. Life’s pleasures 😁
HumboldtBlue
@Another Scott:
I worked here for just under three years.
Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System — JACADS.
@Jackie:
She deserves it all.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
Great call! I don’t watch golf, but having Hispanic play by play callers would be interesting.
xephyr
Today, planted some lantana (usually spreads quite a lot by the end of summer), carried water for other plantings (we’ve had rain, but these are seedlings and top of the soil dries out fast – hollyhocks, also dill and parsley for black swallowtail larvae), waterproofed the top of my ancient chimney and didn’t even fall off the roof. Getting ready to frost a cake, generalized anxiety is at a low ebb – also have some good space opera to read later, so not too bad all in all…
BR
@cain:
There’s also jackals.earth, jackals.fyi, jackals.surf, jackals.vip, jackals.zone
My favorites might be jackals.surf and jackals.zone
CaseyL
I’m not in a funk, but have finally admitted to myself that my creative self is either dead or in a coma. I haven’t had an artistic thought or done any art at all in nearly a year. I’m sure the events of the last 7 years have a lot to do with that.
On the other hand, last weekend I went to a beach walk, which was such a jolt of pure joy I may go do it again tomorrow. The water last weekend was surprisingly warm, so I might even wear a bathing suit and immerse myself completely.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
I don’t care what team you root for or what languages you know. That call is just Pure-D joyful.
HumboldtBlue
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah it is. It tingles in human. We all get it.
Layer8Problem
We’re into the last couple of episodes of the Korean show Crash Landing on You on Netflix, which I’ve found unexpectedly engaging and enjoyable. It’s sometimes a little over the top but I like the characters. I’m genuinely going to miss them when I finish the last episode.
I’m trying to get back into running in order to tamp down some free-floating anxiety and improving my sleep, but I’m dragging my ass getting back to my full half-hour what with overworrying about a touchy knee and various interruptions. I’m working up a head of steam up anxietywise for a innocuous family event Sunday that will probably go fine. I’m looking forward to a quiet week after that.
Layer8Problem
@HumboldtBlue: The maximum elevation there is thirty feet. Did you have to deal with any typhoons or high seas?
Splitting Image
@cain:
balloonjuice.antisocial would be my vote.
HumboldtBlue
@Layer8Problem:
No. In fact, we never had a bad storm. It did teach me one thing about weather, however, in that you can see a rain squall coming from miles away. Wonderful to watch.
RaflW
Drove up to Pewaukee, WI this afternoon to buy a used dresser for the bedroom. Did some ‘big city’ grocery shopping while there, and had a pizza at MOD. It’s a new-to-me chain, tried it for the first time back in January in Park City, UT (I had no idea until about 30 seconds ago that they have 500 locations. Damn, franchising moves fast now.)
Decent pizza, I really like the one price, pick your toppings model. As someone who leans heavily veggie for these things, it’s always sorta irked me if a joint charges two dollars for several ounces of calorie-dense of sausage, and also two dollars for the equivalent of two medium button mushrooms, sliced thin and scattered.
Noticed they were (still – how fresh are they seven days past June?) selling Pride cakes. Not that interested in the item, but glad to see something pro-gay in the western ‘burbs of Milwaukee.
I guess the chain founders are some sort of social venture folks. Inc. Magazine says “MOD hires multiple-time felons, people with learning disabilities, and those recently released from drug or alcohol rehabilitation.” If true, that’s cool.
cain
@Splitting Image:
I wonder if johncole.wtf is available. :D
BR
@cain:
Looks like jackal.wtf is available instead of jackals.wtf. What do you think?
frosty
I’m sitting in Hilo Airport waiting for a flight to Maui. Two-week bucket list trip* – we took our grown sons with us, too.
We decided to take a year off from big trailer trip travel. It’s nice, except for $$$!!!!! Yikes!
* I hit State#49 in 1978 when I went to Alaska with my grandma. A 45 year wait for #50.
eclare
@frosty:
Def drive up Haleakala! And a convertible is highly recommended. Have a great time.
Jager
I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis last winter, it’s in my neck (surgical repair on an old ski injury) my neck sounds like microwave popcorn, and it’s in both shoulders and my wrists. After 4-5 months the PT lady struck the right combination of exercise, pool therapy, etc. Feeling good in late April, May, and then on the eve of my 78th birthday on the 18th of June. I have my first-ever attack of sciatica in my right leg. My doc said, “It’s the worst pain you’ll ever have that won’t kill you.” On my back right up through the 4th of July, doc put me on steroid pills, and now I can actually stand up for more than 5 minutes.
