Timmah!

Had an old. nosey church lady lived 2 doors down from me, in my childhood. Had a pair of high quality binoculars stationed at her kitchen sill. I mean the looong, multi-coated lens, nitrogen filled kind the fucking Rear Admiral of the Pacific Fleet would have. Wasn't shit slipping by her. I used to troll her, placing random lewd signs in her sight corridors where only she would see them. I did this in the wee hours of a Sunday morning, when I knew she would be sleeping & not possibly glassing my activities. The sweet part was I was on good terms with her & would visit to get oblivious feedback on the success of my misdeeds, even giving me inspiration for a continuation of the plan, or fodder for a new one. Bespoke drama for an eager audience. Steal her welcome mat...return it a few days later, after a replacement appeared...

Dude's a fucking Mensch. Salt of the Earth, I say. Does a person respect animals; do animals trust them. Great measure of a person.

Lol, no shit.

Russian. I'm listening to Russian this morning. I think this a jello commercial, tbh.

He's also the Leopard Whisperer, in addition to Lions & Hyenas. His sanctuary is making a nice comeback from the brush fires; thankfully none of the creatures in his care were seriously injured...wonderful work he does.

By most standards, a happy one. Good times with a pretty country girl in days of my youth.

Rapacious C0cksuckers!

Well, living here, I've literally dated the farmer's daughter on a few occasions. Good way to earn money when you're a teenager, if you're not afraid of work, is local seasonal farm work. Top tobacco, cut & stake later, hang in the rafters etc. Get to know people in a rural area & a lot of basic needs can be had for a very reasonable price. Plus, it always pays to be nice. Get access to acres prime hunting & fishing spots... all kinds of goodies. Met one of my girlfriends-past by running over her dad's barbed-wire fence & spending a summer afternoon reposting & stringing it when she brought lunch out to me. But I digress...

Yeah, it's a monopoly. They all tacitly agree to a price floor; just like oil companies & gas stations also do; When I worked at a gas station/convenient mart years ago, one of your jobs if you ran a shift was to survey the local competitors' gas prices & adjust yours accordingly. Meaning go up with the highest-price one; but not always to follow the lowest price one, because they might not be prime consideration. Once you got to know the managers of the local competitor stations, you'd just call them up & share the price information; some would be as helpful as to proactively call you in advance of a price change at their store, so you could plan the rest of your shift accordingly. The logic being, if several companies are going to 'compete' for local market share of whatever's being sold, might as well agree on a common price range, lifting the profits of all involved. Shady? Grey area? Dunno, but it was common practice in the Louisville market years ago. The guy who owned the dominant stores in the market-for whose company I worked- was on the board of directors of the other major player in the area, namely Ashland Oil. Now that's SHADY.. but apparently entirely legal.

Yeah, price for the 400 down plan is now $55... I pay ATT $300 up front for 1 yr. cell & data. 8mb a month.. I use 5 or 6...so perfect for me.

I was a Boyscout...Be Prepared..in this case, I have several 1-gallon milk jugs filled with water that sit in my freezers & fridge for just such an occurrence... this has happened to me several times before where I last lived: A squirrel farting on a sunny day would seemingly knock-out the power. And with all the hardwood trees around, a relatively mild ice storm or a frisky thunderstorm would be a guarantee of no power for hours or a couple days... Good lookin'-out!

Heynow!!...it's low-carb, baby!!

Please: Tactical Leaping

Most guys have had MANY years of practice doing shit with one hand...just a lateral move to customize.

...& egg...& fuckit...some pepperjack. LOVE LOVE LOVE my cast iron. So good.

Now check that shit out, up above: my ping to a server in Louisville, KY, which is about 35-40 miles away is 46. My ping to Atlanta, Ga, which is ~400 miles away is 29; that being Comcast, a cable company's telecommunication infrastructure. Which proves capacity is paramount; even over distance. Pun intended.

No biggie, just 5 minutes' effort of being genuinely nice to someone whose job it is to listen to whiny people all day. Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy. Even asked her what kinda deal she could give me if I was extra-special nice to her; to which she giggled. Done & Done. As dickish as society has become, just being a decent person to your fellow human draws a lot of water.

