09:43 – Barbara is at the gym. When she returns, we’ll be doing more science kit stuff. Barbara labeled 200 sterile 15 mL centrifuge tubes yesterday for the BC03 bacteria culture we sell as an option to biology kits. I need to reculture that this week, make a phosphate-buffered saline suspension from that culture, sterilize our filling equipment, and fill those 200 tubes.
I’ve also been looking at water issues this week. Our hot water is at 48C, which is a bit cool. The standard is now 50C rather than the former 60C, which was hot enough to produce third-degree burns on adults with about 5 seconds’ exposure. One issue with the lower temperature is that the bacteria that produce Legionnaires’ disease thrive at 50C, so the federal government recommends 50C for everyone other than households with an immuno-compromised resident, for which they still recommend 60C. Oh, yeah. Our well pressure tank is a 32-gallon unit, which is smaller than I’d prefer but larger than I expected. Which reminds me that I need to call and bump the electrician, who was supposed to be installing a cutover switch for our generator.
President OdooshBag budgets $17,613 for each illegal minor. When he and Cankles take away my pension, at least I’ll know who gets it. Vote buying at it’s best.
Ditto my SS payments, already chopped by 16% for a very long-ago Fed student loan.
Off to yet another IT drone interview shortly; due diligence for a 3-6-month gig.
Good luck there, OFD.
Thanks; debrief to follow later, lol.
Throw a banana peel under the interview chick and fill in for her while she recovers from a broken leg.
Assassinate your way to the top!
I approve this (miniscule) enhancement of MrAtoz’s message!
Heh, the Ofukstik agenda. Way to go MSM.
It was only in paragraphs 29 and 30 that the Post acknowledged what they clearly felt was the least relevant news detail in this court case: The convicted murder is an illegal alien:
Hmmm. While she was cleaning up the area at the side of our yard where the last owners dumped sand, rock, and other construction materials, Barbara found a 5-gallon gas can. I told her to hold onto it, because even an old can with surface rust was better than the new ones with their EPA-mandated changes.
So, I went to pick it up and it felt full. Turns out, it was, or nearly so. My first inclination was to get rid of the gas, which may have been sitting there for anything up to 10 years. But I decided to hold onto it. I wouldn’t try to burn it in an engine, but it’ll work fine for emergency back-lighting. Put a pint or so in a small container, ideally glass like a Mason jar, add an ounce or so of concentrated sulfuric acid and cap the container. Wrap the jar in paper that’s been soaked in a saturated solution of potassium chlorate and then dried, and close the entire package in a plastic bag. Put the jar at the perimeter with several firewood logs stacked around it and the side toward the house open. One round into the jar causes an immediate conflagration that is hot enough and lasts long enough to get the firewood burning well.
Will still work well as a cleaner/degreaser and a weed killer……
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Will still work well as a cleaner/degreaser and a weed killer……
Shhhhh! The EPA is watching …
“Assassinate your way to the top!”
Like they used to do in Byzantium, eh? Just about done with that book after the previous two on the Normans and Sea Wolves. Byzantium was not, until fairly recently, a major area of study for academic medievalists. You’d have to know even more languages than the usual, for one thing, and the subject is just so vast.
“…One round into the jar causes an immediate conflagration…”
Ladies and gentlemen, The Most Dangerous Man in Amerika…lol.
Had a decent half-hour interview with the “IT Director” at the electric company, and learned a few interesting things, if nothing else. She’s from an open-sauce background, worked previously at a web hosting outfit, and clearly would like to get off the M$ and VMware proprietary bandwagons and licenses and fees, etc. They have RH 5.3 servers running their grid, evidently, and I could help with that, plus an AS400 box running all their financials, which they need to migrate the eff off of pretty soon. Understaffed, and they wanna crank up some kinda mutual data center operation with the city of Burlap, which has an IT department, according to her, of two people (city of 50k). Her group lost three people who’d been there for years, and she’s a bit overwhelmed and only been there eight months herself. One thing she discovered is that some previous dipstick had set up the Winblows servers with 30GB drives and she was constantly running outta space, lol.
