And hey, Drake said something like green dollars were the best award, so I guess dollars count as thank you notes also.
(And if it matters… Drake’s personal politics were somewhat on the left, but the left didn’t actually care to find this out or give him credit for it. Because leper, unclean, and because the left eats its own.)
My guess was center-left. And I am aware of the dollars, but since “read the award winners” is one way people learn the history of the genre, it’s a crime that he was purposely excluded. (And why the left is so hell-bent on controlling all awards, beyond polishing their CVs for their sinecures.)
Doofus goes out in the snow every times it snows if he can manage it. As long as it is quiet. Then he immediately comes back in with that same look. Offended, because cold and wet and most importantly, it’s still outside.
If it’s snowing, he’ll try to bite the snowflakes, though. Loves doing that, except when he catches one. Then does it again. I think he thinks they are little white bugs, because he just loves eating bugs.
Neighborcat and Othercat go hunting in the snow, because the up the street almost falling down house has an entire warren in the basement, I swear. They only come back to sleep when they’re tired, then it’s back to the eternal mouse hunt.
Those two, and Nasty, they hunt in a team. Nasty is the noisy, obvious one. The other two are the sneaky, snatchy ones. I’ve seen them do it like that a bunch of times now. It works best with birds.
It’s not snowing right now, and Doofus has gone a whole week without falling into the washing machine or attempting to drown himself (cat cannot swim. Trust me on this one. Can. Not). He’s currently guarding the freshly folded laundry from… something, I dunno what. But every few minutes or so, he gets up, turns in a circle, sniffs, sneezes (all over my clean pants), peers about suspiciously, and sits back down.
The world of the orange floofball is a strange one, from the outside.
FYI. That is the look I get when I let the dog out after it snowed. Worse her attitude is “Oh. Look the “grass” came in closer.” Sigh. We have to plow a path onto and into the grass.
None of the cats get that far. One paw out, not enough even to leave a print.
We have had possums around. Seen them in the past, but no the last year or so. Haven’t seen a lot of the turkey flocks either. Prefer the possums over turkeys. Possums are cleaner. Possums also eat the ticks. We did a lot of yard clean up last year. I think we cleaned out the possum and turkey food sources. But we are seeing a lot more garter snakes, especially little ones, whose food sources overlap. Big ones were in the yard next door, just beyond the fence. Boy didn’t they set off the cats chattering. Wouldn’t have known about the little versions but Tj insisted on inviting them inside (um, no, pass). Got so when he’d suddenly bolt for the door to go in, without encouragement (supervised outings), learned to make sure to run to the door to get it closed before he went in. Rescue the baby snake (I did if I had too, but generally hubby or son) and release over one of the fences. Brat cat. Not particularly fond of snakes. Handled them in middle school (science teacher had snake terrariums in classroom). But sometime between then, college, and to now, I don’t freak, but I don’t want to handle them either, and prefer to not see them. I suspect the fact the area I worked in seasonally during college had a lot of rattlesnakes, the idea of, freaked me out more than a little.
Do not kick TacPossums at speed!
I Highly Disrecommend this.
Some years ago (lesseee, move here in ’16, and I was working nights living in Alvarado … 2012- 2013-ish) riding home at 01:00, I came over a rise to find in my line of travel on my motorcycle, a TacPossum. Luckily nothing coming towards me, so I veered over towards the oncoming lane and managed to miss the ‘dillo . . . BUT . . . Armadillos jump when scared. A Honda ST 1100 just missing one is suck a scare and it jumped, contacting my right foot and the foot brake of the bike. This really, really, REALLY! hurt.
I cursed the rest of the way home.
TacPossum did not survive his/her scare. Another 8 inches and we’d both been fine.
I still have the “Armadillo Kicker” tag on the ST Owner’s forum.
I’ve had a possum here in my yard, but mostly I get Trash Pandas. The fattest one was digging in my trash last month. When I went out to go to work and chased it off while rebagging and getting it back into a can, it couldn’t escape up the tree it was so obese. It just hid behind the tree from me, until I chased it, and it ran to the nearest object to “hide” behind. Also have/had an old rheumy, glaucoma looking eyed one who looked old as the hills (ain’t seen it in a while)
TacPossums are a destructive nuisance. To paraphrase Lazarus Long when describing another Armored Menace, “What an armadillo can do to a watermelon patch shouldn’t happen to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
They’re a special problem when livestock are around, because they burrow. A lot. Leaving lots of legbreakers behind.
