GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

As they say during futbol games.

I've made my $500 goal for the first time!

Happy Dance!

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

To everyone who hasn't, but was waiting for payday or something similar, there's no reason to not contribute past the goal; it is a worthy cause.

I didn't set a stretch goal for this moment, I despaired of making it, but I will put my mind to it and see if I can come up with a photo or something to commemorate it properly.

Thanks!

HAUUUUUUCHK

We are spitting distance from breaking $400 for KTKC.

At the moment of post, $375 and in fifth place for totals.

That is a mere FIVE $25 donations from my goal; and it would be the first time I'd ever made my goal.

This is also the best my part has ever been, you guys rock!  This is $125 more than I managed to convince people to donate last year and your generosity was staggering then.

Especially since I offer no enticements or bribes!  Just the warm fuzzy feeling that you've materially contributed.

Word Of The Day

Deiphobe.  Someone who claims they are an atheist but is really just opposed to any belief in a higher power anywhere.

Often accompanied with cowardice as they will generally only confront religious persons who will not physically attack them for their lack of faith.

h/t Chaplain Tim

Care

Yesterday I said the NRA doesn't care.

Honestly, because they are membership driven, they don't care because YOU don't care.

Just like they didn't care about assault weapons once upon a time.

The main problem here is so many people have gotten the impression that once something is illegal and the bureaucracy is in place that it can never be changed.

Well, if none of us clamor for change, then our gorilla will never beat on the congress critters.

There's entirely too much, "well that doesn't affect me" with gun owners.

Not all that long ago we were all crowing about how we'd won.

Not really.

We'd stopped the anti-gun advance, but not reversed it.

We'd done nothing to prevent a hostile executive from banning by fiat or punishing regulation.  Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama have all added to the anti-gun EO list.

Why is 922r still law?  Really, a law that bans the making of a gun that's made from imported parts that is otherwise identical to a gun that is made from domestic parts?  Then ban some of those parts from importation by EO?

The question I have about so many regulations is: "how does this enforce the law?"

Congress should be interested too.  But they aren't.

Congress would be interested, but we aren't.  Are we?

New Shooter!

By buddy JT took his SIG P232 to the range today.

He's doing great!

Congrats!

Yummy!

Today is the day the Jews have split, preserved herring for breakfast and say, "yum!"

What?

It's not "Yum, Kippers"?

Oh...

Well happy Yom Kippur to y'all anyways!

Stages

Back when I was a psych student...

We were covering the stages of sexual arousal.


Excitement

Plateau

Orgasm

Resolution

OR

Wanna
Gonna
Doing
Did

Of course we phrased it a lot more crudely.

The teacher started it though! (Wow that sounds mature, don't it?)

The prof was talking about the hypothalamus and how it controlled the four F's of the human body.

Feeding, fleeing, fighting and reproduction.

Proof

I have asserted that the NRA doesn't give a shit about NFA items.

I now have proof.

I heard about the upcoming rule change proposal, not from the NRA but from bloggers.

I know the comment period started because of bloggers.

In the, no exaggeration, four emails a day I get from the NRA not a peep has been uttered about these proposed changes nor any guidance offered.

It's all guns and any guns they are trying to ban!  NFA are guns too.

If the NRA spent half the time and effort to fight this rule change as they have to entice me to enroll in Life-Lock, buy insurance or join their wine club; we'd have the Hughes Amendment repealed and a NICS check on our $2 transfer tax after filling out one simple form and waiting about ten minutes.

Comments Are Open

Give 'em an ear full about the stupidity of adding the CLEO to trusts!

Comment Section

What I said:


Simply put the chief law enforcement officer's involvement in the process has been obsolete since the implementation of national records for felons.  The approval of the local police should be eliminated, not expanded.

The law being implemented by this regulation is quite simple and is not served by the uneven denial of a single person in the jurisdiction of the applicant.  Arbitrary and random refusals to simply sign a form by the CLEO has created a the need for people who would normally proceed with an individual transfer to create a trust to bypass a capricious local official.  There is no requirement in the law that such a person should be allowed to insert themselves into the dealings of a law abiding citizen and their federal government.  Implicit in the requirement is an assumption that the applicant is somehow guilty or unworthy to own an NFA item unless an implacable and often distant "local" official proves them innocent with the stroke of a pen.  A stroke that may be withheld for any and no reason.

