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Post by zambini on Apr 2, 2018 19:32:35 GMT -5
A mind numbing day during prolonged electoral season. Took in a new roomate in preparation of the inevitable electoral season job volatility and the girl I'm seeing tonight wants to spend money on a restaurant! Here's hoping this one works out.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 19:37:22 GMT -5
Good luck on that, zambini . We talked about taking on a boarder. We have a duplex. Both sides are small, so it works for us. More money always nice, but we'd be stepping all over each other. My twin bro always tries to save a buck. I used to tease him about using coupons at restos. After one date I asked if he used a coupon (which I don't really have a problem with). He said he didn't plan on it, but she went to the bathroom at the same time the bill came, so in his words, "I managed to slip one in while she was gone." |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 21:10:51 GMT -5
Pork and onions on rice before I lit up that GLP Quiet Nights. It has been one. Lasted for about an hour. Ending my transmission from Zeta Reticuli a little early. antb charl and sidstavros hope you guys have a great morrow, which is only a few hours away. Good Night, zambini wherever you are!! |
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Post by antb on Apr 3, 2018 4:30:32 GMT -5
Too much on the plate here today!
A blesssed day to you as always, David!
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Post by william on Apr 3, 2018 6:48:24 GMT -5
A mind numbing day during prolonged electoral season. Took in a new roomate in preparation of the inevitable electoral season job volatility and the girl I'm seeing tonight wants to spend money on a restaurant! Here's hoping this one works out. The roommate or the girl?  |
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Post by zambini on Apr 3, 2018 11:27:23 GMT -5
A mind numbing day during prolonged electoral season. Took in a new roomate in preparation of the inevitable electoral season job volatility and the girl I'm seeing tonight wants to spend money on a restaurant! Here's hoping this one works out. The roommate or the girl? Both. Roomate is an entry level civil engineer with rich parents from the sticks. He seems ambitious and I'm sure will do well in life. The girl was willing to let me make her some pasta which was apparently too spicy! Live and learn I guess. The date went very well, thank you. In case @cosmicbobo asks, I wasn't able to slip a coupon at the supermarket. |
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Post by william on Apr 3, 2018 16:00:52 GMT -5
I am glad your "date went very well." I must admit that as I get older, I have developed some measure of agreement with the English writer, G. K. Chesterton. He once observed, that when it came to the ladies, he found "the position ridiculous, the pleasure momentary, and the expense damnable." I'm sure you agree with at least the last part. But I am not sure I would want to date anyone who found my pasta "too spicy." Just sayin' Carry on zambini. You do us all proud. And keep us updated.... |
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Post by zambini on Apr 3, 2018 18:14:45 GMT -5
Thanks william, every politicial economist I've read suggests marriage is the thing to do so I'm out here trying to make it happen. I think I'm just used to more thrifty ladies, these career gals are another thing completely...I may have put off dating too long. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2018 18:30:38 GMT -5
Thanks william , every politicial economist I've read suggests marriage is the thing to do so I'm out here trying to make it happen. I think I'm just used to more thrifty ladies, these career gals are another thing completely...I may have put off dating too long. I always thought marriage was the thing to do. When Xuan and I first went out I got all the warnings about mixed relationships. Back in the Eighties a white and Asian woman still got stared at. I know how that stare feels. When we got married 5 weeks later I was told I was too impetuous. Thirty-Three years later, with Xuan basically taking care of many things I can't, I don't hear those comments anymore. |
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Post by slowroll on Apr 3, 2018 19:10:57 GMT -5
Thanks william , every politicial economist I've read suggests marriage is the thing to do so I'm out here trying to make it happen. I think I'm just used to more thrifty ladies, these career gals are another thing completely...I may have put off dating too long. They oughta be willing to spend some money on you then! |
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Post by zambini on Apr 3, 2018 23:49:00 GMT -5
Thanks william , every politicial economist I've read suggests marriage is the thing to do so I'm out here trying to make it happen. I think I'm just used to more thrifty ladies, these career gals are another thing completely...I may have put off dating too long. They oughta be willing to spend some money on you then! They keep trying and I keep feeling weird about it. I'm just dumb and selfish like that. |
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Post by zambini on Apr 3, 2018 23:53:13 GMT -5
