Xbox!

M-O-O-N!
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What The Eff Izzat?

CLICK itt.
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Animated Trek

I really think this series had some excellent (and educational) episodes. No wonder, given the writers, including D.C. Fontana. Also, I love the music!
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Random Stuff

Dropcam kept an eye on Wanda, overnight. It cost $10, but if she got nabbed, I'd have video of it, at least. It may turn out to have a use after kittehs, after all. Or maybe Stranger will perform.

I bet you missed this in Captain America: Winter Soldier, near the end. "And I shall lay down my vengeance upon thee..."
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10 Print "Hello, world"

20 goto 10

Internet 30 minutes at a time, for now (and using Internet Explorer, of all thangs). Watch for my book in early 2016.  ;)

Made it from Day 0 to Day 8, the latter of which is where my story will start. Gotta go a little Tarintino on ya just to keep things fresh and non-linear.

Can you believe I'm wearing a 34" waist in jeans, today?  I cannot, I tell you now. I haven't been this skinny since senior year of high school, 34 years ago. Even these jeans need a belt if I am to walk (and I will have walked 5-10 miles by day's end, today; I should retrieve Wanda, tomorrow).

Is all well?  Well, no. But they are improving vastly, I must say. Not terribly thrilled with the whole idea of AA meetings seven nights/week to keep a roof overhead, but it beats being eaten by a grue, I suppose. That's how I like to imagine it, anyway. My first meeting was last night, and hey, guess what?  Everyone had to speak to the new guy, telling him how they'd all be running screaming at the evening's topic, which was the Magic Guy in the Sky. Parachutes, open minds... but skepticism, as you know is my natural state.

THANK all of you, and THANK THE FSM that I have friends like you. You especially, Ivy. :) Bob, nashvegasdawg, Sallyh, bluesman and Ed -- damn, I have no words, but I'll find them, soon. I'm going to do better after this reboot, and that's my promise to YOU.

I hope DWD and TV are doing much better, as well as jude9 and any others who I've lost track of in the last couple of weeks. You're all dear to me, and I hope you know that. I'll try to stay in touch here when I can. I can't recall the credentials for CatopiaTN.com just now, but as I have no cats, well... yeah. Progress will be made.
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WTF, Over?

I don't get it. He's not even pissing on a automobile manufacturer's logo.
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#8

Ready to lift, next month. ST pays most of this, btw.

Wanda sports the logo, 'cause of the giveaways.
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Two Three Completely Random Thursday Photos

If you attend Lollapalooza Chicago this year, here's one of the thangs you will see. 

I was in the Dollar General store close to the interstate yesterday afternoon, grabbing a cold drank and a bathroom visit before heading out to the Remote Reaches of La Vergne -- so remote, it's actually Nolensville, but this ~150-200 acres of Nolensville is served by our water system. A guy I know who works at SGPS/Showrig was in there, too, and he said howdy, and asked me if I had five minutes.

"For you, Hud, I have ten!"

"Follow me up to the shop, then. I thought you might like to see some of what we actually do."  This is literally three blocks from the DollarGen. Okay!

I laughed my ass off, and wish  I had fired up the video instead, 'cause about the time I snapped this, they tested the mechanism that makes the mecha-Drinking bird dip his beak, and bob back up. It was a scream.

Guys from MooTV were there assisting with the rigging, so I had to shout-out, "Hey, y'all know James Duer?"  Of course they did. East Side Scooters partner (with Josephine, his wife) and ex-performance video director for Toby Keith and Zac Brown Band, who also worked for MooTV at the time. Now, every week on the job, I see a bunch of the stuff James sells these days for Victaulic. They make plumbing stuff, like big-ass ductile iron braces for fire systems, an' whatnot. I miss the hell out of ESS, but I think the Duers are a lot happier, and certainly financially better off, these days. I need to go visit them in their new home in Lebanon, TN (home of Charlie Daniels), very, very soon. I miss 'em both, a lot.

That bottom part made me LOL. I didn't need  to ring the bell.  ;)

"Mister Data, engage.".

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Offered Without Comment.

h/t racymind.
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Goodwill T-Shirts Can Be Fun

I like to think the donor was a fat, gay man.
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Dear Asurion

Well, that's so nice of you to suddenly become concerned, Asurion. Really, I'm touched!  Allow me to make a somewhat  different proposal.

I'd be more than happy to write up a detailed report of your immense shortfalls in this matter. I can't do that for you, for free... after all, you've asked me in this comment for a consultation to improve your customer service, ostensibly, and it would take many ADDITIONAL hours of my time (by which I mean the wasted, uncompensated hours I've spent since March, '14, chasing down this claim) to repeat what your CRM software should, by all rights, have assembled for you a good summary of precisely what occurred.

If you would like my consultation, I offer it at $500/hour. You may reply to this e-mail address (sent 6/25/2014) with any response.

UPDATE: E-mail bounced. Takin' it to the streets.

Delivered-To: j****@***.com

Received: by 10.216.182.132 with SMTP id o4csp269226wem;

        Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:27:02 -0700 (PDT)

[...]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

    (reason: 554 5.4.6 Too many hops)

[...]

(much SMTP bilge deleted now -- point made)

UPDATE 6/28/14: Nice to see I have their attention, every day. Even Saturday!

click to embiggen.

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Sunday's Screamin' Hoot

Git a brane, morans!  h/t Pupienus Maximus, of Sadly, No! fame.
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Rutherford County Saturday/Caturday

Ol' Chevy Truk (later found on beer can).

Best Cat In Universe!

Birmingham, AL!  Good People Pale Ale.

Exploring the screened-in porch.

Parting. Such sweet sorrow. Not for much longer, Curly.

This sign is missing twenty or so more words.

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Dear Rebecca

I Am Not A Dick, but I play one on the Int3rtr0nz. In fact, I've been doing that for 25 years, come September. I do it quite well if I do say so myself (and I do).

Sincerely, I wish to help. I luuurve  Gawker Wonkette almost as much as Breaking Bad, so hopefully you will understand the gravity of this utterly untenable situation.

I'm not The Dick who wrote you about HNTP.com, but I could have been on the right day. I think I have an innate aversion to purple pixels, unless they're on a Ubuntu desktop wallpaper, where they are naturally, just fine. But, this is not the crux of the biscuit.

Can You Tell?

... which kitteh this is?

UPDATE 3/13/14:  George Takei says it best.
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Bonus Beer!

Small favors.
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For My Sadlies

Thanks, Pup, for hepping me to this.
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Breakfast of Champions!

Blue Tweaker (exclusively for fans of Breaking Bad), and Busch beer!
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The Good News?

... we get a rebate!  Up to $7!
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Bad Jeffraham's Discretion

This is how I get away with the after-work beer, in public.
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