{"id":9737,"date":"2026-06-16T01:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:48:30","slug":"back-for-a-quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/back-for-a-quick-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Back for a Quick Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>I know, I know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">AWOL again<br>Take a stripe, bend my dogtags in half and stamp my meal card &#8220;No Dessert&#8221; and we&#8217;re good OK?  It&#8217;s been a tough couple of weeks.  The Dooney is growing.  With it comes a whole looootta toofus pain.<\/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\/2026\/06\/1379-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1379-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1379-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1379-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1379-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1379-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1379-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 wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s also is one of the cutest and best natured lil guys I&#8217;ve ever dealt with.  The issue is the teething has us having to wake up on a near continual basis to either hold him, reassure him or give him a teether as the neds can only be done every 6 or so hours.  ALL of y&#8217;alls suggestions have been utilized and we&#8217;ve narrowed down the ones he likes the best.<br><br>Still&#8230; it&#8217;s exhausting.<br><br>He&#8217;s great though<\/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\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG20260613144754-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 wp-block-paragraph\">We got him a small pool that he really enjoys splashing around in.  He&#8217;s also (again) outgrown ALL of the 12 month clothes he had.  <br><br><em><strong>He just turned six months old<\/strong><\/em>!!!<br><br>Oh my aching grocery bill!<br>He&#8217;s now also ALREADY on half-formula and half &#8216;real food&#8217;<br>Granted it&#8217;s the puree right now, but he could probably gum some toast to death no problem.<br><br>Now<br>Sooooo much happened over the past few weeks, I just haven&#8217;t been able to process it&#8230; I do have to say the&#8221;Watermelon Felon&#8221; designation DID crack me the fuck up.<br><br>Plus a few memes that I found whilst cruising &#8220;X&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/felon-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/felon-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/felon-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/felon-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/felon-1200x983.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/felon.jpg 1320w\" 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=\"680\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dildozer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dildozer.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dildozer-300x298.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dildozer-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gre.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gre.png 408w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gre-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 85vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/truth.jpg 880w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/truth-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/truth-768x894.jpg 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 wp-block-paragraph\">Funny right?<br>So I haven&#8217;t really had the &#8216;mental bandwidth&#8217; to be able to process anything overly political.  The exception being the aforementioned WF who&#8217;s Found Out in ways he totally didn&#8217;t expect.  His own parents essentially sold him down the river.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8454111077ec47bfccaac638c574d3f3.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8454111077ec47bfccaac638c574d3f3.webp 568w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8454111077ec47bfccaac638c574d3f3-290x300.webp 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 85vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I mean it&#8217;s completely true in this case&#8230;<br>They weren&#8217;t even there when he got sentenced.<br>Gee&#8230; a missing blaq father?<br>Say it ain&#8217;t so!<br>Heh&#8230;<br>Some comedy just writes itself.<br><br>Another part of why I was AWOL was I was interviewing.<br>I&#8217;m waiting on a few more interviews.  No joke, locations include Pine Gap in Australia, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and <em>possibly<\/em> a season in of all places, Antarctica.<br><br>I have some connections out there that&#8217;ve been assisting me.<br><br>And yeah, I&#8217;m not thrilled about potentially going back overseas, with the exception of The South Pole.  Talk about cool!  I mean THAT particular gig doesn&#8217;t start until October, so I have plenty of time to think it over, as the seasons are reversed there&#8230;  I don&#8217;t necessarily want to be away from the Dooney and Gretchen, BUT<br><br>Two things:  <br>ONE is it&#8217;s a gig.  A contracting gig.  With the National Science Foundation.  The pay is also a plus as it&#8217;s non-taxable and contracting is what I do or at least did&#8230;<br><br>TWO:  It&#8217;s a continent that&#8217;s HIGHLY RESTRICTED.  Hard AF to get to.  I mean there are the occasional cruises there, but to get to the actual South Pole?  Nigh impossible.  I&#8217;d LOVE to add that to my &#8216;been there\/done that&#8217; list.  With that, I&#8217;d only have Japan and Australia left on &#8216;continents I have\/need to visit&#8217;<br><br>Otherwise I&#8217;m still cranking on the Insurance studying.<br><br>I can see why they get paid so well.<br><br>The material  is drier than the Sahara I swear&#8230;<br><br>The only other thing of note is the backlash or should I say &#8216;blaqlash&#8217; that the whole Watermelon Felon trial triggered&#8230; now granted I <strong>was<\/strong> surprised by the lack of rioting&#8230; TBH I half expected a full on meltdown in the hood community.  It didn&#8217;t happen which I mostly attribute to the defunding of the &#8216;usual suspects&#8217; (i.e. USAID) and the NGOs that were funded by them&#8230;<br><br>That and the evidentiary chimpouts that DID occur, the calls for action and violence and all the other stupid things that a bunch of cretinous subhuman sub-70 IQ&#8217;d spoiled grifters were calling for&#8230;<br><br>As stated oh so often on WRSA and other like-websites, &#8220;When they tell you what they plan to do, best you listen!&#8221;  The reaction on X and even in mainstream media was &#8220;OK&#8230; if&#8217;n y&#8217;all are feeling froggy, <em><strong>then fucking jump!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br><br>To the point even MANY blaq podcasters, and some of the smarter blaqs realized that they are, as a whole <em>sorely outnumbered<\/em> as well as <em>dumber than a pile of dogshit<\/em> and that <em>White people invented a whole new way to kill slant-eyed folks <strong>just because they could<\/strong><\/em>.  Some of them even came out against the Anthony family when they found out the <strong>truth<\/strong> of the matter.<br><br>Funny that Aye?<br><br>So yeah&#8230; that&#8217;s all I can manage for now.  It&#8217;s been a long couple of weeks.  I have a poast I&#8217;ve decided to <strong>finally<\/strong> release on the Substack as well as here&#8230;  It&#8217;s because the Emerald Isle has blown the fuck up, and <strong>hopefully<\/strong> they&#8217;ll keep &#8220;running up the skeer&#8221; as the latest intel dump I got is that the Brits have started <strong><em>evacuating<\/em><\/strong> large swaths of swarthy invaders via Ferries and airlift to Northern Britistan, as they&#8217;re pretty sure that they can&#8217;t protect them.<br><br>That in itself is very eye opening if true.<br><br>So stay tuned<br>More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hindu.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hindu.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hindu-300x235.jpeg 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 wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!I know, I know AWOL againTake a stripe, bend my dogtags in half and stamp my meal card &#8220;No Dessert&#8221; and we&#8217;re good OK? It&#8217;s been a tough couple of weeks. The Dooney is growing. With it comes a whole looootta toofus pain. He&#8217;s also is one of the cutest and best natured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/back-for-a-quick-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back for a Quick Update&#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-9737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737","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=9737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9746,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}