That wasn't as painful as I thought it would be

 Brought some paperwork to finalize my Social Security retirement paperwork. Out in about half an hour.

I decided to just retire instead of looking for another job. I was hoping to get a little more set up before I took that step, but because of a repeated injury I'm no longer working for that company.

This year is going to suck because we made some $30K when we finally unloaded the mobile home in Hondo- and it wasn't out primary home...

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Jan.09

 Is that thicc or a can?

The big one below the fold as usual~

Bullshit Dan Crenshaw

You're too much of a politician to just make a "metaphor" like that on accident.
Your an Establishment Republican just like Cornyn in the Senate.

I figured an ex-SEAL would be able to go against the Establishment, but being an Officer for 10 years made you just another box checker. Swayed by the DeeCee opinions instead of your constituents.

Democrats-

 The party of complete corruption.
And paid-off judges.

The party that hands out ballots to illegals and refuses to let anyone know who they are.
So they can keep turning out voting system into a 3rd world Socialist paradise.

Your Monday Jan.2 Rule 5 puzzle

 

 

As usual, the big one below the fold~

Sure am glad I'm not on I-10 westbound.

That's from the HD parking lot in Seguin.

Your Dec. 26 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Santa forgot an elf~

The big one below the break-

Merry Christmas

Your Christmas Eve carol

Your day three Christmas carol countdown

Your day four of our Christmas carol coundown

Day five of the Christmas Carol countdown

Coincidentally this is one I had in the lineup before I noticed our opera singer finally discovered punk.

She seems to have lived a sheltered life...
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Here's the original without the interruptions-

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle for Dec. 19

And Day 7 of the Christmas Carol countdown.

As usual, the big one below the break.

Christmas countdown 8

F*ing lighen up, Francis

 Liberals have absolutely no sense of humor.

PETArds are even worse responding to a joke from James Cameron about dolphins (the mammal, not the fish).

Your Dec 12 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Cowboy action-

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As usual, the big one below the break~

Say the line again- FBI

About the Colorado nightclub shooter. 

I'm going to start referring to 0biden as

Aqualung....

So I was fabbing up some mounts for fog lamps-

 

And needed to tap some holes.

I have the taps, but not the holder- because as little as I use them, it's not worth paying for.

I couldn't find a small enough adjustable wrench to hold the tap, so I used a Vice-grips. But it kept snapping off when it started to dig in.

 

So I went to the welding box because I was sure I had that good black 8" wrench in there. Nope.

But I did see my gauge wrench that might work.

 

 

Daym Skippy!

 

I probably need to harden it before I use it again, though....

Your Monday Dec. 05 Rule 5 puzzle

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Your big one, as usual below the fold-

Our favorite opera singer is back

This time she's geeking out over the score of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

$8.80

 For a Bill Miller #7.
At another McJoint you'd pay that for a dried-up patty on a bun and they'd call it a large- instead of a normal serving.

Your 11-28 Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Sorry it's late, but I was running errands all over S.Central Texas today and came home to this (because Blogger doesn't like U-toob shorts, I guess).

Anyway-

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And the big one below the break-

Black Friday

 It just occurred to me that I don't think I've heard as much hype as usual from the propaganda mills about huge crowds expected today.

Either they decided by themselves, or DeeCee put the word out to keep it on the low down this year.

Same for Cyber Monday.....

Your Rule 5 Thanksging Monday puzzle

 Happy Thankgiving!

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For your amusement, check out the results of my first search.
As usual, the big one below the fold.

So I came out to this-

 This morning.
Fucking animals.

No, seriously- it was donkeys, and I should have kept the box in the bed of the truck.

But-
Out with the old-

On with the new-

Next is a commanding horn instead of a subdued harmony.
The Dakota had a better horn that either of the more expensive trucks.

Your Monday 11-14 rule 5 puzzle

 Make you a WHAT?

 

As usual, the big one below the break.

Winter is coming

That's what NOAA and the local weather-guessers said.
Be prepared for freezing temps.

32 is freezing.

32 and calm winds is freezing.
40 and windy feels a lot colder than 32 and calm.
Modern horses evolved on the steppes of northern Europe with brutal cold winters.

Mini horses have a lot of hardy Shetland Ponies in them.
I tell the wife this, but she insists on "taking care of them"

So we get this- for a night that didn't even put a skim of ice on the water troughs....

We now live in the movie "Idiocracy"

 The only things they got wrong were:

-Flushing Lay-Z-boys
-Bar coded IDs
-A way to optimistic 500 years into the future.

I'm going to get ahead of this right now.

 A polling machine is nothing but a glorified adding machine. WHY does it need to be connected to the internet and have votes shipped somewhere besides the election headquarters?

All the way up to Y2K and the FLA kerfuffle- we knew who the winner was that night.
Now that the Dems got what they wanted in Y2K -it takes days or weeks to decide who won.

When are we going to start hearing about the bags of Democrat votes "found" in abandoned warehouses nobody's been to in years?
When are we going to be hearing about the votes "accidentally" left in rental cars returned yesterday?

Will Republicans act like anything other than the slightly more responsible side of the Uniparty?
My bet is -NO.

And I ended up having to buy a Ford, because the Z-71 Sierra had dashboard lighting problems.