a few months back i decided life was too short to put up with the frustration of turning lamps on and off with cheap sub par switches and decided that chains were the way to go. i'm happy to report that chainification has been achieved in the bat nest:
i don't know how i was able to function at such a high level in the past when i was wasting so much time feeling around for knobs to twist that might have been on the right side of the lamp, on the left side of the lamp, at the front of the lamp or at the rear of the lamp. now i just pull the fucking chain and through the magic of renewable hydro electricity, my world is illuminated. i feel right at home in the illuminati. they're a bunch of real swell guys.
now that i'm illuminated, i decided that i needed some illustrations of dune so i ordered a hardback copy of house atreides to get some maps and illustrations. i plan to read sisterhood of dune and mentats of dune in the very near future and e-readers can't do maps for sour apples. the screen is too small and it's a pain in the neck changing screens. whilst looking for the the cheap copy of house atreides i came across a few first editions of the original "dune." i've been wondering what to buy myself for a retirement gift and a first edition of dune might just fit the bill. a very large fucking bill for a pristine copy.
i love you sons of bitches.
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I read the original Dune and left it at that. Any sequels were bound to be flogging a dead horse. Nice light chains, but won't the lamps fall over if you pull them too hard?
the sequels aren't very good. the prequels are much better. house atreides and house harkonnen are excellent.
billy - that's some retirement gift - the kind that keeps on giving. Your music video takes me back to days when my Dad and I would disagree on what should play on the car's radio. I was young... we agreed that whoever drove the car, the other picked the station to listen to. You know I had to drive all the time - he said the experience would do me good.(yep) Tiffany lamp with chains - hot damn! Nice work.
i saw a copy that went for $10,000 and that caught my eye but there are crappy book club editions that are pretty cheap. sooner or later i'll pull the trigger.
You are the man, BP. Nice job on the lamps and excellent choice for your retirement gift.
Chains are easy to find in the dark, maybe I should put one on the LED light in the camper.
I'm back, great trip, went well, loved the folks in Texas, got pictures, now that this monkey is back at a keyboard he will start regaling you with fantastic stories that will have you hanging onto every word.
Spent last night in Sequim at Laurel Ann's and came on home early this morning.
Hey, when a chain pull switch goes bad just replace it, those little bastards are a pain in the ass to try to fix.
SANDRA POSTED SOME PICTURES ON HER PICTURE SITE...
mr shife - thank you for your support. i'm afraid that search for a choice quality copy of dune is fraught with danger and will take time.
king - welcome back, we all missed you. yes, the thought did cross my mind about replacing chains but that's a long way down the road. all my chains are still stiff, even the two lamps that i bought used.
I use to have a friend in the oilfield that would tell me stories of Dune. (He wasn't from there, but was reading it at the time.) There's a side of me that really likes that kind of music.
BBC - Great pics of Texas, there is one I've got my eye on. I didn't know you were so close to Oklahoma, I thought I felt a disturbance in the force.
Texlahoma, it is more likely that you felt a disturbance in the farce.
That's a pretty cute camper on your truck, BBC.
Fuck, Leslie decided to say something nice? What is the fucking world coming to?
It's cute. I like it. Plus it looks like it could double as a coffin.
It would make a fine coffin, good enough for the likes of me. Now that I'm back I'll finish the interior and put a different heater in it.
tex - i always liked the earl scruggs revue. maybe it goes back to the beverly hillbillies.
leslie - camper on the truck? or behind the truck?
king - that coffin would need a big hole.
No, it would be a cremation pyre.
Double as a coffin? It could make quarters or even sixteenths. You could bury a whole Mormon family.
BBC, it think you should call it your 16ths.
I was thinking I should put a sign on the back of it.
OLD FARTS PORTA-POTTIE
Or something like that.
how about: have gun - will travel.
I enjoyed watching that back in the good old days.
I hear there's a tropical storm headed your way, take cover!
I was watching a Z-Nation and could tell it was written by someone who knew nothing about tornadoes. They had a huge tornado about 200 yards away, heading towards them, they decide to "gather supplies' for about fifteen minutes before having to take shelter.
(This comment brought to you from left field.)
The only bad storm that has hit me in the last ten years is Leslie.
tex - having supplies before a storm seems like an excellent idea but what kind of supplies would a zombie need? too bad the aliens got mulder, he'd know.
king - i think hurricane leslie has lost a little steam and dropped from a category 4 to a category 2 storm.
Maybe we worry about shit too much, I took forty pounds of food to Texas with me and brought it all back. In these modern truck stops we have these days it is just too easy to grab something that is ready to eat and as cheap as a grocery store.
But if have bowel problems and you want protein from meat you can't trust a fucking hamburger, it can block you, it is better to find an Arby's and get a roast beef sandwich, they are good and slide right through you.
