First of all, how awesome is it to have Sunday Gravy back?
Now, it’s damn-near impossible for me to find some of those particular ingredients for today’s recipe in Vancouver without having to go to some COVID-questionable parts of town. The banana leaves & paste? We do have a joint called “Famous Foods” which does import things like that, but the lineup to get in is atrocious & I have just two weeks leave left before returning to work. But I will try once I get my jabs.
Oh, it’s Valentine’s Day. Here’s what it was like for most of my life,
It should come as no surprise. Eventually I learned to lean into my unlikability & things got a lot better. So forgive me if I don’t care.
It’s snowing again today,
and the album discussions were an interesting insight into several folks’ listening habits. Seeing as how there were over 200 comments & no fights last night, you deserve your reward.
Dog pictures!
The front yard. That’s Riga on the left & Lambeau on the right.
Portraits of both – prettier than any Sears or school photos. And the piéce de resistance,
Lambeau can’t catch, much like the other Packers.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Colorado vs Vegas – 7:00pm | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Minnesota vs Toronto Bay – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
- Portland vs Dallas – 7:30pm | ESPN / TSN4
- LA Lakers vs Denver – 10:00pm | ESPN / TSN5
- Cleveland at LA Clippers – 10:00PM | Sportsnet1
- NCAA:
- Oregon at Arizona – 7:00pm | ESPN2
- Oregon State at Arizona State – 7:00pm | FS1
Oh, and thanks to delays the Daytona 500 might still be on, left-turning its way into your heart
My contribution to the album discussion?
Runnin’ With the Devil, Eruption, You Really Got Me. Just a great intro to what would be, for eight years, the best band in the world.
Enjoy your evening.
Watching Brisbane take on West Coast. Good game and surprisingly close!
Curses. The only Australian thing on my tv right now is tennis.
And the only Australian thing on my TV is a welsh guy playing an Aussie medical researcher (with a dark past ™ )… It’s surprisingly good, though I’d trade Harrow in a second, if I can get a second season of Party Tricks (yesh, I’ve got a thing for Aussie tv… sue me)
“Crazy Rich Asians” was on tonight, and that’s a way better Valentine’s movie than anything Hollywood or London has put out in years.
Very true
Whoa, passed out for an hour or so there. Now down to 13 deg F, and snowing like hell. Check the radar on Weather Channel or your favourite weather site for zip code 78163. This is crazy.
The turning left has ended. Predictably, with a wreck. Michael McDowell is your 2021 Daytona 500 champion!
Damn. Was hoping they’d hit curfew & have to resume in the AM.
I feel like the Valentine’s Day version of “dance like nobody’s watching” is “drink like nobody cares”.
That’s my daily thing.
Because “masturbate like your webcam’s covered” is too pandemic specific.
> The banana leaves & paste? We do have a joint called “Famous Foods” which does import things like that, but the lineup to get in is atrocious & I have just two weeks leave left before returning to work.
One of this cool things about my neighborhood and SoCal in general is that I walk my dog past not one but TWO banana trees every afternoon.
Pro tip: If it is -22 then if you put your frozen weed pipe in your outdoor air fryer for 2 mins it unclogs.
This is my Valentine from my man. I am sooo lucky!
Could have been better. Or worse.
Zardoz! Weird, but still hot.
I think the only time I saw that movie was at a midnight movie showing in 1977 or 1978 at the old Broadway Theater in Alamo Heights. Still sticks in my mind, so fucking weird.
Down to 17 degrees F here. Dad called an hour ago from Kerrville, about 60 miles NW of my location, and said it was 2 degrees there. This is a weird experience for us South Texans.
A balmy 35 here in CT, but the rain, sleet, and ice over the next two days will make up for this warmth.
I remember once a few years back, my RI GF and I were driving back from a couple days at a B&B in Provincetown during Thanksgiving week. It was raining and in the 60s on the Cape; my dad called from down here in South Texas and bitched about it being in the 20s, I just had to laugh.
It’s 19°F in Los Angeles right now with snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail, fires, race riots, SigAlerts, and earthquakes with the occasional tsunami. I truly envy you all.
Snowing here now, with a 90% chance of racism, gerrymandering, and voter suppression of minorities.
Brick is lying. The most that can be said is that it’s windy enough that delicious avocados are getting knocked out of trees and falling onto the sidewalk where you can collect them for free at your leisure.
It’s windy as fuck up here. We decided not to have a fire for a few days because of downdraft possibilities. They said we could have gusts around 50mph tomorrow and Tuesday.
That’s about the speed Britt Reid was driving at when he collided with a stalled car on the side of the freeway and sent a five year-old child to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
In Glendale maybe, but out here at the beach it’s fucking crazy.
