Greetings and Salutations!
When you’ve lost Hickok, that’s all she wrote…
Sig may as well turn off the lights and call it a day.
As am I.
I got the Hate Tank/Boat plated and registered today.
HooooBoyohBoyohBoy…
I am NOT in prison.
People did not die.
Did I want to fucking massacre some folks?
Why yes, yes I did.
I didn’t post last night as I went to bed EARLY to be at the DMV between 0700 and 0800. I got there at 0730. I got ‘checked in at 0801. I then waited 2.5 hours.
My number got called, and I went back.
The Shaniquasaurus that was the employee?
Well, besides her being a fucking “DEI special” I knew there was going to be an issue when I saw it was wearing a mask, as well as gloves as if we were still fully balls-deep in the COVID retardation. Just from that ALONE I knew I was fucked. I handed her my paperwork bundle, only for her to GLEEFULLY hand it back and tell me “Dat ain’t filled out right! Y’all needs to fill it out on da front, not de back!”
It seems both J3 and I had done the transfer on the back, and missed the one on the front. Now I’ve had the same issue before, and usually said DMV person would give it back to me, tell me to hand-jam it and boom. All set.
Not teh Shaniquasaurus.
Oh no… she got’s to put whyttee in his place donchoo know?
Fucking cunt tells me to go get it redone, and come back on Monday.
FUCK THAT NOISE!
So… I ran home and had Sapper do the J3 side of things as I had NO IDEA if the Shaniquasaurus was going to put notes in, as she DID put the info into the computer, and had it earmarked for Monday. Right after Sapper did his thing, I then went to Plant City DMV where, after getting there at 11, I FINALLY got my shit done at 15:00.
Of course this time included me having to get a manager involved as it was patently obvious that the DMVdummies were for whatever reason studiously AVOIDING doing titles/tags/and registrations… it appeared they were doing the ‘quick and easy one-and-done’ stuff judging from the volume. I called it out to the manager at 14:45 and by some miracle, “all of a sudden” me and like 4 other who’d all been commiserating (and plotting to kill all of them) together -suddenly- got called up.
Now granted, Y’all have been telling me to keep it “Gray Man” and well… I have to say, my plans pretty much preclude that outcome. In order for this thing to be the vehicle I need for whatever upcoming weirdness may be coming, I need it to be ‘combat ready’. This means a Ram-Guard on the front, steel reinforcement as needed, as well as a roof-basket to hold at least 2x spare rims and tires, plus other necessities I learned in Iraq that are absolutely crucial.
Those ALONE are going to make this thing stand out a wee bit more than usual. So I went with one sop to my ego:
Fuck it…
Why not?
I didn’t get the paratrooper plate nor the Iraq/Afghanistan plate either… and I don’t rate the DV (Disabled Vet) plate yet. You have to be 100% for that, and that’s a work in progress. Either way, since it was payday, I threw ALL the ducats at the cost and got the plate and registration good thru November of 2027. Cost an extra $120 but well worth the not-having-to-give-a-fuck about it for the next 2 years and what? 5? 6? months? All told tho, it was still pricey AF.
SO yeah… now after this long sad tale of Woe and Such-Whatnot, I give you a smol guest Article from a regular Poaster, SemperFido. It’s some good info on canning at home using a GREAT idea that even -I- hadn’t considered… SO without further bitching on my part:
ALTERANTIVE CANNING 101 with SEMPERFIDO
“Back in 15 when the wife and I were concerned that the Hilderbeast was going to steal the election, the wife and I started taking food storage seriously.
We created a garden, started canning and gathered canned goods and other items for “just in case”.
One of the problems we have encountered is that commercial canned fruits tend to go bad and leak all over the place after a few years.
So we needed a better way.
Buying freeze dried food is nice but Holy Sheeeet is pricey. Getting #10 cans can cost 20 to 50 bucks depending on what type of fruit and the time of year.
Also that is a lot of product that has to be used up in a fairly short amount of time with the can.
Enter the Harbor Freight brake line vacuum bleeder.
