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The Wall of Shame is back? I thought that guy who used to do the ONTs took it with him, out of spite for being fired!

I haven't just somehow been missing it on Sunday nights, have I? Surely not.

And, yay! I'm not on it.

Companionship the Japanese way.

I have seen the future...

...and it is lonely.

Jim: Some circuit breaders [sic] require you to turn it all the way to the off position before switching it to "on."

Serious Cat: Eureka! That did the trick!! Thankyou, thankyou, thanakyou!!...

Hokey smokes! I wouldn't've even thought to suggest that, presuming that first-thing-you-do would've already been tried. (I wonder how many breakers I've reset over the decades including two in the last month.) Now cat b wiser.

Sherry McEvil: AMC Hornet (Insect, not an animal)...

Well, an insect counts as "animal" versus vegetable or mineral in the first guess in 20 questions.

Me? Lessee...
Two mustangs, yeah.

No cities.

Unless you count Suburbans.

Oh, wait. "Vega" is both a celestial body and at least six different places. (Although Vega Island, Antarctica, probably doesn't count as a city.)

My vehicular history, illustrated:
http://bit.ly/my-cars

Didn't watch the vid. Maybe later when we're in town on the non-data-capped cable connection.

Meanwhile, good morning. (Still is here, anyway.)

Many decades ago, elder brother and I recorded a song, flipped the tape (reel-to-reel, those were the days), and learned to sing it backward, recorded that and flipped it back. Alas, we did it too well and you could hardly tell it was backwards-backwards.

Just thought you needed to know that.

Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! (Looking at panoramic pic) Lurkette swim mom may actually have more books than we do! And shelves just as neatly arrayed! (Well, a great lot of our books aren't on shelves, but the ones that are look like that.)

"...separate 12x16 square foot outbuilding for approximately 5000 books." - I'm green with envy.

That top photo shows one of the big problems with wraparound shelving: the corner. Need special angled unit to tuck in there. I've got corner shelf designs for our place, if I ever get to build them. Any decade now...

(Milady is the reader in our house - I tried to get back in the habit of reading books, but too many folks kept posting comments on this blog I read....)

Too many of my comments in the past ten. I'm obviously culturally inappropriated and politically incorrected.

Good night, all. And remember, "With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies."

"Peace." Out.

We have old metal floodlight fixtures around the ranchero from back in my grandfather's day when this place was for family parties. Woodpeckers love to rattle them. Reeallyy loud.

SMFH: >>Never heard of having one's helmet shrink so bad.
*snicker*

I think I see a reference there that I'm going to ignore because... um... it's so cold right now my helmet's shrunk.

♦

Alberta Oil Peon: Well, my beer is done, and so am I.
Devious Uncle: heads to bed.

LIGHTWEIGHTS! We haven't even reached the Evil Number yet! On a Saturday night! Before Christmas!

(I think I'm due to fold myself, any moment now.)

You know that old kids' toy where there are different shapes like triangles and circles and squares and you can rearrange them to make -- abstract-looking shapes? Never had it, nor did our kids, but, I remember commercials for it.

You know that long-running animated series where the art looks like it was done with that abstract shapes toy? The show has little kids as main characters - I think it's the one with the "they killed Kenny" running gag, although I've never watched the show. And the classic, oft-referenced licking up tears scene.

There's a character on there with a name something like "Cardamom," isn't there?

I was trying to make a joke to Milady as I added some Cardamom to my warm beverage, but couldn't remember any of the above-mentioned elements.

I obviously need more stiffer beverage. Or ten hours' sleep. Or a cultural information upgrade. Or to not try to make stupid jokes at 2 in the morning.

Cartman! That's the name, right? Now, what was the series? and the toy?? Oh, never mind. I quit caring several paragraphs back.

One night in Chicago, I marched home in sub-zero weather, several miles. Fortunately, by that time, I had learned how to dress from head to toe for arctic conditions... and I expect I had a bit of fury to warm me as I went. Never mind why. Those were days.

* squeaks on pitch pipe ♬ *
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Cause we were young and dumber than a post....

* steps out to refill beverage glass unnecessarily *

Willy J: ...people in the bar where we stopped wondered why I sat with my helmet on for 15 minutes before ordering a beer.

That's truly funny. Never heard of having one's helmet shrink so bad. -35° makes tonight's 8° (feels like -5° ) sound positively toasty.

cthulhu: tuckin' it in.
Anna Puma: Good night all.
Blanco Basura: G'night everyone.

I see my timing is as good as usual. Who's left? SMFH, AOP, Devious Uncle, and... er... Puffy Scamper?

Ain't we a crew!

Logged back in and what do I read?

cthulhu #579: Brrrrr....tuckin' it in.

That's generally the best thing to do with it.

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Just got home at last home at last. Don't have to go out again into that single-digit weather with the beastly wind... until tomorrow. I hate these long, bitter winter days. Why, we won't see 50° again until, oh, I think maybe Friday.

Ooooohh-OH!klahoma!

I look back on my 14 years in Chicago, and I laugh, about like when I think about how HCWNBPOTUS!

Next August, the US will be treated a total solar eclipse.

You'll remind us again about that, next August, right?

Well, back from a wonderful Nutcracker performance. Daughter was perfect in multiple rôles.

The best part? We just barely slid into a curb on the way there, at a stupid Euro-style roundabout, and we made it back safely -- despite ice, snow, wind, and 10° (heading down to 5&deg.

I was once again impressed how the Nutcracker is a SJW's worst nightmare. CIS-gendered (did I get that right?) m/f roles, gluten-saturated sugar-coated scenery, and boyoboy what a bunch of stereotyped cultural appropriation! Chinese! Arabian! and Russian!!

Plus, written by some old dead white guy. Who was Russian!

I'll have to read this later
I'm a big S Muldoon backer
But have to go watch Daughter
Dance in the Nutcracker

Wish me luck in traffic
It's wet and streets will freeze
Don't want to have to walk tonight
It's just fourteen degrees

I find I'm clicking less and less on videos (and articles) of Democrats & Co., whether they're being their idiot selves or just being squashed and roasted. Their day is (I pray) passed, and they are decreasingly interesting to me, even as pitiful amusement fodder. And one can only take so much #Winning watching them writhe and seeth over each Trump appointment & tweet!

Enjoyed that Diamond & Silk video. I need to reactivate my subscription to them. During the primaries, I turned off several news feeds and YouTube subscriptions to both #NeverTrump and #HyperTrump sites, for just being too extreme. Anti-Trump sites were foam at the mouth offensive. Some Pro-Trump sites would, for example, bash good folk like Cruz and Levin, etc. Not that they weren't due some criticism, but it was just unnecessarily harsh and too much "Trump can do no wrong." I'm enjoying D&S much more since the election!

BTW, when daughter was moving, she gave us a bag with a few cat toys - including little mice, one with a ribbon "tail" tied on.

Our two guy cats have gone nuts for them. Of course, if one is playing, the other wants that mouse, and they have a stand-off. I get the feeling we could have a dozen of 'em and they'd still fight over one.

washrivergal #58: ...I hope you have hit upon the correct dietary change for Gimli. Sounds very promising.

Y'never know. He might've just got better anyway. But he does seem to like his all-canned no-crunchy food. I know he's getting old and won't always be with us, but I hope he's got many healthy days left. He's family.