What’s Inside An Introvert’s Head (6 Pics)
Full on, would prefer living on a deserted island, introvert. In fact, the island would be Crane Island in the San Juans. There is more, including a story about a duck pond in a dorm room.
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Maddogswif has been so busy for the past few years that we all but stopped throwing dinner parties. For years before that we threw lots of parties every year. I only remember a few parties with fewer than 12 guests most were much larger about 20, and a few were over 40. That actually takes a good amount of experience to get right. In a normal year we might have held 15 -20 dinner parties, a really good year perhaps 24, and on a few years we had to inform the wife that it is inappropriate to throw parties on back to back weekends for more than 2 weeks in a row. Since Maddog is the chief cook, dinner planner, mixologist, and bottle washer, it gets a bit grueling to host parties weekend after weekend.
Simple backyard parties are the exception, especially if the menu is tight and simple, and kitchen cleanup and dishes are minimized. We were over at Newmark's Door and noticed this very funny post: "All The Comments on Every Recipe Blog" Go read it. This pretty much is how the table conversation goes when we throw a party with specific guests. At first it was distracting, now I view it as some sort of surreal, improv comedy routine. I remember one time we were serving spaghetti and meatballs. This is a truly simple dish, and one of our guests asked if she could substitute tofu. It made me laugh out loud, but I countered with the recommendation to use cut in half fresh small (quarter sized) mozzarella balls. The idea we left her with was to separate the sauce, return 1/2 of the sauce to flame, add pasta, and toss to coat, add the halved mozzarella balls, toss again, plate, add meat balls, sauce the plate, and garnish with cheese, and chopped fresh parsley and basil. Tofu? The texture is wrong for this. As the complexity of the dish increased, so would the complexity of the inane substitutions. For a while we became obsessed with seeing how far this could go. It didn't last long, the meal complexity drained quite a bit of the fun out of the prep time. Anyway, we found the post amusing. Instapundit » Blog Archive » I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE DISLIKE LAWYERS: Quaker Oats sends cease/desist to actual Quakers….
Maddog usually finds attorney tease/desist letters amusing, and occasionally hilarious. This was closer to the latter. There is so much more! A three hour cruise? Really? Who in their right mind would ever go on a three hour cruise?5/30/2016 Wedding on a ship turns into a 7 hour disaster as boat runs aground
They're lucky it just ran aground, last time I saw a documentary on a three hour cruise, things really went awry. More below. 'Overflowing urinals, uncovered drains and muddy carpets' - Harmony of the Seas cruise liner is a 'building site', claim irate passengers
. . . complete with overflowing urinals, muck, construction debris, and closed amenities. Maddog can hear the announcement now. "Tonight for your dining pleasure, Hazmat of the Seas will be serving American Casserole." More about this later in a Maddog Story, which can be found below the fold. ‘Masculinity Is Being Dissolved on Campus’ | Minding The Campus
. . . oh, and she was hot. ". . . you have to have strong women in order to deal with masculine men. That is why masculinity is constantly being eroded, diminished, and dissolved on university campuses because it allows women to be weak." Attractive, level headed, women exist, one might have to spend more time than in the past to find one, but never settle for the weak pathetic dreck called women being churned out by our colleges. The reason for this is the prevailing winds come from the west, the river current comes from the east. and the tidal currents run east/west. This means waves frequently of 25' and up to 50' will bear directly down into the bar and conflict with opposing river current. These waves become steep, sharp and dangerous. Add wind driven chop, and the place becomes a violent cauldron. There is a reason they call the Columbia River bar the graveyard of the Pacific. Many time while kayaking the deep blue briney, I have been very happy that so many Coasties have been trained in this cauldron. While I never needed to trigger my rescue beacon, I am glad they are tanned, rested, and ready. With Maddogsson in the Marines, I continue to hope Maddogsdatir, an accomplished swimmer, will do her duty as a rescue swimmer with the US Coast Guard. Semper Fi! With seamen in the water, it is time for the Rescue Swimmer! Thank God, the Rescue Swimmer didn't need to go in this rescue! Holy PB&J Batman! She's Got Grit: Early woman Coast Guard rescue swimmer makes waves
It is tough on some men to have women challenge their view of the world. We need more women to do just that, by being excellent while performing emotionally difficult, and arduous tasks. Millennial Home Ownership: Disappointment Ahead in Some Places? | Newgeography.com
This is listed as a Millennial issue, but the problem has been created by Boomers who want to keep their property values high by retaining destructive urban growth and/or services boundaries, and highly limiting zoning, and construction/development policies. "Millennial renters overwhelmingly plan on buying their own homes, though affording them could be far more challenging than they think." More after the fold! FedEx employee falls asleep, is shipped with packages to Texas
. . . Maddogsson works for UPS let's hope he doesn't follow this example! Pretty funny nonetheless. Maddog knows a man who once fell asleep on the commuter train from San Francisco to Daily City. He woke up in the train yard, and had a bit of difficulty getting off the train. He had to walk a couple of mile before he found a phone booth (this is all long before cell phones). And then he had to ask his wife to come pick him up. Funny story today, probably needed a bit of explaining at 2:30 in the morning! |
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