Randomization

Everything is awful, or so some people would have you believe. I like to read a general overview of the news each day to just keep a rough idea of what's going on. I don't read too many articles, just mostly headlines or quick summaries, so I know my news knowledge isn't the best, but I have a wide enough variety of right vs. left headlines in my list that I often see the same headline written in opposite ways. I take this as a decent indication that I'm getting the rough idea. I mostly don't read a lot of articles because I don't need to read the same article about Trump doing something illegal, Scott Moe complaining about the federal government or Justin Trudeau banging Katie Perry day after day. I know these things are happening. If it's a cool, interesting story, like the Onion taking control of Info Wars, I'll read it! This brings me back to something I've discussed way more than I should on this blog though: Wanting a change and not knowing how...

What's this? A bonus post? Yup. Since I forgot when I was in Calgary, I'm making it up to y'all. Money is tough these days. America is doing a good job of ruining the world economy and food is getting more expensive. We like to buy some Canadian Rye bread and it is almost 7 bucks a loaf now. I could make bread for cheaper than that. So, I have. The last time I made bread was when I worked at the Weyburn Inn. Brace yourself for this one, Pilot. That was over TWENTY YEARS AGO. Jesus Christ, how time flies. So, I got stuff together a couple weeks ago, got out our existing Pyrex bread pan and bought a new metal one. I started mixing and then realized I didn't have enough flour. No matter. We had almond flour and the recipe says I could use that and just use a little less. No worries. I had already mixed the first bunch of wheat flour in, I'd just finish with the almond. Might taste weird, but I was sure it would be fine. The whole time I mixed, my brain just kept saying...

It was George Carlin. That's who I wanted to blog about after Pilot blogged about Strombo. I had just watched a couple of his stand up routines. One was a VERY old one from probably the 60's or 70's. He looked in his early 30's and was hardly recognizable. It was good stuff. Nothing special, but he had some solid jokes and I found it funny, Then I watched one of his ones from the 90's. Most people have seen clips, but I had never sat down and watched a special. I wasn't very impressed. Someone commented generally on Reddit that if the crowd is just clapping and cheering, then it isn't really comedy. They aren't laughing. And yeah, good point, but who cares? If people are enjoying the show, that's all that matters. I think if I had been at one of his shows in the 90's I would have cheered with everyone else. Nowadays though, it was a little meh. He got uncomfortably close to the line with some of his comments, but didn't cross so I'm OK wi...

So, this must have been posted then. There's no way I could have set the post time back, unless I had a time machine! WEEEEOOOOOOO!!!! Oh no! I killed a fly in my trip back to last Friday and now my parents are mailmen! But, seriously, sorry for missing last Friday. I was hanging out with my sister, Soulfood, in Calgary where we had gone since the daughter and wife were playing roller derby. It was a good time and I stayed away from the track most of it to hang with my sister. Belle ended up breaking her skates on Sunday during the last game and was super gutted. She then won a $250 gift certificate to buy new ones as she was voted tournament MVP. Talk about emotional whiplash. For her anyway. My emotions are an always simmering and uncomfortable feeling similar to love but with more farts. Soulfood and I swung by the Calgary farmers market at one point so she could grab herself lunch and while we were waiting I was looking at the stall across from the food one. It was a dude that ...

My blogger antagonist  made a comment about George Stroumboulopoulos in his last post and I didn't think it was fair that he got to talk about a George and I didn't. So, here I go! Uh. Fuck. Which George was I thinking about? Motherfucker. Typical, can't remember a fucking thing. Sigh. Guess I'll just go down my list and see what else I can talk about. Carrots? No. Ground Turkey? No. Tomat--wait a second. Wrong list. Oooohhh! How about in house science experiments! I'm a pretty curious guy and I like to learn and notice new things. Usually this comes from me reading an article or watching a video, but sometimes we have to notice things ourself. For example, I enjoy a glass of ice tea. It's my replacement for booze and pop. Usually if I want one of those, I just actually need sugar. So, I pull out the giant container and put some scoops of the powder in my water. I use a large, plastic cup and as I stir the tone of the spoon hitting the sides changes as the ice t...

I am the worst note taker around. I take lots of notes in meetings and in general life but I'm sooooo bad at it. I've got a thing for stuff about the wife that is alright after years of edits but in the moment....oooffff. For example, I use the notepad app. The Google and apple one are similar (Google's is a bit better) with options for bullet lists, open typing, etc. I have lists for various parts of my D&D campaign: enemy ideas, story ideas and so on.  In the future encounters I have a bullet that just says yellow blackberries. I know I had an idea there but that just sounds like they need ripening without any additional info.  And I'm the same way with my work notes but with the added benefit of shitty writing. I've gotten better at slowing myself down to write a proper note but if the meeting continues on, I'm fucked.  Or the great times where I write the titles of a game or book Ina blue and have no idea why I wrote the word entity. You have a list for ...

Did I ever mention that I listen to history podcast and watch history videos on the YouTube? A dozen times already? Well, I'm going to talk about it again. I've recently got into a podcast call Behind the Bastards in which the host talks about a historical or present bastard. From Hitler to Lafayette Ron Hubbard to FBI agents that fuck up investigations into the Olympic bombings and the Anthrax scare. Each episode is an hour and they go from one to five episodes for a person so you get to hear a lot about them. Some of them are really bad. One cult leader he made the comment of "Yeah, it's very much Jeffery Epstein stuff but Epstein wasn't nearly as bad." and yeah. It was a rough fucking episode. Some are people doing a job, like the FBI agents, but some people are selling a product. Cult leaders selling peace of mind, Steven Seagal selling a personality, Dr. Oz selling whatever bullshit. The Dr. Oz one caught my ear real good because A) he's actually know...