I am done and need a break.

All morning I did the three Sunday shows I watch.  This Week, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation.  Ranted while I wrote stuff to refute and talk about pushed by the republicans on the panels and interviewed as they crowed about how this was a clear mandate for them to take the country so far right the Puritans would be scared to come here.  I stopped writing figuring I had recorded all of these shows.   Then I spent an hour while listening to them trying to figure out how to record them from one computer to the other as I really need to change my desk configuration and have already ordered the ram to do drastically help one of my computers.   Sadly my main computer is maxed out.  I should have known better but it was on sale with great specs … so I bought it.  Always.  Yes always by a computer that is upwards expandable.  I won’t make that mistake again.  However even if I lose these recordings of the corporate media and on This Week Johnathan Carl was creaming his pants on the tRump win, so much for media impartiality, I need a break as Ron was telling me.  So I am going to play Portal Two.   It is a wonderful puzzle game using a portal gun to shoot an incoming portal and an outgoing portal.  No shooting other players.  This is a grand game for people not wanting to hurt others even in a game and for stretching the mind.  If you don’t have a gaming console the game is also on PC, which is where I first played it.  Hugs I am off to challenge my brain on more than politics.  Hugs.    

Have Some Friday Comics

Also, a question. On Kids Baking Championship, one of the items required is a chocolate-dipped item. One young baker decided to use butterscotch instead of chocolate. They tempered it, they dipped their item, and presented it. When asked about it, since it wasn’t chocolate, they stated that their technique was the same, and the item was dipped; also, that the butterscotch right there among the chocolate in the same area of the pantry.

So. While chocolate is not butterscotch and vice-versa, does this item count as a chocolate-dipped item? Discuss in comments.

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 08, 2024

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for November 08, 2024

 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/11/08

Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 08, 2024

Frazz Comic Strip for November 08, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/11/08

FurBabies by Nancy Beiman for November 08, 2024

FurBabies Comic Strip for November 08, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/furbabies/2024/11/08

Jim Benton Cartoons by Jim Benton for November 08, 2024

Jim Benton Cartoons Comic Strip for November 08, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/jim-benton-cartoons/2024/11/08

Monty by Jim Meddick for November 08, 2024

Monty Comic Strip for November 08, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2024/11/08

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 08, 2024

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for November 08, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/11/08

“10 distractions, in case you need them for some reason”

In case you’re searching for things to take your mind off the immediate horrors of the real world for, you know, some reason, here are ten:


3D Workers Island is a horror story told in the form of late-nineties screenshots from forums, websites, and a mysterious screensaver.

Practical Betterments is a collection of very small one-off actions that improve your life continuously. Examples include putting a spoon in every container that needs a spoon or cutting your toothbrush in half. Gently unhinged.

Someone remixed a cover of Raffi’s Bananaphone with Ms. Rachel and it’s kind of a bop?

David Gilliver creates amazing light paintings — one of his latest was just shortlisted in the British Photography Awards. This article says he uses a lightsaber while dressed all in black; the pinnacle of Sith expression.

Witches on roller skates! Sure, Halloween’s over. But witches on roller skates!

That time Sir Terry Pratchett modded Oblivion is “the untold story of how Discworld author Terry Pratchett became an unexpected contributor to the world of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,” even as his Alzheimer’s progressed. The video is based on this older article.

After having a stroke at 25, Eilish Briscoe created a typeface to show the process of learning to write again — and has created a series of typographic exhibitions centered around the idea that “expression is a luxury”.

Halfbakery is “a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users”. For example, the beardaclava, which is “a carefully woven balaclava that hangs as a thick and luxurious seamless extension to your existing beard, perfectly matching its colour and hair quality”.

Godchecker is here for you if you need to check a god. “Our legendary mythology encyclopedia now includes nearly four thousand weird and wonderful Gods, Supreme Beings, Demons, Spirits and Fabulous Beasts from all over the world.” Comprehensive.

Wigmaker is a game about making wigs. And it’s open source!

https://werd.io/2024/10-distractions-in-case-you-need-them-for-some-reason

 · Ben Werdmuller

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Another One

Free Range by Bill Whitehead for November 05, 2024

Free Range Comic Strip for November 05, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/freerange/2024/11/05

I make it a point to look at only comics over breakfast on BP check days. Calvin always gives a good one, always. Most of the toons I read are funny and non-topical. It is unfortunate that I can’t help but see the one featured comment under the comics; I can report that even on GoComics, the entire world is watching the US today with bated breath.

So, I can’t get my diastolic under 70. I like 66-69. (I’d like a little lower, but I’m not 17 anymore!) Anyway, that’s the Election Day morning report from the Redford manse. I prescribe the best chocolate everyone can get, enjoyed in small bites allowed to melt before swallowing. Plenty of clear, non-carbonated fluids, too. It really, truly helps. Let’s all enjoy the day where we are-it’s exactly where we’re supposed to be.

Tuesday Calvin Fix

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 05, 2024

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for November 05, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/11/05

I’m ba-a-ack…

OK, so it didn’t take me this long to eat lunch; I’ve had some other things to do, and wanted to let the first post settle a bit. Since I got that all out, some of my urgency has abated, though I still want to tie the subject up, until/unless there are comments where we can discuss and enjoy however long we want.