Obviously she just wants to get some help on board, and is limited to a 3-6-month deal because of the city…wait for it…UNION. So whatever; if I can get in there and help out, pad my resume, make a few bucks this summer, it’s all good. Right around the corner from my vets group meetings and med appointments, too. Plus a Catholic bookstore, Lake Champlain Chocolates, and a bagel joint.
We’ll see if they call me back for a second interview with the “team.”
And couldn’t put $ in Princess account today ’cause the IRS whacked us for their monthly nut, per usual. So we’re in the hole again, but HEY, wife’s check came in, too, so Princess will have to wait till it clears on Wednesday for any mo cash. She’ll throw a fit, natch, but tough shitsky, hon; them’s the breaks. Be mo responsible wid yo money, lol.
@OFD, congrats on the good interview. If you get the temp job, can you stop your SS? Or, how long can you work until your SS stops since you have a job? Or am I remember wrong that employment while on SS takes away your SS dollars before age 65?
30 GB hard drives on servers? How old are these servers? Wait, the drives are partitioned to the Nth degree, lucky them.
Tell Princess that ramen noodles are cheap. I used to buy them for a dime each in college. Many, many years ago.
Thanks, Mr. Lynn; we’ll see if they want me back again. Yeah, I’d have to notify SS about the job and they’d probably stop my payments for the duration, whatever. They helped us over a couple of potential rough spots a couple of months ago, but the regular work income would be a nice boost for us this summer, between car repairs, house stuff, and maybe going out to dinner once or twice instead of the ramen noodles.
“Tell Princess that ramen noodles are cheap.”
Oh no, she has to get the expensive organic stuff at the co-op.
“30 GB hard drives on servers? How old are these servers? Wait, the drives are partitioned to the Nth degree, lucky them.”
I dunno; I’m guessing Windows 2003 or 2008 Servers, at best. No idea on how they have them partitioned, if at all, but I get the impression she fixed that particular issue since she’s been there, of necessity.
And their RHEL servers are only at 5.3, which was the oldest version back at my IBM gig three years ago, and IBM was moving to 6.0 when they dumped us. I have RHEL 7 here on a vm and a desktop; the woman down at that gig wants to go the CentOS route, however, which is also fine with me.
@OFD, congrats on the good interview.
Ditto. Hope you get the gig.
Thanks, Mr. medium wave; we shall see. Maybe not even a second interview, once they get a glimpse of an ancient Visigoth who’s married to open-sauce.
Hey, gotta be careful what we say, ya know; chit we said fifty years ago, or chit we say here today and coming out fifty years from now:
http://takimag.com/article/down_on_the_duke_jim_goad/print#axzz47RcE4kxd
I guess ol’ John Wayne was pretty badly non-PC.
Yeah, I’d have to notify SS about the job and they’d probably stop my payments for the duration
Nope, don’t have to notify SS unless you are getting disability from SS. All your income will do is affect is how much of your SS is taxable. SS will be paid regardless of your income. The taxing is taken care of when you file your taxes.
“Will I Get Penalized for Working While Collecting Social Security Retirement?”
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/will-i-get-penalized-working-while-collecting-social-security-retirement.html
“Until you reach full retirement age, Social Security will subtract money from your retirement check if you exceed a certain amount of earned income for the year. For the year 2016, this limit on earned income is $15,720 ($1,310 per month). The amount goes up each year. If you are collecting Social Security retirement benefits before full retirement age, your benefits are reduced by $1 for every $2 you earn over the limit. Once you reach full retirement age, there is no limit on the amount of money you may earn and still receive your full Social Security retirement benefit.”
“Example”
“Henry is considering claiming early retirement benefits this year, at age 64. Social Security calculates that if he does so, he’ll receive $866 a month (which is about 13% less than if he waited until his full retirement age of 66). But Henry also intends to continue working part-time, with an income that will be about $5,000 over the yearly limit on earned income. If he does claim the early benefits and makes that part-time income each month, Henry would lose one dollar out of two from the $5,000 he earns over the limit, which means $2,500 for the year. So, by claiming early retirement and continuing to earn over the limit, Henry incurs a double penalty: His retirement benefits are permanently reduced by 13%, and he loses an additional amount every month (until he reaches full retirement age) to the extent he earns over the income limit.”
