It's A Sign


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If the long string of characters in a private key was not comprised of individual letters and numbers and instead that long string of characters is a word you're required to pronounce from the top of your lungs, even the numbers, like any other word—one syllable at a time.

Deafening.


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And HOT!


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I wonder how many pairs of Jordan's it would take to line the shower floor in Air Jordan cushions. Hundreds, probably. That would be expensive. Five-by-three is 15 square feet, what's a shoe cushion, five square inches? 15 square feet is about 2,200 square inches, I don't have a calculator. 22 divided by 5 is a little over four, call it 450. 450 pairs of Air Jordan's, give or take, to line a three-by-five shower floor. Sounds expensive. What's a pair of Jordan's cost these days, $150? I don't wear shoes. I walk on my hands.


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450 times 150 is a lot. Couple zeros, five, carry the two, eight plus two is, DAMMIT! Need a calculator. $67,000 for a shower floor sounds ridiculous, what's that, an observation deck?


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Maybe I can special order a three-by-five sheet of Air Jordan cushion without all the shoes. Wonder where they're made. Probably China. Fuck that.


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Orange chocolate covered pillow cases sound nice, wonder why no one's thought of that yet, that's a weird looking tree.


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Seriously, though, chocolate covered pillow cases?! Can't believe no one's thought of it. Not just orange chocolate but milk chocolate, too, and dark chocolate. Whatever your pleasure.


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Or, an electric jet! Nah, there's gotta be one of those already. Elon probably flies an electric jet from Pasadena to Burbank to beat the 6n1/2 mile commute.

They got electric everything else.

Toothbrushes, pressure washers. Electric fans and ovens, cars and influencers. Even influencers are electric. Everything's electric. There's gotta be an electric jet in a hangar somewhere plugged into a trickle charger.


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Everything in the hangar's electric, too, even the doors. Cruising at 30,000 feet and hit the garage door opener like you would the one in your car and the hangar doors at the end of the runway open as we begin our descent.


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Air traffic control alerts runway personnel we're descending so they roll out in one of those mobile staircase things so we can properly exit the plane and, colycanthus, is that spelt with a U or Y?

Doesn't look right with a Y—colycanthys. That's not it. Canthis with an I? Nah, definitely not I, oh! It's U.


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LOL Just read from start to finish for the fun of it.

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Hey whaddup! Welcome to Hive, thanks for finding me.

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Are you thinking like a dog would? Or have you recently been diagnosed with ADD? I think that's the acronym, attention deficiency deplotment? Adult deficient doofus? I like that. Maybe I'll go into business making up acronyms. Confuse the hell out of AI, get my name in the papers. Hey! Is that a bunny? When was the last time I ate bunny? Or turtle soup?

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My buddy D just asked me the other day, like not even a week ago, what mhm was. I was responding to whatever and that's the sound closed lips make when you're in agreement—mhm.

He called however long later, "man, what is 'M-H-M'?" I made the sound, mhm, just like it sounds and he's all, "OOOOH!! I thought it was an acronym.... what is it.. Man hit me? My homie? Could NOT figure it out!"

Funny. My favorite part is I wonder how many other people read my mhm like 'what the hell does that stand for?!'

So, anyway, what'd you say the last D stands for?

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oh oh oh I got it! It's disorder. attention deficit disorder! Sick, man, sick. Disordered and all. I gotta go prune my raspberries. I'm procratinating on that job and many others.

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Don't poke yourself. Or is that blackberries? I think it's blackberries. Member when blackberry was a phone?!

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I know I have said it before, but I can't help it. Your dog is beautiful and looks well trained.

Does your mind usually wonder like that, or was the heat giving you some hallucinations? LOL

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Is this real? You messaged me, right? I'm responding to a comment, no? = }

What's up @coinjoe! I don't get tired of hearing it. She's just as trained as she is gorgeous, thanks for noticing. Basic, advanced, all that. Next is airplanes. Have to wait til she's 2 before TSA testing—October. Once she clears that, she's permitted about everywhere.

And hardly loved at all in case you can't tell.