The assertion that trusts might allow a felon to possess a NFA firearm is ridiculous on its face and in detail.  Especially in the light that not a single registered weapon has actually been found with a felon as a trustee.  It's literally not a problem.  Completely overlooked are a myriad of innocuous and legitimate reasons why an NFA item would be owned by a trust that have no intent to bypass the law in any way.

The proposed rule changes address a problem that does not exist in reality and acerbates problems which are already present.  Such changes do not serve the community at large and create only injustice through the uneven application of the law.

Bad Ass

After being threatened with death an orc replies to the goblin queen...

"It sure is a sunny day today.  Forgive me, I'm not very familiar with sunshine.  In fact I'm far more familiar with pain and death than I am with sunshine.  No matter how much sunshine there is, in my experience, there's always more pain and death.  Always."

"It sure is a sunny day today."

Check out "Goblins" solid story, and the art steadily improves.

GURPS: Traveller

I am now the proud owner of (nearly) every book of the GURPS: Traveller line whether in print or pdf.

I don't have several of the supplements like the planetary surveys or the adventures; much of the time they contradict what I've made up and I don't use them anyways!

While much of it (bought over the span of 14 years!) is replacing my LBB materials, Steve Jackson Games' version did do good work expanding the knowledge base.

The best of the recent purchases by far has been Humaniti.

Of the 16 minor races of homo-sapiens depicted, I'd only heard of the Darrians, Geonee, and Syleans.  And the Geonee only because I'd recently digested Interstellar Wars.

I knew the name Azhanti from Azhanti High Lightning, but didn't know they were a minor race of humans.

I am really enjoying reading the backgrounds.  Re-hashing old familiar stomping grounds from my campaigns set in and around 1103-1110 to the "present" 1120.  Did you know that 567-908 (Spinward Marches 1031) has a name now?  Denuli!

Denuli is an oft visited world of my Traveller campaigns because I had Adventure 10, Safari Ship.  Of the many times ran, just ONCE did the players not commit genocide and/or murder their client, Kafla Thingvellir.  (Played with GURPS 4e rules with Fuzzygeff and Anglave).

I have the Planetary Survey for Denuli and it's nice to see that the future assumed a peaceful resolution to the adventure rather than the "kill the bug-eyed monsters and loot their sacred valley of the gem-like eggs; oh and shoot the boss because he's a WITNESS!"

All in all I am finding I've made peace with pdf because Apple's Preview app is far superior to Adobe's Reader for viewing them.  Heck my PHONE'S pdf viewer is better than the one they make for PC's.  That surely says something about it, huh?

PS:

The main reason I could never take the hyper-vegetarian "vegans" seriously is there's a race in the Solomani Rim that are FROM Vega!  And they are omnivores.

This, by Lord Juju, is a Vegan!

PPS: If you want it pronounced vej-an like veggies, you should have spelled it veggan.  For Gorram's sake, calling aliens from Vega, Vegans dates back to when Heinlein lived hand to mouth!

Trivia From Being A Gamer

Everyone knows what a blacksmith is, right?

How about a whitesmith or brownsmith?

Whitesmiths work with the white metals like tin, lead and pewter.

Brownsmiths work in brass and bronze (and sometimes copper).

A blacksmith does his work in iron.

Redsmiths deal in copper.

Gold and silver smiths work aptly enough in gold and silver.

On Funding

There are people we don't need.

Is the house on fire?  No.  I don't need a fireman.

Has someone broken in?  No.  I don't need a policeman.

But if the house is on fire or I am locked in the back room, I damn sure need me some fire and police response!

Yet we habitually underfund these organizations to the point where they barely function doing the things we want done.

I notice that we're unquestioningly funding a large group of people we'll never need.

What's that old bumper sticker?  "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the Army has to hold a bake sale to buy a tank!"

How about:

"It will be a great day when our fire departments have all the money they need and welfare people have to work to buy ANYTHING."  I think it's especially apt because I've noticed a trend towards the people most likely being on welfare are also the largest consumers of emergency services.

Double irony, a working person who is no longer on welfare actually generates revenue!

300!

Cancer?  This is SPARTA!

We make $400 and I'll take this pic down. ;)

Edit:  Additional Sparkiltanesque Image

NRA Endorsement

I have three republican candidates vying for the chance to run in the special election come October.

Next Tuesday is the primary for said election.

As I said before, two of the three Republican candidates did not live in the district they wish to represent when they announced they were running.

The NRA has endorsed one of the candidates that couldn't bother to live here before a chance at political power came up.

Slow clap.

Guns are very important to me, but I can't imagine someone who won't reside here without the bribe of power will represent me very well on other things.

