WYFP: Surprise! Open Thread
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleThanks, Rauner!
You may have heard that we here in Illinois have this Republican governor, who thinks he was elected emperor. There has been no state budget for months now, and I just had it’s effects touch my life,...
View ArticleWYFP: Drivin' Me Crazy, Part 2, Open Thread
I’m still on the horns of a dilemma: see if the brakes can be fixed for something under the down payment on a newer used car, or scrap it and cut my losses.But first…WYFP is our community's Saturday...
View ArticleWYFP: 11 Year Old Immigrant Child Living In Canada Is Afraid Of Trump. by...
Amaryliss has asked me to post this, not yet being conversant in the arcane methods of posting a diary. Direct all recs in that direction, please!
View ArticleWYFP: New Mortgage Open Thread
I was planning to do a flash forward story for tonight’s article, but I couldn’t quite pull it together. So…WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with...
View ArticleWYFP: Bronchial Nagursky Strikes Again, Open Thread
Tonight’s host, Amaryliss, Kosmailed me that she is too ill with what appears to be the flu to do tonight’s WYFP. So, like any good blogadmin, I’m back in the saddle again. Please direct all good...
View ArticleWYFP: Again?
So your’s truly has gotten out of the habit of Kosmailing people mid-week about their obligations to host WYFP. Ah, well. To err is human, to really screw up requires a computer. And what is the `Web,...
View ArticleWYFP: Oh, great...
So, if you wondered where old Uncle Jeff was last Saturday, wonder no more.I was in the hospital.But first:WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with...
View ArticleWYFP: Inching Back
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWYFP: Yet another Open Thread
Many things are FP’s to me these days. The election and it’s aftermath, the Electoral College, my surgery and its putting the brakes on our move to the new house, and the lack of participation around...
View ArticleWYFP: not getting the word
Looks like I’m host tonight. I wonder if Trix is back?Our neighbors in Chicago to the west have had many problems. He developed liver disease and died earlier this year. She has be fighting cancer, and...
View ArticleWhither Night Owls
I don’t pretend to be the sharpest pencil in the drafting table drawer, and I haven’t been staying up late because I’m still healing from my heart surgery, but it’s 6 days since Open Thread for Night...
View ArticleWYFP: Multidimensional Open Thread
I had this dream a while back. For some reason, we had enough money available to own a one-bedroom condo in Chicago, on the Nort’ Side, as well as the dome out in Stephenson County. We also had a...
View ArticleWYFP: Misc. Stuff Open Thread
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWYFP: The Illinois Lottery and me.
I started playing the Lotto game back in 1984. My boss followed the Fifth Rule of Plumbing and I was looking to speed up my retirement, and the Illinois Lottery Authority was putting in...
View ArticleWYFP: Gettin' Around, Again
Ok, so you’ve heard my sad tale of woe about my Focus in it’s dog-years dotage. Things in it are starting to go south, and the cost of dealing with them is going up. I’d like to get a newer...
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WYFP: Open Thread
Nobody volunteered for tonight, and Calamity Jean and I just got back from an overnighter in Stephenson County. Therefore, I declare this an Open Thread.I can’t even handle the boilerplate...
View ArticleWYFP: Another F****** Open Thread
Out on the farm tonight. Seems like it’s taking forever to move, but my doctor said not to overdo it. My main FP after that? Well…July 8: Richard CraniumJuly 15: BlueoregonJuly 22:July 29:Other than...
View ArticleWYFP: Looking Ahead
Join me now for a fantasy (so far) look ahead:It was before the second anniversary of my heart valve surgery that we managed to get moved in to the new house. Cleaning up the bird poop meant that we...
View ArticleWYFP: Yet Another Open Thread
So we’re still cleaning, tweaking, etc. , at the dome. And I’m getting no volunteers.Thank d-G for Open Threads.Oh, and then there’s this:October 7:October 14:October 21: ScottyUrbOctober 28:...
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WYFP: Really Late Open Thread
We are out at the farm, having gotten a late start today due to the weather.And since I had no volunteers for tonight, well, y`know…I declare this an Open Thread.
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WYFP: Yet Another Open Thread
Not out at the farm this weekend, due to a family get-together.My FP’s are the same as usual. What’s your’s?I declare this an Open Thread.
View ArticleWYFP: The Board, and other things
Whenever I get a volunteer for a diary, you may have noticed that I tell them their name is on The Board, which conjures up visions of controls and instruments lined up on panels in a brightly lit...
View ArticleWYFP: For Want of a Washer
So here we are again, and I am posting tonight's diary.It's been another expensive week here in our old crumbling bungalow. The kitchen faucet had need of a new washer, letting us know by leaking a...
View ArticleDell laptop problem...
This would be appropriate for a WYFP diary, but we already have a volunteer for tomorrow night.Calamity Jean has a Dell e6500 running Win 10, and today it suddenly started acting up. As in the...