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Just amazing! Yeah, I can tell she gets a little love. LOL

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It's a total digression. Atlas does have character. And well, as long as the electrical stuff works and doesn't leave us halfway through.... LOL.

I didn't understand anything but I just have a brain melt today, it's hot in here. 🙂

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I'm sure it's a delicacy somewhere. I'll try anything twice. Be like, that's why I said I'll never do that again! or Mmmm, yes! Just as I remember!

brain melt..

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Craft time! Haha...

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I don't drink. Did you know August 2nd was my tenth year clean? Yeah, me either! My buddy D shot me a line on like the 5th, "happy anniversary" cuz, trust me, it's a big deal I don't drink and I was all, man, I didn't even know it was August!

Missed my own 10-year. True story.

Is that what you meant by craft?

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I applaud you for not drinking. I drink sporadically and in control.

Craft is because I told you I don't understand anything, and since I can't think, I'm better off doing something that doesn't require thinking. 😌

By the way, if someone contacted you, without knowing you at all, proposing work through X, you would hesitate, wouldn't you?

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Yes, of course. No hesitation in that.

edit I feel like I should edit my comments when we do this.

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👍

Thank you. It seems I have to block someone.

  • edit 🤣🤣 - You got a big laugh out of me.
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Hey, that's a lot more than a hesitation. Someone propositioned you here? I mean, wait up, hold up, I need more story.

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Nothing, remote work that I didn't even apply for. Where does he know me from to write to me privately and propose that? It's not like I'm an influencer.

The decision has been made... I say no and that's it. Anyway, I'm not going to be more or less because I don't have a pair of Jordans and I don't even have a calculator. 😆

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According to my calculations you made the right call. Very crafty.

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😁 That's what happens when you rub shoulders with people like that, crafty people.

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😟 Very hard for my melted brain, but thanks hahaha.

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Here: Ladies is pimps too go on brush your shoulders off.

Sounds better when they do it.

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That looks like a very peaceful place for your dog to take you for a walk,,,, and it even includes a nice place to take a rest if needed.

Just walking along, figuring out the worlds problems.

Chocolate pillow cases sounds a little messy, especially in the mornings.....LOL

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The bed's a refrigerator so it's not messy at all. It was design intentionally like that so that when you wake up, if you want chocolate, you can eat the pillow. Some of it or all of it, doesn't matter, they sell them everywhere like pregnancy tests.

I just looked on Amazon, again. Either I'm not entering the key search words or there's no such thing.

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Ah, A refrigerator bed. That doesn't sound cozy.

You may have to have the chocolate pillow case made by a specialty chocolatier.

I'm not one.

I do like orange chocolate though.

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I wish it wasn't so seasonal. But it's nice when it's that time of year. Man, that was an easy wish.

I know. Refrigerated.. lame! I'd much rather a mess, I don't know where these things come from.

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Nothing beats a nice meandering stroll through someone else's thoughts.

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It was either that or bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla about me me me on the internet like diary's are a formidable legacy.

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Can't say about the legacy, but they sure can be a potent reminder of dumb we were.

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New Kill Tony tonight. I know it was last night but Tuesday's are Pura's Friday so we watch Monday's on Tuesday.

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I saw most of it Monday night... one of the best episodes I've seen yet.

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That dudes armed robbery story was fuckin crazy! Can't make that up. Possibly the gnarliest shit I've seen on that show and I don't think I've missed a single episode.

And then the way Martin and William went TF off on Chad Daniels.. Dayum!! Helluva episode.

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That old dude reminds me of my father, wish he was still alive so I could ask him if those two ever hung out together!

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You've met yours?!? Such a one-upper.

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I didn't just meet him, when I started selling weed I actually got to know the guy! Later, when I started riding motorcycle, he even called me 'son'.

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If that's your way of saying one-upper isn't good enough I can take a hint for your dad's sake!

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Nah, sorry, I just wandered down a memory hole while I was typing. I recently sorted through the last 7 years or so of photos, and it turned me into a Lifetime movie.

