Im in Oklahoma. It was cold, with a day of powdery dry snow that we normally don’t get. Might have had 3"-4" of coverage. The schools were closed until today. We never lost any utilities, just stayed at home, got high, and did some baking.

It was above freezing today and yesterday, so we have some fun icy patches that haven’t cleared.

Often times, I go to bed with intentions of sleeping early, only to find out that my wife has other plans for me. ❤️

I have a lot of specifications stuck in my head from previous jobs. A fun one is that precast concrete bridge beams aren’t just concrete and rebar. They typically have a bunch (20-30 or more depending on size) of 13 mm steel cables that are each under about 13,000 kg of tension. The cables are pulled to a specific tension in the concrete form, the concrete is poured around them, then the cables are cut at each end.

As does the auto industry, aerospace…

Outside of construction and plumbing plenty of stuff is metric here. Even our weird imperial units are based on metric units.

I think the 2nd Descent game worked in a similar fashion. Entering a cheat code from the first Descent game would reduce you to 1% shields and health.

Found the Okie?

It’s just so crunchy

When we are filling the vent shafts for the last billionaire bunker with dirt and rocks.

You’re right, I should spend less time with an lcd in my face.

“Hey, go easy on Jim, he’s teething this week.”

I tell anyone who asks that motorcycle helmets can prevent accidents. Your high delta-V beetle is the perfect example of why.

figging

Ugh. Off to Urban Dictionary I go.

Edit: Inserting peeled ginger into the anus. Ok, I’d heard of this with horses, it’s even mentioned in one of Sir Terry Pratchett’s books. Id not heard of people doing it to themselves or each other but I’m not surprised."

I enjoy a lot of books written by Larry Niven. But in real life he seems to be a bit of a pro-government totalitarian.

enduring the pain of Big Jim’s rod penetrating you,

Fellas, is it gay to use lube for anal?

Right, but there is a difference between me being a lazy antisocial person who hates talking on the phone to make an appointment, and being afraid to make an appointment because I’m worried I might like the feeling of something long and firm going in my ass.

Meanwhile I buy my wife nail polish that just happens to be the same color as something I need to touch-up or paint.

The most obvious one I have experience with is guys refusing to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle because they’re so tuff and manly and they “just won’t crash”.

I wear a helmet because it will protect my beautiful face if I fall off, and because it keeps bugs and birds from hitting the aforementioned rugged bearded handsomeness at high speeds thus preventing some accidents, and because I can have one with a cool design on it.

This makes sense, every gay person I’ve met drank water.

I’m a large, unpleasant looking man living in a red state who has a pickup truck, and a harley. I’m married to a methodist lay speaker. I have a few firearms.

So naturally I must be the biggest trump supporting, red-hat wearing, religious conservative twatwaffle in existence, there is no other option.

As a result, the actual redhat cockwombles I work with think I’m going to be OK with their racist comments, and are shocked when I’m not. The thing that helps me with these guys is the fact that they are having to work from prints that have my initials on them so they can whine about the LiBuRl all they want, and I’ll still be helping them get their jobs done.

The traits they are assuming make me One of Them™ are just incidental things. I have a battered old truck because my wife and I have either a large garden or a small farm, depending on how you look at it. A Honda Civic won’t carry the stuff I need. (Neither will a van) I have a harley because the local motorcycle dealers are pretty terrible tp deal with, but the harley dealer is nice, helpful, and act like they want to sell a bike. I’m large and unpleasant because of genetics. And I have firearms because for most of my adult life I have lived somewhere that has an hour’s response time for law enforcement, and I’ve had to defend myself in the past. None of these things made me hate any particular group of people.

I doubt she was part of some organized group. But I don’t know what the issue was.