Yeah, I figure I’ll take a good whack this summer for the three to six months I might work at this job, assuming I get it, which is a yoooooooge assumption. And any income I get from my side capers likewise. The Feds, states and localities will become increasingly desperate for money and will stop at nothing to squeeze it out of any of us producing it, and all we gotta do is look at Greece, Cyprus, and the Euros to see what’s coming our way.
As has been remarked here before, and recently, it’s a huge redistribution scheme; they’ll take it from us and give it to the swarms of underclass already here and the hordes still arriving hourly. Again, look to the Euros and their current version of ‘the Camp of the Saints.’ We’ll have ours before long, on a much larger scale, no doubt.
Here’s some suggestions about home defense firearms in the “boonies.”
http://preparedgunowners.com/?p=1251
He doesn’t mention shotguns at all, and I’d recommend 20-gauge for inside and 12-gauge for outside.
He’s big on the short-barrels for pistol-rifle guns, as though he was discussing URBAN defense use in crowded ‘hoods instead of the boonies and rural. I’d like these for working out of vehicles, however. Or simply put a folding stock on an AR or AK. I like to have mostly fairly common ammo.
I dig the idea of the lever-actions in pistol calibers, esp. if you have the relevant pistols, and the Ruger 10-22, if for no other reason, using the latter to develop rifle marksmanship skillz. And most of all, though, if you live in a commie-dominated state or city where they’ve effectively shit-canned 2A and you don’t wanna stick out with “black guns.”
My thing is handguns for first-use inside the house and vehicles in order to get to the shotgun or rifle next, unless you’re in a position and circumstances to be able to use those first.
Good luck on the call back, Mr. OFD.
The fucking SS rules are as complicated as the IRS. No matter what you do, it will probably be wrong. And, since you are already on the IRS hit list, the SS will probably have a joint confab on how to punish you, you despicable WHITEY!, Vet, cishetero, Bible banging longhaired hippy conservative proto-ape!
Trump 2016!
Trump 2016!
Dude, if you keep on saying this, I might start to believe that you really mean it.
Of course, your other choices are Lying Ted, Crooked Hillary, and Crazy Bernie. Wait, I forgot about Honest John Kasich.
“Say Goodbye to Your Mind”
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/143691049446/say-goodbye-to-your-mind
“I told you last year that Trump’s rise would change more than your opinion of politics. Trump’s successful use of persuasion will rewrite your entire understanding of reality. While you’re watching the trees, the entire forest is transforming. We’re right in the middle of the greatest awakening in the history of humankind.”
“We can make this world as good as we want it. We just don’t know it yet.”
“We’re almost there.”
Adams is losing it.
“Good luck on the call back, Mr. OFD.”
Thankee kindly, MrAtoz; can’t hurt to have good wishes (and prayers, if applicable).
“…you despicable WHITEY!, Vet, cishetero, Bible banging longhaired hippy conservative proto-ape!”
Douay-Rheims Bible-banging. (although I am very fond of the 1611 Authorised KJV and the 1559 BCP). Major cishetero bastid. Lousy pissed-off ancient vet with a grudge, bitterly clinging to my gunz and religion. Long hair: check. Hippie? Nope. Conservative? Yeah, GENUINE. Like the Rockford Institute. Like Patrick Buchanan. Like Ann Barnhardt. And Chronicles Magazine. Proto-ape sounds about right. I like bananas. And waving the AK around on full-auto in a crowd of other apes and proto-apes.
“Adams is losing it.”
He might be, along the same lines as that wacky Glenn Beck character losing it over Calgary Ted; they get way too wrapped up in political celebs and bullshit artists. And I’ve seen that “visualization” thing chatted up many moons ago; where all you gotta do is simply VISUALIZE who you wanna be, where you wanna be, what you wanna be doing, etc., and it will eventually just HAPPEN. You can think yourself into your own REALITY!
Ain’t that what libtards and necon asswipes do already? And progs and SJWs? Create their own realities and screech at dissenters?
Will I Get Penalized for Working While Collecting Social Security Retirement?
Until you reach full retirement age
I thought OFD had reached full SS age.
“I thought OFD had reached full SS age.”
I’m 62, YOUNGER than RBT!