I’m shooting rioters from my balcony and the ocean froze solid. I’m cooking a nice steak, though.
We’re suppose to get 6 to 10 inches of snow tomorrow. Glad to have no where to go
Mrs GTD and youngest are watching Golden Girls. Such a strange show
The whore Blanche is the best. Apparently STI/STD’s are a yuge problem down there cuz the olds love to go raw dog, as was custom at the time.
I read somewheres that most senior homes are full of STD/STIs for the same reasons
Might as well; old age is going to kill you long before the STDs will.
The Villages, the 80K strong Mega-Senior Community has a major STD/STI and its causing so much bad PR. They took a page out of the right wing playbook and had their local paper try to “FakeNews” it out of existence.
Remember, the girls are a stand-in for gays. NBC thought a house full of old women was a better sell on TV than four middle-aged homosexuals.
And didn’t Golden Girls end up with a huge gay following?
Yep – they all knew the Girls were beards.
Turns out the shit box is a Packers fan
Hey babe, I forget my phone in the car. Can you go grab it?
I think it fell in the crack…
The problem is there are a lot of cracks to check.
That’s not a problem.
That’s wonderful
Anyone cook with that Beyond Meat stuff? The wife agrees to let me freeze a baked rigatoni for this week then, just as a grabbed my keys to hit the store, she told me she “didn’t want it to be too heavy so grab lean beef.” To which I rolled my eyes as the cheese content of this bitch (the recipe; not the woman). So I figured a pool of pasta, cheese, and red sauce should be enough to hide that fakey fakiness of the fake meat.
Also, I got my chicken and 40 cloves ovening right now. I love that dish and appreciate YR bringing it to my attention.
I tried both the “beef” and the sausages. They’re fine I guess, but I’m not sure I see the point unless you’re a vegetarian. My understanding is that health-wise it’s not really clear that you’re better off.
Dietician wife agrees with you Dunstan. 100%
That would be the first time any dietician has every approved of anything I did.
Also one of the few times a woman has approved of anything I did.
Well if it is any solace she lets the weed and wine thing slide…
Not a weed guy, but I do enjoy my wine.
Or, at the moment, a Sazerac
I am on a Margaret River Cab this evening probably whisky later. I am on vacation next week and at least the weather is breaking on Tuesday.
I’M A WEED GUY!
Fuck it.
The scroll made me laugh
Not sure how that happened. Could not delete and repost properly.
It’s kind of like a fortune cookie. I had one the other day that said “A thrilling time is in store for you.” Get the fuck outta here with that nonsense, I’m old, tired, and fat. I don’t need any more thrills.
At the ski jumps we were watching 3-4 guys just mainlining Bud Light, (they were clearly #upforwhatever), for 2-3 hours straight. Just one after the other out of seemingly magic and bottomless backpack. They were also keeping the bonfire stacked with pallet after pallet, which we usually do. So at the end we’re talking to them and they finally have run out of beer and the drunkest one suddenly get a gleam in his eye, reaches into his jacket and holds up a plastic case and says, OH YEAH, I’VE GOT POT!!! while holding it over his head.
I’m sure their day ended well. Or they will feel good tomorrow AM.
last funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygtS_xJKwV4
Looks like they will continue turning left at 9 PM Eastern…
LOL
Whenever someone is “fired for having conservative views” it means they said something racist however it would be hilarious if an actor was let go from a movie for just like, really advocating for localized government
Riga and Lambeau! And Sunday Gravy! Who needs football?
If there’s one good thing about 2020 is that BeerGuyRob doesn’t need to worry anymore about any NC rednecks stealing his babies.
I just know he sent instructions to the Nazi Australian…
Considering their relationship seemed adversarial, I doubt you have anything to worry about.
Still one of the funniest DFO nights was when TWBS doxxed her to us but told us all to be nice as we were on it immediately.
That was fun. “SHE’S GONNA FIND ME AND KILL ME!” he begged.
We don’t that he was wrong, in the end.
found a funny:
doctor: i’m afraid the part of your brain that helps with rhyming may never work again
me: uh oh spaghetti
Lady BFC and i just got back from a short hike and nope it did not help my back pain
Have you considered using one of these? They’re great back massagers…
Just make sure to get the one with the cord. Don’t waste your money on batteries.
Magic Wand PLUS? I thought that would be the black one.
Mrs. Cola thinks you are funny.
Fuck NASCAR let’s get back to steaks. Here today’s haul, vacuum sealed:
My freezer is officially full.
Do you vacuum seal and then sous vide?
No. The vacuum seal is strictly for preservation.
I thaw them and then pan sear them in a cast iron skillet in oil and butter and then finish them in the oven. Seasoned with salt & pepper only, cooked to a beautiful medium rare. Then I pour ketchup all over it and serve them with Tater-Tots
Great job!
