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No clue. Said in his experience setting up a TV never works right when you first set it up. I told him I’ve never had a problem with new TVs.
I have a studio that I rent out to a grad student from NY. Grad student is basically a young version of Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rainman. Great kid but borderline autistic - impressively intelligent but very different socially. He doesn’t have any family in AZ and doesn’t go home for Thanksgiving so he’s been coming to my parents’ for the last couple years. It works out well. We’re glad to have him and he’s glad to be there but he’s comically slow in the buffet line... we’re talking like 10-15 mins to make a plate start to finish. Needless to say this creates quite the bottleneck.
My step father in law is smashed and just called his estranged brother and told him what a terrible person his is. My wife's family is quality entertainment.
Got the outdoor fireplace on the porch at the mountain house going and sippin’ on some adult beverages. Life is good, y’all.
Felt kinda bad about posting that pic so I took it down. No telling how they end up. Not very hopeful for them.
People were complimenting my parents' springer spaniel because he is very cute and a good boy. My dad, upset that the springer spaniel wasn't advanced in the dog show, took the topic of dogs down a dark meandering path where he told several stories about people he knew whose dogs that were killed by a neighbor's bigger dog. I explicitly announced, "People probably don't like hearing about killed dogs at Thanksgiving." So then my dad told another story. My dad loves dogs. But he knows that everyone on my mom's side of the family (especially my slob of an aunt) is afraid of dogs. So he was fucking with them. Which I only appreciate hours later.
So it’s just me and my folks and grandparents this year at the grandparents place. My brother who is not here just got a promotion and is going to be staying with my folks for a couple weeks since it’s in the same area he will be living in. My grandmother has been fucking with my folks about it and saying that my brother’s wife and kid with their stupid little dog that pisses all over the house are also going to be staying with them and that it’s going to be more like 3-6 months. My mom is getting all worked up about it and is starting to have a nervous breakdown. My grandma is so great.
My niece showed her steers at her first county fair right before my birthday in August. My brother and I had explicit instructions to everyone to stay the hell away from the stalls and chutes so they wouldn’t be in the way, which rubbed all but my dad the wrong way. He knew the process. My niece did very well, my bro, sil, and I celebrated at the fairgrounds, and came back to find fans running, dogs, feed, tractor locked in the shed from the inside, like every single door, sliding, livestock, or otherwise. It was my mother or my sister and her idiot kids. When they were called out on it, instead of admitting fault, they shit chickens and started launching bombs from years ago at everyone while we drilled through a doorknob. I tried to stay out of it but I kept hearing nuclear bitching from everyone so consistently, I told them to cancel the microbrew tour they had planned for my birthday. Saturday will be the first time we’re all together since. Very excited.
I’m going to be the last of eleven people to take a shower this morning. Chances of there being any hot water left is 0%
Met up with my fiancé’s aunt and cousin for a hike yesterday after having prime rib brunch with my SILs family. Something wasn’t right, and after about an hour, my stomach started turning something fierce. I suggested we turn around, and they obliged. Well, about 1/3 mile from the trailhead I started jogging to the bathrooms and ended up shitting my pants over the last 50 yards, impressing everyone. It wasn’t a full load into my shorts, but significant. Good look for me.