Agree about the TacPossums. They are also harder to trap and require a stout trap. Sometimes you have use a .22 percent solution or greater. Not good eating.
Trash Pandas can also tear up a weak trap and get trap smart, even if you bait with strawberry snack cakes, their favorite. A paw trap works, but it can catch cats, so we don’t use them. Not good eating.
Squirrels are super bad this year since there was a record acorn corp, a “mast year”, even with the drought. Need to set out more traps, or call my niece to come out with her air rifle. Good eating.
Possums are awesome, so we tend to leave them alone. They are one of the families “spirit animals” along with owls and hawks. Don’t eat Frens.
If you want bigger pockets ladies, I know a Fashion Design/Textile Management student. Perhaps you know an excellent accounting instructor. A mutual beneficial shared talents arrangement could perhaps be worked out?
Given how many of us in the choir yesterday afternoon and evening were grumbling about pockets, decorative “pockets” and other inconveniences of female fashion, there’s a large market of older and /or practical women who would sign up. Part of my decision tree for my work wardrobe includes “does it have pockets?” If No, then the slacks or skirt is removed from consideration.
It sounds really stupid…. but it really does help to put the Vicks or generic eucalyptus-menthol rub on the soles of your feet, as well as on your chest/throat/nose/etc.
I was exercising the anti-placebo effect when I tried it (“This is dumb, there’s no way it’s going to work, I shouldn’t have promised to try it, at least it can’t actively hurt me….”) and it really did help.
Why? I don’t know. Maybe I have baby memories or something, and my body is obeying the will of mom and dad. Maybe eucalyptus just sneaks up on coughs that way.
I read that as “Costco-dritis”, which in this suburb means the very rare occasion of finding another customer on a Costco shopping trip those native language is English, Texan, or ‘merican. The local Costco could put the UN to shame for cultural diversity.
No kidding. Whooping cough without cracked ribs hurts from head to toe, from inside through the ribs and throat, by the time one can get the coughing spasms to quit. Not Fun. Trust me.
Well, Dr. House is going to flunk y’all. So far I’ve gotten inflamed sternum (a zebra), pleurisy (#1, to me), whooping cough after a fall (naw; vaccine current; haven’t fallen). Also, broken rib caused by the sneeze (naw) and pulled muscle (except some fever this afternoon).
Cold is what the PA said. sometimes it hurts when you sneeze, he said. Pleurisy would hurt with deep breaths, and sternum inflammation would hurt all the time.
The man who invented the hokey pokey died last month and it was traumatic for the undertakers. They went to put him into the coffin and they put the right hand in, they took the right hand out…
OK, we’ve done possums and Deck the Halls, so here’s Walt Kelly’s Pogo (the possum) contribution to the season, courtesy Lambert, Hendrix and Ross. “Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie”
(There’s less jazzy version out there somewhere, but my search-fu came up dry.)
It’s available in black, white, cool gradient and warm gradient on over 80 different products (because it’s really fun to see your own design on a lot of stuff!) Here are the links for the cool gradient and warm gradient on mugs and the other items are available if you scroll down to see the other options.
This keyboard hates me. Even though there was always a lot of human sacrifice in Mesoamerica and South America, the mass murder stuff only started around 1450, with a charming gentleman named Tlacalelel, aka Cihuacoatl or Woman-Snake.
He basically was in favor of the Mexica tribe taking over the world, rewrote history to say they came from the magical land of Aztlan instead of from the Sonoran Desert, and changed gods to make Huitzilopochtli the main god. And then he started sacrificing tons of people and attacking tons of other tribes, while everybody was suffering from famine and had better things to do than wage war. And he also told the soldiers and sacrifices that they were guaranteed a free trip to the good afterlife, the Flower Land.
So even though the Mayans, Toltecs, etc. did do some Bad Things, the Aztecs are pretty much Tlacalelel’s fault. And unfortunately, he was good at the exciting new militant culture of conquest, so yeah.
Meanwhile, there was also a rival nice guy, the ruler of Texcoco, Hungry Coyote, who made aqueducts and had an academy of music that was open to all comers.
OTOH, since music was a religious matter, messing up in any way during a formal musical performance was grounds for execution in pretty much all Nahua areas. So becoming a musician, singer, or dancer was serious business.
