Cream was an okay band, but Cream ≠ Clapton.

Never could stand Clapton, but basically kept my mouth shut about it since everyone else seemed to think he’s a genius.

If anyone is hooking up with me, they’re cheating on their own sense of self worth.

My first choice is still Michelle Obama, but I have to say I’d watch the ever living shit out of Jeopardy hosted by Samuel L. Jackson.  Or Ryan Reynolds.

I’m unaware of any “old white folks” who love Steve Harvey. Tolerate him to get their Family Feud fix at best.

I appreciate that, and I never thought for a second I wasn’t.  

Would love to, but Discord doesn’t like me.  It doesn’t like my VPN, and it doesn’t like my phone.  For some reason it thinks my cell phone is a VOIP number, which is nonsense. 

Has anyone else considered that possibly, just maybe, if we started ignoring Kardashian and West that they might just go away?

Ugh. Not quite enough.

Why?  As a gag gift?

The “I like you” v/s “I love you” is a bit different in Japanese culture. It’s part of the courtship ritual. A girl might “confess” to a boy (Or another girl. Or the reverse, in any permutation of genders.) by saying “suki desu.” Or literally “I like you.” Sort of. More literally “there is an affinity for,” implying…

Unless you’re Japanese, in which case “Hiro” (pronounced the same) is perfectly acceptable for a boy.

Nope. I don’t mean I’d worn the sole through, but that I’d broke all the stitching out, worn holes in the toe leather over the safety toe, and destroyed some of the eyelets.  Working in metal fabrication is hard on boots.

There’s a bunch of WinCos around here, one only two miles or so away. Only a couple hundred yards further away than the local Walmart. Fred Meyers is closer (I dunno, 500 yards as the crow flies?) and a Safeway kinda between the three but at right angles to them. Chucks Produce is only about 3 miles away and probably…

Yeah, my Mom (the kid’s great grandmother) isn’t too happy about it.

Supposed to be pleasant for the next few days too. I’m off until Tuesday, which will be the hottest day until next weekend at 82°.

It has been a delightfully perfect weather day here in the Pacific Northwest. Highs under 70, mostly cloudy with a bit of sun, no rain, just a slight breeze, and I’ve been making a lasagna and garlic bread for dinner with my neighbor. She’s vegetarian so I’m using “Beyond Sausage,” which I’ve used before and it’s…

All apparently true, but I’m basing what I know of Burton’s time more on my Mom’s opinion since I don’t watch the show. (Unless I happen to be there with her. I don’t actually own a television.) She says he didn’t have much chemistry with the contestants. However I also know he didn’t get much time to really prepare…

Learning a new language is like putting a new pattern on the way your brain sees the world. I’m nowhere near that level with Japanese, but I’m always pleased with myself when I understand a phrase or hear a word and know what they’re talking about. I took a couple of classes years ago because I was hearing things in…

I use the ice-cream scale. At my local discount grocery (WinCo) a half-gallon of name-brand ice cream can usually be bought for between 3$ (on sale) and 4$. Around the corner at Safeway or Fred Meyers (Krogers) that exact same half gallon will be between $7 (on sale) and 8$.