Milcom Miasma

Old computer nerd who used to break computers for a living.
Retired and moved to a small town in a big state with no people.
Wondering what's next.
My pronouns are he/him but should probably be "Hey Stupid" and "Did you really do that?"
I love #books, especially #bannedbooks
Banner picture: Bighorn mountains, Northern Wyoming
Avatar picture: Oscar, the most judgy of cats

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2024-09-26 17:24:31

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@npub100c…832h
Mrs Miasma and I have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on refrigerator cheese storage.

2024-08-28 06:51:00

My oldest sister doesn't understand why I don't visit my father.
It's true what they say, the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Seems obvious but it you don't forge a relationship with your kid when they're young, they won't feel any reason to make you a part of their life when they're an adult.
Just sayin'
#OpportunitiesLost
#Relationships

2024-08-26 15:19:35

Honesty in lawn care.
Guy who sprays our lawn: "Sorry I woke you up."
Me: "I was awake. This is how I look all the time."
[awkward silence.]
Me: "Okay I'll go back inside now."
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#NorthernWyomingGrassWars

2024-08-24 18:12:26

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@npub1f0v…zya6
Me too! Oliver Reed as Vulcan makes me smile every time.

2024-08-19 19:54:29

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@npub18lj…80hq
I think the problem might be with his perception of where he stands on the whole oppressor/oppressed dynamic.
Maybe Darth Spray-tan has control of his mind.

2024-08-18 21:45:54

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@npub17p8…sw24
I really walked into that one, didn't I? 😆

2024-08-15 16:55:04

Help from the other side.
Not that Roger Stone has ever been in a good place mentally but it seems like lately he's gotten so unstable that his inner dialogue is escaping via his vocal chords.
'Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone calls Dem VP pick Tim Walz a “f*ggot” - Moments later the Trump whisperer added, "Name-calling is a mistake and it won't work."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/trump-campaign-advisor-roger-stone-calls-dem-vp-pick-tim-walz-a-fggot/
#AwfulPeople
#Politics

2024-08-15 01:41:42

Find your baseline.
Mrs. Miasma: "Is this outfit too fancy for the grocery store?"
Me: "You realize you're asking the person who's daily uniform is sweat-pants and a mostly clean white t-shirt, right?"
#OverDressed
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

2024-08-11 20:13:22

Two-thirds right anyway.
How I tell you I'm going senile without telling you I'm going senile.
My peanut-butter and jelly sandwich.
Now I understand why Mrs. Miasma has been keeping an eye on me in the kitchen.
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#PeanutButterNoJelly
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2024-08-08 17:37:21

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@npub100c…832h
Well, to be fair - they are slippery people.
"You'd best believe this thing is real."
https://youtu.be/-gXMOTx1778?si=wyJOmg1BexcdMxJ4

2024-08-05 17:45:13

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@npub100c…832h
It seems like it was very efficient of them to make anyone accused of witchcraft also the town's lighthouse keeper for the length of their sentence. It really resembles a dunking cage.

2024-08-05 16:41:31

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@npub100c…832h
"We here at [Company of Choice] think it's important that you have a healthy balance between work and your personal life."
It took me awhile to get the punch-line of that joke.

2024-08-05 16:22:36

Today doesn't suck.
After two years of retirement, I'm finally starting to see signs that I'm recovering from the burnout I suffered during my last five years of working.
Crazy what we're willing to trade for a paycheck, eh?
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#Burnout

2024-08-01 19:18:04

The $200 Shrug
For those of you in the medical profession I have nothing but respect for what you do. You're the best of us.
But you should know when we screw up our courage to come see you with a problem, getting the $200 shrug when the tests come back negative just makes us feel embarrassed and foolish for wasting your time.
Then we take the symptoms back home to wait until they either go away or become more acute.
Not sure what the answer for that is.
#PatientDynamic
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

2024-07-30 17:44:03

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@npub100c…832h
All of the beauty but for almost none of the budget!
Yankee ingenuity - that's us!

2024-07-30 17:26:15

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@npub100c…832h
Honestly - it sat as a naked concrete structure for several years before they gave up and glued the cosmetic outer brick slabs onto it and pronounced it finished.

2024-07-29 16:20:17

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@npub100c…832h
Clearly they've done their research. 😆
Google just sucks these days, doesn't it?

2024-07-27 02:57:26

Grill-fried veggies.
We bought this grilling basket before the Summer and frankly we've used it every time we've grilled this Summer. It's a great way to make a medley of should-eats to go along with the wanna-eats.
#Grilling
#SummerFood
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2024-07-25 23:40:37

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@npub100c…832h
Asexual reproduction could solve a lot of the worlds current problems (and create a host of new, really bad ones.)