Currently running $25.99 the bleeder comes with hoses and attachments making it easy to use with a mason jar food saver top like the jar sealer set on Amazon for $9.99 that includes both a regular top as well as one for wide mouth jars.
Link HERE
The topper kit comes with an adapter so you can use it with a powered sealer but if you want to be old school cool you use one of the adapters with the bleeder and cover or fill the hole in top and pump away.
You want at least 400psi which is pretty easy to accomplish. Once I reach that I disengage the line and it pops as the lid seals from the vacuum.
The picture is of a small run I just did today. We stopped at Aldi’s and picked up dried strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, M&Ms, cheese fish crackers and a pouch meal of chicken flavored rice.
All told, about 25 bucks.
The dried fruit, cashews, and other dry non oily things so far have lasted 10 years and taste fine. We are replacing things we have eaten.
Oily nuts, especially peanuts and crackers will last about five years.
Certain types of cookies will go 6-8 years. M&Ms, raisins and cereals appear to be indestructible.
Now, not all these things are all that healthy. But both her and I have gone through times when we didn’t have enough to eat and when you do eat it can be the same thing for weeks.
Those unhealthy snacks can brighten your mood and give extra calories when you need to keep moving.
We have MREs and stored food. These things are life enhancers. And cheap and easy to piecemeal into a healthy amount of yummies.
Ol’ Remus (RIP) used a vacuum sealer to make mason jars full of tobacco with a package of rolling papers and a pack of matches included to use for barter.
Just thought I’d share the idea with ya’ll.”
So… many Thanks to my dood for the awesome article! If anyone else wants to submit, let me know and send your braindrippings to bce187th@protonmail.com.
As for Me?
I’m drinking my dinner and crashing. My brain is falafel after the DEIDMVdummies and their retardation.
More Later
Big Country
You could always relocate to somewhere that doesn’t have a Shaniquasaurus that you have to deal with especially now that you have nothing tying you down to that area…
Lineman’s is sage advice.
“In order for this thing to be the vehicle I need for whatever upcoming weirdness may be coming, I need it to be ‘combat ready’. This means a Ram-Guard on the front, steel reinforcement as needed, as well as a roof-basket to hold at least 2x spare rims and tires, plus other necessities I learned in Iraq that are absolutely crucial.”
They’re not. Those things are a liability, especially if you are alone in the truck. We’d roll that way often; frankly I always felt safer driving a POS Corolla around Iraq and Afghanistan. No armor, no jammers, no visible weapons.
I see dudes cruising around in trucks that copy what they had in Sadr City and just laugh.
Yeah, well I USED to roll in one of those Mitsubishi L200 King Cabs with NOTHING but some stolen Ay-Rab Licence plates we scrounged off of Haji Cars that’d been ‘X’d by various gates, and roll around with the windows down, no AC and blaring Haji music and our heads wrapped in the headwrap… after two or three bad encounters, and a bullet wound, I decided a Tank was more than welcome, which is where I came into an uparmored Contractor-mobile 04 Suburban… and I won’t be alone… I got a squad here and am even thinking abount building the ‘stuff’ for a fire-hole in the back… here in the States rolling heavy might be better than being completely gray if the SHTF
Same deal, but the only place I’ve felt nervous about driving a Toyota Corolla? Los Angeles, and not because of the traffic.
Around here in this rural-ish part of Florida (because you’re never more than 50 miles from some kind of city), a Florida wildlife plate is decent camo among truck owners, provided that any modifications are made to be consistent with “hunting” or trying to make it blend in among everyone else.
That’s why one of the popular trucks here happens to be whatever that YO brand is. 🙂
But where would BCE really go in Florida?
Wakulla might be up BCE’s alley, and it’s just far enough out of Tallahassee which most right-thinking Floridians don’t want to spend much time in. The denizens of Leon feel much the same way since Wakulla doesn’t really do urban.
