{"id":7677,"date":"2025-09-02T01:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:17:21","slug":"connections-frens-and-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/connections-frens-and-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections, Frens and Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>I appreciate all of you who kept the place rolling whilst I took a step back&#8230; as of late, Ye Olde Life as you know, while peaceable&#8230; well there&#8217;s still some trauma I&#8217;m dealing with&#8230;<br><br>And the exposure to that pile of psychosis?<br><br>Next Level Frens<br><br><strong>Anyone<\/strong> would need a break from that.<br>What a Shytteshow Aye?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So bad that it crashed DiveMedic&#8217;s server apparently&#8230;<br><br>And from what I can tell, <br><br><strong>-I&#8217;m- the only one who still has the tranniefesto still up in whole.<\/strong>  <br><strong>ALL. OTHER. COPIES. have been wiped\/erased and nuked.<\/strong><br><br>However, as DM said in the comments &#8220;Better to get the truth out&#8221;.  I couldn&#8217;t agree more&#8230;  <br><br>Cockroaches and FedScum <strong>hate the light<\/strong><br>It&#8217;s disinfectant<br>I&#8217;ll keep bringing the light for as long as I can&#8230;<br><br>Either way&#8230;<br>Man, my notoriety is getting up there on the Threat Board I guess&#8230; bad enough I was &#8220;that guy&#8221; who first poasted on &#8220;how to build your own Flammenwerfer&#8221;&#8230;  <br><br>Anyways<br>Besides the ego-stroke&#8230;<br><br>IRL on the weekend of September 11th I&#8217;m actually going fishing for the first time in thirty plus years with J3&#8230; the guy who graciously donated the Boat to me asked me to join him for a deep-sea fishing trip&#8230;  Dude is a God on that, but I hope he realizes&#8230;<br><br>I hope I don&#8217;t puke too much&#8230;<br>Seasickness is a <strong>real thing<\/strong> for me&#8230;<br>Which is why it&#8217;s been 30 + years since I&#8217;ve been foolish enough to get on a boat&#8230; it >might be&lt; a BARF-O-RAMA Baby!<br><br>But as far as this weekend?<br>Nope&#8230; this weekend was me and ALLLL me.<br><br>Plus reconnecting with some old Frens.<br><br>SPECIFICALLY reconnecting with some Olde Female Frens who&#8217;re there to be a shoulder for me to lean on and cry on.  LOTS of good conversations&#8230; some of promises of later meetups and such&#8230;  makes a man feel good to know that somewhere, at some point, good people and wimmenz are still out and rooting for me, and lusting after my broken carcass <br><br>LMAO!<br><br>Truly&#8230; it&#8217;s nice to feel at least wanted&#8230;<br><br>Not that I expect shytte anymore.<br><br>&#8220;Money Talks, Bullshit Walks&#8221; so to speak&#8230;<br><br>But that&#8217;s tonight&#8230; it&#8217;s been a nice weekend, barring we didn&#8217;t get to see the Redheaded Nuke as the rain was so bad that it precluded a visit to her A.O&#8230;  I mean it&#8217;s a bit of a haul, and the Boat&#8217;s AC is still out&#8230; No AC and not being able to roll &#8216;windows down&#8217; was a no-go.  I need to raise\/save about $800-$1000 to replace the AC system as it NOT a coolant\/refrigerant issue&#8230;  I figure it&#8217;s a &#8220;fuck it, replace\/overhaul the whole fucking thing&#8221; sort of issue.<br><br>That&#8217;s going to have to wait for a bit.<br><br>Too much $$$.<br><br>And ALSO because of the rain, I couldn&#8217;t do any yard work&#8230; rain means no mowing nor other needful things.  It&#8217;s getting tiresome&#8230;  For the past couple of months, it was so dry (oddly so) that I could have easily done this IF I needed to&#8230; and then when I NEED to get this stuff handled, we get rain rain and more rain&#8230; go fucking figure&#8230;<br><br>But that&#8217;s the latest.<br>More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EpicHat-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EpicHat-Copy.jpg 750w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EpicHat-Copy-300x240.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<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!I appreciate all of you who kept the place rolling whilst I took a step back&#8230; as of late, Ye Olde Life as you know, while peaceable&#8230; well there&#8217;s still some trauma I&#8217;m dealing with&#8230; And the exposure to that pile of psychosis? Next Level Frens Anyone would need a break from that.What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/connections-frens-and-weirdness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connections, Frens and Weirdness&#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-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}