Lunch was brunch. My plate was frambled eggs with toast. I know I said it wasn’t a cooking post, and look what I’m doing. When I make frambled eggs, I cook the eggs as if for over-easy (yolks runny, whites cooked.) Turn the eggs when it’s time, let them get a bit of heat on that side, then gently drag your spatula through, to break the yolk and drag the white through the yolk. My personal goal is not a hard-cooked yolk, but what I guess they call a jammy yolk; you get a bit of liquid, even, but it’s not drippy. You just keep gently lifting and turning until you like the consistency of the eggs. I had whole wheat toast, and oatmeal that I apple-pie spiced, and sweetened with honey. We’ve been having a rain “event,” so I’d got the laundry to the laundry room to run and to dry between/before rains.

Our laundry room is at the front of our front carport, front being the direction the front end of the car points; we park in front of the laundry room. Our house is a whole post in and of itself, but not quite as Scottie’s and Ron’s house; they may run theirs by crisis and we rarely have a crisis, but their house is nicer and more modern than ours. Also, while Sat. and Sunday are fitness rest days, I still do 10 min. every hour on the rebounder to get my steps. So, lunch hour took a little while. It’s a rest day! 😎 And the first day of Standard time, so everything’s a little later because our bio clocks are still running on Saving time. 🕰

So, up till the 15th of October, I was all,

FoxTrot by Bill Amend for November 03, 2024

FoxTrot Comic Strip for November 03, 2024

But I’m past that, and have said enough about the election, really, I think. I don’t know who can’t use a Calvin fix, so:


Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 03, 2024

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for November 03, 2024

I wonder if everybody has that one or two commercials that the last time it airs cannot come too soon. For me, right now, (and I know the winter holidays commercials are coming…) it’s that Wegovy commercial. I just want it to stop. Interestingly, while I’m not a big fan of Big Pharma, one of the ads I enjoy, all its versions, is the Jardiance ad! It makes me dance. Well, the newest one’s tempo is too slow for fun dancing, but it’s still a nice ad. This is neither a plug for or against either drug. Those have their place and may be discussed with a person’s doctor. This is just about the ads. The ones that use music from my youth especially tick me off, so I just ignore them and dance to their background music. I hate that King Harvest’s “Dancin’ in the Moonlight” is one that’s been appropriated. It’s been one of my top favorites forever, and they can’t take it away from me!

I turned all the clocks back last night, except one. But our son came out, noticed, and said, “Aren’t we supposed to turn the clocks back? The bathroom clock is an hour fast.” Truly, I’d turned the clocks up. I find the semi-annual time change abhorrent and stupid, but I disdain Saving time the most, because there goes another hour of my life, every year, that doesn’t come back, not really, so I guess changing the clock put me in a negative mindset and I went the wrong way. Anyway, it’s been enough years of my life now that I don’t care which we have, we simply need to pick one and be done. I don’t change the analog clock in the kitchen; it’s over the kitchen table, and I can’t reach it unless I stand on the kitchen table. Some day there could be a reason for me to stand on the kitchen table, but I’m not doin’ it to change the damn clock. The guys will get tired of it sooner or later, and I have the stove clock. And my Fitwitch on my wrist.

Well, that’s a sort of round up of trivia and drift. I hope readers have enjoyed it, at least smiled or giggled, and maybe feel a little better.

We can do this stuff. It’s still way too early to let Republicanism mess with our mental health.

Humor

In the spirit of laughter being the very best medicine!


Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 29, 2024

Arlo and Janis Comic Strip for October 29, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2024/10/29

Close to Home by John McPherson for October 29, 2024

Close to Home Comic Strip for October 29, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2024/10/29

I hope to grow up to be this woman:

Free Range by Bill Whitehead for October 29, 2024

Free Range Comic Strip for October 29, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/freerange/2024/10/29

Not as funny, but …

Brian McFadden for October 28, 2024

Brian McFadden Comic Strip for October 28, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/10/28

WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for October 29, 2024

WuMo Comic Strip for October 29, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/wumo/2024/10/29

I’ll just wind it up with today’s Calvin fix:

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 29, 2024

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for October 29, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/10/29

Stores Should Not Put Out The Christmas Merch until the Peppermint Bark is there to be sold, as well.

I love that stuff. That is all. For this post.

Starbox Dachshunds

The Black one looks just like our Chrissy, who lived to 21 yo before passing during April of 2020. This riff is so awful, yet so cute, and has the holiday spirit.

I bet Da Vinci had this same problem with cats. by Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)

(Quick, off topic, except for cats, distraction. Medieval art is part of this post, NSFW. But not gratuitous.)

Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) Oct 07, 2024 Read on Substack

This week I started a drawing that was all vines and flowers and it was fine, but a little boring and so I decided to add Hunter S. Thomcat to it because he’s always trying to add himself to drawings anyway. Exhibit A:

And it was a very good idea in theory but somehow it turned…weird? And I kept trying to fix it and it kept getting worse and I would like this to be one of those stories that ends with, “AND EMBRACING THE FLAWS MADE IT EVEN BETTER” but that did not happen because, well…look:

Why does he look vaguely human?

Anyway, I gave up and started another drawing but I’m not finished with it yet and I was feeling a little disappointed in my myself until I saw this collection of medieval cat paintings:

Turns out cats have been fucking up art for centuries because they are enigmatic and mysterious:

And comparatively, my cat drawing became slightly less unnerving.

It important to remember…they’re not all going to be winners.

Or…you know…always make sense?

But since I don’t have a finished drawing I do have this for you…a drawing a did awhile ago that I added color to before I realized that I’m actually not that great at color combinations.

It’s no medieval cat eating a dismembered penis, but then again…what is?

Hugs, sweet friends.

~me