Levy, Gilchrist, and Dixie … well, I’ve had occasion to talk with the sheriff of one of those counties on pleasant terms, and let’s just say that he has more than a few choice words to say about A Certain Group That Produces Juvenile Delinquents who come into his county to try to steal stuff from the shops, especially around his lunch time.
Our most recent short conversation was interrupted by arresting four of the very same during his lunch time.
And also: some of the worst roads in Florida.
Alachua’s full of commies, Marion’s full of whatever bred with what happened to drip out of the condoms for being too slow, but you can get out of the constant expansion of Marion’s urban sprawl out toward US 98 and have few to no neighbors.
Citrus has old legacy Florida ways of doing business taxes that are a pain in the ass if you run a business, especially one out of your primary residence, but compared to some of the bullshit in Laramie County out in Wyoming, it’s not quite as bad as having to pay the county/state taxes on the furniture and other business assets you’re moving in for use only within the office.
By the time we get much farther down, such as Hernando, we’re already near the Pasco, Pinellas, and Hillsborough trifecta of kinda shitty Tampa metro counties.
As for that strip down through Collier and Lee? I genuinely mourn for how fucked Lee has become, especially since the 1970s. Collier saw $$$$$ and fucked itself violently rearward for that, then when they’d screwed up their main town, they hired a bunch of Princeton architects to try to unscrew it for them. BCE left MA because of better people than these.
Going the other way, Columbia’s OK if you don’t have to live in or near Lake City which is a North Florida Mos Eisley town. Used to hate it while driving trucks because they had a Florida inspection station right in the fucking middle of town.
Maybe the Big Bend area like Wakulla would get BCE off the X without leaving Florida?
Wakulla’s not even 5% urban, plus they have all of the usual Internets and phones and stuff.
Being off the X is severely underrated as compared to trying to hack some kind of Gray Man thing anyway.
This. We moved from a Texas county that is now 51.2% White, to an Ozark one that is 92.8% White. The difference is stark . . . and amazing. You have no idea what you’ve lost until you reside amongst vanishing White heritage Americans. Make the move out of 47% Florida sooner rather than later.
true that. moved from the shithole Philly to the hills of PA. world of difference !
now we go weeks without seeing “them” here. there a few in the larger town/city we shop at.
even then, you don’t run into groups of them. just one of maybe two here and there like.
and here, we have the best neighbors we even had too. unreal like.
a few weeks ago, we had a wind storm here. small tree blew down and blocked the driveway.
my neighbor Frank who lives up the road saw it and stopped to cut and clear it out of the way.
and yes. I told him I was going to get to it the next day even. NOPE. he cut it up and moved the bits and went home. didn’t want the beer I tried to give him. and they all like him too? weird.
BTW. check out the site “city data” before moving for a break down of who, what is in the area you thinking about before you go there. that is why I did a hard pass on the state of FLA.
power goes out for and you will have all sorts of problems from “them”
long term I go somewhere else than FLA.
In my county, Tennessee, registration is walk into the County Clerk’s office (even with expired registration), give her the paper work and pay your $27 or $28, get your sticker and leave. A new registration runs $40 something, because you’re paying for a license plate. No Shaniquasaurus in sight. No attitudes, no problem, just “What can I do for ya Hon(ey)?
It’s the same for my 22 year old Hyundai, my F-350 and the Buick Roadmasher (with factory LS1), MASTER, master.
Virginia has those nice yellow Gadsen Flag plates. Wish it was an option here in Maine. We have new Pine tree flag plates based upon the old state flag which was more or less just the old Rev War New England pine tree flag without the “An Appeal to Heaven” motto. George Washington commissioned the original squadron of warships that evolved into the Continental Navy, and that was their flag. I tend to like it because of that, though the commies like it too for some reason and the MAGA guys therefore default to not liking it. Oh well.
They are shitcanning the chickadee plates immediately rather than phasing them out, which is strange, but it is probably designed to weed out the people driving unregistered vehicles, which is a pandemic hereabouts.
