Either of those is a major win in my book! I’m making the Englishman Ribeyes on the grill, brined baked/grilled baked potates and a fresh pea and crab salad for Father’s Day dinner today!
@Felton10@ybmuG maybe it’s just hot/sunny and he was overly judicious with the full on blocker. I hear there’s a lot of that burn your face off heat going around.
I got work meetings for a deploy. So we can maybe be up Tuesday. But I also haven’t managed to knock anyone up yet and the cats don’t bring me presents (usually)
@unksol I feel I need to rephrase. I have not found anyone I want to knock up. Which has several precursors. Not… I’m just lucky I haven’t? Or… Idk. Maybe my bad joke bothers me more than it should.
I spent $550 on some bottles of whiskey, $55 on a bottle of sotol, $40 on an oop harold & maude blueray, and $15 on a used, and fairly rare david sylvian “died in the wool” cd.
for not having any children i think i fared pretty well
@Noddy93 was anyone else reading that as "spent x on bottles of x, x on bottle of x, and then broke on the $15 of used? Wait used what? Alcohol is antiseptic but… Oh…
Why do I think that some of of these liquor sources were created and are managed by folks who grew up during the baby room era, and have spent serious time somewhere near Austin?
Happy drinking! I wish you some fine Dad jokes to go along with the alcohol, for the spirit of the moment.
@asplus@mike808 but what can’t be found within a hundred miles of me is a Costco… and not one of the 31 stores in my state sells liquor. Sadly, in my town of 120,000 only one store even attempts to keep Harmony in stock and will go a month or two without a bottle between sales. Perhaps you could convince your Costco to share some of the wealth with the great state of Texas.
anyway, Hibiki Harmony is, in my opinion, above “decent” into the “pretty damned good” arena. Most Japanese whiskey is too “scotch” for my taste but this one I like.
@asplus@Noddy93 That’s a fair review. To me, it’s not enough in the bourbon camp for my tastes. Don’t get me wrong, it was definitely drinkable. I’m not a scotch person either. I’ve had some fine Irish whiskeys, though.
@mike808@Noddy93 I have 4 Costco’s within 15 miles in the Detroit area, however none of them carry Hibiki. I picked one up when I went to Chicago a couple or three years ago. I would like to refresh my memory since that one is long gone.
The cost of some of the bourbons and scotch whiskeys are pretty high. I am launching a new product on a crowdfunding platform in a couple of months that will let us age our spirits in a decanter. So you can take a decent base spirit and enhance it and age it to your liking.
@asplus@Noddy93 I don’t think you understand the meaning of “aging” spirits. They don’t age in a glass bottle or stainless container. The aging is entirely done within wooden casks/barrels. The kind of wood (e.g. oak) and the treatment of the wood (e.g. charring) combine with the seasonal weather (mainly heat/summer and cold/winter) to both color and flavor the spirit over the years. That is why spirits aged longer are deeper in color and have more intense flavors infused from its container.
So once a spirit is bottled, it doesn’t age anymore. It will evaporate and oxidize if exposed to air, so that’s why we keep them in sealed containers.
Also, there is a point where aging a spirit longer doesn’t really add any flavor notes, and you’re really just drinking the wood. It is that in-between period where the master spirit maker determines when it comes out of the barrels/casks to drink, knowing that they’ve preserved that exact flavor until somebody drinks it.
Since Scotch was originally made from re-used whiskey barrels (because the Scottish are well-known for being frugal), most of the flavor has already been extracted from the wood, and hence, Scotch is lighter in color and takes longer to mature than its counterparts of bourbon and other whiskeys.
And the current fad is to take bourbons or whiskeys that are aged in barrels and then “finished” for a time in re-used wine barrels or casks. That means they will pick up some flavors from the wines that were aged in those barrels or casks.
Lastly, because each tree is different, the amount of charring or treatment to the barrels is different, and the seasons are different, each barrel or cask will have some variation in color and flavor notes. Even the alcohol content is unique to the barrel.
So a good spiritmaker will blend different barrels, from different years, or from different processes to arrive at the same “profile” they’re trying to create. They also add a little water because the alcohol content is not the same from barrel to barrel, and the bottled products are targeting a specific alcohol content (e.g. 80 proof).
That’s why Jack Daniels and Makers Mark and the others all have their “signature” flavor and color.
That’s also why you see some bottles marked as “cask strength”, meaning they are whatever proof (alcohol content) they were straight from the barrel or cask.