2024-07-25 23:37:44

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@npub100c…832h
The shameful truth is that the Hansens sold her to the Borg for a hold-full of Tribbles and a broken Infandibulator.

2024-07-25 20:03:12

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@npub100c…832h
I don't think so... You just have to be your authentic self. I always try to look like I've dislocated my hip. It's kinda my signature move.

2024-07-25 20:00:29

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@npub100c…832h
I've always wanted to be transcendent!

2024-07-25 19:54:54

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@npub100c…832h
Dancing to 80's music hasn't aged well, has it?

2024-07-24 15:10:12

Your food weird tastes.
Me: "Why are you only putting peanut butter on half your English muffin?"
Mrs Miasma: "I have to save room for the prunes."
Me: "I have to not be here with you in the kitchen anymore now."
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#YourWeirdTastesInFood

2024-07-22 15:47:34

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@npub100c…832h
When you're floating them $45 million per month in seed capital, you want your Double Diamond Platinum Grifter status NOW!

2024-07-18 20:35:56

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@npub100c…832h
Sorry, I was in the loo. What'd I miss?

2024-07-09 15:48:46

Off the rails again.
Talking with my ultra-conservative sister on the phone yesterday about my father when she just *had* to slip the following into the conversation:
"Several studies have come out linking the COVID vaccine to problems with pregnancy"
🤦‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ ... and the conversation was going so well up to that point.
What the hell is it with these people?
It's like she wants to make sure I don't think she's crazy by showing me the crazy nonsense she believes.
#COVID

2024-06-28 18:44:00

Who controls the present (stupidly).
My buddy works for a company where this morning they were told instead of telling each other "Have a great day," they're now supposed to say "Dominate the Day" instead.
Really.
To a bunch of adults at a workplace this was said.
They've even made T-shirts.
Orwell's 1984 Newspeak from the stupid. 🙄
#CorporateLife
#JobsSuck

2024-06-26 14:12:41

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@npub1fpr…lyph
I love that you call him The Dude! I hope The Dude Abides. Sadly we lost Oscar a couple of years ago but he was the greatest in his time and we miss him every day.

2024-06-26 13:31:09

Quarantine Day #2 at the Miasma Plague House.
Mrs Miasma is resting as comfortably as possible for someone who's nose won't stop running.
The mother of Mrs. Miasma (MMM) showed positive on her COVID test yesterday too so now I am surrounded; Because that's how life works sometimes.
No one made any comments or gave me side-eye about my wearing a mask at the grocery store yesterday which is too bad because I was just in the mood for it.
#CovidIsNotOver
#OldButFeisty

2024-06-22 20:08:03

Oh. So THAT'S what bluegrass harmonies are supposed to sound like.
Darlingside - Go Back
"So we hold to who we are
Even into the arc
Beyond our furthest edges
To a world full of strange and towering skies
And a chance to choose in time
To set out on our own way"
https://youtu.be/8xZ3zSJlLno?si=MHd9OEkb_KC-Gw6l
#Music
#Bluegrass

2024-06-15 15:42:28

#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Counting down from 20, this is number 17:
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2024-06-14 16:29:40

I'm thinking about Chief Justice Roberts and his lack of action or response to the recent scandals surrounding justices Alito and Thomas.
Usually, strong leaders use those type of events to show their strength of character and conviction. To call out what needs calling. To say "we don't do these things here."
By refusing to criticize their actions and poor judgment, he's abrogating a critical responsibility of his post.
A weak leader can kill a self-regulating branch of government.
#SCOTUS

2024-06-07 20:17:33

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@npub1y7x…jrl4
I think that's a KKK patch just below his left hand. They really are comfortable with saying the quiet part out loud nowadays, aren't they?

2024-06-07 16:00:30

Almost like he knew what was coming.
"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character."
-- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
#Quotes
#Books

2024-06-01 03:18:49

Well, it's official. I'm old. I fell asleep tonight watching Dune II - Maud'Dib Calls a Sand-Uber.
I'm thinking either this episode was less eventful than the first OR somebody intentionally made it into an ASMR vehicle. I'm looking at YOU - Hans Zimmer.
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#SciFi

2024-05-31 14:05:21

Orange displeasure.
I looked up who would hear the appeal of DJT's recent criminal conviction and it turns out that life *does* have a sense of humor.
The Appellate Division, First Judicial Department - The Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Presiding Justice
#JusticeIsServed
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2024-05-15 00:25:16

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At least it lets you keep your dignity. 😂

