Greetings and Salutations!
Man… Glad I’m in shape.
Round is a shape innit?
Sapper and I still live despite exceptional gastronomic overload yesterday. Dinner tonight was a mite on the lite side as neither of us had much of an appetite almost 24 hours later STILL.
That as some good grub man.
Some of y’all comments cracked me the fuck up too. Like literally laughed out loud. In fact I realized something… I’ve laughed out loud MORE in the past 4 days than I have in the last 4 months.
Like genuine laughter at some ‘stuff’ I haven’t enjoyed in a while. Case in point, SWMNBN didn’t like Cartoons. For the life of me, I can NOT understand how you can’t enjoy Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and the rest… nevermind the fact we are BOTH GenX and cartoons were the “Staff of Saturday Morning Life” for our generation. Sapper thinks it’s that she lacks the ability understand abstract concepts… like that question “If you didn’t eat breakfast this morning, how would you feel now?”
In my case I think it’s her inability to embrace or understand absurdity. Either way, Saturday Morning Bug Bunny was on MeTV and one I haven’t seen in ages popped up “Forward March Hare” where Bugs gets drafted:
At 00:19 seconds in, the guy behind Bugs?
He looked at the camera, and did that insane giggle? Maaaan I lost it for some reason. Genuinely laughed my ass off. I mean it is funny, especially in light of the whole “Rabbit drafted into the Army” thing…the X-Ray tech was great too. I LOL’d when I saw the ‘ear bone’ so to speak…
Over all it’s been a very stress free weekend.
I also got a package today from a Kickstarter that I had completely forgotten about. Not sure about y’all but I’m not too big into the whole Kickstarter thing… This one though I figured that why not? It wasn’t going to break my bank so to speak and if it vanished, well OK. Sapper does a LOT of Kickstarter support, and his track record hasn’t been too bad… likje me he’ll do one, and months later, out of the blue a ‘rando-package’ shows up and then it’s a “Ohhhhh yeeeeah!!! I forgot about this!!!”
This was a instance like that here today. I opened said package and……..

Meet “Clay the Claymore”
Some of you probably already saw it on Gab where I put it up earlier… It’s waaaay cute. It’s also got a BIG velcro section on the back, which is how I was able to mount him to the front of my vest… I have no idea why, but this stupid lil thing makes me very happy for some reason.
Now supposedly they’re still up for sale. I’m unsure. I got mine via a Kickstarter. And the tag on mine says “Only 10431 made”

The website is https://claytheclaymoreplush.com/
YMMV, don’t run with scissors.
After getting it I did order another… Ranger Jay has his first kid on the way… I’m not sure if the Redhead would like it or not… she also is a wee bit spoiled when it comes to plushies… I got her a “Blood God” plushie AKA “Nanner” from ‘Sketch’s World’:

For those of you unfamiliar, ‘Sketch’ is a former Marine who does a comic called ‘Sketch’s World’… he’s funny AF w/various takes on the DotMil as well as the various services…



Nanner is oft referred to as “The Blood God”
The plushie was a limited run and well, the Redhead didn’t cotton onto it… I think it’s b/c she has WAY too many to even notice it. So Yep..
Then lastly, a meme that cracked me up courtesy of CA over at WRSA:

“Flammenwerfers” need to be added to the ‘No Step on Snek’ side of things… Jes’ Sayin’.
So tomorrow I’ll have a wee bit of a writeup on an idea about countering drones. Herschel from The Captain’s Journal put up a suggestion on Twitter that I responded to, and I can elaborate more on. The tweet in question is this:
My idea is in the replies.
I got a few more thoughts on the subject to go over later.
Otherwise, the commenter who mentioned the 2003 Lincoln? If you can reach out to me at bce187th@protonmail.com. I’d appreciate it. I really need my own wheels. Also, I haven’t heard back from the raffle winner. I know the email was delivered (I got confirmation of that) so the clock is rolling there. If I don’t get a response, I’ll pull another name in a week. And those of you who asked, the new PayPal is CountryofBigExpat if you want to know…
All contributions to keeping the lights on are appreciated, but not absolutely necessary (for now thank the Good Lord!)
If I don’t hear back, I’ll reopen the raffle for another week ‘cos I had a LOT of people email and DM me saying they wanted to join, but as the fucking cunt had hijacked my shit, well… Yeah… about that… I hope the fucking Feds nail her DC Ass to the wall as I did report that shit. Interstate Wire Fraud is a thing donchaknow?
So it’s now time to game out for a bit. I’m at the end of my 2nd run thru Fallout London, this time being a ‘bad guy’ which is something I like about the Fallout series, being able to do different factions and whatnnot….
So More Later
BCE

