Monthly Archives: May 2021

squeezing the oranges

Sometimes I buy a bag of delicious looking oranges, then I don’t feel like eating many of them, so today was “juice  ’em day” before they went bad. 🍊

It’s a lot of work for a little bit of delicious orange juice. It went well with the non- instant oatmeal. I like the instant, too, but when I’ve got the time, why not cook it.

different place this time

At Burger Warfare. It’s not our regular place, but we like it from time to time. I find the Pig Pounder beers to be delicious. These are called Intergalactic Pig.

fulfilling those campaign promises

This actually pisses me off more than that Trump mess. 🙄

bah humbug

It galls me to think about when I watched a recent video from the leader of my religious denomination where she breathlessly said that the last election was the most transparent, free, and fair in history, and that love won.

It definitely reduces my trust in leadership.

se fue la luz

Power is off. ⚡

I keep thinking of things to do, then right after I remember that I can’t because they require electricity.

— mow yard. Nope. Mower is electric.

— vacuum. Nope.

— laundry is stopped in the machines.

— take shower. Nope, because I bought that stupid hot water on demand backpack water heater. Even though it runs on natural gas, it requires power for the relays, ignition and things. I hate that thing.

something snapped, we all do

The heavy artillery has arrived.

This morning, a utility pole snapped, we think from old age, strowing utility lines all over the place.

Electricity stayed on the entire time until this truck showed up, now it’s off.

I’m thinking that it’s poor maintenance. We’ve had utility lines nearly down on the ground for long periods of time, and nobody will come for them. Utility lines now run through thick trees and vegetation that used to be trimmed back.

1977 thunder island

Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson (1977)

Just came on the net stream.

It was one of the many hot AF summer songs on FM radio, often heard in a sweltering car because the air conditioning was always broken.

“Sha la la la la la my lady
In the sun with your hair undone”

Of course I was always mentally rearranging lyrics and fantasies to match my needs. lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Island_(album)

stripe toothpaste

One of the fun things about visiting my grandmother when I was a child was that she would have a tube of Stripe toothpaste waiting for us. It made brushing fun.


Maybe it was the “active concentration of Hexachlorophene” in it that made me gay. So, it was her fault!


my disinformation techniques

Like that of the Internet Research Agency, I think my influence has been inflated.


how not to tow a trailer

This is a good one. Boat on top. Extremely heavily loaded. Tilts to the right more than the pic reveals. Generator and propane cylinders mounted on back bumper. Back bumper was flexing up and down nearly a foot and propane bottle was about to fall off.

I think it was also badly loaded in addition to being heavy. It kept running off to the right and swaying.

Danger. DANGER!