Thanks to Spur and what he himself called “Beefcake Saturday”, we have a TON of sexy pictures for you tonight!
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New Year Resolutions Update!
Goal Número Uno – Fitness
Last year, I achieved my goal of getting below 20% body fat and keeping it there. My goal this year is to get jacked like Stewart in Letterkenny
I figure the goal will be getting below 15% body fat and increasing the size of my biceps, thighs, and other muscles.
UPDATE: Currently at 17% body fat and decreasing. Muscles are increasing. So far so good.
Goal Número Dos – Literature
The goal is to read 5 new books in 2022.
UPDATE: Haven’t cracked a book. Not good.
Goal Número Tres – Writing
I really enjoyed writing the Goddess series and other posts with TWBS. He was a great writing partner and provided a lot of inspiration for writing fiction. As you can tell, my posts don’t really go much into creating characters and stories. I did a little of that with the TWBS Dante series that Senor Weaselo so graciously took over after the Inferno portion, but I would like to delve into that world more.
I think it will push me to be a better writer and that’s the purpose of resolutions, isn’t it? To push yourself into areas where you feel uncomfortable and improve yourself?
So, the goal is to write a multi-post series along those lines. I’m not sure yet how it will work, but it will be interesting.
UPDATE: I have an idea percolating in my head about what I want to do with this series. The rough outline is there but I need to flesh it out some. I’ll probably write out a treatment this weekend.
Goal Número Cuatro – Leisure
I have not had a real vacation in a very long time. COVID hasn’t helped, either. I don’t know what the future holds or what the COVID situation will be by this time next year, so I’m not going to say I’m going to travel internationally or something like that, which I’ve done in the past. Instead, I think I will go for the full week off work with the phone being off.
Trust me, that’s going to be EXTREMELY difficult to pull off.
However, I need to. I don’t have long, hopefully, until retirement but I also do not want to burn myself out. To paraphrase Depeche Mode, you’ve got to Get The Balance Right.
UPDATE: With Omicron raging, I’m not thinking about going anywhere right now.
Goal Número Cinco – Giving Back
I know that I am extremely lucky to have the life and lifestyle that I have. Not many people do and most of the time, it’s not their fault. As I get older, I realize more and more how life is not in your control and how, if one or two things were to happen differently, your life would change drastically.
So, this year, I want to devote a lot of time and energy to helping others. I’m not quite sure how that’s going to play out. I may mentor some staff at work and help them to improve themselves and their skills. I may volunteer my time doing beach cleanups or some things like that. I may run 10K or 5K runs for charity. I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do, but I do know I want and NEED to do something.
UPDATE: At The Maestro’s invitation, I spoke to a class of Canadian teenagers about careers and education and how I got where I am. I tried my best to inspire them and give them tips that will hopefully help them in their futures. I hope they got something out of it.
One good deed of giving back accomplished. 11 to go.
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AFLW Schedule Update!
Due to COVID, the schedule has been changed!
Apparently, I screwed up the schedule when I posted it on the AFL Beat. Move everything up a day from what I posted.
Please update your Footy Tips!
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As far as the music, no puzzle but I am featuring some songs I like.
Today’s pictures are once again courtesy of you perverts. Thank you very much for your contributions!
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For those of you prudes that don’t like cheesecake or beefcake, click HERE to skip to the music videos.
Here are your 27 pictures of the week.
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YOU’RE-A-PRUDE
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And now, for the music!
As I mentioned before, I’ve decided that I must take up the mantle that tWBS ran with and help to make this world a better place. I will do this in the one way he couldn’t: By introducing you to good music!
This week, I present to you songs that you may remember but remixed in a different way plus a fucking classic from The Prodigy that did not become a major hit. Enjoy!
Song Number One:
Canción Número Dos:
Chanson Numéro Trois:
Canzone numero quattro:
Canção número cinco
Seigarren zenbakia:
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That’s all for this week, folks! Be good to each other and fly low and avoid the radar.
Collins is just outmatched by Barty. Barty is playing so dominant. She’s got that Mahomes fighting spirit!
It’s a Barty Party!
Collins isn’t backing down in the second. She’s fighting hard.
Collins won the first 3 in the second, but the score is Barty 4, Collins 5. Ash is kicking ass.
Barty wins!