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This reads differently than a free-write with random shots from a walk...it feels more like you're letting us into the stream of thoughts that flowed through your mind during the walk - and if that be the case, I must ask, are your writing thoughts down during the walk so you can remember what they were when you get home? Or do you just have a basically awesome memory?

Congratulations on making it 10 years into a great commitment. I'm doing pretty good too. I don't remember when I last had a drink, it was probably at least a couple weeks, but honestly I haven't been tracking or thinking about it - just enjoying the feeling of control I get from not letting alcohol run my nights. I took nicotine back up a while back, to help curb the overeating I was doing to compensate for the absence of the drink. Now I'm watching what I eat without nicotine. I still sail the seas of green from time to time, and honestly the only reason I even think about cutting that out is because I eat mountains of junk food whenever I take a voyage.

Anyway, congratulations my dude, that is one hell of an accomplishment - allbeit probably only foundational to all your actual greatest works...life has the potential to be pretty great when you commit to living it!

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That was such a nice comment I hesitated about an hour before this. So not my style. Words resonate more the less they're envisioned.

Whaddup! I'm flattered you went though these comments. Yeah dude, 10 years and I fuckin missed it! Lol. PS - thanks for the reblog. Hate it when I forget to do that.

I don't count anything photosynthesis derived, nothing. That's like saying thyme is off-limits, could you imagine?! "Coriander is a class II felony!" Herbs...

Eating, drinking, smoking, et cetera, not a day goes by I don't think about them, all of them. But all those thoughts are me dude. No one else is saying 'I wish I had a cigarette' or 'just 1 drink before bed.' Those voices are me. Just had to get control of myself. I'm a work in progress.

You're doing great dude, congrats on your achievements. Real winners are the kids.

Genuine thoughts, funny. The car would be wherever we left it, phone in the car, nothing in my pockets, et cetera, and off we go journeying and I'm all orange chocolate covered pillow cases!!! So, I'm like, dammit, c'mon, we gotta go back to the car and Atlas is like WHATEV.

Go all the way back to the car, unlock it, grab my phone, write down orange chocolate covered pillow cases and then we're off—trekkin! Walk, walk, walk, listen listen.. shit! Air Jordan shower floor!

Rinse/repeat.

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LOL I tend to work the opposite way...responding immediately to a good comment is super duper not my style, like I tell myself I need to stew on it to give the best response I can...but this made me wonder if my responses could be more authentic if they were off-the-cuff...even if that means they aren't as proper...so I am following in your footsteps once again, this time by trying to respond in a way that's outside my normal style (in other words, without hesitation).

First thing I notice in this "knee jerk" authenticism (can you believe authenticism isn't a word? wasn't...it is now.) - is that my first thought is so unrelated. I am thinking, DandAys said he has a wife and she's super cool...which is inspiring, because somehow I had come to wonder if being married is a barrier to being awesome; like all the super awesome dudes out there have all this extra free time to navigate the boundaries of existence, while the married dudes hold down the fabric of society by being responsible and reliable, but are no longer free to unleash their inner awesome. It's dumb, I know. We create our own barriers.


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...starting to see why I usually put more thought into my responses...

I think it's awesome you missed it - means you don't miss it. I imagine if you're counting the days, you're more likely to slide back. No prob on the reblog, I appreciate your appreciation. I usually try to use my reblogs as a way to push the stuff I like to an audience that might otherwise not see it - except when I used to get drunk, and then I'd reblog bullshit...hard to believe that this very thing was actually the trigger that led to me making all these changes in my life.

Things are good now, I don't miss it. Went into a bar the other day, to get a water, and the smell of stale beer and oak barrels hit me in a new way...I didn't feel that old pull. Sincerely, I am grateful for that. I took the free water cup to my wife and daughters, waiting at out table outside the taco stand, breathed in the fresh air.

...You could get a beer if you want

My wife smiled at me. She's now 10 weeks pregnant. She's never had the kind of sickness this one's giving her, but she still manages to stay positive (most of the time).