Checked my new speeds with Spectrum over some other ISPs' infrastructure- ( the top ones share access with each other) & the MW2 server: Tracing route to c-162-248-95-178.managed-ded.inap-nyc.nfoservers.com [162.248.95.178] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms 142-254-147-033.inf.spectrum.com [142.254.147.33] 3 8 ms 8 ms 9 ms be63.lsvmky1302h.midwest.rr.com [74.128.7.245] 4 11 ms 23 ms 15 ms be25.lsvmkyzo01r.midwest.rr.com [65.29.31.56] 5 24 ms 23 ms 22 ms be24.clmkohpe01r.midwest.rr.com [65.189.140.162] 6 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms bu-ether31-vinnva0510w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.54] 7 31 ms 25 ms 27 ms ae-13.edge2.Chicago10.Level3.net [4.68.37.137] 8 40 ms 42 ms 40 ms ae2.3611.edge2.NewYork6.level3.net [4.69.209.82] 9 40 ms 42 ms 40 ms INTERNAP-NE.edge2.NewYork6.Level3.net [4.30.176.170] 10 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms border2-po1-bbnet1.nyj004.pnap.net [216.52.95.47] 11 41 ms 40 ms 41 ms inap-b2.e8.router.nyc.nfoservers.com [104.153.107.254] 12 41 ms 40 ms 40 ms c-162-248-95-178.managed-ded.inap-nyc.nfoservers.com [162.248.95.178] Trace complete.

Comcast Cable net worth is north of $215 Billion dollars, making it one of the largest corporations in the U.S. Interesting you mention Sky; think they own it... & NBC corporation. They're worth ~1.6X that of AT&T....you know, the largest telecommunications company in the world; known for fiber optic infrastructure. Cable isn't going anywhere, they're just adapting.

Thanks! The places your mind goes makes me feel entirely better about my current headspace!! #notthatthere'sanythingwr0ngwiththat

I live in Kentucky. A lot of rural farms not too far down the roads in any direction. That, & I made friends with a butcher in a nearby small town, so he hooks me for basically their cost...plus the 10% markup the store charges on product. Gonna have to buy another chest freezer.

So, my tv/internet package was like $99/mo. when I moved in. The promotion expired after 12 months, & it went up to $126....wasn't stoked about that, but whatever. Got my notice of my upcoming bill & it raised another $25 to like $156! Was like: hold the fukking train. Called Customer Retention & asked them what's the best deal I can get for internet if I'm extra-special nice to you & what's the best internet-only deal I can get if I leave for 30 days or whatever & come back as a 'new' customer? She said the best deal she could find was a basic-channel + internet package, because the basic channel portion gives a better discount for the internet portion. So, instead of $156, it's $55.00 for the basic channels, with internet changing from 200Mb down to 400Mb down. W00t. Means I can d/l them bullets coming at me 2X as fast!

Then @piglocan rest easy knowing his perhaps distant relative's last days were halcyon. It's not my fault they're literally selling that meat for less than a $2 wh0re charges! =0 Hate the game.

Took care of my Mom when she was coming to the end; felt privileged to walk those last few miles with her. Enjoy as much as you can.

You do exactly what I do! People ask me why I make 2+ gallons of chilii; 15 pounds of lasagna at a time? To which I reply: Why do you just cook enough for one meal, when you can -with minimal additional effort- cook enough for 10+ meals? The food's cheaper in bulk, & you're also saving on TIME. I go one step farther, & sautee or caramelize a bag of onions at a time, portioning them into an ice cube tray, then pop them into a ziploc bag for later use. Nice to have that on-hand to send that dish from nice to awesome. Do that with meats, too. Couple pounds of pulled chicken thighs, pork, ground beef. Make a q;uick enchilada, or sloppy joe, chicken sammich, whatever. Now that I have this instant pot, I can quickly cook from frozen. Starting an indoor herb bench & worm farm to recycle my scrap veggies & feed the greens; that soft head of lettuce I forgot int he fridge is now some nice, fresh basil for that pizza I'ma slap out with a dough culture I procured from Italy. Gonna have my own worm castings, for free...& fishing bait. W00t. Crumbled, portioned, frozen bacon, too. Nice chili potato with some bacon crumbles, cheese, sour cream. You can throw a lot of shit together quickly because it's already ready, or almost. Can eat a great meal or snack for cheaper than some bland msg bomb burger that was constituted from bone scraps treated with lye & then centrifuged. Time. $. Quality (just the way I like it). Is the answer(s).