Dammit. I’ve been hemlin and hawlin about getting a sports package, for Dakar, , as recently as last night and I’m like...there’s something I’m forgetting.

We had a 35 hour work week in England when I was there. I remember our director coming round and running everyone off if we were sill at our desks at 3 on Fridays, and that’s even with an hour long pub lunch.

Except for all the time people will have to agitate for change to the existing economic and political order.

“no evidence of an infestation,

I stayed at the Motel 6 in Coos Bay Oregon two summers ago and whilst laying in bed thinking this was the worst room I’d ever slept in, I forcefully levitated from the bed when i realized something was crawling on me.

After pointing out to the staff the wee bastards that I had captured…

Most of my family is in Michigan. I joke that apart from a few high spots in Colorado/Utah, there’s nothing worth seeing between the Cascades and the Appalachians.

Given the volume (in either displacement or decibels) of the cretins within short drive north or south of me on this side of the Cascades I don’t make the…

“Edinboro”

What the hell is wrong with Americans?

Agree. My kids possess 16 legs between them, and (mostly) can be relied upon to not set the couch on fire or electrocute their siblings. I want to be able to walk from one room to the other without doing the left turn, right turn, dodge the wife, left turn to get the thing I left in the other room as if I’m living in…

In 89, I flew to Japan at Christmas. The pilot discovered a problem with one of our landing gear en-route and the Japanese were all “Negative”

Of course the volcano that’s currently doing it’s thing in Alaska was erupting then as well, so we couldn’t land at Anchorage.

13 hours after leaving I’m landing back in PDX. It…

Oh goodness, tortie kittens.

We adopted an insane tortie kitten a few years back; she’s the best.

Day 782 of my captivity: I have befriended a local squirrel who brings me news from the front...

“I don’t understand why people behave as if this hasn’t been going on as long as there’ve been powerful people”

Oh, ye olde you can’t mess with tradition defense.

lol. Hey, where’s the kitty? Oh, on the ledge above me, right where you’d expect him to be.

All jest aside, it is as you said, thankfully it didn’t show any more boldness.

I’ve noticed that now that the Star Wars universe is owned by Disney, there is a subtle, but steady and insistent push toward painting the Empire as the good guys, a la Dick Cheney and William Kristol (the two most prominent evil assholes whose opinion on the subject that I know).

Yeah, Meatloaf is a wingnut, his opinions align with the rest of them.

That hoodline is too low for it to really exist.

“Can I touch it?” hahaha. I don’t watch this show because; blearghh. But I like this woman.

Funny. I love cars, and I think commuting by car is enraging and soul destroying.

No one is passionate about a GMC Acadia or Ford Edge.

Edit: And while some good and gentle people have trained their spawn not to swing open car doors in parking lots, a good many people haven’t even trained themselves not to do that.

Hah, the first thing I thought is that ushering the cinema and flipping burgers has become considerably more lucrative than when I was in high school.

I came here to say that I have no more interest in watching women pummel 3 shades out of each other than I do men.

But then saw it’s fighting for things that matter and not spectator sport.

I endorse that.