If there was a way to gum up the drones camera some how that would be great! Like an aimed atomized goo that has some hang time!
I love the old cartoons where they look at them as food on a rotisserie.
Everything I needed to know was learned from MAD magazine and cartoons.
That’s all great news and the sooner you file the divorce paperwork the better.
Not to be a downer but we all know how much you love Gran 1 and 2.
The problem is that technically they are HER grandkids and not yours.
Be very careful that she doesn’t weaponize your relationship with them against you.
I hate saying this but my Ex 100% used parental alienation on my 3 kids against me.
Because of this shit, it damaged my relationship with all 3 and my youngest will have nothing to do with me now.
I could see “you know who” using you visiting with Gran 1 as a weapon ie you do X or you aren’t invited to her 6th birthday party and if you show up they’ll call the cops on you.
Sorry to bring that up but “you know who” has shown that she has no limits and if she’ll try and SWAT you she and DC could damn sure try and use those kids against you.
Please be careful.
OtherGrans and I are on the same exact page so no worries!
She (SWMNBN) is no longer ‘in play’ and hold NO sway there and FL has no ‘grandparent rights’ so to speak
Another reason I’ve been very pleased as of late.
Hurting the doggo was all BOTH OtherGrans (SWMNBN Husband #1 and his NewWife) needed to hear.
Guess who is going to be getting weekends?
And nope, won’t slap down/slight or say anything negative about SWMNBN… just “Satan….. errr…GiGi is on a business trip” or some such excuse for her absence, as OtherGrans DO need a break occasionally from Red as she IS a multiplicity of fucking non-stop ‘handfuls’ so to speak LOL. She’d wear out a speed-freak I think
That’s fabulous news BCE, of course you don’t have to tell her Ex #1 about her … he knows all about her and her BS.
That really makes me happy about the Grans, I was worried that SWMNBN and DC would try to use those little girls as a weapon against you. My Ex did that to me with my 3 kids and man did that hurt.
even the Grans know there no reason to hurt a dog. GOOD. as many others have said. that is one line you never cross. but if a person is willing hurt a good dog for spite, there is no telling what else they may do to you. really. keep your guard up as this is far from over. still praying for ya here.
but really think about unassing that AO as soon as you can. hate lasts a long time with some people.
and after dropping intel on the wire fraud to the feds, yeah. she going to hate you.
be careful down there until you leave the AO.
maybe the locals will get on her for what she did to Stella. let them know you are willing to make a statement to that fact as well. better for you if you do, I think. can’t hurt anyway.
Wait a minute. The bitch hurt the dog? WTF man? I missed that part.
BCE can’t discuss the details for multiple reasons but read back a few posts and he said that the Vet called the law and an investigator came and interviewed BCE and checked out the doggo. Words like “felony animal cruelty and abuse” were used which means the doggo wasn’t hurt on accident.
BCE said that was pretty much the last straw and he broke up with her and is filing for divorce.
I don’t blame him, anyone who would knowingly hurt a dog is an evil piece of shit.
” Ex 100% used parental alienation on my 3 kids against me.” I doubt I’ll ever talk to my girls again for the same reason.
Max, it’s horrible and one of the few sources of pain in my life.
(Sorry for the multiple posts but this stuff strikes close to home for me)
My youngest daughter and I were very close. Post divorce my Ex did everything she could to drive wedges between me and my kids mainly through vile lies. Meanwhile her loverboy who she was cheating on me with and then after divorce married became “Daddy” and I was “the no good rotten deadbeat” even though I paid every cent that I owed in the divorce and child support agreement and paid for the kids clothes, sports, etc. Ex would lie and say that Stepdad paid everything even though he never paid a dime.
When the kids were older teens, I showed them all of the cancelled checks and they didn’t say a word.
Recently my youngest daughter got married and my Ex said that I as father of the bride was to pay for everything yet I wasn’t walking her down the aisle and was not invited and I was told that if I showed up I’d be arrested.
I called my youngest on that and she said “I’m nothing to her” so I said “then have your DADDY pay for the wedding since he never paid a fucking dime for you and have a nice life” and that was it.
She did have a wedding but instead of a big fancy $10,000+ wedding at a country club it was a potluck in the church hall. My daughter was furious and blames ME.
Relationships even with your kids once they are adults are a 2 way street and if there is no love or respect then it is best to walk away even though it is painful.
The Navy has it easy in drone warfare. All they have to do is turn up their AEGIS systems to full power and sweep the area.
Dad was on Range Tracking and Instrumentation ships during the good decade of NASA. The things they would do with the main radar were definitely non-authorized use of government equipment. Like blowing seagulls up, turning all the fluorescent lights on in the Soviet ‘trawlers’ that followed them (just like with high tension power lines, those big radar can be used to ‘excite’ a fluorescent tube, which dad found out when his ship lost main power but not the gennies running the radar, one seaman holding two tubes while following some tech to fix the main generators.)
As to old school cartoons and comedy, kids these days have no understanding about good physical comedy. Which makes sense as they think Seth Rogan is hilarious.
I’m sure I saw the Bugs Bunny episode like 60 years ago. At the time I would not have known about those WW-II double-decker barracks, the quonset hut (which I lived in for a while) and the red-and-white checkerboard water tower.
