October has long been my favorite month to get about. This year, motorcycle trip along PCH (now that it’s been re-opened). Indian Summer, less crowds, and some solid camping await! When Nov. rolls in, Slab City time!

Fun fact, there’s a certain level of wealth (or commission of wealth) where the actual value/cost of things becomes cognitively lost to the person, especially when they’ve been at that point for an exceptionally long duration of time. I’m talking “your coffee is 3.75" they hand you twenty and walk away because that…

I drive a stick shift vehicle and I purchase groceries like any proper born ‘merican. Manager’s 50% discount because the sell by date was yesterday on any meat or questionable produce. Damnit, I’m running for office in 2020 on the platform of “World Peace Through Beer.”

Last year I owed $8. It was such a pithy amount that it actually pissed me off. But, looking at it from a not-I OWE??? standpoint, it means I was pretty much dead accurate for withholding. I think the variance from the previous year (got $50 back) was due to a new tip compliance requirement. I really can’t think of…

I boxed a little during college on our club team. I wasn’t all that good. My final day there (which poorly coincided with my starting a 3rd job to pay for school),  I overshot a hook while sparring with the asst. coach and got a kidney shot that put me through the ropes. I might have pee’d a little, there might have…

I’ve been saying this for years. Rugby is far superior to American Football. More athletic, fewer stoppages, (seemingly) lesser head injuries with long term consequences for players. BLOODIER, if superficially so. A well planned lateral attack for forward ball movement is more engaging and exciting than a completed…

All you need is a flabongo and a bottle of Stroh 160. 

What this guy did.

Dire Straits holds a lot of special everything for me. They were a constant soundtrack to camping trips with my Dad when I was young, and I even got to see them live on their Fade to Black tour when they went through New Zealand. My Dad bought rain ponchos and all four of us sat in pouring rain while they played in a…

So, if he’s a retired member of his own “Octopath” group from the past, I wonder if there are other “hidden” members who are recruitable along the way?

As bad as him yelling the “N-word” was (and it was pretty awful, but I’d suppose that would work in the context of getting attention drawn to yourself...), I probably found his “acting Chinese” to be massively more offensive. Between the 1930's “foreign accent” and the constant use of Japanese and English words, with…

A couple years ago I was gifted the Bob’s Burgers Cookbook. It’s pretty awesome and worthy of both general reading and burger experimentation.

My first job was a “courtesy clerk” at a now absorbed supermarket chain. I made the bagging competition for the SW region within 3 months of working there (I quit after 6 mo. because one of the shift managers didn’t like me and started going out of his way to hassle me when we worked together. To the point other shift…

All electronics are now capped at 90 days. The change occurred (I believe) around a decade ago, maybe less than, precisely because people were abusing the policy so much. Some even outright declared it the “Costco TV upgrade” because they were simply swapping out working TV’s with newer models. With television…

The one at my H.S. was named Joe, and his dad was the coach. His younger brother was also a privileged twat. Damn thing was his dad was pretty cool. Met the mom once at a team function and figured it all out. 

Every time I hear the term “au pair”, all I can think of is Archer and indentured servitude to overly rich people.

I haven’t really “tinder’d” in a few months (been dating a gal I met on there, so no real desire atm). I typically hate bios, so I used recent (within a year) pictures to showcase my likes and activities (linked to ‘gram), and just quoted one of my favorite song lines for the bio. “If you’ve never stared off into the…

Meh, I’ve seen worse while traveling through parts of SE Asia and the Pacific Islands. The engineering ingenuity of some contraptions I’ve run across is astounding. I’m talking “Watt’s Tower” level insanity.

That’s about the exact face that I made reading that. Cooking isn’t hard once you get the timing down. But holy crap, timing IS everything. If he set his timer for and hour fifteen, he’d have been fine.

I clicked NP as well, but only because I’m a Subaru wagon owner as well and go complete rocket dog at the idea of how rare this car is. Hail body not withstanding (that one gaping crack in the hatch is a bugger), I could see swapping in a donor longblock from a manual Forester. Use the suspension to add some lift,…