I'm having to watch the TV to give me news from home. It's really fucking bad. Places I know well are on the national news. GoGators shot me this link with pics: http://twitchy.com/2015/12/23/three...ornado-touches-down-in-northwest-mississippi/ I know my friends with the volunteer fire department (The only fire department in the county) are out there right now doing search and rescue. I wish I was with them instead of watching the news. I hate to think what daylight is going to bring. Benton county is remote and very rural. This was supposedly a 1/2 - 1 mile wide EF 3-4 that went through.
I am drinking my dad's good scotch (Glenmorangie) and watching my little nephew slowly crawl across the floor while my sisters' little dogs battle over a toy. I'm hunting with my dog tomorrow. Life is good.
I really enjoyed it... it was almost 3 hours long, and basically a slow-burn story without much action (think a Western version of Reservoir Dogs), my Mom wasn't overly thrilled with it (even though she loved Django Unchained), but I give it a solid 8/10. Great dialogue and character building, with just the right Tarantino touches.
Serious question, this has to apply to someone here: If you're usually a good person, but when you drink become a Dr.Jekyll /Mr Hyde type that is angry, hateful and violent. Why do you drink? I'm trying to understand the mindset..."I'm having a good time, so is everyone else. I need to drink some booze so I can get really angry." If you know booze turns you into a complete fucking asshole why would you drink it and subject yourself and everyone around you to it's effects on yourself? I've wondered about this for years. If I knew doing something would make me angry and hateful, I just wouldn't do it. The idea of drinking is to celebrate and be happy. Do these folks go into each drinking session thinking this time it'll be different and this time they won't get angry? I don't get it.
I've been trying to understand this behavior for years. My theories: - Maybe those people feel good when they're angry. Having the alcohol in their blood allows them to say what they've always wanted to say, do what they've wanted to do. - Maybe those people would be fine if people didn't do little things to piss them off. (ie: Everybody around them walks on eggshells) - They just figure "THIS TIME it will be different!" - They think it's everyone else who has a problem. For the record, I've never been an angry drunk, just one who likes to drive fast on country roads at night.
I know that most of the people on this board won't get this, but here in South Texas, it's tamale season. Cheese tamales, pork tamales, chicken tamales, hot tamales, etc. And they're all fucking awesome. And if you're a friend of the family, they will try to push as many of them on you as you can carry.
They are addicts. Either to booze or to anger, or both. Booze gives them an excuse, or lowers their inhibitions enough so their collected facade drops. The overlap of both of those traits is probably high. Emotionally these people are probably destroyed. What's more is that you can never believe a word out of their mouth. Addicts are professional liars; they should be spies or something to put that talent to use. It is hard to put myself in that mind set where I *need* something that bad to function. My friend dropped by last night. He had to dump his girlfriend. A month ago she took his credit card to rack up a shitload of Kava bills; $600. Kava is a slurry of certain roots and shit that while not "addicting" hits the same brain receptors as methadone. Very popular in the rehab community. His girlfriend is a major pill popper. So he found out, dumped her, but took her back because she promised to get better. Last week she stole his checkbook and forged his name. Funny enough this guy refused to listen to my best friend who dated this same girl over a year ago and dumped her because his cash kept disappearing. More importantly, is your house on fire, Claaarrrk? I need to watch this tonight.
Remind me never to get sick in Helena Montana. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/.../ufo-captured-man-says-he-has-proof/77857852/
I've been on a conference call for the last 3 hours about a work issue that has been an issue for the last two weeks, and they just this morning decided we need to do something about it. COULDN'T THEY THINK OF A BETTER DAY THAN CHRISTMAS FUCKING EVE TO DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES. I get called in to these things on religious holidays because they know I'm not religious. I almost wish I could find Jesus just so I could be exempt from things. Would finding Jesus keep me exempt from working on Sundays also?
Merry Christmas, idiots! May all your holiday dreams come true. Spoiler: NSFW Ladies, remember to hold close the ones you love. Spoiler: NSFW Guys, if you need any last minute gift ideas: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-d-in-a-box/n12100
Wife is working today until 2, so it is just me getting two kids together for a Christmas party at my parents' house, while simultaneously cleaning the shit out of our house so we can host Christmas morning for the in-laws tomorrow. Plus my kids both woke up last night, I'm hoping they got it out of their systems then so they don't wake up tonight to find out the bearded dude who gives them gifts isn't actually Santa. On the bright side, my wife is driving tonight and tomorrow so I am free to drink.
In my experience, booze usually amplifies what is already there. I don't know any nice guys who turn into assholes when they drink, but I know several assholes who are tolerable when they are sober.
Son of a bitch. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said Thursday that four people have been confirmed dead in Benton County
Truth. Most "nice" sober guys who turn into assholes seem to be more fake than anything when they're sober.
Now that I started drinking my holiday is improving. Not feeling it this year. At all. So far the high point was picking someone up a really swell gift they liked. Bell's Expedition Stout right now. Have a bottle of white Burgundy for dinner. Finish off with a Noah's Mill Old Fashioned. Then probably chug cheap vodka greyhounds until I yell at cars. Got a bottle of rose champagne for tomorrow afternoon and a bottle of Vieux Telegraphe Chateauneuf De Pape. This is my Christmas, an excuse to drink good wine. In other news, have you ever been so angry you knock out a 5 year old? "Justin Patrick Branick was teaching a taekwondo class at Tiger Martial Arts Academy on Tuesday and got angry for some reason at one of his students, Prince William police spokesman Nathan Probus said." Omitted from the article is someone off screen yelling "FLAWLESS VICTORY!"
I think that sometimes it's a passive aggressive way to hurt or manipulate people. "Sorry I was such a dick. It was the alcohol, not me. I did blah blah, but I didn't mean to." "I upset everyone when I get drunk/high and act like an asshole? Well then that's exactly what I'm going to do." I can't tell you how many family dinners and vacations were tainted by a family member getting drunk and agitated or verbally abusive. Everyone walked on eggshells around him when he was drinking. It was an attempt of controlling us...how we spoke to him, what questions were asked, what topics were avoided.