Since it is a sexy night.
https://youtu.be/nYMeJSehCe4
My third late night run this week to Zank Chicken on Sunset, complete with a homeless guy:
Phone is dying, see ya tomorrow! Cat is making a stump speech
I digitized a document today. Fully, utterly, completely declassified for decades just to throw that out there.
It was done in 1965. The idea was to create an explosion the equivalent of a solid rocket motor blowing the fuck up.
They used an ungodly amount of TNT to reach said equivalency.
They conducted 5 of these tests at NOTS.
The Naval Ordinance Test Station.
In China Lake California.
I was in kindergarten about 11 miles away as the crow flies.
How the fuck are you my favorite people?
Cool Buddy, hope you are too.
Life is good my friend.
How are you holding up? Is it cold and snowy there?
It is in the 20’s down here in the Po River Valley, no snow, but just above us the snow line sits at 500 meters. So ski resorts at Asiago are open and happy this year.
https://youtu.be/byDiILrNbM4
I ate there when it was still the Kiev, and lived a couple doors down when it went through the next couple iterations. Should have been called Kyiv though.
I know Vesalka is still around, but no idea about the other remnants of that bit of the East Village being Russian. (That’s why it was Kiev btw, Kiev is the roman text version of the Russian name for the city, while Kyiv is the roman text version of the Ukrainian name)
Odessa was popular since they didn’t card, but they had decent food and shitty vodka, hope they’re still there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbcVj8G8vg&ab
No one is having as much fun as Spur, but I made yakisoba. That is something.
I love me some yakisoba.
Currently listening to this at wife’s request because we’re old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK0AmgDGpPo&ab_channel=StevieNicksFan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8&ab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU&ab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69gQtAdHKc&ab
I will make an exception for breakaway pants
https://youtu.be/wyx6JDQCslE
LMFAO the Musical: ALL the breakaway pants!
I would see that
The IT nerds are trying to clockblock. Ops have growers! this shit wont stand!
am going warm up the cold fish in HR
i can be charming when i want
Spur has had enough to kill a small to medium size Asian family and still won’t stop
Dear Lord, send me back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLm3Khusq_8&ab
more vodka! the jw in Anaheim is tits up ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOK3rqVgN2I&ab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkzgLMH5MA&ab_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kp1BB7TzcE&list=OLAK5uy_naUhtkbYccwhdXg1aKdq2vJpdGzslI-Vc&index=9&ab
Oh god, the guy doing the continuing legal education course that I’m listening to is quoting Richard Branson and “Elon Musk as interviewed by Joe Rogan.” Just fucking shoot me now.
There is a brand new circle of hell reserved for Elon Musk
And automated, I presume.
Automated, but there are still demons on duty, and they get full workplace protections in accordance with Hell Occupational Safety. It’s another measure to drive Elon nuts, since he insists on vioolating worker protections and generally creating a hostile work environment at Tesla
An uncaring women, So fucking hot. Every women I’ve been with its been me offering a better life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5SeQaESZAE&ab
am like fungus, I’ll grow on you
A fridged bitch, Iove them My proud says I’ll warm them up
Spur is sexy
And you know it?
Spur is bourbling!
Just watched The Tender Bar. I cannot recommend it. It has its moments, but I’m just bored by stories about guys with daddy issues, and by stories about how writers became writers, and this is both. And hey, it’s Ben Affleck playing a working-class salt-of-the-earth guy — but he’s from Long Island instead of Boston, so it’s totally fresh!
Writers writing about how writers became writers just seems like masturbation with extra steps
Gotta say, running down a hill in a snowstorm (not yet blizzard) is pretty fun.
Walking in a pier during a snowstorm (not yet blizzard), less so due to wind. In full blizzard conditions, I can only imagine.
I really do miss snow, I even kind of enjoyed the time I drove for 20 hours straight from NOLA to MD with most of it being in the snow, and I saw a seven car accident on 495 where none of the cars hit anything, it was just domino effect getting stuck. They were not nearly as slick as the car earlier that went into a slide and drove smoothly out of a full 360
Drivers think 4 wheel drive means 4 wheel stop. They are almost always mistaken
Just crank the Eurobeat!
