WTF-Beta

His lack of consistency and repetitiveness are not confidence inspiring.

Yes.

Thanks, Andy.

Thanks, everyone.

Joe, Do you mind posting your website? I've wanted to hear your recordings and learn more about your career for a long time.

@jon-nyc said:

Ain’t no way a horse drew this.

That's a great one!

This begs the question of why an executive would need to be convinced of reality but moving on...

@jon-nyc I was class of 85 and will be 59 next month.

Elegant. Love it!

It reminds me of a kind of English house I've wanted (if I'm being frank) for a long time.

This kind of house is called a "dowager's house." I love them for their elegance and especially for their scaled down size.

The best example I can give is the house the Dowager Countess played by Maggie Smith lived in on Downton Abby.

I'm a minimalist at heart.

A person might think-- that's minimalist?!

Actually, yes; it's a perfect example of a minimalist sensibility.

Other than my Georgian house and tower house fantasies, this is my favorite type of English house.

The house in your ad has all of this and is renovated. I'd buy it.

Parenthetically, this reminds me I bought my first Florida lottery ticket tonight since I was 18.

I could win $786 million.

The next time I do this I'm going to buy a Florida Lotto ticket. The jackpot is $6 million. This is the lottery I remember from back in the day.

I posted about my summer about 12 hrs ago. Lol.

I can safely say this has been and continues to be one of the best, most interesting, and satisfying summers in my life.

Honestly, the only summer I remember as being better was the summer after I graduated from high school.

I spent that summer at my parents' house. It was the first summer I didn't get a job since getting a work permit in
New York when I was 16.

I didn't stress about it because I was starting at UF in the fall.

I spent my most memorable time that summer hanging out with one of the friends I had since I was 3 and his cousin.

The 3 of us explored the woods and went camping.

We were '70's kids. Lol.

It was a sublime summer.

This summer at 58 I have reached the goal of at least a humble version of the "American dream."

It's by no means the only blessing I've had in my life but it ranks up near the top.

I locked myself out for the nth time. It took me I guess about three weeks. I got in just now.

Well, I have been moving out of my place and moving into my new place.

It was necessary to keep two places during last month.

Honestly, I have been at it was six or seven days a week and working through countless nights.

I've cleaned up my old place, moved my stuff, moved two heavy pieces of furniture by myself, cleaned out what I didn't need at my new place, spring cleaned my new place, made countless trips to the dump with my hatchback's seats folded down and the trunk filled with yard bags of garbage.

Did I mention I'm exhausted and in.pain from my head to my feet? Having two accidents (my fall from the top of a 6' moving gate followed by tripping over the top of a moving container in the dark and landing sideways on concrete as you might remember). Well, I injured my right side the first time and my left side when I tripped and fell. Bad timing.

I got quotes from movers (2 movers, $200 per hour). I decided I didn't need them and forced myself through will power to do it myself.

So, the paperwork for the old place is one step from being done. The paperwork for the new place is done.

I got a summons to traffic court for what the prosecution will argue that I was driving an unregistered vehicle and that would be a criminal violation. I wasn't.

I'm gathering my paperwork, learning the court's policies, and planning on appearing because you get a bench warrant if you don't appear. Very stressful.

Still, I'm feeling a little better. There's no mold, no rotting house, no more tiny living space; I have electricity-- so much healthier and more comfortable!

As an aside-- latest news at my alma mater...

They are tripling the student population, extreme but predictable (this and the money it will bring from different sources was the plan all along, 30 years in the making).

Worse, the governor has ordered the alumni association to disband! The alumni association reply was to refuse. I haven't paid attention to this since the day it was news.

Also, they changed the ancient Minoan seal by changing the shape of the four winds (it represents nature but now looks like a machine). They eliminated the sun in the center! They replaced it with some unrecognizable shape.

Minoan civilization

https://share.google/y9gSRrkqx7ixCRulb

Well, they are trying to erase previous generations of students from the institution's memory.

I think it's passing strange that these people have decided alumni should have to live without this bog standard resource for students' community and professional association.

Other than that, I'm avoiding news and politics to a good extent because there's only so many hours in a day.

Thanks admin. for helping me get in again!

I hope everyone is well!

Antiquities FTW.

It's times like this that I fantasize about being a Catholic.

I had my favorite Publix GreenLee organic Vanilla ice cream yesterday.

The problem was I hadn't bought it for at least a month and it was sweet, as if 1/3 of it was sugar.

I like this product, but other than having a little too much air in it, it has way too much sugar.

They see it (randomly we're told), it's not their land, and it's a nature reserve, so they decide to claim it like Old World conquerers, and do God knows what with it.

https://x.com/wantedinrome/status/2069462215099310468

Strangely nobody's coming up with a duplicate Apollo and Daphne and claiming it's real.

She should sell perfume. Name it Tulsi.
The bottle could have her head twist off with her signature gray streaks.

I'm not serious. I'm just joking.

She's something of a mystery. She's always been somewhat of one.

My time isn't that valuable except to me but even I don't have the energy to fall down this rabbit hole now.

@jon-nyc said:

Oh my fucking god. What is it with magats and history? First Trump signs the surrender and reparations document at fucking Versailles, now this maga influencer literally said “Donald Trump just delivered peace in our time”.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2067393501004697788?s=46

Well, latest I saw was he finally signed it.

You know, after that little-- ."kill the negotiators". ... part where it went south.

@jon-nyc said:

The natives are getting restless.

Watch out.

Summer Solstice!

Did they drain the swamp?

@dolmansaxlil Happy Belated Birthday!