Oh, and the Mexica had compulsory education of all kids, paid for by taxes and trading fees. Memorization through songs, mostly. OTOH, elementary school was called calmecac, “house of whips.” So… yeah.
There was this terrible split in society, where some cities were trying to seek deep philosophy and a better life, while others were going all in with the fake history and the mass numbers of sacrifices.
Hmm. I have a wine fridge in my office (that there is no wine in) – I keep it at 37F degrees. I’ve had no moldy cheese, and some of it has been in there for six months. (Unopened from the vacuum sealed packaging.)
Maybe if I liked any of the soft stuff like bleu cheese or similar – but all of my stock is hard or semi-hard.
The mold is already in the cheese, but requires oxygen to grow. If the cheese is sealed in an airtight bag, it can’t mold. Refrigeration slows mold growth but does not stop it.
Cheese freezes very well, at least the cheddars and the shredded Mexican blends do. We buy the latter in the 5-pound bags, 2 or 3 at a time, decant each bag into two gallon-size Ziplocs, and freeze. Thaw a bag overnight in the fridge when you are ready to use it. Shake out what you need, then gently smush out the air before resealing and it will keep in the fridge without molding for at least two or three weeks or more.
If you don’t eat that much cheese, use smaller bags or put less cheese in each bag.
We buy baby block Tillamook cheddar. Once open use foil over open end, and store in a Tupperware that is just big enough to hold the full baby block. Haven’t had cheddar get moldy in forever since starting this. Not open blocks sit in the refrigerator. We generally go through it fairly fast, but I’ve had an open block last a least a couple of weeks. Right now I have 6 1/2 blocks. I have trouble buying at the current $13.99/block cost. Even $10.99 or $8.99/block is cringing. The $6.99/block digital coupon sales (max 5 per card) OTOH (while still $3 higher than 3 years ago) is much better.
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The other cheese I get is the Costco Bell soft white cheese wedges wrapped in foil. They last months.
Tillamook Pepper Jack cheese OTOH, when I buy it (for hubby) I buy very small blocks or even slices. Otherwise it gets moldy before it is gone.
Shredded cheese I make from the blocks. But occasionally (rarely, it has been years) gotten the pre shredded. Split it into freezer quart bags about 3/4 full, push out excess air, and freeze.
Cheese with crackers is my go to for when my blood sugar plummets. Crackers (carb) raises the BS, but the cheese balances it out to prevent a roller coaster crash.
According To Hoyt 
lol :P
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Y’all see this?
Tracers!
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Now THIS is the mad science we all want to see.
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Aw that’s nothing. I present to you Glowing Felines!!!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-glow-in-the-dark-kitty-77372763/
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Sudden desire for a fish tank that looks like a nuclear fuel rod storage pool.
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Also, I finally finished my post on David Drake. Should be better, but this week, finishing anything seems to be a huge accomplishment.
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Very nice. Very concise.
And hey, Drake said something like green dollars were the best award, so I guess dollars count as thank you notes also.
(And if it matters… Drake’s personal politics were somewhat on the left, but the left didn’t actually care to find this out or give him credit for it. Because leper, unclean, and because the left eats its own.)
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My guess was center-left. And I am aware of the dollars, but since “read the award winners” is one way people learn the history of the genre, it’s a crime that he was purposely excluded. (And why the left is so hell-bent on controlling all awards, beyond polishing their CVs for their sinecures.)
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Because of college teaching jobs and such.
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More or less what I meant by “sinecures”.
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1812 meme was awesome.
But I really identify with the Lit Country meme.
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Snow/cat meme. I know that look.
Doofus goes out in the snow every times it snows if he can manage it. As long as it is quiet. Then he immediately comes back in with that same look. Offended, because cold and wet and most importantly, it’s still outside.
If it’s snowing, he’ll try to bite the snowflakes, though. Loves doing that, except when he catches one. Then does it again. I think he thinks they are little white bugs, because he just loves eating bugs.
Neighborcat and Othercat go hunting in the snow, because the up the street almost falling down house has an entire warren in the basement, I swear. They only come back to sleep when they’re tired, then it’s back to the eternal mouse hunt.
