The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXVII: You're Welcome, Fuckers

[y=mx+b]

Okay. Now things seem to be working

 

[Lazaran]

Garden is done, coop is cleaned. I feel positively decadent browsing Lit and thinking about the flowers I'm going to pick up from the Mennonite store. Mind you, not much to think about considering they only have petunias and alyssum.

Only thing missing is a Bud Light and an Arby’s Gyro…

 

[neci]

there’s a lot of strange out there. i think age is mellowing me out.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

That's good and bad, I guess. If you are interested in weather, it's good. Not so much if you are nervous about it.

Me? I love watching tornados, so I'm in a good location for that. My wife? Absolutely terrified of them, she is in a bad location for that... Needless to say, we don't go out during storms trying to find them. In fact, when we had a bad outbreak of tornados, a month ago, she had tornado nightmares for weeks. Waking up, sobbing, screaming, gasping for air. It really sucked for her. It was like my kids were little again. I even employed some of those techniques you learn as a parent. Bring them a glass of water, make them go to the bathroom, rub their back until they calm down and go back to sleep. All while still sleeping yourself. Listen about the dreams, say mmmhmm a lot, speak in a calming voice...

Wow, went off in an odd direction with this post.. Sorry.

I live in tornado alley and love storms. That said, a few years ago we had 19 tornadoes touch down on Memorial Day weekend. One just a couple streets over. It was terrifying and we were certainly taking cover in our basement. So many in our area have PTSD and it’s storm season again.

saw a Cybertruck on the street.

I saw one earlier this week. They are hideous!

 

[Plasmaball]

I live in tornado alley and love storms. That said, a few years ago we had 19 tornadoes touch down on Memorial Day weekend. One just a couple streets over. It was terrifying and we were certainly taking cover in our basement. So many in our area have PTSD and it’s storm season again.

I saw one earlier this week. They are hideous!

Ugh props to you. I couldn't do it. I can avoid water and hurricanes. Tornadoes are a different thing for me.

 

[y=mx+b]

there’s a lot of strange out there. i think age is mellowing me out.

Same.

It's kinda weird and difficult to describe. On the one hand I kinda miss... that driving edge? On the otherhand it's pretty fucking cool to be all chill about whatever.

 

[TwinkleStars]

Youtube is so fucked up in their suggestions.

I was looking for a scene from Game Of Thrones and Youtube suggested a Bon Jovi documentary in the midst of the GoT videos.

 

[Rainblow]

First time I ever had these was in Siberia about 12 years ago. Fantastic flavor.

I had them at a hotel 7 years ago, found them last year for sale at a farm and couldn't believe my luck finding the plants at the Mennonite store. Went back and bought 3 more plants for a total of 5. I think, perhaps, I was a little over zealous.

 

[Rainblow]

I live in tornado alley and love storms. That said, a few years ago we had 19 tornadoes touch down on Memorial Day weekend. One just a couple streets over. It was terrifying and we were certainly taking cover in our basement. So many in our area have PTSD and it’s storm season again.

I saw one earlier this week. They are hideous!

When I lived in Montreal the schools would instruct us to go into the south west corner of the basement. Never figured out why they were so adamant about the south west corner as opposed to any other corner.

 

[jaF0]

^^^ Storms often travel from southwest to northeast. Most of the debris would be blown with the storm towards the northeast and away from the southwest corner, leaving it relatively safer.

Often, not always.

 

[thør]

I had them at a hotel 7 years ago, found them last year for sale at a farm and couldn't believe my luck finding the plants at the Mennonite store. Went back and bought 3 more plants for a total of 5. I think, perhaps, I was a little over zealous.

Just don't let anyone or thing eat the foliage from them.

 

[Zrosey]

First freight barge of the season showed up a couple of days ago.
Lots of happy folks in this town!

 

[TwinkleStars]

You've never lasted longer than a few minutes so, I don't see how it will ever be 'longer'.

 

[jaF0]

Dull day on the SS Litanicus

 

[thør]

Dull day on the SS Litanicus

Did you fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way?

 

[juttjaw]

I live in tornado alley and love storms. That said, a few years ago we had 19 tornadoes touch down on Memorial Day weekend. One just a couple streets over. It was terrifying and we were certainly taking cover in our basement. So many in our area have PTSD and it’s storm season again.

I remember, as a kid in the early 80s, we had a record breaking outbreak of tornados. In fact, the movie "Twister" is based on that night. We were driving north, from Omaha, to a wedding or something. My uncle had to stop every so often, when the rain and the hail were so bad he couldn't see. I was in the backseat of their Cadillac Fleetwood Broughams and could see dozens of tornados in the fields around us. Every time the lightning flashed, we could see more than we saw the time before. I remember being amazed and terrified all at the same time. I was old enough to know how destructive tornados could be, but young enough to feel safe in that car. For God sake, it was a yacht. My uncle just kept driving, telling my aunt to calm down. I completely trusted him, now that I know how big of a dipshit he really is, I shouldn't of. What did I know?

 

[Plasmaball]

Tried this oil shaving cream. Felt like I was about to go wrestling.

 

[Not Normal]

I really want to scream "YOU KNOW I'M JUST RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK WITH YOU PEOPLE!"

 

[Not Normal]

Nobody in the world fucks with my brain this way. I know I'm just gonna have to deal.

 

[Plasmaball]

Been doing a radiohead catalog marathon as of late.
I'll most likely end with the bends after their last album

 

[juttjaw]

Been doing a radiohead catalog marathon as of late.
I'll most likely end with the bends after their last album

You know, as big of a Radiohead guy as I am, my least favorite album is "the bends". I mean I've studied them in depth, followed them around the Midwest a decade ago. I listened to them so much, they are my daughters childhood sound track. All three of them! I'm just blah on the bends. Not sure why, it's certainly different than "Paranoid Android", but I can hear all their albums in Bends.

I'm inclined to think, that album was their aim at a Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Not in blow for blow style, but in a commercial sense. I have no doubt that they wanted to sell millions and millions of copies of the later stuff, but their process seemed more natural. The Bends was a shot at who they were trying to be. Everything else, is who they are.

 

[spacekowboy]

Life insurance and 4 credit cards dealt with.
Now on to pensions and utilities.

 

[thør]

Now on to

I hope you're doing okay.

 

[spacekowboy]

I hope you're doing okay.

Been better, pahtnah. Been better.

 

[thør]

Been better, pahtnah. Been better.

I get it.