most things that I acquire are pretty specific like tools or books or musical instruments, socks and underwear, etc, and I came to select those things through trial and error. I still appreciate gifts, but…

my ex bought me two things I wouldn’t have bought for myself but absolutely loved: the red book - a red leather bound copy of the lord of the rings in one volume and a hello kitty fender strat. then my (adult) children got together and bought me a t-shirt that is a portrait of Anthony Bourdain using sort of ascii art of the first chapter of kitchen confidential. I struggle with depression and it was like an acknowledgement of that and them telling me they loved me.

goddammit I’m crying.

if I could receive one gift I’d pick for myself, it would be more time with them.

I dunno about anyone else, but I bet the coffee she serves is amazing.

I wish to sample, please. one sample.

you mean cock?

it’s a pre-auth charge. I’ve seen $175. It comes off after a bit. Sometimes in a few minutes, sometimes in a few hours. These gas stations will put up signs saying it’s your bank, but that’s BS. It’s the station’s acceptance or whatever.

As a NOT millionaire (technically I am homeless though in far better shape than some) boats are enjoyable and even fun. Paddle boats, row boats (my favorite), canoes, small and medium powered craft can all be a blast. I’ve never been on a yacht and wouldn’t choose to the same as never having chosen to be on a regular tourist cruise or in a casino except for work. I don’t like people that much.

That cramped cabin and constant earthquake is only on a ship really. Even choppy seas aren’t too bad.

It sounds like you mostly hate water, which I understand. My gf is the same.

Do you use swimming pools and if so, do you avoid the deep end?

For me, I grew up around water, lakes and beaches, and my grandfather was in the coast guard auxiliary and had a cabin cruiser. Even a good summer weekend involves climbing into an inner tube and floating down a river all day.

Two pairs of black Carhartt cotton duck overalls I bought in 2010 and 2011. One knee is blown out but they are the softest most comfortable clothes I own. I still wear them once or twice a week, wash on hot, dry on hot. These, a Dickies pocket T shirt, and 15 year old 14 eye steel toe Docs are the ‘uniform of the day’. Other than a few nice suits and some shorts, I’m pretty much not interested in clothing. The suits were bought for corporate recognition and I work from home otherwise.

A yurt would be a step up for me. I’ve been in some pretty nice yurts.

Maxwell coffee would be a step down, however.

Or perhaps quartered?

It’s already polluted. Let’s not make it worse.

Please pick up trash on the beach and dispose of it properly.

This is primarily keyboards/synths but when I think of resonance, this is wonderful. Crank it up.

Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within

Who’s we?

I still remember the fucking IP address of the main local (member of a three way cluster) data server for a bank that folded over 15 years ago.

2102231063 (used to be area code 512) was the back/kitchen phone of the firehouse my dad worked at. He retired in '93 and died in 2011.

And I almost never need directions to a place I’ve been once.

I don’t forget faces but fuck do I forget names even when I repeat them or use other memory techniques.

I might be neurologically a little divergent, but I don’t know, and make no assumptions.

I like it tossed.

I have two trans kids. I’ll be getting the trans flag with the AR-15 on it tattooed on me.

Someplace visible in shorts and a T-shirt. Fuck it.

The Hitchhker’a Guide To The Galaxy.

Skinny Puppy coming out of retirement for one track makes my wee wee tickle

Musk makes a very similar duck face when he’s not happy.

baba ghanouj, especially when it’s a little more smokey.

I had to pipe in this old post from August 6th 2019

"Chinese companies have stopped buying U.S. agricultural products, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday, a blow to U.S. farmers who have already seen their exports slashed by the more than year-old trade war.

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall called the announcement from China “a body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by.”

China imported $9.1 billion of U.S. farm produce in 2018 - mainly soybeans Sc1, dairy, sorghum and pork LHc1 - down from $19.5 billion in 2017, according to the American Farm Bureau.

Your Dumbfuck-In-Chief, folks. I’m sure someone has a clever retort involving emails, or pocahontas, or shithole countries."