TSCLT 12.0: The pantheon hates a pussy 2.0

[Wat_Tyler]

I'm sorry. I would have thought that it'd be an easier sale, too. Poo!!!


I have 1 helper today, and we tied into the worst unit we have. It was/is a lot of work, but we're almost done. The next one I wandered into isn't all that much better. Oh well . . . .

 

[thør]

Lunchtime alone at the home office, the minions are at the shop and the others are at the shop or out with the little human getting her new clothes, that growth spurt I suspected has come to pass and I'm glad I bought her winter clothes two sizes too big.

I mentioned Maui over breakfast, as a whimpy Canadian I love the idea of warm weather, the other two were discussing glaciers, polar bears and pulling up more tours. This may take a bit more work than I thought.

So, just fly into Churchill or Baker Lake in the winter. Likely your closest polar bears.

But Maui has Flatbread's pizza and pineapple Dutch babies. And, you can swim in warm water with the sea turtles.

 

[Inflation999]

Thor you're going to save me!!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The kids have been. Wat has not.


Home. Got another chunk knocked out. This is a pain. Annoying shiteating little details. I reckon that it could be worser.


Grub to be determined.

 

[thør]

Thor you're going to save me!!

At the swap meet market by the college, I remember the BEST macaroons.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Monday. Slept okay and up too early. Football team gave it away, thumb looks like it may be trying to infect, and there's a pile of stuff to do yet.


Good thing there's a pot of coffee to drink first.


Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

~ Frank William Leahy

 

[JohnnySavage]

Cold here on Savage Mountain this morning.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

A bit nippy here, too. A bit. The sun is out, so there's that.


We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

~ Harold Kushner

 

[kinked_a_bit]

Just wanted to leave a note and say thank you for the best thread on this whole damn site. Every single day it’s worth a look and it isn’t drowning in stupidity.

 

[kucked2x]

One never knows if the light is a train in the tunnel until you see the portal.

Metallica said it’s a freight train headed your way.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Just wanted to leave a note and say thank you for the best thread on this whole damn site. Every single day it’s worth a look and it isn’t drowning in stupidity.

Today has been quite a day. Everything feels like running in wet concrete uphill. I have said "fuck" more times to more people - including my boss - than maybe I have since I've been here.


And then I get this compliment. We get this compliment. All of us. It's just us, people doing people stuff and trying to get along in some manner that makes some kind of sense. I'm eating my lunch to get over the hangry, and now I'm kinda choked up a bit. Thank you times 'leventy-eleven.


Ever so often, it's fun to wander to the PB and toss a hand grenade into the punch bowl . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Home. Allah fucking damn, it's been one Hell of a long day. This weatherseal thing is a colossal clusterfuck, a "boondoggle of epic proportion." No matter, it's ass will get kicked. What I wonder is, how did I Quit Boy get his passed little as he went into units? Yet he was 8/8 on his first turn. His buildings must have sucked less than mine.


Yeah, I know . . . .


Warmed some chicken for supper. It always seems to require Something Extra.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Maybe some dessert is in order . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Tuesday!!! I had to stop and think what day is is there for a couple of seconds. Slept well enough if not long enough. Coffee is on and a bit of online research has begun so we can solve a dumb job problem. One thing after another. Sometimes, it gets a bit intense.


Pulled out my cashmere sweater last night, and Allah damn it how the moths have had a feast. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

"I think that there is a very close connection between humility and patience. Humility involves having the capacity to take a more confrontational stance, having the capacity to retaliate if you wish, yet deliberately deciding not to do so. That is what I would call genuine humility. I think that true tolerance or patience has a component or element of self-discipline and restraint - the realization that you could have acted otherwise, you could have adopted a more aggressive approach, but decided not to do so."

~ The 14th Dalai Lama


Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

~ Samuel Johnson

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The landlady has found two wayward pasture poodles in need of living quarters and care and such. Free to a good home. Delivery is the issue. Maybe it's the saving grace, too. I guess their next stop is the knacker otherwise.


I have a plan to get out of our quandary. Solving shit and having shit become apparent is the benefit of having a brain that always runs . . . .

 

[JohnnySavage]

Big day here at Savage Worldwide Enterprises, Inc.

A truck load of junk is heading to the dump.

It's the little things in life that matter.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That's so she'll have more room to fill with her crap. It's amazing how The New Wench will declare your shit as expendable.


KIdding. I love tossing crap. It's amazing how that shit multiplies as it sits there year after year.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This is the True Joy in Life​

By: George Bernard Shaw​

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw



At your age I looked for hardship, danger, horror, and death, that I might feel the life in me more intensely. I did not let the fear of death govern my life; and my reward was, I had my life. You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life; and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live…

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy…

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is no "brief candle" for me.

It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

 

[thør]

Still no plow on the street. And last evening, it only took an hour to clear the driveway of Monday's white shit. Might get a couple inches tomorrow. I noticed that we made national news with our failure to get the fucking roads plowed. Blah-Blah

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Got the first rounds of city trade inspections out of the way, successfully. Two more sets (at least) are for tomorrow.


It may not be the beginning of the end, but I think that it is the end of the beginning.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Home. Nuked some casserole. No, not the weasel variety. No danger of running out of weasels.


My plumbing crew seems to be the ones who lack Job Ownership. People who own their trade/job/task are the ones who analyze what they have to do, plan it out, and attack. They push the thing over the finish line. They make it happen. My water butchers are supposed to get the inspection and they didn't turn on all the water, none of the gas, and have no hot water. Needless to say, when we turned on the gas, we found a leak, and some of the water heaters (gas tankless) aren't working. No one owns their work, and it shows.


So I called my boss to lean on him. That's all we can do from here.


My HVAC guy owns his shit. I have a problem with inline draft dampers. I need 14 of them. He found them from across the state. I need 2 this week. Store said they had 3. They told Wat that they had 33. Wat now has 15. He owns his shit, so Wat will help out here and there. If I knew a better plumber, I'd lobby for a change.

 

[thør]

The street got plowed this afternoon. Just in time for the next snowfall!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Don't forget to bring the good experiences of meditation into your daily activities. Instead of acting and reacting impulsively and following your thoughts and feelings here and there, watch your mind carefully, be aware, and try to deal skillfully with problems as they arise. If you can do this each day, your meditation will have been successful.

-Kathleen McDonald


One of my friends told me about a powerful lesson in her daughter's high school class recently. They're learning about the Salem Witch Trials, and their teacher told them they were going to play a game.
"I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade."
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought gave off even a hint of guilt.
"Okay," the teacher said. "You've got your groups. Time to find out which ones fail. All witches, please raise your hands."
No one raised a hand.
The kids were confused and told the teacher he'd messed up the game. "Did I? Was anyone in Salem an actual witch? Or did everyone just believe what they'd been told?"
And that is how you teach kids how easy it is to divide a community.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Anyway, Happy Wednesday!!! We have another busy one on tap today, and Wat woke up at 2 and never really went back to sleep, but we did have a nice visit with the menagerie and stayed quiet until nearly 4. Coffee is on, food is out, I reckon we'll do a few eggs for front-end eating, and the house is warm enough.


I wonder what the plumber has in mind for today. I know what Wat has in mind for him . . . .