– P. Mahomes
“How presidential!”
— Lindsay G, South Carolina
Did you butcher this yourself?
—Scotchnaut
No, but in my freezer I practically have an entire cow.
Looks like NASCAR is making some right turns today (same road course despite the date):
This is like Formula 1 except they actually pass each other.
This is a replay from Tuesday’s race. They’re only doing the left turns in the delayed race.
And Kyle Busch won! WOOO!!
As we used to say about Busch beer, “If you like her mountains, you’ll love her Busch.”
Like I know anything about NASCAR.
I like that the chicane is also the bus stop. I’m sure Jeremy Clarkson would have something arch and snooty to say about that.
Northern Tier folks here will laugh and say “what a pussy,” but this arctic blast is a pretty rare beast down here in South Texas. Temps have dropped from the high 20’s this morning to just over 20 right now and our low for the next two nights is supposed to be in the single digits, supposed to snow tonight. There’s been enough moisture in the air that all the trees have a coating of ice, which is kind of pretty. I’ve got the pool pump running full time and all hose bibs that are served by exposed pipes are dripped. My HVAC outside unit froze up this morning, I had to beat on it with a 2×4 to bust all the ice off of it and get it going again at 330 this morning; it has run fine all day today so I guess it’s okay now. I’m going to have to go out for rum tomorrow, highs in the mid-20s, but won’t do so if the roads are icy; I have a substantial stash of wine so I can live without the demon rum for a couple of days if need be (plus I have a nearly-full handle of the whiskey). I fucking hate cold weather.
One of the coolest things is snow in the desert.
Have experienced desert snow out in Marfa, Alpine, and Big Bend NP. You are correct, sir! The Hill Country is not quite desert, but the topography makes for some lovely scenes when we do get snow; usually happens every ten years or so.
It snowed just above Palm Springs last winter when I went to visit Mom. Made the damn place very picturesque.
We’re thinking of moving to Palm Springs in a year or so.
I would recommend either old Palm Springs or Rancho Mirage in the west valley.
I was visiting my great-uncle in 29 Palms back in the 70s and it snowed. Made for some unusual dirt biking, south of town before it got taken over by Joshua Tree NP (Monument, not Park, at that time).
That’s beautiful country over there.
The ex-Machinist’s Mate in me tells me that if either your condenser of evaporator ices up, regardless of ambient temperature/humidity, your refrigerant is low and needs charging. Charging? Hey we just run these things go call the A-Gang they handle that refrigerant shit not us.
You were a MM? Gumby was an ET. The A Gangers were always fun to party with!
I recall you mentioning Holy Loch at some point, was he an ET nuke sub guy?
Not a nuke. He qualified, but was scared off by the math. He was a Nav ET, definitely a sub guy.
I got a 99 on my ASVABs and the recruiter pounded on me to go nuke, but I wasn’t interested in signing up for 6 years. My scores did make it possible to skip to the head of the 18 month line to get into MR A school.
He did sign up for 6 years, a which was part of the reason I thought it was all an elaborate practical joke when he joined. His ASVAB was like yours, and they tried like hell to get him to go nuke. He was a third class right out of boot camp,and had his first choice of orders after his schools.
Both of my grandfathers were tool and die makers so I guess maybe it was a genetic thing for me to want to be an MR. I learned a lot of cool shit, but the most important thing I learned was that I didn’t want to spend my life standing in front of a lathe or a milling machine.
I was a Nuke. Last of the Rickover boys as well. I learned that I hated authority of any kind, and have never had a boss since.
Working for Rickover worked out ok for Jimmy Carter….
Just had semi-annual service call last month, funny thing is that my A/C tech is a retired IC chief, he’s been my service guy for at least a decade. On Thursday we had an ice storm and it coated the outside unit with ice, I broke most of it off on Friday. Not sure why it was froze up this morning (it’s a heat pump set-up, which as an R-Division MR I still don’t understand), but it became unstuck after I beat on it with the 2×4 to knock the rest of the ice off the outside and has been working just fine all day.
It has been below – 20 C – 4 F all week here. That was the high!
My boss, who lives in Fort Worth TX, was complaining that the temps would be below freezing for 100 hours. Told him to talk when it’s 100 days.
And then asked if there was any food left in the grocery stores and if there was a state of emergency yet
Apparently there is! This is pretty funny, in an ironic way…
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-governor-storm-help-secede/
Just got back from the annual trip to the ski jumps. Limited attendance, masks outside, and this year it was BYOB, instead of a Lagunitas stand. But it was still good to get outside and do something besides watch TV.
And were there plenty of dogs there, including of the Burmese Mountain variety? Oh yes there were.
Burmese dogs participate in coup d’etat?
Underrated comment.