@asplus Nope. I am just fairly experienced with the products having misspent my youth in New Orleans. Which is home to such fine cocktails like the Sazerac and the Green Fairy (an absinthe drink, only recently legal again in the US) and ingredients like Peychaud’s bitters.
@mike808 Ah! Love New Orleans!. That is the only place my wife likes to go on vacation. Raw oysters at Trenasse every day for happy hour and eggs benedict for brunch at the Palace Cafe with Bananas Foster which would keep us good and happy till happy hour at Trenasse.
Yes I brought back a bottle of Peychaud’s with me.
I would like your opinion on the product I have mentioned.
Yes, I will provide the White Oak toasted wood from a barrel manufacturer, you will be able to char it and then you can insert it in the decanter (not bottle) and be your own master blender.
I would not mess with a cask strength because you have spent too much money already. Take a decent base spirit that you like, which will be inexpensive and tweak it to whatever your imagination would like it to be. Just like Bob Ross would say.
Most spirits are now NAS because they cannot keep up with the demand. Only bourbon has to be in a barrel for a minimum number of years by law.
As far as the seasonal effect, you have already got that in the base spirit. I have not seen any studies or research papers that would tell me about the seasonal effects. If you know of any, please let me know. I would highly appreciate it.
The webpage is https://www.smocool.biz/
The video at the top of the page explains it.
This page is just an introduction. There will be more details on the crowdfunding page when I launch it in a couple of months.
@sillyheathen Good as always but since in the past week we have had both dungeness crab and blue crab cakes, we are pretty much all crabbed out as you can imagine. We probably we get blue steamed crabs at the end of this week with lots of old bay.
As you may have guessed, we love any type of crabs.
@sillyheathen Only time we have had fresh dungeness crabs was when we went to SF a couple of years back. They have whole DCs at costco as well as the claws and inner meat which is what we usually buy. Lots of people have never heard or know of them.
@Felton10 I hadn’t heard of them until I moved here because I’m from the down the bayou so to speak and they definitely don’t live down there.
They’re so sweet and delicate. I love them so much. We’re kind of spoiled as we have a good friend that has a house near Pacific City and a boat so we always limit.
Same with razor clams. I have a friend who grew up near Tillamook and his family have a condo on the beach in Seaside and when the tides are right, we drive out with shovels and wait for the lowest tide! I’m like a little kid at Christmas! It’s so much stinking fun!
@sillyheathen One thing I regret is not having had fresh king crab legs when we were in Alaska. There was a little shack selling them near the dock where the tender docked taking people from the cruise ship we were on. Didn’t learn about it until we were back on the ship. Heard it was pricey-in excess of $ 100, but for a once in a lifetime opportunity to enjoy that it would have been worth it.
@Felton10@sillyheathen
Do you live in crab area or something or just crab crazy?
Right now in my area food trucks are all the craz and there’s a lobster roll one I’ve been dying to try but it’s always to far away. A couple weeks ago it was really close to drove to it and couldn’t see the prices on the board bc of the way the sun was hitting it. So I ordered 2 8in lobster rolls and a small thing of fried lobster. My total was $71. I about feel over, I couldn’t believe how much lobster had gone up. And the lobster rolls was 8 inches exactly but it was dam good. Not good enough that I’d pay $30 again for it though. Next time I’m just gonna have my cousin overnight some lobster from Alaska for me.
@sillyheathen@Star2236 Well we are originally from Maryland (my wife specifically from Balt) where blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay are a way of life.
When we moved to FL, took us a while but found this seafood place (Pinchers Crab ) that catches it own blue crabs in the gulf and has them year round.
Not cheap either-the last two times our daughter was down to visit-ordered carryout crabs and it was around $ 200 each time-$ 11 for jumbos and $ 70 a dozen for regular size plus all the sides (cold slaw and FF).
I reflected on life and took stock somewhat today.
(1) I visited my parents’ graves today. First time since Mother’s Day. I go intermittently but make it a definite point to go on a parent’s day, their birthdays, or their anniversary.
As I age, I feel I’m getting closer to my spot there and try to plan ahead a little better. I don’t want nearly as many loose ends left for my son and his family as my parents left for me.
Hoped to hear from my son today but was not betting on it. He never has been good with family remembrances. (I wasn’t half that bad…)
I did get an email from him late in the afternoon replying to one I sent a couple days ago, but he didn’t mention Father’s Day.
