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dropbox or google drive or whatever. shove the pics in, share the folder. Tell hm your inbred Texas buddy can do.

On one of the routes Lucy and I take on our walk, we pass a house that displays international flags with a little sign saying where it is from. He changes them out once a week or so and Lucy and I enjoy seeing all the flags of the world. He was out in his yard today when we walked past. I took the opportunity to let him know how much I enjoy his flags. Apparently vexillophiles are an enthusiastic bunch because my friendly little comment opened a can of worms. He started telling all about the flag he had displayed today (Bavaria). Apparently Bavaria has two flags that are of equal stature. One has horizontal strips and the other has a diamond pattern. It is fairly common to see the diamond patterned flag with a coat of arm on it which is illegal but the law isn't enforced. I thanked him for all the incredibly useful information and was ready to move on with our walk. I made the mistake though of saying that I thought the Easter Island flag he displayed a couple weeks ago was pretty cool. Did you know the Easter Island flag is quite rare? It displays some necklace plate that was worn by the inhabitants. The bright red is a symbol of power. He continued by I quit paying attention. I just smiled politely as he continued on about the Easter Island flag. When he was done, I thanked him for his time and his flags and Lucy and I finished our walk. The end.

Nah, They made it here. I am very thankful that I packed them.

If the budget will allow, let’s have warm apple cider and roast marshmallows over a fire.

Shit Show... What this term reminds me of is our company Christmas party 2 years ago. Unbeknownst to me one of our Facilities guys was dating a receptionist, they had just broken up and the Facilities guy brought a smoking hot date to the party. Receptionist Ex ends up getting shit faced on the free booze and I was out on the patio with my wife when the other receptionist takes now drunken receptionist outside for some air. We’re standing behind a couch and shit faced receptionist falls over the back of the couch on her back legs spread eagle and uh yeah no parties under that short skirt... Other receptionist rolls her eyes, says what a shit show and leaves... My wife & I helped her up and called her a Uber... Poor girl couldn’t look at me for months.. Funny she’s now our department admin and at some point will be sitting right outside my office.

At our closing WoBG met with our lawyer and our real estate agent first. We signed a LOT papers. Then the buyer arrived, and WoBG speaks up... "Show me the money!". OMG you could have heard a pin drop. Our lawyer, real estate agent and I just looked at her with WTF written all over our faces. After the closing I tell her, you can say that AFTER they sign all the paper work.

And the Parody Meter says................... 8.93 And that is with a solid 8 Birthday Bonus Points.

I just started photography last year. Blown away by this picture from my parents backyard. In the iPhone pic, you can’t even see that there is a street sign just to the left of the house. With my real camera ($425) you can read the road sign. We estimate that the lake is 1/3 of a mile wide.

Done pies

He is a good person. A leader with his Troop. We should do these more often. Ralph gets an honorable mention for awesomeness.

Polenta grits with parmesean, over easy egg on top with some mushrooms, and steamed veggies. This just screams Fall to me. I love this dinner. Notice I didn't say supper? Who says that? Weirdoes.

It plays my music off my phone. If I get a phone call it cuts the music and I can answer with the mower running. I hang up and the music starts back up. Without the headphones I wouldn’t even be able to hear the phone. I just got a call from our aide.

Something great about being a low person on the totem pole, when I leave...I leave. I do not return messages, texts or anything about work if I am not on the clock. Bliss. They leave me alone.

We all love Jsharr

Your right as the birthday boy, but just wearing your birthday suit might be more appropriate today!

I read that is what I would imagine Hip's dominatrix voice would be.

The "no knock" warrants were banned several months ago here in Louisville as a direct result of this case.

Phones have replaced point and shoot pocket cameras but you still can't beat the optics of a full size camera.

My experience in 7 real estate transactions, money is transferred at the time of closing. Not before and not after. Cash or check goes from one hand to the other. Checks clear in less than 24 hours and cash deposited is usually not available until next day. And no one really means cash. It's either a check from them or a check form someone else. So what is the difference? The only advantage of cash in a real estate transaction is no credit approval is needed. Everyone I know of gets pre-approval with documentation from lending sources before they start their search. You are not dealing with an everyone.

