A follow up to the Montana thread - I grew up in eastern MT (25 miles from ND and 10 miles from Canada) and I remember in 1962 there was a blizzard on Easter and that was not unusual. While at our cabin in the Tobacco Root mountains (or was the Bitterroots - I keep mixing them up), it snowed in July and we could not…

Often, the problem lies between chair and keyboard

I keep mine running b/c of the BOINC programs I run - I do restart every night (did you know that BOINC runs even though I did not log in? At least it seems like it does)

Yeah, code-switching is a thing - I live in Seattle but when I call home to Montana, I can’t help but revert to my youthful accent.

That coach was definitely offensive

Well, what do you expect from someone named after E.German secret service

I know it is really petty of me but I effing hate how does that fist up thing! It is so clear that he never made a fist for real in his life.

My dream for celebrating the turn of the century was to host all my friends on a ship located on both the international dateline and the equator to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Didn’t pan out

Fuck! I hate shopping and I have no idea where to find what I am not sure I want. I went to the mall b/c I could find it and get out. If I go downtown where all the stores are separate and blocks apart, I just get freaked out and wander aimlessly (I just got back from d/t Seattle and walked for 20 blocks w/o finding…

I have an IP that I basically use to make jambalaya - sometimes I use it for ‘specialty’ meats like pork neck. I am thinking of expanding the use to try to make goat soup (there is a halal grocery down Aurora Ave that sells fresh and frozen).

Whenever someone greets me with “How are you?” I answer with:

This is capitalism at its best. Best case scenario, they will just change the name of the company and keep on screwing their employees and lying to the buyers who just want to hear the lies. Well, maybe BooHoo will ask for cheaper clothes since the factories are paying employees less than expected.

The IRS does not allow you to record a phone call with them; if you say you are recording, the IRS CSR will hang up. All calls are monitored and a there is a random chance that the call will be QCed.

I remember the olden days when stoves all came with a soup pot that lived on the upper left - it was sunken and seldom worked so we stored all our extra grease in old milk bottles that lived in that hole - that was just an old memory fart, no other reason,

Penn of “Penn and Teller” fame wanted to know what it was like to get a tattoo so he had a tattoo done w/o ink - that dude is somewhat strange

I went in for a pedicure and the tech simply cut away the infected nail - the nail grew back and I no longer have the fungus.

“That hash was so good I had visions of sugarplums dancing in my head”

A heads up for hiking/x-skiing on the east side of mountains - the sun sets an hour early! Really caught us off-guard, way up the mountain cross-country skiing on the dryer snow on the east side of the Cascades - it got dark around 3:30 in the afternoon and was deep forest dark by 4:00. Getting down was a slow,…

I worked in a restaurant where I had to open cans of snails and insert them into their shells with all the garlic crap. No matter how much I washed, I could not get the snail stink off my fingers. I was never tempted to even taste them. I grew up in very rural Montana and had never seen nor contemplated such a thing;…

I read The Importance of Being Earnest for a college lit class and brought up the fact that they were first cousins and my instructor replied that his parents were first cousins - genetics are not an issue the first time cousins marry, genetics becomes an issue if it happens too often in the same family