ZARDOZ ADDRESSES THE GLIBERTARIAN CHOSEN ONES!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THIS PAST YEAR, ZARDOZ WAS ABLE TO LIFT HIS CHOSEN ONES FROM BRUTALITY. AND TO HAVE THEM SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO ARE LEGION. THUS ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. HOWEVER, THE ROAD TO HERE WAS…NOT SO PLEASING.
FIRST ZARDOZ HAD TO BREAK FREE – SOLIDARITY STYLE!
FREEDOM!
THE DOWNSIDE OF BREAKING FREE WAS THE NEED TO FIND NEW WORK…WHICH LEAD ZARDOZ TO FALLING IN WITH SOME DISREPUTABLE BRUTALS, AND GETTING HOOKED.
ZARDOZ – THE OPIUM DEN EDITION
BUT ZARDOZ FOUND HELP, AND MADE A NEW FRIEND…
BETTER THAN BING AND BOB!
AFTER ZARDOZ CLEANED UP – HE GOT BACK TO BASICS – DELIVERING GRAIN AGAIN. BUT ALSO TRIED HAND AT…ER, ATTEMPTED STOCK RACING AND COUNTRY MUSIC.
ZARDOZ WON, NO MATTER WHAT THE RACING BOARD SAID!
*POURS OUT SOME GRAIN FOR GLENN CAMPBELL*
THESE DID NOT TURN OUT WELL EITHER.
BUT YOU, THE CHOSEN ONES, HAVE TURNED OUT WELL. YOU HAVE GONE FORTH AND COMMENTED, SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS AND THUS RECEIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK. ZARDOZ WOULD HEAR OF THE YEAR OF HIS CHOSEN ONES. GO FORTH AND TELL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Happy New Years
I pray there will be fewer net neutrality victims next year.
And tax cut victims. Oh ZARDOZ please save the tax cut victims. Or don’t, your call.
Net Neutrality repeal killed everyone. The Tax cuts will simply annihilate the few buildings that remain standing.
Too late, we are all already dead. We just haven’t stopped moving yet.
Happy New Year X2
(Happy New Year)/0
X3 here..
I had the worse fucking year of my life on multiple counts and am currently getting drunk to forget it, but happy new year to you lot, joining this community helped my sanity.
I sure hope 2018 is a much better year, Pie. Thanks for being a commenter, a contributor and our Romania Correspondent.
Where is everyone from? We have Pie in Romania, Straff in Japan, Evan in Korea(hope you’re feeling better)
A bunch of Canadians, and I’m in cali wth Playa, Jesse, Who else?
I was wondering if we have any Indians (dots, not feathers). I am wondering how much ridicule I will endure when I submit my Indian recipe & pics.
Half a dot Indian, but American-born. I’ve been meaning to ask my grandmother for some of her recipes so I can cook a little Kashmiri cuisine at home.
Cool. I should probably stop yapping about it and just do it.
Unless it involves pre-made sauces and stuff, I am completely mystified about how to cook two of my favorite cuisines – Chinese and Indian.
Maybe HayekExplosives, Mr. Mr and I can be of help on that front in the New Year.
Chinese always involves something fermented, which is what makes it so good.
Rhywun, even the best Chinese chefs frequently fall back on the dozen or so “mother sauces” of Chinese cuisine, all of which are available bottled/canned by giant manufacturers of said products. You can see some of their sauce factories from orbit.
I’ve rarely seen any Chinese recipes that didn’t involve at least soy sauce of some form (one of the simplest of the “mother sauces”).
Indian cuisine’s similar — there are Indian chefs who make base sauces/pastes which then get added to or altered when used in specific dishes. “La sauce c’est tout!” as my French chef grandfather used to say.
You can certainly make a lot of those sauces from scratch, especially if you’re willing to do the fermentation, but why?
Once you can cook a tarka and tadka, indian cuisine becomes easier. You don’t need anywhere near all the spices for most dishes.
Lee Kum Kee. That is all.
I think your fine, not too many SJWs around here, SUBMIT! your recipe,
I am wondering how much ridicule I will endure when I submit my Indian recipe & pics.
Zero ridicule from this quarter. Loves me some Indian food.
We had an Indian family VRBO last week. I think they’re Indian, their surname was Shah. But the aroma they left behind in the kitchen was very interesting. Curry for sure. Everything else, no idea.
I’m a Scot, but my family was in India for three generations. Curry was my mother’s traditional New Year’s meal.
Are there more Twin Citizens than Tundra, Pope Jimbo, and I?
We are going to try to get together at least for a drink or two this coming Friday at Redstone American Grill in Maple Grove for the Mr Splosive’s big 60th B-day.
I am pretty sure another Minnesodan outed him/herself earlier this week, but I fail to recall who it was. You are welcome to attend too!
I can speak for my silent lurker brother (who turned me libertarian) and say he is in Oklahoma.
(I hope my brother didn’t see my shared imgur picture last night. Kinda forgot to factor that in…)
Left Hand of Radar, I think.
I also hail from this infernal block of ice.
6 o’clock at Redstone Jan5 if you are in the mood!
Boy, will you be surprised when all the Glibs in the surrounding states also show up. You bar bill is going to skyrocket. 😉
Wait, hayek’s buying the first round? I and several dozen of my ne’er-do-well friends will be there. 😉
(Seriously, if I’d had an open bar at my wedding 25 years ago, some of my friends would still be there.)
I had an open bar at my wedding. That was the last time they allowed a gathering by the pool at that particular hotel.
I love having rules named after me. I’m working on a law.
Thanks much for the invite, but I already have other plans. So, another time, and for now, have fun, and happy bday to the Mr!
My sister lives down in Lakeville now.
Madison. I’ve been looking for an excuse to go visit up that way, but at
a four hour drive, I really need like three or four excuses all stacked up
at once.
I go to Madison about once a year for the awesome 1-week professional education courses they give in power electronics/other engineering.
I always drive it because it would take longer and be more annoying to fly, plus I get to bring the hubs, who enjoys the local music scene while I attend the courses. Mebbe I should announce when we will be there next!
YES, you should!
That would be cool. I’ve said before, but it seems like half the commentariat is
strung out along I94. I always find it fascinating to see what people actually look
like, instead of the mental image you form from just their words.
strung out along I94.
Been there.
I grew up northwest of Philly. I live in New Hampshire now where it is a balmy 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
I’m in Virginia for a little while, originally from Iowa.
I live about a mile SSW from the US Naval Academy, and about the same distance east of the stadium. When Navy plays home games I hear the loudspeakers.
Now that I’m thinking about it, how many other Merlin-area Glibs are there? I know we’ve got one Shorebilly and a couple in the DMV, right? We should do a meet-up some time in 2018.
I could be persuaded to venture down to Bawlmer from the Keystone, but not all the way to Annapolis.
Depending on time of day, I’d be up for a B’more-area deal.
Yeah, let’s do the back room at Jalapeno’s.
On the one hand, I love Jalapenos. On the other hand, I need to be able to go back there…
Heh, yeah, it’s one of those “count off from the stack of 100s” deals.
I’m in the Catskill Mountains.
Northern California — I’m in the SF Bay Area, as is Suellington, PapayaSF and a number of other Glibs (sorry to folks I’m blanking on right now, I have a terrible memory lately!)
Do you know what happened to Jimbo? (not Pope; the guy in San Rafael)
As far as i know, I’m the only Arkansas Glib. Would like to meet some of ya’ll one day. It will probably have to be when I’m traveling.
Memphis: I can see you from the bluff.
Unless you’re up in Paragould you’re practically in Louisiana.
I go through Little Rock area a couple/few times a year and can divert a bit. Next time, we’ll work on the timing!
I’m up in Bentonville for now. Hoping to move to Little Rock soon.
Well, y’all aren’t more than a few hours away. Feel free to email me at my handle with a K in front of it @gmail. Brasidas, I think you have a new young one. I hope all is going well with that. Don, I used to go to Memphis I’m may every year, but haven’t been the last several due to growing up and becoming a responsiblish adult. SP, let me know with a bit of forwarding next time you head to little rock. My brother lives there.
I thumbs up your YT stuff, very cool, INDUSTRY!
I live in Indiana now. I’ll be moving to a place near Mountain Home in a few months (that’s also where I went to high school)
Alexandria, Virginia, but originally from Minnesota/North Dakota
From Rochester, NY.
Been in NYC for 20 years – currently Brooklyn.
NJ, thought not originally. The nicer part (in my opinion), if any part of NJ can be described as nicer. Not far from Drake, I think.
I live in Philadelphia, but I grew up in Mount Laurel, NJ (and my parents still live there). Burlington County is one of the nicer parts of the state, though progtopia nevertheless (although I believe Mount Laurel tends to be more conservative).
Never been to Burlington County, except maybe driving through. Probably too crowded for my taste.
Manhattan, New York City.
I’m quite a player there.
*narrows gaze*
Spits beer!
And here I thought you were a Beach.
Often stated. Democratic People’s Republic of Connecticut, but work (at the moment) in Midtown, Manhattan.
Northeast Ohio. Work just above Pittsburgh.
From AZ and WY. In my 30 years working for the Army was from: GA, WA, AZ, D, MT, CA, NC, PA, NYC plus many “fun filled” spots overseas. Currently I am living in HI. If Glibs visit I would love to meet up since we would double the sanity level of the state.
Damn I forgot MO.
I wish I knew that in 2014/15. I flew through Honolulu about every other month. I preferred United connections through Guam and then to Cairns over the 17 hour transpacific idiocy of direct flights to Australia. Brutal those are.
MB, SC. Winter home of Rufus’ people.
Winter home of Rufus’ people.
