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Rimbo

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  1. Rimbo

    Getting old sucks

    100% this. I ignored the "You're due for your shingles vaccine!" alert on MyChart... got actual shingles. Fuck that shit. In other news, my mid-life crisis (two-thirds-life crisis?), that I thought I'd more or less put to bed, turns out to have just been in hiding, waiting to pounce. And it pounced hard. It's my own fault, really, but I'm not in a good place mentally right now.
  2. All the best suggestions have been taken, so I humbly submit this.
  3. I like games where Tuve gets 2 HR on 7 pitches I like winning I like beating the Rangers but most of all, I like a good meme https://www.threads.net/@thirtyballparks/post/C5vcmqjrLyc/?xmt=AQGzE6fE3k4WZ6LonWfd5bcsJncImwYy9eNIfL42n-QKoQ
  4. I am. It's been cold and rainy all year so far. The joys of climate change!
  5. are you kidding? I'm her accomplice
  6. My wife pretty much feels this way. Although her timeline is more like "never." Me, I'm fine with it. I know how the filter works. The chlorine levels have been high enough over the past week to kill anything; even beyond that, DE filters everything down to about 3-5 µm. So a virus might survive, but e.g. amoebae are gone. Just dumped in 10 lbs of Na2CO3 to get the pH back up closer to 7 after all the chlorine tabs that've been in there. Only thing wrong with the water now... is it's just too damn cold. Like 68 degrees.
  7. I almost hate to say it, but I need to use less butter in the sauce next time. And maybe not bother adding broth and reducing. If I can get the green peppercorns, and do that fancy trick like Chef Rick did at the Amarillo Club where he burns off the sherry's alcohol, it might be perfect just like that.
  8. I don't normally do sauce. This was special.
  9. All right, my friends. Pull up a chair, grab a beer, and let me tell you the tale. The tale of the Great Algae War of 2024. I shared already the state of the pool from last month. Here it is again: ca. March 19th. Now, this is no ordinary mess. To give you some idea, not only was the pool completely full of algae -- we're talking long strands from the surface to the floor, here, but I scooped up a goddamned pinworm off the surface. Yeah, you know those fucking intestinal parasites? Yeah. One of those. It was dead. No idea where it came from. March 28th. I'm just about to go on vacation. One more glimpse. Ew. I dumped 10 pounds of shock in there and got the pump going. Also skimmed as much as I could off the surface. Went on vacation, came back home. April 2nd. Back home. OK, that's an improvement. We're sorta bluish green instead of deep forest green. Dumped 10 more pounds of shock in. Tuesday. OK, now the color is correct, but you can't see deeper than the second step. I've used up about 12 chlorine tabs, too. But now it's clean enough that I can start running the vacuum; there's no huge deposits floating on the surface, and the green is gone. Pardon the mess. We're having work done on our house and our yard is being used to store shit that was in what used to be our garage. Yesterday. Here's the deep end of the pool. By this point I've disassembled and cleaned out the filter completely three times. You can see the bottom of the deep end, but it's still murky. And finally: Today. You can read the labeling on the Poolvergnugen all the way down at the bottom of the pool. All that's left is -- I'm going to dissassemble the filter one last time, dump in about five pounds of Sodium Carbonate (all that chlorine got my pH down to about 6.5), then put the Solar Blanket over it so it can start warming up. Now the solar blanket ain't clean, so I'll need to keep my eye on chlorine levels more or less daily over the next week. But other than that, we're done here!
  10. checking in to say: we probably shouldn't be bragging about this but here I am
  11. NY Steak in Peppercorn Sauce. I can make this myself now; no need to go to fancy restaurants. i might have made more sauce than i need but idgaf
  12. Both links are dead. Can't find it now. Sad eh? works for me
  13. https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-trump-s-face-lies-to-you-without-saying-a-word-208838213527 Direct MSNBC link with a real video player
  14. oh, you! with your silly "evidence" and "facts" and this nonsense about "reality!" you're such a joker...
  15. i think you meant this
  16. That's because those cults' organizations didn't extend beyond the leader. THIS cult already has multiple organizations co-opted behind it. The power and influence networks to make this a full fledged religion are already there, in place, ready to take the reins and demand tribute in His Unholy Name in his absence. Churches, the GOP, media organizations, extremely wealthy patrons... IT'S ALREADY THERE. Complete with many individuals hungry for power, any one (or more) of whom can fill in the power void and use the name of Trump to get the flock in line. I'm not talking about something that will happen; it already has. insert Ozymandias from the Watchmen quote here
  17. I never said anything against him being a lock for the nomination. I was counting on it.
  18. Look, that season we had with 90 losses a dozen years or so ago was fun. It was fun because you could see Keuchel and Springer building up the team (and Correa in the minors) and you KNEW we were on the way out of a hole. The road back down is no fun. And it's not just bad luck. It's that we know that of the talent we have now can't do it, we're gonna have to rebuild. Owner's chat about "window never closing as long as I own the team" sounds more like a guy who is unaware of reality than a guy who's showing determination. We've lost a lot of the pieces that got us here, the farm is empty, and while we have some great players, they're either well past their prime and gonna spend half the season injured, or they're younger guys we ought to look into trading to get the farm rebuilt again so they don't end up wasting their best years on a shit team (see also: The Angels). Don't tell me I'm not a good fan because I'm aware of reality.
  19. I think y'all who are talking about MAGA dying with Trump are missing what will keep it alive. It's not a political movement; it's a religion. Think of it that way.
  20. D&D players get this. He put ALL them points into Charisma, with a few saved for CON. The rest were dump stats. Oh, they've been doing that for decades, since long before Trump. If there were a point in time where the Religious Right was ever following Jesus, it was long before my lifetime.
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