I couldn’t focus on politics or other shit, so I started reading and watching sailing videos, I’ve sailed since I was 8 years old in a Sunfish, I’ve owned 5 sailboats over the year, and I’m a damn good sailor. Until a couple of years ago I was the mainsheet trimmer on a 44-foot race boat and in the longer races I was the backup driver. My wife, I have chartered a bit here and in the Islands. The first night I could actually sit across from her at dinner, I said, “Here’s my plan: I’m going to find and buy a sailboat, (I’m looking at a Baltic 35 next Tuesday.) I will spend a year getting the boat ready so that in June of 2025 I can sail it singlehanded to Hawaii. Then you can fly over, we’ll sail around the islands with my cousin and his wife. We’ll fly the grandsons over and they can sail it back. However, if I feel good, I may solo it home myself. She said something about me being crazy. I was ready for her, I handed her an article about an 83-year-old Japanese guy, who singlehanded Tokyo to San Francisco and back, each leg was 6400 miles. I added that he did it in a 20-foot boat. I’ve been dreaming about doing something like this since I read Joshua Slocum’s “Sailing Around the World Alone” when I had the flu when I was 11 years old. After my sciatica time in bed, I thought fuck it, I’m going to do something with the time I have left. If Paul Newman won his last race in a 900-hp Corvette when he was 81 years old…I can still sail a goddamn boat.
My youngest grandson said, “I’ll meet you in Hawaii and we can keep on going!”
eclare
@Jager:
Those sound like great plans!
Jay
@Jager:
did the Transpac a couple of times as crew, rebuilt and re rigged an old Columbia 26II, even built her a modern rudder,
Good luck on your journey, (re rigging), the sailing part will be less of a journey.
frosty
@Jay: You and Raven both need to write an autobiography!
frosty
@eclare: Nope, it’s a 4 hour round trip from where we’re staying and we’re not here long enough to commit a whole day to it.
Road to Hana tour tomorrow. THAT’s worth a whole day!
thruppence
Just finishing work, light rain, will probably go home to try Black Mirror based on some earlier jackal’s comment. Tomorrow will be time to ramp up an anti mouse regime. Little bastards just laugh at my traps…
MomSense
Physically, mentally, emotionally and politically burned out.
NotMax
@cain
Didn’t ask earlier so will now. To what purpose? When we already have a place (now ad-free, mind you) right here?
Regardless, count me out. This old fart barely does social; doesn’t do social media. Not no way, not no how.
eclare
@frosty:
The Road to Hana is also gorgeous. I spent a very nice Thanksgiving in Maui many years ago with a friend from college.
NotMax
@Frosty
Aloha! Maui no ka oi.
Missing out a Haleakala is missing out on a major attraction. Four hour trip? Where you staying, Lahaina side?
In lieu of the crater (and not nearly so awesomely breathtaking) might I suggest a leisurely drive to the Ulupalakua Winery?
Also, if in the mood for a get-together, I’d be happy to treat you and the clan to a meal.
NotMax
#70.
Missing out a = Missing out on
Craig
@geg6: that’s beautiful
eclare
@NotMax:
We stayed in Lahaina and did the drive up Haleakala. I do not like heights so I drove so I could concentrate on that rather than look out of the car and silently scream the entire drive up.
Some relatives were there a few years earlier, and they were going to do the bike ride down but it was raining.
Maxim
@Salty Sam: Same.
Have the front and back doors open to let the somewhat coolish overnight air meander through the house. Glad it’s the weekend, but they are always too short.
frosty
@NotMax: Yes, Lahaina side. We spent a day at Volcanoes NP on Wednesday. Pearl Harbor and Diamond Hesd last week. Maui is our chance to unwind, mostly.
I’ll check with the fam on your dinner offer. I might be able to do a meetup but Ms F is an introvert and has already had to deal with too many new faces. 😎
mrmoshpotato
I am stuffed with Italian beef.
Just finished rewatching Lewis Black’s Tragically I Need You special on YouTube.
Gonna catch some fresh air on my back porch.
Cathie from Canada
Hey, John, that’s the way we are feeling too — maybe its just the wildfire smoke bringing us all down.
Regarding the problems we are all having with the Son of Twitter wannabes, I just read a Douglas Adams comment that seems apt:
mrmoshpotato
@Wapiti:
Mmmmmm
trollhattan
David Simon is a mensch.