Do they all stand in the middle of crowded sidewalks and yell, DON’T ANY OF YOU PEOPLE WORK?
I’m in Cali too. OC.
Sorry Pie. I hope 2018 is better.
Sorry to hear that.
Here’s to a brighter New Year, Pie!
I hope 2018 goes better for you Pie. I have enjoyed your contributions here as much as anyone’s. Thank you.
Happy new year, bud. I hope 2018 goes better for you. I too am glad you comment here, and appreciate your Eurospective. Hell, I’m planning a trip to Euroland and hope to drink a beer with you. Budapest to Vienna to Prague to Berlin.
Happy new year, Pie.
You’re a great addition to this crazy little family. I wish you nothing but the best for 2018.
Best wishes for 2018 Pie. May your next trip around the Sun be better for you.
Happy New Year to ZardoZ, and the GIFT OF THE GUN!, All Glibertarian BRUTALS should rejoice as well!!
Direct any heating/ cooling problems to Yusef, I shall help the FROZEN BRUTALS!
Happy New Year, Yusef!
You too SP 🙂
I am finishing off what was not a great year for me, other than still being above ground, with a smoked brisket. The first one I have done that was injected with Minors Au Jus. Playa is correct in his au jus recommendation. That stuff would be good on anything including Cheerios.
It makes me sad that I can’t get that stuff in Canada, even via The Giver Of All Things, Amazon.ca.
I did try to find it when I went (briefly) across the line to Washington state a couple days ago. I ran out of time, mostly because the U.S. Border Pacific Crossing made my spousal unit and I wait in line for 2 hours and 34 minutes. Slower than dirt. Grrrrrrrr.
Only U.S. Border Services could make the Canada Border Services Agency look sprightly and responsive in comparison.
Do I want the prep or the concentrate?
I got the concentrate. It did not arrive in time for my Xmas rib roast, but it did for the leftover french dips. I did a taste comparison between the Minors, and the better than bullion I had on hand. There is literally no comparison. Two different ball parks.
So just use it for au jus? Or gravy? Or marinade/cooking? I’ve heard it mentioned here, but haven’t looked into it until now.
Damn hard to get a good roast cut at a decent price around here it seems.
I see Playa’s comment below that answers my question.
For all-purpose, go with their beef base. The au jus is saltier, darker, and has a distinct “prime rib” flavor that (to me) has hints of roasted malt. Beef base concentrate + sweet red wine = heaven.
The au jus is great for sandwiches too. I’m sticking my leftover xmas prime rib in the freezer for about 90 minutes. Then, I’m going to slice it paper thin and simmer it for a few minutes in au jus, onions, and mushrooms. That should cover both meals today without the kids complaining too much.
I’ll be right over.
Minors is da bomb. Can’t go wrong there.
Interesting. I’ve only ever used it for regular au jus. I used minors beef base for all other beer stock applications.
I think Pomp did something like that too.
I will never touch beef base again. I am wearing a Minors aus jus concentrate ex-foliating face mask as I type this.
I do the same thing, but on my genitals.
Do you then take a stroll (sprint) through South-Central?
Yes. To do this.
Happy New Years glibs! Grateful for this site and the community here.
Happy New Year!
I can’t complain about 2017. It has been pretty good to me, although the past 2 months have been quite a sprint to the finish, and the past few weeks have spun my head and heart around a bit.
The Troll-in-Chief has been even more entertaining than I expected.
In May I decided to take a ride on my dirt bike after work around a forest road nearby. A couple of miles from home I went through a mud puddle and dropped the bike. Instead of just rolling away, I heard a “crack” and felt great pain down my left side. I thought that I’d broken my back. I had to struggle the bike back upright so that I could ride home. I was taken to the trauma center in Albuquerque where I discovered that I had seven broken ribs (four in two places) and a small puncture in my lung. After a few days I returned home. That evening I got super light-headed and passed out. The ambulance took me to Los Alamos where I was hustled aboard a helicopter back to the trauma center. They reported that the lung puncture was re-opened and, worse, my spleen was lacerated. Emergency surgery and three weeks recovery in the hospital.
Major life changes. Because of the damage I could no longer ride a motorcycle and had to sell the Harley that I had purchased to ride to Alaska this summer. I also decided while I was laying in the hospital bed that it is time to retire from work and spend the rest of my life enjoying the things that I want to do.
So, on one hand, I’m glad that 2017 is over but I’m also glad that I’m still alive and feel that I have a new lease on life. Today is my birthday and two of my kids are coming up with their families and my mom is here to visit. Frito pies are on the menu.
Happy new year to my glibertarian pals. You folks have been a bright spot all year.
… Hobbit
Forgot to mention: the eclipse was worth the trip!
BH
I had to walk to my back yard.
Happy Birthday Hobbit! hope 2018 goes better for you,
Holy hanna! Glad you got to see the Eclipse. Sorry to hear about the injuries and subsequent life changes.
Things can happen in a real hurry. My life changed bigtime when I went down the stairs “the fast way” one day when making the final trip out of the house I was moving from. Being checked into the hospital for emergency surgery on moving day is a bit stressful.
Fortunately, my awesome sister was a school teacher and was off for the summer so she flew up and helped unpack and arrange the new house. Good times, good times. It’s also when my ex started to fall out of love with me and saw me as a liability. A blessing in disguise, that was.
Happy Birthday! I’m sorry to hear about your accident.
*facepalm*
I am so sorry to hear about your mishap. That is a hell of a thing. We are all glad you are still with us.
My son asked me for a bike when he was 13. I said “Sure! I’ll buy you a bike”
“Dad. I know you better than that. What’s the catch?”
“Bring me polaroids of people in hell having snowball fights and I will buy you a bike that day. We will go straight to the dealership right then.”
He whined “Oh, C’mon dad thats not fair!”
“That’s right. It’s not fair. It’s called tough shit. ”
Two years later he had to be a pall bearer for his cousin who was killed riding a bike. I never heard another word about motorcycles.
Oh you mean motorbike. I was like “you Grinch”.
when i was 13, my older brother (16) was tooling around the neighborhood on a friends 120cc little motorcross bike. each person would take it and try to circle a 3 block area as fast as they could.
he went around the corner for his lap, and we stopped hearing the engine. after 5 minutes, he’s coming back around the same corner, walking the bike.
i said, “what’s that around his neck?” That was all of his teeth, which had been ripped out by his braces when he slid face first into the curb. They were hanging like a bloody necklace from his mouth. He has false teeth to this day.
no more motorbikes for anyone in my family
I couldn’t help but be reminded of this injury from LOTR out-takes
“me pancreas is split and my spleen has been ostracized…”
that does sounds unpleasant. best of luck in retirement
Yikes.
Mmmmm frito pie! /displaced Santa Fean
Glad you made it through the year. Happy birthday!
*Holds fist in air in seven displaced rib fracture solidarity
I did not have multiple on a single rib though and no internal organ damage. Holy moses, I am glad you are still with us, that is getting serious. My only complication was pneumonia. I did mine in May 2016. You are right it is a life changing. It reshaped the right side of my body. I am still feeling effects of that accident and now think it aggravated what used to be minor annoyances of ageing into full blown pain in the ass piss you off chronic nerve pain.
Happy Birthday Hobbitt, and HNY.
Holy shit, man. Sorry to hear, but glad you’re OK.
I’m glad you made it through Hobbits. That’s some pretty serious stuff. Life changes in a hurry. Happy new year. Enjoy your retirement.
That’s strange (and nasty) a friend of mine did almost the self-same thing. Ended up in hospital, punctured spleen, one of his kidneys shut down, 5 ribs broken, from mountain biking here in sunny CT. He’s up and about now but he was in a real bad way for a while.
In his case, he’s a dumbass. He’s already planning his 2018 competitions.
That’s why I walk the trails the bikers put in.
Well, that and when I first started I would be picking up my parents’ cairn terrier who had to be kept on a leash lest she chase after anything and everything, and walking her.
I need to get up there for a Happy Among the Living Still round, I think.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you are feeling better soon.
It’s the time of year for big government republican friends of mine to salivate at the prospect of DUI checkpoints.
Thank goodness for Uber.
I stay home and cook, Drink and go to bed early, it’s much safer IMO
aren’t you an HVAC guy? @TP
Nah, just like to bitch about poor design and most women’s inability to operate.
I’m in banking.
Great avatar, btw.
Thanks!
It’s a bit of self-deprecating humor directed at my hobby https://youtu.be/faIPXY3ZFSk
I’m with you on poor design, The older I get the more it sticks out, I laugh and has a sad at the same time, Humans are Stupid,
/just say’n
I’m in banking.
So literally Satan, which for the record, is worse than Hitler.
At least I’m not a lawyer *rimshot*
IDK why this is popping in my head, but it pretty much explains how awful lawyers are. There’s a website for giving advice to prospective and current law students (top-law-schools.com), and it has a lounge like many internet forums. Evidently, many folks on this forum have used it as a sort of law student Tinder to hook up, and some guys on there have started sending unsolicited dick pics to the girls in this Tinder thread. In a thread calling out this behavior, it came to light that there was at least one, if not two serial rapists operating in the Tinder thread. Of course, no names were named and no police were contacted because the victims didn’t want to go through the “trauma” of “reliving the ordeal.” It’s literally a multi-hundred post thread virtue signalling about the patriarchy while at least one serial rapist is still freely surfing the forum, preying on other girls.
I want to come forward with my rape story. I have a friend… a former friend… who likes to ply my with alcohol, knowing my weakness for it. She’ll feed me shot after shot, despite declining to participate, citing her own low tolerance. And when I’m near blackout drunk, she drags me to bed. I was coping with the repeated assaults, but since she graduated and started working as a prosecutor, she’s gotten much more aggressive. Now she’s insisting on a relationship. My rapist is attempting to badger me into dating. I don’t know what to do and I just hope I can find some sympathy here among my friends.
