Given my current pace, it will take me 90 years to get to those numbers.
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I've only had 1 car go over 100K. I owned it for 13.5 years. All the others were owned about 9 years. It helps that my commute to work has always been less than 5 miles and mostly under 2 miles.
When I moved to the North Shore area of Boston, I optimized to this criteria and had about a 10 minute commute each way for the two years I was there. I moved to Cincinnati and lived in condo for 1 year before buying a house. A similar commute of about 12 minutes. I moved here to SA and the house I bought was a 22-25 minute commute when I first got here. The traffic has gotten progressively worse despite increasing road capacity, it is now a 35 minute commute. I miss the 10-12 minute commute days.
FWIW, I've had 4 cars over the 100k mark. But nothing more than 160k(twice).
I never know what's going on. I just lean into it.
Sounds like y'all both do nothing but lean...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matth...canno_n_296655
Arrow's back surgery is tomorrow, btw.
Chris Cornell and Cat Stevens:
https://youtu.be/skl8PwTFVFQ
I did a Google search once.
I would argue that the things the South has gotten unquestionably correct are cooking, sweet tea and the term "y'all". It is easily our best term and everyone else's plural term for a group is awkward and unwieldy. You’uns, Yinz, Youse are just embarrassing. Y'all won. Just stop it the reat of America. Stop it.
Yes. I remember the first time I heard Yinz and just being mortified for the speaker. And I know I sound like a country bumpkin, which is strange for someone who speaks at conferences for a living...but thank God I don't say THAT.
And I find cuppa to be endearing. I'm a closet Anglophile, while still thinking the monarchy is silly.
Yinz comes from a tradition of people in the upper mid-Atlantic saying words like they hate them. Very specific accent. They chew on words and mutter them through the side of their mouths. For example, Cheryl isn’t “share-all” to them, it’s chewed up and spit out quickly as “SURE-el”. All the sure is up front and is spit out in a rush the “el” a skin tag on the back end.
This is what I’m having for breakfast.
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My wife's aunt looks uncannily like Mokey Fraggle. This was literally my first thought upon meeting her. I mean this in loving and complimentary fashion, but weirdly, most other people don’t see it that way.
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I don't look like a Picasso painting or anything but I also don't look like Matthew McConaughey. I am imitation vanilla and not Tahitian vanilla.
This is my godmother.
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So you can't believe every thing you read on the internet. But you can if you read it on the DBR.
Insert Big Bird Thanksgiving meme here...
I recently found out my toddler is just tall enough to reach the trash lid, open it up, and start flinging stuff out of it.
He’s entered the “trash panda” stage of development.
I'm not a fan of most cooked vegetables. However, I have a green bean bundle recipe that is great. Fresh green beans wrapped in bacon with a mustard/brown sugar glaze. Made it once and only had lemon dill mustard - would repeat it that way - it was great. Green beans need to have a little bit of a crunch to them.
Or put them in steak soup.
I need to make friends with younger people. I'm tired of hearing about I know that have passed away. Lost a good man to a heart attack while he was shoveling snow on Wednesday.
Very true. It is also strange, but heartwarming, when you go to a funeral and say you had a good time. You had a chance to celebrate a life and reconnect with others. I remember that from an uncle's funeral many years ago - had a chance to see cousins I hadn't seen in a while and spent time with my Dad as I went with him and did the driving part.
I'm probably a lion walking around telling all the antelopes what I did to Earl.
Hot oven grinders this evening, no turkeys will be harmed in the production of this mouthwatering miracle.
But did you actually eat some of Earl or are you like that lion who’s all, “I ate half of Earl and then pounded 13 shots of Jager!” And all the other animals just sort of roll their eyes behind your back and say, “that’s not even a lion, it’s one of those weird hopping vultures wearing a mask”?
So, looking at my utility bill, there is a monthly Fuel Adjustment Charge. Oy vey.
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell ya!
Bad? I assume even in a deregulated electricity market like Texas there is some sort of built in cap when things like this happen so your average retail user isn't getting pummeled. Some pretty crazy stories floating around about Texas being seconds or minutes from a total grid failure.
Shouldn't have looked...
It was a morning of self-loathin...introspection.
In other words a Hair Band moring. Def Leppard, Van Halen, Warrant, Skip Row, Poison, Motley Crue, and Twisted Sister. Who did I miss?