2024-05-15 00:04:02

#OfficeSpaceAwful
#BigHelmetOfDoom
Most of my career I was lucky enough to work in an office with real walls and a door. There were a couple times where I had to work in a cubicle farm (lame, felt like incarceration on the honor system) or god forbid, an open concept office (free-range distractions and interruptions).
I'm glad I retired before someone in my management chain discovered this beauty:
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2024-04-01 16:21:35

Ether Impotence.
Congratulations Tennessee. The stupid is strong with your legislature.
If there were an afterlife, Art Bell would be laughing his ass off at you right now. <sigh>
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations
An attack of the vapours: Tennessee bill endorses chemtrails conspiracy theory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/31/chemtrails-tennessee-bill-conspiracy-theory
#Stupidity

2024-03-13 18:58:16

"Alternative Livestock"
Who knew that just five and half hours up I-90 lived the Dr. Frankenstein of the animal kingdom. 😱
Maybe too much isolation isn't good for our species...
Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/montana-man-pleads-guilty-creating-003000858.html
#WTF
#GeneticIdiocy

2024-03-05 22:49:30

Motto.
My ancestors were never significant enough to have a coat of arms or a family motto but with all my recent trips to the hardware store I've googled up something to pass down to absolutely no one in my family.
"Reversurus ero, aliquid iterum oblitus sum."
*translation - "I'll be right back. I forgot something again."
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#HardwareStoreIsHome
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2024-03-05 20:36:55

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😆 😆 😆
Well at least I hope his rash clears up.

2024-02-28 03:03:49

I'm old enough to remember when surge pricing was called by it's other name - price gouging.
Good luck Wendy's - I hope you go broke soon. 👋
Wendy's CEO announces surge pricing for menu. Here's what you can expect.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/02/27/wendys-menu-surge-pricing/72761277007/
#FastFoodScam

2024-02-23 00:13:48

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@npub14dw…qwrc @npub1t8v…k9sj
People here in the States are often surprised when I mention that. We should be better at teaching our history.

2024-01-08 18:08:49

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@npub100c…832h
Certainly fits with so many post-2020 circumstances I'd say. To be fair, I think you could've started using it politically back in 2016.

2024-01-08 01:02:07

Red lines and rodeo clowns.
Shit. I've written before about how COVID vaccines/boosters kicked my ass every time I got one. It felt like I was assaulted by rodeo clowns every time I got one.
Well the real rodeo clowns showed up last night and the ass-kicking was both real and energetic.
Please get your vaccines and boosters and stay on top of it - I don't even want to imagine just how bad this would be if I hadn't, and wear a mask. It's important.
#CovidIsNotOver
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
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2024-01-04 23:05:34

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@npub17cc…nwac
Normally, I'm not sure it would be a good idea for me to understand the lyrics to most black metal songs.

2024-01-04 22:52:14

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@npub17cc…nwac
Not a genre of music I'm familiar with but I could learn to like it given it's message.

2024-01-02 17:10:42

Well shit, that didn't take long. 🙁
Armed man breaks into Denver building housing Colorado Supreme Court
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/armed-man-breaks-into-denver-building-housing-colorado-supreme-court/ar-AA1mmtj1
#ArmingTheStupid

2024-01-02 00:10:34

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@npub17cc…nwac
Speaking only for myself, I fled and sought refuge in the library. The 80's weren't a great time for us and entertainment.

2024-01-01 16:50:23

Technicalities.
I would like to point out that the Häagen-Dazs strawberry ice cream that used to be in our freezer was consumed *before* midnight and therefore NOT subject to any of my New Year's resolutions.
Also, there wasn't that much left in the container and I'd like an exemption waiver for the cinnamon roll I'm about to eat.
#NewYear
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

2023-12-30 19:19:33

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@npub17cc…nwac
I wasn't sure about the re-make but I'm glad to hear you liked it. I think I'll have to watch it based on your recommendation.

2023-12-29 17:52:20

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@npub17cc…nwac
Since it doesn't require a criminal conviction, it sounds like the top election official for each state makes the initial decision and then of course it will go to the U.S. Supreme Court who will have the final say. So yes, sadly - I guess it will come down to the Supreme Court justices and most likely to the three justices Trump was allowed to appoint. Still I have some hope as judges don't always vote in the ways their appointers would wish. 🤷‍♂️

2023-12-29 17:22:39

Things learned.
"14A§3 was ratified in 1868. In 1862, Congress had passed the first version of 18USC2383,which prohibited engaging in insurrection against the U.S. If it intended a conviction under its recently-enacted criminal insurrection law was needed for disqualification,it wd've so stated."
-- Elizabeth de la Vega (Former Federal Prosecutor)
So know I now. 🤔 👍
But it leaves me with the question - Who decides if a party has engaged in insurrection?

