…i think the early stages will be fuzzy over the next four years but the `states will be fully engaged within six…

…f*cking cool cars; sad to see them go…

…i almost bought a used 9000 in '99; ended up buying a turbobeetle instead which was unfortunately a disposable piece of junk…

…isn’t that essentially critical role?..

…there’s a comic i read somewhere illustrating how sombre, dramatic campaign settings ultimately devolve into slapstick hijinks and silly, slapstick campaign settings ultimately evolve into dramatic epics…

…yeah, my inner twelve-year-old would rock this house so hard: blockbuster party friday night, cartoons saturday morning, bike ride to the candy store then GI joes in the backyard saturday afternoon, SNICK followed by staying up way too late playing D+D saturday night, more D+D sunday morning, then jetski rides and a hot dog cookout before wrapping up the weekend with amazing stories, the young indiana jones chronicles, star trek, and finally falling asleep in my bunk bed…

…cave diving is the most dangerous deadly recreational sport of which i’m aware…

…i tried cooking fava beans with uigeadail once: it turned out f*cking disgusting…

…that looks pretty modestly-sized in the foreground, honestly…

(this is a huge red flag:)

…only three hundred grand for a house which violates the f*ck out of international building code, fire code, and life safety code; nice!..

…what are the odds of even more egregious DIY violations of electricial, mechanical, and plumbing code which we can’t see in casual realtor photos?..

…international coastlines; shores with ports-of-entry…

…has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3alPFZoHA4

…fool me you can’t get fooled again!..

…do three strikes laws apply to simultaneous convictions?..

…that’s pretty much my improvisational style, everything eyeballed, nothing measured: sometimes things turn out amazing but of course the cost of those happy surprises is that i’ll never make it the same way again; couldn’t if i tried…

…i dated a girl who dogmatically followed published recipes, considered any deviations anathema to the authors’ labor developing them, and she was horrified to watch me cook…

…let me introduce you to single cask-strength malts: one drop, drawn delicately through your lips, let diffuse across your palate by capillary action, that’s how i learned to appreciate alcohol for the first time after four decades of not getting it…

…the great thing about cask-strength sipping whiskies is that one bottle can last years if kept properly sealed between pours…

…so about fourty years ago i met a deer raised with farm dogs and it pretty much behaved like one of their pack, barking and all…

…in my experience, polyester teabags never really took off stateside: it’s only imported british mass-market teas which did the fused-pyramidal-bag thing as a product differentiator…stateside,i occasionally see boutique teas with fused polyester bags + strings, but i expect they’ll change in short order based upon this controversy…

…if your tea uses folded-paper bags stapled or tied-off with cotton string, you’re safe…

…canadians may be low-key, but they don’t f*ck around…