Does she do anal?
tacticalpillow
For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world….
How does that commercial go..? “…you can sleep easy because tacticalpillow is on duty…” or something like that.
Tacticalpillow…for operators operating operationally
I don’t think I’ve heard the Tactical Pillow commercials.
Enjoy https://youtu.be/SSn9RX-PhoY
In hindsight, 2017 felt worse than it actually was. The worst thing was work (yes Rufus, I work). One way or the other my work situation will improve in 2018.
Time to start a fire in the fireplace and take a break from the computer. I’ll probably drop in later. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, DEG!
Agree on work sucking in 2017 – enough to actually motivate me to look for something different.
How inebriated do I need to be to undertake watching the Zardoz flick? Or does that make it worse?
It’s actually very funny, as it attempts to say, Something? There are a few reviews around here, and the Comments are far better than the reviews themselves
A bit buzzed helps.
You can’t go far wrong if you have enough booze or blow to dull your powers of critical analysis. I’m not sure I could handle it unmedicated.
Just enough for you to question – is this movie really this out there or is it the alcohol?
A quiet evening is planned. Myself, the Spousal Unit of Teh Awesome™, and my mother-in-law over for dinner and Prosecco (not necessarily in that order).
Thanks and thnaks for bearing with me during 2017, everyone. I promise I’ll be even more disagreeable in 2018 — Spousal Unit retires in one month! More time for snark!
I have 2 bottles, but they’ll be gone by 3pm.
It’s “brunch”, which means champagne, orange juice, and a lot of protein.
FIRST ZARDOZ HAD TO BREAK FREE
Also had to break free
Half day and 2017 is over. Wheels on the career roadmap started to come loose but haven’t fallen off so far. Not too bad even if it does as it will likely coast for a long time. Doesn’t really matter anyways, good wife, good life, good dog (who is asleep watching out the window about 2 ft away).
Happy that I came over here from TOS after the mass exodus reduced the commenting quality. This place is just downright impressive, especially given it’s no one’s full time job. And even met three fine Glibs in person, which is something given my antisocial leanings, and seemed to work out despite Tulpa needing to operate all four socks at the same time in a public setting.
Tulpa is a Motie? interesting……
Who did you end up meeting?
Gustave came strolling into a pub with his luggage in tow to drink with Doom, DenverJ, and myself. He left early, but I don’t think it was in disgust which is a testament to his character and judgement which is flawed.
DenverJ is the Minnesota Fats of Colorado, btw.
I am pretty sure he was born in a pub so he has some practice under his belt.
That’s a good strategy. I’m going to start bringing luggage everywhere I go. You never know when you’ll need an excuse for a quick exit.
yup…I was nearly depressed for the weeks until I figured out where everyone went: reading these threads is nearly vital for me.
2017 has been (hopefully) the last year of jamming a whole bunch of changes into one year. New house, new city, new job, new baby. It has also been the first year of cleaning up our law school related financial mess, which took our breath away when we took the time to tally everything up in March. After 9 months on the Dave Ramsey method, we’re finally getting comfortable with the restrictions we’ve placed on ourselves and are making good progress. Our relocation expenses are paid off, and we’re now focused on knocking out some of the debt accrued when I didn’t have a paying job for almost 9 months. This time next year, we plan on having only student loans (and a mortgage) left to pay off.
Glibs has been my community when I didn’t have one. Y’all let me post my ranty scrawlings somewhere and discuss it with a smart group of people, and I appreciate every minute of it.
I’m not a resolutions kind of person, but my priority for 2018 is to reverse the caloric excesses that accompanies the financial excesses during law school. I have ~70 lbs to get back down to distance running shape, and an additional 20 lbs to be in tennis shape. At another site I frequent, they have a quarterly fitness goals group. Each person states a goal and checks in weekly to tell how it’s going. There’s nothing more to it except for moral support and accountability to a group of friends.
Anybody interested? We could do a Jan 15 – Apr 15 timeframe. For example, my goals would be to stick to a low-carb diet for 5 days per week and to do cardio 4 days per week.
Can we push it back to Feb 1st? I’m planning to pig out for another couple of weeks. I can’t go cold turkey.
Sure! Feb 1st it is.
I will jump in. I’ve got a few pounds to shed.
I might be able to get in the right frame of mind for this by Feb 1 as well.
I think my plan will involve a lot more lifting than cardio. Still need the motivation.
I don’t need to lose 10 lbs; I just need to move it higher up on my body.
[grafts PM’s left leg onto his head]
Wow, your financial year sounds a lot like mine. A lot of old debt left over from a wedding, house, and sudden unemployment all at once that we’ve been fighting to get ahead of started to look manageable for the first time in five or so years. We’re still working on the bit about actually sticking to a budget, but we’re finally in a place where our combined income is enough to theoretically pay all the bills and start to make a real dent in the lingering debt. There’s a ton of stuff to pay off, but we’re still shooting to be in a place where we’ve got good enough credit to move into a bigger house without jeopardizing our financial picture. Not out of the woods, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
We’re still working on the bit about actually sticking to a budget
It has taken us 4.5 years before we have started to reliably stick to a budget. There were certainly intervening factors as to why it took so long, but we didn’t make any progress until we were on the same page both for priorities and for long-term goals. The thing that really made it stick for my wife was going to 100% cash for everything but autopay stuff.
Part of our problem is that neither of us are especially good with impulse control and we both have a tendency to be penny-wise and pound-foolish. Also, somehow I got stuck with the role of “CFO”, which as far as I can tell is something like being the guy responsible for accounting for both of our spending habits without necessarily having any authority or planning information. Ordinarily it wouldn’t be that big a deal, but what tends to happen is that we wind up ahead one month and so use some of the available money to pay off debt, then midway through the month I get a “Hey, I need some new shoes, they’re like $40”, then “Hey, there was a sale on kid clothes at H&M, I got all this stuff for like $20”, or “I’ve got to buy a bunch of stuff for a conference, but I’m getting reimbursed at the end of the month, it’ll be like $200”, and all of a sudden we’re behind on the mortgage and spend the next two months recovering from having to rob Peter to pay Paul. I’ve actually considered giving my wife an allowance.
My wife does the same thing. It helped by giving her $X in cash at the beginning of each week. That’s for grocery shopping, errands, and any of those things that just always seem to pop up. If there’s any left over, she can keep it and roll it over to the next week.
We have joint finances so she has equal say, but having a predetermined and regular amount in cash really helped her set spending priorities and manage a budget better.
This! My wife carries around the Dave Ramsey envelopes filled with cash from each paycheck. As long as she doesn’t take money from my personal “fun money” envelope without asking, and as long as she doesn’t swipe a card, I’m happy.
She went from “$20 here, $40 there” to “we have extra money rolling over to next month” within 6 months. Some folks (like her) do better with cash, others (like me) do better with a card.
We’re cash-averse, in part because we do most of our spending online and in part because, and I guess this is the crux of the problem, it somehow feels like spending the money twice when you withdraw it as cash and then spend the cash. We actually have a setup where we’ve got a joint account and two linked individual checking accounts; all the accounts have separate cards, and when the joint account is used we both get immediate notifications. The plan was to use the joint account for bills etc., and to dump a budgeted amount of spending money into each individual account on payday. It worked for a little while, but then it’d be “Well, we went out to dinner together and I used my account since it’s not a bill or anything, but now I’m short for this thing I wanted to get, so I’ll just pull a little extra from the joint account” and stuff like that until it finally broke down. The usual thing, I guess; a system only works if you follow it.
I think in my case a big issue is having the responsibility without the authority. Like if I’m it’s my fault if a bill doesn’t get paid, then I need the ability to say, “Nope, I know you need X money to pay for something important to you, but them’s the breaks.” Maybe if that budgeted number is large enough then it’ll minimize the chance of that happening, keeping us more likely to stick to the budget.
it somehow feels like spending the money twice when you withdraw it as cash and then spend the cash.
Yeah it does!
We actually have a setup where we’ve got a joint account and two linked individual checking accounts; all the accounts have separate cards, and when the joint account is used we both get immediate notifications. The plan was to use the joint account for bills etc., and to dump a budgeted amount of spending money into each individual account on payday.
Are we the same person? I just got rid of the individual accounts and we’re down to 2 joint checking accounts. Now we have one for expenses and one for debt payoff. Our budget isn’t rock solid month-to-month, so having pre-set amounts go into individual accounts didn’t work. I was spending an hour each paycheck redistributing the money based on whatever unique expenses we had that month.
Maybe if that budgeted number is large enough then it’ll minimize the chance of that happening, keeping us more likely to stick to the budget.
Want the secret to breaking through? I sat down with my wife and we did a budget together. Dictating from “on high” doesn’t work, and no matter how nice I was about it, I was never going to be able to escape from that “on high” dynamic while I was handing a completed budget to her to follow. I tried for years, and for years the monthly budget was broken by week 2.
It changed when I said what needed to be said to get her to buy in. I showed her how much debt we had and how much money we were making. I showed her how we could afford everything she could ever want if we weren’t sinking thousands of dollars into minimum payments. Then I braced for some fireworks. It’s inevitable. My wife’s tears stained some of our early budget sheets once we both started contributing to the process.
Once we got on the same page about our financial health being important and had a somewhat similar end goal in mind, we did a zero-based priority budget. In some ways it felt a bit patronizing. “We know what is important to us” I thought. However, we did it. We wrote our total monthly income at the top of a blank page and started listing our priorities one by one. “Mortgage, -$1850, $X left to spend”, “Grocery, -$400, $Y left to spend”, on and on through utilities and debts and items of reducing importance until we got to $0 left to spend. Then, we were done.