Thanks william , every politicial economist I've read suggests marriage is the thing to do so I'm out here trying to make it happen. I think I'm just used to more thrifty ladies, these career gals are another thing completely...I may have put off dating too long. I always thought marriage was the thing to do. When Xuan and I first went out I got all the warnings about mixed relationships. Back in the Eighties a white and Asian woman still got stared at. I know how that stare feels. When we got married 5 weeks later I was told I was too impetuous. Thirty-Three years later, with Xuan basically taking care of many things I can't, I don't hear those comments anymore. Here's hoping she's not hearing those comments anymore either, hehe. I've read that mixed race marriages are becoming more common in the US but I've personally seen little evidene of it on my recent visits; I'm glad to hear from your experience about it being less of an issue than before. Here everyone is some level of mixed race so it's historically been less of an issue to my mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2018 0:46:08 GMT -5
I always thought marriage was the thing to do. When Xuan and I first went out I got all the warnings about mixed relationships. Back in the Eighties a white and Asian woman still got stared at. I know how that stare feels. When we got married 5 weeks later I was told I was too impetuous. Thirty-Three years later, with Xuan basically taking care of many things I can't, I don't hear those comments anymore. Here's hoping she's not hearing those comments anymore either, hehe. I've read that mixed race marriages are becoming more common in the US but I've personally seen little evidene of it on my recent visits; I'm glad to hear from your experience about it being less of an issue than before. Here everyone is some level of mixed race so it's historically been less of an issue to my mind. Naw, my family totally loves her, though it took some time. They thought she married me to stay in the USA. They were right. They were wrong about her commitment. My family taught me to respect people of all races, but mixing marriages, even between Lutherans and Catholics, created problems for some. My grandmother, who is surely a saint for all of her love, would always say, remember so and so? She's Catholic, you know. All three of the Busch brothers married Catholics, with Xuan and myself outlasting the others. And the wife's nieces we raised love me, as I do them. Life does not get much better. I regret not coming to see your country a couple times I was close. I probably wouldn't have gotten far with a cooler of wine and three handguns under the seat. |
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Post by zambini on Apr 4, 2018 0:56:53 GMT -5
@cosmicbobo three handguns, two hands, and one cooler of wine does sound like a juggling act. I can imagine that for someone of German or Central European descent the mixing of Lutherans and Catholics had the makings of a difficult marriage but I'm glad to hear that it worked out well. I think that for my family the idea of any of us marrying into certain Catholic groups would sound worse than other Abrahamic religions.
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Post by headrott on Apr 4, 2018 1:49:57 GMT -5
Smoking some C&D Sansepolcro in the Vauen Mastro de Paja 105 pipe with a pint of Worthy IPA along side and listening to Art Bell's Dreamland Radio with an episode about the JFK shooting. This should peak david's interests (and possibly a number of other's).
I've been wanting to get a tin or two of this ... any chance you have a couple for trade or sale?
Sorry, I just saw this. I have to dig through the cellar to see how many I have. I cannot remember. Is this not available anymore, anywhere? |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Apr 4, 2018 8:05:26 GMT -5
I've been wanting to get a tin or two of this ... any chance you have a couple for trade or sale?
Sorry, I just saw this. I have to dig through the cellar to see how many I have. I cannot remember. Is this not available anymore, anywhere?
It is sold out at SP, but P&C has some. It's a small batch so it's life expectancy is iffy.
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Post by zambini on Apr 4, 2018 14:54:00 GMT -5
Finished a late lunch and now my phone is lighting up surely due to the inevitable job related issues that will come up during the next few months...I should have studied to be a lawyer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2018 19:04:28 GMT -5
Finished a late lunch and now my phone is lighting up surely due to the inevitable job related issues that will come up during the next few months...I should have studied to be a lawyer. Dad used to say I should have been a lawyer. As a kid I watched Perry Mason ad nauseam and then gave everyone the third degree on every subject known to man. Finished (and caught up) three eppies of The Terror about the Franklin Expedition. It was only in recent decades they found the graves of several of the shipmates frozen in time. |
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Post by zambini on Apr 4, 2018 19:08:37 GMT -5
@cosmicbobo was that the Northwest Passage expedition where the survivors left the boats caught in the ice and marched back through Canada eating each other along the way?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2018 19:14:42 GMT -5
@cosmicbobo was that the Northwest Passage expedition where the survivors left the boats caught in the ice and marched back through Canada eating each other along the way? Yeah, though none of them made it through Canada to safety. A later expedition failed, though I (trying from memory) think natives talked about cannibalism and when that got back to Franklin's widow, a highly esteemed woman, she took umbrage and there were some repercussion. Later it was proved. I think recently they actually found at least one of the sunken ships. Good documentary is Arctic Passage on DVD and sometimes free on YouTube. Also, and I may be conflating, but I bring it up to remind myself to look up, I think "Lead" in the tin cans may have aided in some deaths. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 0:18:16 GMT -5
Taking a break in the middle of a movie because... as I have said many times I have the attention span of a diseased gnat.