THAT brought me back!!!
Those types of double decker barracks is where Ft Campbell (at the time) had the repo-depot when I met PFC Sarah in that other story…
be thankful. we used to live it those damn buildings before we moved to the “new” ones.
moving day was FUN. not. but it was a hell of lot better than those old building.
I think the 3rd BDE was the first to get the new buildings too. hell, that was a easy 50 years ago now.
i did basic in one of those old 2 stories heated with fucking coal. yup. 2nd Infantry Training Brigade aka “Harmony Church”
cold as fuck in the winter. hot as hell in the summer.. and yup i stayed in those at Campbell also while waiting to be assigned.
Well, someone else brought up the Grans and I have wondered a lot about where this leaves you. You went to war for Gran #2 and basically broke land speed records driving back and forth to Tennessee. You do have an established relationship with both and that might count for something in court. It just sucks that SWMNBN and DC are both in on stealing from and harassing you. I think you have been a pretty exemplar husband what with her parents (I do feel sorry for the dad. I think the mother is nuts and it has been passed down in matriarchal genes), her various confrontations with DC, saving her grandkids, various surgeries where you went 200% overboard on recovery and treatment, and then to top it all off by taking the car. Then…….nobody hurts a doggo in my book. A dog will love you and stay with you when you are broke, abandoned, and without any hope. They really are Angels without wings. Make sure that all credit, deeds, SS number, etc is wrapped tighter than the proverbial 10,000 virgins. I have zero doubt that both would be willing to put cell phones in your name, order $50,000 worth of Pottery Barn furniture (for their new apartment), etc. Keep all of the receipts, taxes, etc from when you were married. Get yourself an E-bike so the commuting is easier. Pay cash if you can. No record is no community property. You deserve better, so push the eject button and keep flying. Blessings.
Dont forget to lock all three of your credit reports if you havnt already. Easy to do and easy to turn back on if you need to. You can download the Experian and other apps and do it from your phone.
Amen to the whole cartoons thing. I certainly liked Bugs and the gang, but to me the all time greatest cartoon franchise was Tom and Jerry. At least until those weird ass episodes secretly done in the Eastern bloc in the 6o’s, after MGM shuttered their in house animation department. For that matter, the ones done by Warners under license from MGM kind of sucked too. because they were just Looney Toons with Tom and Jerry plugged into them, instead of the normal Warner Brothers cast of cartoon characters. The animation style and music they used on those just didn’t fit Tom and Jerry. But yeah, cartoons are the shit. And I’ll still say that proudly, and will still watch them even at 51 years old.
Interesting to hear the disposition of the grandkids, so far as goes the two headed snake of cluster B (as in Bitch) being able to weaponize them against you. Since I gether you’d like to maintain contact with them, that sounds like some good news.
Needless to say, I gather you will be avoiding any contact with gran #3 yet to come right from the get go, as I assume SWMNBN and DC will have custody of that poor, unfortunate child. Assuming it even makes it to term
(and with the lifestyle of the birthing unit involved, that may well be in question). What an awful shit show. Once again, do not let them try to soften you up and re-insert themselves in your life, even if via the kiddo now on the way.
My adopted daughter’s biggest mistake was in not letting me see her various kids. Thus when she would contact me wanting money she had no pull over me.
Don’t get me wrong. I loved her as a child and in my heart she will always be that red headed 6 year old. But she used me and burned me enough times that I decided that I didn’t want her in my life bad enough to have to pay for it.
And with no emotional attachment to her children it makes it easier on me.
So wash your hands on Gran #3. Sad to say but you have no responsibilities toward that child. For your own sanity, keep it that way.
Back in my 20s, me and my roommate Buddy would come home from the bars late and watch Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons….and giggle our ever-loving asses off.
I don’t know why but it was on a whole other level when inebriated.
Good times. Thanks for conjuring up good memories, BC.
Take care, sir.
It is present day drone threat that makes me wish the Army had stuck with the Sgt. York M247 DIVAD system, and ironed out the bugs. A tracked dual 40mm gun system that can keep up with the rest of the heavies would be about perfect right now.
As for base defense, the Navy has a bunch of M110 57mm gun turrets sitting around on old LCS ships that are not doing anything these days, since the ships they are mounted to are being decommed. Maybe we could set those up up trailers, like the CRAM, or on some sort of CONNEX box, and use those to keep the skies clear.
I thinks we are going to see a push for more gun based lighter AA to deal with drones.
2x for the Navy who can not spend SMs on drones
might want to re-thing Coke…
The closures span California, Florida, and Massachusetts, impacting everything from long-running bottling facilities to regional distribution hubs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coca-cola-shuts-down-5-205511745.html
I”m not finding a link to Sketch’s World, would you have one? Thanks.
Matt
Dont forget to change all your beneficiaries on all your savings/retirement/mil/etc accounts. You want the right persons to benefit if a firetruck runs over you or a coronary visits. (seeing all that turk food made me think of this)