snow on the local mountains seems a bit foreboding.
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snow on the local mountains seems a bit foreboding.
I wonder how Wilson is doing.
I have my vote locked in for the grumpiest poster for the DBR superlative yearbook.
local man driving his Jaguar at 100 mph hits cow in road. Cow and driver (sounds like a magazine) both deceased.
It takes ten-tickles to make an octopus laugh.
I was in the absolute last group to be able to select classes for 2nd semester freshman year. All the seminars I wanted were taken so I had to enroll in a seminar called something like, "From the Art of the Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop". Ended up being one of Bob Ross' happy little accidents. Learned a lot about squid and octopus that year.
Quiet here. Took a cat to have a growth removed from her leg, she is still there under anesthesia. Other cats are avoiding me. She and her brother have never been apart this long.
Major foliage tour today featuring unexpected Central American cuisine (town with lot of Hispanic farm workers), great cemetery tour and a superior Maple Creemee (nomenclature for soft service ice cream here). Nappy time.
Yay or Nay? Promoting your kid’s Girl Scout cookie video on your company’s parenting slack that reaches thousands of employees globally.
Thanks, she is recovering but I won't describe it as happily.
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Lassie went looking for a bone instead of going for help.
Lassie thought Timmy was kind of a pain, tbh.
Has anyone seen Alex Jones and Kyrie in the same room? Hmmmmm.
I once had a very famous climate scientist look me dead in the eye at a jazz bar in Switzerland and tell me she didn’t like much meat but when she did she preferred it to be big and American.
I’m 6’4” and 200+ pounds. I think about this often and wonder what it means for a sustainable future.
Summer continues here in South Central Texas. Yes, I complain about the heat. A lot.
Consider this a public service message: the Dyson Ball cleaner is a dangerously misleading name.
Oh, hi Ohio.
Oh, hi, no.
Actually, would be willing to move back there if the opportunity arose. Mainly because all the car stuff thereabouts.
Discovered over family dinner last night that despite explicit warning not do so by the cemetery my mom mixed the ashes of my grandma with her deceased cocker spaniels. We are under strict instructions not to make any sort of comment at the service lest we get grandma (and peaches scooter and Sammy) kicked out.
One of those 24 hour flight turnarounds. Already back at the airport.
T-bag a T-bird?
Go Astros!
LGD!
I would have gone with jazzed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other...age=AA12ZV4m|2
just want to confirm that human noses still count as "meat," right? Me, I'm still more of a rib guy.
Today is one of those days that reinforces my theological philosophy of life - sometimes life just sucks.
We lost Brother-in-law Wayne this morning. He went peacefully in his sleep with his wife by his side.
Thank you. He had been battling health issues for the past year. From when the Hospice nurse noticed a difference in his heart rhythm to the end was less than 24 hours. It was enough warning that they weren't alone. Someone was with her when she realized he was gone.
We were coming home from the grocery store yesterday and the weather was nice enough to have our windows down, kids in the back. We enter this long curve and see an open-back truck carrying half a dozen porta-potties in the opposite lane heading our way. As it entered in the curve, several of the porta-john doors opened up and all manner of mess came spraying out into our side of the road.
It is a unique form of panic to be a few seconds away from a truck sloshing porta-potty water into the road with your windows down.
All ended well though.
Nice! Years ago a friend of mine was driving home on a nice summer day, wearing a white shirt and tie as was the custom back then, window rolled down. On a road near his home he slowed down because a farm's manure spreader had left several inches of cow dung on the roadway. No problem. Until a manly man truck with big knobby tires passed him at high speed and sprayed the entire left side of his upper body and face with nice fresh cow poop. Got much of the inside of the car, too.
It is 66 degrees F here and I'm all the more happy for it. It isn't hell freezing over, but it will have to do.
And another day will be ending soon...
The joys of nighttime toddler cough.
Hans Gruber didn’t die.
Tuesday morning and it's time to start a pun snowball rolling down the hill...
Should you call out somebody for vaping on a plane?
My downfall will be hot dogs:
https://www.tasteatlas.com/most-popu...g-in-the-world
Be sure to brush up on your Citizen's Arrest protocol.
People can really irrationally hate very successful sports figure.
It hasn't been that hard for me. I make the "choke" sign then I laugh at them. If I'm feeling particularly generous, I'll say that Kansas probably would have beaten Duke too so I'm glad the TarHeels decided to take on the "most embarrassing Finals loss" accolade.
I actually feel that way. I would have preferred Coach going out with the title, but we Dukies would have been truly insufferable if that happened. I've managed to convince myself that it really was better this way.
Losing stinks.
Yeah, the rivalry lost its bitterness for me when we found out about the decades of cheating. The recent stench of racism from the Board of Governors with the whole Nikole Hannah-Jones fiasco didn't help. From an integrity point of view, the University is not what it once was. Would I have rather Coach K not lost to Carolina in the Final Four? Sure. Does it bother me as much as it would have 20 years ago? Nope. Carolina sold its soul in an effort to keep up with Duke during the Coach K Era but the thing about selling your soul, once you get the reward, you don't get your soul back, even when you beat Duke in the Final Four.
Maybe I view it differently because I grew up in Durham. UNC was the class act of the ACC during my elementary school years. I hated their sports teams but I was always proud of my home state's university - The Carolina Way meant something to me even though I wanted to beat the wanker out of them. They destroyed that. But they also destroyed the hate. They aren't worthy of my hate anymore.
