January 29, 2022

  • New hobby?

    Hello, YouTube. I watched one video about [insert topic here]. Can you jam another two dozen just like it into my feed? You can?! Well, how about that!

    So I've been slowly delving down the well of government officials caught on video attempting to deprive lawful citizens of their Constitutional rights, often 1st Amendment, but also 4th and 5th when things get out of control. Follow up to these videos is often lacking, so I have started to call the city governments/police departments to inquire about the end results. Usually, I am unable to get past the dispatcher because I forget to do it during proper business hours when command staff is in. But, the call takers usually know the YouTube videos I am calling about because of the volume of calls that pour in from around the country when these things go up. I haven't ever called back, because what would be the point? I think it is cool that these local government yahoos get a little of national spotlight. It worked this week in Alabama.

    From Monday poker: My cool win was bluffing my paired non-diamond Ace against an obvious flopped two pair when fifth street laid down a fourth diamond and I bet like I had that fifth diamond. On the other hand, I was later victimized  by karma when my paired non-spade Ace watched a fourth spade hit on fifth street and I was bluffed out by a bet from a Kh-Qh. I do currently have season high-hand, holding an Ace with the board's 4 kings. The guy in the pot with me was irritated when I bet big on fifth street, but he called with a Jack. He went on the board with the current best-losing hand, so it wasn't all bad for him.

    Periodically, I hear conversations that refer to "pipe-hitters" or individuals that are "pipe-hitting". There is a bunch of revisionist history and hand-waving, but that term was (re)asserted into the common vernacular when Marcellus Wallace told Butch what the near future held for his recently maimed rapist. It is classic Tarantino dialog in the movie that gave him carte blanche in perpetuity. The pipe-hitting referenced in that movie held crack and the hitting meant smoking. Because crackheads will do all kind of depraved shit for a piece of rock. Why the Special Forces community have adopted it as a point of pride is beyond me. I certainly would not have named my charitable organization after a cinematic moment describing the inhumane torture inflicted by hopeless drug addicts.

    Thinking I had selected a freezer bag of my recently purchased sirloin beef, I moved it into the refrigerator to thaw. Upon secondary observation, I could tell I had unintentionally started a thaw on a pork roast instead. That pork was thawed today, so I put it into the crock pot. Then I took it out of the crock pot because it was actually a full rack of baby back ribs. I am a dummy. But I am not powerless in the presence of ribs. Instead of boring-ass grocery store sauce, I shook up a Cajun dry rub. Five hours at low heat. Wonderful. I am not a dummy. I am a proper genius. A generous proper genius because I gave a third of it to the lady next door.

    I think I am going to try curbside pickup at the grocery this weekend. It is single digit temps out there tonight.

    I stumbled across Scotty Ferrall on a cable channel called Sports Grid. It is nice to see that he is somewhere on the dial with his sports betting advice. I am so accustomed to hearing him on the late night radio, it is weird for me seeing his face while he talks. And don't get me started on Mafia. It is interesting that the entire channel seems to have audio levels quality set at Holiday Intern. There is standard for running a TV channel, gentleman, and this is part of the reason you are giving your channel away to be listed in the high 200s on basic cable.

    Big Ben is done. Who the hell are they bringing in?

    The local grocery store here is out of inventory for Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast everything. Just an empty freezer case. Pizza rolls are cashed as well as those Pillsbury tubes of ready-bake dinner and crescent rolls. The cookie dough tubes in the same section are also long gone. Is it supply chain or is it local cold-weather buying demand?

    More off-putting actor: Scott Caan or Jesse Eisenberg?