(2) Got an appropriate email advert this morning. I’ll pass it along as it does have some good advice for men nowadays. https://www.usdermatologypartners.com/blog/mens-skin-care-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-fathers-day/
It has the expected advertising in it, but I assume everybody here can be good at ignoring that. (I am not associated with this company other than that I had been a customer of one of their associates until he retired and closed his office.)
Felton, I suggest you read it, judging by the ravages your face has undergone, as shown in your photograph above.
(3) Another email led me to a website that was discussing “Dad jokes”. I wound up reading over a hundred of them – some funny, some not so much. A few to report:
I wasted several hours trying to figure out what the opposite of “night” was. But it never dawned on me, I just had to call it a day.
What happens when it rains cats and dogs? You have to be careful not to step in a poodle.
What do you call 50 pigs and 50 deer worth a thousand dollars each? 100 sows and bucks.
I just spent $200 renting a limo when I found out that amount does not include a driver. I can’t believe I spent all that money with nothing to chauffeur it.
@Star2236 Nah, I’m good. I’ve gotten pretty used to it. It’s nothing on my end, just his personality. (But I still have hopes on occasions.) On his mother’s birthday, I’d often ask him at the end of the day whether he’d told her “Happy BD” and he’d say he hadn’t, so I’d send him to do it. This before and even after he reached “adulthood”.
At least now he has his own family to concentrate on. (Knowing his wife, he’s in big trouble if he doesn’t pay her lip service.)
Condolences on your grandma; I hope she led a long happy life and your family focuses on the good times with her.
I called my father and stepdad yesterday I spent most of the day and doing it again today making memorial picture boards for my grandma funeral on Tuesday.
I got text messages from my two favorite women (daughter and wife) and son-in-law and facetimed with the wife and stepson (the wife is out of state)–so communicated with most of my favorite people in the world. My onlyest biological offspring told me, among other happy things, that I’m great. That’s pretty much all I need, especially since I raised her to be a truthteller and she is, brutally so. Just knowing who my daughter is and how she conducts herself–having the excuse to reflect on that–makes me happy.
I et some brisket, some cheesy stuff, some junkish food and drunk some sbux and, don’t tell anyone, even a little soda (ginger beer in particular), and watched three quarters of the Snyder cut.
@f00l@joelmw I assume justice league the Snyder(original director) cut. Which. I was ok with it just being a bad movie cause DC is known for that and thought the fans were being kind of… Eh. When some were not being straight up dicks. But it is definitely better.
@f00l Well, I can’t say that I feel that I quite deserve it, but I’ll enjoy anyway.
I get so used to people talking about the Snyder Cut that I take for granted that everyone knows it. Apparently it was a big deal that Zack Snyder didn’t like how they originally released Justice League. In March they re-released it like he really wanted it (or some such; honestly, I refuse to be too heavily invested), at around 4 hours. I gotta admit, I much prefer it that way. Unless it’s a throwaway comedy or something I’d really rather not see, I’ve always liked movies on the long side—three plus hours. So not heavily invested, but, yeah, it’s good. Finished it today. There’s a lot of story to tell. I don’t actually remember the original too well, but I remember that it did feel clipped.
Back in DVD days and the early Netflix before widespread streaming, I pretty much always watched all of the extras—and deleted scenes especially. It helps with the rumination. I’m a ruminator. I really miss the commentary tracks on TV shows and movies, alternate endings and all that. We don’t even currently have a working BluRay; I keep waiting for meh to put one up cheap.
Great day. Experimented and made a hickory-smoked, reverse-seared beef tenderloin for the fam. Spent the day on the water teaching the boys how to tip over a canoe and then un-tip over a canoe.
Spent the morning taking Mom to church then our weekly Sunday pizza and “split a beer” lunch. Played a couple of Rumikub rounds (pretty much a daily routine to keep her 89yr old brain going…) then got a present from SWMBO (we’ll skip the details on exactly what she ‘gave’ me… suffices to say I liked it!). Heard from both our kids by phone, then by 1445 was at work and got my ass handed to me for 9 hours in the ER…
Overall a pretty good day.
BTW I can totally relate to the maybe my son will remember notes from @phendrick above. He is a great kid, but will often ‘space out’ holiday remembrances. I generally will gently prod him on Mother’s Day and his Mom’s b’day as I know it means a lot to her. He is single, employed and happy where he is (Boston, probably moving to Pittsburgh soon) so I can’t complain.
