Pat Riot

Years ago I had a brand new Mazda GLC. Whenever you let off the gas when driving it sounded like the horn blew. The EGR valve had malfunctioned and had to be replaced.

A sprit airliner flying over our rail shop in LA Another airliner flying over our rail shop in LA

A jumping spider that startled the he’ll out of me at work. It dropped from the ceiling via the web.

What a cutie. She looks smart. How long did it take her to wrap you around her little doggy finger?

They wouldn’t tell me where he went. Not long after he was gone we also got a new FedEx guy for our area. He was good too. The prior FedEx guy was high all the time. He delivered one of my guns to a lady up the street. She opened the box not realizing there was a revolver in there and about had a heart attack. She was expecting a package from her daughter that had scrap booking materials in it. She brought my gun to me after looking at the label.

@John Kloehr & @Texas Joker Thank you. I learned something today. I appreciate it.

@Misty Moonshine @Eliphalet R. Moderator Any updates in this situation that you can share?

I had an idiot arsehole UPS guy in Oregon. I won’t go into the whole story of his dumbassery but I found that every phoned in complaint only resulted in more dumbassery. One day I finally caught this no good dirty rotten moth…Ahem, UPS guy actually pulling up to make a delivery - he usually delivered early in the day when I was at work. I confronted the Wookie and explained that I wasn’t above giving him something to remember me by. The next day I went to his depot and spoke to his boss’ boss’ boss and laid out every idiot infraction and UPS violation this moron made with photographic and video evidence. (I got video clips from my neighbor of this idiot’s antics) The next day I got a call from this District Manager and The Big Stupid had been transferred. Not fired. Not disciplined. Just transferred. Anyway, the new guy was great. He told one day that The Big Stupid hated me because of how he was treated when my house was first built. It turns out the people that owned the house before me treated this guy bad so I was receiving undue crappy treatment because I guess this guy was so dumb he couldn’t recognize that my name looked nothing like the prior owner’s name. Moron! Anyway, raise some hell with this guy’s upper management. Maybe they’ll fix the problem.

Does that mean “not AI”? The (-) symbol, I mean.

The only horse I have ever galloped on was made of steel and it ate gasoline. Unless you want to count the horse that ran off with me on its back once when I was 8 years old. At first I was terrified then I was exhilarated and cheering. I guess that mean arsed horse didn’t like me having a good time so he stopped. Then I had to climb down and walk him back to the farm and the girls that owned him. It was quite a long walk. The girls met me half way. It turns out they had a lot in common with that horse. They thought it was hilarious that I was terrified as it ran off but got all pizzy when they found out that I had a good time.

I have considered only using my Apple iCloud email, but the layout is so boring and limited in features that I feel like I have stepped backwards in time when I use it. I have dumped all things Google. I have been hoping and have sent emails to DuckDuckGo to start an email service. I guess they only want to get the their feet wet in that arena. They are not a very big company so I guess their scope is limited.

She’s “trans”

Two of our “Mulies” Young Mule Deer I literally took these a couple of minutes ago. My wife saw them and I went out and dumped some corn and they came back. A shot out the window.

West Virginia Sunrises 2/3/25 1/21/25 - I love the weird cloud shadows 11/19/24 11/17/24 Had to do a panoramic shot on this one. 11/4/24 10/27/24 1/12/24 Sky on fire Here’s another shot of the same sunrise.

I would buy one if they would just Cerakote it in a two-tone motif. Maybe red and bronze. What do you think?

Huntington Beach, CA on a very rare clear day. Photo taken from the pier with my iPhone. January 2, 2022

Yes. They give you an email that ends in “Duck.com”. What is “Brave”?

I have only ever found 1 antler and that was decades ago. It was in a swampy area and the antler was in the muck. Where do you look for these sheds?

John’s post reminded me of something. I have a Duck.com email address that I use that sends all my email to Yahoo after it purges trackers. I still have to use Yahoo for many things but my DuckDuckGo email address takes care of the trackers for incoming emails to the Yahoo account. Also, if a business sends me an email through my Duck account if I respond they see my Yahoo email address so it isn’t fool proof. Oops! Forgot the link that explain DDG email protections. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses/

Yes, but I only use it on my iPhone. After the prior update to this last on on iOS Yahoo pulled a fast one and disabled all the securities and privacy in my email account. It took me a couple of hours to fix but I was pretty ticked. Yahoo tried to get their fingers into all my apps. I am so invested in Yahoo that bailing on them would be a big problem for me, but I think disabling all their garbage and prying eyes has made it easier for me to keep them until I find something better.

IF I were a police officer I would carry off duty.

Joe covered it, but something I like is just make some rice (whatever kind you like) fry up some ground meat and mix it into the rice with pico de gallo. It’s good. I also like on plain ol’ tortilla chips. Oh, and it’s really good on fried fish.

I tell people that I am the best kind of human. “I am a mutt”

In every country I have been in outside USA people have always said “Are you an American?” and I proudly smile and say “Yes”. No one has ever asked me if I was anything but an American. No “White-American”, no “European-American”, no “British-American”, no “Scottish-American. Just “American”. I have worked with people from all over the world that have emigrated to the USA and became “Americans”. They all referred to themselves as “American”. The only people that I have encountered that call themselves hyphenated Americans of one sort or another have been people that are 3 or more generations after their original family members that came to the U.S. or they are people that really don’t like it here but won’t leave because where they came from is a lot worse off than where they are now, but they like to romanticize where they came from. I have been known to offer them money to go “home” and not come back. They never take me up on it and they never speak to me again. Win-Win! Now there’s some positive hyphenation for ya!

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