I got a few chores to do, then I’m going to sit down and do an experiment: I’m going to convert a guitar I just got got from a steel string guitar to a nylon string guitar.

It’s an a 3/4 size, all mahogany acoustic, and it sounds good, with good definition in the mid range, and nicely balanced highs and lows, it’s just a bit harsh for my ears. I already have a beautiful 3/4 size that I like, so I think this conversion could mellow out the tone of this new guitar, and give me a sound I don’t already have.

I’m also going to change the nut, saddle, and pins from cheap plastic to bone. That should help, too.

And then he went in front of the cameras and fished about how much he loved the amazing beautiful children.

Obvious trolling by the Chinese, and he went right along with it. What a putz.

Can’t take no chances. Better safe than sorry.

Well, then where the fuck is my MONEY?!

Waterworld was a flop that got a reappraisal, and is now considered a pretty cool movie. It was really a victim of a critical wall that was against it from the start. That happens with some movies.

Babylon is another. That’s going to get a reappraisal at some point, and become a cult classic.

Showgirls is going through a reappraisal, and people are starting to see it differently. It was a Paul Verhoeven movie, of course it was great.

They remade Dune, and somehow managed to make it worse.

A buddy and me were the first in our circle to get an apartment after college, so we became the meeting place. It wasn’t a party house, we drank beer, and smoked weed, but it was calm and quiet, and the old folks below us never complained. They were frequent visitors, as a matter of fact.

People would start showing up around 8. My buddy and I managed different record stores, and we were into all sorts of music, and we had ALL the latest promo recordings, so usually we had a ball game on the TV with no sound (for our buddy Mark, who loved sports), while we listened to music, smoked, and talked. There were usually a dozen people, guys and girls, all ages, right up to old folks downstairs, sometimes. He’d had a stroke, and he could understand everything, but couldn’t converse, beyond random curse words, which he would deliver with either exasperation or disbelief, which we all thought was hilarious, and so did he and his wife.

At 11:30, we’d watch Johnny Carson’s monologue on the TV, and at midnight wed switch it over to two episodes of Twilight Zone. After that, everybody went home.

That was our ritual about 3-4 nights a week for a couple of years, until everybody started to scatter as they found jobs in different places. We’d go out now and then, but only because we weren’t going to meet any new girls hanging around our apartment. Going out often meant moving the party to someone else’s place for the night.

We couldn’t afford to go out to party much, but we always had a better time at home with our friends, especially since there were no threats of judgemental parents, RAs, etc. Our first real taste of true adult freedom was sweet enough to keep us happy.

There’s a bridge near Detroit that is apparently easy on the Canadian side to accidentally head across the border into America. Used to be they’d just turn you around and sent you back, but I read at least one story of a guy who got detained in an American facility for a few weeks before he could back him, and all he did was take a wrong turn.

They’ve still got a 3000 per day quota, and they’ve never hit it, so they aren’t looking for excuses to NOT arrest people, even if it gets kicked later. That’s why they’ve found that something like 75% of ICE arrests have been bogus. If anything, the likelihood is that they’ll get MORE aggressive, not less.

Imagine if we were a country that made a genuine effort to be friends with the nations around us?

If you just want to have sex with hookers, you can do that in America. You leave the country for more…exotic…adventures.

WHAT? ISRAEL HAS BEEN RAPING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS?

That works for me.

That’s great for the future, but the past MAGAs who have done so much damage still need to be dealt with decisively. They don’t get to just walk away from the treason, corruption, and pedophilia.

Yeah, Citizens are going to have to get used to screaming “SHUT THE FUCK UP” at MAGAs. We don’t owe them anything, no respect, no listening to what they want, etc. They are corrupt, treasonous pedophiles, and they have no say in ANYTHING that happens in America in the future. We have a civic responsibility to be as hostile toward them as possible for the rest of their lives.

If you can get a decent sauce for $1.74, you should definitely buy it. I don’t shop at Walmart, but around me, sauces tend to be $3+, even house brands, and I find that they still need to be supplemented with more herbs like garlic.

Now and then, Publix will have one of the imported tomatoes brands for 10 cans for $10. You can make a lot of sauce for $10, and a bunch of seasonings, most of which are very easy to grow.

Where will we imprison the MAGAs?

Learning to cook for yourself is helpful, and that means not just avoiding eating out, but avoiding the purchase of prepared foods.

For instance: Instead of buying a jar of Spaghetti sauce, get a large can of crushed tomatoes, add garlic and Italian herbs, and let it simmer for several hours. It’s super easy, and tastes far better, and is much cheaper. Cook up several cans in a giant pot, and freeze the sauce in single or double containers.

Chili is another cheap, nutritious meal that freezes easily. Just ground meat, beans, a can of diced tomatoes, and herbs. Just don’t forget the Cumin, that’s the taste of Chili.

When pork shoulders are on sale, cook one up in a slow cooker, and freeze that. Cheap pulled pork available whenever you want it. Do the same with chicken breast and/or thighs, when they’re on sale.

Do one of those, and a couple more, every Sunday, and you’ll have a lot of cheap meals for the next month or two.

Looking for the silver lining, if you’ve needed to lose some weight, now is a good time. I’m looking at it this way: I’m not short on food, I’m keeping temptation out of the house.

It wasn’t supposed to get done right, or get done at all. He doesn’t care if it sits there, a broken mess in the middle of DC. He’s a slumlord, he’s doesn’t even see that sort of stuff.

It was all just a standard kickback scheme. He gets his “pool guy” from Maralago to take the contract, keep a couple of mill for himself for his trouble, and the rest goes to Trump. The pool l guy will do some basic work, maybe even get it operating, but it will be shoddy work, with inferior products, every corner cut hard, no permits, no inspections, a couple of bribes, etc. He’ll walk away with a bunch of money, and a nefarious secret he shares with the President, that he can call on when he needs it. .

I’m just saying it’s a huge genie, already out of the bottle. Good luck getting control of it now.