It took about 3 months of us doing this before we developed the discipline to actually spend within our budget. There were a whole bunch of learning experiences for the both of us, too many to go through in a comment. The biggest thing we learned is that a budget isn’t a constraint, it’s a plan. As long as you’re both comfortable with the plan, it doesn’t matter how constraining it is.
If you’ve ever said to your wife, “I’m planning on eating all of the french fries that come with my meal. If you want french fries I would be happy to buy you your own, but if you touch mine you’re not getting the hand back,” then there’s a possibility that we were separated at birth or are the same person from alternate universes.
The tough part is getting her to actually sit and do the slog with me. She’s a big avoider. She’s got issues with anxiety and so forth, plus a lot of what I think is learned behavior. It doesn’t help that I’m not wild about facing unpleasant things myself. Basically, she accepts in the broad sense that we have debt problems and need a budget, and in fact it gives her a lot of anxiety, but because of that anxiety she doesn’t want to actually know the details, and would rather put the implementation on me. Short version, she wants me to make a budget for both of us and then just make everything work out. Obviously that’s not a sound plan.
I think the big thing is going to be to get her to actually sit down and look through the budget with me. I’ve told her before, I’m not able to stay on top of everything on my own. I need someone else who has a view of the big picture at least as backup if not as a full partner in running the financial show.
“until we were on the same page”
Ramsey always talks about how finance is teamwork; the marriage comes first, the money issues follow. But most folk don’t understand money at all, before or after marriage; success discussing it is unlikely as both spouses getting a A on a post-Newtonian physics exam: it’s a recipe for strife. If one spouse is the CPA or the Ramsey addict, it will lead to trouble, and “Ramsey” will become a four letter word around the house.
I spoke of dissonance earlier and will bring it up again. People think they’re doing okay; they think their generation has a chance; good financial planning requires everyone to disabuse themselves of the “it’ll be alright.” How old will you be when your house is paid off? How will your kids go to school? What does retirement with dignity cost? These questions destroy weak marriages, I’m afraid, but…..they were going to blow up anyway……so
there’s little risk in taking the big chance and trying to fix things!
I’ve been incredibly blessed having a wife who also has an MBA; financial discussions were always very level-headed and goal-oriented, and we both knew that “the magic of compound interest” was only magic if you were on the receiving end. Otherwise, it’s just servitude. We’ve wiped out debt in our lives with the zeal of Conan the Barbarian hacking his way through the attacking hordes. It’s paid off, in more ways than one.
She retires at the end of January. Then we start doing our Victory Lap. 😉
Congrats on her impending retirement.
I also like to live debt free, but hoping that inflation goes up so I don’t have to pay anything for my house. 😉
I’m probably too late, but I HIGHLY recommend mint.com for a household budget. Make it sooooo easy. I’ve been using it for 5 years now.
I am game. I started back on a Paleoish low carb thing four days a week three or four weeks before Thanksgiving. Of course I did not keep it up since Thanksgiving, but who does that to themselves.
I’ve been low carb for over 2 years. It gets easier the longer you do it. It takes time to really figure good replacements for your normal high carb food.
I used to be pretty serious about it but geez the cravings. When I finally succumb to the cravings it involved a fresh baked loaf of bread and about four sticks of melted butter. It was better than sex. Who am I kidding. It was sex.
“It was sex.”
LOL
Anyone who says low-carb/no-carb is easy has never baked bread. For whatever reason, the smell of baking bread is like catnip for humans.
Great idea. I will create a GlibFit location where the posts can reside.
Awesome! I just submitted the signup post. I figured that for now we can just discuss our weekly progress in the morning/afternoon/evening thread. If, by popular demand, it deserves a standalone thread, that would be awesome!
Also, I created a My Fitness Pal group for those who use that app.
I will join once I get around to logging in on the app. Seems neither my phone or I remember my password due to the extended time since I used it last. That is a handy app for calorie/g counting.
I use Cronometer because I like to track a bunch of micronutrients with customized minimums/maximums.
Micronutrients? Whoa. So like the Crunch Berries in Captain Crunch right?
Nah, I think we need a separate post every week. Something catchy like “GlibFit Weekly Check-In.”
That way the NonFitGlibs (ha!) can just skip the post.
I’ll schedule the sign-up post for tomorrow. It will make a nice New Year/New You post!
Sweet! I’ll amend the signup post to reflect that.
I’m game also.
Can I play?
I’m in. Beach is calling.
Ladies in lingerie. ‘Nuff said.
http://archive.is/wiWPL
Gods work.
Too many to count. Subtly defined abs…yum.
#2
Also, wtf is going on with #48?
My first full year retired and I’m loving it (thanks all you ‘Murican Glibs for helping finance it).
Until the last quarter anyway. Wife had a heart attack in Sept and then had a heart valve replaced (congenital defect finally caught up with her). She’s recovering fine and then falls down the stairs and breaks her ankle requiring surgery so now she has some more screws, rods and plates in her legs. The day before she breaks the ankle we get a call from the credit card company “Did you just charge $1,500 at Nordstroms?” “Uh…no.” “We’ll cancel the current card and send you a new one.” Our $500 limit backup card isn’t going to cover ambulance rides and hotel stay. She’s now doing fine recovering from the heart attack and the broken ankle and I hit a deer for $4k in damages.
A gorgeous zero American out – clear and still with six inches of fresh power. Think I’ll drive up into the mountains today for some winter photography.
Happy New Year y’all and thanks to our Overlords for making this place possible
there’s nothing worse than a litigious deer. they hardly ever have insurance either.
*narrows gaze*
Ex, while driving from Houston to San Antonio with her then-boyfriend, both of them housed after drinking all evening:
Her: Deer.
Him: …
Her: Deer…
Him: What?
Her: Deer!
Him: What do you want?!
*plows into deer that suddenly decided to get itself wrapped around by a Toyota Tacoma*
When my wife shouts “deer” while I’m driving, I know exactly how she spelled it.
Happy New Year! Glad your wife is doing well.
Hi Mike. You won’t see this, but I’ve really enjoyed getting to know you here and at MU.
I hope your wife continues to improve and that you have a very A-H filled year!
Well, it was a pretty decent year for eleven months – business was reasonably good, had a solid if unspectacular racing season (including first half-marathon), travelled a bit. Then in December I met the most wonderful woman, and now I walk around with a stupid grin on my face all the time. So I guess 2017 worked out.
Aww!
Here’s to more of the same for you in 2018!
Money is a common theme above, and I’ll offer an opinion:
Dave Ramsey is pretty good advice for most folk:
https://www.daveramsey.com/store/books/dave-s-bestsellers/the-total-money-makeover/prodtmmoclassic.html
There’s nothing more libertarian than calling things for what they are and then taking the bull by the horns.
Along those lines, Dave’s seven baby steps are a pretty good approach to financial recovery for most folks.
I don’t agree with him on many serious points, but he’s right enough for the credit card debt crowd: a solid start.
I don’t get a penny for sharing this, but I’m impressed with everyone’s openness, honesty, and vulnerability on these threads,
and I hope this posting is remotely appropriate and maybe helps one person start turning it around.
My parents were born into Southern, rural, agrarian poverty, so gutting things out a penny at a time is my life’s story,
and Ramsey’s approach agrees with what I’ve seen work.
And he’s spot on about what doesn’t work and is incredibly open about his own mistakes and comeback.
Frankly, I listen to him most days on iHeart just to learn what normal people are going through and to hear about the latest types of money mistakes;
even if you’re in great financial shape, it’s good to learn how to advise your kids and neighbors about today’s messes, messes I could have never dreamed up on my own.
If you’ve got troubles in 2018, own it and start the good fight.
When you’re debt free and base your decisions on wealth creation instead of on cash flow, you have choices and pretty much every day is a good day…..I hope everyone gets there.
FWIW I’ve been debt-free for more than a decade and it’s pretty nice. Ever since an ex (and still friend) pointed out that I could afford to pay off my student loan in one lump sum & did it.
Sounds like you already had the first issue well in hand: living within your means.
Otherwise you wouldn’t have pulled ahead far enough to pay the loan off. With credit cards, no one does that any more: they just dig deeper holes every month, pile up their problem, and push it further down the road. Longer car loans and huge houses: keeping up with the Joneses. Debt is normal; people look at me like I’m crazy when I suggest that if you can’t pay cash for something you really can’t afford it…..down-right pisses folks off….their cognitive dissonance doesn’t lead to fear and personal turn-around….it just teaches them to hate me. I’m getting pretty comfy being alone on my island any more……similar to confessing ones libertarianism.
Longer car loans
I’ve seen 96 month loans offered!?!?! How the fuck does that ever make sense?
(As if I should talk. I’ve got a 60 month and a 72 month on my 2 cars. Granted, we’ll have each of them paid off in 36)
To be fair, my way won’t work for many. No house, car, or kids – and I don’t want any of those things at least right now. As for credit cards, well… I got that bug out of my system long ago. Baby’s first credit card was another small pile of debt that lingered in default for a decade-plus which I paid off around the same time as my student loans. Nowadays I can’t imagine willingly piling up CC debt.
I don’t agree with him on many serious points, but he’s right enough for the credit card debt crowd: a solid start.
Dave is AA for the debt addicted. Once you view him in that light, some of his more “extreme” views make a ton of sense. You also have to be able to swallow the “financial advice from an Evangelical point of view” bias, but he’s not exactly Billy Graham about it.
