Happy Easter! Eat a ham. Here's an egg for you in these trying times. I'm sitting in my hammock on the deck enjoying perfect weather. 69F and sunny. Tomorrow we are having an egg hunt out front with the neighbor kids. Then, I think it'll be outside, gardening, puttering time. Here are some cute bunnies. Y'all ve good this weekend. Are you doing anything different than usual tomorrow?
Usually we’d go to my in-laws for Easter dinner but they’re in the middle of moving from an absolutely gigantic house to an apartment. So obviously they’re not hosting for holidays anymore. My parents are having dinner but we decided to skip that and eat here. We’ll visit them after. Easter ended up on the back burner this year I guess.
We’re having a small group here- just the immediate in laws. The Missanthropic is doing her own thing with friends at college. More often than not we don’t do Easter gatherings anymore because we’re traveling. The Mrsanthropic really wanted to have the immediate family over this year, I think mostly because the mother in law is getting up there in years. Dinner will essentially be Thanksgiving dinner, but swapping the turkey for pork tenderloin and switching up the desserts.
My mom, sister, and BIL head off on a Japanese cruise tomorrow, so tonight is a very quick and simple dinner at my BIL's mother's place. They're all just too stressed out about getting ready to leave, all while my sister's place has a new, flooding crack in the foundation. It's been raining a shit ton around here lately so of course this has caused new flooding and a drain backup in their basement. They're high-strung at the best of times, so needless to say they are freaking out and hinting at cancelling the trip as a result. Looking forward to a bit of a break with just me and the dog for a while. My food tastes are a bit different than my mom's, so I'm looking forward at doing a bunch of cooking of stuff that I love but she doesn't eat. Case in point, the boneless leg of lamb resting in the fridge. Tomorrow it gets put in the marinade, then it gets seasoned, rolled and tied up like a porchetta, then high temp smoked. I'd planned to do this for a while, but then Meat Church did a video of exactly that, which seemed like divine messaging... "do it!" Other than that, I'm enjoying a nice 4 day weekend.
Huh... I think my sister's MIL poisoned us all tonight. She made us a ham for dinner, with some scalloped potatoes, asparagus... and we're all puking. One day away from everyone else flying to Japan on a 16 hour flight. Happy Easter everyone!
We went my her parents place in SF and it was beautiful. Food was good but on the way home, my stomach got all fucked up and I was doing 90+ trying to get to the next freeway exit with a gas station before I almost shit myself. I think puking would've been better
My wife decided that she wanted to go visit her parents and see their new apartment. They’re not moved in yet, but they were there for the afternoon. It’s an old school building converted into an apartment complex and it’s very nice. It’s also a LOT closer to us, which is nice. Because of that, there was no time to cook a big meal so we had the most jacked up Easter dinner ever: soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. We gobbled that down then went visit my parents. The conversation turned into old family stories, many of which I grew up hearing but our younger son hadn’t. I got a new appreciation for how poor my grandpa’s family was and how far we’ve come. I never knew this, but Mom said he’d never seen a Christmas tree until he married my grandma.
I've just gotten to the point that I take loperamide when I'm somewhere and have to travel and I'm worried about making it through said travelling. It's not worth the risk to me. I also may or may not have had to blow up a gas station restroom before I fell upon this revelation.
This is one of the best parodies of A few Good Men I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tj_7FHJpnjg
When I was touring, I had a little pill container of Imodium on my keychain. Then I got food poisoning when I was back home and found out that you want to eject that, not keep it in. So I’m usually a pepto guy now.
Halfway through Spring Break and I need to go back to work so I can get some rest! We decided to tackle the attic since there’s still a lot of room on the dumpster so I’ve been hauling shit out of there for the last two hours. Many years ago, a previous owner installed a toilet and a sink in the attic. I mean a LONG time ago, because the plumbing was cast iron for the toilet and steel for the rest. All that shit’s been there since we moved in because “out of sight, out of mind.” But it’s also taken up space, until today.
Dayum! Disgruntled employee sets a toilet paper factory on fire. And videod himself doing it. https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2041954196258533877 Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot warehouse in Ontario, California. 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim was arrested on arson charges for setting a Kimberly-Clark warehouse on fire. Abdulkarim apparently filmed himself on Instagram setting toilet paper packages in the warehouse on fire. "You may not pay us enough to f*cking live, but these b*tches dirt cheap... There goes your inventory," Abdulkarim apparently said. "All you had to do is pay us enough to live. All you had to do was pay us enough to f*cking live." The warehouse is the size of 11 city blocks. In total, 175 firefighters and 20 engines were on the scene trying to put the fire out. No one was injured.
What an idiot. On the one hand, he gets a nice little break from the hustle and bustle of the workplace. No injuries, so it probably won't be too long. Then he has to find a job with that on his CV. Teach your children impulse control.