In my morning walk I saw a skunk. It was a biggie. Of course, half of it was tail but still, it was impressive.

It might have been the skunk I saw a few months ago but I don't know. We've always had skunks in the area. I just hope it's not a sign of a skunk explosion we had a few decades ago.

So I'm reading reports that American booze is being pulled from Canadian shelves. My drinking days are long over but I remember drinking American sh*t beer and for the Canadians to lose the ability to drink that swill, that's a plus for them.

And during Prohibition we used to accept Canadian whiskey - illegally but who cared? I'm sure their homegrown stuff is as good as the American booze. They'll be missing out on some fine wines but you can't win them all.

Go Canada!

The creator of the "Trump Gaza" video speaks! It's a parody!

Via the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdrxkm6r856o

Earlier in the week I decided to cook up lasagna for my housemate's mom's birthday. Now, I usually go shopping very early in the morning: fewer people, less traffic. This does mean I'm shopping soon after I wake up with no breakfast or coffee. This leads to occasionally not so bright decisions.

Since I wanted to make lasagna with lasagna noodles instead of the egg noodles I usually use, I didn't know how many packages to pick up. I got two. And since it been a while since I made it I bought extra sauce. And the meat? They didn't have the two pound package I usually use so I got the closest one at three pounds.

Cheese? Oh, lots. You can never have enough cheese.

It wasn't until I was boiling up the pasta that I realized I had a lot of pasta. A LOT of pasta. Usually I just keep making pan after pad until I run out of something. It wasn't going to be pasta. Same with the sauce - way too much sauce. Meat? Oh yeah I had a lot of meat and it was going to be glorious. Cheese? Honestly? I could have used more!

And while I was cooking up a storm I felt this little, satisfied smile on my face. It's that smile I get when I'm doing something constructive and I know it's going to turn out okay.

So I' ended up with three pans of meaty lasagna and one pan of cheese lasagna. They're out of the oven and cooling right now. Two pans will to Momma's tomorrow and the others will go in the freezer. And I have left over pasta: enough to make two more pans, easily. The sauce was still in jars so they'll keep. I ran out of meat and cheese. It looks like I'll have to buy more meat and cheese and make another batch of lasagna next Friday when I'm off from work.

I'm not really seeing a downside to this.

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I'm not much of a flag waver. I put out the American flag on the Fourth of July, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day and Voting day. But wonder if I should switch it out for something else.

Right now I'm sort of torn between the Ukrainian flag and the Canadian flag - just to show who's side I'm on.

President Musk is getting a contract to fix the FAA!

Maybe he'll put in all the care he puts into his rockets!

Hindenburg anybody?

'Nuff said.

To our old allies, I have a few words:

The United States is sick.

America has turned into the Sick Old Man: cranky, mean, losing it's memory. It is looking back at an imagined Golden (Gilded?) Age when Rich White Men were Rich White Men, women stayed in the kitchen (and worked) and brown people either didn't exist or were happy just to step and fetch.

America is no longer the beacon of freedom but a cesspool of corruption, greed and lies. We're sleeping with the autocrats and dictators and waking up with delusions.

You can't rely on us.

You're going to have to put on your adult pants and figure out how to move forward towards liberty and justice without us. For many of us Americans, we're at the bedside trying to nurse our country back to health but like a drunkard recovering from a car crash, there's been a lot of damage done and they still want another bottle and the keys to another car.

I can't say how long the sickness will last. Maybe after the leopards have eaten enough faces will the fever break. In the meantime, good luck.

It was the first year or two after we moved into the neighborhood that someone stole my garbage can.

Really.

We bag all the weekly trash into one bag which goes into the can. We put it out at night. In the morning someone had pulled out the bag and absconded with the can and lid.

Weird.

Then next can I bought I painted my street address on both the can and lid. This was helpful a week ago when the wind took the lid and it ended up in a neighbor's yard. To prevent this happening again I drilled some holes so I could attach a bungee cord so the lid and can would stay together.

It was stolen the next time it went out. Lid, can, bungee cord - with the street address still painted on it.

What strikes me as really weird is I think the actually cased it first. I put the can out at night. That morning I left early and notice that the lid had been taken off. Had someone inspected it first before plundering it?

Yeah they stole my garbage can. Weird. At least it lasted about two decades before being stolen.

After raging about how terrible electric cars are, it looks like tRump's state department is buying 400 million dollars worth of 'armored Teslas'.

The jokes, they write themselves.

Note to stupid people: electric cars are designed to be lighter than internal combustion vehicles. Armoring them would seriously degrade their performance. And I'm not sure what happens when lithium ion batteries get peppered with bullets but I'm betting it's no a good thing.

Safe prediction: none of these vehicles will see any combat. They'll be jazzed up a little bit - maybe a coat of camo paint - and used tRump's toadies to zoom around in.

All to line Elon's pocket with tax payer's money.

Still sick, coughing up gunk, but decided on a short walk this morning. While walking by a second of metal fencing that come right up to the sidewalk I suddenly came across a small skunk. I just stopped in my tracks as it was 3 feet away from me. It noticed me and slowly trotted away. Smelling skunks in our area is common - actually seeing them is rarer.

No harm no foul and no stinky.