As an atheist I'm a bit nervous about someone who's a minister running for office.  I'm pro gun, but I am also pro-titty bar (not that I can afford to go to one; I like the IDEA of titty bars)

To me the two candidates who are moving here to run are akin to Hillary moving to NY just before her senate run.

I am frustrated there is scanty information about any of the three candidates positions on most things.

September Never Ended

I miss my big fish in a small pond status.

In the days of yore in the mythical land of Ioway I was the person who knew "everything" about guns.

This stemmed from two things.  First, I had been in the Army which confers "expert" on your gun opinion regardless of actual knowledge.  Second, I'd voraciously devour any book about guns I could find.

Actual paper books!  I know!

I have learned so much about so many guns since then I think I can safely say I didn't know much; but in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king!

Today the level of expertise I brought to the gaming table is readily available with Google (or Bing) and a smart phone.

Now my pond has grown and while I am no smaller, there are much larger fish out there.  In the giant pond, I am merely moderately sized (heh; I'm small enough to be thrown back).  But it was nice being an unquestioned expert for a long while.

I remembered today what set me on my path of learning guns.

TSR's Top Secret.  It had one of the most frustratingly "realistic" gun combat rules we'd ever played.  Nearly literally "get hit - get dead".  Guns were not to be trifled with.

My character had an Uzi, but I had no idea how big an Uzi was or what it looked like and I wanted to draw a picture of my character.  So Dad bought me a book.  In the pages of "Small Arms of the 20th Century" by Ian Hogg I learned that there were many guns not listed on the table in the game.  I also noticed that the game claimed the Galil was a .22 with different stats than the M16 and 5.56...  The Galil issue is the first time I managed to use my "expertise" to sway the GM.  The rules failed to properly account for the fact that a Galil ARM weighs as much as two M16A1, but it did say 35 shots as opposed to 20; with the ruling from the GM the Galil was a vast improvement.  8th grade gamers always go for more shots!  More shots is why there was a Browning HP on so many character sheets.

More shots is why there's a Glock 17 on a lot of my character sheets where fifteen shot wonder nines had become passé.

I don't game much any more.  My fellow gamers are 1,600 miles away and it's hard to get together at the same table.  The local scene really rams home that I'm a LOT older than the typical gamer.  I still learn something new every day, though.

The gaming thing had me digging up esoteric guns like the ZH-29 because you could get a detachable magazine-semi-auto in 1929 in a common caliber like 7x57mm in Brazil.  Thanks to Ian at Forgotten Weapons I know a lot more about it; but it's funny because he's doing reviews of obscure guns that I know about to get around some arbitrary date set to prevent player access to "better" weaponry.

Restrict me to a bolt action integral magazine rifle will you?  Oh, I can't have a gun that didn't actually see production and I can't use a military caliber?  Remington Model 8 in .30 Rem, please...

Recall

Looks like both Giron and Morse got recalled.

Good!

Keep wasting money Mike.

I Remember

I live under the approach corridor for both PIE and TPA and I remember how quiet it was without the planes.

I remember seeing an Air Force C-32A flying north.

I remember talking with my co-workers when it was still thought to be an accident and how sick we'd be of on the scene reports of how the repairs were going.  That's what we were doing when the second plane hit.

I remember getting the phone call about how the first tower fell and getting a TV set up just in time to watch the second.

I've said over and over that we are not at war with Islam; but it has most assuredly been at war with us at least since that day.  If only we'd fight back for keeps.

Donations

I have to wonder if people think there's a minimum donation that's acceptable to PCF and KTKC.

There is not.

You could donate a penny.

It doesn't have the same effect on getting me towards my goal of $500 total donations, it's something.

Something is better than nothing!

Every year I do this and I think that if we'd had the money back when would Acidman still be around? Would my grandpa?  Would Marv's step-father?  Would countless others?

These donations helped pay for the experimental treatments that are helping my friend Garry (pic of him tomorrow I hope).  There's a real world right there person who's benefitted from these donations.  Without them, that treatment that helped would not have been available.

I remember him telling us, before the treatment was offered, that he'd gotten his stuff in order and was getting ready for the end.

We're thrilled that the old curmudgeon responded and is doing well.

I'm Convinced

Who Started What Now

In our marches toward (modern) war I like to remind people that the President in nearly all of them has been a Democrat.

