My water heater started leaking over the weekend. It was only seven years old, but I suppose since the warranty was six years, I shouldn’t complain? Anyway, I installed my new water heater today, so I can shower again. This one has a 12-year warranty, it might out live me.

I just took a shower, I feel great. I’ll be going for a walk around sunset. It’s been a good day.

This is just fanfic.

American, and Mexican.

Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the birthday book put together for the financier’s 50th birthday, which includes a letter with President Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Cool. Where’s the rest of the book?

I just played through Portal 2 a couple of weeks ago, for nostalgia’s sake.

“Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is, we’re postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is, we’ve got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men! Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You’ll know when the test starts.”

See, there’s this guy in Vegas…

“We thought you were only going to deport the Mexicans, when we contributed to your campaign!”

I suppose you want lube, too?

I think the biggest channels I watch have under 4 million subscribers, and most of my channels have less than a million. I’ve never watched the big channels, so I don’t really care.

A while back, YT asked me about turning on my watch history, but I didn’t know it was off. I don’t know what that was about–I think they changed something–but my knee-jerk reaction is to NOT do what they want me to do, so I left it off. Now I just watch whatever is new from my subscriptions, and don’t have any suggestions cluttering my front page, which is a much better way to use YT, imo. So, thanks, YT.

My kid used to complain about how loudly I sneeze.

He’s 27, now, and he does it too.

… because it costs them money, to be clear. They can’t get their customers to tip enough to allow them to underpay their employees, that’s the complaint. This is not McD calling for fair wages on behalf of others.

The youngest Boomer is 61. There are plenty of 61-year-olds I’d vote for, and older. For instance, I’d still vote for Bernie–just get him in office, it doesn’t matter how long he lives. Conversely, there are plenty of under-40-year-olds I would not vote for. The problem has nothing to do with age. There are a lot of 20-something MAGAs.

It helps to acknowledge their issue first, maybe commiserate, and only share something directly related. Then you need to immediately hand the conversation back to them, and listen some more.

Don’t say, “Oh, that reminds me of something…” and then talk about seeing a dog on your most recent three-week summer vacation to France.

Trying to square this with their insistence to also increase the birth rate, all I can come up with is they want young minds to indoctrinate.

One of the bigger lies we tell each other is that “people never change”. Not true at all, we change constantly, one universal constant is change. I wouldn’t spend my remaining years tied to someone I wasn’t interested in.

I’m 60, and I’ve been divorced for 15 years, the same amount of time I was married. In the past 15 years, I had a girlfriend for a few years, and that was fine. But, really, I’m much happier without anyone in my life, that’s what works best for me, now. It’s just too much effort and compromise for the benefits.

Also, this may be hard to hear, but 56 is not “middle age”, you should use that fact as motivation. Keep exercising, and eating right. Take the prescriptions and supplements you need to take, don’t stubbornly deny that your body is aging, and accept you need to change your habits to keep up with it.

Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly take up tariffs case and reverse ruling finding them illegal

Seeing that our Judicial branch is limping along, and at least attempting to curtail this march toward totalitarianism, gives me hope.

I’ll be pleasantly surprised if this happens.

Maybe, hanging out at one of the choke points of the house ensures he’ll get some interaction. He looks like an old kitty, maybe he needs some comforting.

Happy to see the Separation of Powers limping along. It’s really our only hope, now.

And, also orchestrated.