2023-12-28 16:05:44

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@npub17cc…nwac
After some initial trouble processing the premise of the new show, I have to say that I'd watch. 👍

2023-12-28 16:02:51

Ground floor is the best floor.
I'm kind of wondering why anybody in Russia agrees to live/work/visit on any floor above the ground floor. It's just not healthy.
Putin Ally Found Dead After Falling From Third-Floor Window: Reports
https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-egorov-putin-ally-found-dead-window-1856059
"It is the latest in a series of mysterious deaths involving prominent Russian figures since President Vladimir Putin's forces invaded Ukraine last February."
🙄 🤔 🙄
"mysterious" to whom, exactly?
#WindowDanger
#AutocratSelectors

2023-12-26 16:40:37

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@npub1kcr…kgxq
Sorry to hear it. I'm hoping for some kind of peace accord.

2023-12-26 16:35:30

Systemic reluctance.
After sixty-two years of reasonable co-operation, my body has entered that phase where it's experimenting with acts of subtle sabotage. I'm not looking forward to the time when it realizes it can get away outright rebellion.
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#ExpiredWarranty

2023-12-26 16:23:36

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@npub17cc…nwac
Robert Smith is more subtle than I realized. He looks like he has Santa on a starvation diet.

2023-12-26 16:19:45

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@npub17cc…nwac
I was always concerned that Robert Smith was actually holding Santa hostage in this picture.

2023-12-26 16:11:08

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@npub17cc…nwac
Old Edgar Allan Poe just isn't the author most people choose to read over the holidays (unless you're feeling a bit Goth.)

2023-12-22 17:30:06

Dietary supplements.
Low-fat milk on high fibre cereal tastes pretty good when you add sliced banana and M&M's.
I could learn to love healthy eating.
#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#NotThatHealthy

2023-12-22 06:35:27

Redux?
I just watched Rebel Moon
Part 1: A Child of Fire on Netflix. Creative worlds, sets and aliens but one thought kept coming back to me as the story progressed.
This is "The Seven Samurai"/"Magnificent Seven" re-told in a SciFi framework.
Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://youtu.be/fhr3MzT6exg?si=JRWMuwlu1RZrI4v3
#SciFi

2023-12-21 17:49:59

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@npub17cc…nwac
I'd sure like to hope so. But our history suggests it's otherwise sometimes. 🙁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots

2023-12-21 17:32:26

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@npub17cc…nwac
The U.S. doesn't have a great track record regarding conscription. It's been an effective tool for the rich and powerful people to keep the underclass under thumb.
The sons and daughters of the rich and policymakers here don't fight in the wars they start. 🙁
As for the MAGA middle-class boomers, a significant number fought in Vietnam and Iraq and still they remain loyal to the demented orange cult. 🤷‍♂️

2023-12-21 16:37:18

Derisive snort.
I can't watch one more boomer in a MAGA hat telling a journalist "We're taking *our* country back!"
It was never just *your* country. A lot of people from many places worked to make better futures here. A lot of them weren't allowed a choice or the benefit of their efforts.
How about you sit down, shut up, share your toys and play nice in the sandbox for awhile?
#FFS

2023-12-20 15:48:39

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@npub17cc…nwac
My guess is that their algorithms have somehow figured out they don't like you so they're hoping to annoy you off of their platform.
I keep getting offered videos about the Kardashians and miracle diabetes cures.
So their strategy is kind of working.

2023-12-20 15:39:56

Journal entries.
Dear Dairy,
It's Wednesday, which means it's grocery-shopping day.
Excitement levels have peaked since retirement.
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

2023-12-20 00:59:50

I should temper my feelings on Colorado's ruling regarding Trump on the primary ballot.
I'm enjoying watching Trump's base losing their effing minds but I'm under no illusions. I imagine some MAGA fanboy in Texas is going to get Biden removed from the ballot in Texas and then the red state/blue state fight is on.
It seems like this is all going to end up at the US Supreme Court (quickly) and I have a pretty good idea how six out of the nine are going to feel about it. 😧
#USpolitics

2023-12-20 00:41:15

Honestly, I'm having the best time watching the MAGA ass-hats losing their minds over the decision right now. 🍿 😎
Colorado Supreme Court kicks Trump off the state's 2024 primary ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/colorado-supreme-court-kicks-trump-states-2024-ballot-violating-us-con-rcna130484
#USPolitics

2023-12-19 20:19:55

Virtual lost and found.
Finally got a multi-monitor configuration with virtual desktops set up on my home computer.
Now I keep losing track of which screen/desktop I opened a damn app in.
Technology kicking my ass, yet again. (I just know there's a Jitterbug phone in my future. 😧)
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

2023-12-19 19:19:38

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@npub17cc…nwac
I hope so. It's certainly entitled. Picking on a planet(oid) because of it's size. That's just mean-spirited bullying right there.