WW1: Wilson (D) - Win
WW2: Roosevelt (D) - Win
Korea: Truman (D) - Ongoing
Vietnam: Kennedy/Johnson (D) (It's really LBJ's war) - Loss
Kuwaiti Liberation: Bush (41 R) - Win
War on Tarra: Bush (43 R) - Ongoing

I'm not counting small operations like Wilson and the Pancho Villa Expedition, Reagan and Grenada, Bush and Somalia or Clinton and Haiti.

Looks like the dems have a better winning streak going too.

In the wars prior to the 20th century though...

1812: Madison (Democratic-Republican) - Draw (Maybe win since the British didn't gain anything)
Mexican-American: Polk (D) - Win
War of Northern Aggression Civil War: Lincoln (R) - Own Goal
Spanish American War - McKinley (R) - Win

I also note that WW2 is really the only war we've fought since the Civil War where we went full court press on it.

Another thing to pay attention to is presidential elections.  Wars get boned when the White House changes parties in the middle.

Eisenhower took over from Truman, the Korean war did not really stop.

Nixon took over from LBJ; and this one is a tough one.  Vietnam was effectively won, or at least no worse off than Korea when we withdrew ground troops.  The first invasion after that was beaten back because we gave air and logistics support.  The successful invasion from the north we gave nearly no support because Congress (D controlled) denied funding for support.

Somalia deserves mention in this thought.  It didn't become a clusterfuck until Slick Willie took over.

Obama took over the War on Tarra from Bush and the wheels done come off.

The War on Tarra might not even be properly Bush's war.  There's pretty decent work that shows it's our stupid foreign policy decisions starting with Eisenhower in the Iranian coup in '53 and getting stupider as we go until today.

Dicta Boelcke

It works.  It's about one hundred years old and the fundamental truths he discovered about air combat apply as much to an F-22A as they did to a Pfaltz.

It applies to combat flight simulators.

They even work if you're in an F-105D and your opponent is in a MiG-17 Fresco A.

Coming in from behind, getting close and giving him a gentle caress of 20mm means he's walking home.

It doesn't matter how maneuverable he is if he doesn't know you are there or see you coming.

The F-105D, when clean, runs at the speed of heat so it controls the engagement.  A MiG-17F needs burner to keep up with a Thud on military.  Just about the only thing that can catch up is a MiG-21 and we make note of that before we try to engage.

Remember your maneuvering flaps!  The Thud has a combat flap setting that's good down from 455 kias.  It cuts into your speed but it gives you a fighting chance to get guns on that MiG-21PF you can't outrun and has the advantage of keeping your ass pointed so his AA-2 can't lock.

It's not part of the Dicta, but it should have been:  Do not fight how your opponent fights!

The MiGs like turning engagements, don't fall for it.  Use the vertical.

The dicta are tactics, but they're tactics for pros.  Pros study logistics, right?  It's in Rule 7.  Make sure you know your fuel state.

Aside:  It really is spelled Boelcke not Bölcke.  Quite often a German word with an 'oe' means someone didn't have the means to type umlauts.

Alcoholics Against Cancer

Don't forget to click over in the top right.  We really could make the $500 goal this year.

Abide The Brony Abode

It's a recycle from earlier, but it's fitting since Erin says "The Thag Abides."

I've always wondered what their cutie marks were...

The Dark Lady

That night The Lady drank a toast.
She said, "Here's to your lovely lady host."
No voices replied... and the Dark Lady sighed.

Ceili's Muse.

Geek

There are two kinds of people who are geeks.

One kind works at the carnival.

The other kind should.  We sci-fi fans, cosplayers, gamers, bronies, furries and such are geeks.

If you're none of the above and work with computers, you are a NERD not a geek.

By the way, if you're socially accepted and admired for your departures, you're probably not a geek or a nerd.

Geeks don't fit without at least scraping the edges.

I Once Was Lost...

From back when I started...

This is where I air my thoughts. I talk about guns, I talk about politics, I talk about religion. I'm a low-rent philosopher.
These are my opinions, I try to back them up with facts when I can, but this is not a research paper so citations might be very spotty. I will try to give credit where credit is due. That applies to blame as well.
Some basic things: I am pro-gun. I'm a heterosexual who supports gay rights. I'm an atheist who supports freedom of religion. I'm a disabled veteran. I'm a father. I'm a husband. I'm a scoundrel.
I believe in liberty and freedom. I feel that you have to give them to receive them. I believe that freedom and liberty have warts and unpleasant consequences; and I don't care. Eliminating freedoms to get the warts is exactly the wrong way to do it.
Liberty and freedom are ideals; unattainable in the real world. That means there are limits to them. There are things that are off limits here too.
This is my soap-box, not yours. If you have so much to say that you are drowning out what I am trying to say; make your own blog. I do welcome comments, however. Remember, this is not your place; but mine.

