Pointless announcements 2.0

Spring Break for me starts next week. Yes, I'm a grown-up who still gets to have Spring Break.

Since our farm adjoins a National Forest, the Forest Service will be doing a free controlled burn on our land tomorrow, so I took the day off so I could watch. Duh. Therefore, my Spring Break gets a little early jump.

I got a flat tire as I was leaving for work this morning. I quickly put on the spare tire, then drove over to a nearby tire place owned by some of my cousins, and they had me back on the road with a "new" used tire in 20 minutes.

Earlier this week, I was invited to do an academic presentation on Southern Music at a national conference being held on the Carolina shore this summer, and I think I said "yes" before they'd even finished asking the question. Or it might have even been "hell yes." I was too pumped to notice.

 

We had 2 controlled burns in nearby counties recently. It's amazing how far the smoke travels. We're talking Texas counties. Big.
We also had another controlled burn that turned uncontrolled. Whoopsy!

 

A Texas cattleman and an Alabama cattleman were talking and comparing their farms. The Alabama man said, "I have 100 acres and about 40 head of cattle. I do pretty well."

The Texas man swelled up proudly, and boasted, "Let me tell you about my spread. I can get in my pickup truck at one end of my farm at dawn, and drive all morning. After I eat a little lunch, I can continue driving until sunset, and even then I still won't be at the edge of my property."

The Alabama man said, "Yeah, I used to have a truck like that, too."

 

Must have been a Ford.

 

I read the quote in a comment section on FB. About a self-taught rocket scientist who rode his own rocket up over a 1000 ft. and then landed it again.
Turns out he believes the Earth is flat.
He wants to build what he calls a rockoon (rocket-balloon) and take it into the atmosphere and prove his theory.

 

Lindy, the closest I've heard is,
"I'd be on that like stink on shit."

Some old expressions deserve to fade away.

 

Girlfriend just had a total knee replacement on her right knee. Just hanging out in the hospital room while she slips in and out of sleep.

 

Unarmed black people have been wrongly shot and killed by the police. I don't believe that Alton Sterling was one of them. In the video, he was struggling with the officers. One of the officers screams "he's got a gun". Probably because Sterling was struggling to get it out of his pocket. They told him to stop and he kept going. So they shot him. You can feel the profile of a gun through clothes. And you are taught as an officer that hands kill. If you cannot see the hands, they are a threat. So when someone is trying to jam their hands in their pockets while you are trying to arrest someone, there is a reason. I believe Sterling had a gun and he was going to use it and the two officers did the right thing. In the same situation with someone reaching for a gun I would have done the exact same thing.

 

Woops.

 

I would like to see a John wick/baby driver team up.

 

How bout John Wick and The Avengers?

 

I have seen that floating around the interwebs the past few days. It's pretty funny.

 

Hope I don't die like George in Dead Like Me. Only, instead of a toilet seat, it'll be a piece from the Chinese space lab. Wait, that would be the PERFECT ending.

 

I'd like to stand out in front of of one the local megachurches tomorrow with a sign that says "if you only go one day a year you are not a real Christian." Those people tend to be pretty vocal about how only God can judge them or they claim that they have a creator that amazingly aligns with their own narcissistic view.

 

I have two Pointless Announcements, so I'll go ahead and automerge them myself.

First, I created the original Pointless Announcements thread many TFP versions ago, and I'm proud to see it motoring along so nicely. I will never forget that the first reply to my new thread came from HalX, and he said, "Isn't this exactly the same thing as Twitter?" Awesome!

Second, feeding hummingbirds is not something you can change your mind about once they start showing up. You can't simply decide you're not going to do it anymore, because they will jump your ass.