I’m 62, YOUNGER than RBT!
Yeh, well, I may be senile, but I am not deaf, so stop SHOUTING you young pup.
Somehow I thought you were a year older than me and thus at the 66 boundary. Once the magical point has been reached SS is not reduced by earnings.
I thought full retirement age for this purpose was 70.
“In 6 Months Since Budget Deal: Debt Up More Than $1 Trillion”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/6-months-budget-deal-debt-more-1-trillion
We are so screwed. It is just about time for the interest rates to zoom up.
70 is when you can get the maximum SS, it increases about 8% every year you delay. I can get SS without penalty at 66.5 but I am planning on waiting until 70. I can apply and defer payments which is basically the same.
Only advantage to applying and deferring would be to get my wife to draw against my earnings. However, that little loophole goes away this year and the spouse can only draw against the other spouse when the primary spouse is also receiving benefits.
Full retirement age is a sliding scale between 65 and 67. “Full retirement age (also called “normal retirement age”) had been 65 for many years. However, beginning with people born in 1938 or later, that age gradually increases until it reaches 67 for people born after 1959.”
https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/ageincrease.html
I am in the tail of this as I was born in 1960. I will be 56 next month. So my full retirement age is 67.
@OFD, @DadCooks adds his best wishes and prayers for your upcoming new gig (see I’m being a real optimist).
WRT full retirement age: It is a moving target controlled by gooberment drones who only exist to screw us old white male vets. There is always a special case that applies just to us.
Trump 2016, he’s no Republicrat, he is the real anointed one.
I’ll add something to Lying Ted’s title: Lying Ted The False Prophet and Child Beater
And finally, Glenn Beck can starve to death for all I care.
Have I racked up my required micro-aggression points for today?
“@OFD, @DadCooks adds his best wishes and prayers…”
Can’t hurt. Thankee kindly!
“It is a moving target controlled by gooberment drones who only exist to screw us old white male vets. There is always a special case that applies just to us.”
Indeed. +1,000!
“Have I racked up my required micro-aggression points for today?”
Outstanding! Hater.
Somebody singin’ “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On?”
http://freedomoutpost.com/foreshock-a-significant-earthquake-just-hit-the-new-madrid-fault-seismic-zone/
RBT better get on the stick or actual events will outrun his book idea. Boy, imagine if this fault blew up? Fifteen Fukishimas??? Yikes. Whole central US would look like Chernobyl wouldn’t it?
I am in the tail of this as I was born in 1960. I will be 56 next month. So my full retirement age is 67
I can get full SS at 66.5 as I was born earlier. I figure my son would be eligible when he gets to be about 80.
My biggest risk is will I live to be 70 to extract the funds that are due me. Friend was two months older than me, had not applied, and died this last December. Some say draw as soon as you can, financial advisers say wait as long as possible. It is a crap shoot. I also run the risk of the government changing the rules by the time I reach 70 which is actually probably a bigger risk than dying.
Eh? I just looked ar the SS website and it says full retirement age is 66 for people born between 1943 and 1954. It’s 66.5 for those born in 1957. I thought you were older than I am.
A 3.5 is not significant. If a huge quake hits the NMSZ we’re looking at the worst US disaster ever. It may well cut the country in two, and the eastern US can’t feed itself. Things would get very grim very fast.
The system probably isn’t specifically set up with that purpose, but that old test comes out again: what would be different if it were?
Can anyone play? How about Lying Ted The False Prophet, Child Beater, and Livestock Molester?
And Gibbons, he of Decline and Fall fame, derided the Byzantines as sneaky corruptors of the crusades and barely a footnote to the real Roman empire. Odd blind spot, considering that the end of the Byzantium wasn’t much more before Gibbons’s time than he was before ours, and the Byzantines had been essential in maintaining the works of Aristotle and the other Golden Age Greeks who formed such an important part of the “enlightened” education of Gibbons’s time.
re your job prospects, best wishes, OFD. It sounds like no mishaps are needed to smooth the way, but let me know if any would help.