I think that I forgot who I was and why I was writing it down.

I will return to these simple beginnings.  I figured out what was wrong with my joie de vivre: hopping on the bandwagon yelling, "Me too!" wasn't me.  I mistook overlap in interests for participation.

I've seen where my participation was welcome now.

Special thanks to those who've been most helpful with my epiphany even if I was mainly in my cups feeling sorry for myself because I'm not one of the big boys who gets invited to events and handed free shit.

It suddenly hit me.  I'm not the person who gets free shit.  I was just jealous and I because I am completely disinterested in changing who I am to become the person who would EARN those "freebies" I was suddenly balanced about it.  I am who I am.  I am not who I am not.

I don't really want to be anyone else!

Happiness returns and all is well in The Abode.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Gothie Pie and her Glock.

Glock-N-Pony!

Editing

I am going to set out to be a better writer.

First step is to be less of a dick.

Poor Erin gave me a bunch of advice that I need to absorb.  Poor Erin because I will be full of irritating questions.

Second I need to pick a direction.

Am I writing about politics?  Guns?  Cars?  Gaming?  All?  None?

Best Update Evah

My "little" brother home with the kids!

He's still got lots of PT left to do, but this is the best way to show the progress.  Sisinlaw says this is just a visit home with his actual discharge being next week.

Thanks for all your prayers towards this crusty atheist's family!

Kicking Cancer

Hanging with Robert and Kim who are running their own charity drive for St Judes at The Brass Tap in Trinity.

Marv was kind enough to snap a pic of me in my 5.11 Tactical Kilt and Sporran.  Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier is what I am imbibing.

Nobody had me hold still to scan the QR code to donate to KTKC, but it's still a sound idea in theory.

Special Election

My state representative vacated his spot to take on the job of county tax collector.

They're having a special primary and a special election.

Only one of the three Republican candidates actually lives in the district they're running for and neither of the Democrats.  Pillars of the community, ain't they?

I had not thought things were so bad that we had to import politicians.

You Know

Scan Me Seymor, Scan Me All Night Long

It's not Jay G's Kilted To Kick Cancer, though you'd never know it from all of the people linking to him.

The greasy WOP isn't even Scottish!

(I can say that because I'm half WOP half Scot)!

Details

I've long held that spaceships in games like Traveller have more in common with submarines than aircraft or anything NASA has flown.

The environment outside is very inhospitable.

Long periods of time without contact with the outside world in hyperspace.

Long response times in normal space should there be an emergency, basically if you can't fix it on your own, you're probably going to die.

This leads to thinking about other little details.

Submarines have a "christmas tree" showing the status of every single break in the hull.

A Traveller ship should have the same system.

Then there's the perennial favorite hatch of the Traveller universe; the iris valve.

It looks like a camera shutter.  A shutter that's 1.5m in diameter.  I just don't see something like that being something that works well.  With pressure on one side an vacuum on the other there's a lot of force on those plates sliding against each other.  Lots of surface area for leaking too.

A powered swinging hatch might be a better idea.  Even a single panel sliding door is well, a lot less complicated.

Simple is good when you've got hot vacuum on the other side of the door and Spaceman 3rd Class Somedood in charge of maintaining and closing it.

Of course, an iris valve could be five or six individual hatches that are pivoting open and the iris effect is from them having the pivot points arranged in radial symmetry.  That means the complicated hatch is the way it is for redundancy.  Any single panel will close the entire opening and only one needs to close to seal.  That also means that only one needs to fail to open to trap you.  This one also takes up the most space in the coaming to allow the panels to retract.  A normal shutter's door just has a bit of overlap at the center and no door covers the whole opening.

It's very telling that iris type closures aren't used in piping.  Butterfly and gate valves are about it.

Addendum:  From my LiveJournal April 5, 2009.

Sliding doors and iris-valves are neat, but would be complicated. Think about the materials you need to use to prevent things like vacuum welding. 

I have described sliding hatches that had double doors. Each face moves towards the center, away from the jamb so that in case there's pressure on one side and not the other, the vacuum side will be pressed more firmly in its coaming and cannot be slid into its pocket until both sides are centered. 

Swinging hatches are likely to be more common. If you put a geared mechanism on the door, the pressure will not prevent it from opening or closing (nor will high g-loads). But what keeps a bone head from opening it at the wrong time? 