Those two, and Nasty, they hunt in a team. Nasty is the noisy, obvious one. The other two are the sneaky, snatchy ones. I’ve seen them do it like that a bunch of times now. It works best with birds.
It’s not snowing right now, and Doofus has gone a whole week without falling into the washing machine or attempting to drown himself (cat cannot swim. Trust me on this one. Can. Not). He’s currently guarding the freshly folded laundry from… something, I dunno what. But every few minutes or so, he gets up, turns in a circle, sniffs, sneezes (all over my clean pants), peers about suspiciously, and sits back down.
The world of the orange floofball is a strange one, from the outside.
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“Go on outside” the humans said. “Playing in the snow will be fun” they said.
THEY LIED.
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FYI. That is the look I get when I let the dog out after it snowed. Worse her attitude is “Oh. Look the “grass” came in closer.” Sigh. We have to plow a path onto and into the grass.
None of the cats get that far. One paw out, not enough even to leave a print.
Not that Willamette valley gets that much snow.
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Clearly that cat is searching for The Door into Summer…
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Cats think more strangely than the average alien in an SF novel.
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OK, the entire warning list for the doormat is amusing.
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Yeah, I didn’t give it to Sarah for the circled part, I did it for the whole thing.
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Agreed! Extra points to anyone who recognizes the reference contained in the last line, “Do not taunt mat.”
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Happy fun ball, of course!
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Yes indeed, a true classic. That bit first aired in 1991, and it has its own Wikipedia entry for goodness’ sake.
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I’m sure that I’m thinking of the wrong reference, but I’ve got Buffy the Vampire Slayer in my head there.
Giles: Xander, DON’T TAUNT THE FEAR DEMON!
Xander: Why, will it make it grow bigger?
Giles: No, it’s just … tacky.
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Possums. I really want a possum now.
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If you live in the lower 48, there’s a good chance you have one around.
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Want some of mine? We have extra.
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We have had possums around. Seen them in the past, but no the last year or so. Haven’t seen a lot of the turkey flocks either. Prefer the possums over turkeys. Possums are cleaner. Possums also eat the ticks. We did a lot of yard clean up last year. I think we cleaned out the possum and turkey food sources. But we are seeing a lot more garter snakes, especially little ones, whose food sources overlap. Big ones were in the yard next door, just beyond the fence. Boy didn’t they set off the cats chattering. Wouldn’t have known about the little versions but Tj insisted on inviting them inside (um, no, pass). Got so when he’d suddenly bolt for the door to go in, without encouragement (supervised outings), learned to make sure to run to the door to get it closed before he went in. Rescue the baby snake (I did if I had too, but generally hubby or son) and release over one of the fences. Brat cat. Not particularly fond of snakes. Handled them in middle school (science teacher had snake terrariums in classroom). But sometime between then, college, and to now, I don’t freak, but I don’t want to handle them either, and prefer to not see them. I suspect the fact the area I worked in seasonally during college had a lot of rattlesnakes, the idea of, freaked me out more than a little.
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And if you live in TX, you can get Tactical Assault Possums:
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We have those, too.
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Do not kick TacPossums at speed!
I Highly Disrecommend this.
Some years ago (lesseee, move here in ’16, and I was working nights living in Alvarado … 2012- 2013-ish) riding home at 01:00, I came over a rise to find in my line of travel on my motorcycle, a TacPossum. Luckily nothing coming towards me, so I veered over towards the oncoming lane and managed to miss the ‘dillo . . . BUT . . . Armadillos jump when scared. A Honda ST 1100 just missing one is suck a scare and it jumped, contacting my right foot and the foot brake of the bike. This really, really, REALLY! hurt.
I cursed the rest of the way home.
TacPossum did not survive his/her scare. Another 8 inches and we’d both been fine.
I still have the “Armadillo Kicker” tag on the ST Owner’s forum.
I’ve had a possum here in my yard, but mostly I get Trash Pandas. The fattest one was digging in my trash last month. When I went out to go to work and chased it off while rebagging and getting it back into a can, it couldn’t escape up the tree it was so obese. It just hid behind the tree from me, until I chased it, and it ran to the nearest object to “hide” behind. Also have/had an old rheumy, glaucoma looking eyed one who looked old as the hills (ain’t seen it in a while)
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TacPossums are a destructive nuisance. To paraphrase Lazarus Long when describing another Armored Menace, “What an armadillo can do to a watermelon patch shouldn’t happen to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
They’re a special problem when livestock are around, because they burrow. A lot. Leaving lots of legbreakers behind.