“…I just looked ar the SS website and it says full retirement age is 66 for people…”
That was my own understanding of the printed materials they sent me in the mail. I signed up this past January because we needed that income and like Mr. Ray says, it’s a goddamned crapshoot anyway. Also like he says, the bastards will undoubtedly change the rules and make up chit as they go along anyway. Some estimates are that they either don’t know the full extent of their liability or they are lying about it, and the fund will be completely kaput by 2031, when RBT and I will be 78, if we’re still above the grass, that is.
“I thought you were older than I am.”
Unless Mr. Ray is lying, too, he’s 65, and more than two years older than us, the old fart.
“If a huge quake hits the NMSZ we’re looking at the worst US disaster ever. It may well cut the country in two, and the eastern US can’t feed itself. Things would get very grim very fast.”
Like 6 or 7 or 8. Buy-bye Eastern Megalopolis. What about if all them reactors also fall apart? We MIGHT be OK for a while with all this farmland up here but gee whiz, something like that, me and the missus might light out for the fah northeast territory, too, like Newfoundland and Labrador. Get used to lotsa fish and spuds.
Eh?
You are correct. I was looking at my wife’s information, she being born in 1955.
Unless Mr. Ray is lying, too, he’s 65
Indeed that is correct. I have no reason to lie about my age except to that cute thing in the bar.
Unless you’re lying about that assertion! Unless you can demonstrate the truthfulness of an infinite series of assertions about your truthfulness, I’m afraid your truthfulness will have to remain a quantum state. (Note the buzzword compliance there. I was going to say “indeterminate”, but then I realized this comment was utterly lacking in smart-sounding buzzwords. Oh, the horror!)
“And Gibbons, he of Decline and Fall fame, derided the Byzantines as sneaky corruptors of the crusades and barely a footnote to the real Roman empire.”
I had a grad-level course on the 18th-C guys, too; Gibbon (note: no “s” on his name) gets way more good press than he deserves, and part of the reason for that may be that he not only dissed the Byzantines, but also Christians in general, which is cool to do since Rousseau, Marx, Darwin and Freud, followed by Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
And as you mention, without the Byzantines, we’d have lost a lot more of the classics than we did already, thanks to several sacks and burnings of the Library at Alexandria, the destruction by the musloid hordes, and the depredations of the Sea Wolves.
“It sounds like no mishaps are needed to smooth the way, but let me know if any would help.”
Roger that; the female director who interviewed me seemed like a regular citizen and has bonafide sys admin and open sauce creds. Three big pluses as fah as I’m concerned, but maybe I’ll be wrong AGAIN.
“I have no reason to lie about my age except to that cute thing in the bar.”
I should try that, just for laffs. I look ten to twenty years younger than I am and have no gray hair on my head. But there’s that pesky cop vibe still; can’t seem to ditch it.
I blame George W Chimpymcbushhitler for any perception of error.
I also look younger than I am*, but have very little hair on my head – it’s pretty well receded and I just buzz what’s left. My beard comes in with some grey, but only where the scars are, which I guess makes sense.
* Much younger than my wife, who is younger than I. This annoys her no end.
“…for any perception of error.”
It is more than a “perception,” buddy. It is, in fact, an ERROR. But yeah, probably due to the Twelve Years of Reagan-Bush. From whence cometh all evil in the world. And of course a lotta “right-wing” types blame all the evil on poor little Barry Soetero.
“Much younger than my wife, who is younger than I. This annoys her no end.”
LOL, ditto up here. Wife is annoyed that I have no gray hairs on my head (I’ve got plenty in the facial hair but have trimmed that back considerably now). She has red hair and uses some kinda coloring for the gray hairs that crop up. I also have red hair, but it’s darker, dark auburn or chestnut, as my grandparents called it. Chatain, as the froggies name it. Siblings don’t have any gray, either, and nobody’s bald yet.
Looks like I’ll be boning up on SDN and OpenFlow network chit and also OpenStack running on CentOS, maybe, prior to any second interview and thereafter, if I’m hired for that gig. Good chit to know anyway. The “city” down there has IT peeps looking at open-sauce network stuff, you know, freebie chit for the “community.” But that works for us right-wing gun nuts, too.
And right now I’m installing PC-BSD in a vm, just to check it out; may put it on yet another laptop, alongside OpenBSD and GhostBSD. Maybe later this year or next, OpenVMS on an x86 machine. Anything But Winblows. (or Apple). I’m gonna look into virtualization on the new BSD machines and maybe try to run Whonix and the Tor bundle on them.