2023-12-19 00:08:17

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@npub17cc…nwac
Heh. We really make a mess of the pronunciation for that word. Everybody here seems to say it the same way - "eye-key-ah".
Now I feel shame. 🙂

2023-12-14 19:42:51

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@npub17cc…nwac
You're giving this far more in-depth consideration than I have.
Maybe "intended use" should be our guideline here. 🤔
I'm confident that what happened to the manatee statue was not consistent with it's intended use.
(There. I feel morally aligned again.)

2023-12-14 19:33:39

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@npub17cc…nwac
I don't think it can give consent so my answer would be - yes?

2023-12-14 19:29:34

Contagions.
I didn't realize you could catch a case of "Florida Man"
Evidence suggests (well, this story anyway) that we should wash our hands, mask up and practice social distancing while visiting Florida.
And by "social distancing" I mean come no closer than Georgia.
'Drunk' tourist Anthony Lessa sexually molests a manatee statue outside a Florida restaurant when staff told him to leave after he threw FRIED alligator pieces inside eatery
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12862299/Anthony-Lessa-Bar-drunk-statue-molest-alligator.html
#FloridaMan

2023-12-13 16:10:08

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@npub17cc…nwac
Sounds like you've had the tour or at least read the travel brochure...

2023-12-13 16:06:00

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@npub17cc…nwac
I imagine that would be how perdition situations start out. Just to give you that extra jab of pain an suffering once you realize how it's going to go for eternity.

2023-12-13 15:57:47

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@npub17cc…nwac
Oh thank god. I was afraid she heard "Stayin Alive" by the BeeGees.
I always pretty sure that song would be on the soundtrack for the underworld.

2023-10-27 23:17:47

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@npub1pv5…zq0l
Yikes! I'm glad it missed the tendon. I broke a glass at dinner this week when my phone slipped out of my hand and hit it. Nobody cut or hurt but it made a mess of the dinner table. Crazy the accidents that are just waiting to bite you, isn't it?

2023-10-24 18:46:08

It's 48 degrees , there's a 5 mph wind and it's been raining intermittently all morning.
I look out my window and see at least three parties of golfers hustling around the course.
Give it up people, you're going to need skates in another hour.
#Golfing
#OldPeopleofMastodon

2023-10-23 22:36:28

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@npub13us…qafs
Oh no... I hope you find a way to preserve at least some of those recipes.

2023-10-23 15:30:13

Some people show you love in the quietest of ways.
My wife is baking us banana-nut bread using my mom's recipe. I watched her prepare the ingredients from a picture of the original recipe card on her phone.
"How come you don't just transcribe the recipe into your recipe app?" I asked her.
"I like reading it in her handwriting" she said.
And now I'm in my study quietly sniffling into my coffee...
#OldPeopleofMastodon
#Baking

2023-10-22 15:38:24

I'm noticing a trend.
I know I'm not always the most observant about these things but at what point in our friendships did we transition from talking about our hobbies and passions to our organ health and upcoming medical tests?
#OldPeopleofMastodon

2023-10-22 03:27:05

They say that our memories are tied to our sense of smell. What's a smell that sends you to your favorite memories?
I have two.
First one is ice rinks. The ice has a distinctive smell and with a single inhale I'm suddenly back to being a twelve year old playing hockey with my friends. I wish they could bottle that smell.
The other one is second hand book stores. Immediately I'm mentally transported to my favorite chair, a pile of books and my favorite coffee.
#SmellMemories

2023-10-04 10:53:02

Moving two time zones to the right does NOT agree with my normal sleep pattern. Either that or I'm allergic to Notre Dame university (we're staying at a boutique hotel across the street from the campus.)
#Travel
#OldPeopleofMastodon

2023-10-01 02:15:20

These silly things are street legal here. We see them zipping around on the roads in town *all* the time. Mrs. Miasma had the best comment about the situation:
"It's like we're living in a wildlife preserve, but for Republicans."
#Republicans
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2023-09-22 17:51:58

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@npub1pju…lprg
I do the exact same thing for the exact same reason. There needs to be a guerilla craftsman movement and underground network started.

2023-09-21 05:06:12

I've been out of the loop for a couple of days. What'd Elon do now?
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