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Agree about the TacPossums. They are also harder to trap and require a stout trap. Sometimes you have use a .22 percent solution or greater. Not good eating.
Trash Pandas can also tear up a weak trap and get trap smart, even if you bait with strawberry snack cakes, their favorite. A paw trap works, but it can catch cats, so we don’t use them. Not good eating.
Squirrels are super bad this year since there was a record acorn corp, a “mast year”, even with the drought. Need to set out more traps, or call my niece to come out with her air rifle. Good eating.
Possums are awesome, so we tend to leave them alone. They are one of the families “spirit animals” along with owls and hawks. Don’t eat Frens.
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“Not good eating.”
My grandfather, who took a family through the Great Depression, swore it tasted like pork if you stewed it.
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Stewed it with what?
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Whatever else was available…. I’m pretty sure hot peppers were involved.
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Panzerpossums!
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I’m going for the Great Resist.
…Also, I too want to see the Terms and Conditions on 2024. Just sayin’.
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Right there with you.
I am so tired of 2020 the 3rd.
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Seconded!
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Yup. We had 2020, then 2020 Won, then 2020 Too.
Three is a slight improvement on a personal level.
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I am looking forward to 2020 NEIN!
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“Nine?!? God you must be hungry.”
(Joke about a German guy trying not to order pancakes, wish I remembered the rest of it….)
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“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead… unless one of the dead ones was a politician.” Hmm.
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2020 drei (dry), and 2020 fier. Whether that’s fire or fear is a matter of interpretation.
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Beware quantum duality type effects.
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Thirded
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Thank you – I needed this today. I’ve been running around, buying presents and catching up on family activities.
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me too, my friend. Me too.
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“We’ve been trying to contact you about the warranty on your reality…”
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I think ours expired in 2020.
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If you want bigger pockets ladies, I know a Fashion Design/Textile Management student. Perhaps you know an excellent accounting instructor. A mutual beneficial shared talents arrangement could perhaps be worked out?
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Given how many of us in the choir yesterday afternoon and evening were grumbling about pockets, decorative “pockets” and other inconveniences of female fashion, there’s a large market of older and /or practical women who would sign up. Part of my decision tree for my work wardrobe includes “does it have pockets?” If No, then the slacks or skirt is removed from consideration.
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Btw, what does it mean if your ribs hurt when you sneeze?
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You should stop sneezing. :-D
Pain is the body’s way of saying “Don’t do that!”
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If that is the case, the Reader shouldn’t have gotten out of bed this morning.
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pleurisy
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Which needs a doctor and antibiotics and maybe painkillers.
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Yes
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It sounds really stupid…. but it really does help to put the Vicks or generic eucalyptus-menthol rub on the soles of your feet, as well as on your chest/throat/nose/etc.
I was exercising the anti-placebo effect when I tried it (“This is dumb, there’s no way it’s going to work, I shouldn’t have promised to try it, at least it can’t actively hurt me….”) and it really did help.
Why? I don’t know. Maybe I have baby memories or something, and my body is obeying the will of mom and dad. Maybe eucalyptus just sneaks up on coughs that way.
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No, I also found that out. It makes NO sense.
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Well, I think I can learn to spell that; my sister mentioned a friend of hers had “…Costochondritis—inflammation of the sternum.”
Isn’t pleurisy what the sister in “The Glass Menagerie” had had in first grade?
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I read that as “Costco-dritis”, which in this suburb means the very rare occasion of finding another customer on a Costco shopping trip those native language is English, Texan, or ‘merican. The local Costco could put the UN to shame for cultural diversity.
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Or that you have pertussis (whooping cough for adults) and cracked ribs from a fall. I don’t recommend either, especially not at the same time.
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No kidding. Whooping cough without cracked ribs hurts from head to toe, from inside through the ribs and throat, by the time one can get the coughing spasms to quit. Not Fun. Trust me.
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Well, Dr. House is going to flunk y’all. So far I’ve gotten inflamed sternum (a zebra), pleurisy (#1, to me), whooping cough after a fall (naw; vaccine current; haven’t fallen). Also, broken rib caused by the sneeze (naw) and pulled muscle (except some fever this afternoon).