My 16 year old for the 1st time ever bought a Fathers day gift with his own money that he picked out himself… because at 16 the most important thing to him is his Pop figure collection (about 100 deep now)… I am the proud owner of a John McClane Pop figure he bought special just for me… and I couldn’t be happier. He also proudly exclaimed that when he joins the Navy he wants me and him to get matching Navy inspired Pop figure tattoos… the kid loves Pop figures!
I vacuumed out the Pilot (been meaning to do it for months) before we went to church. Had an great time there. Came home and made sandwiches for the beach. Went to said beach with the immediate and extended family. Came home, cleaned up, and hung out with the wife. Perfect day.
for dinner. They were out of lobster tails so I had to settle for king crab legs.
Either of those is a major win in my book! I’m making the Englishman Ribeyes on the grill, brined baked/grilled baked potates and a fresh pea and crab salad for Father’s Day dinner today!
Have special thoughts and memories
Don’t mean to alarm you, but you look a little pale.
@ybmuG seems to be taking all his vitamins though.
@ybmuG Wasn’t feeling all that good as I got up earlier than usual to get to Costco.
@Felton10 @ybmuG maybe it’s just hot/sunny and he was overly judicious with the full on blocker. I hear there’s a lot of that burn your face off heat going around.
I got work meetings for a deploy. So we can maybe be up Tuesday. But I also haven’t managed to knock anyone up yet and the cats don’t bring me presents (usually)
@unksol I feel I need to rephrase. I have not found anyone I want to knock up. Which has several precursors. Not… I’m just lucky I haven’t? Or… Idk. Maybe my bad joke bothers me more than it should.
@unksol you didn’t need to rephrase.
@njfan one (in my head) sounds like I’m lucky I have have not knocked anyone up fingers crossed.
Other is more. Hey would you take this ring and oh by the way let’s make a baby lol
Gift certificate to Heim’s Barbecue and a new duffel bag for Ultimate frisbee
I spent $550 on some bottles of whiskey, $55 on a bottle of sotol, $40 on an oop harold & maude blueray, and $15 on a used, and fairly rare david sylvian “died in the wool” cd.
for not having any children i think i fared pretty well
@Noddy93 was anyone else reading that as "spent x on bottles of x, x on bottle of x, and then broke on the $15 of used? Wait used what? Alcohol is antiseptic but… Oh…
What whiskey?
@unksol
i’m known to get thirsty
@Noddy93 thirsty people don’t collect. Just saying
Good thing you don’t have kids. Talk about raiding the liquor cab… Err wardrobe.
@Noddy93 that Hibiki on the top shelf looks good.
@Noddy93 @unksol
V nice.
Why do I think that some of of these liquor sources were created and are managed by folks who grew up during the baby room era, and have spent serious time somewhere near Austin?
Happy drinking! I wish you some fine Dad jokes to go along with the alcohol, for the spirit of the moment.
@asplus @Noddy93 That Hibiki is decent. It can be found semi-regularly at Costco.
@asplus @mike808 but what can’t be found within a hundred miles of me is a Costco… and not one of the 31 stores in my state sells liquor. Sadly, in my town of 120,000 only one store even attempts to keep Harmony in stock and will go a month or two without a bottle between sales. Perhaps you could convince your Costco to share some of the wealth with the great state of Texas.
anyway, Hibiki Harmony is, in my opinion, above “decent” into the “pretty damned good” arena. Most Japanese whiskey is too “scotch” for my taste but this one I like.
@asplus @Noddy93 That’s a fair review. To me, it’s not enough in the bourbon camp for my tastes. Don’t get me wrong, it was definitely drinkable. I’m not a scotch person either. I’ve had some fine Irish whiskeys, though.
@mike808 @Noddy93 I have 4 Costco’s within 15 miles in the Detroit area, however none of them carry Hibiki. I picked one up when I went to Chicago a couple or three years ago. I would like to refresh my memory since that one is long gone.
The cost of some of the bourbons and scotch whiskeys are pretty high. I am launching a new product on a crowdfunding platform in a couple of months that will let us age our spirits in a decanter. So you can take a decent base spirit and enhance it and age it to your liking.
@asplus @mike808 @Noddy93 Party at Noddy’s place!!!
