Enchantment Under The Sea! WDT 6/10/11

Anyone who puts ranch or blue cheese dressing on hot wings is a fucking pussy.

At least that's what I tell everyone when doing a hot wing challenge because I can't stand the taste of either and everyone would have a huge edge on me. I do of course give milk the green light since I can chug that shit like no tomorrow.

 

My girlfriend's parents had planned on taking her on an Alaskan cruise after she graduated medical school, but when her dad died things were up in the air, weren't sure if they still wanted to do it, etc. I figured that they would regret not going (for a couple of reasons), that it would be good for both of them, etc so I surprised them and planned the whole thing so they wouldn't have to worry about any of the details and could just have a good time. Told me in no certain terms that if I wasn't going, they weren't going. So...Alaska.

The cruise itself was a good time, they had a big suite with a balcony so a lot of time was spent out there just gazing at the sights. I had a tiny little blacked out fortress of solitude that wasn't used for much else besides washing my balls, sex, and sleeping. Had a private whale watching thing, saw a couple pods of transient killer whales (about 25 total), a double breech (so badass it made my balls ache), all the requisite wild life (sea otters, bald iggles, bears, etc). A lot of the stuff that we/I did was booked third party so I didn't have to tag along with a group of senior citizens to oooh and ahhh at a glacier while babies are crying and some guy tries to sell me something. As far as the actual ship, I've learned that if you have a little money to blow and want to get away from everyone... spa package. I must have spent a couple hours a day inside the sauna/steam room. Small talk and pervy old ladies staring at my junk aside, that shit is awesome.

Nett, we did the float plane and I told the guy the same thing basically: just go where he wants, show us what he likes to look at, can the tourist bullshit and just go. Twenty minutes in we saw a loaded creek, I mentioned that I was a fly fishing fanatic, and he radioed in and had a guide waiting on me when we landed. Some of the best fishing I've ever done, let the guy keep everything I caught, and walked away with a standing invite if I'm ever back in the area. Best money I spent all trip.

I gotta say, the pacific northwest is fucking cool. I've lived on mountains, in deserts, swamps, and most everywhere in between and nowhere has spoken to me like that whole area. No way in hell I'm paying $8 for a carton of orange juice though.

 

I've been watching this race all day, that crash was incredible in such a bad way. Good thing he's okay now.

And I doubt I'm going to see that girl from last weekend...shitty.

 

Sick dinner tonight, just bacon burgers, but they were fucking good. The meat came from the grocery store that supplies one of the most popular burger places (Harry's) in the state, one of the few places I've been to that forms the burger when they make it, not throw on pre-made patties. For fries we cut up some potatoes and deep fried them in the dutch oven, we'll add to the recipe later, but kept it simple with a little salt this time. I cooked the bacon in a cast iron griddle on the grill, then cooked the burgers in the bacon grease on the same griddle. The rolls were homemade too, weren't even out of the oven 30 minutes before we ate.

It was a lot of work for just burgers, but they were the best I've ever had by far. And this is despite a couple obvious oversights, the grill wasn't on flat ground so the oils stayed in one corner for the most part, I overdid the buns on the grill and totally underestimated how hot the griddle would get even on medium low on the grill, definitely keeping it low next time.

 

So slutwalk was kind of... meh. It was more of a run than a walk and we weren't able to keep up. And this girl gave a speech about how capitalism sucks because it objectifies and dehumanizes women. Does not compute. So it was more of a communism, socialism and slut run around the block.

 

At least in good honest God fearing America women can get compensated properly for being treated like a sexual object. In non-capitalist countries, sluts are merely public property.

 

That sort of thing tends to happen at political events, due to overlap of interests. Feminism needn't be anti-capitalist obviously and often/usually isn't, but there's a certain degree of correlation between the two. Same happens on the other side of the spectrum ('I just wanted to talk about taxes, what are all these homophobes doing here?'). You go to an event for one thing, and then all the fringe crazies show up.

 

So, they were complaining about the dehumanizing of women at an even called Slutwalk. That's like listening to Courtney Love bitch about junkies. Capitalism allows people to choose what they want to do with opportunity. Like being a stripper: Maybe it's a little objectifying, but on the other hand so fucking what? Lighten up, Steinem. Do some drugs or something.

 

Well, my argument is that these women (porn stars, strippers etc) are choosing to sell their bodies for profit and, in many cases, making a pretty penny for it. If what they're doing is truly consensual , then who the fuck are they to tell them they can't do it?