I used to deal with registry pain in my Massachusetts youth. They improved quite a bit over the years due to massholes getting mad enough to want to shoot them, a good indicator of just how bad they used to be. Here in Maine, the town clerk can handle most registry transactions including plates for a new car. The only reason to go to the registry itself is something like a license renewal. I must say they are pretty quick and friendly about it. The Florida RMV sounds like it needs an enema.
nothin like identifying yourself for the tyrant state and paying extra for the privilege ie: va dtom plates.
Shaniquasaurus. ROFLMAO. Going to have to file that one beside sheboon and ghettopotamus.
Will be going by the local Harbor Freight and doing the Zon when finances allow, perhaps. September. Too useful not to have, I hate to toss food because it got too old.
Thanks guys. And fuck Cohen.
Shooter
“Ghettopotamus”!!!!
That’s a new one for me! I LMAO for real!
Well, that makes us even BC. If I was drinking I’d have spewed all over my screen. Once I quit laughing my next thought was that the petty bitch decided to play “fuck with the whytte boy”. If she’d had about 30 more IQ points she might have stopped you. Fortunately, you improvised, adapted and overcame.
Six hours is still an insane amount of time to spend, if I’m at the tax office in Ennis for more than 30 minutes for titles, renewals or such I feel abused. My usual wait is 10 minutes.
Well, the mission succeded and the boat is legal now. Good job.
Shooter
Ghettopotumus!!! lmao
You can get rechargable mason jar sealers off the Zon for about the same as the bleeder itself.
Yes but my experience is 200-300 jars and they pack it in. Fast and mostly quit but i’m on my 3rd one.
The bleeder I use I bought in 2015
One thing that might help (only read about this haven’t done it).
Have puncture resistant/industrial tubes put in the tires, and good quality tires that are a bit off-road rated. Won’t have the high speed cruising abilities – I’m told that it knocks the speed rating down a notch – but it might be worth it
Useful info. Thanks semperfido.
This is not the norm for FL DMV, even here in commie Alachua County.
What BC experienced is due to being in a heavy-black victim-mode area, even though his subdivision isn’t taken over by Dontakeresponsibilities and Shaniquas.
At one time throughout FL the DMV was a bit of a nightmare but that was due to Florida doing all the ‘RealID’ stuff, which California still hasn’t done. Lines to get DLs renewed usually did require an appointment because the DMV ladies had to actually handle a shite-ton of paperwork proving the applicant was the applicant (again, not like in Cali…)
Most of the functions of the DMV can be handled online, like renewing tags or DLs. It’s just the pain-in-the-ass initial registration from a private sale that is a pain. (Dealers in Florida can handle transfer of titles and registration online also, which saves you from having to go to the DMV when buying a car and trading in an old one.)
BC got jammed up because he be white and male and the Afric-anus hates that.
This ^^^
I too live in the People’s Republic of Alachua County.
The DMV here is the worst due to the place full of Shaniquas with a bad attitude as well as full of “undocumented immigrants” who no habla.
It’s worth the drive to go to a neighboring county’s DMV. I go the the Williston one in downtown Williston in Levy county. Country folk and you can be in and out of there in an hour.
Shaniquasauruses are the most insufferable, loathsome parasites aside from the small hats and pajeets.
Good info on canning for food storage from Semper Fido. Appreciate him (and you) passing it along.
On the vehicle, look for 10ply tires they hold up to punctures better than the 4 or 6 ply vehicles have as standard. The ride a bit rougher, a bit pricey but worth it.
another good tip for those without the $$$ for a freeze drier is to cook and dehydrate cooked ground beef, check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhTqUQQtUuE I used this method a few years back to store several hondo pounds of said beef. A audible call I used is to add a small amount of bleach (didnt affect the taste) when the cooked beef was soaking with boiling water ( a key step, just hot water wont cut it). I ate it every day for @ 3 years before my stash was gone, and it held up just fine in ziploc bags in my kitchen, now in Florida with hotter, humid weather YMMV. A nice side benefit is you can save the tallow from meat when it cooks as well. I would do @ 25lbs at a time, the stove would cook @ 5lb at a time and the oven would dehydrate it all on two metal oven liners.