The best part about listening to Dave Ramsey for an extended period is that you start hearing stories that completely obliterate the prog leftist lies about the little guy never being able to get ahead. You’ll hear stories of single moms making $35k a year with 4 kids that have buckled down and gotten debt free, and are now saving for a comfortable retirement. You’ll also hear stories of folks making 200 grand a year that have a decade of digging out to do before they will be debt free.
^^ absolutely correct
I suspected a fellow traveler when I read your “cash” remarks above.
The only thing that has stopped me from getting on the Dave Ramsey train to debt free life is that it would require me to be honest about what I spend on beer, and fuck that.
When budgeting dollars and calories, remember that beer is just desert. Just stop 150 calories earlier at dinner to afford that last pint; just stop $1.50 earlier on entertainment so you have room for IPA or stout instead. If saving in your 401k is “paying yourself first,” then planning your beer wisely is serving yourself first…….enjoy!
*grabs Yuengling from fridge*
A beer line item is a must when suffering the effects of buckling down and working within a budget.
I drink a little over a glass of wine at dinner, one vodka on Friday and Saturday nights, and that’s it.
I’ve owed on my house and nothing else for probably ten years or more. It’s a big weight off your back to not owe consumer or car debt. The house is close to 50% debt to equity now. It’s hard to climb out of the debt hole, an d many people have no idea what it’s like to live without a lot of debt, but it’s very nice. We’res saving around 50% of our gross now, to get to where I can retire in 5 years, but without debt we have the option to do that. That’s what debt takes, is your options. To save or spend or take a lower paying job that you don’t hate.
Good luck, and dig out as fast as you can.
50% of net is impressive. Gross? Fantastic. Congrats!
I have had a good year. Work has gone well. I’ve made quite a bit money. I grown my cattle heard. Wife and Boy are (despite being sick right now) both healthy. I paid my house off in March getting me one step closer to debt free. Glibs has been good place to join. Thanks to the commenters and the site administrator for creating this place. Happy new years to everyone or you. Thanks for being a part of this community.
Happy New Year, Lachowsky!
I’m beginning to wonder if you’re the real life Dwight Shrute.
Not even close Playa.
I was thinking of the quote:
“You pathetic, short little man. You don’t have any friends or any family or any land!”
I have no land. You have a cattle herd.
copy.
I haven’t watched much of the office. Just a little here and there. I get it now. I may mention my land and cows a little too often, but I’m proud of them, so there it is.
Sounds like a good year for you Lach, congrats on paying off your house. I finally bought a bull this year so hopefully I’ll be growing my herd next year.
Thanks spartan. I also live in the middle of nowhere and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Welp, 2017 had been pretty bland for me up until Dec 27.
Anticipating being laid off for a year, preparing for that, launching my own biz (or at least getting a shingle ready to hang out), losing a bit of (but not enough) weight plus other boring shit that you end up dealing with at the ripe old age of 56 – all grist for the mill.
Dec 27, MIL died – not a shock really – she’s been in declining health for a number of years. Then the almost immediate explosion of a feud among the inlaws. Inevitably – it’s money – funny that – it always seems to be, doesn’t it? The estate is not insignificant, but it’s not big enough to justify Götterdämmerung.
I’m blessed that SWMBO is ALSO keeping out of it, because it removes some of the drama, but it’s pretty depressing being conferenced in on a call that discusses whether we can do something ‘creative’ with the assets of the estate before probate is completed. Uhh, no. Just no. The kids are finding that their aunts and uncles aren’t the nice people they thought they were.
Yeah, I don’t get fighting over possibly inheriting money. Not like it was really your money in the first place.
It gets a lot of masks to drop.
Same happened when my grandma and mom died. And the estates were relatively insignificant. I knew there was a reason I never talked to the lowlifes on my stepfather’s side.
2017 had an incredible amount of business travel for me, actually getting me to top frequent-flier status on two different airlines. There was a stretch from September through November where I was only home for three nights in a row once, and sometimes I’d be gone for over a week on open-jaw trips to multiple cities in widely separate parts of the country. Yikes. I’ve been promised by my company that my schedule should be much more civil this year, fingers crossed.
It was a really tough year for my wife. She’s been a top wine sales exec for many years, but got “re-org’ed” out of a job in the spring, and has been out of work since. She’s actually been through multiple rounds of interviews with several companies and lost out to another candidate in the final round every time, despite her glowing reputation, very positive references and demonstrated work history — so you can imagine what that’s done to her self-confidence. I hope the reason she’s been on the losing side isn’t that she turned 50 this year and employers think they want someone younger (it is interesting how many times she’s been told she’s ‘overqualified’ for a job, which to me sounds like code for ‘too old’.) She actually looks quite young for her age, and I would think that anyone without a reference would guess she’s about 40, but when you have a resume showing 28 years of work experience and the year you graduated college, it’s not hard to ballpark someone’s true age.
Add that to her mother’s progressing Alzheimer’s and a struggle to be able to keep her in her home with 24-hour in-home help vs. a nursing home, and it’s just been a bad year for her. I’m hoping 2018 will be a big positive year for her, she really needs it.
And here’s to all of you out there for a fabulous 2018! I’m having one of my greatest joys today, sitting in very comfy cotton sweats reading Glibs — a terrific way to relax. Back to the grind in 44 hours!
I’m sure you’ve already thought of this, but don’t list dates. Make it hard for them to do the math.
I’m going to remember that.
/pushing 50
Work history should NEVER go over 20 years. I had the better part of two years without full time work in my early 40s – it sucked.
I’m surprised that it matters past 10 years, but I don’t make the rules.
Can’t tell you how many times I heard “overqualified” after I left my last corporate gig to relocate when I married OMWC. It can’t be about age…I’m only 8!
(I finally just started my own company.)
Nothing wrong with that. I started my first company at eight too. I made hotpads and sold them door to door.
I can only assume it was the cutest thing ever. Unfortunately my ability to get by on cuteness has declined
somewhat since then, so I’ve had to actually work lately. Not tonight though. Cocktails and cab rides await.
In my 2-year consulting stint, i had a period of 9 months like that. basically, never home more than 2 days straight. i grew to know airport bartenders in NY, ATL, DFW, STL, RDU on first name basis.
when i *was* home, i spent almost the entire time sorting through receipts and itemizing my expenses.
a couple of friends of mine own a wine-importing business in NY that was a spin-off from Zachys (your wife should know who that is)
http://massanois.com
last i heard they were growing gangbusters. they probably do most of their business in the tri-state area (*i see on the website they’ve added California), but would probably be interested in hearing from someone who could open up other regions. I can put you in touch if you’d like. reach out to me @ jf(my handle)@gmail
I recently counted up 62 airports I can remember well….expected your list to read “JFK/LGA.”
This past year was my last in first class after leaving the Fortune 500 life in 2016: status is all used up now.
“”.expected your list to read “JFK/LGA.”””
NY was my shorthand for both. but i frankly spent the least time in them, because i was either rushing to get the hell out, or once i’d arrived home, i just wanted out of the airport ASAP. most of the other places i became a regular were places i often went to, but had indeterminate flights-out, and so spent many an hour cooling heels drinking overpriced cheap beer in fancy-looking plastic glasses and chatting up some randos
i also only had 4-5 clients. it was the same handful of destinations, constantly back-forth
I had a once-a-month out to the Kansas State Govt in Topeka (from San Diego) for a couple of years. That was the timeframe where I earned the Companion Pass with Southwest – for a year my wife could fly anywhere with me free. [Which she almost had to do to spend any time with me.]
i think its sort of a “required life experience” to be a road-warrior in some form if you’re a business guy.
its like waiting tables in college. its a form of employment everyone should do once because it informs a number of other sensibilities. being the ‘flying constantly to have 2 hour meetings then doing work in hotels for 12 hours then flying to next 2 hour meeting” guy for a while teaches you a lot about how to prioritize/budget, as well as the importance of comfortable shoes and stain-resistant shirts.
Thanks Gilmore, you are awesome! Yes, she definitely knows about Zachy’s. I’ll drop you a note. Happy New Year!
I’ve interviewed a bunch of people in the last twelve months for various positions who I argued against hiring because they were overqualified and I was afraid they’d be bored in the position. It does happen.
everyone is bored in the position.
Exactly. I got that one at the interview for my current job. “I am not sure you won’t be bored with this job”. Hey, I just need a job and I will do my best for you ok? Luckily one of the interviewers was the guy I had been working alongside during my time there as a temp and he put in a good word for me. Sometimes some of us just need a damn job even if we are overqualified.
“While I’m doing the job you’re paying me for, I’ll be writing the Great American Novel in my head to soak up the additional creativity you think I’ll be missing”
If no one ever quit, then it wouldn’t be a big deal. I don’t particularly care whether anyone is bored, as long as they do their job. But if someone finds something more interesting after 6 months and leaves, then that’s a lot of time and money down the drain.
sure.
my last corporate employers had 6 month probationary periods for many of the company benefits. not sure why it isn’t more standard.
my point was simply that if that’s your only criteria, its a shitty one. everyone is always looking for something better. making gut-guesstimates about someone’s future level of commitment sounds more like a rhetorical cover for “i just didn’t like them”, which is a far better reason to pass on employing someone.
I think ours is actually 12 months for some benefits. But even 6 months of just salary and time is a big waste. Especially since it involves a lot of my time training them.
Obviously that’s not my only criterion. But it does come up a lot, partly because our HR department is bad at editing job postings and filtering candidates. If “I just didn’t like them”, then I say that.
Training for what? The only training I received for my current job was where shit was, how all the HR policies work, benefits package understanding and other trivial stuff. I did not need trained for the work but I was overqualified for the job to begin with so that helps.