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Cold is what the PA said. sometimes it hurts when you sneeze, he said. Pleurisy would hurt with deep breaths, and sternum inflammation would hurt all the time.
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The man who invented the hokey pokey died last month and it was traumatic for the undertakers. They went to put him into the coffin and they put the right hand in, they took the right hand out…
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Carp-et Bombing to commence in 3… 2…
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One of those new-fangled glowing approvals?
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Is glowing a request? Because radium can be added….
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Padre!
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That pocket contains a Panzer MK V Panther, not a Tiger II, but otherwise accurate. [/Pedant Mode Off]
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Volgograd
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Are you sure? I think that is a Tiger I (as opposed to a King Tiger). Image here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H26258,_Panzer_V_%22Panther%22.jpg shows a different mounting for the Panthers 76mm gun vs the Tigers 88mm gun.
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Looks like the wrong turret on a Panther tank.
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Look at the slope of the turret and body. Tigers are more squared of and vertical.
So, I think we can safely say this is a bad drawing of a Panther
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That is a Tiger II “King Tiger” with the second production “Henschel” turret. It’s certainly not a Tiger I, nor a Panther
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That band is just a cover for
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Am I the only one who saw the last line of the possum song sand heard it run as War Pig?
And then I thought to meself – could ye sing Deck the Halls as War Pig?
The Answer is Yes.
https://metalinjection.net/video/deck-the-halls-but-its-war-pigs-by-black-sabbath
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OK, we’ve done possums and Deck the Halls, so here’s Walt Kelly’s Pogo (the possum) contribution to the season, courtesy Lambert, Hendrix and Ross. “Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie”
(There’s less jazzy version out there somewhere, but my search-fu came up dry.)
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If the cat’s gonna be on the tree, it’s gotta be one of the glowy ones.
Oh, wait. Are our cats FBI informers and provocateurs?
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… Which is WHY RedQuarters will not have a tree this year. Jase the Cat is … too energetic and inquisitive for our own good.
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I love the Mom’s smile on that one. I’m pretty sure I’ve had that same smile on my face through most of December.
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You featured my artwork! Yay! I designed the lost rat! It was a comment from Dr. Strangelove at Not the Bee! (Also you can buy it on things…)
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Cool! On my way to your blog right now. Thanks!
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Design is on redbubble if you like it.
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I wish I’d found this with a little more time. Let me see if I can afford express shipping. Perfect to younger son.
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Shoot. He won’t wear t-shirts and the hoodie is too small.
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It’s lovely! Care to give a link on where to buy it in comments? I’ll spread it.
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It’s available in black, white, cool gradient and warm gradient on over 80 different products (because it’s really fun to see your own design on a lot of stuff!) Here are the links for the cool gradient and warm gradient on mugs and the other items are available if you scroll down to see the other options.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mug/Proofreading-is-a-Lost-Rat-cool-gradient-by-HeyFritters/145427408.9Q0AD
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mug/Proofreading-is-a-Lost-Rat-warm-gradient-by-HeyFritters/145427156.9Q0AD
And thank you very much! ☺️
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I saw, it’s just not big enough in sweatshirt for idiot son…. (He’s six six, so it’s length more than width, though desk job has not been kind.)
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Genetics are a crapshoot. 🤷♀️
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Are you sure that chimp hanged himself, rather than finding some dirt on the Clintons? :-o
“My wife is giving me the silent treatment. Hasn’t said a word in two days. Wish I knew what set her off — so I can do it again!”
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Nomination time:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22681609-january-2024—-an-author-s-first-book
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I found out something interesting today….
Even though there was always a lot of human sacrifice in Mesoamerica and South America,
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A good lot of memes this week. I’m stealing several of them.
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you can’t steal them. I already stole them.
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Apparently you haven’t heard that crime is getting so bad that thieves are stealing from other thieves.
https://notthebee.com/article/crime-is-so-bad-these-armed-bandits-had-their-getaway-car-stolen-during-a-robbery-in-colorado
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That’s fairly normal. BUT …. oh, my home-state. I cry.
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This keyboard hates me. Even though there was always a lot of human sacrifice in Mesoamerica and South America, the mass murder stuff only started around 1450, with a charming gentleman named Tlacalelel, aka Cihuacoatl or Woman-Snake.
