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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Pay them more? So they can lose their benefits? Are you crazy?

    I’m kidding, of course. I know that what you mean is, “pay them so that they can afford to live without requiring benefits.”

    You get into some of the poorer places in the country though, that truly would be nearly impossible for most businesses. There are some places in West Virginia that would immediately have no access to gasoline, groceries, etc.

    It is crazy to think that Bobby McBusinessman gets to ride around in a giant RV all summer because the government pays his employees. They don’t see it that way though, as they collect their HUD payments and accept food stamps while all of their employees receive food stamps and medical benefits.

    All while the rest of the community lives on nothing and experiences very little joy in this life.

    What do I know though? I’m just a pissed off hillbilly who helped make someone who isn’t me very rich.



  • Worked on me. Been a lifelong problem and by the time I was old enough to realize it wasn’t cool I was hooked. I collected camel dollars as a child.

    I thought I looked so rad at 11 marching down the road with a cigarette. I see that now and it just looks so wrong. It’s still like that where I’m from too. Little kids with cigarettes are a common sight.


  • Man. This reminds me of one of the funniest moments in all of life.

    My niece came over to spend the weekend with my daughters and used my exes laptop to look at videos on YouTube. She was really into everything babies at the time, but specifically diapers and bodily functions (thank you baby alive).

    She looked up “baby peeing”. She shared nearly 20 videos of baby alive dolls and diaper changes on my exes Facebook with captions like. “Look at the wee wee water awwwwwww”. “This baby sure pee pee a lot”. “This baby poop like playdoh”.

    Then she moved on to animal videos. I guess the baby alive dolls made her think of the bodily functions of animals.

    She posted several videos of animals urinating.

    “Awww he got pee pee everywhere.” “What a nasty nasty mess”.

    And finally, the video that led to a call from a friend of hers. Somehow in the rabbit hole of animal videos she found one of pigs mating. “Look at pig ride the other pig. So funny.”

    This is right around the time of the first iPhone and we were still using computers so no notifications. When she logged in she was so humiliated. Comments like, “are you ok girl?” And finally, “ok this is just nasty. Something is wrong with her and someone needs to take her computer away.”

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more humiliated person haha.


  • This is where i’ve been for about 7 months.

    The cracks in my mind are just starting to show. I don’t know if I can keep doing it.

    It is different though. She wants me to be a stay at home dad so I left my job of 24 years. First 5 months was awesome. My last day of work was the day before our third little one was born.

    She’s in the “cry for nothing until you hold me” phase, so I’m hoping once she cuts it out I’ll be ok again.

    I’ve been about to crack though. 4:30 this morning it was bottle time. Mom is working from 4AM TO 2PM at the moment, so that’s just the way it is for now.

    I’m so so so tired. I guess I’d be even worse working right now.

    I hope you enjoy every minute of retirement.







  • Abe Normal is just a guy like me. We knew each other in the old country. Shady characters all around. We never got close but I could count on him in a pinch. I never dreamed we’d be partners, solving mysteries together.

    Norm Al Goody runs a pharmacy at the edge of town, and I’d bet my life on the fact they he’s supplying the Wretch Heads with their junk.

    If I have to beat it out of him, I will. Abe thinks we should handle it by the book, but I’m Detective Diff Fective. I’m not known for playing by the books.

    Sorry. :p