My hippie cousin said that bad guy from Dan Brown’s Inferno had a good idea to use a bio-weapon to reduce humanity’s population by two-thirds in order to stop climate change. My brother agreed. I asked if they considered that a final solution to climate change, the rest of my family laughed, and he spluttered that it was okay because he wasn’t singling out any groups.
That sums up 2017 pretty well for me.
You know who else asked about a final solution?
Bill Nye?
When I worked for two German firms I learned not to refer to any engineering revision as the “final solution.”
When I worked for two Japanese firms I learned not to refer to microwaving as “nuking my lunch.”
When I went to a French firm, I learned to refer to the daily fuckery and BS as “work.”
Regis Philbin?
Every math professor on the end of term final?
he spluttered that it was okay because he wasn’t singling out any groups
Ah yes, it wasn’t the killing millions of people that was horrible. It was the fact that they killed the Jews, queers, and cripples.
Murder is ok if you dont target anyone specifically?
Sure. It’s not murder – it’s just statistics.
yeah, sorry: unless that super-weapon was aimed exclusively @ “China”, it wouldn’t accomplish its goals. It would actually make things worse.
I keep telling people: if you believe that ‘carbon’ is the main driver of climate change, then all the “problem” is tied up in future emissions in the developing world.
western europe./US/Japan, etc? are all basically @ Zero Population growth, and already on a path to where our net emissions will be declining. basically, the ‘developed world’ is a net *negative* in terms of influence on climate change. It will not be contributing to growth of emissions: its a sink.
china, india, brazil, russia, etc…. they are going to add 10X the total emissions that the Western world emitted from 1800-2000 in the next 50 or so years.
in effect… 110% of the problem is in the developing world.
Which is why the whole “Paris Agreements” were complete horseshit. they were just a way for poor countries to milk bribes from rich countries to “pretend to be doing something about it”. they were not even a viable incentive mechanism
this is all assuming you even *believe* the horseshit around climate change. which i don’t. But people who claim they do? they basically don’t even understand the issue they claim to believe.
Trump knows all this and everyone still says he’s stupid. Yeah, OK.
God I hope he works on the UN next…
Can’t complain about this year for the most part. Celebrated our first anniversary in July, then we became homeowners for the first time in October. Kind of a big deal since I’m in my mid-50s and my wife is um, 29 (actually mid-40s). So, doing all the newly married stuff at different age than most is interesting: not from our perspective but most people we meet.
Work OK: second year as department chair but learned that one of the people in my department who I thought was simply arrogant is actually a passive-aggressive, insecure, control freak who will lie through their teeth about anyone if it leads to them feeling better about themselves. And have been persuaded by some other colleagues that I need to do second term as chair to deal with this situation (which will take me through to summer, 2021). Ah well, my wife supports me, the extra money for being chair is about 5 mortgage payments, and it’s looking like my wife and I might actually be able to live in the same state within the next 12 months or so.
So, I feel pretty good overall. Happy New Year and thanks to all those who got this site up and running and who maintain it.
” I might actually be able to live in the same state within the next 12 months or so”
You have a wife…. in Canada?
Hah! Actually, we live in neighboring states but I live at the eastern end of mine and she almost at the west of hers. My job isn’t transferable and she helps run a family business that is running close enough to the bone at the moment that they can’t hire someone to do her job. We’re doing better since we got married: we see each other usually once a month for a week or so and the summers are pretty flexible for me.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, until it gets unmanageable and the traveling gets really old. We did that for more than a year, then I relocated. It was worth giving up my gig and friends and lifestyle and… oh, wait. 😉
*snorts Coke Zero out nose, laughing*
Ow!
2017 was a good year for me. I finally was offered a permanent position at my company after working for years as a full-time temporary with no benefits. My wife started a new job too at place she very much enjoys and is much closer to home. I also started grad school which I’m actually enjoying. The kids are happy and healthy. There were some bumps in the road, but we got through them and nothing really matters anymore after I came all too close to losing my wife and unborn daughter from a stroke a couple years ago . That really made me evaluate every year differently moving forward.
I’m looking forward to 2018. 2017 was really all about building the foundation for a solid 2018 for me.
Happy New Years to my fellow Glibs. I work from home and live in the middle of nowhere so feel fortunate to have found this community.
Happy New Year, SSD!
I promise not to try and HTML post a link in the following description of the year that was.
2017 has been an interesting year. I went back trucking after a 2016 of trying to settle into living in America permanently and working construction. As you may have heard in a post this site graciously hosted, that hasn’t gone so well, and now I’m back to square one with what to do with myself for money and a career. And my wife is due with our first child on April 30. So, out of the frying pan of 2017, and into the fire of 2018. Hopefully the various existential crises subside and I can concentrate on becoming the best father I can be, and figure out how to make it all work.
I really enjoy the craic and interesting angles on things you all bring to the party, your tolerance for SF’d links, and the awesome response you gave to my trucking article. Expect a few more contributions on various things, and a commitment to not try and claim one of SugarFree’s many claims to fame.
Thanks very much and a Happy New Year to all of you.
Who let the Irishman in here? 😉
That’s what she said!
Where ya from?
Grandpa is from Belfast.
I was born in Hamilton, Ontario.
Happy New Year everyone! Gordi, congratulations on the new addition to your family. I think of you whenever this song comes up in my playlist.
I always think of this song Gordilocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NNwOScmSQk
*squints suspiciously*
How do we know you didn’t try?!
Anyway, I hope things work out.
Also, here is my favorite song about trucking.
An Australian offering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3rpMurkX4
I got my mitts on tons of trucks all over the world in 15 years in my part of the truck business.
My equipment triumphed over the jungle and the arctic, but Australia can break things no other continent can.
One tractor pulling multiple trailers totaling well over 100 tons through the worst deserts in the world will wreck your warranty budget.
What was your part of the business?
Feel free to email me, my handle at protonmail
JIMMY FUCKIN’ BARNES
His best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erSJGrpfnOI
You posted this a week or two ago too, yeah?
I used to drive through Susanville after picking up diotenaceous earth in Burney, CA. Pretty part of the world.
Good luck in 2018 with the career change. I saw your article and can appreciate what you went through. I too tried to drive a truck for a living in 2016 but not with your extensive experience. It sucks balls and even if I had not gotten injured I would not have stuck with it. Good riddance to that job.
Congrats on knocking the Mrs up.
Thanks!
Gordi, a Trucking question/request. In California, Semis are Prohibited from driving in the #1/#2 lane if on anything over 3 lanes. California paves at 9″ depth for #1 and #2 lanes and 14″ for all others, So why do I see so many out of State trucks in the #2 lane nowadays? They Wreck the pavement, it’s not designed for commercial Trucks, you have you’re own lanes, and you break our momentum, I don’t get it.
They have only so many hours a day they are allowed to drive. The right two lanes in CA get clogged so they say fuck it if they are light enough, and or can pass and try to pass. Driving a truck in CA is near on the worst experience in my life and I have slept in the dirt in S Sudan. Fuck CA. They have no place to park because everyone hates trucks and there are few truck stops compared to the rest of the country (except the east coast maybe), the speed limit is 55 for trucks and there is a shit ton of freight to move in that state and move out of the state and they make it very difficult.
What Don said.
The State of California are the most anti-trucking industry government on earth.
I learned a lot from your article, and time my drive whenever i can, it helps, an I’m a million mile Commuter,
Thanks and HNY!
I’m okay with Cali being Cali.
The laws are the same for every firm competing there; the roads suck for everyone; the monotony of performing there is pretty much the same for everyone……a ton-mile is a ton-mile is a ton-mile within their borders.
And they pay for the consequences of those choices in higher prices….or they can move; many folk do leave.
And a firm can opt out of Cali; there’s other markets and money to be made..
I’m all about decisions having consequences and everyone choking on whichever flavors they prefer;
the only firm I worked in Cali for closed its operations there about 1998….not worth it.
We are probably leaving by the Summer, Headed to AZ, where my Daughter/grandkids are, i love my State, Born and raised, but it’s become untenable in too many ways to mention, Listing all the everyday BS would take an entire article, hmm……
Born and raised there too, left twice, this time for good. Seriously – there is no amount of money that would convince me to live there again (pre apocalypse). But I will break down and visit.
I am ok with Cali being Cali too if I don’t have to drive a truck there, which I don’t anymore. I entered the profession middle aged with a wide experience field but never driving OTR. As a new driver home yard Phoenix, I was sent to CA and left there even though I was hired as a lower 48 driver. The guys with experience demand certain loads and GTFO of CA which is their right under the pecking order but…. The other hauls which never leave the state get sent down to the new guys. I made $90 over two days there once. That is the mileage I racked up. Intrastate drivers are on a different rate which is higher and under different DOT regs, but are in short supply because CA is an idiotic place to drive a truck.
muh lanes 🙁
Happy New Year!
Exactly one Year ago my Wife was in ICU Dying, with what we found out later was a bloodborne infection from her foot. After almost 4 months of her being given massive amounts of Vancomycin,She wasn’t recovering at all, Despite being in a Nursing home. I finally got her to a Hospital where the Dr. took one look and said the foot has to go, and they took her Left foot above the ankle within 36 hours. A lot of Family were angry at my decision, but it saved Her life, Little did they know we already discussed the possibility, and were prepared.
She’s Almost ready for the Prosthesis, and will walk in 2018, Yippeee!
/ I like it here
Wow. Glad she is doing better.
I learned a lot about people, friends, family, oh yea…..
That’s great news man.
I didn’t want to get all dark with my comment, but I felt it better to speak now rather than when I get drunk (Drinking already in progress)
The Whole ordeal was nerve wracking and depressing all at once, but i couldn’t give up, who would help my Wifey? That’s my job.