And I miss Omar.
mrmoshpotato
For no reason whatsoever, I am convinced that T Rex’s were great dancers and vigorously shook their asses.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: Yet another reason David Simon is a Mensch. I hope the judge considers his letter in sentencing.
smike
@Cathie from Canada:
That comment seems quite apt. Thanks.
Jager
@Jay:
I hope I can make a deal on the Baltic. It needs some work, but I like working on boats, I’ve done rigging, rebuilt decks, and all kinds of stuff over the years. I was fortunate enough to meet Phil Weld the OSTAR Race winner in the 70s, he told me, “Here’s what you do, sail all the time, sail when nobody else is out. Just for the hell of it sail for 12 hours out into the Atlantic and then turn around and sail back.” I loved doing that, I’d do the calculations in my head and think 19 days and I’d be in the Azores! I’ve been out in 40 knots with gusts to 50 plus, big nasty seas. I’ve waited too damn long. See what the Transpac big mono hulls did this time out? 4 days 17 hours, pretty close to the multihull record.
Jager
@Jay:
I hope I can make a deal on the Baltic. It needs some work, but I like working on boats, I’ve done rigging, rebuilt decks, and all kinds of stuff over the years. I was fortunate enough to meet Phil Weld the OSTAR Race winner in the 70s, he told me, “Here’s what you do, sail all the time, sail when nobody else is out. Just for the hell of it sail for 12 hours out into the Atlantic and then turn around and sail back.” I loved doing that, I’d do the calculations in my head and think 19 days and I’d be in the Azores! I’ve been out in 40 knots with gusts to 50 plus, big nasty seas. I’ve waited too damn long. See what the Transpac big mono hulls did this time out? 4 days 17 hours, pretty close to the multihull record.
NotMax
@frosty
Introvert may as well be my middle name.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
I highly highly highly recommend the new Animaniacs if you haven’t seen it yet.
Jager
@Jay:
I hope I can make a deal on the Baltic. It needs some work, but I like working on boats, I’ve done rigging, rebuilt decks, and all kinds of stuff over the years. I was fortunate enough to meet Phil Weld the OSTAR Race winner in the 70s, he told me, “Here’s what you do, sail all the time, sail when nobody else is out. Just for the hell of it sail for 12 hours out into the Atlantic and then turn around and sail back.” I loved doing that, I’d do the calculations in my head and think 19 days and I’d be in the Azores! I’ve been out in 40 knots with gusts to 50 plus, big nasty seas. I’ve waited too damn long. See what the Transpac big mono hulls did this time out? 4 days 17 hours, pretty close to the multihull record.
Jager
@Jay:
I hope I can make a deal on the Baltic. It needs some work, but I like working on boats, I’ve done rigging, rebuilt decks, and all kinds of stuff over the years. I was fortunate enough to meet Phil Weld the OSTAR Race winner in the 70s, he told me, “Here’s what you do, sail all the time, sail when nobody else is out. Just for the hell of it sail for 12 hours out into the Atlantic and then turn around and sail back.” I loved doing that, I’d do the calculations in my head and think 19 days and I’d be in the Azores! I’ve been out in 40 knots with gusts to 50 plus, big nasty seas. I’ve waited too damn long. See what the Transpac big mono hulls did this time out? 4 days 17 hours, pretty close to the multihull record.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
I highly highly highly recommend the new Animaniacs if you haven’t seen it yet.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Narf!
Jager
Sorry about the double posting
prostratedragon
Getting back to cooking rather than ordering in, which I’ve been doing too much for several months. Just simple stuff, but I did make mayo for the first time. With an immersion blender, needs basically no technique. Likely to inspire further efforts.
NotMax
@frosty
Especially if run into inclement weather, the aquarium in Maalaea is world class.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Eine kleine cookmusik.
;)
Sister Golden Bear
@Betsy:
It me.
eclare
@trollhattan:
Me too. I’m amazed this guy made it to 71 as a drug dealer and addict. He obviously has some major survival skills.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Hmm, that last tune’s pretty good for pounding cutlets.
frosty
@NotMax: Thanks for the recommendations. I’ll send you an email. I think I still have it thanks to WG.
weasel
@cain: Had only popped in late to say “Mastodon, dammit” and am so glad to see the #2 reply already covered the bases :)
Am a lurker and have been surprised by how much more I engage there than even friendly places like this.
Shout out to @[email protected] who, to me, seems to be the biggest adopter. Please let me know of others from here doing stuff there
Manyakitty
@Betsy: it’s like you’re inside my head.
weasel
@The Up and Up: Me too (re on Mastodon)! @[email protected]
weasel
@RaflW: The one price model is killer as far as I’m concerned, though I favor my local pizza options when I can. Always liked them for their vegan options too.
prostratedragon
Sure hope a mastodon site wouldn’t replace this one.