He basically was in favor of the Mexica tribe taking over the world, rewrote history to say they came from the magical land of Aztlan instead of from the Sonoran Desert, and changed gods to make Huitzilopochtli the main god. And then he started sacrificing tons of people and attacking tons of other tribes, while everybody was suffering from famine and had better things to do than wage war. And he also told the soldiers and sacrifices that they were guaranteed a free trip to the good afterlife, the Flower Land.
So even though the Mayans, Toltecs, etc. did do some Bad Things, the Aztecs are pretty much Tlacalelel’s fault. And unfortunately, he was good at the exciting new militant culture of conquest, so yeah.
Meanwhile, there was also a rival nice guy, the ruler of Texcoco, Hungry Coyote, who made aqueducts and had an academy of music that was open to all comers.
OTOH, since music was a religious matter, messing up in any way during a formal musical performance was grounds for execution in pretty much all Nahua areas. So becoming a musician, singer, or dancer was serious business.
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Once you establish that human sacrifice is acceptable, doing it at scale is, truly, just a difference in degree.
But yes, there was a reason Cortez was accepted by all the tribes that were not Aztec, and helped by them to conquer the Aztecs.
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Oh, and the Mexica had compulsory education of all kids, paid for by taxes and trading fees. Memorization through songs, mostly. OTOH, elementary school was called calmecac, “house of whips.” So… yeah.
There was this terrible split in society, where some cities were trying to seek deep philosophy and a better life, while others were going all in with the fake history and the mass numbers of sacrifices.
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This sounds alarmingly familiar.
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I find that I must vehemently disagree with one meme this week.
Nobody ever buys more cheese without a good reason. There is always a good reason to buy more cheese.
Because CHEESE!
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no. when it’s just two of you, it can gain mold. Even the regular cheese you use, if you buy too much.
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Hmm. I have a wine fridge in my office (that there is no wine in) – I keep it at 37F degrees. I’ve had no moldy cheese, and some of it has been in there for six months. (Unopened from the vacuum sealed packaging.)
Maybe if I liked any of the soft stuff like bleu cheese or similar – but all of my stock is hard or semi-hard.
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The mold is already in the cheese, but requires oxygen to grow. If the cheese is sealed in an airtight bag, it can’t mold. Refrigeration slows mold growth but does not stop it.
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Wife and lactose are not friends, so I have to limit cheese to me, guests, and whatever I can’t keep away from the dogs.
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Cheese freezes very well, at least the cheddars and the shredded Mexican blends do. We buy the latter in the 5-pound bags, 2 or 3 at a time, decant each bag into two gallon-size Ziplocs, and freeze. Thaw a bag overnight in the fridge when you are ready to use it. Shake out what you need, then gently smush out the air before resealing and it will keep in the fridge without molding for at least two or three weeks or more.
If you don’t eat that much cheese, use smaller bags or put less cheese in each bag.
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Yes. The problem is husband keeps forgetting we don’t have two young men in the house….
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We buy baby block Tillamook cheddar. Once open use foil over open end, and store in a Tupperware that is just big enough to hold the full baby block. Haven’t had cheddar get moldy in forever since starting this. Not open blocks sit in the refrigerator. We generally go through it fairly fast, but I’ve had an open block last a least a couple of weeks. Right now I have 6 1/2 blocks. I have trouble buying at the current $13.99/block cost. Even $10.99 or $8.99/block is cringing. The $6.99/block digital coupon sales (max 5 per card) OTOH (while still $3 higher than 3 years ago) is much better.
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The other cheese I get is the Costco Bell soft white cheese wedges wrapped in foil. They last months.
Tillamook Pepper Jack cheese OTOH, when I buy it (for hubby) I buy very small blocks or even slices. Otherwise it gets moldy before it is gone.
Shredded cheese I make from the blocks. But occasionally (rarely, it has been years) gotten the pre shredded. Split it into freezer quart bags about 3/4 full, push out excess air, and freeze.
Cheese with crackers is my go to for when my blood sugar plummets. Crackers (carb) raises the BS, but the cheese balances it out to prevent a roller coaster crash.
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I don’t think I have ever had cheese last long enough to go bad. I buy the 4 lb blocks, 5 pound if available.
Cheese is a food group.
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I finally got the flying pig joke!
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OMG that entire mat warning label is gold! Why highly just the hookie pokie part? (Heh. Do not taunt mat.)
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