Ronnie made it through surgery like a trooper. Doctors report all went well. Everyone agreed it was OK for me to come home and sleep. Heading back to the hospital soon to spend the day.
I stepped out to get something to eat right after Ronnie went in surgery - found a place to get a turkey sandwich. I didn't have anywhere to eat it though, so, I cleared a couple of inches of snow off a bench in a small park and sat there until I noticed the snow was accumulating on my knitting bag. Then I went to the waiting area for another 3 hours. When they let me join him in recovery, the hospital staff brought me something to eat - a turkey sandwich. And a ginger ale.
I recognize that I have staked out a policy position on turkey that is way too far removed from reality. I have taken a position so extreme that it helped make an entire thread devoted to Turkey. By being an absolute lunatic I have actually spawned turkey love among the good people of (THE) DBR. I assume there is a lesson in there somewhere and I also assume I won't learn it.
I used radishes and potatoes in a venison stew recently, and really could not tell an appreciable difference either.
For me, when I go low carb, tortilla chips are the things that I really miss. But if I’m in weight loss mode, those are something I should avoid regardless of the carb plan.
(Down 16 pounds or so since January 1 — six more to go to hit my target!)
Well, if you ever get depressed and want to think, "At least I'm better off than Person X", feel free to pull up an image of me freezing on a park bench in the middle of a snowstorm trying to finish a turkey sandwich before the snow starts to soak through her clothes and/or knitting bag.
You know, there really is. This thing actually happens a lot in politics. If you were a real politician though, you’d double down and accuse us turkey enthusiasts, aficionados, and turkey curious of engaging in identity politics and supporting communism. That would be false. Turkey is an American bird. The Russians are a goose people.
Whoa! Strong work! I have lost maybe an inch to inch and a half off the waistline with that new push up routine I have started. I haven't jumped on the scale because I am adding muscle and theoretically could be a little heavier right now than I was in January (170). I am noticeably leaner in the midsection and broader in the chest and shoulders, which is a great trade.
My wife gets a turkey sub from Jimmy John's that she can only eat about half of. Since my gastric rapacity knows no satiety, I pick the rest of that sandwich apart. And with the turkey and cheese and mustard and mayo and lettuce and pickles it is pretty darn good. If pictures of me eating it ever come out it is my Cancun moment.
So I jumped on the scales because I am an idiot. I am up three pounds but I am also wearing the tightest pair of jeans I own and they are so loose I need a belt to keep them up. But psychosocially I am concerned about the weight gain. Also because I am an idiot. I think I'm going to eat a turkey lettuce wrap for lunch.
Pro tip: Slap “artisan” on anything you want to sell and mark it up 300%.
I read it on the internet.
But then I also owned a Palm Pre.
I used to be hard on myself when I didn’t like or get one of the classics but everything is just not for everyone. Faulkner was a slog. As I Lay Dying may have been one of the few HS English books I actually didn’t read — and i was very condescending toward the Cliff’s Notes kids.
And rarely do I just think to myself, Imma read a poem.
Weird that future literature may include tiktok videos and memes.
Done with my taxes...well, just waiting for one more document, but I'm 99% what it will show.
Bundabergdevil - A Haiku
by ClemmonsDevil
Stormy wintertime
when bundabergdevil hates
all of the turkey
When y'all say Haiku, I think of this:
https://www.bigassfans.com/fans/haiku/
Hoping it is not another two loss day.
I share a birthday with e. e. cummings.
My favorite poem is by e. e. cummings.
The first line is . . .
since feeling is first
Growing up as an Army brat, I may be more familiar with military themed poetry than most.
I wonder where they got the pictures for fake crazies.
It would have been cool if they dropped speedo guy (since reformed) in there.
The USAA end-of-ad chant is pretty catchy.
Woot woot.
As a Bicentennial project, I memorized Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, all 10 stanzas, and recited it in our backyard to invited guests while other kids in our neighborhood acted it out behind me. My younger brother played Revere. I've still got the first 2 stanzas permanently engraved in my memory.
I learn Shakespearean monologues and poems for fun.
So, I asked Alexa to play Jesus Christ Superstar. What emanated was a 2005 remaster of the 1996 Broadway cast. I grew up on the CD and movie that had Ted Neeley in the title role, Carl Anderson as Judas, with Yvonne Elimon as Mary. Was I right to tell Alexa to stop?
I never really got Hüsker Dü, for me it really was Hüsker Don't.