I think it was Summerfest ’03 when I saw the Isely Brothers, with Ernie in partuclarly fine form. Was in town for a family reunion and one of the cousins wad a huge fan. There was talk of the coming renovations to the festival grounds, and othet revitalizations to come; only thing is, I’m not sure whether that was Summerfest or just a free-standing concert. Always good on Lake Michigan.
NotMax
FYI. Milestone achieved.
As someone else put it, a tricky and hazardous task: they were built to be fired, not disassembled.
NotMax
@RaflW
“So that’s why i found a file in my pizza. Guess old habits die hard.”
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Baud
Take that RFK, Jr.!
ETA: A little hedging.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: She’s obviously waiting for the Baud20xx! announcement.
SWMBO
@frosty:
Another reason to add DC and Puerto Rico as states. Then you’ll have 2 more for your bucket list.
Nukular Biskits
Why does all the fun happen here at Balloon Juice either while I’m at work or asleep (which may not be mutually exclusive)?
HeartlandLiberal
John Mellencamp doing his best Bob Dylan!
This is Mellencamp’s home on Lake Monroe, just south of Bloomington, IN.
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/john-mellencamps-house/view/google/
He takes his cars to the same auto repair shop where I take mine. I am friends with the owner.
Mellencamp is a genuine Mensch. He meant every word in his classic song “I was born in small town.”
prostratedragon
“John Mellencamp doing his best Bob Dylan!”
Did remind me of him, not for the first time. And that’s some great cover art.
Bethanyanne
Today was a good day with Mom. I was there several hours, and she was sleeping, unresponsive. Then poof, she woke up, looked at me, and recognized me. Shook her head yes and no to questions. Then fell back into a lighter sleep. Could still wake up a little to nod at doctors. Overnight nurse said stable night.
So I went home and fell into bed. Woke up a few hours ago and just puttered about, mostly petting and talking to the cats. Chit chatting with one of Moms doctors, she had a great tip. Don’t use Google for medical searches to learn much. Use Google Scholar instead. Free access to the abstracts of studies. And if you want details, it will list contact emails for the researchers. Who, she said, will email you the full study if asked, and are almost always eager to be quick about it.
Bethanyanne
Oh, and the doctor said that if you wanted an overview of a condition, search for an association dedicated to it. They are likely a great place to start understanding a medical issue.
Another Scott
@HumboldtBlue:
Zooks! :-(
It’s hard for me to get my head around that number. But it illustrates the march of numbers and how more is always needed. I can easily picture some House sub-commitee meeting long ago…
“Thanks for your question Congressman. We believe that having only 5 billon pounds of chemical munitions is too risky. We need 6.7 billion pounds of chemical munitions to adequately protect America and America’s interests…”
:-/
Thanks for your work and the link. It’s important!
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@Bethanyanne:
Glad you had a good day and got some sleep!
Lehrjet
@eclare: Thumbs up on the convertible! The wife and I bombed around the Big Island in a mustang convertible for our25 th anniversary! Don’t forget the sun screen!
Josie
@trollhattan:
It’s strange to miss a person you’ve never met, but so do I.
evodevo
@SiubhanDuinne:
If you want politics and snark, my FB page is a public hash of cartoons, politics from here and occasional sciencey stuff. NO cooking or weird New Age crap…
https://www.facebook.com/jane.hay.395
BigJimSlade
@Jerzy Russian:
@cain:
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJKY59NX8o
evodevo
@NotMax: Yep…people living in Madison Co. were antsy about this for years – lots of protests going on …glad to see they finally reached the goal…
Ms. Deranged in AZ
I don’t know if this is similar to what John is experiencing but I can say that for the last 5 years I really haven’t talked to anyone about my mood. I just didn’t think it was worth it. I had so much going on and so many bad thought patterns 24/7 that to talk about it would be just all too much. Plus I didn’t want to burden others or have them run away from me because I was such a mess and who wants to listen to all that negativity all the time. But I realize that if they don’t stay to hear me when I’m being negative then they’re not my friend. And also if I don’t have enough energy to talk about it then I’m either severely depressed or it’s not as big a deal as I think it is. So take it from someone who lives in her head all the time and has very little interaction with the world around her that it is a definite sign that you don’t express your thoughts to others. However what that sign means to you is really something only you can know.
RobinS
@Another Scott: Wow