You should write a book on health and nutrition, BBC. You're really personable and you've aged so well -and from a marketing standpoint that's pure gold.
Go Saints!
950 mg of sodium in one Arby's "roast beef" sandwich. Don't you have high blood pressure? I'm going to send you a gift certificate for Christmas.
The doctor doesn't give a fuck how much sodium I take in, said I need it. When you become my fucking doctor you can tell me what the fuck to eat being as you think you are a fucking expert on me.
Don't pull my chain or yank it. I love my lamp with chains. Easy to turn on or off. Illuminated is the best way to be.
I have some info for you, even though you may not give a fuck or ever need it. Those cheap chain pull switches also work well on 12 volt systems that don't require a lot of amperage, like lights, small fans, etc.
But they won't last long on high amperage 110 volt loads like 15 amp table saws and such.
And if you want a cheap heavy duty toggle switch for a high amperage 12 volt load you can't use a modern 110 volt silent house light switch, in fact they won't work on any 12 volt system no matter what the load is.
You have to go to an old home and take one of the old light switches out of it, the kind that go click when you flip the toggle.
You're on high blood pressure meds and your doc told you to up your salt intake?
OMG. I LOVE HIM!
Well, stupid, just because my blood pressure is a little high doesn't mean salt has anything to do with it.
Right. You have high blood pressure because you are rotting, but salt sure isn't going to fucking help with that!
Go get another bag of Arby's.
Jesus, now she thinks she is a fucking doctor and can diagnose us without blood tests and knowing what is in us, is there anything she isn't?
We all know that it is very common for folks with high blood pressure to reduce their sodium intake but that doesn't hold true for everyone. Most foods I eat have little or no salt in them so an Arby's sandwich at times is good for me. If there was one here I would eat one a week.
There is no time an Arby's sandwich is good for you.
Dear doctor cunt, I drink a pot of coffee every morning, and twice as much water as most people, and beer, all that tends to flush the sodium out of your system. Get a fucking brain. If I was going to be concerned about an Arby’s sandwich it would be the lack of fiber but they slip right through me so why bother to be concerned. I’ll likely outlive you anyway, everyone is dying on me, I’m going to be all alone at my fucking funeral. If you want to know where my salt is going you can suck my salty cock to test it.
And yesterday I made a grilled cheese sandwich, get the fuck over it.
nancy - yes, chains are good but i have no idea what old bbc is saying about amperage and table saws.
king - as far as is know health comes down to:
exercise - good
green vegs - good
salt - bad
sugar - bad
fat/grease - bad
alcohol - bad
leslie - i was surprised that the saints beat the pack last night.
Every body needs some salt, just not too much of it. I prefer fruits over vegetables and eat some everyday, leafy greens make a lot of gas in me.
I'm blessed with the fact that I don't give a shit that the Seahawks are not doing so well.
As you age you discover that you aren’t as bullet proof as you once was, have blood tests and discuss with your doctor what your needs are, we are all different. My new doctor is great and doesn’t think the amount of beer I drink is all that harmful, it has some good things in it also. I’ve outlived the health food nuts around my age that I’ve known so I guess I’ll just keep on doing what I do.
Returning from Texas I stopped in Kennewick to check on my last wife, we were still friends, fuck, even she is dead.
Here's the thing, BBC: you look really crusty and fucked up. You don't look at all healthy. You look 20 years older than you claim to be. Your teeth all fell out. Now maybe they were just trying to get the hell away from you, but most likely you're just rotted all to hell in that spirit wrapper you call a body. I don't think you should be giving advice on eating or just about anything else except maybe how to be an obnoxious narcissist.
That game was beautiful. It's why I'm in such a good mood today!
I really don't give a fuck what you think I look like. And I made it pretty clear that you should discuss your needs with a doctor, I only mentioned some things that work for me.
If you want to leave this rock looking all pretty while you have gotten so old that others have to feed you and change your diaper go for it, but it isn't my gig.
I've been down a lot of roads, not all of them paved, and I don't mind that it shows on me, it has been a hell of a ride.
Just go sit in front of a mirror and primp yourself, you are wasting your fucking time here and boring Billy P.
Leslie reminds me of a bat shit crazy dog I met in Texas, my next post will be about him.
I do want to leave this rock looking all pretty. I really do!
And you can save all your hard, unpaved road BS for all your Hemingway wannabe friends at the bar.
Leaving this planet all pretty is still leaving it pretty fucking dead, carry on, godfuckingdamnit.
She may leave this planet all pretty but she won't make the news like Liz did, or Cher will. She will just disappear off of our screens.
And that validates the importance of their existence.....how, exactly?
when i die, disposal of my shell will be someone else's problem.
as you know, i subscribe to the al swearengen philosophy:
"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
Sandra has an empty turtle shell she found on a walk, I took a picture of it to post when I get around to it.
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