/Do not crank the Eurobeat
I was shit faced after a party in college and my equally shit faced friends and I had to help push our DD’s car up a hill during a major snowstorm. After 45 minutes we gave up and walked back to our apartment. By the end of the walk we were all stone cold sober. Blizzards are drunk cures
I went to a New Years Eve party in high school, I guess it was 1976?anyway, it was like 10 below, I was going home with my neighbor Scott, and some girl who just had her appendix out, and we ended up stuck in a ditch. Scott and I had to push the car out while appendix girl steered. Started hammered, sobered right up.
If you stop, you STAY stopped. Never had 4 wheel drive, but thankfully front wheel. Was once stuck in a traffic jam on a back road because some dude with no idea tried to do a u-turn in a rear wheel drive van in a tiny snow shower
Oh this was leaving the parking lot. We never made it to the road
Shouldn’t you be trying to find her button?
Gotta get yourself a Sblounskched! Bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbGsidBker8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-SMZQRgZ4&ab_channel=TheTrueSportsJunkie
Great work on meeting your fitness goals there Balls. Do you have a gym membership or a home gym?
Actually, both. I just started my home gym last year because the gyms in LA were closed due to COVID. I do most of my weight workouts at home because it’s way faster than having to wait at the gym for a machine, bench, or station to be free.
I mostly do cardio at the gym because the machines are great and there is no way I could afford anything like the gym has. I can do stairs, rowing, and HIIT workouts on the treadmills.
Best move I made was setting up my home gym years back when we built the place. I have access to a world class gym on post where I work, but time is my big factor. I always do cardio outside, but if the weather sucks I am set up to go. After the first 3-4k of equipment purchases it so pays off for you. But I still hit the gym on post also when it’s convenient, changing it up helps keep things interesting.
Nice job! I completely agree with you. I’m loving my home gym.
I have a great book about exercise that I occasionally read. Very informative.
I watch sports on TV. Winner!
C’mon… I get my girls to venture in from time to time. They really hate me for it too. “just STFU with the ‘pain is just weakness leaving your body'” already!
Blatantly stealing from Robert Rankin, but I want to open a bar called the Beezlepub
From a strictly gustatory point of view, France was the place to be during the Middle Ages.
Not a bad place now!
True! But elsewhere has caught up, lots of tastiness to go around nowadays
Sunday can’t come soon enough. I’m already starting the drinking tonight with MANGO margaritas. So different than normal!
If you love yourself, rim that glass with Tajin instead of salt
That sounds amazeballz!
Found a funny;
Onion rings.
I pick up the onion. “Hello?”
I start crying.
“Bad news?” she asks, as I hang up.
“No, babe. It’s an onion.”
Pretty cool that you got to speak to Maestro’s students!
I really hope he introduced you thusly: “Now Balls will tell you all about making money.”
Shit I forgot to follow up on my offer to do that. Maestro, do you still need more volunteers?
Shit, I never volunteered to do that, because who wants to hear about the fun of Orthodox weddings?
“Yeah, so remember Fiddler on the Roof? It’s a little like that but there’s a partition or two entirely different rooms.”
I presume Rod and Tod are on top of this?
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1487241850431881219?t=jJmCD6oPQt0eapPCoHLfOQ&s=19
I will not attend his funeral, but I will send a note saying I approve of it.
Keep ’em coming!
“I don’t care about some damned piece of bacon sucking on a leafblower.” – Todd, going through his rebellious phase
After spending some time today reading about the Battle of Athens in Tennessee I’m pretty much in a THIS GUY RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY I CALL HIM ICE T kind of mood when it comes to police officers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
“Have you ever heard the expression ‘back the blue’?” – his nurse, describing his condition to the attending doctor
I’ve only recently heard of the expression “suicide by COVID” but I quite like it.
Oh, all right…
Crewmen conduct repairs on the Graf Zeppelin while underway high above the Atlantic Ocean.
Takes a whole lotta stones to do that work.
That gave me a whole body shudder. No, nope, nosirree!
I would totally do that with a safety harness. I get the idea those dudes scoff at safety harnesses though
Surprise package arrived from a friend today. 3 cans of heady topper and a bunch of other great stuff from Alchemist. Warms my ice cold heart.
New White House kitty cat!
&w=916
Meet Willow, my favorite Biden.
I still think Major had the right idea.
I would have given him a list.
Hope no one had any East coast travel plans this weekend, and also hope that our Atlantic contingent is well stocked with milk, bread and toilet paper!