@asplus @Noddy93 I don’t think you understand the meaning of “aging” spirits. They don’t age in a glass bottle or stainless container. The aging is entirely done within wooden casks/barrels. The kind of wood (e.g. oak) and the treatment of the wood (e.g. charring) combine with the seasonal weather (mainly heat/summer and cold/winter) to both color and flavor the spirit over the years. That is why spirits aged longer are deeper in color and have more intense flavors infused from its container.
So once a spirit is bottled, it doesn’t age anymore. It will evaporate and oxidize if exposed to air, so that’s why we keep them in sealed containers.
Also, there is a point where aging a spirit longer doesn’t really add any flavor notes, and you’re really just drinking the wood. It is that in-between period where the master spirit maker determines when it comes out of the barrels/casks to drink, knowing that they’ve preserved that exact flavor until somebody drinks it.
Since Scotch was originally made from re-used whiskey barrels (because the Scottish are well-known for being frugal), most of the flavor has already been extracted from the wood, and hence, Scotch is lighter in color and takes longer to mature than its counterparts of bourbon and other whiskeys.
And the current fad is to take bourbons or whiskeys that are aged in barrels and then “finished” for a time in re-used wine barrels or casks. That means they will pick up some flavors from the wines that were aged in those barrels or casks.
Lastly, because each tree is different, the amount of charring or treatment to the barrels is different, and the seasons are different, each barrel or cask will have some variation in color and flavor notes. Even the alcohol content is unique to the barrel.
So a good spiritmaker will blend different barrels, from different years, or from different processes to arrive at the same “profile” they’re trying to create. They also add a little water because the alcohol content is not the same from barrel to barrel, and the bottled products are targeting a specific alcohol content (e.g. 80 proof).
That’s why Jack Daniels and Makers Mark and the others all have their “signature” flavor and color.
That’s also why you see some bottles marked as “cask strength”, meaning they are whatever proof (alcohol content) they were straight from the barrel or cask.
@mike808 a nice basic overview.
@mike808 good overview as Noddy93 mentioned. Do you work in the spirit industry?
@asplus Nope. I am just fairly experienced with the products having misspent my youth in New Orleans. Which is home to such fine cocktails like the Sazerac and the Green Fairy (an absinthe drink, only recently legal again in the US) and ingredients like Peychaud’s bitters.
@mike808 Ah! Love New Orleans!. That is the only place my wife likes to go on vacation. Raw oysters at Trenasse every day for happy hour and eggs benedict for brunch at the Palace Cafe with Bananas Foster which would keep us good and happy till happy hour at Trenasse.
Yes I brought back a bottle of Peychaud’s with me.
I would like your opinion on the product I have mentioned.
Yes, I will provide the White Oak toasted wood from a barrel manufacturer, you will be able to char it and then you can insert it in the decanter (not bottle) and be your own master blender.
I would not mess with a cask strength because you have spent too much money already. Take a decent base spirit that you like, which will be inexpensive and tweak it to whatever your imagination would like it to be. Just like Bob Ross would say.
Most spirits are now NAS because they cannot keep up with the demand. Only bourbon has to be in a barrel for a minimum number of years by law.
As far as the seasonal effect, you have already got that in the base spirit. I have not seen any studies or research papers that would tell me about the seasonal effects. If you know of any, please let me know. I would highly appreciate it.
The webpage is https://www.smocool.biz/
The video at the top of the page explains it.
This page is just an introduction. There will be more details on the crowdfunding page when I launch it in a couple of months.
How was the crab?
@sillyheathen Good as always but since in the past week we have had both dungeness crab and blue crab cakes, we are pretty much all crabbed out as you can imagine. We probably we get blue steamed crabs at the end of this week with lots of old bay.
As you may have guessed, we love any type of crabs.
@Felton10 That’s awesome. We’re big crab fans too. I’ll be crabbing for Dungeness in the fall. That and razor clams. One benefit to living in the PNW.
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@sillyheathen Only time we have had fresh dungeness crabs was when we went to SF a couple of years back. They have whole DCs at costco as well as the claws and inner meat which is what we usually buy. Lots of people have never heard or know of them.
@Felton10 I hadn’t heard of them until I moved here because I’m from the down the bayou so to speak and they definitely don’t live down there.
They’re so sweet and delicate. I love them so much. We’re kind of spoiled as we have a good friend that has a house near Pacific City and a boat so we always limit.