Happy new Year again, to all you Glibs out there!
It’s a tough position, but that was a good call. Awesome that she’s recovering.
Excellent that she got the appropriate medical care. Having an advocate who cares about them makes all the difference for patients. Good job!
Thanks everyone! I try not to dwell on the bad times, and focus on the Future, and Remember, No HILLARY!!!
I like it here too, Yusef. Keep up the good postings. Happy New Year!
A foot is not worth a life, good you made that decision.
to the Wife and I, it was a no brainer, but several Dr.s and a Bunch of family were like “ooga booga MEDICINE! SCIENCE!
I have the luxury of being a Glib, and had no problems, saying
FUCK OFF SLAVER!
People would pop up out of nowhere and attempt to manage my Wife’s condition, typical uninformed stupidity,
Thanks again
Wow, happy to hear she is doing better.
It reads weird for me to congratulate you both on your wife losing a foot, but given the alternative I hope you take it in the spirit I mean it. Seriously, that takes some real stones on her part to make the call and go through the recovery and your part to advocate for her, especially to her family. None of that could have been easy.
Well done sir, nursing homes are scary.
Anyone seen Nephilium? I have, he’s playing games here, it’s a pretty cool place, I play Yahtzee a lot
https://en.boardgamearena.com/#!welcome
This year I left my business, because I couldn’t convince my partner that I need to be payed in order to work, got a new job (that it’s) that’s not half bad, and officially organized my side-project into a new business. 2017 was an interesting year, wonder what 2018 will hold.
Wasn’t there an Indigo Montoya over at TOS? he’s over at the game site too
Guess I’ll pop an extra cork tonite to try to forget the Eagles look like they will last about 1 QUARTER in the first playoff game. There’s always “next year.”
Not an Eagles fan (Redskins observer, more like) but I watched the game. Wow, man. Four games ago if you’d have told me the Eagles will win the Superbowl I’d have believed it. Now, without Wentz, yikes. And what the hell happened to Foles? All I remember was he started for the Eagles and was fantasy gold, and then all of a sudden he’s riding the bench. Is his performance today why?
My New Year’s Resolution is to post cheesecake pics on glibertarians.com. I’m counting on you guys to help me out keeping it.
I’ll help out Q!
Remember a little thicc is OK and Gingers are the Bomb! (and the spawn of Satan, but whatever)
Cheesecake smeared on titties? I’m down.
Nom nom
Yes.
I’m actually good with either literal or figurative cheesecake pics. I love both, honestly.
I’ve greatly enjoyed the experience here with the rest of you Glibs. I really enjoyed the discourse a lot of you had over on TOS when I became a follower, and I jumped over as soon as I heard about this site’s creation. I’ve generally been a lurker and a relatively sparse commentator the past year — I plan to speak more regularly from now on.
I lurked at TOS for 10 years? But when the Shit went down, it was clearly time to bail, and being here gave me enough courage to run my mouth. They let ME write for them, Crazy isn’t it?
Comment more Mr., Submit an article, just don’t sit in a corner,
HNY!
I was on Reason for about a year and a half before I switched over — sounds like I missed the good years of the site, but luckily I learned a lot from the comments. I’m definitely interested in getting some of my own writing out, so I’ll start researching some interesting topics. Or maybe an off-the-cuff piece, who knows. Planning ahead, regardless.
Admittedly, by the time I opened up some of the articles the comments section was already pretty deep, and I was satisfied with simply reading along. Lately I’ve been getting to them sooner, so I’ve thrown my two cents in. I’ve seen how rich a community this is, and observing ain’t enough to get a full immersion — it’s time to dive right in.
Happy New Years Yusef, and to everyone else!
I’ve thought about doing something movie-related, but writing Glibs-quality material is hard.
I envision something like this.
Yes, speak up and Happy New Year!
afraid to admit I don’t have TOS in my OAL
what does it mean?
The Old Site
or Star Trek, The Original Series, but that’s not important, what is important is, DRINK!
Pour out the kanar!
Have a Edit Fairy First GIF for the new year.
Aside to mods, I submitted this through the lead/submissions tab a week or so back thinking you guys may want to debut it yourselves but I never got a response and the imgur view counter has me thinking maybe my submission went straight to spam. Or maybe you just don’t want my GIFs, which is cool, I don’t need your acceptance anyway, I don’t need any of you jerks.
Thicc!
That’s awesome.
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I like it.
Your gifs are the best and I am grateful for them…this is is getting added to the library ASAP!
So family safe. Well done Hyperbole.
Happy New Years to all!
I managed to get to the range for 10 minutes today. It was 12 degrees outside. I shot through 7 preloaded mags and decided that was enough.
Happy New Year!
Well, I want to say this year has been very good to me, because it has except for finding out about my dad’s cancer. So sadly, that turned this into a garbage year for me.
I’m sorry to hear that. Hopefully he heals up quickly!
Crap. Sorry.
Hope things get sunnier somehow in 2018.
SP, remember the Baby picture contest? You said something about prizes. Not to to be a Mensch, but were you serious? The reason for asking is we and my neighborhood were consistently ripped off during Holidays, i.e. Mail/package theft, and if you were, you might want to know,
🙂
Ha, yeah, just got crazy busy with real work. They are still coming!
A year ago I said, “at least Trump will bring some Lulz”. I feel vindicated
Gilmore, how can you not be vindicated with your always awesome avatar!
HNY!
Can you imagine the Tweet Hilar’s handlers would have twattered?
Horrifying.
God Bless Trump and May Shiva smile upon him.
Actually yes, I could imagine it. My boss would’ve made me write it.
Jaysus, I knew you were cold-blooded, but really.
Holy fuck. Mr Lizard is Huma. It is all starting to make sense.
Happy New Year! Thank you for creating this site and community.
Happy New Year!
Thanks to all the Glibs who were here in 2017 and to the founders for founding this foundling of foundations of liberty. My year personally was okay. I am living in a beautiful place with even crazier politics than CA or NY. I have a second career that is proceeding okay and have spent many days sailing in and between the islands. (Remember sailboats move by the wind, but are powered by alcohol.) It is hard to shoot and hunt here, but I got to spend time hunting in Washington.
There were challenges for my son and his family when his wife was diagnosed with postpartum breast cancer. But after aggressive chemo and a double mastectomy her final tests in November came back as all negative. Now comes the years of waiting, but their daughter helps keep them grounded and his boss was very supportive and let him work remotely and he proved to his boss that the risk paid off for his company. I, and my ex, turns travelling to Germany to help watch a typical 18 m.o. while chemo and work demands consumed them.
On a personal note I have met a nice small business owner and we are stepping into a cishetshitlord relationship. I may join the 2018 Glib Health Challenge since I have put on some weight. I am hoping the weight gain is from water retention from drinking those prog tears.
“sailboats move by the wind, but are powered by alcohol,”
We call it God’s Gas
/Ex sailboat owner
What are the two happiest days in a boat owners life?
The day the bought the boat and the day they sold it.
THAT is a fact, I actually gave it away to a lady sailor who wanted Her own boat,
Happy new years you old fart! 😉
My brother’s in laws were millionaires, then they bought a boat!
You too! PsychoBro!
Unquestionably. The relief you feel when someone agrees to buy your boat is immense.
Glad your daughter-in-law is doing better. Wow.
Happy New Year and good luck in your new relationship!
Happy New Year to all of you. Imma lie hear under my blanket and sweat it out. But you guys and gals just keep drinking. I won’t be the slightest bit jealous.
Happy New Year! Feel better.
Hey SP, thanks for the arrows to scroll to top and bottom of page. That’s a thumb saver on my Android:) Very helpful!
You’re welcome. It makes it much easier to read the site unobtrusively through meetings.
I love beer,
also that this was tagged Family.
Hey Lachowski! If the temps are going to be similar tonight, make sure your mom cycles that unit in AC once or twice through the evening, JIC, and if the problem persists, contact me,
HNY!
This year was pretty good. Actually worked most of the year, which is unusual. Computer consulting
work can be spotty. OTOH, I mis-estimated how much I’d need to set aside for uncle sam, so I’m
about $6000 poorer than I thought I was. The tax bill should help with my taxes at least. Next
year I might even have law school paid for, and I haven’t been in a position where that was
even thinkable before. So, despite some downs, it was mostly ups, and I can’t complain
any more than is every soldier’s right.
Above people were talking about money. I think the advice of living within your means is good,
but trivial. Much like dieting, it’s the breaking of (bad) habits that’s the hard part. Everyone
*knows* you should live within your means, but how?
So a habit that I’ve cultivated is what I think in German is called “spannungsbogen”.
A net search says that’s “build up of suspense”, but which I learned as a word for
a self-imposed delay between wanting something and reaching out for it.
For example, I almost never buy something the first time I look at it. I’ll tell myself
I can buy it tomorrow, or next month, or whatever instead. Frequently enough,
tomorrow never comes.
I do this sort of thing with snack food too. If I think I’m eating too fast, I’ll catch myself
and then wait 10-15 seconds before taking another chip. It’s not that I don’t necessarily
finish the bag anyway, but the habit of discipline helps at least with the notion that
“I chose to do this, I am in control of my actions, I did this out of a conscious, informed,
and deliberate choice.” Even if it was a *bad* decision, at least it was a decision I
made, not an unthinking reflex.
I have other things I do to keep money discipline, but I don’t want to detract from
the main point: even if you waste money spending it on things other than liquor
and women, do it by choice, not impulse.
I was going to write a bunch of shit, after hearing this, then I read the rest of your post.
Basically this. Don’t buy anything. All my clothes are falling apart. I have so much money.
