Prepuce of Doom

Boise State and #19 New Mexico are tied at 67 with 6:30 left in what has been a fun game, at least for the past 5 minutes I've been watching (FS1).

Perhaps username will check out fairly soon.

Don't forget to wear maize and blue to blend in with the locals!

I'll call and raise your Jerry Orbachery.

This show is one of my regular stand-bys. ~~~~~

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Cheesecake Factory is for people so bad at conversation that they need a gigantic and gimmicky menu as a prop in order to get to know someone. It's also for the terminally indecisive/incompatible pairings. One person wants Thai and the other wants Mexican? You can both get what you want and be separately but equally disappointed! And nobody wants to make out with someone who has coffee breath.

Fair point, but conversely, I don't need utensils if I'm taking food back to my home or some other location that has silverware, and would prefer not to just throw it away because it was included by default. Perhaps restaurants should make it a more industry-standard practice to ask people whether they want utensils.

If only. It's a fight every time. And he lies about it. Luckily, he's such a slob and is such an inept liar that we can always tell whether he's telling us the truth based on what kind of mess is (or isn't) in the sink. And he's unwilling to take any feedback or advice from us. He has an electric toothbrush (pulsates every 30 seconds to tell him to move to a new quadrant) but refuses to turn it on, so instead, it's just a big, heavy manual toothbrush with an exceptionally small, round brush. And he brushes so hard that he mangles the heads in just a week or two. So it's also far more expensive than a normal toothbrush.

^^^^that's got some Mad Max Jensen Interceptor vibes. Diamond Back Tires is offering $100 off an order of $1,000 or more today and tomorrow. I have been pleased with the custom tires I ordered from them based on my guy's recommendation. He says that in his experience, the quality of the vintage-style Cokers has dropped off considerably over the past few years.

And let me preempt the "price of genius" retorts this time by sharing this experience. It happened last week, but I haven't had the time to do the story justice until now. He had a loose tooth and was constantly putting his fingers in his mouth and messing with it, etc. It was his fourth or fifth loose tooth, and all others had previously come out with a lot of angst and worry in the build-up to the actual loss/removal, only for it to be no big deal once the moment came. Probably a pretty typical emotional trajectory for losing one's baby teeth. He wanted to look at the wiggly tooth in the mirror. He was anxious for it to come out because the Tooth Fairy is his only reliable source of income. We tried to give him an allowance for a few weeks, before abandoning it because he would often argue about doing his single chore (using the electric sweeper around the house and under his place setting at the table after dinner every night) and he eventually declined to do his single chore often enough that we weren't going to keep paying him, and he was more or less fine with that once it became clear that we were trying to teach him something and that the purpose of his allowance wasn't just because we wanted to give him free money. He would rather be poor than learn a lesson he doesn't want to learn... Anyway, he decided to go look in the mirror in our small powder room bathroom. The mirror is mounted too high for him to see himself from standing on the floor. So he climbed up onto the toilet so he could climb onto the small sink/counter in order to see himself. But he didn't close the lid to the toilet. In what should come as no surprise to almost anyone who has spent more than a day or two observing the principles of physics which govern this planet, the toilet seat on which he had most of his body weight slipped a bit, causing him to fall, and plunge one socked foot into the toilet, and one foot on the floor. He immediately panicked, and had no idea what to do next ("how do I get my foot out of the toilet?!" - uh, remove it???), screaming and yelling for help. Mrs. Doom and I both heard the commotion from different parts of the house, and ran to see what Serious Calamity must have happened in order to generate so much noise and spazzery. I just lifted him up and his foot came right out - he wasn't stuck at all, just vapor locked by the unfamiliarity of the stupid predicament that he put himself into. He was very nervous confronting the issue of "whether that's poop and pee water" (the only, and I mean ONLY reason that it wasn't, was because someone else besides him was the last one to use that particular toilet...) so it's looking like he's got some issues to work out before he's ready to begin his internship at the Poop Factory with @Scheiss Meister. ~~~~~ He has a stepstool in a different bathroom which allows him to easily see himself in that mirror.

It's been less than two weeks since I last excised a tumor from this same location.

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I've been waiting for someone to show up wearing that dumbass "winter sombrero" of MacReady's.

Holy moobs!

The orange coming back, the "demonic possession" outburst out of Neil/Bob/Eileen during the hospital visit, the hypnotic call of whatever was luring Navarro before her radio jolted her back to The White Man's Reality, and other miscellaneous weird shit happening to Navarro seem like they are the same sorts of spooky things that her sister is experiencing, and that (I think?) some of their other family members have experienced in the past. It's my hunch that Navarro will be able to escape from it (or otherwise vanquish it) on account of not knowing her Inuit name, and therefore the entity won't be able to fully fuck with her or whatever.

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Their horses are prohibited from using the Internet and other modern conveniences.

Maybe a $100 surcharge for each Atlanta rapper?

He put one of these microscopic gummy bears into my boot the other day. *these bears are the apex predator of the Gummy forest. Best brand by a long shot - try them out if you don't already know this. They make normal sizes, too. And a very wide variety of flavors. ~~~~~ This was his note-to-self to help remember his winning guess at Clue.

Wordle 953 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 734 5️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #231 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Did we have a very recently used repeat word in Quordle today? Or perhaps a Wordle/Quordle crossover?

It's always been my (mostly uninformed) view that historically, Seiko has been a lot like Subaru - very solid, mostly dependable but not without some quirks, fiercely loyal fanbase, built to be modification-friendly, and at the top of the "bang for your buck performance that punches above its weight class", etc. But like I feel that Subaru lost my its way about 10-12 years ago by abandoning its established niche and instead trying to become Toyota (i.e., generically appealing to the lowest common denominator), and it sounds like Seiko is electing to follow the same path. Capitalism at its finest - abandon what you built your reputation on in order to keep the stock price climbing. Nobody is content to dance with the date that brought them anymore...

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