I don't know how long you had that there @Mr. Silly

Small 7” pies. Blueberry and pecan pre bake stage.

We had a guy at work pronounce cache as cachet. He has panache.

Wait what? You can’t do that until wheels tells you to.

WoJSTL and I just finished a 6 day Katy Trail tour on our tandem. It was supported by Bubba's Pampered Pedalers. We stayed at hotels and B&Bs. It was WoJSTL's first tour and she really enjoyed it.

Your LLC is a rental agency. They are covering their ass for any contingencies that will make it difficult to rent. The first four paragraphs dealt with HOAs and I didn’t read beyond that.

It's ok to vacation at home but you have to stop with the meetings and emails if you want to get the benefits of de-stressing. If your job can't do without you for 7 days then there should be a clause in your contract to double your pay every time someone calls you to a meeting when you're on vacation. That BS would stop in a heartbeat.

Yes, refrigerator handle. I have some extra including decorative tea towels in a drawer next to the refrigerator.

Just doin my monster thing here.

You’re not fooling anyone into believing that these aren’t dick pics. And that you haven’t mastered this already.

...and nothing more, and I am cold. I am not having much fun with the season change right now.

Ahhh, this post made my day.

Ruby has a eville streak.

That was my problem for the last few years of my job. If we went on vacation, the company laptop was along for the trip with a wi-fi hot spot so I could work anywhere in the US. Retirement is nice... great even....

Put it in an online photo album? Then just provide links? What is that one Photobucket, or something like that

You should not move to Texas.

It's a good rule. But not always one you can live by I know folks with drug/alcohol addicted siblings, who go in and out of rehab or periods of sobriety, and bring with them many problems. Those problems can follow them to a family birthday, wedding, or 4th of July party. Likewise, it's the classic "blame the victim" in this case, since unless the report shows she was in any way an active participant in wrongdoing and that the wrongdoing was something a reasonable person would expect to be killed for. How many times have your heard/seen situations of "Well, why were you at the bar where men would be drinking and you were wearing a skirt?"??? You can arrest a person during the day, outside, as they walk to their car or head to a store. You can execute a search warrant on a property as soon as the person you are after is arrested. Again, there will or should be reforms made that steer us away from making heavy-handed enforcement a "norm" in our neighborhoods.

Same thing as having a cowboy hat but no cattle.

Well, only 180-ish days until SPRING!!!!!

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls. You’re famous in a Silly sort of way.

I imagine they're gonna try to walk a fine line between not aggravating the police and not aggravating the folks getting unjustly killed by the police. I don't think the report will lay out any real reforms to policing that will make folks safer in their homes, but maybe those will come later or via some other process. If the settlement with her family is any indication, there may be some positives that come from a senseless death, but a few decades of paying attention to this sort of issue makes me wonder if there is really much progress beyond greater and greater attention to its persistence. Video technology really shines a bright light on what has been going on for a long time, so body cam footage, if it exists, likely shines light on how something like a no-knock warrant plays out. Any one of us can imagine how we would react if our front door was smashed in and an we were awoken from our sleep to yelling and bright lights, etc.. Fight or flight, but rarely submission are the results expected, and those first two can easily result in force being used. Great when going after a super aggro drug lord, but very, very awful when used against innocent folks.

No. I am way out of harm's way where I am right now.

I miss summer. 😥

Wear lipstick and demand a nice dinner before they screw you

I would walk away. All slanted to them. Multiple inspections. Sounds like the stick and carrot. They dangle a big carrot on the end of a inspections stick and make you do all kinds of repairs and if they aren’t happy they walk away and get back escrow and you are out the expense of all the repairs. I agree they are a rental agency and they are already lawyered up because they probably have to always sue tenants

No wonder I'm pissed. My bike is missing a wheel and doesn't have streamers!!!!