Watching The Wanderers (1979) and realizing I may have seen this movie 'back in the day.' It was from a book by Richard Price that I had read in the mid-Seventies all about greasers and gangs in NY. At the time I was ducktail and leather jacket adorned and looked about as natural as a mustache on the Mona Frickin Lisa.
This movie is similar to Lords of Flatbush, though the book by Price was written a decade before and based on true gangs. I am going to have to reread the book, which I loved, but re: the movie, I am ambiguously dubious about it. Or is that dubiously ambiguous?
Another bomb of a movie, that I don't even believe was released, but shown on cable a time or two, was House of God. Those that remember the Saint Elsewhere TV show, the name and comedy was inspired by the Samuel Shem book, House of God. It's a right of passage for med students to read it and is an eye opener. I often said (in the Seventies) that if they ever made a movie they should pick Otter from Animal House to play the lead. SOB if they didn't do it. In 1984 they took this book of pure geniosity and made a total snorefest out of it. It's such a stinker that even if I could find it I wouldn't waste my DVD space on it. Now back the The Wanderers
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Post by Legend Lover on Apr 5, 2018 6:16:13 GMT -5
Sitting in a chippy in Bushmills (yes, the whiskey place) before going crab fishing.
It's a sunny day for once.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Apr 5, 2018 6:29:38 GMT -5
Sitting in a chippy in Bushmills (yes, the whiskey place) before going crab fishing. It's a sunny day for once.
when the sun shines there, Carpe Diem!
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Post by Wolfman on Apr 6, 2018 13:50:49 GMT -5
I’m not really sure how this thread works, but I’ll share what I’m doing now. My son is off from school this week because of Easter/Passover break. I took him to ‘GameStop’ and bought him a Wi game. Now we’re at the park and he’s happy, and that makes me happy. The time goes so fast. He’s almost eight and a half. I remember when he fit into my hand. It goes so fast. He’s a blessing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 14:08:00 GMT -5
I’m not really sure how this thread works, but I’ll share what I’m doing now. My son is off from school this week because of Easter/Passover break. I took him to ‘GameStop’ and bought him a Wi game. Now we’re at the park and he’s happy, and that makes me happy. The time goes so fast. He’s almost eight and a half. I remember when he fit into my hand. It goes so fast. He’s a blessing. Hi Wolfman . That's how this thread works... or doesn't. It's just here to share stuff. I like writing sometimes without any direction. Just musing. Seriousness can also crop up, tool I have some game tech here, but I am so uncoordinated it sits most of the time. Spending time with your son is always cool. I worked 7 days a week some years and when I finally got off it was to take the kids cruising in my bomb, ice cream, and letting them listen to their "new wave" music (that was the Eighties). Xuan would fall asleep and the kids and I always joked about it at her expense. Remembering holding a baby in your hand. Carry that for life, mon ami. PS - Glad you stepped over to the Far Side |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 14:27:59 GMT -5
For all comic and super-hero fans, SyFy has a new show called Krypton, which is about Soupie's granddad before the planet crumbled. I watched the first two eppies last night and am in the middle of the third one now.
Had some 1936 Briggs in my Emperor Deluxe Sea Rock with my coffee earlier. Good smokes later, I hope.
Need to try to get back to reading for longer periods. Post injuries it has been rough and have developed a couple floaters in my eyes. Anyone else have those? It's like dragging a towel across your eye every few seconds.
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Post by Darin on Apr 6, 2018 14:39:44 GMT -5
Sorry, I just saw this. I have to dig through the cellar to see how many I have. I cannot remember. Is this not available anymore, anywhere?
It is sold out at SP, but P&C has some. It's a small batch so it's life expectancy is iffy.
Thank you, both! I scored a few tins from P&C. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 15:37:46 GMT -5
Lit up some Heine's in a Sav unfinished slight bent billiard
Due to high regard in this forum and others I went to look for Black House and White Knight. Same old Same old. SP has one. P&C has the other. I ordered neither. Perhaps when they are at the same place at the same time.
Waiting for a few flavorings. Working on my own Fruit Salad Tobacco that will cause the pipe smoking masses to say, "Exotic Orange? Meh!"
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Post by zambini on Apr 6, 2018 17:41:50 GMT -5
Trying to avoid ducking out of work early and getting a pizza.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 17:49:20 GMT -5
Trying to avoid ducking out of work early and getting a pizza. Have them delivered to work. Them, as in plural. |
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