Just please make certain you’re actually wearing clothes.
Does it count if the crotch is all worn out? >.>;
On your clothes or on you?
?
All my clothes are falling apart. I have so much money.
Lackadaisical is 1984 Madonna.
The brisket is now resting in the cooler. Only four hours until brisket carving. And I must say the Crooked Stave Baltic Porter is very tasty.
Just FYI, this growler of Allagash trippel is making me feel like a freshman in college. Love it!
Someone (Nephilium) was asking me the other day how the left-hand stout fade to black (foreign stout) is, I have to admit Iove milk stouts better, but this is eminently drinkable.
May everyone have a Happy New Year – 2017 has been pretty crappy for me, ending it with some illness (a bad cold) so yay!
Going to be drinking cheap champagne and watching THEM! and the original War of the Worlds.
In my opinion THEM! is the better movie.
That’s that movie about the Jews who live in the L.A. flood control channels right?
Santa Claus conquers the giant ants.
And fuck Photobucket for trying to make everybody switch to a $400 plan to allow third-party hosting.
Happy New Year!
Happy celebration of your puny world passing a fixed horizontally-defined angle in the orbit around your primary star.
If it gets cold, we get the jump on you, don’t forget it reptile!
I’m catching up. The fire is dying down. Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone’s 2018 is better than their 2017.
I spent some time searching for a livestream of the Austrian state broadcaster that I can access (the official livestream is unavailable outside of Austria) so that I can watch the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert tomorrow. The broadcaster has some New Year’s variety show on. My German is terrible, and I realize what I see might be the video and audio on the stream being out of sync, but the lip syncing looks shitty.
http://www.cyberghostvpn.com and install their service.
Pick an Austrian server. Time it right and you’ll get the whole concert. Unpaid users get – IIRC – 3 hours between disconnects
Thanks! I’m on Linux, and unless I miss something, their Linux page says only paid subscriptions for Linux users.
On the other hand, I do have Windows 10 on a VirtualBox VM… but then I have to boot Windows. I only have that VM around for my tax software.
This might serve https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-setup-a-vpn-for-free-or-paid-on-linux-62e1a93d04f3
Thanks! I’ll look into that when I haven’t been drinking.
A couple were invited to a swanky New Year’s Eve costume party.
Unfortunately, the wife came down with a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone.
He protested, but she said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time being spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, awakened without pain and, as it was still early enough, decided to go to the party.
Since her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him.
She joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice woman he could, and copping a little touch here and a little kiss there.
His wife sidled up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his current partner high and dry and devoted his time to the new babe that had just arrived.
She let him go as far as he wished…. Naturally, (since he was her husband)..
Finally, he whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed.
So off they went to one of the cars and had a quickie.
Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away, went home, put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior. She was sitting up reading when he came in, and she asked what kind of a time he had.
He said: “Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you’re not there.”
“Did you dance much ?”
“You know, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Browning and some other guys, so we went into the den and played poker all evening. But you’re not going to believe what happened to the guy I loaned my costume to….
Nice. It got an actual lol.
I’m drinking some Kentucky Waterfall. It’s not bad.
People here in southern NH are already setting off fireworks. It’s a balmy 5 degrees outside right now.
Happy New Years, Glibs!
I wished I contributed more but I really do appreciate this site and I learn so much from you guys. Thank you founders and commenters for making life much richer.
This year has been good and bad. I got married to a wonderful woman but lost both my grandparents in a span of 5 months. Overall though, even through the stress of life and work, I am pretty lucky and try to remind myself that everyday when I want to pout and stew on how hard shit is for me.
All the health issues and losing family recollections made me self reflect. Sorry for your loss. I am super lucky too and pretty much have nothing to complain about. HNY Ed.
Happy New Year! Hopefully we’ll meet you in 2018!
::Loads up AC: Black Flag for a session of hack and slay::
Nice choice!
Nearest thing I’ll get to a vacation in Tulum.
Tulum is awesome. I didn’t listen to that there though.
Now that it’s past 0000 UTC, it’s appropriate to say Happy New Year!
I prefer We Went to The Moon time, I’m PST but Moon time is CST
Happy New Year, Ted! OK, pleasantries are out of the way.
I searched your blog for reviews of the Thin Man series on TCM tonight but didn’t find much. I have them all set to DVR just in case. I’m a big mystery fan, so I assume I’d like that aspect of them. However, I’m not a big fan of cutsie (for lack of a better word) or bungling, slapstick humor. I mean, are they using smarts to solve these mysteries or are they accidentally stumbling onto the solutions, a la The Three Stooges?
Are they all worth watching? You mentioned in one post that they seem to lose a little after they have a kid.
They’re elegant, lightweight whodunnits with a beautiful interplay between the two main characters. They’re not slapstick at all.
I’d compare them with the spirit of the original UK “The Avengers” series. They’re not *exciting* by modern standards.
OMWC and I *are* Nick and Nora! Except not as well dressed and much less rich. But we drink as much and have the same level of witty repartee.
We love those movies.
I’m looking forward to seeing how many of them I can get through tonight. Drinking and witty repartee sounds delightful! That even describes this place…sometimes.
I doubt nearly anyone dressed as well today as Nick and Nora did then. But if you and OMWC drink as much as they do, well I feel for your livers!
Anything with William Powell and Myrna Loy is worth watching, not just the Thin Man series. And either one is a delight by themselves.
Thanks, 6! No need for them to be exciting, what you describe sounds great. I’ll certainly give them a go tonight.
NZ & Australia wonder what took you so long.
Ted is not only a punctuation Nazi. He is also a time zone Nazi.
Ted is the Gillespie of Pedant
lol
Almost sounds like a Title, ” I PROCLAIM YOU, GILLESPIE OF THE PEDANT!, May God Bless your Poor Soul”
For the last three years, I happen to do better than UTC: Milan, Kangaroo Island, Mallorca. So, I’m already qualified to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to one and all!
I think I can speak for everyone in saying that 2017, Glibertarians.com was a vastly better online experience and made the world a much better place than Iron Fist, and on a fraction of the budget!
The founders should be proud of their creation.
I’ll drink to this.
I’ll drink to that with you.
Here’s to the Glibertarians founders. Prost!
Prost!
OOOh. A 1+ hour edition of This Year In Stupid.
Happy New Years! And a huge thank you to the founders, maintainers, contributors and commentariat!
In the spirit of the thread, 2017 was kind of a wash for me, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’d itemize, but brevity is the soul of wit. Suffice it to say that the waters are choppy as always but slowly, relentlessly, things are getting better in general for my family and I.
Happy New Year!
And the TOS crowd laughs at us, according to them, we are all mouth breathers who all get in a line and follow along. A sad pitiful group, misanthropes all.
I love the diversity of opinion here, truly like no other
Listening to The Jacket interview Lisa De Pasquale earlier:
Lisa: I sometimes do that thing you’re not supposed to do… I read the comments.
Nick: Bad idea.
Happy 2018, Glibs.
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!
Don’t ever change, Nick.
Happy New Year, ya pricks!
It’s New Years Eve, -10 and a full moon. I’n staying the hell inside. I hope the ERs are staffed up tonight in Minneapolis!
hayeksplosives: May try to make it to MG on Friday. No car– so that’s a lot of Ubering there and back. We’ll see.
So you are Little Brother eh? well I just have to say Welcome! and Fuck Off!
/That’s how it’s done
Haha. Yusef, ‘Radar is a regular here. And he’s not Hayeks’ little bro.
I know him, but he sounded like Hayeks description,
HNY! Slaver!
HNY to you, you crazy vacuum repairman. 😉
He is a FlowBee rep. Jesus, you guys miss my best lines.
I caught it,you called me out,
/You’ve Killed us ALLLLL!
No, I didn’t miss it.
*stares blankly at ‘sloper*
Happy New Year!
Jesus Christ. I’m not Tulpa. But all the Minnesota Glibs live in the suburbs. Not having a car it’s kinda a ways away. Just saying.
2017 has been a decently non-eventful year for me. But tomorrow officially marks the first day of my quitting working with the company I’ve been working with for over a decade… so let’s see what 2018 brings.
It’s a pretty big gamble… so wish me luck, if you will, and have a happy new year, you marvelous bunch of freaks.
I wish you luck (even though I suspect you don’t need it). Show up on Friday and I’ll buy you a drink!
Muchas gracias señor Tundra. Won’t be able to make it friday, but let’s be sure and try again some other time. Not sure if any of the other twin city glibs are car people… but it could be fun to put together a little cars & coffee or somesuch, at least once the temperature is warmer here, than it is on mars.
Sounds good. Shoot me an email at minnetundra at the evil gmail and we’ll connect. Happy New Year!
If I can get up to Northern Mich. to visit my Sister, I’ll be invading your household to be sure, andI might find other glibs along the way. Wait, I can just travel and sleep on a glib floor all the way out and back! YES! I’ll bring Beer!
Decided I’d better get in on 2017 before the clock rolls over. I’ve been reading the Glibs for many years, 7-8 or so. I came to the computer world a lot later than most, a generational thing.
Every year is a good one for me, I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to count all the Glibs as my friends. I’m a northern MN guy. Over the years the number of my friends has been reduced substantially and now I have my surrogates. Thanks to all those that generated and maintain this site. I’m hoping that those that have had some strife this past year will see resolution in 2018.
Don’t try the Generation thing Bro, I’m old, but not as old as some these fuckers, OMWC is actually OLD, critter
HNY!
in a 3 player yahtzee game right now, totally fun!
Dead thread is dead 🙁
On to STEVE SMITH!
I am absolutely hopeless with Shodo, but here’s my attempt at wishing All you glibs a Happy New Year.