Same with razor clams. I have a friend who grew up near Tillamook and his family have a condo on the beach in Seaside and when the tides are right, we drive out with shovels and wait for the lowest tide! I’m like a little kid at Christmas! It’s so much stinking fun!
@sillyheathen One thing I regret is not having had fresh king crab legs when we were in Alaska. There was a little shack selling them near the dock where the tender docked taking people from the cruise ship we were on. Didn’t learn about it until we were back on the ship. Heard it was pricey-in excess of $ 100, but for a once in a lifetime opportunity to enjoy that it would have been worth it.
@Felton10 @sillyheathen
Do you live in crab area or something or just crab crazy?
Right now in my area food trucks are all the craz and there’s a lobster roll one I’ve been dying to try but it’s always to far away. A couple weeks ago it was really close to drove to it and couldn’t see the prices on the board bc of the way the sun was hitting it. So I ordered 2 8in lobster rolls and a small thing of fried lobster. My total was $71. I about feel over, I couldn’t believe how much lobster had gone up. And the lobster rolls was 8 inches exactly but it was dam good. Not good enough that I’d pay $30 again for it though. Next time I’m just gonna have my cousin overnight some lobster from Alaska for me.
@sillyheathen @Star2236 Well we are originally from Maryland (my wife specifically from Balt) where blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay are a way of life.
When we moved to FL, took us a while but found this seafood place (Pinchers Crab ) that catches it own blue crabs in the gulf and has them year round.
Not cheap either-the last two times our daughter was down to visit-ordered carryout crabs and it was around $ 200 each time-$ 11 for jumbos and $ 70 a dozen for regular size plus all the sides (cold slaw and FF).
Had crabs too, with my boys. Must be a thing.
stormingcrabs.com
I make a point of listening to Boba Flex’s “I’m Glad You’re Dead”
@FoxSpectre
Sadly, not every father is a Dad… Hope (when/if) you have kids you will be a better parent to them…
All I can think for every father/son who got crabs is that I hope they got them from different vendors.
Sorry.
@unksol
I reflected on life and took stock somewhat today.
(1) I visited my parents’ graves today. First time since Mother’s Day. I go intermittently but make it a definite point to go on a parent’s day, their birthdays, or their anniversary.
As I age, I feel I’m getting closer to my spot there and try to plan ahead a little better. I don’t want nearly as many loose ends left for my son and his family as my parents left for me.
Hoped to hear from my son today but was not betting on it. He never has been good with family remembrances. (I wasn’t half that bad…)
I did get an email from him late in the afternoon replying to one I sent a couple days ago, but he didn’t mention Father’s Day.
(2) Got an appropriate email advert this morning. I’ll pass it along as it does have some good advice for men nowadays.
https://www.usdermatologypartners.com/blog/mens-skin-care-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-fathers-day/
It has the expected advertising in it, but I assume everybody here can be good at ignoring that. (I am not associated with this company other than that I had been a customer of one of their associates until he retired and closed his office.)
Felton, I suggest you read it, judging by the ravages your face has undergone, as shown in your photograph above.
(3) Another email led me to a website that was discussing “Dad jokes”. I wound up reading over a hundred of them – some funny, some not so much. A few to report:
@phendrick
Wow, feel truly sorry for you that your own son didn’t even call you on Father’s Day.
@Star2236 Nah, I’m good. I’ve gotten pretty used to it. It’s nothing on my end, just his personality. (But I still have hopes on occasions.) On his mother’s birthday, I’d often ask him at the end of the day whether he’d told her “Happy BD” and he’d say he hadn’t, so I’d send him to do it. This before and even after he reached “adulthood”.
At least now he has his own family to concentrate on. (Knowing his wife, he’s in big trouble if he doesn’t pay her lip service.)
Condolences on your grandma; I hope she led a long happy life and your family focuses on the good times with her.
@phendrick
Thank you, she had a great life and we were very lucky for all of the time we got to spend with her.
I called my father and stepdad yesterday I spent most of the day and doing it again today making memorial picture boards for my grandma funeral on Tuesday.
@Star2236
I got text messages from my two favorite women (daughter and wife) and son-in-law and facetimed with the wife and stepson (the wife is out of state)–so communicated with most of my favorite people in the world. My onlyest biological offspring told me, among other happy things, that I’m great. That’s pretty much all I need, especially since I raised her to be a truthteller and she is, brutally so. Just knowing who my daughter is and how she conducts herself–having the excuse to reflect on that–makes me happy.