Just had my 50th anniversary of my birth (almost typed that ‘girth’) and I’m starting to get questions from cashiers like ” Um, you don’t qualify for the senior discount do you?”
I’ve had some grey since I was 18 and had the beginning of a skunk stripe. For a long time I just called it blond highlights. Pretty undeniably grey now though… (which I almost wrote as ‘thow’ in a subconscious nod to you anglos….)
nick
Oh my, just an infant here!
“you anglos?”
Aintchoo?
Who’s watching you as you do your Happy Motoring?
http://ericpetersautos.com/2016/05/02/tax-mile-end-privacy/
Oh my! I feel positively ancient now. I’ll be 72 later this year. You guys, or at least some you, also make me feel like a dwarf. In my prime I almost made it to 5′ 8″ and I weighed in at about 125 pounds. Alas I’m now closer to 5′ 6″ and weigh about 50% more.
I’m told I don’t look my age. I want to put a sign on the mirror warning that objects may be older than the appear.
@Rolf
“Oh my! I feel positively ancient now.”
No, no, no, no. You are a trailblazer. You are an achiever! The rest of us may not it even make it that far.
Unless you’re lying about that assertion!
You’re right. Everything I say is false including this statement.
“you anglos?”
Aintchoo?
Not a drop— Well, that’s an exaggeration. There may be a few drops mixed in. But mostly Eastern European/Baltic for half, mixed bag including amerind for the rest but as far as I know, no angles, no saxons……
Funny how the socialist left works hard at dividing, and categorizing. For them you can’t just be Hispanic, , you must be chicano or latino, or any of a dozen flavors. And at the same time, the little fukcing racists call anyone who appears white “Anglo”.
nick
(upon further reflection, and a visit to wiki-pedia, there might be a bit more than a drop or two. The only thing I can be reasonably sure my hillbilly ancestors DIDN’T have was Irish and French.)
Huh. Hillbillies tend to have major Scots-Irish ancestry.
“…mostly Eastern European/Baltic for half…”
Infamously right-wing types and bitter-enders over there in eastern Europe and the Baltic states….
“…Hillbillies tend to have major Scots-Irish ancestry.”
And Protestant, usually Presbyterian.
“Hillbillies tend to have major Scots-Irish ancestry.”
And they make good whiskey and white lightning.
It would be interesting to see an age distribution of the folks who participate in this journal. I postulate we tend to the upper end (you can put in whatever “upper end” you want).
WRT lying about age, I’ve never had to do it. My first job was at a liquor store and the manager allowed us to buy booze for mom and dad (yeah right, wink wink). Then when I was a sweet tender 18 I dated a 27-year old for a couple of years. When we went out I was never carded, she was. So I figure that they thought I must be at least 21 or if not damn lucky.
“Then when I was a sweet tender 18 I dated a 27-year old for a couple of years.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUsWiIN-LfE
The 80s were great, weren’t they? Or is it the 50s I’m thinking of…?
In the late 60s your humble northern correspondent was just 15 in that halcyon year of ’68 and I would throw on a leather jacket (borrowed from “Bill Swill,” a jarhead ‘Nam vet with a couple of screws loose), slick my long hair back, put on some shades, and with a butt hanging out of my mouth, hit any liquor store along Route 9 in eastern MA, the “Boston-Worcester Turnpike” and buy whatever I wanted, when the age for booze was 21. Nary a problem.
That doesn’t make any sense at all. You get alcohol from yeast eating sugars. Human beings, even hillbillies, are mostly protein and fat, not enough carbohydrates to make alcohol.
nick wrote:
‘Just had my 50th anniversary of my birth (almost typed that ‘girth’) and I’m starting to get questions from cashiers like ” Um, you don’t qualify for the senior discount do you?”
I’ve had some grey since I was 18 and had the beginning of a skunk stripe. For a long time I just called it blond highlights. Pretty undeniably grey now though… (which I almost wrote as ‘thow’ in a subconscious nod to you anglos….)’
heh. I must look pretty young. When I was in the northern Virginia suburbs of DC, aged 45, I was asked for proof of age when buying wine.
