Greetings and Salutations
NGL…Kind of emotionally wrung out around here. Reason being is Gretchen has been in full-on meltdown mode today. And the reason for that is today was Adriana’s Birthday and Birthday Party.
The BabyDad did a video chat with us, and she knows and remembers us, but it still ripped the heart out of Gretchen for us not to be there…
I’ve been trying to be a supportive hubz in this case but I’m not very good at that sort of emotional stuff… too much damage over the years
Harsh but true.
I compartmentalize everything that’s emotionally upsetting.
ESPECIALLY when it comes to my absolute failure to make sure Addy stayed with us… That was all my fault. Between my blowing my top at the wrong place and time occasionally, to not doing ‘what needed to be done’ (i.e. “taking out the trash” as I saw it then)… I feel like I failed in some major ways. I could have done better.
That being said… BabyDad has been doing exceptionally well.
I’ve told him as much. The kid didn’t have a ‘proper father figure’ which is a major reason he was screwed up IMO. Being raised by your Grands IF they’re really really old when you’re a wee bitty ‘un… well… it’s sort of like my Uncle who last I heard was on Wife #3, and had a kid when he was 52? 53? Something like that… DeadDad gave him a bunch of shit about having to teach his newest Daughter how to drive when he was 68 or so?
The few times I tried to teach Spawn #2 basic driving when (s)he was 16 and I was in my early 40s damned near kil’t my ass from heart failure… raising lil ‘uns past 60? Not an easy job.
Either way tho…

She got her ‘first’ real haircut so to speak…
I mean Gretchen when we had her, being a professional hair stylist kept her mop under control, but after BabyDad and his Gran took over, for the longest time is was the basic “bowl cut”.
Shit like that drove Gretchen borderline insane mind you…

She looks great.
The video chat was good too.
She remembered us, but is still confused that I don’t wear glasses anymore. She always asks me where my glasses are… (side note: since I got the cataracts removed, I no longer require glasses except for super up close reading, and even then a cheap pair of Walmart Readers are fine) She’s getting tall too.
We of course sent gifts that were well received…
However… Gretchen melted down for the rest of the day… which has made shit here hard, especially since I’m no good with emotional ‘stuff’. I do my best, but I keep feeling like I stepped in it constantly… like I’m running blindfolded through a cow pasture and keep hitting piles of shit. It’s a no-win either way.
That and last night was a major bummer.
Gretchen’s birthday was back in June. That being said, before it, in May, Elle King announced a new tour and lo and behold! She was going to be in Tampa at a very small venue, The Ritz in Ybor. We saw The Hu, a Mongolian Metal Band there back right before the COVID Lockdown in 2020. If you are unfamiliar with The Hu (pronounced ‘Who’) try this one for size:
Mongolian throat singing with metal and traditional Mongolian musical instruments… and another side note: The two string ‘guitar’ is a morin khuur which is the national instrument of Mongolia and is known as the “horse-headed fiddle”… in a few of their videos, you can plainly see the Swastika imbedded in the neck as it was originally intended to be, but freaks out the left so badly…
These guys are as awesome as you can imagine live as well. Funniest thing: NONE of them speak and English except the lead singer who’s main phrase was “FUCK YEEEEEAH!!!” which was hysterical…
Anyways, Elle King is like Gretchen’s favorite performer and I went and got tickets… not only that, they were the VIP tix with a ‘meet and greet’ after the show with Elle, and great balcony seats… I had gotten a couple of referral bonuses from People’s Glorious Tractor Factory, so I figured this would be Gretchen’s BIG birfday present.
Problem is she (Elle) had announced back in September she’s pregnant with kid #2. And last night she got so sick before the show they cancelled and took her to the E.R. Can’t blame them as she is preggers… Gretchen of course having gotten all dolled up was exceptionally down about it.
I hope she’s OK but fuck man.
Sometimes I can’t win I swear
What Mummy’s Tomb did I desecrate I keep wondering?
“(((They)))” said that the show would be rescheduled but to my mind? That shit ain’t happening in the next year or so period fucking dot. I mean let’s face it… the broad is (as I found out) six months gone… which means it’ll be a year plus before she can go back on tour, if ever.
And since they ‘postponed’ the show, it means I can’t get a fucking refund. Not until (((they))) cancel it.
Like I said.
I feel like I cannot win.
The only entertaining thing was I got an email with a scanned pic that MomUnit found while cleaning up her computer:

I have no idea who took it.
I do know that was me in Basic Training in early 1990
Reason I know is the guy with his hands on his helmet?
His pantlegs are rolled.
The only time ever that any of us did that in the Army was when we were in Basic Training. That and the metal table behind us, and the dude in the background with the ‘boothead’ haircut. Plus zero rifles in sight either…
No clue why I’m grinning like a fool…
Basic purely sucked.
And lastly, the Starlink?
The mounting kit I bought was insufficient. I have to return it, and I ordered a roof peak mount instead. That of course was damned near double the cost of the other mount… At least I have one thing going for me… which is my luck… which seems to always be slightly fucked up. Not terminally bad but juuuust enough bad as to be exceptionally annoying as fuck.
