Wednesday, December 31, 2025

For what it's worth...

All my best for the New Year for each and
 every one of you. See ya tomorrow...
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Telling fish stories?

 

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There's still some great year-end deals available.
Just a reminder - most prices on most items across the board will be going up tomorrow, 
so if you're thinking a getting a pricey-kinda item, grab it tonight 
before the discounts disappear.
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Well, it's a little too cold to go in to the pool, but...

 This HillBetty could convince me otherwise...
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There's still some great year-end deals available.
Just a reminder - most prices on most items across the board will be going up tomorrow, 
so if you're thinking a getting a pricey-kinda item, grab it tonight 
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Betty was a little disappointed with Archie's, uh - thing...


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There's still some great year-end deals available.
Just a reminder - most prices on most items across the board will be going up tomorrow, 
so if you're thinking a getting a pricey-kinda item, grab it tonight 
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Are things really looking up?

 
Every year we go throught he same bullshit at New Year's - full of hope for the future and trying to let go of the past. It just never works. Memories cling like toilet paper you can't get rid of, and the future? It's always 'same shit, different day'.
I wish I could be more optomistic about the future, but the reality is, I'm not gonna be around too much longer (another 20 years would be a god-send) and I personlly have little or no control over what may - or may not - happen. 
Best we can hope for is that no one rocks our boat, both nationally and personally, so much that it upsets the rest of our journey.
Have a great, safe, healthy New Year, and I hope we';; all be together for the next New Years Eve...
 

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There's still some great year-end deals available.
Just a reminder - most prices on most items across the board will be going up tomorrow, 
so if you're thinking a getting a pricey-kinda item, grab it tonight 
before the discounts disappear.
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Take that lump of coal you got in your stocking and sit on it for a few million years...

And you'll still have just a lump of coal. 
Another myth worth busting... 

Diamonds are essentially pure carbon formed into a crystalline structure. 
The rarer, colored diamonds do contain minor impurities (boron, for example, makes diamonds blue, while nitrogen turns them yellow), but those impurities exist on a scale of just one atom in a million.
Coal is also mostly carbon, but it is hardly pure. Coal also includes many other substances, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, arsenic, selenium and mercury. Depending on the type of coal and its source, it will also contain various levels of organic materials - coal originates from decaying plants, fungi and even bacteria - as well as moisture. These impurities alone prevent coal from being turned into diamonds...
 
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This HillBetty is the entire package. And no tats...

Gotta love that smirk...

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Do you have a special occasion - like a 
birthday or an anniversary coming up? 
You can find something nice for your Mom, your wife, or your daughter
right here. Below is a sample of the jewelry my wife makes.
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It's a one of a kind gift - and it comes to you with free shipping!
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We are not alone,, are we?

 
NASA - Nestled inside the BOSS Great Wall, one of the largest known superclusters in the observable cosmos, this filament contains thousands of galaxies yet behaves less like a random chain and more like a slowly twisting cosmic whirlpool. By analyzing precise distance and velocity measurements of almost 15,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers detected a striking pattern. 
Galaxies along one edge of the 49-million-light-year structure are rushing toward Earth at hundreds of kilometers per second, while those on the diametrically opposite edge are receding at similar speeds. 
In between, the motion reverses smoothly, exactly the signature of rigid-body-like rotation on an almost incomprehensible scale. The rotation period is mind-bogglingly slow, roughly 20 billion years for one complete turn, meaning this galactic tornado has not even managed half a revolution since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. 
 

It's almost impossible for us to grasp the idea that there may be a similar 'planet' with inhabitants like us populating it, but it's also equally impossible to think that in the absolute vastness of the universe - and we still don't have a clue how big it might be - that there isn't one or many, many more planets like us out there. 
Just my opinion, but - to tell the truth - I am fascinated by everything they're discovering these days, and how they do it is equally amazing, isn't it?
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before it disappears again...
 

This portable tire inflator is marked down to
 $ 15.99 and you can keep it in the glove box.
I have two - one in each vehicle...
That's half price! 
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present...