You haven’t mentioned being sick in quite awhile. In the before time, you were ailing with something every week. Makes one wonder.
I want to comment but BCE has said it is verbotten to discuss certain people.
Maybe BCE is cooking for himself now and is using fresher and better ingredients ?
Maybe he washes his hands regularly so he doesn’t get cross contamination from raw meat or fish ?
Maybe certain seasonings aren’t being used to flavor his food anymore ? -)
Certain seasonings…….like arsenic and antifreeze? 😆😆
We do a fair bit of canning, the Mrs Toxic and I, ever since we were first dating.
We used to do a lot more, but we stopped eating so much of the peaches and apricots we used to do. So we’ve emptied out the jars of the old (10+ years) stuff to reuse the jars and rings.
BUT!!… every year, we can 4-5-6 boxes of tomatoes, Mrs Toxic uses those a lot. Add salt and lemon juice to each jar, blanch the tomatoes, slip the skins, quarter and can.
We use a steamer (I have two) instead of a hot water bath, works just as well, with a lot less heat and steam.
I also have a MacIntosh apple tree that I make apple butter from (an old mid 50s recipe), from as many apples as I can rescue from the heat (Macs like it cooler), bugs, and birds.
SemperFi, thx for the recommends, I’ll have to look and see what I can use that for. I try to follow “better to have and not need, then to need and not have”.
My local DMV office had an incident a while back. Seems one of the employees was selling “real” fake IDs. LEO rolled him up. Further info on the story vanished quite quickly. While you had the door panels off the boat, you could have lined them with some old panels from soft armor vests scrounged up from wherever. Keep moving forward.
For canning, jars are a little on the expensive side. Might be money ahead to go ahead and get a vacuum sealer and use bags. Quart bags on the zon usually run about 10 cents and jars around here are a 1.25 or more for pints and about 1.75 for quarts. A little more money up front but savings down the road make it will worth it. And they take up a lot less room.
If ya want to really step up your vacuum sealing, I built a fucking UNIT a few years ago with a pressure canner and a vacuum pump like they use on vehicle A/C systems…..
https://bustednuckles.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-homemade-vacuum-canner-actually_20.html
Hey guys my spin on the caning. Back when I gave a true shit about the world and its evil shenanigans I was a canning mo-fo, seriously. The dry canning for me was the fun stuff. Me and the house 6 (H6) maintained/had several gardens, she had three green thumbs. Any way If I told you have the stuff we did you’d call bullshit so I will keep it short. Enter the dry canning. We dehydrated a lot of produce, to the point that I researched a solar dehydrator and made one of them to try out. Normally we used Excalibur’s line of electric units, very efficient. Then we used the canning vacuum lids as shown by our guest writer, but my twist was this, I used a HV/AC vacuum pump. I would let that pump run for a few minutes even after you heard the disc lid pop. The pump, yeah it was an zon find. The solar dehydrator that was a carpentry project. Hit me up if you want photos and the link to this unit.
Side note the last one I built was for friends, (well what I thought were friends, turned out I was not THEIR kind of Christian) here in Idaho. The super sunlight plus the low humidity really let this solar dehydrator shine.
Really if I told you all the preps I used to do, all the canning, all the gardening, the set up, the stuff I gave away after the divorce from the last H6, you’d call bullshit. Ask me about the semi load of concertina wire I was getting from a DRMO!!! Alas all in the past now.
Thanks BCE
Saber 7, out
Wife and I have been using the vac u pack mason jars for years. So handy for things you might not think about. I like saltines with my chili, thing is I only eat chili and saltines in the winter so they would go stale over the summer. Nothing like making a batch of chili and sitting down with a cold brew and a bowl heading for lunch delight only to find your crackers have turned to shit. Found that vac u packing them in a mason jar they will last at least a year, fresh as can be, and finally able to finish a whole box of them without throwing any away! Also found that since I like oily things like Triscuits that won’t keep real long vac u packed as the oil goes rancid on the shelf, keep a long time vac u packed and thrown in the freezer.