Gotta say I do at least appreciate the irony and consistency.
So More Later
Big Country

BCE, stop blaming yourself for not having custody of Gran #2.
You did the very best that you could and that is all any of us can do.
In addition, unless Baby Daddy messed up and landed back in jail, the odds were slim for you guys to get permanent custody. It was a fight you had to fight and you fought your hardest but the laws and judge were totally against you.
Still, I know how it feels because I fought my ex wife after the divorce to get custody of my 3 kids.
I lost and she did everything she could after to cut them out of my life.
I KNOW that legally and realistically I did everything I could but it still stings and hurts even 13 years later.
You and Wifey should strive to be the best grand parents you can be. Maybe if you could swing it, you guys could road trip up and see Gran #2 and spend some time with her. That would make Wifey a lot happier.
Christmas is the plan man… appreciate the kind words…
I know you are down right now but remember they supposedly got 9 S.A.Ms over the boarder, that means 9 chances for r/ourguys to find a new toy. Happy hunting
I loved hanging with Gram and Gramps, pappy lived there in the just divorced bachelor’s basement for awhile in the 1980’s during Fort Knox deployment.
One day he was banging away on fitness blonde and I knew what was going on with the headboard slapping against the wall while cracking a smile and sorting baseball cards.
Me and cousins played Jarts and Grampaw would LOL at the near misses, we learned to swat it away before any impalement or facial reconstruction.
Vintage Legacy USA was the best ever and the youngsters don’t know what they missed as the fundamentally transformed Amerika 2.0 is a fourth world bankster banana republic turd.
The wymyns always get too emotional and should never be preezy of the steezy.
Still LOL over the Kamalalala is a hermaphrodite named Kamal Amoush as she is too fence post turtle even for that.
The worked at McDonalds photochop onto the head of a Canadian teenager in McD work outfit was debunked within minutes.
The Hu are currently supporting Iron Maiden on tour in the USA and released this cover to celebrate – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WrvFUZgHro
Were they still issuing black combat boots for initial issue in 1990?
Yep. Basic ‘cruit boots… hated them fuckers
We still had them in 2004. Shined boots and starched BDU’s look six million times better than the bag-of-ass OCPs and desert boots.
Speaking of which…in 2019 I went back into the Reserves (BIG mistake-you can’t say nigger and faggot anymore. Ruled me out.) and while out at JBLM, they’re issuing desert boots.
For Washington State.
The WET side.
Since they never issued me uniforms or boots in the two years I was back(MUH GREATEST ARMY EVER), I’d just wear my Hoffman Explorers, jeans, a wool shirt, whatever. We’re out doing land nav, in February, and these poor guys are all in desert boots and cotton(!?) socks, in that lovely, more than mist, not quite rain that is present 366 days of the year there.
I requested to get back out and thankfully they supported that.
your little precious girl may be the last generation…
https://disswire.com/vaxxed-men-now-infertile-as-sperm-replaced-by-spike-proteins-german-pathologist-warns/
That just means we oldsters will have to be called back to duty. Needed to sire another generation of future Visigoths. It’s a burden, but I’ll do my Duty. As long as I can name the first one Skorzeny
Family is always tough, even when it seems like you have your shit together it usually is just holding on by a fingernail.
When life starts feeling like it is crushing me like a bug , i escape. Luckily I have a deer camp in very geographically big parish ( county) but the population is only 4,000. Nothing but farm land and forest. Just me and my battle buddy from Afghanistan . No one else unless we invite someone.
The only time I look at my phone is when my wife texts me or when I occasionally check the weather. Can’t receive emails there so I usually have 15 to 20 dump as soon as I get on the U.S. highway 8 miles away.
It keeps me grounded and sane.
Starlink is popular.
I bet somebody local could 3-D print a mount to your specs.
I used an existing satellite mount, shimmed it up with a chunk of gum-rubber I snagged from a job at one point.
Works well in the regular 45-mph gusts in The Swamp.
Thingverse has many starlink mounts. I’ve been using one for months.
BTW that picture of you rocking those BCG’s is epic.
I’m also not good with the “emotional support” thing. I’ve found the best you can do is give the wife a big, long hug and tell her you love her. Goes a long way if not perfect. Tough having the concert cancelled with the bullshit excuse of “postponed”. Fuckers never want to give back a dime that is already in (((their))) pocket.
To (((them,))) issuing a refund is literally the holocaust.
At current day ticket prices, blanket refunds would probably cost them, oh, about 6 million dollars, I figure.
Oh fuckin’ vey.
2 jews reminding you to get your shot…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw2n3ORJSXc
Look goy, do what we say is good for you
Heh. I’d have guessed that picture was during basic just from how everyone else in it just appears to absolutely hate life. I know I did when I went through it in the Canuck army. Boot sucks whale dong in any country.
If I was to guess, you’re smiling because you’re either ready to go off the deep end OR the photographer has a sweet rack…or some thing resembling one. Given those sweet BCGs you’re rocking in the photo, I probably couldn’t blame you.