I started going grey at 20, my brother started going bald at 20. I know which I’d rather have. I still have a fair bit of hair, but nothing like the mop I had in my teens.
Ain’t the engrish language great 😉
“Human beings, even hillbillies, are mostly protein and fat, not enough carbohydrates to make alcohol.”
Willful micro-aggression on several levels, with malice aforethought. Oh wait–it’s perfectly OK to trash rural white Appalachian southerners now, go for it!
“I was asked for proof of age when buying wine…”
Ah, they just make a big show of that b.s. once in a while, means nothing. Supervisor watching, store policy, insurance stuff, or local LE types spying on them. They do that for friggin’ OTC cough syrup now, too.
If you come down to our neck of the woods, smile when you say that. We aren’t that far from Copperhead Road.
Huh. Hillbillies tend to have major Scots-Irish ancestry.
Hey, I resemble that! I am definitely European mutt from the 1800s.
The wife is 1/4 Cherokee and English descent.
“We aren’t that far from Copperhead Road.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
Yup, two tours of duty in you-know-where…etc. Ol’ Steve got old since this song, though.
http://www.steveearle.com/
“…I resemble that! I am definitely European mutt from the 1800s.”
Northwest Euro mutt from medieval times; 3/4 English, which of course means Angle, Saxon, Jute, Norman French, Norse, Pict, and Briton. Almost a quarter Irish. And the rest is Algonqian, Wampanoag bands from southeastern MA and the Islands. I reckon the Anglo-Saxon-Celt is the dominant strain, however. Mrs. OFD is 100% Irish and looks like the stereotypical Irish colleen, long red hair and blue eyes.
Off to the VA down in Burlap tomorrow for the continuing back pain/sciatica issue, three weeks is long enough for not being able to function on my feet for longer than ten minutes. They told me to do three hits of Ibuprofen three times a day meanwhile. Kalifornia East Bay bug is just about gone; if I can get functional again, I have a chit-load of chit to do in the yard and house that’s behind schedule.
And Friday the plan so fah is to visit Princess in Moh-ree-all and I guess drop off her cah, spend the day, grab a bunch of Italian and French food at the big market near where she lives. The Italian market there (Little Italy) is to die for; meats and cheeses like you wouldn’t believe; and we drag Princess with us to rattle away in Italian, of course, with the women. Last time I was in there with Princess and they were giving me the big fish-eye like I was robbing the cradle with Lolita or something. She told them I’m the evil stepdad, of course. So even more of the fish-eye.
Fairly pure Viking-American here. Primarily Scots, with some English and Dutch.
Speaking of ancestry and all that fun stuff:
http://takimag.com/article/americas_thinning_cohesion_james_miller/print#axzz47RcE4kxd
Mrs. OFD and I wanna send for one of them DNA kits and find out stuff; anyone here done that?
There’s no need for me to do one of those DNA tests, as I already know what the result would be: 100% pure awesome.
Huh. I just went over and looked at Earle’s Wikipedia entry. Heroin addict, been married seven times (!) and is currently separated, thinks Hillary is too far right politically. Not the kind of guy I’d spend any time with.
“… as I already know what the result would be: 100% pure awesome.”
Well of course. But do the womyn in your life think so, too???
“Heroin addict, been married seven times (!) and is currently separated, thinks Hillary is too far right politically. Not the kind of guy I’d spend any time with.”
Heroin addict–quit cold-turkey in 1975. Married twice and still married to the second wife; no plans to split; we in fo da long haul. I think Cankles is a disgusting parasite and war criminal and would joyfully watch her shot by a firing squad, slowly. No one in the presidential “campaign” is anywhere near far enough right for me, and I’m to the right of Pat Buchanan.
I wouldn’t spend much time with any contemporary music celebs, except maybe David Allen Coe and Beth Hart. They should do a concert together; I’ll sell the tickets. Beth can be pretty effin coarse but she’s probably too hoity-toity classy for the likes of Mr. Coe. Check out Beth doing “Whole Lotta Love” with The Edge not that long ago.
