I’m getting shot number 2 on May 12, and allowing for 2 weeks after that, it’ll probably be right around Memorial Day weekend when I hop on a bus and hit up my favorite Italian joint downtown, a place at which I haven’t eaten since February of 2020.

One man’s zoo is another man’s exotic livestock farm.

The only thing I know about senates in Italy involves three fellows named Gaius, Gnaeus, and Marcus.

Oh, I dunno, there was a pretty good war that involved a combatant that never made any real headway into the north or west...that combatant got its ass kicked, but I’d still call it a war...

Dein kampf ist nicht Mein Kampf, ist mein unkampf...

“Because of the somewhat non-traditional way I got into video games, I get very defensive whenever the “you’re not a real gamer unless you’ve played x” discourse pops up.”

My drink of choice was Scotch, thanks in large part to my buddy Keith’s dad not seeming to care that his son was raiding the liquor cabinet for party night. Never fell in love with beer. Except for the kind of porters and stouts that are the color of a clear moonless night in the middle of nowhere. If I ever fall off…

I was too old for this shit at 19. My adolescence was...interesting.

Hmmm...old man...idiot...Germany...

The truly surprising thing about this story to me is that the alleged felon is white (her photo’s on the CBS News link.) I was not expecting that.

When news comes out of a red state, the tendency is to conclude that humanity is fucked and we might as well just go full Georgetown/Heaven’s Gate/whatever.

You ever get the feeling these nutters are subconsciously doing these teachers a solid by convincing them once and for all to stop working for them?

There are no nice robots. Only scrap steel with ideas above its station that needs to be sent to the crusher before it kills us all.

My employer alleged that I’d been fired for cause (but they never told me beyond a very vaguely worded letter what that cause was), so I fought them on it. I’m not sure what the law is regarding statutory interest on pending unemployment benefits in Washington state (a Google search on the subject has plenty to say on…

Watching that video with my little fat-fingered Donald Trump hands and more or less complete lack of manual dexterity just made me sad, because this is the kind of hobby I wished I could’ve picked up in my younger days but just didn’t have the basic physical aptitude necessary to do it.

Republicans used to be the good guys?

Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good...

Well that’s just fuckin’ great. No wonder games that normally pose no bother to my rig have been on the fritz lately. I was beginning to wonder if I’d fried the damn thing over the past year—seriously, Bannerlord makes my computer sound like a sawmill, but at least it runs like a dream.

Oh yeah, definitely donate cash if you’re donating directly to a charity.

I filed as soon as my W-2 from my job and 1099 from my unemployment benefits were both in. Had my refund in the bank by late February.