Son loved basic but he went in when he was older and he knew it was all bullshit. Just keep your socks all in a row and you were good. He’s now special forces combat medic on inactive duty studying for PA degree. The only thing he didn’t like was SERE school; said it was the best school he was ever in but never wanted to do it again
Just saw The Hu open for Iron Maiden over in Portlandistan a couple of weeks ago. They were a hoot!
Took my boy and my 12 year old Grandson for his first ever concert. Hopefully he will remember it fondly after I am gone.
I hope things settle down for you dude.
Damn.
Awesome band; if you dig the Mongolian throat singing check out Genghis Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4zwH0h5-o
A blind blues singer teaches himself Mongolian and goes there to compete in their biggest throat singing competition, great documentary film
Somebody put a lota work into this:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152-Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.html#document/p1
Well… that was quick: Election test results “mistakenly” shown on air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4274513/posts
I feel you and Gretchen’s pain. My son married an Island Girl against our advice while at Schofield Barracks, what a surprise. Now after a nasty divorce the chances of us getting to spend any quality time with our only 2 grandsons is gone. I had that though of “do whats needed” and I held back trying to believe in the system. That will NEVER happen again…She was smart enough to move back to Hawaii where us white folks are the trash and the home girls are always virgin saints. What a fucking idiot I was. I’m lucky I didn’t get thrown in jail through all this.
i bet these guys would have thought twice about jewkraine if they knew how things would going to turn out.. not a good look
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/u-s-marine-from-pennsylvania-killed-fighting-for-ukraine
https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/detail/79590373/corey-j-nawrocki-arrest.html
I wondered how a Marine went from 29 year old Gunny at 8th and Eye to Ukie cannon fodder. High stress postings plus alcohol in today’s climate is not conducive to a long and happy career. I’d say that he had some serious issues to join the Ukiestani forces at this late date. RIP GySgt
Indeed. I still find it incredible they were so high on their own supply that they believed they could take Russia using the ‘kraine as a proxy. Especially with the half assed and half hearted commitment NATO made to the whole thing. Sure, they sent tons of money (which I’ll bet was mostly squandered on bullshit, or laundered) and lots of weapons (but mostly to burn off old stocks, near as I can ascertain). They (neocons) never struck me as being truly committed from the start. It was a poor effort, and it showed even in the early stages . It’s painfully obvious now. And now that Germany and other EU contributors have decided to cut off the kokaine klown koterie, the US (and UK, to the extent they have any relevance) are left to shoulder the whole burden, which they clearly lack the balls or resources to do on a forward basis.
Unrelated: you ok down there BC? Been two nights with no post now, and this one had you sounding pretty deflated. Hope you aren’t neck deep in shit there. At least throw us up a smoke signal or something.
The truth is the Neocons don’t give a shit about winning in the Kraine or the over 1 million Ukrainians who are dead or fucked up.
Nope, THEY and their pals in the Military Industrial Complex made a mint between supplying shitty overpriced arms and the kick backs.
Soon Zelensky and pals will vamoose with truck loads of money to Switzerland and the remaining Ukrainians will be left to pick up the pieces of a broken and destroyed country.
The Neocons though have already moved their Eye of Sauron to Bibi Nuttyahoo and to fucking up (and profiting) from destroying the Middle East.
That’s pretty well my assessment of it. I guess we just need to assume that the objective from the get to was simply to launder huge amounts of money, benefit the US military industrial complex with new production contracts, and kill a shitload of Ukies (and some quantity of Russians as well).
Because they damn sure never put in the serious effort that would’ve been required to actually “win”, whatever winning would’ve looked like in their fucked up minds. I cannot believe they truly underestimated Russia’s capabilities so badly as to mis-step into this scenario. They had to know Russia would put up a legitimate challenge, despite the painfully stupid propaganda they kept punishing about Russia being “a broke ass country with a gas station and a few old weapons.”
That’s the exact problem, listen to Pedo Joe, Lyndsey Graham, our idiot Secretary of State Blinken and all of them speak and act like it is 1992 and we won the Cold War and Russia, China, and India are a mess and no threat.
These idiots don’t realize that the World has massively changed in 30 years and our military and influence are a shadow of what it once was. Most of the countries in the World hate us because of our hypocrisy, bullying ways and supporting Israel and all of the vile shit they do.
We are at the same point as the UK circa 1945… the “Empire” will soon be gone and economically and with budget deficits, there is no more road to kick the can down and the day of reckoning is approaching.
Having half of the population on the government dole, having millions of immigrants entering the country with no jobs or housing for them and spending trillions a year on the military and in bribes to other countries is just not sustainable.
Luckily many of the American people are waking up to this but most are still asleep beiving the government and mainstream media’s lies and watching sports ball.
“Hey how about them Dodgers, I wonder what Taylor Swift is doing…Ukraine..where is that ?”
I keep considering that they really are that far out of touch with present reality (as you postulated above), but then I start to waffle and think, “naw, they can’t possibly be that stupid.” Yet apparently, based on observable reality, they actually are. Jesus, how fucked up is that?
all is going exactly as planned…
got to get rid of the old world to bring in the new…
it’s gonna get that bad
With a minor sidestep to Georgia (the country).