View ArticleWYFP: Heart to heart
I know I have chronic conditions, and I was born with a bum aortic valve, but what keeps Drumpf vertical? I eat pretty well, and my weight stays down, but he eats steak and cheeseburgers far more often...
View ArticleWYFP: Be it ever so humble, again...
I sit here on Saturday afternoon, typing up tonight’s WYFP (“What’s Your Fµ©king Problem” for the new kids) in the family room of our new house. To say that concrete and geodesic math don’t seem to...
View ArticleWYFP: Pence Did It
That anonymous op-ed? Pence did it. And then he lied to Drumpf.He’s not ballsy enough? Sure he is, if he does it anonymously.Not Jesusy enough? He’s doing it for himself.And even if he didn’t do it,...
View ArticleWYFP: Adapters and Such
So, some of you may recall that my wife fell asleep sitting on the couch and dropped her laptop on the floor, resulting in a few hundred dollars of work done with a new hard drive and a new install of...
View ArticleWYFP: My persistent f**king problem
I have a persistent f**king problem.I am the blog administrator. The person who maintains the schedule of who posts what and when. It’s hard to do that with my problem.I have no volunteers.No...
View ArticleWYFP: Things of the Internet, and Other Tech Things
Thought up tonight's title from something I used to get as a child, "Things of Science". Every month I would receive a blue box in the mail, about the size of a contemporary Priority Mail cassette...
View ArticleWYFP: The Failed Promise of Self-Driving Cars
So I had an idea for a story tonight, after dealing with the weather and driving in it.xYouTube VideoI've heard about self-driving automobiles for years, General Motors being one manufacturer that...
View ArticleWYFP: What am I doing wrong?
I like to do things right, and if there isn’t an instruction book when I start, I almost always get to write one. Problem is, sometimes I’m not allowed to do that by the boss, or the conditions. For...
View ArticleWYFP: Assuming Technology not in Evidence
You’ve probably heard something similar from Raymond Burr on an old episode ofPerry Mason : “Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence. Here I’m talking about nofacts of any technology that some think...
View ArticleWYFP? Yet Another Open Thread
Re: participation, here’s what’s open:November 23: Blueoregon November 30: JeffWDecember 7: December 14: December 21: Blueoregon December 28:Contact Annieli or myself via Kosmail.That’s my FP right...
View ArticleWYFP: Again Another Open Thread
Not out at the farm this weekend, due to the crappy weather. AlsoJanuary 18: January 25:February 1: February 8:Anyone?
View ArticleWYFP: Yet another another Open Thread
Well, no sense me carping on not having a volunteer, or even a subject...
View ArticleWYFP: Sheltering In Place Open Thread
Well, here we are, hunkered down in Chicago. We went grocery shopping yesterday, and I observed that many of the employees at the Jewel/Osco we frequent were quite fed up with the situation. I...
View ArticleWYFP: Hunkering Down Open Thread
Our diarist tonight is AWOL.That’s the least of my FP’s.Here’s another of my FP’s:March 21: JeffW March 28: JeffWApril 4: Mortifyd April 11: April 18: April 25:What’s your’s?
View ArticleWYFP: Escape to Orangeville!
So it’s been like a month since we went out to the new house, what with Governor Pritzker’s XO to hunker down. Calamity Jean wanted to check on Mr. Pine (the Norfolk Island Pine she inherited from her...
View ArticleWYFP? Happy haircut...
I could use a haircut.I’m looking like a cross between Senator Bernie Sanders and the late, great Al Lewis when my hair gets mussed. I haven’t gone this long without a trim since I was in college,...
View ArticleWYFP: Antibody Test Open Thread
So yesterday I had a 3-month followup with my primary care physician, and I managed to get him to sign off on getting a COvID-19 antibody test yesterday (Friday). Happily, the result was negative,...
View ArticleWYFP: Open Thread Elebenty
Went out to the farm. Two of the restaurants we frequent are up for sale, one is closed for remodeling, but the Culver’s in Freeport has reopened its dining room with reduced capacity. We will find out...
View ArticleWYFP: I got nuthin' Open Thread
I got nothing. That’s my f**king problem, so this is an Open Thread.What’s yours?
View ArticleWYFP? Vaccine Guessing Game
Despite the tragic news about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we still have a pandemic happening. I’d like to hear your thoughts on the vaccine(s), when you think they will happen, will you get it, etc.As with...
View ArticleWYFP: How I've spent my fall quarantine.
Laying low.Cut back on visits to the farm, so they include quarantine time.Lots of time online.Lots more sleep.Regular visits to the grocery store.Resisting overeating.My FP? Trump is still free to...
View ArticleWYFP? Boxing Day Open Thread
I got nuthin’.No, reallyExcept openings:January 2: Cali Scribe January 9: January 16: January 23: January 30:
View ArticleWYFP: Missed opportunities and extra parts
Many of us have an FP with missed opportunities, like a date you had to cancel because you came down with a cold, or a special credit project that would have cinched a promotion at work, only...
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