The pool deck is done and it's beautiful and I love it. My yard looks so less Whiskey-Tango. Otherwise, knock on wood, all is quiet. So a gentle hooray for that.

Great books, abandoned the show this season.

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island, an interesting episode in history from the Early Aughts about a tribe of native Filipinos brought to Coney Island and exhibited at Luna Park at Coney. Yes, people actually paid money to go to human zoos. Makes me feel great about humanity.

I'm still hacking my way though the iPad port of FFVII. It eats up a train wide amazingly well.

Blackberry ginger ale and honey whiskey. Refreshing without being overly sweet.

C'mon now. We have the second pick in the draft. And Holmgren isn't in a position to trade them away before they peak. The system is super-deep too.

Oh fuck right off.

The film is so unremarkable that the only thing I can counter with is a particularly hilarious deleted scene between a very, very hungover Tony and a typically screechy Pepper in the chopper before Tony drops into the Expo.

Also, they've already pretty well explored her backstory between flashbacks in the last Avengers and the first season of Agent Carter's story arch involving the American Town.

Except for that horrible seen between him and Gwynnie Paltrow backstage at the Expo, which has some of the worst written and acted dialogue in the last fifteen years.

True. Call it what it is - a Test Balloon.

I haven't eaten a salad in seven years.

Yeah, I'm lucky in that mine case is very mild and I can control it via diet, which is fortunate as I can't tolerate most of the sulfa-based drugs used as daily controllers. The downside is that it keeps me fat as I mainly exist on white bread and meat. That said, I really should exercise more.

Want a quick indication? Go on any food ordering app and see how fast food places take EBT. (This isn't a slam on those folks who receive benefits, it's a fact. In food deserts, these are usually the only places people can pick up food.)

My Crohn's Disease keeps me fat. The last time I tried to "eat healthy" (meaning vegetables and fruits), I ended up on Prednisone which negated any weight lose. But hey, it beats a bowel resection, I guess. (Seriously, it sucks. My "avenues to weight loss" are very few and very narrow. That said, I may try the…

UPDATE: Their song "Big Beautiful Day" was just played on XMU on SiriusXM.

I'm not *that* bad. They got rid of the big towers and cases. We have small "black box" set ups that attach to the back of monitors now. They just didn't bother updating the keyboards to go with them. I honestly believe it's more than must cost saving, if you can hear the keys clicking you know people are being…

Yes, that's partly why valuation committees and guidelines exist.

They are actually worse than the precious metals/commodities guys who are literally vultures.

Yeah, you'd think after all this time Team Rocket would just take Ash out with a gun or a bat or a rock sheerly out of frustration.