Meanwhile, I’m planning on hiking after my horseback lesson tomorrow since it’s lovey here. I probably will have to make a quick trip to Chicago in the next week for condo ceiling fan reasons though, so that will make me appreciate how amazing CA winters are all over again
Fridge and bar stocked. Don’t need to go anywhere. Gonna sit back and drink until I need to snowblow
But will there be French toast?
In honor of all the DFO East Coasters, I’ll be making French Toast this weekend.
Me too!
Doubtful. Homemade donut holes are in the cards though.
I’m breaking out the fancy cocoa tomorrow!
I do my part, I salute the flag every time I see it, I finish all my beers, so why couldn’t I catch one break and have that bridge in Pittsburgh collapse while SIdney Crosby was on it…
Or, like, ya know, Ben
There you go!
The Beastie Boys song Sabotage was released 28 years ago on this day.
https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE
That video makes me giggle!
“Kind of a crazy coincidence considering eight years before that someone sabotaged the Challenger space shuttle. Almost make you think it wasn’t a coincidence at all.” – Pete Carroll
But was it sabotaged with a steel beam?
It’s been a long and frantic ten days, but today my wife and I, with an assist from a couple of friends and neighbors, finished rehoming the pets that my wife’s friend left behind when she died. And by that I mean I’m simply not telling my Mom that that sheepdog I dropped off last Wednesday is never leaving.
I am emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted, so it’s time to have exactly* one beer and got to bed at a reasonable hour.**
People, if you’re in your 60’s, please do not buy parrots. They can live 50-70 years, and you can’t.
*ish
**stare at the TV until 2 am before wandering off
Tonight’s beer
http://bostonbeerman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sub-refuge-300×225.jpg
You did a good thing. Hope the Mrs. is feeling better.
Kick back and relax in the glow of a miserable job well done and over. Cheers.
You had a no good, horrible, terrible week, but you handled all the business like a fucking hero. I hope hanging with us weirdos when you could made it a little easier for you, and may your friend’s memory be a blessing to you both. You’re my favorite, Horatio. Tell dat!
Atta boy.
It’s the 36th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. This song isn’t about that incident – it’s about the Columbia crash (whose anniversary is in three days, incidentally) – but it’s very good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J8AisTXgAGA
The Netflix doc on that is sad and infuriating at the same time.
I’m not a big fan of biographies and memoires, but Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman is a delight.
That same afternoon, I heard someone ask, “Why doesn’t NASA drink Dr. Pepper?”
I’ve not heard that one before. I have heard the one about how many astronauts can you fit in a Volkwagen.
Seven, but yeah.
(answer is, because they couldn’t get 7-Up…I swear, it was the same day)
Worst hot take regarding the Giants hiring of Daboll? In essence-“DABOLL’S BMI INDEX IS TOO HIGH SO THE PLAYERS WON’T RESPECT HIM!”
*Andy Reid emits muffled chuckling sounds through a mouthful of steak pie*
Give blood! I might actually try to get into candy-striping this year if circumstances permit.
You’ve already got the outfit, don’t you?
Good call, there is a serious blood shortage on
“I’m doing my part!” – scotchnaut, dropping off a few liters of (someone else’s) blood at his local Red Cross
Pete Townshend is with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfggghQENsU
The Canadian women’s curling championships (the Scotties) starts today! That’s right, it’s time for Scotties Hotties!
Live, from the glamorous Fort William Gardens!
I attended a conference at Fort Williams Historical Park in Thunder Bay. It was there that I learned about how the chain “Northern Stores” has a monopoly on supermarkets in fly-in First Nation communities in northern Ontario. I also learned that various provincial governments consult with that monopoly on the issue of food security in those same communities.
I’ve been watching it on the ESPN app. There are 2-3 sets of matches each day, so you’ve got a pretty good chance of catching it at any given time.
/A thing I did wrong today at work
Employee: [excited] “Are you going to greet the Freedom Convoy when it runs through town later today?”
Me: “I stopped waving at big trucks when I was about 8 years-old.”
Sorry we had to route all that freedom up through Canada, it’ll be back down here and out of your way soon.
David Frum wrote a novel during the Obama years in which a bunch of right-wing groups put together an astroturf (fake grassroots) protest of truckers. So I’m finding this news a little off-putting.
I don’t think you did anything wrong.
That’s a funny way to spell “exactly right”, but you Canadiens are always spelling words funny, so maybe it’s courrect, eh?