Thanks love, but I'm good :)

...It feels good to actually enjoy life, and not run or hide from it. Funny thing is, it's always there, happening around you...it's like hiding under a blanket and expecting the bad things to go away.

As for the authentic thoughts, well done on managing to keep them alive long enough to post - I know that feeling of having to get it down before it's gone. Just jot a quick note in shorthand

I'll remember what this means...

In my case that's usually more wishful thinking than a directive...

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Dang man, I already complimented the shit outta your last one and now this?! "Uncle!" I ain't seen character counts like this in comments since the old @janton and @thebigsweed days.

Single or married I don't think makes a difference in the moment, I'm just as off the cuff as always. It's afterward, when the day's over, when I have somewhere to go and someone there to share it with is the difference. Hashtag Perspective.

And I don't typically hesitate. Here, rarely. In the real world, never. I've always lived in an initial reactionary realm where if it doesn't come out right or you're ill equipped to sustain the backlash from initial reaction, time to consider that's likely why ears outnumber mouth 2:1.

Sometimes, however, someone pours so much soul into these things, a little hesitation just means you're human.

Ever hear of Eric Gales? Of course you have. Joe Bonamassa is a no-brainer. But have you ever seen them go toe-to-toe?

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LOL - oh man, yah I’ve mad comments before that should have been posts.

…I admire that absence of hesitation, particularly because I really do think the authentic response lies in the unrehearsed, the uncalculated, the immediate, etc - I have this tortoise-like response to almost everything, often finding inspiration to respond hits me hours or even years later, at which time I make a judgement as to whether or not there is value in acting on it. In the case of finally responding to you here, my judgement said to go ahead and do it…but I have this super dampened response time to basically everything…it drives my wife nuts

If I’m being honest, as is my preference, I recognize Joe’s name, but Eric I don’t think I had heard of. And even then, I couldn’t remember where I would have known the name Bonamassa from. I wish I had known more, I would have felt a lot cooler in this moment, but what I can say is that I checked out a video of them jamming out together on YouTube and it was wicked cool. As he was introducing, Bonamassa mentioned Frampton had been playing at the same venue earlier, just a cool vibe in general, so I appreciate you sharing it with me!

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What's up buddy?
Been on vacation the last few weeks, first at the Jersey shore and then we had all the family up for the week. Robins best friend also flew in from Florida and stayed with us for three weeks, we just took her to the airport yesterday.

Thanks for the mention and for your continued up-votes. I've been a slacker lately and missed a few of your recent posts. Now that everyone has gone home I think I need a another vacation to recuperate, The grandkids ran me ragged, but they do keep me young, I think.
Atlas looks like he's thriving and from the sound of it he'll be airborne very soon.

Why I've got you here I thought you may want to look at a few of the artists we recently saw at the 31st Annual Chenango Blues Fest.

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Sue Foley on the left put on the best show on the day and Ruthie Foster had it going on. I'm not one to get out of my lawn chair, but these gals had me up and moving my feet.

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Boy have times changed from just a few years ago!

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This Bud is for you!

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I hope you're making progress with the hand.

Give Atlas a Dog Treat for me,
Talking about dogs, have you seen that Show on $$$$$$flix about dogs, very informative. One cool fact that surprised me is that 99% of all dogs can be traced back genetically to the untitled.gif

Let Pura know Robin and me send our love!

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I'll smoke to that.

I have seen it! Absolutely fascinating. I had no idea dogs inhale and exhale simultaneously, F'ing incredible! Helluva documentary.

Thumb's pretty good dude, appreciate your concern. Wish I could say the same about the finger. I never drew a portrait of Pura, really disappointed about that. Not sure I'll be doing anymore drawing.

Sue Foley looks like she can shred!

Don't ever worry about missing these things man, not a big deal. But trip out on this, I went searching your blog this morning and then to farm-mom's like.. must be in Florida.

Close enough. = }

Cheers, Jurg's, will do and right back atcha.

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Bummer with the finger, I would have liked to see the portrait.

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@dandays! @eii likes your content! so I just sent 1 BBH to your account on behalf of @eii. (2/5)

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