Even I mostly agree. I will never forgive them for not self-imposing some sort of penalty across all affected sports. It was shameful and I don't feel the way I once did about the rivalry. They mortgaged a lot of integrity in that process. There is also the wonderful news that all of my buddies from there recognize that I will NEVER talk junk about basketball. So we never talk junk. Ever. And I am too mean for the Walmart UNC crowd to mess with.
Factors that have decreased my level of attention to college basketball (in no particular order):
- NIL deals
- Nonstop transfers
- OADs
- K retirement
- Unbalanced ACC schedules, loss of home and home series
- Disappearance of the four year player
- Deterioration of the "student athlete"
Now, not all of these things are Duke related, and not all of them are bad developments. K was going to retire one day, and he's certainly earned it. I welcome more freedoms for athletes to transfer, and I think NIL is a step in the right direction as well - even if it clearly needs more definition and refinement.
But if you told me in 1992 that in 2022 I wouldn't be able to rattle off the names of every player on Duke's roster a few weeks before the season tips off, I would have said you were crazy. But, here we are.
I would add the non-punishment of the institution with the largest academic cheating scandal in the history of "college" sports (which exposed the NCAA as a pantywaist).
Indian food is nice for breakfast, particularly with an egg on it.
That's not what I'm having this morning but wish that I was.
My issue isn't with the NCAA. That was correctly adjudicated based on NCAA guidelines, which are set by the member institutions (which is international and also stupid). My issue is an academic institution choosing to protect the institution rather than taking responsibility. As a graduate it was embarrassing. And it was embarrassing to all my Tar Heel (grad) buddies.
My issue is with stale na’an.
I'll put my vote in for saag.
Back from the State Fair. My feet hurt. Disappointed that House Autry was not there giving out hushpuppy samples. First time in my life I did not have hushpuppies and a Mt Olive kosher dill pickle to snack on. Prices crazy high this year. Howling Cow ice cream went up by a dollar and there was considerably less in the cup.
Bridge over Troubled Water...
The nice thing about traveling for me is seeing so many beautiful places and finding new and delicious food traditions. Indian and Korean have been my kick for the last few years. The best Indian restaurants I have found (and there are a bunch) were in Vancouver, Asheville, Montreal, Toronto and Nashville. The best Korean was Montreal and Vienna (maybe the best meal I had in Europe). I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to do this. And it makes me want to punch the wall when my colleagues talk about finishing up a long day in the hospital at a sick kid's bedside and ordering room service. That seems like such a lonely, vacuous experience for me. I finished up with a kid late last night in Montreal and found an amazing Korean restaurant. Also fried chicken skin chips in spicy aioli. Top tier.
Like my mamma always says, “there’s more to life than poutine.”
We’re not sure why she says that.
Andaaz in Biltmore Village is very good. I have heard good things about the new place on Biltmore Ave - Mehfil - but I haven't been myself.
The lunch buffet at Mela is very good. I'll rearrange my schedule for a tasty Indian buffet line.
Sounds like we just planned a DBR outing.
We just made our little kids go and took a ton of junk food for our son. My daughter would eat all the curries as a 2 year old. My son wouldn't touch the stuff. But as long as we took him a crap load of food he would sit there and eat. As for places, I think Mehfil, Chai Pani, Dilbar are all really good.
I guess a black eye and fifty bloody stitches constitutes a decent half day at the doctor's office! No Halloween costume required.
Recovery under way. Had to go in for a Mohs surgery to remove an invasive skin cancer...lots of burrowing and slicing required...got home yesterday with a world class headache, then Ralph and I drove the porcelain bus for a spell before I fell into bed.
Not the best day, but today has been pretty good. Makes one (me) appreciative of good health...
Arrow gave his senior presentation at assembly yesterday. It's supposed to be a personal story, but beyond that, they can talk about whatever they want to talk about. Arrow signed up to go first because he wanted to get it over with, he hates public speaking and was super nervous about it. He didn't want it looming over his entire senior year. Parents are invited. At first he told me that I couldn't come, but I told him, oh heck no to that (I might have used language that would be wankerized).
He chose to talk about his health journey. So far, at his high school, outside of his teachers, he hadn't shared the "cancer survivor" story with that many of his classmates. Yesterday, everybody got the full story. He spoke for about 10 minutes. He started out wishing one of his buddies a happy birthday. They are 2 days apart in age (Arrow turns 18 tomorrow), then moved on to giving a content warning which his senior presentation advisor told him he needed to do. At the end, he thanked his classmates, teachers, advisors, brothers, and father. Then he said he saved the most important thank you for last and went into the story of how his mom had been with him every step of the way, taking him to every chemo session, every MRI, every surgery - always being there when he woke up. He said, in front of the whole school, "I love you Mom and I wouldn't be here without you."
Just flew over Vermont. Your yard looks great Bud. Who was that I saw rolling around in the grass?
I have trouble with some of the neighborhood women dropping by...not sure how to keep them away. They seem disinterested in mowing my lawn...
where were you flying to, Europe? Given the circle route to Europe, it's unreal how many flights go over our house to Yerp...FlightRadar24 is a great tool, so many flights from Newark, DC, Atlanta, Houston arc over VT and the Canadian maritimes to go over the pond...throw in the occasional Boston to Tokyo or Seoul for good measure...