{"id":6396,"date":"2025-07-14T00:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:28:01","slug":"front-toward-fren-sketching-and-no-step-on-snek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/front-toward-fren-sketching-and-no-step-on-snek\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Toward Fren, Sketching, and No Step On Snek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Man&#8230; Glad I&#8217;m in shape.<br>Round is a shape innit?<br><br>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.  <br><br>That as some good grub man.<br>Some of y&#8217;all comments cracked me the fuck up too.  Like literally laughed out loud.  In fact I realized something&#8230;  I&#8217;ve laughed out loud MORE in the past 4 days than I have in the last 4 months.<br><br>Like <strong>genuine <\/strong> laughter at some &#8216;stuff&#8217; I haven&#8217;t enjoyed in a while.  Case in point, SWMNBN didn&#8217;t like Cartoons.  For the life of me, I can NOT understand how you can&#8217;t enjoy Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and the rest&#8230;  nevermind the fact we are BOTH GenX and cartoons were the &#8220;Staff of Saturday Morning Life&#8221; for our generation.  Sapper thinks it&#8217;s that she lacks the ability understand abstract concepts&#8230; like that question &#8220;If you didn&#8217;t eat breakfast this morning, how would you feel now?&#8221;  <br><br>In my case I think it&#8217;s her inability to embrace or understand  absurdity.  Either way, Saturday Morning Bug Bunny was on MeTV and one I haven&#8217;t seen in <strong>ages<\/strong> popped up  &#8220;Forward March Hare&#8221; where Bugs gets drafted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forward March Hare - Bugs is drafted\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fyj1hOMJXWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> At 00:19 seconds in, the guy behind Bugs?<br><br>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 <strong>is<\/strong> funny, especially in light of the whole &#8220;Rabbit drafted into the Army&#8221; thing&#8230;the X-Ray tech was great too.  I LOL&#8217;d when I saw the &#8216;ear bone&#8217; so to speak&#8230;<br><br>Over all it&#8217;s been a <strong>very<\/strong> stress free weekend.<br><br>I also got a package today from a Kickstarter that I had <strong>completely forgotten about.  <\/strong>Not sure about y&#8217;all but I&#8217;m not too big into the whole Kickstarter thing&#8230;  This one though I figured that why not?  It wasn&#8217;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&#8217;t been too bad&#8230;  likje me he&#8217;ll do one, and months later, out of the blue a &#8216;rando-package&#8217; shows up and then it&#8217;s a &#8220;Ohhhhh yeeeeah!!! I forgot about this!!!&#8221;<br><br>This was a instance like that here today.  I opened said package and&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Meet &#8220;Clay the Claymore&#8221;<br>Some of you probably already saw it on Gab where I put it up earlier&#8230;  It&#8217;s waaaay cute.  It&#8217;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&#8230;  I have no idea why, but this stupid lil thing makes me <strong>very happy<\/strong> for some reason.  <br><br>Now <em><strong>supposedly<\/strong><\/em> they&#8217;re still up for sale.  I&#8217;m unsure.  I got mine via a Kickstarter.  And the tag on mine says &#8220;Only 10431 made&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clay2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The website is <a href=\"https:\/\/claytheclaymoreplush.com\/\">https:\/\/claytheclaymoreplush.com\/<\/a><br>YMMV, don&#8217;t run with scissors.<br><br>After getting it I <strong>did<\/strong> order another&#8230; Ranger Jay has his first kid on the way&#8230;  I&#8217;m not sure if the Redhead would like it or not&#8230;  she also is a wee bit spoiled when it comes to plushies&#8230;  I got her a &#8220;Blood God&#8221; plushie AKA &#8220;Nanner&#8221; from &#8216;Sketch&#8217;s World&#8217;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blood-god-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For those of you unfamiliar, &#8216;Sketch&#8217; is a former Marine who does a comic called &#8216;Sketch&#8217;s World&#8217;&#8230; he&#8217;s funny AF w\/various takes on the DotMil as well as the various services&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk.jpeg 870w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk-272x300.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk-768x847.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk2-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk4.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk4.webp 1000w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk4-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk4-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sk4-768x768.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Nanner is oft referred to as &#8220;The Blood God&#8221;<br><br>The plushie was a limited run and well, the Redhead didn&#8217;t cotton onto it&#8230; I think it&#8217;s b\/c she has WAY too many to even notice it.  So Yep..<br><br>Then lastly, a meme that cracked me up courtesy of CA over at WRSA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Gvseo93XcAAuy6n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Gvseo93XcAAuy6n.jpg 612w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Gvseo93XcAAuy6n-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Flammenwerfers&#8221; need to be added to the &#8216;No Step on Snek&#8217; side of things&#8230; Jes&#8217; Sayin&#8217;.<br><br>So tomorrow I&#8217;ll have a wee bit of a writeup on an idea about countering drones.  Herschel from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/\">The Captain&#8217;s Journal<\/a> put up a suggestion on Twitter that I responded to, and I can elaborate more on.  The tweet in question is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The U.S. military is thinking about drones. Doctrine usually doesn\u2019t survive first contact, but at least it\u2019s a start. I especially approve of the shot shells for tanks.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HOGeDehsWE\">https:\/\/t.co\/HOGeDehsWE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrutusMaximus50\/status\/1944222658813395346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My idea is in the replies.<br>I got a few more thoughts on the subject to go over later.<br><br>Otherwise, the commenter who mentioned the 2003 Lincoln?  If you can reach out to me at bce187th@protonmail.com.  I&#8217;d appreciate it.  I <strong>really need<\/strong> my own wheels.   Also, I haven&#8217;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&#8217;t get a response, I&#8217;ll pull another name in a week.  And those of you who asked, the new PayPal is CountryofBigExpat if you want to know&#8230;<br>All contributions to keeping the lights on are appreciated, but not absolutely necessary (for now thank the Good Lord!)<br><br><strong>If I don&#8217;t hear back, I&#8217;ll reopen the raffle for another week<\/strong> &#8216;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&#8230;  Yeah&#8230; about that&#8230;  I hope the fucking Feds nail her DC Ass to the wall as I <strong>did<\/strong> report that shit.  Interstate Wire Fraud is a thing donchaknow?<br><br>So it&#8217;s now time to game out for a bit.  I&#8217;m at the end of my 2nd run thru Fallout London, this time being a &#8216;bad guy&#8217; which is something I like about the Fallout series, being able to do different factions and whatnnot&#8230;.<br><br>So More Later<br>BCE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GuKEVZQaEAAhUsN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GuKEVZQaEAAhUsN.jpg 680w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GuKEVZQaEAAhUsN-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Man&#8230; Glad I&#8217;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&#8217;all comments cracked me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/front-toward-fren-sketching-and-no-step-on-snek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Front Toward Fren, Sketching, and No Step On Snek&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}