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I have big plans for tonight - already got my tickets. Wuddayouzguys doin'?

 New Years Eve. Halloween. Fourth of July -  all ranked in order of the worst of worst of all amateur nights. We will venture out around six-ish for a coupla pops at our local hang. My brother TJ gets all the credit for this - we celebrate 'Irish New Years'. 
 

Ireland is five hours ahead of Florida, so precisely at 7:00pm tonight, we'll face northeast and raise a toast (irish whiskey, of course) to my dear, departed brother, knock it down and head home. Slainte! What are your plans?
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What's living in your basement?

Kenneth Johnson discovered a massive male black bear had taken up 
residence in the crawl space of his Altadena home just before Thanksgiving. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) attempted to capture the beast, called Yellow 2120 by researchers, with bait and noisemakers.
But their efforts were unsuccessful on December 9 when they trapped a smaller bear instead. 'I knew my bear hadn’t gone out because I’ve got enough cameras on it,' Johnson told the Los Angeles Times. The department tagged and released the smaller bear, but Johnson said Yellow 2120 is still terrorizing his home despite his efforts to flush the creature out.
Johnson is now threatening to sue the department, accusing officials of negligence and emotional distress after he claimed they suddenly told him to stand down on his efforts to remove the bear. Johnson told local media that he can still hear the bear moving around and is fearful for his safety. 
 

'I can hear the plastic being shredded underneath, and one of the cameras picked it up just bulldozing through it. It's a mess under there,' Johnson said. Johnson was forced to shut off his gas on Christmas Eve after he captured video of a broken pipe by the bear, and said he has not had hot water since.
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They call 'em 'shag rugs' for a reason...


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There's still some great year-end deals available.
Just a reminder - most prices on most items across the board will be going up tomorrow, 
so if you're thinking a getting a pricey-kinda item, grab it tonight 
before the discounts disappear.
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Ringing in the New Year with a shiver or two...

 
I know, I know, P2 (one of our favorite readers) is up there in North Pole, Alaska and it's probably something like -30F up there and the sun is up for probably ten minutes, but I'm not there - and, to be brutally honest I don't understand why anyone would be. I'm here in the 'Sunshine State' freezin' my nuts off if it goes below 60F, let alone going to the freezing level like it did last night. We were planning to go to an outdoor party today at 3 where a buddy of mine's band will be playing, but seriously doubt we'll make it. I know I sound like a pussy but, fuck me - after living for ten years in the Carribbean, my blood is too thin for this shit. Juss' sayin'... 
 
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Tough titties said the kitty...
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Man, it don't take long for the memers out there to jump on shit. 
That's pretty good, isn't it?
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There are days, like today, wherein nothing of great importance is scheduled to happen. Scheduled being the optimum word there.

Don't let that fool you. With all the news media clutter and clammering out there, I'm sure they  
will manage to come up with some kind of nonsense to bitch about...
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The ordinance establishes a Reparations Fund, as recommended by the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC) in its 2023 report. The legislation merely establishes the fund but does not allocate any money to it - setting up the framework for any future contributions, whether they be through the city or privately donated.
The AARAC is tasked with developing 'recommendations for repairing harm in our black communities,' according to its website. Per the 2023 report, every African American adult in San Francisco should be handed a $5 million lump sum to 'compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced.'
Tony Bennet left his heart in that City? Musta been a bleeding heart. Jeez.
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A video posted to social media captured a staff member taking a tumble as he stopped a prop boulder that bounced off course and hurdled toward the audience at Walt Disney World in Florida.
The clips of the incident posted on TikTok on Tuesday showed the boulder quickly emerging from a cloud of smoke during the stunt-filled Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
The fast-moving boulder then rolled off a rocky ledge and bounced toward the packed audience — until a staff member ran in front of the prop and was swiftly knocked to the ground as he appeared to try to absorb its impact.
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I got one for Christmas. It's sounds GREAT! I have a Samsung TV, so it
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At the foot of Errigal...