I propose a simple diaphragm bolt. Springs hold it centered if there's pressure on both sides. If there's a pressure drop, the air pushes the diaphragm against the springs and the bolt slides into the opening mechanism and prevents it from opening. This same mechanism can also be used to trip the closing mechanism. I envision the slider looking like an emergency stop button. Slap it, the spring loaded door closes FAST. Vacuum pulls it, door closes. What if you need to open it? You pull it out, and hold it while the door opens. You could override the closure mechanism by wedging something under the button, there might even be something built in for that. No lights, you can feel for the button. If it's down you know the other side is in vacuum.

Thump Drag

I've been remiss.

The Lovely Harvey has been tracking things via Facebook and my Sister In Law isn't giving easy to blogify text messages anymore.

Herk is walking in physical therapy!

There's even a vid.

His gait is steady and slow.  But he's doing it unsupported, just has a therapist standing by with a recovery strap.

Considering he broke a femur and had stroke-like damage to the other side, he's doing awesome!

Speaking of that stroke-like thing...  His face doesn't look all slack and lifeless on the right side anymore.  Pictures of that scared me more than anything.

The jury is still out on how much he's lost and how much he can regain; but considering how terrifyingly bad the outcomes on one end of the scale could have been, everyone is relieved.

PS: the post title is from MY physical therapy when I was learning to walk again after the shattered bilateral tib-fib had stitched enough to take weight.  The left leg healed far better than the right and when I was on the parallel bars the first few times the left leg would hit hard THUMP and then I'd kind of flop the right into position for the next "step" without lifting it DRAG.  The Bat thought this was the most amusing thing in the world so she cheered me on with "thump-drag-McThag!"

Misophonia

My hearing problem has a name!  It has been diagnosed as a lack of working memory (called sense-memory in the classes I took) where memories were being flagged as important enough to be retained as short-term memory and thus weren't something I could let fade into the background.  As if everything was flagged, "important, read now!"

But treatments for that don't work.

I've been treated for ADHD, and the treatments were ineffective.

I recently stumbled across what it most likely is; I have misophonia.  Joy of joys, no cure-no treatment.

I remember when some sounds first started bothering me too.

Like many stay at home mothers, my mom made some extra cash babysitting.

Those kids raised with different table manners would smack their lips.  It drove me nuts and I couldn't explain why.  I was probably in 2nd or 3rd grade.

The problem advanced as I got older.  First chewing, then breathing, then tapping then movements.

Couple this with hearing damage where the whole world seems muted but the frequencies where most of the irritating sounds seem to be.  I can hear bass VERY well.  Subwoofers are a joy (Gods but English needs a sarcasm font!).

I wear earplugs all the time.

I have a fan running all the time and not that stupid expensive silent Dyson shit neither, the cheapest noisy POS from the hardware store because it makes noise.

I read that tinnitus and misophonia are bedmates.  I've got tinnitus too.  My dad was crew chief for an amateur fuel/altered team when I was a wee little one, I was driver of his team's something-stock car, I was in the Army before they realized that tanks caused lots of hearing damage and I am a heavy metal fan.

I learned late that my hearing is precious.  I do want to keep what I have left, but the misophonia makes me not want to hear so much of what I can hear.

My most fervent wish while synesthesia like cross wiring to the fight-flight response has me in its grips that the person annoying me will be annoyed by something that drives them as insane as what they're doing to me does.

People who don't realize that what they're doing can be annoying never seem to grow any empathy until they're hurting as much as the victim.

Eight

Or nine and some.

Or just under... three?

Today is the eighth anniversary of the oldest post on my LiveJournal.

June 13th was the ninth anniversary of me starting that blog, but I deleted more than a years worth of posts in a rage one day...

On the 22nd will be the third year of blogging here, under the desk.

Fast Food Strike

You want $15 an hour?

Really.

Considering I had to drive to three different McDonald's to find one that could understand that there is a McNugget Happy Meal listed on their menu and could tell the difference between the spicy mustard and the honey mustard

You don't deserve raises.

You deserve pink slips.

Happy Glorious Socialist Worker's Day!

Joy to the proletariat!

It's ironic that this day is mainly considered a "big sale" holiday and the lowest paid workers rarely get it off.

Someone hook a generator to Marx's feet, he's good for gigawatts.

KTKC Official

Day one and I seem to have figured out how to put the correct link under the picture of my gut sword revolver ugly mug KILT.

I know I succeeded because there's been a donation under my link!

HUZZAH!