I et some brisket, some cheesy stuff, some junkish food and drunk some sbux and, don’t tell anyone, even a little soda (ginger beer in particular), and watched three quarters of the Snyder cut.
Not s’bad in my book.
@joelmw
Snyder cut?
Also, great dad’s day. Sounds. Like you deserve it.
@f00l @joelmw I assume justice league the Snyder(original director) cut. Which. I was ok with it just being a bad movie cause DC is known for that and thought the fans were being kind of… Eh. When some were not being straight up dicks. But it is definitely better.
@f00l Well, I can’t say that I feel that I quite deserve it, but I’ll enjoy anyway.
I get so used to people talking about the Snyder Cut that I take for granted that everyone knows it. Apparently it was a big deal that Zack Snyder didn’t like how they originally released Justice League. In March they re-released it like he really wanted it (or some such; honestly, I refuse to be too heavily invested), at around 4 hours. I gotta admit, I much prefer it that way. Unless it’s a throwaway comedy or something I’d really rather not see, I’ve always liked movies on the long side—three plus hours. So not heavily invested, but, yeah, it’s good. Finished it today. There’s a lot of story to tell. I don’t actually remember the original too well, but I remember that it did feel clipped.
Back in DVD days and the early Netflix before widespread streaming, I pretty much always watched all of the extras—and deleted scenes especially. It helps with the rumination. I’m a ruminator. I really miss the commentary tracks on TV shows and movies, alternate endings and all that. We don’t even currently have a working BluRay; I keep waiting for meh to put one up cheap.
@f00l @joelmw
Isn’t that, like, a cow?
@compunaut @joelmw
I’m ruminating on that.
@joelmw
Ok. I did know the term “Snyder cut”, once I was reminded of the context.
I’m not following movies much at the moment. Esp superhero franchise film series, I’m just way out of date.
(Maybe someday I’ll catch up. Dunno).
So the term slipped what’s left of my mind.
@compunaut @f00l It is. A thoughtful cow.
Great day. Experimented and made a hickory-smoked, reverse-seared beef tenderloin for the fam. Spent the day on the water teaching the boys how to tip over a canoe and then un-tip over a canoe.
That and maybe a couple hop sodas.
Spent the morning taking Mom to church then our weekly Sunday pizza and “split a beer” lunch. Played a couple of Rumikub rounds (pretty much a daily routine to keep her 89yr old brain going…) then got a present from SWMBO (we’ll skip the details on exactly what she ‘gave’ me… suffices to say I liked it!). Heard from both our kids by phone, then by 1445 was at work and got my ass handed to me for 9 hours in the ER…
Overall a pretty good day.
BTW I can totally relate to the maybe my son will remember notes from @phendrick above. He is a great kid, but will often ‘space out’ holiday remembrances. I generally will gently prod him on Mother’s Day and his Mom’s b’day as I know it means a lot to her. He is single, employed and happy where he is (Boston, probably moving to Pittsburgh soon) so I can’t complain.
@chienfou Tell us what your wife gave you! I want ideas! lol
Also, highfive
My 16 year old for the 1st time ever bought a Fathers day gift with his own money that he picked out himself… because at 16 the most important thing to him is his Pop figure collection (about 100 deep now)… I am the proud owner of a John McClane Pop figure he bought special just for me… and I couldn’t be happier. He also proudly exclaimed that when he joins the Navy he wants me and him to get matching Navy inspired Pop figure tattoos… the kid loves Pop figures!
@Koolhandjoe Well, maybe it’s his way of saying you’re a badass motherfucker, like the Die Hard character.
@mike808 I hope so!! and Yippee-Ki-Yay
@Koolhandjoe
/giphy now I have a machine gun ho ho ho
@Koolhandjoe sorry one more…
/image shoot the glass!
@Koolhandjoe
Motherfucker
There. FIFY
@f00l Thanks… being this is my job I try to refrain while posting… But totally support others finishing for me
Nice!
I vacuumed out the Pilot (been meaning to do it for months) before we went to church. Had an great time there. Came home and made sandwiches for the beach. Went to said beach with the immediate and extended family. Came home, cleaned up, and hung out with the wife. Perfect day.
My 13-year-old daughter has really gotten into anime, and painted Goku on Glass for me. Ka…me…ha…MEHA!!! Weird, image won’t upload.
I’ve had quite a few “Thanks for being Mom and Dad” cards in the past. They always meant a lot to me.