 

A buddy that's a wolf handler brought over a 6 week old full blooded wolf pup yesterday. What a fucking trip. It was cute, but it sure as shit wasn't friendly.

In other news, my mother's doctor ordered her to move in with me because she needs 24 hour care. I told her I was going to talk with health and welfare to see if I can get some money coming in for taking care of her since I can't work if I have to be with her 24/7 and it's becoming a financial strain. She threw a fit and started babbling that they were going to take all her savings, her house, and put her in a home.

Mom is 77 with MS, and I suspect, losing her mind.

Old people are fun.

 

There should be something like In-Home Support Services in your state. Basically, if you have a disabled family member, you can get paid to take care of them or hire someone else to lighten the load. You should also be able to get a few nursing hours per day for her so maybe you could still work.

 

Going back to cruises, if you're not old or a hermit I do not see how you could have a bad time on a cruise. I went with a buddy a while back, probably six to seven years ago, and had an absolute blast. We, as nettdata mentioned, did not stay on the boat. We did a jeep tour and aside from that partied like mad. We talked people into playing shuffle board for buckets of beer, and I mooned our entire group on the jeep tour. We managed to be on every mornings edition of the tv show, carnival, and watched it to remember what we did before we ventured back out. Best vacation ever! Cruise on Tibbers, cruise on.

In other news I need to sleep and sober up, flag football game begins in 12 hours. We win and we have a winning record going into the playoffs. Much better than last year when we didn't win a game. Then again, drinking is fun. I like it. I may continue and practice projectile vomiting like Bozworth talked about in his book. Either way I feel like a winner.

 

God, ain't that the truth. Back in the day you could be an honest, God-fearing homophobe without any trouble. Nowadays all these fringe economics freaks show up and give us a bad name.

 

Off the current topic.

Was at a party. Everyone's about 25-30. Except for the host's 9 year old boy. The kid was off to the side making a circuit board.A A CIRCUIT BOARD. He was attaching wire, a flip switch, a small motor, and a bunch of nails for conductivity to a piece of balsa wood. Now, I have NO idea wtf he could have done with the right knowledge, or if he was even right to begin with. No fucking clue. But when he flicked it on, that motor started to spin. So he hooked up a dishwasher motor for more power. That one sparked and shot clean out of the balsa wood.

My point is, I was amazed.This boy was 9. His dad is a useless pot head and his mom a fucking drunk. The fact that he's putting together shit so well blows my mind. I wanted to sponsor his way through MIT right there. Fuck you, it almost broke my heart. That kind of intelligence doesn't happen very often.

I got nothing otherwise. FUCK.

 

You know all told I'm not sure it's all that rare. I think parents just suppress it too much with bullshit about "safety", or they don't take enough of an interest to enable the kid to follow through (where did he get the balsa wood and materials to make the circuit?). If anyone's read Richard Feynman's "What do you care what anyone thinks?" you'd remember the crazy set-up he had in his bedroom that could have burned down the house down. It's not exactly hard to piece together a simple electrical circuit; but it is rare that kids would take the initiative to do so (especially with a dishwasher motor) and rarer still that parents encourage/allow it.

I mentioned a few weeks ago on the drunk thread I was out riding my motorcycle and came to a quiet T intersection in a residential neighbourhood with a small girl on a tricycle about to cross the street, with her mom and a friend walking 50 metres or so behind her. I stopped and motioned for the girl to cross; her mom yelled at her to stop before she'd even got off the sidewalk and onto the road. I think the experience taught the girl that if she ever comes across an uncertain situation, she's supposed to sit there and wait for directions from mommy and daddy. With the little boy you saw last night, the best thing he can have going for him is to not follow his parents' example.

 

Dude, when I was 9 I was in love with Duck Tales and kicking girls in the crotch. This kid knows about mathematical properties and basic physics. Not because his dad told him, but because "I just kind of figured it out." I asked him very carefully how he learned this stuff, and he said it was just from pulling shit apart and seeing how things worked. I'm sorry, that's rare. A lot of kids have great diction, know math a few grades above their own, or something of the like. To put together a working motor part with NO help or guidance is something else, because he was BORED.

Maybe I'm sheltered from kids, but I have never seen something like that before. Never in school, never in friends, never period. 9 years old, no way. I get your point, but I have never been privy to it myself.

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