Other than them for boffo laffs, I like to listen to and watch organists doing English, German and French stuff, mostly Baroque, and I wish I’d gotten to meet Merle Haggard. (only rock stars I’ve met personally were Eddie Money, the original E-Street Band, and David Johansen (Buster Poindexter). Wife has meet Keef and says he’s a real nice guy.
Mrs. OFD and I wanna send for one of them DNA kits and find out stuff; anyone here done that?
I did the 123 and Me several years ago. I’m a WHITEY! Euro-German Caucasoidal Hetero.
“I’m a WHITEY! Euro-German Caucasoidal Hetero.”
Oh man. You should report to the execution plaza immediately. We can’t have any more like you here. Don’t you just HATE yourself?
What’s the “123”? And how does it show you’re a cis-hetero?
As a test I am tempted to send in a swab of one of my cats and see what comes back.
Oops. That’s “23 and Me” the google backed dna site. You spit in a tube and get your profile. You have to pay $5/month for extra stuff and updates. They successfully predicted several things based on my dna.
The extra “1” was because I’m *number 1* (homage to Mr. SteveF).
“You have to pay $5/month for extra stuff and updates.”
What, in perpetuity???
“As a test I am tempted to send in a swab of one of my cats and see what comes back.”
Descended from this entity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet#/media/File:Bastet.svg
More info on the Murkan peeps it’s A-OK to shit on and hold in contempt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iwAY4KlIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOyYQ0Wm_I
$5 only if you want updates. They add new dna profile stuff as discovered.
1/4 Cornish, 1/4 Irish and 1/2 English.
“1/4 Cornish”
Oooooo….wow. Know any of the language?
“$5 only if you want updates. They add new dna profile stuff as discovered.”
Noted, thanks.
Yep, it’s definitely those Scots-Irish ya gotta beware of: Confrontation shows how quickly conflicts in New Orleans can turn deadly
The only word I can think of off hand is Kernow = Cornwall.
I’d like to learn, looked at ordering a teach yourself type book once. Perhaps I should try again.
The Cornish were good followers of King Charles I, and later John Wesley (may peace and blessings be upon him.)
@RBT, I would buy new but here you go, “Top Tips for Buying a Used Pickup”:
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2016/04/top-tips-for-buying-a-used-pickup.html
I’ve got a 2005 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 2WD with 168K miles that I bought brand new for $33K. She has the 5.4L V8 that I love (13 mpg city, 18 mpg road). She is on her fifth set of tires (the first Continentals were crap and has been Michelins since). She is on her third set of brakes (I drive her like I stole her according to the wife). She is on her 3rd set of spark plugs and all of her ignition coils have been replaced at least once. The factory camper top is awesome because it does not leak. I got the towing package because it has a five row radiator instead a three row, a transmission oil cooler, and a locking rear axle.
I wish she had vinyl flooring instead of carpet. The carpet is stained everywhere including the rear deck. And the carpet on the driver’s side has a big hole in it. I do love the leather seats though.
I would have preferred the 4WD but the wife has told me repeatedly that I don’t need it. She’s just afraid I’ll drive off into a bog somewhere as I have gotten it stuck in the mud 2 or 3 times now.
I’d love to have the locking axle, but the 4wd is not even a question for me. Lake Effect snow is a joke to anyone that doesn’t live in it. And for those of us that do, it’s just another day in paradise.
I want the wife to have an Expy or Excursion.
The vinyl flooring on my F350 is NICE! Youngest had a sour tummy yesterday & got it on the seats & floor. Easy to clean up – took 3 minutes. I couldn’t ask for any better.
I still miss my CJ, which had a bare metal floor with drain holes.
“…I would buy new but here you go…”
Not me. If only for the snooping and tracking the computer chips do on us now, with persons unknown doing the snooping and spying and tracking. Fuck that. Unlike some, I’m not gonna pretend I can live with it and make it any easier for the bastards, whether it’s vehicles or Winblows 10. Used pickup will be just fine for me, when I can gin up the dough for one, hopefully this year.
“… Lake Effect snow is a joke to anyone that doesn’t live in it. And for those of us that do, it’s just another day in paradise.”
Haha, indeed. We often have zero right here in the village while five miles up the road toward Swanton it is blinding and coming in sideways and hard. Or vice-versa.